Developing the New Creation Lesson 25

      Every baby needs to learn how to develop into the mature adult we were born to be and the same is true for the newborn child of God.  Every baby was born with what is needed to grow into an adult, but it must be developed.  The baby is born with the muscles of an adult, but they're not developed yet.  These require the proper nourishment and care, in order to become a full-grown adult.

     Babies must also develop their soul (emotions, mind and will).  Unless the child's family is one of born-again believers, the child's spirit isn't developed.  Peter writes about the new creation child of God in 1Peter2:2 (Amp), saying, "Like newborn babies you should crave (thirst for, earnestly desire) the pure, unadulterated, Spiritual milk of the Word, that by it you may be nurtured and grow unto completed salvation."

     What is "completed salvation?"  It's walking in a growing knowledge of our new identity in Christ, which requires learning what that identity is.  Eph.4:22-24 (Amp) says, "Strip yourselves of your former nature (put off and discard your old unrenewed self), which characterized your previous manner of life which is becomes corrupt through lusts and desires that spring from delusion; And be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind, having a fresh mental and Spiritual attitude. And put on the new nature (the regenerate self) created in God's Image (God like) in true righteousness and holiness."

     Babies need milk when they're first born in order to grow, but their bodies must have solid food  in order to develop strength and maturity.  The child's structure and body is complete, but cannot develop or function without the solid food.  James writes about our growth in Christ in Heb.5:13-14,12,11 (Amp), saying, "For everyone who continues to feed on Spiritual milk is obviously inexperienced and unskilled in the doctrine of righteousness (of conformity to the Divine will in purpose, thought and action) for he is a mere infant; not able to talk yet. But solid food is for full grown men, for those whose senses and mental faculties are trained by practice to discriminate and distinguish between what is morally good and noble, and what is evil and contrary either to Divine or human law."

     Verse12 says, "For even though by this time you ought to be teaching others, you actually need someone to teach you over again the very first principles of God's Word, you have come to need milk, not solid food."  I gave you Verses 12 before Verse 11, because this tells us the results from staying in the milk and not the Word. Thus, it says, "Concerning this we have much to say which is hard to explain, since you have become dull in your Spiritual hearing, and sluggish (even slothful in achieving Spiritual insight)."  We've become content to feed on milk and not grow into responsible adult Christians.

     We seem to reach adolescence and believe we know all there is to know.  If you've ever raised a teenage child, then you understand what I'm saying.  We eventually discover that there's more to life than what we thought as teenagers.  Life's responsibilities are more than we understand as teenagers.  It's not that what they know is wrong, but it's not complete.  We must renew our minds by God's Word and His Spirit, in order to think according to those instead of our carnal minds and develop into the new creation men and women we were born to be in Christ Jesus.

     Paul writes to the new creation people in Rom.8:6-7 (Amp), saying, "Now the mind of the flesh (which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit), is death; death that comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter; but the mind of the Holy Spirit is Life and soul peace both now and forever. That is because the mind of the flesh with it's carnal thoughts and purposes is hostile to God, for it does not submit itself to God's Laws; indeed it cannot."  This is why we must renew out minds by the meat of God's Word, as well as the milk.  

     In Rom.8:9 (Amp) Paul tells us why we not only should, but must renew our minds by God's Word, saying, "But you are not living the life of the flesh, you are living the Life of the Spirit, if the Holy Spirit of God really dwells within you, directs and controls you."  We develop the mind of Christ and transform us from carnal thinking to Spiritual thinking, by and through the Holy Spirit living in us.  The Holy Spirit will renew our minds from continue seeing ourselves as we once were and reveal who we've been made to be as new creations, according to Rom.8:1-2 (Amp), which says, "Therefore there is now no condemnation, no adjudging guilty of wrong, for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live and walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. For the Law of the Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus (the Law of our new being), has freed me from the Law of Sin and of Death."  The renewed mind dwells on who Jesus has made us to be, instead of the carnal person we once were.  We are spirit and made in God's Image, Who is Spirit.

        

Developing the New Creation Lesson 24

      2Cor.5:17 (Amp) says, "Therefore, if any person is ingrafted in Christ Jesus (the Messiah(, he is a new creation (a new creature altogether), the old previous moral and Spiritual condition has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."

     The new creation man/woman is created once again, in the Image and Likeness of God Himself.  The potential in the new creation spirit, is the potential of our Father, Who is a Spirit.  Functioning in the Spiritual things of God's Kingdom, is natural to the new spirit man/woman.  Everything the Father has Planned for his family is a matter of developing the Spiritual child of God in Spiritual things.

     Everything in the natural realm was alien to every newborn baby, so we needed to develop and learn how to function here.  It would be impossible for a three year old to drive a car and would be dangerous to everyone on the road if that child tried driving.  By the time that child reached the age of fifteen, the law says he/she can get a learner's permit to drive.  It takes time behind the wheel, to develop good driving skills.  The new spirit child of God only needs to believe, in order to cast out devils, open blind eyes heal the sic, and know the Father's Voice.  Jesus said in John 14:12 (Amp), "Those who believe, the works that I do, shall they do also, and greater works than these."

     Most of us still see ourselves more after the natural birthright than our new creation birthright, even after we're born-again.  We seldom see ourselves as a spirit or identity with our new creation birth in the reality of who we've become in Jesus, because the teachings, fleshly habits and the relationship we have with this natural world are so strong within us.  Laying hands on the sick and casting out devils, seems impossible to the newborn spirit-man/woman, like driving a car would be to the three year old.  It's all a matter of developing our natural skills and ability, which come from the Spiritual realm.

     God provided us with instructions on how to develop our new creation person, in His Word.  Everything needed to accomplish what the Father has instructed us to do, is already in our new creation spirit.  Everything God has instructed us to do, when we were created new in Jesus.  Many believers have remained babes in Christ, never having developed into full Spiritual maturity in God's Kingdom.  We still hold onto things we already know in our natural flesh and blood bodies, because it's easier than learning how to function in our spirit.

     We see this same things in the natural realm, but don't recognize it.  This nation was built by immigrants, but today we seem people come from other countries, move to a particular pocket of the country and stay with others from their nation and live like they lived there.  Some never learn English and remain in the culture they were familiar with, rather than developing into what they dreamed of when they came here.  Others though, come from different countries but assimilate, learn the language, develop and achieve greatness in this nation.

     Some people have become citizens of this nation, but remain in the same culture they came from.   The promise of a new and better life dies and never develops in them.  We're citizens of God's Kingdom, but remain in the same culture we came out of, so the new and better life we hoped for when we were born-again, dies in us.  We become frustrated and don't develop or know the laws that govern our new life in Christ.  It requires work and study to learn how to live in the Kingdom, just like it does in the natural realm.  The ability is there, but we must earnestly and diligently pursue it, until it becomes as natural to walk in the spirit, as it is to walk in the flesh.

     We learned how to talk and walk, by listening and learning from our parents or caretakers.  The same is true for the new creation child of God.  We learn how to talk and speak the language of our new birth, from our Heavenly Father.  John 3:34 (Amp) has something to say about Jesus, that many don't see or understand.  Thus, it 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 is the Gift God makes of His Spirit."

