Dear Missy for June

Luke 5:15, “Yet despite Jesus’s instructions the report of His power spread even faster, and crowds came to hear Him preach and to be healed of their diseases.”

Dear Missy, Jesus heals all our sicknesses and diseases, every time! His power and His Word never fail; it is our spiritual medicine and physical remedy.

I love you, Daddy

Luke 6:19, “Everyone was trying to touch Him, because healing power went out from Him, and they were all cured.”

Dear Missy, Jesus has all the power we will ever need, His saving, healing, and loving power exceeds our limitations and makes Him, the great I Am!

L love you, Daddy

Luke 8:46, “But Jesus told him, no someone deliberately touched me, for I felt healing power go out from Me.”

Dear Missy, we must reach out to Jesus on purpose, and when we touch Him, He transfers His mighty power to us and fills our all in all! Even power to run sprints and not be last J

I love you, Daddy

Luke 10:19, “And I have given you authority over all the power of the enemy and you can walk among snakes and scorpions and crush them, nothing will injure you.”

Dear Missy, Jesus has given us His power to defeat all our enemies, and nothing can in anyway harm us. Read Psalm 91!

I love you, Daddy

The Revelation of God

In the book of John chapter fourteen and verse six, Jesus said, “I am the only way (to God) and the (real) Truth, and the (real) Life.” AMP version.

As the Way, Jesus is our salvation, for there is no other name given under heaven for men to be saved. That would mean male and female. Amen!

As the Truth, Jesus is “the revelation of God” and He reveals this to us in John 14:6, by giving us His testimony!

His testimony was given to comfort His disciples and for all people through all times.

He started this comforting in John 14:1, “don’t let your heart be troubled, you believe in God and trust in Him (have faith, hold on to it, rely on it, keep going and) believe also in Me!” AMP version.

Trusting in God is the most comforting thing we can do, and trust is to believe the truth.  Jesus is the Truth based on His own testimony. So by trusting God we also believe in Jesus and fulfill John 14:1. Amen!

It’s our responsibility to hold onto our trust in God, and our belief in Jesus (the Truth).

I wrote this statement down the other day while studying the Word of God and it went like this, “your head will trouble your heart if you allow it.”

We have a revelational ability that we need to deploy when our head tries to make us wonder, this revelational ability is “faith”.

Faith comes by hearing, which is hearing the Good News about the Christ. Amen! Romans 10:17

One of our responsibilities is to attend and be involved in a Bible ministering church. The Good News about the Christ was revealed to Godly men throughout the Bible, and is absorbed by our hearing and receiving it with an open heart.

To truly hear the Word about the Christ we must get out of mindfulness and open up our spirits!

Remember our head will trouble our hearts if we allow it.

Let’s enter into the prayer and worship before the sermon when attending church services, this opens our hearts so we can truly hear.

Mark 4:25 in the Passion Translation says, “For those who listen with open hearts will receive more revelation. But those who don’t listen with open hearts will lose what little they think they have.”

This is the responsibility I was talking about; in this verse “you” is the intended subject.

It is up to us to shut out what’s going on around us, calm our mind, which is a form of comforting that’s in God’s revealed Word. We listen deeply and intently, with an open heart.

The revelation of God is a “must-have” to live a victorious life.  Mark 4:25 says, if we don’t listen with an open heart, we don’t receive any revelation and we lose what little we thought we had.

This back and forth, this gaining and losing only causes us to doubt in Jesus.  Who is our only hope at knowing the Way, operating in the Truth, and living our best life both now and eternally. Amen!

You see, doubt is duo (or double) which always leads to confusion and faithlessness.  Trust is assurance and always leads to confidence. Our confidence is based on our dependence and our relationship with Jesus Christ.

I just brought up another one of those words that we as a people kind of struggle with, “dependence.”

Dependence is relying on another.  In life, many of us have been let down by the people that we trusted, even those close to us. I will actually venture out to say that all of us experienced this letdown at some point in our lives.

You see no matter how great the revelation may be, no matter how intelligent we become, no matter how much knowledge we possess, it will never take the place of a “revelation from God.”

Besides ourselves, God is the only One who knows our spirit!

He made us and therefore we must look to Him to meet all our needs, and that is according to His riches in Glory, by Christ Jesus.

This is Philippians 4:19, a verse that God revealed in-depth to me while I was studying it, and pondering its meaning.

The verse reveals God’s heart in His giving to us, Jesus! Amen!

The revelation went like this, “Jesus Christ became the “way” for God to get riches to us from Glory!

God had all these riches for us, His people, stored up in Glory.  He needed a “way” to get them to those of us on the earth. So He sent His only Son to deliver us from the bondage of sin, and to open up the riches of Glory to us so that He can lavish us with all His Goodness! Wow!

What a great and awesome Revelator, this God of ours. If you know Him, endeavor to get closer, if you don’t know Him, pray this prayer; we can all affirm or reaffirm our faith.

Thank You, God, that the revelation of Your Word is very near to me, it is in my mouth and in my heart. By faith, I confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord of all and Lord of my life. He has all power, majesty, and authority of You, my God. I believe in my heart that you God raised Jesus from the dead; I also believe in my heart that what you are revealing to me right now is Your saving grace. I confess with my own mouth that you, Jesus, are my Way, my Truth, and my Life, and I thank You for the exchange from death to life, in Jesus’ name.  Amen!

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Scriptures of encouragement and content, Acts 4:12, Acts 10:43, 1 Timothy 2:5, John 17:3, all of John 14, Romans 10:9-10, and John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life”.  Amen!

