John 1:16-17 (Amplified) says, "For out of His fullness (abundance), we have all received, all had a share, and were all supplied, with one Grace after another and Spiritual Blessing upon Spiritual Blessing and even favor upon favor and Gift heaped upon Gift. For while the Law was given through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessing and Truth came through Jesus Christ."
A Pharisee named Nicodemus approached Jesus, saying that "No man can do the things you are doing, unless he is from God," in John 3:5-7,9-10(Amplified). Jesus answered, saying, "I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, unless a man is born of water and even of the Spirit, he cannot ever enter the Kingdom of God. What is born of, from the flesh, of the physical is physical; and what is born of the Spirit is Spirit. Marvel not (do not be surprised, astonished) at My telling you, You must all be born anew from above."
Verses 9-10 go on, "Nicodemus answered by asking, How can all this be possible? Jesus replied; Are you the teacher of Israel, and yet you do not know nor understand these things? Are they strange to you?" We've been taught things that were from the old covenant, like they still pertain to the new family of God. Many teachers have learned only by tradition and not from Revelation. This has led to a mixed faith in God's children, about what is Truth.
If we're born-again, then we belong to the Lord God and are His children. Some have no idea what this actually means in our walk with the Father, while here on earth. Some believe that, "It's not God's will to heal, Bless, or totally redeem us from sin." Many don't know or understand satan's role in the part of sin and death for mankind. Traditional teachings make it difficult to explain these things to babes in Christ.
Jesus said in John 10:10 (Amplified), "The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows)." Anything that steals, kills, and destroys is of satan and everything that brings life and fullness is of Jesus. Some might respond by quoting Isaiah 45:7 (Amplified) where God says, "I form the Light and create darkness, I make peace, national well-being and I create physical evil, calamity; I Am the Lord Who does all these things." Or, they might quote Isaiah 54:16 (Amplified) which says, "Behold, I have created the smith who blows on the fire of coals and who produces a weapon for its purpose; and I have created the devastor to destroy."
God has taken full responsibility for the creation of satan and God has put satan in his place, through Jesus Christ. When we don't understand the authority and union we have with Jesus, we continue to erroneously blame God for all the calamity that befalls us. We believe that God uses satan as a teaching tool, for His children. All the hell that has been unleashed on this planet and mankind, came through the satanic order of this outlaw spirit.
Notice how after God spoke about the destroyer in Isaiah 54:17 (Amplified), He said, "But no weapon that is formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise up against you in judgment you shall show to be in the wrong. This peace, righteousness, security, triumph over opposition is the heritage of the servants of the Lord is reproduced [This is the new creation, born-again man] This is the righteousness or the vindication which they obtain from Me, this is that which I impart to them as their justification says the Lord."
In other words, God says, "I created satan and I have taken care of him. You now belong to Me and have been delivered out of his hands." Luke 10:17-20 (Amplified) says, "The seventy (who Jesus sent out) returned with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your Name. And He said to them, I saw satan falling like a lighting flash from Heaven. Behold! I have given you authority and power to trample upon serpents and scorpions, and physical and mental strength and ability over all the power that the enemy possesses; and nothing shall in any way harm you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice at this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are enrolled in Heaven."
2Corinthians 4:4 (Amplified) tells us, "For the god of this world has blinded the unbeliever's minds that they should not discern the Truth, preventing them from seeing the illuminating Light of the Gospel of the Glory of Christ (the Messiah), Who is the Image and Likeness of God." As believers, we're still in the kingdom of darkness in these bodies, but we've been translated into the Kingdom of God's Dear Son, in our born-again spirits. Are minds are still blind to many things concerning our deliverance, in and through Jesus. All the blindness or unbelief is of an enemy and that enemy has been rendered helpless to the believer in Christ.
Many believers are still in unbelief to so many things in the Gospel of Christ. Our minds have acknowledged the negative things in the Word, instead of the fullness and abundance that God has supplied us with in Jesus. We've somehow equated sickness, poverty, calamity and unrighteousness with "true Christianity." This isn't what Jesus came to deliver to us. This is what men already had. Jesus came to bring us Life.
We must seek out the Truth of God's Word and allow the Holy Spirit to filter out the things we hear. 1John 2:27 (Amplified) says, "But as for you, the anointing, the sacred appointment, the unction which you received from Him abides in you permanently; so then you have no need that anyone should instruct you, but just as His anointing teaches you concerning everything and is True and is no falsehood, so you must abide in, live in, never depart from Him, being rooted in Him, knit to Him, just as His anointing has taught you to do."
If we allow the Holy Spirit to filter the everyday things we hear in the workplace and churches, then He will filter out the seeds of unbelief and allow the Seeds (Words) of Truth to set us free. Just because someone else doesn't believe something, doesn't mean it's not Truth. I know people who don't believe that Jesus Christ is Savior and they have the right to choose to believe or not to believe. I allow the Holy Spirit to filter their seeds or doubt to fall to the ground and I receive the Truth of God's Words. God can only work through what we will believe and not what someone else believes, in our lives. We read about Jairus' daughter and the woman with the issue of blood in Mark 5:31,21 (Amplified), where the disciples asked Jesus, "You see the crowd pressing hard around You, from all sides, and You ask who touched Me?"
Many in the crowd pressing Jesus, were sight seers, there to see someone famous. Two people in the crowd, were believing. One was Jairus and the other was the woman with the issue of blood. Verse 21 tells us about the woman with the issue of blood, saying, "She heard the reports concerning Jesus, and came up behind Him in the throng and touched His garment." I'm certain that some people around her, would have called this woman "unclean" and told her, "It's God's will for you to be sick." But, this woman heard and believed and received of His fullness, even when no one else, except Jairus, received.
The Word is full of people who dared to believe in the face of opposition. Why would these people be distinguished above the others? Because they believe, when no one else did. We must not live like everyone else. We must not believe like they do, that "God doesn't do these things any longer." We must be a Light and Testimony, helping others lift their believing higher in Jesus.
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