     John 8:31-32 (Amp) says, "So Jesus said to those Jews who had believed in Him, If you abide in My Word (hold fast to My teachings and live in accordance to them), you are truly My disciples. And you will know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free."  We learn to speak the Word of the new birth, by listening to the Words that our new Father speaks.  If you were born in Germany, then you most likely learn to speak German.  If you were born in France, then you probably learned how to speak French.  If you are born in the Spirit, then you learn how to speak Spirit.  Jesus said in John 6:63 (Amp), "It is the Spirit Who gives Life (He is the Life-Giver), the flesh conveys no benefit whatever (there is no profit in it). The Words (Truths) that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life."

     The language of our new creation Life , comes from the Spirit and Kingdom of God.  We must learn the Word of God, in order the learn the language of the Spirit, because "the flesh has no profit whatever."  I'm not just talking about being baptized in the Holy Spirit and speaking in other tongues, but speaking God's Word in whatever tongue or language we were born into.  In order to communicate to other people about God, we must be able to speak God's Word in understanding.

     Jesus only spoke God's Word, according to John 3:34, but He did so in a language that the crowds around Him could understand.  It was also Spirit, because it was God's Word, which is Spirit.  We must learn, know and believe God's Word, so we can speak like God our Father does.  He is the One through the Holy Spirit, Who teaches His children how to talk.  Paul writes in 1Pet.2:2 (Amp), "Like newborn babies you should crave (thirst for, earnestly desire), the pure unadulterated Spiritual milk of the Word, that by it you may be nurtured and grow into completed salvation."

     We must go from the milk of God's Word, to the meat of the Word, in order to develop into completed salvation.  If you've ever been in a veal barn (where they raise veal calves), then you will notice how they have no strength in their muscles, even though they have the same muscles as grain fed calves.  They become so weak that they can barely walk, because  they're only fed milk.  Some new creation people have received the milk, but not the meat of God's Word, so they have no strength to withstand trials that come.

     Our new creation spirit has everything needed to reach completed salvation in God's family, but it takes effort to strengthen him/her.  We must learn the language and Word of our Father, in order to receive strength needed to become the mature people we were created to be in Christ Jesus.  We already have the muscles it takes to grow into maturity, but it takes more than milk to develop them.

Developing the New Creation Lesson 23

     Rom.8:1 (Amp) says, "Therefore there is now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong), for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live and walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit."

     The remaining of the above chapter, tells us what God has truly done for us, through Jesus.  The "dictates of the flesh" will continually accuse us with our past lives and will never allow us to be free The condemnation holds us back from developing into what God has made us to be.  The carnal mind, the flesh and the natural man cannot conceive the Truth of God's Word that tells us, we've "Been made to be the Righteousness of God."  Being dictated by the flesh, will keep us in guilt and condemnation, but the Dictates of the Spirit will tell us who've we become in Christ and "There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus."

     The world system and man-made rituals and traditions have amplified this struggle in God's Church.  Carnal sermons and teachings will only continue this struggle.  It's difficult enough to "Keep our minds stayed on Him," without our church leaders keeping us focused on our past, sinful lives, which causes us to be double-minded.  Many have taught that God is testing and trying us, which leaves us with nowhere to go for deliverance.  We'll have enough trials and tests on this earth, without God needing to create new ones for us.  Jesus prayed in John 17:15,22 (Amp), "I do not ask that You will take them out of the world, but that You will keep and protects them from the evil one."

     Jesus continues in Verse 22, speaking about the soon coming new birth.  Thus, He prays, "I have given to them the Glory and Honor which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We are One."  God has crowned the new creation being with the same Glory and Honor that Jesus has.  We must listen to the Dictates of the Spirit and not the flesh, in order to receive this.  The flesh will see this as being prideful, while the spirit will receive it as Grace and Love.

     Studying God's Word will show us that this was God's intention from the Garden of Eden.  David was singing and seeking God in Psalm 8:4-5 (Amp), asking God, "What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of earth born man that You care for him? Yet You have made him but a little lower than God and You have crowned him with Glory and Honor." 

     This Glory and Honor is the very Glory of God Himself, Who lives in the spirit of every born-again, new creation child of God.  We continue seeing on the weakness of the flesh and our shortcomings, but the Father sees the heart or spirit, which is once again in His Own Image and Likeness.  The natural, carnal, flesh man will dictate our every failure and fault to us, but the spirit will always encourage and reveal the Truth of what Jesus has done for and through us.  Paul writes in Rom.12:2 (Amp), "Do not be conformed to this world (this age), fashioned after and adapted to it's external, superficial customs, but be transformed, changed by the entire renewal of your mind, by it's new ideals and attitude, so that you may prove for yourselves what is that Good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is Good, acceptable and perfect in His sight for you."

     Paul didn't tells us, "You never know what God will do" or "Thy will be done," but said we could know the perfect, acceptable and Good will of God, in our lives and for ourselves.  We must renew our minds by God's Word and His Spirit, so we can know the Dictates of the Spirit.  This requires spending time and fellowshiping with Him.  Every individual believer must willingly desire and act to do this.

     Jesus has done everything needed for us, but if we don't know what He has done, then we'll never walk in God's perfect will for us.  Many believers don't study God's Word for ourselves, but have depended on our pastor to study for us and tell us what God's will is.  If we don't have a personal relationship with the Father, then we'll miss His will for us and for what He would have us do and be in this world.  

     We must learn the difference between how God dealt with those who weren't Spirit filled, new creation people and how He deals with the new covenant people.  God dealt with the old covenant people by the Law and sacrifice, but He deals with the new covenant people by Grace, love and the spirit.  We can see how Jesus dealt with those He ministered to and how God dealt with those who weren't alive to Him in their spirit.  The Law was for the carnal man/woman, but Grace is for the new creation being.  God couldn't deal with those in the old covenant by the Indwelling Holy Spirit, but only by their outer, carnal man of flesh.  We don't have to meet requirements of certain feast days and sacrifice, but only believe in the One Sacrifice Jesus, Who has fulfilled the Law, gave Life to the spirit, delivered us from The Curse of the Law and has not only made us free, but has made us one with Himself.

     We must go beyond the cross where Jesus Paid the Price for us and see ourselves the way the Father sees us.  We are "heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ Jesus", according to Rom.8:17.  Does this mean we're these things only when we get to Heaven, or does it mean that Heaven is ours now and we now have the same inheritance Jesus received from the Father?  We received this inheritance when Jesus sat down at God's right hand and all that Heaven has, is now ours to enjoy and share with Him.  Heb.4:16 tells us that, "Through Jesus, we have access to God's Own Throne of Grace and are welcome and accepted there in His Presence for whatever favor and Grace we need to walk out this life of the spirit, in this world."

     We've been told that, "Everything that happens in this world is God's will," but nothing could be further from the Truth.  If everything that happened was God's will, then Jesus wouldn't have needed to come.  Jesus didn't do the cross to put people into bondage, but to set the captives free.  Do we believe that when millions of babies are being aborted, it's God's will?  Do we believe that when children and adults are kept in the sex trade, is God's will?  Do we think it's God's will for people to suffer and die from cancer and disease?  If these things are God's will, then why would He have Jesus heal the people from disease and sickness or cast demons out of them?  Why would Jesus commission believers to "Go out into the world and lay hands on the sick, cast out devils and minister to those who are oppressed," if these things were God's will for us?

