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God does.

Forget what the doctor says, WHAT DOES GOD SAY?

3. STAY in the higher realm.

Even though our physical bodies are on earth, IN SPIRIT we are, RIGHT NOW, in the Kingdom of God.

We are IN A HIGHER realm.

That HIGHER Kingdom controls the lower kingdom.

That HIGHER Kingdom controls temporary conditions on earth.

God's Kingdom rules OVER ALL (Psalm 103:19; Daniel 5:21).

Heaven rules the earth, the earth DOES NOT rule heaven.

ALL TEMPORARY situations MUST YIELD and GIVE WAY TO ETERNAL TRUTH. 

Read it again: ALL TEMPORARY situations MUST YIELD AND GIVE WAY TO ETERNAL TRUTH.

 In order to change TEMPORARY conditions, we superimpose ETERNAL (HIGHER) TRUTH on temporary situations.

We do this BY SPEAKING God's Word to the situation, IN SPIRIT, WITH TOTAL CONVICTION, and in Jesus' Name and Authority.

4. CUT FEAR OFF - COMPLETELY.

I can't say it often enough: when you CUT FEAR OFF, you CUT SATAN OFF.

Eliminate fear and satan has NOTHING - NOTHING!!! -- with which to work in your life.

Fear - in all its forms - is deadly: worry, anxiety, shyness, competitiveness, jealousy, envy, selfishness, unbelief, doubt are ALL manifestations of fear.

5. STOP THE SELF PITY

If ANYONE, in the natural, had reason to feel sorry for Himself, it was Jesus: falsely accused, rejected by His own people, subjected to the most humiliating and painful physical torture, crucified between two thieves, having ALL THE SIN OF THE WORLD laid on Him, spending three days and nights in hell itself, and forsaken by his followers, closest relatives and friends, and by all those that He'd helped:

WHERE WERE the thousands He fed? All those He healed? All those to whom He preached God's Word? All those He comforted?

Yet Jesus PRAYED FOR His executioners as He hung on the cross: "Father FORGIVE THEM, for they know not what they do".

Jesus TRUSTED the Father COMPLETELY and committed His Spirit to Him.

He OVERCAME and is THE GREATEST WINNER OF ALL THE AGES.

Self-pity is for losers.

Winners TRUST Jesus and exercise His Authority.

Find out WHO YOU ARE IN Christ, and you'll never feel sorry for yourself again.

6. BE FULLY PERSUADED.

When some people face unpleasant situations they immediately contact everyone they know and ask them to pray.

I'm not knocking prayer, but the solution is NOT to have 1,000 people praying for the same thing. If the 1,000 people have NO TRUST (faith), chances are all their prayers won't do any good.

The answer is to have ONE or more individuals FULLY TRUSTING Jesus and FULLY CONVINCED of the answer.

All it takes is ONE person FILLED WITH FAITH (TRUST) in the Living God.

All it takes is ONE person FILLED WITH THE FAITH (TRUST) OF God Himself (Mark 11:22)

That ONE person CAN BE YOU. It doesn't have to be someone else.

THE DIFFERENCE is NOT in the numbers BUT IN THE TRUST (faith). In being FULLY CONVINCED that you have what you asked God to give you in Jesus' Name (1 John 5:15).

7. Praise and thank God FOR THE VICTORY.

If you're absolutely convinced, and YOU KNOW that you got what you asked for, then praise Him for it, EVEN BEFORE it manifests.

8. STAND in that conviction. And DON'T BUDGE - no matter WHAT the devil and his agents may throw your way.

If you budge, you're NOT fully convinced.

If you're FULLY CONVINCED, you won't budge.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2016

 

UNTAPPED POTENTIAL

Humans, in their present condition, use only a tiny portion of their brain's potential.

Even the smartest people, the "Einsteins" of humanity, only use about 10% of their brains' capacity.

The human brain has been described as: "the most sophisticated and complex computer in the universe".

Despite the awe-inspiring scientific and technological advances of mankind in the 20th and 21st centuries, we still know RELATIVELY LITTLE about the human brain.

And EVEN LESS about the human MIND.

It is important to differentiate between the human MIND and the human BRAIN.

Although the human BRAIN presently houses the human MIND, the MIND is part of the human SOUL and EXISTS APART FROM the physical organ.

This explains why people who have DIED PHYSICALLY and whose PHYSICAL brains have ceased to function, STILL HAVE MINDS and are capable of thinking, understanding, perception, feeling and remembering (Psalm 16:10; Luke 16:22-24).

