John 1:16-17 (Amplified) tells us, "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."
There are several different meanings given to the word "Grace," in the Bible and many have been misunderstand. One of the greatest things of Grace is the provision by faith, into salvation. Our faith in God's Grace has opened the door of salvation, to all who will believe and accept His offer to receive. By faith, we can "come boldly to God's Throne of Grace, without the prescribed way and sacrifice under the old covenant Law, by faith in the Blood of Jesus," according to Hebrews 4:16 (Amplified). By God's Grace, we are accepted and welcomed as God's children, before His Throne of Grace.
When we need Grace and mercy for anything, it's always available at God's Throne. We don't need to offer goats and bulls or depend on rituals if we sin, but now by Grace, we can come under the Blood of our Eternal Sacrifice Jesus and be accepted and receive Grace and mercy, for whatever we need. There's never an unacceptable or unavailable time whereby those who put their trust and faith in Grace, cannot enter God's Throne of Grace. We can come boldly to God's Throne of Grace, which is the Very Face and Presence of our Heavenly Father. Others can intervene on our behalf as God's priesthood and we can expect God's Grace and mercy.
Many of the Body of Christ have heard a "watered-down" version of the Gospel for centuries now, so they only expect Grace to happen when we leave this earth and go to Heaven. This has resulted in the reducing of understanding of who our Heavenly Father has created us to be. Most of our focus has been on sin and not Righteousness. It is the Righteousness that teaches us how to walk above sin.
We fight the sin nature that was in the old man, until we understand Righteousness we've been given through the Blood of Jesus Christ. When we understand what our Lamb Jesus has truly done, we can "walk out from under the old Law of Sin and Death and into the new Law of the Spirit of Life, which is in Christ Jesus," according to Romans 8:1-2 (Amplified). This is all by Grace and faith.
It's been a long time, since the Church has actually determined that God's Word is our Source of Life and understanding. We've spent more time in what we learned through tradition and religion, than in God's Word, in order to understand "God's way of doing and being right," like Jesus directed in Matthew 4:23. We might hear and/or read Bible Verses, but then fail to understand what God is saying to us.
Psalm 107:2 (Amplified) says, "Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, Whom He has delivered from the hand of the adversary." Galatians 3:13 (Amplified) says, "Christ purchased our freedom, redeeming us from the Curse (doom) of the Law and its condemnation by Himself becoming a curse for us, for it is written in the Scriptures, Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree (is crucified)." How many people do you know who quote this, in the midst of adversity?
We've just accepted the things under the Law that Christ redeemed us from, as being "God's will for us," when God says we should say, "Let the redeemed of the Lord, say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the adversary." Who are we to "say so?" To the adversary, the devil." When he comes against us, we're to stand in God's Armor and boldly declare the redemption that Jesus bought for us!
Many Christians have suffered at seeing their children taken into custody, by the adversary. They're left feeling helpless and wonder why God allowed this to happen. God has already sent a Redeemer to buy their children out of captivity. His Own Sacrifice redeemed them and we're instructed to, "Declare as the redeemed of the Lord and stand by faith in Him, Let the redeemed of the Lord, SAY SO."
We must stand for the Law of the Kingdom, which is the Law of the Spirit of Life, which is in Christ Jesus. Every nation has laws that govern that nation. There are lawbreakers in every nation too, who refuse to obey these laws, so the laws must be enforced. God's family has Laws in the Spirit realm, that apply in our lives, so we can carry out His assignment. If we don't enforce these Laws and "say so as the redeemed of the Lord," then the lawbreaker will continue to infringe on our liberty.
Jesus took the time to "Say so" and enforce the Laws of the Kingdom. We witnessed Jesus keeping the destroyer at bay, during His earthly ministry. We've read God's Word, without saying so and applying that Word to our lives. We read the Blessing, but don't appropriate it as being "real," in our lives.