     If we don't know if it's God's will for us to be sick or well, then how can we know if God's will is being done or if satan is trying to kill us?  Why bother going to the doctor, if we believe it's God's will for us to be sick?  Being double-minded stops the Dictates of the Spirit in our lives and enhances the dictates of the flesh.  We must renew our minds by God's Word, so we will know the Dictates of the Spirit in our lives.  

    James 1:6-8 (Amp) says, "If any of you be deficient in Wisdom, let him ask of the Giving God Who gives to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or fault finding, and it will be given to him. Only it must be in faith that he asks with no wavering, no hesitation, no doubting. For the one who wavers, hesitates, doubts, is like the billowing surge out at sea that is blown hither and thither and tossed by the wind. For truly, let not such a person imagine that he will receive anything he asks for from the Lord. For being as he is a man of two mind (dictates of flesh and Dictates of the Spirit and not judging the difference) hesitating, dubious, irresolute, he is unstable and unreliable and uncertain about everything he thinks, feels, decides."

     We must set out minds and hearts (spirits) on the Grace and Truth of God's Word and receive the Dictates of the Spirit, instead of the worldly rituals and man-made traditions.  The true potential of the new creation man/woman has only been revealed through a few persons, and even then, in limited ways.  We've watched men like John G. Lake, Smith Wigglesworth and others who walked in the Super-natural things of God, believing they were special in God's eyes.  Every new creation son and daughter of God is supposed to walk in these things.  I've been asked, "Brother Jim, do you really think Jesus meant for all of us to walk in that?"  Why else would Jesus say in Mark 16:17-18 (Amp), "And these attesting signs will accompany those who believe. In My Name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new languages; They will pick up serpents; and even if they drink anything deadly, it will not hurt them, and they will lay their hands on the sick and they will get well."  

    Jesus didn't say these things will follow "only a few special people," but "those who believe."   We are born-again believers, but what do we believe"  I know many Christians who don't believe in speaking in tongues or casting out demons.  Are they believers?  Yes, but they can only believe so far.  The dictates of the flesh and unrenewed carnal mind seems to keep people in darkness to the Super-natural things of God. Jesus told those who doubted Who He was, "If you don't believe the things I say, then at least believe the things I do."  Even those with hard hearts can accept and be saved, when they see the signs and wonders that only God can do.  This is the calling of the new creation children of God.  Jesus prayed in John 17:18 (Amp), "Just as You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world."  We're not the Messiah, but we believe in Jesus and will do what the Father did in Him.  Jesus said that, "I only do what I see My Father do."  This is as natural to our spirit man/woman, like breathing is to the natural man/woman. 

     The great men and women we read about, aren't so much special to God, but are those who chose God special.  Are we willing to do what they did and choose God over the world?

       

     

Developing the New Creation Lesson 22

      2Corinthians 5:17 (Amp) says, "Therefore if any person is ingrafted in Christ Jesus (the Messiah), he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old previous moral and Spiritual condition has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."

     Every person has to come to the cross and receive the Sacrifice of Jesus, in order to become a new creation.  There is no more sacrifice, by which mankind can be saved.  Jesus was our Substitute for the forgiveness of sin, our Redemption and our Righteousness with God.  Many believers have never dared to go beyond the Cross, into what the Word calls the new creation.

     Paul writes about who Christ has made us to be in Rom. 6:3-5 (Amp), saying, "Are you ignorant of the fact that all of us who have been baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death? We were buried therefore with Him by the baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the Glorious Power of the Father, so that we too might habitually live and behave in newness of Life (the new creation man). For if we have become one with Him by sharing a death like His, we shall also be one with Him in sharing His Resurrection by a new life lived for God."

     We were Spiritually raised from the Law of Sin and Death, into a new creation life lived in Jesus.  This resurrection isn't the "glorified body," but the resurrection of our dead spirit into the Life of God again.  We read about this resurrection in Eph. 2:12 (Amp), which says, "Remember that you were at that time separated, living apart from Christ, excluded from all part in Him, utterly estranged and outlawed from the rights of Israel as a nation, and strangers with no share in the sacred compacts of the Messianic Promise with no knowledge of our right in God's agreements. And you had no hope (no Promise), you were in the world without God."

     Col.2:12-13 (Amp) says, "Thus you were circumcised when you were buried with Him in your baptism, in which you were also raised with Him to a new life through your faith in the working of God as displayed when He raised up Jesus from the dead. And you were dead in trespass in the uncircumcision of your flesh (your sensuality, your sinful carnal nature), God brought to life together with Christ, having freely forgiven us all our transgressions."

     The new creation man/woman was raised from Spiritual death in sin and trespasses, into a completely new creation being who was made one spirit with Jesus.  1Pet.2:2 (Amp) says, "Like newborn babies you should crave (thirst for, earnestly desire) the pure unadulterated Spiritual milk, that by it you may be nurtured and grow into completed salvation."  We feed the new creation baby with the Spiritual milk of God's Word, so we may grow into maturity in God.  We must go on in Jesus, from who we were at the cross and became new creation, in order to find out who we've become by Him and grow-up in Him as sons and daughters of God.

     Milk will sustain babies for a time, but then a baby will need solid food.  James writes in Heb. 5:11-13 (Amp), "Concerning this we have much to say which is hard to explain, since you have become dull in your Spiritual hearing and sluggish, even slothful in achieving Spiritual insight. For even though by this time you ought to be teaching others, you actually need someone to teach you over again the very first principles of God's Word. You have come to need milk, not solid food. For everyone who continues to feed on milk is obviously inexperienced  and unskilled in the doctrine of Righteousness, of conformity to the Divine will and purpose, thought, and action, for he is a mere infant not able to talk yet."

     Many believers today are still living as "mere infants," and not going beyond being saved and growing into mature children of God.  Jesus was still God's Son, even in His earthly Body, with the Life of God in His Spirit.  We're likewise, sons and daughters of God, by our newborn spirit.  We're still in our physical bodies, so we can do the works of God on earth.  Paul tells us in the above scripture that, we've become "one Spirit with Christ."

     Jesus said that "Signs will follow those who believe," in Mark 16.  This is the Super-natural Power and ability to heal the sick and cast out demons.  The Power of God's Spirit that created us in this new creation, is the Same Holy Spirit Who lived in Jesus, during His earthly ministry.  God Himself now lives in us and we're supposed to walk in the Super-natural Power, like Jesus did.

     We're not Jesus and will never be, but while we're here on earth, we're His Body and we're to do the things Jesus did.  This wasn't just for the twelve disciples or the early Church, but is to be continued until Jesus returns.  We've discarded the Super-natural ability of the Holy Spirit living in us, for rituals and traditions.  Jesus said, "It's not Me, but the Father in Me Who does the work."  The Same Father, by the Holy Spirit, is now living in us!

     We're not the ones doing the work, but the new creation person who is one Spirit with God, who does the work.  We're only required to believe in His Ability in us.  We've been talked out of the new creation privilege and ability and have been content to remain babes in Christ, instead of becoming who we were born again to be.  The old man/woman has been crucified with Christ and have been created new, just like Jesus was on this earth.  We're physical men and women who are filled with God Almighty.  The Same Word and Holy Spirit Who created this universe now lives in us, in order to do the things that only God can do.  We must allow Him to do it and believe in what He created us to be.