However, the fact that, in designing human beings, God placed their MINDS in such intricate, efficient, and extremely capable piece of "machinery" PROVES that man was designed and created for A MUCH HIGHER PURPOSE than it would readily appear.

The brain, through the nervous system, has always been THE CONTROL CENTER of the human body.

God's Word tell us that, at Creation, the human mind-brain was "CROWNED with glory" (Psalm 8:5).

Glory is Light (2 Corinthians 4:6).

Every circuit in the human mind-brain was functional and LIT.

Adam's human mind-brain was functioning at 100% of its capacity.

I am thoroughly convinced, based on the biblical text, that prior to sin entering the human race, man had ENORMOUS capabilities about which we can only, at the moment, speculate.

For instance, we presently have 5 senses. Prior to the fall, we must have had AT LEAST 7 (7 being God's number of COMPLETENESS).

Man also had WISDOM and KNOWLEDGE beyond our wildest imagination.

Think of all that mankind has accomplished having such severely limited mind-brain capabilities.

I'm certain that all feats of so-called human intelligence - impressive as they are - PALE BY COMPARISON to man's original wisdom.

This may well explain some of the ancient mysteries that still baffle scientists, such as the Gobekli Tepe ruins in Turkey and rhw Sacsayhuamán ruins in Cusco, Peru.

When man sinned, God's glory departed and approximately 90% of his mind-brain functions shut down, leaving only the 10% that presently sustains human life.

Man went from being glorified and immortal to destitute of glory and mortal (Romans 3:23).

90% of his mind-brain became DARKENED.

Thank God that this pitiful condition is ONLY TEMPORARY.

We were created and PREDESTINED FOR GLORY:

Those who KNOW JESUS will be, once again, glorified and crowned with glory for eternity (Romans 8:29-30; Ephesians 1:4).

Just think of WHAT we may accomplish when His glory is UNVEILED in us:

Isaiah 64:4, 1 Corinthians 2:9:

"Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, NEITHER HAVE ENTERED INTO THE HEART OF MAN, the things WHICH GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THEM THAT LOVE HIM".

TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2016

 

WHERE'S THE GRACE?

A good place to start with regards to ANY TEACHING, or ANY wind of doctrine that blows your way, is by asking this ALL IMPORTANT question:

WHERE'S the Grace?

If Salvation - the GREATEST BLESSING of all - is 100% FREE, HOW can LESSER blessings COST ME?

THAT is worth repeating:

If SALVATION - the GREATEST BLESSING of all - is 100% FREE, HOW can LESSER blessings COST ME?

It simply DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.

And if they COST ME, if I have to PAY A 10% RELIGIOUS TAX ON MY INCOME-- FALSELY CALLED "TITHE"...

OR IF I HAVE TO DONATE to a small group of select preachers in order to receive those LESSER blessings (like health, prosperity, abundance)...

Then WHERE THE HECK is the Grace?

For that matter, WHERE THE HECK is THE FAITH?

Grace means UNDESERVED - repeat: UNDESERVED - Goodness.

Grace is something good we get from God that WE DO NOT DESERVE.

That we CANNOT EARN.

Grace IS ALWAYS FREE.

Again: GRACE is ALWAYS free.

If you have to GIVE something, then IT'S NOT FREE, and it's NOT Grace:

Grace and faith are INSEPARABLE:

Everything God does for mankind is by Grace through faith.

That's how He blessed Abraham (Genesis 12:1-3).

That's how He made Abraham VERY RICH (Genesis 13:2; 5-6).

That's how He DECLARED Abraham RIGHTEOUS (Genesis 15:6).

Abraham DID NOTHING for these blessings.

I repeat: Abraham DID NOTHING, and Abraham GAVE NOTHING, in order to obtain these blessings.

All he "did" was BELIEVE GOD.

Again: All Abraham "did" was BELIEVE (TRUST) GOD.

Abraham DIDN'T "SOW A SEED" in order to receive such blessings.

He got THE BLESSING for free!!!

He did not deserve SUCH BLESSING!

He got it for ONE REASON:

God is EXTREMELY GOOD.

God is EXTREMELY GRACIOUS.

And He DELIGHTS in blessing His children (Luke 12:32).

According to Galatians 3:29, if you are IN Christ, then YOU are Abraham's seed and RIGHTFUL HEIR TO HIS BLESSING.

You DON'T HAVE TO "TITHE" OR "GIVE" in order to get Abraham's blessing.

Abraham's blessing comes on your life IF YOU, LIKE ABRAHAM, TRUST JESUS 100%.