God's family isn't subject to the Curse, but the Blessing. Until we actually begin standing up in full armor and "say so," the enemy doesn't care and the angels have nothing to enforce. Psalm 103:19-20 (Amplified) says, "The Lord has established His Throne in the Heavens, and His Kingdom rules over all, Bless (affectionately, gratefully praise), the Lord, you His angels, you mighty ones who do His commandments, hearkening to the Voice of His Word."
We are the family of God and are now the ones who "give voice to His Word." This is one reason that the redeemed of the Lord are to "Say so." If we don't give voice to God's Word or we speak contrary to it, then how can God's angels bring forth His rule from Heaven? Jesus gave Voice to God's Word and it came alive in the earth. God's Word has been here for thousands of years, but only the prophets gave voice to it. Jesus never brought anything into "voice," but that which was already in God's Word. When He did give voice to it, it became a Living command from God's Throne.
Many Christians dismiss the teachings about the words of our mouths and watching watch we say, David wrote in Psalm 39:1 (Amplified), "I said, I will take heed and guard my ways, that I may sin not with my tongue; I will muzzle my mouth as with a bridle while the wicked are before me." Did you know that you can sin with your tongue? I'm not talking about cussing, but about speaking contrary to the Voice of God's Word. David writes this in Psalm 17:3-4 (Amplified), saying, "You have proved my heart; You have visited me int the night; You have tried me and find nothing, no evil purpose in me, I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress Concerning the works of me, by the word of Your lips I have avoided the ways of the violent, the paths of the destroyer."
God's Word speaks many times, about "the words we speak and the words we're not to speak." These aren't found only in The Old Testament, but Jesus taught this in the Gospels. We've just thought this wasn't important enough to obey. Speaking to mountains, diseases, storms or dead people and life or death, is in the power of the tongue, according to Proverbs 18:21 (Amplified), which says, "Death and Life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it, for death or Life."
There are many teachings about the importance of words, in God's Handbook of Life, The Bible. James 3:5-6,3-4 (Amplified) tells us, "Even so the tongue is a little member, and it can boast of great things. See how much wood or how great a forest a tiny spark can set ablaze. And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is a world of wickedness set among our members, contaminating and depraving the whole body and setting on fire the wheel of birth (the cycle of mans nature), being itself ignited by hell (gehenna)."
The above scripture tells us that, "The whole body can be turned around, by words." James writes in Verses 3-4, saying, "Turning a horse or a ship with a little rudder or a bit. How much more a body with a tongue that is unbridled?" With all our getting, we must GET UNDERSTANDING and know that Death and Life are in the power of the tongue. We find the Truth of this in Romans 10:9-10 (Amplified) which says, "Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord, and in your heart believe that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart a person believes and so is justified and declared righteous, and with the mouth he confesses his faith and confirms his salvation."
Did we not go from death to Life, by what we believed and said, when we were saved? If this is true for our salvation, then why wouldn't it be true for our preservation, while we're still on this earth? God says, "Let the redeemed of the Lord, say so." We must stop saying what is under the Curse and holding back our own deliverance. We must say what the Blessing says about us and allow "the angels to hearken to the Voice of God's Word," instead of the enemy and his words. Your words hold power for either your good or your destruction. Through the Holy Spirit, you can put a bridle on your mouth, for good.
Mark 4:24 (Amplified) says, "And HE SAID to them, Be careful what you are hearing. The measure of thought and study you give to the truth you hear, will be the measure of virtue and knowledge that comes back to you, and more besides will be given to you who hear."
God will only measure to you, from the Truth you hear and speak. The adversary will be the one who is measuring back to your words of foolishness, doubt, unbelief, sickness and depression that you speak. Life and death are in the power of your tongue, and he who indulges it, will eat the fruit of it. In 1Corinthians 3:1 (Amplified) Paul writes, "However Brethren, I could not talk to you as to Spiritual men, but as to non-spiritual men of the flesh, in whom the carnal nature predominates, as to mere infants in the new Life in Christ (unable to talk yet)."
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