     We're no longer sinners, but are new creation children of God.  Our old way of doing things is gone and has been replaced by the new creation children of God.  We must accept what Jesus has done for us and be who He has made us to be.  2Cor.5:17 (Amp) says, "Therefore, if any person is in Christ (the Messiah), he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old previous moral and Spiritual condition has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."  We must stop thinking about who we used to be and begin learning about who Christ has made us to be now.  We need to live in God and let Him live in us.  Jesus said in John 10:10, "I have come to give you Life in abundance."  He wasn't speaking about the life we had, but about His Life in the Father, which allows us to live above this life of the flesh and live in the new creation person He made us to be.   

Developing the New Creation Lesson 21

      God has raised His Church to be an invading force against His enemy and the enemy of His people.  Jesus sent us forth, in order to "set a liberty all those who are bound."  We must learn how to bring the new creation man/woman into maturity and understanding.  Our Heavenly Father didn't create His family to be run over and destroyed by the enemy.  He made us a people filled with the Spirit of God Himself and who walk in His ability.  God doesn't need our ability, but our availability.  He is all the ability we will ever need.

     We must learn to trust Him and become aware, like Jesus was, that "It's not us, but God in us Who does the work."  Our nation is under attack today and it's not a political thing, but a Spiritual thing meant to put us under the enemy's dominion.  God has raised up a people who have discernment and insight into what the enemy is doing and how to deal with it.  God's Church must move beyond our differences and together, do what God has created us to be.  Jesus said in Matt. 24:7 (Amp), "Nation will rise against nation, and Kingdom against kingdom."  The kingdom of darkness has declared war on the Kingdom of God.
     It would be foolish to send children into battle.  It God's Church functions as children, then we will fall to the enemy.  This Administration isn't run by politicians, but by the enemy's forces.  Eph.6:12 (Amp) says, "We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities and powers, the master spirits who are the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly Super-natural sphere."  Political parties aren't the real enemy, but are entities satan uses to destroy the people and the nation.

     God's Church has authority over spirits of darkness and the world doesn't understand what we're discussing here.  This earth isn't "the world."  The world is the demonic system the enemy uses to keep mankind in bondage to him.  This earth has never before been subjected to a total lock down by the enemy, like we've been experiencing.   The enemy has taken this opportunity to restart and reset his system, so we'll be under his control when thing open up again.  We can see this in America now in a different light, because of the cancel culture operating here.

     We've watched the first fifty days of a new administration, how ungodly laws and statutes have been put in place which are in direct opposition to God's laws and His statutes.  This is not about Democrats or Republicans, but about satan and his plan to destroy what God has put into place and which helped make our country great.  God raised up leaders in Numbers 13, in order to take the land He Promised to them, but the people couldn't be convinced to follow these leaders.  God is raising leaders in our Land today and we will hopefully follow them into victory in God's Word.  

     It's not God's will that His people be subjected to the enemy's tactics.  We're supposed to be the Light and salt of this earth, but when the salt "has lost it's savor," then it's no longer good for anything.  It's foolishness in God's eyes, for us to become complacent and accept anything and everything in the guise of love.  God hasn't changed His stand against what is right and what is not.  It's time for us to stand with God's Word.  God won't conform His Word to what we think, but we're to bring our thinking in line with His Word.

     Rom.12:2 (Amp) says, "Do not be conformed to this world (age), fashioned after and adapted to it's external, superficial customs, but be transformed, changed by the entire renewal of your mind, by it's new ideals and it's new attitude."  Abortion, the changing of gender identity and the cancel culture are alright in our culture today, but they're not God's will or intent for only His people, but for all people.  They're not according to His Word and His Plan.  Luke 4:5-6 (Amp) tells us, "Then the devil took Him [Jesus] up to a high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the habitable world in a moment of time (in the twinkling of an eye). And he said to Him, To You I will give all this power and authority and their glory (all their magnificence, excellence, per-eminence, dignity and Grace); for it has been turned over to me and I give it to whomever I will."  Who turned it over to him?  Adam did.  When Adam transgressed in the Garden of Eden, he gave the authority and command God had given to him, over to satan.  Jesus has restored this authority and command back to the Church.  Will we too, turn this authority over to the enemy or will we walk in what Jesus has delivered into our hands again?

     When America restarts after this shutdown, it will reveal a nation like we've never seen or before imagined.  Prayer and the Church's voice are God's Voice in this world and we must put faith in God's Word and not government.  2Chron.7:14 is our prayer and we must place our faith in what God says He'll do if we pray and repent, when He says, "I will heal our Land."  If we turn from His covenant with Jesus, and with us, through Jesus, and use our own understanding, then that will be disastrous.  The Father wants His Church to be unified as one Body, but this is determined by each every individual.  No pastor can make the whole Body unify, but every person in the Body can change to follow God's will and purpose.  No one can "make" you do what God desires, but those who listen to His Word and His Spirit will choose do follow Him for themselves.  This isn't the time to be passive or complacent, but to be strong in the Lord and in the Power of His Might. 

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     We've been faithful to lead people to Christ, but then we teach them what we "think" the Word says.  If we don't believe in the Super-natural intervention of the Holy Spirit, then those Christians won't develop into what the new creation man/woman is and will remain as "mere men," like Paul writes about.  They are saved or born-again, but don't believe the Super-natural things of God only pertains to when they die and go to Heaven.  God doesn't need us to walk in the deliverance or healing power, when we get to Heaven.  I assure you that no one in Heaven needs healing or deliverance.  We are called to bring the Power of God's Kingdom into this world.

     The Power of the Holy Spirit is only needed and necessary here, because there are no blind, sick, bound, or needy persons in Heaven.  All that Jesus gave us, by the new creation, is to be used here and now.  Jesus taught us to pray, "Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven."  The natural man/woman can only be sick in this earth.  The new creation man/woman is a spirit and is made to be "One Spirit with Christ Jesus."

     When we teach the babes in Christ that the Super-natural things of God have "passed away," we are handicapping them from becoming what God intended.  If we trained and taught our natural children to believe that, "there's no need for school and education," then we'd be keeping them in an ignorant state and not giving them the tools needed to succeed in life.

     Being born-again is the greatest miracle we can ever experience, but if we don't understand what happened when we accepted Christ as our Savior, then we'll remain carnal Christians and miss out in what our Father intended us to be.  Jesus prayed about His followers, both then and now, in Gethsemane, saying in John 17:16 (Amp), "They are not of this world (worldly, belonging to the world); just as I am not of the world."  The new creation person is of the same Kingdom and part the same Super-natural state of being that Jesus Himself is from.  The new creation person isn't limited to the natural ability to deal with this world, but is like Jesus was in His earthly ministry.  Our ability is now unlimited, through the knowledge of God's Kingdom.

     Jesus never met a need according to the limited things of the natural man, but always drew His needs for people, by the unlimited resources of the Kingdom.  We might be able to meet some natural needs by ourselves, but we'll be able to meet the needs of the Spirit and Kingdom on our own.  If we continue trying to accomplish Spiritual need by our own ability, then we've decided that we don't need God or His ability.  The Church is a Super-natural entity, which was created to walk in the Super-natural realm.

