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Word for Today: March 15

We are suffering loss because we have allowed loss to happen.

Every defeat and every spiritual set back is the result of our laziness, our ignorance, our stupidity or our rebellion.

satan moves in when he is not resisted.  satan stays when we draw back and let him stay.   satan sets up housekeeping when we give place to him.  satan builds strongholds when we do not fight back.  satan cannot do what he is not allowed to do.

Our spiritual condition is precisely what we have allowed it to become.  We can fuss and cuss about the government about world conditions about immorality and crime and ungodliness… we can criticize and complain but what IS is what we as the Body of Christ have allowed to be.

God has equipped us and supplied us with every effective and offensive weapon to stop the devil and drive out demons and take back what hell has stolen… the problem is we have grown fat and lazy and we have gone to sleep.

And while we slept the enemy came and invaded.  Now it is time to attack.  It is time to declare our independence from the powers of darkness… it is the hour to move into the territory of the devil… to charge the gates of hell and demand a refund.

Just go ahead and do it.

Word for Today:  March 11

Stand on the WORD.

Maintain your confidence in God’s Faithfulness.  God said it… That settles it.   God promised it and God will provide it.

Let God be true and every man a liar… Rom 3:4

Do not let the things which you have heard “slip”… resist falling back into unbelief and doubt.  Stand on the Word… no matter what.  “Having done all…. stand!”

Actively look for and seek places where you can prove God’s Word.  Hold forth the Word of Life.   Believe the Word by Acting on the Word.  Do the Word.  Speak the Word.  Honor the Word.  Obey the Word.

• Resist compromise and cast out doubt.
• Question your questions and doubt your doubts, but believe God’s word.
• The Word is alive and filled with Power.
• The Word will perform and accomplish that which God purposed it to accomplish.
• The Word will not return void.

It will work.  Anytime.  Every time.  All the time.

Word for Today:  March 8

Preaching.

Preaching is done by men.  By women.  By children.  By twice-born, Holy Ghost appointed and anointed human beings.  Not by angels.  Not by Seraphim or Cherubim.  Not by heavenly hosts…  but by Human beings who are full of the Holy Ghost and consumed by Fire.  Those who are Called.  Who are Commissioned.  Who are Ordained by God.  Who are Selected.  Who are Sent.

Jesus was a Preacher.  He was called.  He was appointed.  He was anointed.  He was sent.  First and foremost, Jesus was a Preacher.  He had Fire in His bones, Oil on His head and a Sword in His mouth.

However, His outward qualifications would not be adequate to place Him in a modern ministry.  His demeanor would not qualify Him to be a successful preacher in the setting of today’s church.  His education would be lacking and His experience inadequate to qualify Him for a successful pastoral position in today’s religious world.

He did not dress like a preacher.  He did not keep company with preachers or with people preachers normally keep company with.  He did not act like a preacher, talk like a preacher, or live like a preacher.  He did not have a preacher’s education or a preacher’s credentials.  Yet, He was and is the Son of God.  He was a Word preacher…  Ahead of His time but in tune with His Father.  He was literally consumed with His Call and ready to Die for His Cause.

How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?   Rom 10:14

Word for Today:  March 5

The Word tells us that those who are Born Again have become “partakers” of the Divine Nature of God the Father.

Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.  2 Pet 1:4

The word for “partakers” in this context means:

• A partner, associate, comrade, companion,
• A partner, sharer, in anything. (Strong’s Concordance).

So, according to the Bible, at the time of Conversion, the believer becomes a sharer, a partner, an associate with God.  This experience affects the recipient, spirit, soul, and body.

The Spirit is quickened and brought to life, the Soul (mind and emotions) is renewed by the Word and the Body becomes the Temple of the Holy Ghost… the very dwelling place of God Himself.

In this verse, the word “nature” which is here described as “divine” is translated to mean “natural, lineal descent.”   (Gk. Phusis)  It is therefore in order to say that the Believer is a “natural, lineal descendent” of God Himself.

This is incredible.  When we are Born Again, Regenerated… we have the very Nature of God, a Divine Nature, imputed into us and we become at that very instant a descendent of Almighty God.

Word for Today:  March 4

satan is fighting.

But he is fighting the God in you.  So he is fighting a can’t-win battle.

he is defying the God Who lives in you.  This is the reason the devil hates you… you are where God is.  When he sees you he sees God.  When he sees you coming he thinks God is coming.  He hates God and defies God and is terrified of God.

David realized this in his confrontation with Goliath.  He declared:  “Who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the Living God?”  He did not see a giant.  He saw an opportunity.  He did not say that Goliath was defying the armies of Saul or the armies of Israel… but instead, the armies of the LIVING GOD.

Now, Who is the Champion?  Who is the Stronger One?  Who is the Victorious One?   It is God Who lives in you.  If He wins, you win.  If He can’t lose, you can’t lose.  If He overcomes, you overcome.

If satan is defying the God in you he is also defying the Word of God in you.   The Word has always been the enemy of satan.  The Word busted him and kicked him out of heaven.   The Word “bruised” his head.  The Word keeps him at bay.  The Word continually destroys all his “works.”

Whatever the devil will ever do, can be undone by the Word of God.  Whatever is planned and programmed by the devil can be prevented by the Word of God.

It is the Word that defeats the devil.  satan cannot stand against the Word.  Jesus used the Word on the devil and the devil left Him.  “It is written…” is what Jesus declared to the devil on the mount of temptation.

And the devil gave up and left

Word for Today:  March 3

And God said, Let us make man (Adam) in our image, after our likeness:  Genesis 1:26

There is no truth in the statement that Believers are “only human”… this has been a lie from hell for centuries.  We have actually become partakers of the very Divine Nature of God.  (2 Pet 1:4)

God has taken up habitation inside of us and we are possessors of His Perfection and His Righteousness.  We are God’s dwelling place.  He has chosen to live in us.  He has chosen to reproduce Himself in us.  He has given us power (the legal right) to become “sons of God.”  (John 1:12)

We have received Jesus and therefore we have the legal right to partake (share in) the Divine Nature (Righteousness) of God.  Therefore, every believer is a God-person.  We have the Supernatural Life of God in us.  God has not limited us.

There are no boundaries… no lids… no fences… no walls… no restraints.  What God has made us to be, WE ARE.

We have limited ourselves by saying that we are “only human” and thereby excuse ourselves for all the weaknesses and temptations we allow.

As He (Jesus) is, so are we in this world… 1Jn 4:17.

Word for Today:  March 2

And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.  Eph 3:19

When we receive Jesus by faith, the Righteousness of God is imputed into our dead spirit.  When we are Born Again, we are born OUT OF our sin nature and INTO the Righteous nature of God.

On the Cross, Jesus exchanged His righteous nature for our sin nature.  He became what we were in order that we might become Who He is.  When we make Jesus Lord of our lives we are born out of our sin nature and into the righteous nature of God.  We are not a person with two natures, but we are NEW, having never existed before.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.     All things that are now in us are from God… 2 Cor 5:17- 18

What was before… the sin nature, darkness, lack of power, sin, poverty and lack, failure and frustration… is dead. Stone Cold Dead.  So don’t be guilty of resurrecting this old dead nature.

Jesus has bought back and brought back what Adam lost… and MORE.

Jesus became what we were in order that we might be Who He is.

For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.  2 Cor 5:21

What a deal

Word for Today:  March 1

The Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure.

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.  Mt 13:44

Treasure is priceless.   No treasure on earth can compare with Treasure that can be found in the Kingdom of Heaven.

We get into this Field of Treasure when we get Born Again.  God plants us in His Treasure Field when we get saved.  All saved people are able to discover priceless and life-saving treasures God has provided in His Kingdom.   It is sad that many Believers are living with Treasures all around and are still spiritually poor.

Spiritual poverty is marked by lack, need, sickness, disease, demon oppression, worry, fear, unhappiness, depression and every wicked and vile thing that comes out of hell to hurt God’s People.  I want you to dig down and discover some treasures God has provided for you.

These “treasures” will change your life.  They will give you a new perspective.  They will move you into a different dimension.  Most everything that is really important in life has come through these simple discoveries.  They have kept me alive.  They have saved my household from disaster time and time again.  They have preserved the ministry.  They have kept us through every storm.  They have given us the ability to defeat the devil and overcome hell.  They have proven God and tested the Word.

These Treasures and hidden to many.  As we live in the Kingdom of heaven here on earth, I challenge you to dig deep and discover these treasures and cash them in.  If you do, you will live and not die!

• The Treasure of Redemption
• The Treasure of Forgiveness
• The Treasure of the Anointing
• The Treasure of Freedom
• The Treasure of Healing and Wholeness
• The Treasure of Having all your needs met
• The Treasure of Assurance
• The Treasure of Victory and Power
• The Treasure of Peace and Rest

Dig deep and find your Treasure