"Well, you're wrong: Abraham was a tither"...

No, YOU are wrong. Abraham WAS NOT a tither.

Abraham NEVER TITHED IN HIS ENTIRE LIFE.

God had made Abraham extremely wealthy and HE NEVER TITHED A DIME of his own, great wealth.

He tithed ONLY ONCE and the 10% he gave to Melchizedek was NOT from his own wealth, but from the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, WHICH HE HAD RECOVERED in the process of rescuing Lot.

Abraham had RECOVERED Sodom and Gomorrah's wealth, which the kings of Elam HAD STOLEN.

He GAVE 10% OF Sodom's STOLEN GOODS that HE'D RECOVERED TO Melchizedek - then PAID HIMSELF (took a proportionate amount of the food he and his servants had eaten), and THEN HE GAVE ALL THE REST BACK TO ITS RIGHTFUL OWNER, the king of Sodom.

That is EXACTLY what Genesis 14:11-24 says.

That is EXACTLY what it has said for the past 3,500 years.

Abraham NEVER GAVE God, Melchizedek - or ANYONE ELSE a penny from HIS OWN MONEY.

NEVER!!!

And there isn't ONE Scripture - from Genesis to Revelation - that says he did:

NOT ONE.

My problem with so-called "word of faith" teaching is NOT faith. It's NOT speaking (confessing) the Word in the Spirit. It's NOT prosperity itself: I'm NOT anti-prosperity. God doesn't require us to be poor, and living in poverty doesn't win us any brownie points with Him.

God WANTS TO bless His children with prosperity JUST LIKE HE BLESSED Abraham: BY GRACE.

Not because WE are "good", but because HE IS GOOD.

My ONLY problem is THEIR DECEPTIVE MESSAGE that we have to GIVE to one of the scam artists preaching the so called "word of faith" message in order for God to bless us.

God LOVES unconditionally.

God GIVES unconditionally. NO STRINGS.

And His blessings CANNOT - CANNOT - CANNOT - be BOUGHT or "EARNED".

When you tell your audience that they have to "believe" for whatever blessing they want: then turn around and say that THEY ALSO HAVE TO GIVE MONEY in order to get that blessing, THEN IT'S NOT A BLESSING.

It's a PURCHASE.

That's NOT grace, that's BRIBE.

And there ISN'T ONE Scripture - IN THE ENTIRE BIBLE - that says that GIVING to a "word of faith" scam artist - or to anyone else - will cause God to GIVE TO YOU or move on your behalf.

If you tell someone that God's blessings are CONTINGENT on them GIVING YOU 10% OF THEIR INCOMES, WHERE'S THE GRACE and WHERE'S THE FAITH in THAT?

You can call yourself "word of faith" ‘til your lying face turns RED WITH SHAME:

What you're doing IS SOWING FEAR in the hearts of your audience: "gee, UNLESS I "tithe", God won't bless me". "UNLESS I DONATE ("sow a seed") God WON'T give me ____".

That's FEAR, NOT faith.

You are NEGATING what little faith they might have.

If you, dear Christian, WANT some BLESSING from God (A BLESSING, by definition, is something that IS NOT OUT OF LINE WITH HIS WORD) ask Him for it!

Ask Him, TRUST that His Goodness gives it to you.

...TRUSTING that God is TOO GOOD, and TOO GRACIOUS NOT to grant your wish.

And, by all means, SPEAK ACCORDINGLY.

By all means, EXPECT IT to manifest in your life.

BUT DON'T INSULT God with your MEASLY "BRIBE":

"Instruct them that are rich in this present age, that they be not haughty, NOR TRUST IN UNCERTAIN RICHES, BUT IN THE LIVING GOD, WHO GIVES US RICHLY ALL THINGS TO ENJOY" (1 Timothy 6:17).

"He that SPARED NOT HIS OWN Son, but delivered him up for us all, HOW SHALL HE NOT WITH HIM ALSO FREELY GIVE US ALL THINGS?

Which part of ‘WITH Him ALSO FREELY GIVE US ALL THINGS" don't word of faith preachers GET?

 

MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 2015

 

WHAT... NO MILLIONAIRES?

"For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But IF WE HAVE FOOD AND CLOTHING, LET US BE CONTENT WITH THAT.

THOSE WHO WANT TO GET RICH FALL INTO TEMPTATION AND A TRAP AND INTO MANY FOOLISH AND HARMFUL DESIRES THAT PLUNGE PEOPLE INTO RUIN AND DESTRUCTION.

