The word of God is your sure foundation; it will hold you; it will keep you in the time of trouble. Mat. 7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: 25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon the house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.  (That rock is Jesus, the word of God.) The word of God is the power of God; it has power or life in it. Luk. 1:37 (R.V.) For no word from God shall be void of power. John 6:63 It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. Isa. 55: 10,11 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: 11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

By faith you are the righteousness of God.

By faith you are more than a conqueror.

By faith you have the greater one in you.

By faith the stripes of Jesus heals you.

By faith God will supply all your needs.

By faith you can do all things through Christ.

By faith you have power over the enemy and nothing shall hurt you.

Jesus has paid the price. When He said, “It is finished”, everything pertaining to your life here on earth and in heaven was taken care of that day. But you can not enter, you can not walk in it except you first believe and have faith in what He has done. This is your victory. This is how you overcome. Live and walk by faith.

This is not about you. You do not have to fight anymore. This is not your battle. The battles have been won. All God want you to return to faith and stand and obey Him. Stand your ground and hold on through His grace and watch HIM BRING His word to pass in your life. There will be many things to distract you. There will be many things coming to your mind. Buy you stand. Meditate the scriptures. Daily meditate the scriptures. Keep them, the word, on your mind. And by the word you will be directed as to what to do in that hour.

How many of you since you have been saved understand and really live out the words of Jesus…deny yourself?  When you deny yourself, you make a sacrifice. You say no to self and yes to God and the will God. When you make the sacrifice and say I will live the life of Christ within me, then Jesus becomes your life and He will be your all in all. There is no want in Jesus; there is no lack in Jesus.  He is your life, your faith, joy, strength, patience, health, love, power, righteousness, holiness, peace, … Whatever pertains to life, Jesus is that to those who pass from the carnal life to life in the Spirit.

God spoke into my spirit and said, “If my people will allow me, I will restore the years that the canker worm has eaten”. I asked him, Lord, what do you mean, allow you?  You are God. You can do anything that you want to do. He said, they must believe again. I can do no work for them until they are willing to believe. Their faith have been so shattered because of all the things they have gone through.  If they would only believe, then they would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Then God told me to pray, pray for the healing of wounds. Pray for the healing of pain. Pray for the healing of spirits.  Pray for the healing of faith. Beloved, you have been broken, and you need to be filled with God’s love. You need to let his love flood your soul and spirit. There is a word from the Lord. He wants you to know that He has not forgotten you. He will never leave you nor forsake you. Start praising him now. And when He speaks to you, be strengthened.

When I see you, the children of God, fall to the attacks of the enemy; when I hear you say, “Pastor I have prayed. I have fasted. I have stayed in the word. I am not living in sin. I do not doubt God. Yet the enemy attacks me so”. When I think about those who are backsliding and those who have given up; when I think about those who have lost the will to walk with God, my heart goes out. I find myself identifying with the prophets, crying out for God to send a word for his people. But then I know that the true disciple, the ones who walk close with God, the ones who dare to make his will their will are troubled on every side. They are perplexed, persecuted, forsaken, cast down, and rejected. Satan keeps on buffeting and buffeting them to cause them to fall but they stand. Will you will stand too.

Ten disciplines for going to the high places in life:

1  —  Let not sin reign in your mortal body, Rom. 6:12.

2  —  Yield yourselves unto God and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God, Rom. 6:13.

3  —  Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, Col. 3:16.

4  —  Be filled with the Holy Spirit, Eph. 5:18.

5  —  Mortify the deeds of the body, Romans 8:13.

6  —  Be renewed in the spirit of your mind, Eph. 4:23.

7  —  Keep your thought life pure and holy, Phi. 4:8.

8  —  Pray always … in the Spirit, Eph. 6:8.

9  —  Set your affection on things above, Col. 3:2.

10 —  Remember, always, it is God which worketh in you, Phi. 2:13.

It is hard to imagine God allowing any of His servants to go through, but He does. The reason: II Cor. 4:10 “[We are] Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.” Beloved, we are the called of God. We are the children of God. We are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood. We are filled with God’s Holy Spirit. We have the life of God in us. There is no room for self: self will, self righteous, self strength, self power, self anything. In all that we do for God in the earth it must be done by His life, His power, His strength and His Spirit. Now you can better understand: I John 4:4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. Now you can better understand: II Chronicles 20:15 “…for the battle is not yours, but God’s.” Now you can better appreciate: II Corinthians 12:9 “…My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”

The Holy Spirit is come to…John 16:13 “…guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come;” to empower you according to Acts 1:8; and to Romans 8:26 “help [your] infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God”. Let nothing keep you from following the Spirit. Hide the word of God in your heart and follow the Spirit in all things. You will life to bring God glory in all things.

One important key to living the kingdom life is to know the revelation that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and to know that you are the Body of Christ, a member in particular.  If you can believe that you are the Body of Christ, then you can believe that the Holy Spirit is the life of His Body.  If He is the life of your/His body, then He must be in control.  It is through your will and spirit that you relinquish control to the Holy Spirit. Then He directs you from day to day, moment to moment, situation to situation as to how you are to act or what you are to say.  It is a powerful life!