     When we overcome the fear of failing when doing what Jesus instructed us to do, then we'll begin seeing God as He really is.  If we fear that laying hands on the sick won't work, then we've forgotten that "It's the Father in us Who does the work."  Jesus never intended that we lay hands on others in our own ability, but by the ability of the One Who dwells in us.  No natural man/woman has the ability to cast our demons, heal the sick, open blind eyes or restore missing limbs.  God intended that we'd have confidence in the Holy Spirit Who lives in us, so we could use the Authority of Jesus' Name that He has given us and do what needs to be done.

     We believe that there is no God, but our God and that Jesus is truly Lord of all, but the unsaved will think we're just preaching another religion, if they don't see that our God is real.  Jesus proved Who and What He was, when He said, "If you can't believe the Words that I am telling you, then at least believe the Works that I do."  Jesus backed up what He preached by the signs that followed Him, through the Anointing and the Spirit.  We're not Jesus and will never be Jesus, but we've been Anointed and born sons and daughters of God, by the Same Spirit.  The "signs and wonders" Jesus spoke about and performed, are just God Being God.  God wants every person to be delivered from the enemy's hands and be risen from Spiritual death into Life in Him.

     Jesus' entire ministry on earth, was return order back to all the enemy had stolen, killed and destroyed.  The restoration of mankind back into what God had intended from the beginning, was the whole order of Jesus' earthly ministry.  He commanded us to do the same and gave the new creation people marching orders in Mark 16., telling us to, "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel."  Jesus then said, "These signs will follow those who believe."  Jesus didn't say these would follow only a certain few, but "all who believe."

     Do you believe?  Jesus said these signs will follow those who believe, saying, "In the authority of My Name, you shall cast out devils, heal and deliver  those who are bound."  The Super-natural comes when we believe in what Jesus said and what He has already done.  This is the very essence of the ability of God to reveal Himself to the world, through us and in a way they've never seen before, in reality.

     This is what happened in The Book of Acts.  The disciples emerged from the Upper Room and didn't preach laws or rituals, but brought God into reality by the demonstration of His Nature and ability to the people.  They could now see and know God for themselves, instead of just hearing about "another god.'  God didn't need only the priests and certain people to demonstrate Himself to the world, but could use all men and women who had faith in what he said.  

     This is what I call, "walking naturally Super-natural."  We still have a natural body and are living in this natural world, but we walk Super-natural by the privilege of becoming new creations.  We still have natural flesh and blood bodies, like Jesus had on this earth.  We have the Super-natural Life and Spirit of God living in these houses of flesh.  The Super-natural isn't only available when we "feel" like it, but is continuously present and available, by faith in what Jesus has done.

     Our flesh isn't a new creation, but our dead spirit is now alive unto God and God Himself is the Life continuously within us.  If we don't develop the new creation to this Truth, then the world will think it's just another religion and isn't real.  Every child of God should be taught who they've become when they received Jesus into their hearts or spirits.  God says that then, "I will live in them and walk in them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people."

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     Many new creation children of God still see themselves as who they were before being born-again, with the distinction of going to Heaven when they die.  They believe they're "just old sinners saved by Grace," whore are still unrighteous and unworthy.  Many of today's churches could exist without God by the laws and rituals they've established.  The Super-natural things of God have been removed and replaced by man's ideals of what is required to serve Him.  

     Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane just prior to His death in John 17:15-26 (Amp).  He prayed for those who were there with Him and for everyone who would come to follow Him, saying in Verses 16-18, "They are not of this world (worldly, belonging to this world), Just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them, purify, consecrate, separate them for Yourself, make the holy by the Truth, Your Word is Truth. Just as You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world."

     Jesus wasn't saying that the things that happen in the world aren't important to God.  He was saying that we're not limited to what the world has in order to function, but we're now unlimited by the function of God's Kingdom.  John 3:16 tells us that, "God so Loved the world, that He sent His Only Begotten Son, so that whosoever believes in Him might be saved."  We read this, but fail to involve ourselves int the laws and politics that run and rule the world.  The earth and the world are two separate things.  The world or world system aren't the same things in God's eyes and shouldn't be the same in our eyes.

     When we were living in the world, we were without the power and Wisdom of God to change and save that which was lost.  We were created new and are living in the council and ability of God's Kingdom, so we're no longer limited in what we can do to change the way the world functions.  Laws are being established in America, which should be passed or canceled by those who are operating by Kingdom Laws.  Abortion isn't a Kingdom Law in any nation and the new creation people should have raised the Voice of God concerning these ungodly laws.  These laws hold the lost under the world's standards, instead of "God's way of doing and being right," according to Matt.6:33.  Who will give voice to the world, if the Body of Christ doesn't?

     Many Christians have been taught that politics and voting are carnal and worldly, so they abstain from what they consider to be "secular."  We Christians are "in this world, but not of the world."  This doesn't mean we must be controlled by the things of the world, but we're to change them, like Jesus did.  Jesus didn't overthrow the rule of the Romans, but He birthed a people of God's Kingdom who changed the rule of Law, by God's Word and His Holy Spirit.

     Jesus prayed in the above scripture, saying, "Just as You have sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world."  Jesus' entry into the world,, changed the way mankind thought and acted, for "whosoever would believe."  Acts 4:16-17 (Amp) tells us what happened on the Day of Pentecost, when Jesus' followers emerged from the Upper Room.  Thus it says, "What are we to do with these men? For that an extraordinary miracle has been performed by (through) them, is plain to all the residents of Jerusalem and we cannot deny it."  Even the ungodly people couldn't deny the Super-natural intervention of God, through His people who were no longer of this world.  The thing that sets the early Church apart from today's Church, is the demonstration of what the Name of Jesus was.  This wasn't just "lip service," like many today do at the end of their prayers, when they say, "In Jesus' Name, Amen."  Many add this as a P.S. at the end of their prayers and have very little faith that their prayers will be answered.

     We read about many miracles that the early Church performed in Acts, and how these changed things.  After receiving a miracle at the Gates of the Temple, the once crippled man jumped up and ran leaping into the Temple and praising God.  The people asked about the miracle they were seeing in Acts 3:16 (Amp) and Peter answered, "And His Name (Jesus) through and by faith in His Name, has made this man whom you see and recognize well and strong. Yes, the faith which is through and by Him (Jesus) has given the man this perfect soundness of body before all of you."

     Like Jesus was sent into the world by His Father, the early Church changed the known world, even until today.  We've functioned by man-made ideas, instead of functioning like Jesus functioned, believing that the Super-natural things of God's Kingdom "have passed away and are no longer for us today."  The world didn't need another religion.  It needed the Very Presence of the Almighty God Himself..  There were already thousands of religions in the world, which put people back into bondage, but Jesus came to take the people out of bondage.  He came to set the captives free, not to enslave them into another religion which is powerless to set them free.