For the love of money is a root of all evil. SOME PEOPLE, EAGER FOR MONEY, HAVE WANDERED FROM THE FAITH and pierced themselves with many griefs.

But you, man of God, FLEE FROM ALL THIS, and pursue righteousness... (1 Timothy 6:7-11)

Oral Roberts began teaching his "Seed faith" heresy in 1947: that's 69 YEARS AGO.

Two years later (in 1949) his false doctrine was further distorted by the so-called "Word of Faith" movement launched by Kenneth E. Hagin: that was 67 YEARS AGO.

HOW LONG IS A FAIR AMOUNT OF TIME to determine if some doctrine is true or false?

HOW LONG does it take TO PROVE if a RELIGIOUS THEORY works or DOESN'T WORK?

...5 years? 10 years? Wouldn't 15 YEARS be MORE THAN FAIR?

Oh, what the heck, let's make it 20 YEARS...

It's been OVER THREE TIMES that.

It's been ALMOST 70 YEARS!!!

I have ONE simple question for all the word of faith preachers and their adoring groupies:

WHERE are all the MILLIONAIRES?

SHOULDN'T AT LEAST HALF of their idolatrous followers who:

A. Have loyally attended their meetings ALL THESE YEARS, FOR SEVEN DECADES.

B. "Fed their faith" by BUYING and listening to ALL their heretical tapes and CDs AD NAUSEAM.

C. "TITHED" 10% OF THEIR GROSS INCOMES to those greedy, self-serving S.O.B's.

D. Have "sowed" INNUMERABLE "seeds" by giving OFFERING AFTER OFFERING AFTER OFFERING - ON TOP OF their "tithes".

E. HAVE CONFESSED "THE WORD" ad infinitum. And...

F. HAVE BEEN CALLING THINGS "WHICH ARE NOT as though THEY WERE" - ALL THOSE YEARS...

...SHOULDN'T THEY HAVE SEEN some DRAMATIC results by now?

Shouldn't AT LEAST HALF OF THEM be LIVING IN 6 MILLION DOLLAR MANSIONS, like their idols?

Shouldn't at least HALF of them HAVE MILLIONS in the bank?

...Own private airplanes?

...Drive Rolls Royces and wear Rolexes?

...Be EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL entrepreneurs?

WHERE ARE ALL these "EXTREMELY prosperous" Christians for whom this teaching has produced THE RESULTS PROMISED by the word of faith preachers?

WHERE ARE ALL the "HUNDREDFOLD returns" on ALL they've given?

WHERE ARE THE ARMIES of WEALTHY Christians living IN THE PROSPERITY and ABUNDANCE their "leaders" promised?

Aha... NOWHERE.

They BRAG ABOUT being "WORLD changers", when they can't even change the lives of 50 blindly DEVOTED FANS!

And this - in THE MOST PROSPEROUS nation on earth!

They say we are supposed to establish God's Kingdom on earth by "sowing seeds", meaning MONEY.

THEY'VE BEEN AT IT FOR almost 7 DECADES and - by ANYONE'S STANDARDS - they have FAILED MISERABLY.

WHERE IS this "Kingdom of God" that THEY'VE established on earth?

NOWHERE.

Even a casual observer can see that the world is decaying and becoming more rotten, violent, and unmanageable each day.

Therefore, THEY HAVE FAILED BY ALL applicable standards.

The ONLY ONES who HAVE BECOME millionaires and live in mansions ARE THE GREEDY PREACHERS WHO BRAINWASH their followers with this false doctrine ‘round the clock.

I have THREE QUESTIONS for those Christians still involved in this ungodly piece of DECEPTIVE, GREED-DRIVEN religious crap:

1. Don't any of you HAVE EVEN HALF a brain?

2. Can't any of you THINK FOR YOURSELVES and realize YOU'RE BEING SWINDLED?

3. Are you really THAT stupid?

Unfortunately, "Word of Faith" is now THE DOMINANT THEOLOGY in the Pentecostal movement.

They now have a satellite channel where you can watch and hear this manipulative manure  24/7.

You can GET BRAINWASHED by this heresy - ON PURPOSE!!!

You can GO TO SLEEP hearing about money, and wake up the next morning STILL HEARING ABOUT MONEY:

GIMME, GIMME, GIMME, GIMME...

TITHE, TITHE, TITHE, TITHE...

MONEY, MONEY, MONEY, MONEY...

NON-STOP!!!

Just what we needed: more religious brainwashing, more scam artists using Jesus' Name FOR PERSONAL GAIN, more dumb sheep being fleeced and led astray.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 2016

 

DID JESUS CURSE ISRAEL?