Dear Missy for May 2021

Luke 1:17, “He will be a man with the spirit and power of Elijah, the prophet of old. He will precede the coming of the Lord, preparing the people for His arrival. He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and He will change disobedient minds to accept Godly wisdom.”

Dear Missy, our power to accept comes through our preparation and acceptance of Godly wisdom. As we grow our faith by “hearing and hearing” the Word of God, we hasten the Lord’s coming and that coming is into our lives! Amen!

I love you, Daddy

Luke 1:35, “The angel replied, the Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the most High will overshadow you. So the baby born to you will be holy, and He will be called, the Son of God.”

Dear Missy, we as well get our power from the Holy Spirit, and “that” power bore the Son of God, “Jesus”.

I love you, Daddy

Luke 4:14, “then Jesus returned to Galilee, filled with the Holy Spirit’s power. Soon He became well known throughout the surrounding country.”  

Dear Missy, the Holy Spirit will make us well known, well respected, and full of power! Amen!

I love you, Daddy

Luke 4:36, “Amazed, the people exclaimed, what authority and power this man’s words possess. Even evil spirits obey Him and flee at His command.”

Dear Missy, people see that same power and authority in us, as we speak the name of Jesus over our situations. In the name of Jesus we can expel all evil, and guard our hearts from any wickedness.

I love you, Daddy

Faith, Surrender, or Striving?

I recently read a quote from a prominent Christian preacher, it went like this; “Faith is a result of surrender, not striving.”

The faith movement in our country says we must, fight, confess, and do, do, do; sounds a little more like striving than surrender, so I spent some time looking deeper.

Surrendering by definition is to, “give oneself up to the power of another, or to yield to another.”  It has to do with submitting ourselves and giving place.

The definitions are Biblical and are what we must to do in order to be saved and to serve God. Amen!

Striving on the other hand is to, “make a great effort to achieve or obtain something.”  Is our faith in our actions, or is our faith in God?

To be an effective witness or ambassador, (which is a representative of another Kingdom) requires us to rely on the Holy Spirit to lead us and that my friend is “yielding.”

Living by faith means to live in the power of the Holy Spirit. Believers must appropriate daily, to live as Christians by faith in the power of the Holy Spirit. This means that believers must trust the Spirit to empower them in specific instances, such as; temptation, being faithful, and sharing our faith.

Surrender teaches us this daily spiritual interaction and faith requires an act of surrender by those who accept Jesus Christ. Wow!  So, at this point, I am definitely leaning towards surrender, how about you?

Most people including Christians get stuck on this surrender word.  We want to keep control, which leads to striving and not surrendering. Hold that thought!

I believe faith comes in stronger when we trust God and quit striving.  Yes, we fight to hold onto the Word God has shown us, but sometimes that doesn’t require a lot of confessing and work, sometimes we just need to get quiet and surrender.

Meditation helps us surrender.  Claiming, fighting, and striving can lead to confusion, and let’s be honest, clarity from God comes when we get quiet in the Word and surrender ourselves to Him. Amen!

Something great happens when we truly realize that He cares for us and that He will take our striving and replace it with peace and rest.  This is the most contentment we can ever gain. Glory to God!

For most of us, it takes mind renewal to be able to surrender to God, cast our cares over onto Him, and then patiently wait for God to fight our battles. All the faith giants in the Bible did just that. Amen!

Yes, they fought some outstanding fights of faith, just as we have and will, but in the end (and the reason they are in the Book) is because they relied on God and they submitted to Him.

It is our job to cry out the Word, and then God goes into action.  We surrender to Him, and He causes our enemies to surrender to us while we patiently trust His love.

Here is another quote God gave me, “We will never enter into God’s rest without patience and surrender”; this quote was given, “by faith.”

You see “by faith” will never stop being how we receive from God, but striving isn’t faith, surrendering is!

God’s system is already victorious; all we need to do is quit fighting Him!

Sometimes we get mixed up on who or what our faith is in. Our faith should not be in our confessing, although it is necessary; our faith should not be in our works, although they are necessary.  Our faith should be in God, Who always causes us to triumph. Amen!

Here is a statement that is pretty bold, but I believe to be biblically correct, “To be led by the Spirit, you must surrender to God!”  This statement is also true, just because we say what someone else says or follow someone’s ministry doesn’t mean we have surrendered anything to God.

It is our heart that God is after and until we surrender our heart to God we are bound by the enemy.  Faith working through love will get us our breakthrough from striving to surrender. Amen!

It takes greater faith to surrender than it does to strive, and striving will never produce salvation, but surrendering will! That is the exciting plan of God, so we surrender ourselves under God’s mighty hand and He will exalt us in due time! Amen! That is 1 Peter 5:6.

God wants our hearts; He wants to lead us by our spirit.  For Him to have this place in our lives we must do and say what Jesus said, “Not My will, but Your will be done”. Jesus lived to only please the Father, as we surrender, we will too.

So I will end with this; keep confessing, keep doing the things of God, keep claiming the Word, but always surrender your heart, soul, mind, and strength to your good Father God, “First.”

I surrender all, how about you? And yes I say this, “by Faith.”

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Scriptures of encouragement and content, Acts 1:8, Proverbs 23:26, Galatians 2:20, John 12:49, 2 Corinthians 4:16, Ephesians 4:23, Matthew 11:28, Ephesians 2:8-9, Mark 11:21-22, Romans 8:14-17, and, Matthew 16:24-25, “Then Jesus said to His disciples, if anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever surrenders his life for My sake will find it”! Emphasis added.