     The divorce rate in today's Church is as high as that of the world.  Many are still in the same bondage they were in, before being saved.  The Power to break the chains of addiction and the other things that bind them, has been reduced to therapy and other hopeless programs the world offers.  The voice of one atheist woman removed prayer from our schools, while the voice of the Church was silent and without power to stop it.  There are laws and statutes ruling our nation that are Anti-God and Anti-common sense.  Even the unsaved are groaning under the bondage of an Anti-God government rule.  Prov. 6:9-11 (Amp) says, "How long will you sleep, O sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down and sleep-So will your poverty come like a robber, or one who travels with slowly but surely approaching steps, and your want like an armed man making you helpless."

     The enemy has been coming, "Slowly but surely," and we haven't waken up in time to prevent what is happening now.  This is the Great Awakening that we've been praying for and the new creation Church of Jesus must wake up from our religious slumber.  We must use the Authority given us by Jesus, in order to bring our nation back to God.  The world wasn't given this Authority, but the Church was.  Many of our leaders don't know God and lack the wisdom and/or inclination to rule in Godliness and Righteousness.  It's not too late for God's people to do like 2Chron.7:14 (Amp) where God says, "If My people, Who are called by My Name, shall humble themselves (pray, seek, crave and require of necessity), My Face and turn from their wicked (or twisted) ways, Then will I hear from Heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land."  Our nation has become sick and only God can heal it and He will do it through His people. 

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     1Cor. 6:9-11 (Amp) says, "Do you not know that the unrighteous and wrong doers will not inherit or have any share in the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived (misled); neither the impure and immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who participate in homosexuality, nor cheats, swindlers and thieves, nor greedy graspsers, nor drunkards, nor foul mouthed revilers and slanderers, nor extortioners and robbers will inherit nor have any share in the Kingdom of God. And such were some of you once. But you were washed clean, purified by a complete atonement for sin and made free from the guilt of sin, and you were consecrated, set apart, hallowed, and you were justified, pronounced righteous by trusting in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit of God."

     The above scripture describes who we once were and reveals what God has made us to be, through Jesus.  So many times, Christians refer to ourselves as still being in sin, unrighteous and unworthy.  God has made us and sees us as being righteous worthy and without sin, by faith in His Grace and Jesus' Sacrifice.  We must teach the babes in Christ the Truth of who they now are, forgetting who they were before being born-again.

     Do we truly believe what Jesus has done for us?  Or, are we afraid to trust God's Word over our carnal thoughts and feelings?  Are we like those Paul says are "mere men" and not new creations?  Through Jesus' Great Sacrifice and faith in that Sacrifice, we've been given righteousness, right standing, along with the Blood bought right and privilege to come once more into the Throne Room of Grace.  We've been given the privilege of speaking face-to-face and spirit to Spirit, with the Almighty God, as our Loving Father.

     Peter tells us in 1Peter 2:2 (Amp) that, "The Word of God, the pure unadulterated Spiritual milk that gives growth to the newborn babes in Christ."  Denominational doctrines and opinions, will not bring us into Truth, because only the Word of God can do so.  It doesn't matter what our opinion about it is, it is still Truth.  God no longer sees us by who we used to be or by what we did before being born-again.  Paul persecuted, imprisoned and killed believers, but says in 1Cor. 4:4 (Amp), I am not conscious of anything against myself, and I feel blameless; but I am not vindicated and acquitted before God on that account; it is the Lord Himself Who examines me and judges me."  Paul feels this way, because he knows that it's God Who sees, examines and judges him.

     When God's children learn who we are in His Presence, it gives us the assurance, hope and confidence that God hears and wants to "Be our Ever Present help in the time of need."  Sadly, many believe they're still just sinners, so their prayers won't be heard by a Holy God.  We lose hope and faith, believing that our prayers weren't answered, because "It's God's will."  Children know what they can ask their parents or caregivers for, so they ask according to their parent's/caregiver's will.  We're born of God, filled with His Spirit and can know what His will is by reading His Word.  Col.1:9 (Amp) plainly says that, "It's God's will that we know His will."  Thus, it says, "For this reason (their love) we also, from the day we heard of it, have not ceased to pray and make special request for you, asking that you may be filled with the full, deep and clear knowledge of His will in all Spiritual Wisdom and comprehensive insight into the ways and purposes of God, and in understanding and discernment of Spiritual things."

     Today's Church is still debating whether or not healing is God's will, when His Word has confirmed that it is.  Jesus instructed His followers in Mark 16:15 (Amp) to, "Go into all the world to preach the Gospel and these signs will follow those who believe what they hear."  One of the "signs," is that we would lay hands on the sick and they would recover.  James 5:14-15 (Amp) tells us that, "If there are any sick among the Church, then they should call upon the elders of the Church, who would anoint them with oil, pray the prayer of faith and lay hands on them; and the Lord will raise them up."  If it wasn't God's will to heal them, then He would never have bothered directing the elders to lay hands on the sick.  Many pray, "If it be Thy will," because they don't know what God's will is.  They believe that if it's God's will that the sick are healed, then the people they're praying for will be healed.  And, if it's not God's will that the sick are healed, then they might die.  Why are we even praying, if we don't believe God's Word, which says, "By Jesus' striped we are healed?"

     Tradition and carnal thinking have undermined true faith in God's Word.  We wait to see whether laying hands on the sick works or not, instead of believing and seeing that it does work.  It doesn't depend on someone's testimony, but the Truth of God's Word.  If these things weren't His will, then why would Jesus tell us to do them?  If it's not God's will that we pray and trust Him, then what good is prayer?  Shooting a prayer into the galaxy and hoping it finds someone to answer, is more hopeless than playing the lottery.  We have God's Word, which tells us God will hear and answer our prayers of faith.  This is how we got saved.

  

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      2Cor. 5:17 (Amp) says, "Therefore, if any person is ingrafted in Christ Jesus (the Messiah), he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old previous moral and Spiritual condition has passed away. Behold, all things have become fresh and new."

     Many in today's Church have had a more difficult time believing the above scripture, than any other Promise in God's Word.  If we could believe that our "old previous and moral Spiritual condition has passed away" and "all things have become new," then it would be easier to set our faith to believe the rest of God's Promises.  Getting pas the memory of who we used to be and accepting who Jesus has made us to be, is probably the highest hurdle we face.  The greatest miracle the Father has done, is what He's done for us through Jesus.

     An unrenewed, carnal mind cannot accept the Promise of His Word through Jesus.  2Cor. 5:21 tells us that, "He has made us to be the righteousness of God, through and in Christ Jesus."  We continue seeing our old natural selves and try perfecting the flesh, in order to believe this Promise.  We do need to discipline the flesh to meet that which has come into our spirit, but we don't need to reach perfection in order to accept what has already been done in the spirit.  The Father sees us the way the new creation has made us to be, despite how the flesh looks.

     God is Righteous and does nothing outside of His Righteousness.   We keep trying to become righteous enough to get our prayers answered.  This is because we're looking at the flesh and not the Word.  As new creation people, we're to govern and live our lives by what Jesus has done and not by what we've done.  We must move past looking at our flesh the way we see it and begin seeing it as God sees it, in order to develop our new creation person into the mature child of God.

     Paul got hold of this Revelation and lived his life in that manner.  He writes in Gal.2:20 (Amp), "I have been crucified with Christ, (in Him I have shared His crucifixion); it is no longer I who live, but Christ (the Messiah) lives in me; and the life I now live in the body I live by faith in (adherence to and reliance on, and complete trust in) the Son of God Who Loved me and gave Himself up for me."

     We read that, "I have been crucified with Christ," but fail to realize that in God, this body is already dead.  The only Life God sees in us, is the Life that has raised us from the dead in Jesus.  This doesn't mean we allow the flesh to rule our lives, but that we develop the new creation man/woman to rule over the flesh, by faith in God's Word.  We've been waiting until we get home in the Kingdom, to abolish all of our natural impulses.  We're already home in God's eyes and are "seated together with Christ Jesus in Heavenly places", according to Eph. 2:6 (Amp) which says, "And He (God) raised us up together with Him (Jesus) and made us to sit down together, giving us joint seating with Him in the Heavenly sphere, by virtue of our being in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One)."

     God sees the new creation person as already raised and seated with Him, in Jesus.  This is far more than the carnal mind can comprehend or imagine.  This is why we must develop the new creation person after God's Word and His Spirit, instead of man's carnal ideas and customs.  Should Jesus tarry in His return, this natural body will die and be buried, because of the sin nature which is still in the flesh.  Rom. 5:12 (Amp) says, "Therefore, as sin came into the world through one man (Adam), and death as the result of sin, so death spread to all men, no one being able to stop it, or to escape it's power, because all men sinned. The wages of sin is death.

     The sin that was inherited by Adam, came into every person born by his seed.  We've been born-again and are new creations, according to 1Peter 1:23 (Amp) which says, "But you have been regenerated (born-again), not from a mortal origin (seed, sperm), but from One that is Immortal by the Ever Living and Lasting Word of God."

     The natural man/woman is born of Adam and has the seed of sin and death in it,but the new man/woman born of God's Word, is "one spirit with the Lord."  We are righteous and without sin, by the new birth of the Seed, Word of God.  We're still in this flesh, which is still under sin and death.  It's the work of the Word, Holy Spirit and the new creation person to hold this sin nature under dominion of the Word and the Holy Spirit and develop the new creation person.

     Rom. 8:1 (Amp) says, "Therefore, there is now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus; who lives and walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit."  If we allow the flesh to dictate and describe us by our old sin nature, then we won't be able to accept what the Spirit says about us.  The flesh will keep us bound by the memory of who we were in the world before being born of God.  This is why Paul tells us to renew our minds by God's Word and His Spirit.  The flesh can dictate the sins of our old man/woman, but if we keep the flesh crucified, then IT IS DEAD.  Jesus told us to, "Take up your cross daily."  This means we're to continue keeping the flesh dead by crucifixion and keep our spirit alive by the Word of God.  

     Many still think with our carnal minds, which keeps us under condemnation and unbelief.  When we renew our mind, we're training ourselves to think the thoughts of the Spirit of God, by His Word.  Thinking of ourselves with a carnal mind, is in direct opposition to what God has done for us in Christ Jesus.  If we don't renew our minds,then we will continue thinking of ourselves as being unrighteous and unworthy before God, which could lead to our opposing God's Promises and living "as mere men and women."  Rom. 8:7 (Amp) says, "That is because the mind of the flesh with it's carnal thoughts and purposes, is hostile to God for it does not submit itself to God's Laws: indeed it cannot."

     We will never see ourselves as being new creations in Christ Jesus, without renewing our carnal and flesh mind.  If we're "yet in sin," then we're forgiven and not new creations.  If we're only forgiven, then God must forgive us on a daily basis.  There is no more sacrifice for sin.  If we believe we need to offer works and sacrifices in order to receive God's forgiveness, then what was the cross for?  We're not just forgiven sinners, but we're new creations and if we're new creations, then we don't have a past filled with sin.  Jesus wiped our sins away.  We can't be sinners and the righteousness of God, at the same time.  One is the thought of a carnal mind, while the other is the thought of the mind of Christ.  The carnal mind has no faith in God.  If we don't renew our minds, then we can't walk in faith of God's Promises and receive answered prayer.

     If we don't renew our minds, then we will oppose the Promise of being "made righteous in Jesus," along with the other Promises made for the righteous children of God.  Our faith in God's Power to keep His Promises and having Rest in Him, comes from thinking and living by the Word and God's Spirit.  We can't be carnally minded and ruled by our senses.  We must begin walking by the dictates of the Spirit, in order to walk above the condemnation of the flesh.  If we live under such condemnation of the flesh, we'll never develop faith in God's Promises for us, because His ears are always open to the cries of the righteous.  If we don't know we're righteous in Him, then we won't develop faith or hope that God will answer our prayers.  It becomes more wishing, than believing.

     We're not righteous, because we feel righteous.  We're righteous, because we've been made new creations, who are righteous with Jesus' Righteousness.  We must humbly submit ourselves to this Truth, by faith in the Grace that created us in this manner.  This Grace comes from God's Love for us.  Remember, "For God so Loved the world that He gave His Only Begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him might have everlasting Life."

    

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     Prov. 20:27 (Amp) says, "The spirit of man (that factor in human personality which proceeds immediately from God), is the lamp of the Lord, searching all his innermost parts."

     We hear from God and the Lord speaks and guides us, from our spirit.  Psalm 119:130 (Amp) says, "The entrance and unfolding of Your Words give Light (their unfolding gives understanding, discernment, and comprehension to the simple)."  Psalm 119:105 (Amp) says, "Your Word is a Lamp to my feet and a Light to my path."  Heb. 4:12 (Amp) says, "For the Word of God speaks is alive and full of power, making it active, operative, energizing, and effective; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life, (soul), and the immortal spirit, and of the joints and marrow of the deepest parts of our nature, exposing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart."

     Many believers don't understand the importance of spending time in God's Word.  We need to do more than read a passage now and again.  We must study to "show ourselves approved."  God speaks to us through our spirit and not through our senses.  Many don't know whether they're hearing God's Voice or it it's the devil speaking to them.  Satan doesn't have access to our born-again spirit and can only speak to us through our senses and the old way we were conditioned to think.  God's Word will divide what our soul or carnal five senses thinks, from what our spirit receives.  The above scripture tells us that God's Word will penetrate to "the dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and the immortal (spirit)." 

     We can know and recognize the Voice of God, by knowing and recognizing His Word.  God speaks to our spirit and not our head or senses, by His Spirit.  God isn't limited to only using His Word to speak to us.  He told me to move to New York.  My name's not in the scripture and neither is the place He told me to move.  Both, though, are in-line with His directions by His Word.

     I spend much time in prayer and fasting, before I moved into His will for my life.  My head and senses told me to dismiss the instructions, but my spirit man knew the Voice of the Shepherd, just like Jesus said, "My sheep know My Voice."  I didn't "have" to obey what God instructed and He didn't force me to do so.  I would still be saved and remain His son, if I didn't make the move, but I wouldn't fulfill what God wanted me to do.  I did obey and my life has been totally changed by my obedience to His Word.

     Our head, senses and carnal mind will tell us many things, but they cannot discern the thoughts of the Spirit.  Satan can play with our carnal minds, but he cannot enter the born-again spirit of the new creation child of God.  This is why it's paramount that we learn to hear God's Voice.  Trouble will surely come when we obey God's Voice, but "He will deliver us out of them all," when we're following Him.  Most of the trouble we encounter, is self-inflicted and comes from our not following His Voice.

     The Psalmist said, "God's Word is a Lamp to my feet and a Light to my path."  God's Word will direct our steps, "lest we should dash our foot against a stone," according to Psalm 91:12 (Amp).  God's Protection is guaranteed by Jesus' Blood and His Word.  We stumble, fall, and put ourselves in danger, when we ignore God's directions.  We must spend time in God's Word and His Presence, so the Light of His Word becomes the Light by which we walk.  The entrance of God's Word brings Light.  We can read His Word as some religious duty or chore, which doesn't bring entrance of the Light into our spirit man/woman.

     When we seek after His hidden Truths in God's Word and listen for His Voice in our spirit, then we will have the Revelation God is giving for our lives.  When we meditate on God's Word and listen to the Holy Spirit's leading, they will prove a big impact in our lives.  God's protection, guidance and Life comes from within and not from the flesh or carnal mind.  It's been easy for the devil to deceive God's people, because we give more heed to the outer-man/woman and the carnal mind, than to the new creation person made in God's Image and Likeness.

     Paul instructed the Church to renew our minds with God's Word.  This is a critical Truth in understanding and obeying the life the new creation person.  We've been programmed by our senses and environment, so we must make a deliberate choice to renew our minds by God's Word.  If we don't renew our minds, then we would continue to walk after the flesh and not walk after the Spirit, even after being born-again.  

     Those under the first covenant were still carnal, but tried to walk in Spiritual Wisdom.  Only Jesus ever fulfilled the Law, because carnal men/women lacked insight into the Spirit of God.  Today's Church still lacks insight and Wisdom of God's Word, so we devise laws to govern our flesh, like those under the old covenant.  Paul describes those believers as being "mere men and not new creatures."  God's Word is alive and active and sharper than a two-edged sword.  We must be led by the Holy Spirit and follow God's Word, because these will reveal the thoughts of God to the new man/woman.  

     God's Word and His Spirit are the GPS and the X which direct the best route for our journey.  When we don't follow God's leading, then we will still arrive home into God's Throne Room, but we will make many wrong turns and meet many road hazards that we didn't need to encounter.  Our salvation has already been taken care of and our destination is secure, but the paths that we walk between here and Heaven, must be illuminated by God's Word, so we arrive there safely.

     We must allow our spirit man/woman to dominate our natural man/woman.  Many of God's children leave this earth prematurely, sometimes because we don't hear and study by our spirit.  Jesus is called the "Son of David," in Psalm 89:33-37 (Amp), where God says, "Nevertheless, My Loving Kindness will I not break off from him nor allow My faithfulness to fail, to lie or be false to him. My covenant will I not break of profane, not alter the thing that is gone out of My lips. Once for all I have sworn by My Holiness, and his throne shall continue as the sun before Me. It shall be established forever as the moon, the faithful witness in the heavens. Selah, (pause and think calmly of that)."

     This was God's Promise to David, which is still fulfilled through Jesus and those who are in Christ Jesus, as covenant family with the Father.

Developing the New Creation Lesson 15

     2Cor. 5:17 (Amp) says, "Therefore, if any person is ingrafted in Christ Jesus (the Messiah0, he is a new creation (a new creature altogether)."  

     1Peter 2:2 (Amp) says, "Like newborn babies you should crave (thirst for, earnestly desire), the pure unadulterated Spiritual milk (the sincere Milk of the Word KJV) that you may be nurtured and grow unto completed salvation."

     In Prov. 4:20-22 (Amp) God says, "My son, attend to My Words; consent and submit to My sayings. Let them no depart from your sight; keep them in the center of your heart For they are Life to those who find them; health and healing to all their flesh."

     Feeding on God's Word is a personal act, which brings Life to the new creation person.  We must each decide whether or not we will "consent and submit to God's sayings."  Many believers today, don't acknowledge that we are to consent and submit to God's Word, in order to grow into mature children of God.  Many believe that God will "make" us do what is right.  If we don't seek, consent and submit to God's Word, then we be able to grow unto completed salvation.

     We seemingly think that it's up to God, to see to that all is well for the Christian person.  We don't recognize that we have an enemy who will try to deceive and distract us.  The Holy Spirit instructs God's children in Prov. 4:5 (Amp), saying, "Get skillful and Godly Wisdom (get understanding, discernment, comprehension, and interpretation); do not forget and do not turn back from the Words of My mouth."

     We are to "get Wisdom," which requires our consenting and submitting to God's Word.  Godly Wisdom doesn't profit us, is we don't submit, consent and aren't let by the Holy Spirit.  It would be foolish to read the guiding Words of Wisdom, without consenting, submitting and following it's path.  God will not "make" anyone do what He says.  We must consent and submit.

     Prov. 4:6 ,7(Amp) says, "Forsake not wisdom, and she will keep, defend and protect you: love her and she will guard you."  When we consent and submit to God's instruction in His Word, then He will protects and defend His family.  God''s primary way of caring for His family, isn't by performing the miracles found in His Word, because most of those are only needed when we forsake and turn from His Word and instructions.  Verse 7 says, "The beginning of Wisdom is, get Wisdom, skillful and Godly Wisdom! For skillful and Godly Wisdom is the principal thing; and with all you have gotten, get understanding, discernment, comprehension, and interpretation."  We need to understand and comprehend what God's Word is saying to us.  

     Many have given up on what God's Word says to us about our health, long life and His protection.  God doesn't say that He'll only be there when we "have an emergency."  He says that when we consent and submit to His Word, then He would constantly protect and care for us.  We don't want a caretaker who takes us to the hospital after getting hit by a car, but one who teaches us how to avoid getting hit in the first place.  If we follow and consent to God's instructions, then He will protect us.

     Reading God's Word isn't a religious obligation.  God is our Life and the the length of our days.  His Presence Lives in our new creation spirit and is a constant Voice directing our lives.  Just prior to His Ascension, Jesus tells His followers about the Holy Spirit Who now indwells our very own spirit, in John 16:13 (Amp), saying, "But when He comes, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth-Giving Spirit), will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth). For He will not speak His Own Message (on His Own authority), but He will give the Message that has been given to Him; and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come (that will happen in the future)."

     Jesus wasn't just referring to the End Times, when He speaking about "the things that will happen in the future."  The Holy Spirit guides and speaks to each of us personally, about the things that will happen during our day and about the enemy's plans concerning us.  How many accidents could have been avoided, if we only listened to and were led by God's Word?  I was ready to drive through a green light, when the Holy Spirit told me to "Stop!"  I stopped without hesitation, when a truck ran the red light at 60 MPH.  I'm glad I chose to consent and submit to God's Word, which protected me.

     God could have lifted my truck over the incoming vehicle or done something else in a dramatic way, but it was needed, because I consented and submitted to His Word and was protected.  In Prov. 9:11-12 (Amp) God says, "For by Me (Wisdom from God), your days shall be multiplied and the years of your life shall be increased. If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scorn, you alone will bear it and pay the penalty."

     It doesn't matter what others think about what God says, because "If you are wise, then you're wise for yourself and if you scorn, you alone will pay the penalty."  You must choose to either consent and submit to God's Word or follow what others say.  It's up to every individual to seek a personal relationship with the Spirit, Wisdom, Jesus and our Heavenly Father.