 

According to UNBIBLICAL Replacement Theology, when Jesus cursed the fig tree for finding only leaves and no fruit, He cursed Israel, annulled the ETERNAL covenant made with them, and REPLACED Israel with the Church, and the Old Testament with the New (Matthew 21:19-21).

 

That the New Testament HAS REPLACED the Old Testament is absolutely true (2 Corinthians 3:14; Hebrews 7:22; 8:6-13; 10:9).

 

That the Church - regardless of HOW one interprets the word "Church" - has replaced Israel is FALSE.

 

That God has annulled His Covenant with Israel IS PATENTLY FALSE.

 

And that God has CURSED Israel is UTTERLY RIDICULOUS.

 

There is NO INDICATION WHATSOEVER in Scripture that in cursing ONE fig tree --among THE MANY that ABOUND in Jerusalem, and ALL OVER the Middle East -- Jesus was cursing Israel.

 

Let alone that He was CONTRADICTING HIMSELF -- which would make Him A LIAR -- by revoking THE ETERNAL COVENANT He made with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

 

That doctrine is nothing but FALSE, UNBIBLICAL, SINFUL, God-contradicting, HUMAN CONJECTURE.

 

That self-serving theology was INVENTED by guys like Hippolytus (4th century) and Augustine (5th century) to "justify" their religion's virulent antisemitism.

 

It was PURE CONJECTURE THEN, just like it is today -- and JUST AS FALSE.

 

Unfortunately, even Martin Luther, who sought to reform the organized religion into which the Christian faith had degenerated -- and who restored the light of Salvation by Grace only, through faith only, in Christ only -- could not break free from that deceitful religious tradition.

 

That ONE LONE fig tree had dried up from the root by the following morning. There's NO INDICATION anywhere of Israel "drying up".

 

If God cursed them, HOW COME they're back in the Holy Land, and in possession of Jerusalem, after almost 2,000 years in exile?

 

Yes, they've been persistently rebellious.

 

They've often been chastised for their rebellions.

 

But God has neither left them nor forsaken them, as their own history PROVES.

 

...As the existence of the State of Israel PROVES.

 

...As the MILLIONS IF NOT BILLIONS of Jews scattered throughout the gentile world PROVES.

 

Well, what about Malachi 3:9, where God says "you are cursed with a curse, the whole nation"?

 

In context, if you read THE REST OF the passage, that "curse" involved ONLY Israel's LAND not producing abundantly as a result of Israel's failure to tithe (give 10% of) their cattle, grain and produce FOR THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM.

 

Verses 10-12 of the same passage PROMISE A GREAT BLESSING on Israel, an agricultural bonanza, for which ALL OTHER NATIONS WOULD CALL THEM BLESSED (Malachi 3:9-12).

 

There was NO CURSE ON INDIVIDUALS, or ON ISRAEL'S PEOPLE.

 

And there was NO ANNULMENT of the ETERNAL covenant made with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Genesis 17:7; 26:2-4; 28:13-15; Hebrews 13:20).

 

There isn't ONE verse in the entire Bible, where God curses Israel.

 

There are many passages, in both Old and New Testaments, where God BLESSES Israel, and professes that they are still - AND FOREVERMORE - His Chosen People:

 

"And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. And IN YOU ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH WILL BE BLESSED." (Genesis 12:3)

 

"...I am the LORD God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: the land on which you lie, to you will I give it, and to your descendants.

 

And YOUR DESCENDANTS SHALL BE AS THE DUST OF THE EARTH, and YOU SHALL SPREAD ABROAD TO THE WEST, AND TO THE EAST, AND TO THE NORTH, AND TO THE SOUTH: and in you and in your descendants SHALL ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH BE BLESSED" (Genesis 28:13-14).

 

"And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.

 

And God said unto him, I AM God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; A NATION AND A COMPANY OF NATIONS SHALL BE OF YOU, and kings shall come out of your loins: and the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, TO YOU I WILL GIVE IT, AND TO YOUR SEED AFTER YOU WILL I GIVE THE LAND" (Genesis 35:10-12).

 

"This is what the Lord says, He who appoints THE SUN TO SHINE BY DAY, WHO DECREES THE MOON AND STARS TO SHINE BY NIGHT...

 

Only if these ordinances (the sun, the moon, the stars) vanish from my sight, declares the Lord, will Israel EVER CEASE BEING A NATION BEFORE ME. declares the Lord.

 

This is what the Lord says: