Are curses real? How does a curse happen? What is a curse? Curses of a Nation Article is below. For Article press link for PDF below. PDF Curses of a Nation Beyond Generational Family Curses There can be more than a curse upon a family passed down from one generation to the next as Numbers 14:18-20 states. Yes, we are redeemed from the curse of the law as Romans 8:2 says but say you are the first to get saved in your family, you may have the curses broken when you got saved. But sometimes the Lord doesn’t do that. He wants you to learn about it to help free others. And there are more than curses of the family line. There are curses within the land and the rulership of that land. For example, if you live in the United Kingdom, there are curses upon that land for the way the empire has been governed. Plus, if you live in Ireland there are curses upon that land as well. There are three reasons why curses of a nation come on the people: 1. The rulers of that nation disobeying God; 2. The priests of that nation disobeying God; 3. The people of that nation disobeying God. Jeremiah 2:7-9 - “I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit an rich produce. But you came and defiled My land and made My inheritance detestable. 8. The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the Lord?’ Those who deal with the law did not know Me; the leaders rebelled against Me; the prophets prophesied by Baal, following worthless idols. 9. Therefore I bring charges against you again,” declared the Lord, “And I will bring charges against your children, and your children’s children.” All of chapter 2 speaks of a nation from its people to its rulers, to its priests and prophets walking out on God. This nation of America has clearly done this very thing from much of the public, its rulers-no matter the party line, to bad religious leaders and false prophets. All of which are end times situations that come out in abundance. Very clearly the Lord states a nation is held accountable for its leaders, priests, and prophets, as well as the people: and how they all operate. One translation says the Lord not only brings charges, but brings a curse against the people of that land. And not to put too fine a point on it look at verses 20-25 - it’s all about being focused on immoral sex. And look at the focus point of our nation. Adultery, fornication, homosexual, transgender, beastiality, pedophilia, pornography. In the last 5 years (since 2020) these things have exploded on the public scene. Here’s another, look at Daniel 9:1-17 ESV- “1In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, by descent a Mede, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans— 2in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years. 3Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking Him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. 4 I prayed to the LORD my God and made confession, saying, “O Lord, the great and awesome God, Who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love Him and keep His commandments, 5we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules. 6We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your Name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. 7To You, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those who are near and those who are far away, in all the lands to which you have driven them, because of the treachery that they have committed against you. 8To us, O LORD, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you. 9To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him 10and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God by walking in his laws, which He set before us by His servants the prophets. 11All Israel has transgressed Your law and turned aside, refusing to obey Your voice. And the curse and oath that are written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because we have sinned against Him. 12He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us, by bringing upon us a great calamity. For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem. 13As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us; yet we have not entreated the favor of the LORD our God, turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by Your truth. 14Therefore the LORD has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us, for the LORD our God is righteous in all the works that He has done, and we have not obeyed His voice. 15And now, O Lord our God, Who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have made a Name for yourself, as at this day, we have sinned, we have done wickedly. 16“O Lord, according to all Your righteous acts, let your anger and your wrath turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy hill, because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a byword among all who are around us. 17Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of Your servant and to his pleas for mercy, and for Your own sake, O Lord, make Your face to shine upon Your sanctuary, which is desolate.” Daniel repented for his nation and rulers. He interceded. It’s not that he sinned but his nation had sinned and the curse upon the nation was what he was going through. When you consider your heritage, each country, perhaps empire(s) all have curses on them - on the people of that land. Even if you do not live there, the heritage is in your family line. Thus the curse is too. To make it personal this is how the Lord showed me. I had been having severe back pain before I wrote this article. It was since the start of December 2023 - it had been nearly 8 months at the time I am writing this. Sometimes it has been absolutely debilitating. I have been hardly able to work out or to even do daily tasks around the house. The original injury was in the summer of 2018. My strength is not what I'm used to. I've always been very strong my entire life. This injury has been ebbing and flowing since 2018. It has definitely tried my patience. Backstory (pardon the pun): I had pulled the ligament in my spine from the bottom of my shoulder blades to the middle of my lower back (T9-10 to L3). Once you pull a ligament there is nothing to do by way of medical means other than surgery. No way am I ever going to do a spinal surgery like that. I know my God!! By Jesus' stripes I am HEALED!!! If God be for me, who can be against me! HE CREATED THE UNIVERSE - HE CAN CERTAINLY HEAL A PIDDLY LITTLE THING LIKE A LIGAMENT! When the injury initially occurred in 2018 I did standard therapeutic means of ice and heat, light work outs with a lot of rep's, and natural anti-inflammatory ointments like coconut oil and arnica; and of course standing on healing scripture. I did both. It was fine in a couple of months. In December of 2023 I injured it again and this time it was not healing. At the time of this writing it is summer of 2024. I did the same kind of means as last time but nothing was really helping. I was only a little better. Many times I was still completely debilitated. I didn't understand what was going on. It made no sense to me. I had already broken all family curses and I didn't know of any sin but there had to be a doorway for the attack to happen. I just couldn't make sense of this. Let me give a bit more of the story: health issues have always been an issue for me since I was a young girl in school starting with scarlet fever when I was in high school. Something so rare at the time I had it (in the '80's), to other life and death issues through 2001. Jesus got me through all of it! Praise God!! Going to be completely upfront here...the week of this epitome was rough! I kinda lost it. That doesn't happen often. And with all the health stuff I've gone through and standing on the Word through it, I didn't think I could go through it again. It's too much. I simply asked the Lord to just take me home. I'm done. BUT God knows what He's doing. I trust Him. A little later when I had pulled myself together, I was asking the Lord is there some "unknown" sin, curse, what's going on? 'Cause health issues can be one of two things: unforgiveness or part of a curse. (As are anything recurring like financial issues, relationship issues, family issues.) So why now? What's going on? The Lord showed me this: Daniel 9 and Ezekiel 8. The gist is this - the curse of the Lord (Deuteronomy 28:14-61) comes ON the PEOPLE of a Nation!!!! ...because of the political leaders AND the religous leaders!!!! Duh! 🙄 I had never thought about that on other nations and cultures! I had never broken the curses that are on this country for me because I was born here: plus the curses in my heritage. This included: American Empire, Roman Empire, British Empire, & Prussian Empire. All of the blood spilled for each empire carries with it the curse of the Lord - the blood cries out to the ears of the Lord for vengeance - Genesis 4:9-12. Which also includes the sacrifice of babies, eating human flesh and drinking of blood (the life is in the blood and blood is not to be consumed). This is especially true in this nation. All the scuzzy things our politician's do, we get the curses from it! So this is what I prayed: Repented for the sins of my nation politically and from the priests of this nation (all types of priests and there are so many heretical "priests" or better to say "church leaders"). 2. Repented for the Empires of my heritage politically and the priests of each empire. 3. Received forgiveness from my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 4. Cut all cords to the sins of my nation that I was born in and the nations of my heritage. Proverbs 5:21-23. 5. Asked the Lord Jesus to wash me clean of it all with His precious Blood. 6. Asked the Lord to lift His curse off of me in Jesus Name. 7. Announce that I receive His deliverance in Jesus Name!! MY BACK HAS BEEN PAIN FREE since the prayer! Now...word of caution...I did a bit too much that day because I felt so good and am not in shape like I used to be 5 years ago before the injury, so a bit sore the next day. BUT I AM FREE OF THAT BACK INJURY!! HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU JESUS FOR YOUR DELIVERANCE YOU HAVE WROUGHT FOR ME!!! **ADDENDUM: Since I wrote this article a few months ago (June 2024) and it is now October 2024 I have something else to share. God is the One who heals!! And there have been times when my back has given me trouble. When I'm not in the Word like I usually am it's worse. I know it will fully heal, total restoration, and it will take the time that it takes. For whatever the reason, it's fine with me. God has a purpose. God is good! And God heals - always! There's no sickness in heaven but we do live in a sin fallen world with un-renewed bodies. No matter what, healing comes!!! Total restoration! Jesus Christ is my Lord and He will never leave me nor forsake me even to the ends of the earth!

Who am I in Christ, Who am I in Christ Jesus, Am I really a new person in Jesus, my mind, my spirit, my soul, God, Jesus, Bible A New Race of Humanity Article is below. For downloadable PDF click here. PDF Jesus used His Faith to be raised from the dead! A New Race of Humanity A New Race of Humanity Jesus Used His Faith to be Raised Up in Resurrection Power! Yes, God the Father is the One Who raised Him from the dead AND God needed HIs own Son's Faith to be hooked up with Him for this mighty feat. Psalm 16:9-10 Therefore My heart is glad, and My glory rejoices; My body also will rest secure, because you will not abandon Me to the realm of the dead, nor will you let your faithful One see decay. Acts 2:24-33 & 13:32-37 24 But God raised Him from the dead, freeing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on Him. 25 David said about Him: “ ‘I saw the Lord always before Me. Because He is at My right hand, I will not be shaken. 26 Therefore My heart is glad and My tongue rejoices; My body also will rest in hope, 27 because You will not abandon Me to the realm of the dead, You will not let your holy One see decay. 28 You have made known to Me the paths of life; You will fill Me with joy in Your presence.’ 29 “Fellow Israelites, I can tell you confidently that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is here to this day. 30 But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that he would place one of his descendants on his throne. 31 Seeing what was to come, he spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah, that He was not abandoned to the realm of the dead, nor did His body see decay. 32 God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of it. 33 Exalted to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear. Jesus used these scriptures to stir up His faith for His own resurrection! He knew the Father wouldn't let Him down! He speaks His word to perform it! We are to do the same thing. A New Race of Humanity His resurrection created a whole new race of humanity of which He was the first born. A race of people who worship God in spirit and in truth. All worship prior was in the soul’s realm only. (ie: song, instruments, dance, heart felt praise and animal sacrifice as seen in psalms.) But we, as this new race of humanity worship Him in spirit and in truth!! Our spirit linked together with the Holy Spirit. How magnificent is that? That is why we are in this world but not of it. This world is not our home. We are of the Realm of Holiness. The sacrifice of Jesus created us brand new, restored to innocence, a holy people. We are neither greek nor jew, but a new creature, a new race of humanity that never existed before. (Colossians 1:18) A new race of humanity born into the Kingdom of God as kings and priests. (Ephesians 2:14-21) Jesus the first born among many brethren. He is the Author and Finisher of our faith and Praise God, He always has a perfect work. We are a race of people who have His law in our hearts and minds and are graced with the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. As we press on to the mark of our high calling, like little children we grow up into the fullness of His Holiness without spot or blemish. Stop thinking we are part of this world. We are not. Stop seeing your self as a sinner. You are a new form of humanity in Christ. The sooner you start to see yourself as brand new, the easier it will be to leave the old ways behind. Make repentance a daily part of your prayer life letting old habits fade away. Jesus is coming for His Bride without spot or wrinkle and He has made you that way - Ephesians 5:26-27 - “(Christ) to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the Word, and to present her to Himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.” See More on "In Depth Studies" Page PDF link of article at top of page In Depth Studies

How do I know I'm born again? Characteristics of believers, How to tell someone is born again, 5 Characteristics of the Born Again Human Spirit PDF Article is below. For downloadable PDF click link. 5 Characteristics of the Born Again Human Spirit 5 Characteristics of the Born Again Human Spirit - The bible gives us a way to identify the new birth: 1. The Born Again SPIRIT Can Not Sin - John 3:6 KJV “That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.” What is born of God in a man is his spirit not his flesh nor his soul. His soul (mind, will, emotions) must be renewed by the Word of God. His flesh must be put into submission to his born again spirit and his renewed mind. We have been conditioned to let the flesh lead us which leads to sin, followed by the soul and lastly our spirit. This is not how it should be once we are born again. That way only leads to sin, darkness and defeat. When we are born again our spirit is hooked up to God and we must disciple ourselves to be led by God in His Word, by His Spirit, and our Prayers. 2 Corinthians 4:16 NKJV “Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.” This born again spirit, also called the inner man, cannot sin. Our inner man has the nature of God just as Christ has the nature of His Father God, so it was impossible for Him to sin. As we pursue our relationship with Jesus, we start to die to our flesh and its’ worldly ways. As we feed on the Word of God, our inner man starts to gain strength leading us to putting on the Mind of Christ, putting our flesh into submission to the Mind of Christ. 1 John 3:9 NKJV “Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His Seed (that is God’s seed) remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.” Because your born again spirit cannot sin, it is therefore impossible for those who are born again, though in the flesh to make a practice of sin. Because we are still in the flesh, we will occasionally give in to the flesh, and in those instances we confess to God and ask and receive His forgiveness. 1 John 5:18 (NIV) We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; The One who was born of God keeps them safe, and the evil one cannot harm them. 2. The Born Again Man Listens To The Doctrine Of The Apostles: 1 John 4:5-6 (NIV) “They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of Truth and the spirit of falsehood.” Those who are born again will naturally connect with the Words of God through the apostles because they are of the same spirit. Those who speak worldly things have the spirit of the world. 3. The Born Again Spirit Will Love God And Jesus 1 John 4:7 (NKJV) “Beloved, let us Love one another, for Love is of God; and everyone who Loves is born of God and knows God.” We cannot love God and hate our neighbor, our coworker, our family member etc. Love is a Fruit of the Spirit. If you are born again, Love will come naturally as a Fruit from the Holy Spirit in you. Remember when you are mistreated and abused this is being done under the influence of the darkness of this world. Through Jesus you have the authority and dominion. 4. The Born Again Man Will Believe That Jesus Is The Christ: 1 John 5:1 (NIV) “Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is Born of God, and everyone who Loves the Father Loves His Child (Jesus) as well.” 5. The Born Again Man Will Follow The Commandments Of Christ And OvercomeThe World: 1 John 5:2-4 (NKJV) “By this we know that we Love the Children of God, when we Love God and keep His Commandments. 3 For this is the Love of God, that we keep His Commandments. And His Commandments are not burdensome. 4 For whatever is Born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.” Overcoming the world actually means we stop thinking the way the world thinks. We no longer seek the worlds’ approval. We not longer share their attitudes. We no longer try to lift ourselves up in the eyes of men but we lift up Jesus so He may draw all men to Him. We long to be with our King of Glory and seek to do His Will not ours. We spend time with Jesus in His Word, in prayer and worship of The Father. We know that earth is not our home. We know we are a colony of heaven on this earth. Luke 6:22, 27-31 (NIV) 22 “Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man. 27-31 But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them. Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. Do to others as you would have them do to you.” We live in an age of evil being called good and good being called evil. When terrible things are said about us or done to us we know we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness in this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. We combat all these things by the Word of God and our Shield of Faith. And having done all we stand. We are justified before God by our faith, our believing, in Jesus. Good works will not build our faith. If we exercise complete faith in God, good works will naturally flow. Faith only comes by hearing, and hearing by The Word of God.

What is prayer? Foundation of prayer, teaching basics of how to speak with God, How can I tell God is speaking to me, Foundation of Prayer Article below. Or downloadable PDF click link. PDF Foundation of Prayer Prayer and the Word INTRODUCTION The Basics - Praying the Word Part 1 1 Corinthians 6:11 …”But you are sanctified, you are justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus, and by the the Spirit of our God.” THIS is how God sees you! IMPERATIVE: Know “Who you are” in God’s sight because of the Blood of Jesus and the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of God: If you don’t know this then you will have trouble coming to God in prayer - because you are basing it on your “worthiness”. None of us are worthy, and will never be - that’s why it took Jesus to take care of it all! You are sanctified, by the Name of Jesus and by the Holy Spirit. You are justified (made righteous, same word) by the Name of Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Not by anything you did….It was all Jesus who has made you “right” with God. You are the righteousness of God IN Christ Jesus ( 2 Corinthians 5:21). Now we can come boldly to the Throne of grace to obtain mercy and grace to help in a time of need - Hebrews 4:16. “Sanctified” means: Greek - hagiasmos - consecration, sanctification, the process of making or becoming holy; set apart; holiness. The process of advancing in holiness; use of the believer being progressively transformed by the Lord into His likeness (similarity of nature). God is continually making us, progressively transforming us into His likeness, making us holy, while we are in sin-fallen flesh. The ultimate transformation will be at Jesus’ second coming with our new bodies (1 Corinthians 15:51-54). This is the ultimate transformation at the Rapture/Resurrection and what we are earnestly waiting for. This is why it’s a “rest.” We can’t make it happen. It’s all the Lord. We simply rest in Him, He’s got this. He has made us sanctified! Therefore, we enter prayer knowing it is our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who has made us right with God and we can pray to the Father in Jesus’ Name. “Justification” means: Greek - dikaiósis - the act of pronouncing righteous, acquittal, a process of absolution. Divine approval, emphasizing Christ's full payment of the debt for sin which liberates the believer from all divine condemnation. Jesus has justified us! Hallelujah! It doesn’t matter how you “feel”. Feelings lie. Once you ask for the Lord to come into your heart and receive the Lord Jesus into your heart, you received His sacrifice in your stead for your sins: you are saved, sanctified, justified and made brand new in the spirit - all by the Holy Spirit. You are a new creature, old things have gone away and all has become new (2 Corinthians 5:17-18). This is in your spirit by the Holy Spirit. Not in your soul. Not in your body. The carnal nature, or “sin consciousness” is what resides in the soul and body. Our soul can be renewed with the Word of God. This is an active choice to change how we think and what we do. This is also why sometimes you don’t “feel” holy. It’s the carnal nature, flesh, is always battling with your spirit. And your mind has to be renewed (Romans 12:2). BUT the more your keep your eyes on Jesus through the Word and in prayer, it’s not so much of a battle. Where are you “looking.” What are you focused on. That’s vital. What you focus on will overcome you. Either for good or the bad. Keep your focus on Jesus. Focus on the Word. Focus on speaking with Him all day long. That is prayer. Simple open communication with the Lord all day. Part 2 - Knowing Where We Stand John 4:23-24 - But the hour comes, and now is, when the the true worshippers shall worship the Father in Spirit and Truth; for the Father seeks such to worship Him. God is a Spirit; and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. We see from what John has said that we are to worship, spend time with the Father in Spirit and Truth. But “how” do we do that? Let’s see what the Bible says. 1 Corinthians 1:30 - But of Him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption; This means we are in Christ Jesus, we are one with Him. What is His is ours. He is our wisdom from God, we have the wisdom of God in us He is our righteousness, we have the righteousness of God within us He is our sanctification, we have the holiness of God within us He is our redeemer, we have His redemption within us! That is shouting ground right there!!!! Now let’s add on: 2 Thessalonians 2:13 - But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the Truth. We were chosen by God from the beginning (Ephesians 1:3-4) We were chosen for salvation (sótéria) which means - deliverance, safety, welfare, prosperity, preservation, to save, to rescue, God's rescue which delivers believers out of destruction and into His safety. We were chosen for salvation THROUGH sanctification of/by the Spirit. Again, we had nothing to do with it. God chose us. He delivered us and rescued us out of destruction into His safety, and sanctified us - keeps us holy by His Spirit AND by our belief in the Truth, which is His word. John 17:17 - Sanctify them though Your truth; Your Word is truth. John 15:3 - NOW you are clean by the Word I have spoken to you. John 14:16-17 - And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever; the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you. He is in you and never leaves you, He abides with your FOREVER. He is the One who seals you! (John 14:16; Ephesians 1:113-14). John 15:26 - When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of Truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me, How does He, the Holy Spirit, testify about Jesus? - Through the Word. The Truth. Mark 16:20 says the Lord working with and confirming the Word with signs. The Holy Spirit is who moves on the Word bringing it to pass. Like Genesis 1:2 and the rest of chapter 1. The Holy Spirit moved on God speaking. Put this in context with prayer: The Holy Spirit moves on the Word that we pray!!! Now for the basics of prayer! Foundation of Prayer: The Basics As John 14:13-14 - And whatever you shall ask in My Name that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the son. IF you shall ask anything in My Name, I will do it. And John 16:23-24 - And in that day you shall ask Me nothing. Truly I say unto you, whatever you shall the Father in My Name, He will give it you. Until now you have asked nothing in My Name: ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be full. We are to pray to the Father in Jesus’ Name. Whatever we ask in Jesus’ Name it is given to us. We receive that our joy may be full. Jesus answers our prayer to glorify the Father though the Son. We also have to keep in mind James 4:3 - When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. When you read James 4 you can see it’s about the trivial machinations that can get people caught up. Wrong motives. Selfish motives. It is always important to keep a soft heart to the Lord for His promptings of “what” to pray for. A good rule of thumb, when you don’t know exactly what to pray or how to pray are these two things: Remember prayer is about spending time with the Lord. It’s a means of building your relationship with God Almighty, learning to hear His voice, the promptings and leadings of the Holy Spirit, and follow His unction. There is a distinction between their voices and leading: God the Father; Jesus Christ; Holy Spirit. Like learning anyone’s voice…you have to learn how they “talk”. That’s part of why spending time in the Word is so important. Philippians 3:8 - I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. A solid core foundation is to pray the Word! How do you do that? Praying the Word!!!! *There are examples at the end. Much of the Bible are promises for us. They are not only spoken by God to us. They are promises that God has made to HIMSELF for us and about us!! That’s powerful. Meditate on that. Read Hebrews 6 - God made His promise to Abraham to Himself! Which is also a promise for us as Galatians 3:13-29 talks about. He has made these promises to us in the Word to Himself and He is not a man that He should lie (Numbers 23:19). God will never break His promise. Look at it like this…these are guarantees. Any scripture can be prayed. When you pray scripture back to the Father in Jesus Name, it comes from a place of faith. You believe that God will do what the Word says simply because He has said it. And you pray it when you don't see it happening yet (Hebrews 11:1-3). That is how prayers of faith operate. You pray them believing that you will see them come to pass. 2. Don’t be double minded. Once you have prayed a scripture or scriptures for yourself, family members, or friends, don’t speak contrary to the prayer you prayed. Read James 1-2 to settle things in your heart about this. If you find you have spoken words contrary to the prayer of faith you prayed, immediately repent and cancel those words out in the Name of Jesus, and speak again the scripture(s) that you are standing on from your original prayer. 3. Every time the situation comes up in your thought life, go into praise for it already being answered. As Philippians 4:6-7 states - Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will. Guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. By going into praise when a thought that is contrary to the Word of God comes up in your mind, the peace of God will bubble up from within your spirit by the Holy Spirit, and guard your thoughts. But we have to go into praise first, as the scripture in Philippians says. It begins with faith, like all things with God. Faith pleases Him (Hebrews 11:6). Once you see that manifestation to the prayer you have prayed, you have already been praising God for the answer before it “showed up”. When you see it, it is exciting! And it further builds your faith and makes your joy full as Jesus said in John 16. There’s nothing quite like it! How do I exactly pray the Word? One core way of praying the Word is to pray the Epistle prayers. Put yourself in the scripture: where it says "you", instead say "me, or my" for example. These are prayers Paul prayed for his churches. If they were good for believers then, they are good now. Plus, the Lord has made sure they are in the Bible. They are important. Typically there is at least one prayer at the beginning chapter of each Epistle. There are some in the closing chapters and there are a few in between. I will list them below. As I said earlier, these may be prayed for yourself, spouse, family member, friend, colleague. Speak them out loud - not in your mind. It makes a difference. You may even be getting the “hunch” to pray this for your church pastor(s), local city/state/federal government officials (yes, there is scripture for them too - 1 Timothy 2:1-4), military, police, etc. Whatever the Lord is leading you to do, do it. I will put an example at the end. Epistle Prayers: Romans 10:1 *Romans 15:5-6, 13, 30-33 *1 Corinthians 1:4-9 *2 Corinthians 1:3-7 *2 Corinthians 2:14-15 2 Corinthians 9:12-15 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 *2 Corinthians 13:7-9, 11, 14 Galatians 6:18 *Ephesians 1:3-6 *Ephesians 1:15-23 *Ephesians 3:14-21 Ephesians 6:19-20 *Philippians 1:3-6 *Philippians 1:9-11 Philippians 1:19 *Philippians 4:6-9 Philippians 4:23 *Colossians 1:(3-7) 9-14 Colossians 2:2-3, 6-10 Colossians 4:2-6 1 Thessalonians 1:2-3 *1 Thessalonians 3:12-13 *1 Thessalonians 5:14-24 *2 Thessalonians 1:3-4, 11-12 *2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 2 Thessalonians 3:1-5, 16* 1 Timothy 1:12, 17 1 Timothy 2:1-6 2 Timothy 1:3-7, 13-14 2 Timothy 4:22 Philemon 4-6 *Hebrews 13:20-21 (The ones with the stars are the ones I use every day. When I don’t have much prayer time I go to the Ephesians prayers in 1 and 3. Those two sections cover the basis of all.) Here is an example: praying over a family member (spouse or kids): Romans 8:26 - The Holy Spirit “takes hold together” with you on the Word in prayer, or any other time you are standing on the Word over a circumstance. With Romans 8:26 in mind, pay attention to the Holy Spirit’s leading as you are praying. He may bring scriptures to your remembrance. Go to them and use them in addition to these in the example and 1 John 5:6 - This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. I will use 2 Corinthians 1:3-7 and 1 Corinthians 1:4-9 for this prayer. “Father God, in the mighty Name of Jesus, I bring before you _________ and as Your Word says in 2 Corinthians 1:3-7 I bless You Father God! The Father of my Lord Jesus Christ, You are the Father of mercies and God of ALL comfort. I thank You that You comfort _________ them in their time of trouble, that they may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with comfort that You have comforted me in my tough times. I thank You Father for being with them in their time of need and bringing hope to the hopeless (Jeremiah 29:11; Romans 15:13.) And as 1 Corinthians 1:4-9 I thank You Father God for Your grace which is given to ___________; that in every thing they are enriched by You, in all utterance, and in all knowledge; even as the testimony of Christ is confirmed in _________; so that they come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our lOrd Jesus Christ; who will confirm them to the end, that they may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. For God, You are faithful!!! By Whom you were called unto the fellowship of His son Jesus Christ our Lord. I thank You Father God for the victory in this situation, in Jesus Name!” (1 John 5:4-5.) As you read through the Epistle prayers you will see ones that pertain to your given situation. I like to use the Ephesians prayers plus around 10 more of the others in my daily prayers when I pray for my family, loved ones, and work. I make the scriptures personal, like the above prayer. As you do this it stirs up your faith! Gives your joy a boost! Making a difference in your day.

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Identity, In Christ, in Christ Jesus, Who am I in Jesus, Who am I in God, Bible You Are Not Your Personality, You are Who God Says You Are PDF Article below or click link for downloadable PDF. You Are Not Your Personality, You Are Who God Says You Are. What? What do you mean I’m not my personality?? Huh? You’ve been told or you have said it yourself: “That’s your personality. You are who you are.” But what if you aren’t? We’ve been told we have to change our thinking, to “think positively rather than negatively.” Blah, blah, blah. Never were we told how to actually achieve it - no matter the recordings, YouTube videos, documentaries and books on “Self Help”, and seminars…it doesn’t help. In fact it makes things more frustrating. It’s a battle within ourselves as we are getting more frustrated without any true help. There is still a part to our personality that is just “the way it is.” It doesn’t seem like we can change it. “That’s just who I am.” And because we keep thinking the same things and doing the same things because “we can’t change who we are,” we get the same results. But what if this can change? When you find out that a part of the crucifixion of Jesus was to deliver you from your mind, from your personality, it changes everything. Here is the freedom from something we never knew we could be free of. That’s shoutin’ ground right there!! Jesus delivered you from your personality! Jesus sacrificed all areas of Himself for us. (*See Crucifixion article.) We know He died for our sins and most know He died for our sicknesses. But we aren’t taught the fullness of everything He died for including our mental state and our personality. That’s what the Garden of Gethsemane was about. Jesus sacrificed His personality, His thinking mind, His emotions, and His will for the Father’s…and He did so to the point of sweating Blood! If there was anything left out, then His death wasn’t complete for us - wasn’t enough. He needed to sacrifice every part of Himself for every part of us. Oh, and His death is more than enough! Let’s get in to our “personality” since that is what this article is about. Our personality is part of our soul. And our soul is a part of our spirit. It is not our spirit, but a part of it. That’s why God spoke Hebrews 4:12 - For the Word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. If the Word can divide the soul and spirit that means they are together. But they are two different Greek words and are used differently in scripture. Most often when scripture uses the word “heart”, it means “soul”. Jesus paid the price for the human soul. Yes, there is our Godly personality the way God made us and there is also the characteristics of our personality that are developed by the curse of this world, sin. This is what we are free from! We call these “traits”. For example, if someone is habitual in lying, it may be in little things. Their personality developed around this trait. It is not who they are. Same goes with a husband that habitually cheats on his wife. He may think that is just who He is. May in fact think that monogamy is an outdated idea. And his entire personality is built around this behavior. Or someone who constantly second-guesses themself - they never trust themselves to make the right choice and have developed an entire personality around that trait. For another, they are constantly looking for approval, getting accolades, and yet when they get them it never sinks in and they need more. None of these “traits” are who these people really are. These are traits of “fallen man”. And Jesus has paid the price for all of this!! Let’s take a look at a few things more closely and then I’ll get into how to change it. Like everything else with the Lord there is a pattern of how He does things. It is the same here! But because our “personalities” are so close to us, we never thought they could change so we didn’t think to consider that they could. Strong’s Greek for “soul”, #5590 psuché; and #5591 psuchikos: 1. #5590 Psuché - “(a) the vital breath, breath of life, (b) the human soul, (c) the soul as the seat of affections and will, (d) the self, (e) a human person, an individual. psyxḗ (from psyxō, "to breathe, blow" which is the root of the English words "psyche," "psychology") – soul (psyche); a person's distinct identity (unique personhood), i.e. individual personality.” “5590 (psyxē) corresponds exactly to the OT 5315 /phágō ("soul"). The soul is the direct aftermath of God breathing (blowing) His gift of life into a person, making them an ensouled being. Heart (2), heartily (1), life (36), lives (7), mind (1), minds (1), person (1), persons (3), soul (33), souls (14), suspense* (1), thing (1).” * Here are some scriptures on how the Lord sees the soul: Matthew 11:29 - Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, AND you will find rest for your souls. When we are staying tight with the Lord, learning of Him and how to live our lives His way and doing it, we find rest for our souls. We are “submitting” our personalities, our thinking, to His way of thinking and doing. We exchange our way of operating for His. This changes our “personality”. “Lowly in heart” means: describes the person who depends on the Lord rather than self. When we do this our personality changes. The old carnal nature falls away. Matthew 12:18 - Berean Literal Bible - Behold My servant, whom I have chosen, My beloved, in whom My soul has found delight. I will put My Spirit upon Him, and He will proclaim justice to the Gentiles. This scripture in Matthew was first said in Isaiah 42:1 . We see this is God the Father speaking of His Son Jesus. And we see that God the Father has a soul! The Father’s soul delights in what Jesus did! (Interesting this scripture may have been one that “spoke” to the Apostle Paul - Jesus and Gentiles!). Also notice that as Jesus was doing what the Lord wanted, it allowed for His Spirit to be upon Him, and we know He had the Spirit without measure! We too, as we obey the Lord, His yoke is easy, it allows the Holy Spirit to move more within us! 1 Thessalonians 5:23 - May God Himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. This is one of my favorite scriptures! We see God is the God of peace. That is Who He is! And He is the One Who separates us - “sanctifies” - entirely. Our whole spirit. Our whole soul. Our whole body. And He keeps us - blameless - because of the Blood of Jesus! It is nothing we can do on our own. It’s all Him. There is a little more to this Greek word Psueche: “the soul, a. the seat of the feelings, desires, affections, aversions (our soul, heart, etc. the (human) soul in so far as it is so constituted that by the right use of the aids offered it by God it can attain its highest end and secure eternal blessedness, the soul regarded as a moral being designed for everlasting life.” 3 John 1:2 - Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers. We prosper in all things, including in our health - as our soul is prospering in the things of God. If we aren’t active, doing what the Lord leads us to do, we will be struggling with our souls, our personalities, and it will show up in every area of our lives - health, relationships, business. “From psucho ; breath, i.e. (by implication) spirit, abstractly or concretely (the animal sentient principle only; thus distinguished on the one hand from pneuma , which is the rational and immortal soul; and on the other from zoe , which is mere vitality, even of plants: these terms thus exactly correspond respectively to the Hebrew nephesh , ruwach and chay ) -- heart (+ -ily), life, mind, soul, + us, + you.” Psueche and Zóé are the two words used for “soul” and “spirit” showing there is a differnce between the two. Zóé is defined as the “Life of God”. “Life (physical and spiritual). All life (2222 /zōḗ), throughout the universe, is derived – i.e. it always (only) comes from and is sustained by God's self-existent life. The Lord intimately shares His gift of life with people, creating each in His image which gives all the capacity to know His eternal life.” This clearly defines what Hebrews 4:12 is about - For the Word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Soul: Psueche/Pneuma and Spirit: Zóé. 2. #5591 Psuchikos: “natural, of the soul or mind Usage: animal, natural, sensuous. psyxikós (an adjective, derived from 5590 /psyxḗ, "soul, natural identity") – properly, soulish, i.e. what is natural, as it relates to physical (tangible) life alone (i.e. apart from God's inworking of faith). 5591 /psyxikós ("natural") typically describes the natural ("lower") aspect of humanity, i.e. behavior that is "more of earth (carnality) than heaven. 5591 (psyxikós) then sometimes stands in contrast to 4152 /pneumatikós ("spiritual") – the higher, spiritual aspect of humanity that develops through faith (4102 /pístis).” 1 Corinthians 15:44-46, 50 - it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual…I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. #5591 “is natural, of the soul or mind, natural (5), worldly-minded (1).James 3:15; Jude 19 a. having the nature and characteristics of the ψυχή i. e. of the principle of animal life, which men have in common with the brutes (see ψυχή, 1 a.); (A. V. natural): σῶμα ψυχικόν, 1 Corinthians 15:44 ; substantively, τό ψυχικόν (Winer's Grammar, 592 (551)), 1 Corinthians 15:46 : since both these expressions do not differ in substance or conception from σάρξ καί αἷμα in 1 Corinthians 15:50 , Paul might have also written σαρκικον; but prompted by the phrase ψυχή ζῶσα in 1 Corinthians 15:45 (borrowed from Genesis 2:7 ), he wrote ψυχικόν. b. "governed by the ψυχή i. e. the sensuous nature with its subjection to appetite and passion (as though made up of nothing but ψυχή): ἄνθρωπος (equivalent to σαρκικός (or σάρκινος, which see 3) in ), 1 Corinthians 2:14 ; ψυχικοί, πνεῦμα μή ἔχοντες, Jude 1:19 (A. V. sensual (R. V. with marginal reading 'Or natural, Or animal'); so in the following example); σοφία, a wisdom in harmony with the corrupt desires and affections, and springing from them (see σοφία, a., p. 581b bottom), James 3:15 . (In various other senses in secular authors from Aristotle and Polybius down.) natural, sensual. From psuche ; sensitive, i.e. Animate (in distinction on the one hand from pneumatikos , which is the higher or renovated nature; and on the other from phusikos , which is the lower or bestial nature) -- natural, sensual. see GREEK psuche " We can see soul can often mean the mind, or the beast like nature, or nature of fallen man which is what corrupts our God-given personality. And we are to retrain our minds: Romans 12:2 - Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—His good, pleasing and perfect will. There are two parts to the soul - the God made part; the sin fallen part that creates the bad “traits”. The Lord gave us power over them! If we want breakthroughs we then need to put this into action. It’s the same no matter what you’re doing: retraining your mind; believing for a spouse; believing for your healing; etc. Always ask the Lord for help and direction: Go search all the scripture regarding the area you are dealing with. Write down those scriptures. Rewrite those scriptures with “you” in them, as “confessions” (*See article on Confessions). Speak them over yourself every day until your thinking changes. Keep giving God the praise for who you are as you speak the scriptures over yourself and for the victory He has given you in all things 1 John 4:4; 5:4 ; and Romans 8:31 . In the beginning it will be more than once per day because you have to change your thoughts 2 Corinthians 10:3-6 . Each time an old “personality” thought comes to your mind, talk out loud to yourself, and say: “No, I refuse that thought in the Name of Jesus and I cast it out.” And then replace that thought with the scripture that opposes it. I will finalize this with a few more scriptures that help for more insight to how the Lord sees our souls: Hebrews 13:17 - Obey those who rule over you (pastors etc), and be submissive, for they watch out for your souls, as those who must give account. Let them do so with joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for you. 1 Peter 2:11 - Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. 1 Peter 2:25 - For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. James 1:21 - Amplified Bible - So get rid of all uncleanness and all that remains of wickedness, and with a humble spirit receive the Word [of God] which is implanted [actually rooted in your heart], which is able to save your souls. James 5:20 - Berean Literal Bible - let him know that the one having brought back a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death, and will cover over a multitude of sins. 1 Peter 1:9 - for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls. 1 Peter 1:22 - Since you have purified your souls in obeying the Truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart (soul) 1 Peter 4:19 - Berean Standard Bible - So then, those who suffer according to God’s will should entrust their souls to their faithful Creator and continue to do good.

Who is God, Is God a person, Is God real, What is God like, Can I trust God God's Names Reveal His Character They ARE Who He IS Article below. Or PDF in the link. PDF God's Names Reveal His Character They are Who He is. When we introduce ourselves we say, “I am (name).” We are making a simple statement of “who we are”. There is no one who can tell you that you are not that named person. Ever. It is your identity. You are who you say you are. AND names are personal. The Name(s) of God is no different. When we look at the Names of God we see the same thing. He is who He says He is. Can’t change it. It is Him. It’s His personality. And it is a great privilege that He shares His Names with us. He has given us His Name (Ephesians 3:14-15). It’s personal. It reveals more than the Name “God”. It is His substance and we learn His personality. And the more we spend time with Him in the Word and talk with Him about it, the more we see Him actively involved in our lives in the way that He “describes” Himself. It’s important for us to know these Names when we address Him in prayer, rightfully, respectfully. And when we address Him in prayer using one of His Names it enlarges our expectation...our faith...that shows Him to us as His Name(s) says He is. He is the everlasting God, the Creator of all. Therefore, we want to address God with reverence and wisdom when we pray. It’s also important to remind ourselves of Hebrews 13:8 - God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. What He said about Himself in days gone by is the same today! Let Him show up in your life in these ways. These Names are Who He is and what He is like. Waaaaay better than a dating app!! He is our first love. Who loved us before the foundation of the world and had us planned in His heart from that point. Listed below are only a small part of the many scriptures in each area. I suggest doing a full study on the area of interest. Jehovah Jireh - The Lord will provide. He is our provider: Philippians 4:19, 3 John 2 and Genesis 22:13-14. Jehovah Rapha - The Lord will heal. Philippians 4:19, Exodus 15:26, and Isaiah 53:5. Jehovah Shalom - The Lord our peace. 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24, John 14:27, & Philippians 4:6-7. Good to use when anxious or afraid. Whenever God showed up to people and they were afraid He would always say, “Peace, be still.” Jehovah Nissi - The Lord our banner. Exodus 17:15 (all). Represents He is the one that stands with you in battles. You are not alone. The “banner” is God Himself as a “name tag” over you saying “you are His”. Jehovah Tsidkenu - The Lord Who is righteousness. He is our righteousness - 2 Corinthians 5:21, Romans 10:4, Philippians 3:9, Jeremiah 23:5-6. Good for using when you need Godly judgment and righteousness in situations, decisions that need to made. Jehovah Rohi - The Lord is our Shepherd. John 10 and Psalm 23 Jehovah Shammah - The Lord is always present - The Lord who is there. Ezekiel 48:35. Such an intimate prayer time with this title. As you go into prayer, call Him Jehovah Shammah. He is right there in the same room with you, as close as your own breath. Jehovah M’Kaddesh - The Lord Who sanctifies. Leviticus 11:44, 20:7-8. God is Who sanctifies you and makes you holy, He sets you apart for Himself and perfects that which concerns us. Praying like: “Jehovah M’Kaddesh, I need more holiness my life. I needs greater victory over temptation. I need strength over sin. I want to represent You more purely to a corrupt world. Please help me grow in Your sanctification. You are my Jehovah M’Kaddesh. You are my sanctification.” The Lord of Glory - 1 Corinthians 2:8; Exodus 33:7-23 I AM - John 8:58. Ever present. All encompassing. Everywhere at the same time. Author of Salvation - Hebrews 2:10 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob - Exodus 3:2, 6 The Almighty - Revelation 1:8. No might is more powerful than God! He is mightier than anything created. He is might. The Everlasting Father - Isaiah 9:6 The First and the Last - Revelation 1:17 The Faithful Witness - Psalm 89:36-37 The Image of the Invisible God - Colossians 1:15 WONDERFUL, COUNSELOR, MIGHTY GOD - Isaiah 9:6 The Sacrifice - Ephesians 5:2 The Ransom - Mark 10:45 Heir of All Things - Hebrew 1:1-4 He is Love - 1 John 4:8. The Temple - Revelation 21:22 Sanctuary - Isaiah 8:14 Intercessor - Hebrews 7:25, Romans 8:27 Helper - Romans 8L26, John 16:7 (Amplified) Author and Finisher of our faith - Hebrews 12:2 Advocate - 1 John 2:1 Surety of a Better Covenant - Hebrews 7:22 The Teacher - John 13:13, 1 John 2:27 The Resurrection and the Life - John 11:25 The Wisdom of God - 1 Corinthians 1:24 Lord (Yahweh) - Isaiah 26:4, Psalm 23, John 20:28 (a vast study can be done on “Lord” - it’s a proper name. Hebrew: Addonai. Strong’s #113.) God - (same study done can be done here. Hebrew Strong’s #430. Greek #2316 ) 1 Timothy 2:5. Son of God - John 1:34 Beloved Son - Matthew 17:5, 3:16-17 The Word - John 1:1 Messiah - Daniel 9:25 Alpha and Omega - Revelation 22:13 Savior - Luke 2:11 Redeemer - Job 19:25 Light of the World - John 8:12 Lamb of God - John 1:29 Creator of All Things - Colossians 1:16 Master - Luke 8:24 Mediator - 1 Tiimothy 2:5 Bread of Life - John 6:48 High Priest - Hebrews 3:1 The Lamb - Revelation 7:9 A Lamb without Blemish and without Spot - 1 Peter 1:19 Lamb Slain from the Foundation of the World - Revelation 13:8 The Shepherd of The Sheep - Hebrews 13:20 The Way - John 14:6 The Good Shepherd - John 10:11 The Chief Shepherd - 1 Peter 5:4 The Rock - Psalm 18:2 My Rock and My Fortress - Psalm 31:3 The Rock of My Refuge - Psalm 94:22 The Rock that is higher than I - Psalm 61:2 The Rock of My Salvation - 2 Samuel 22:47 My Rock and My Redeemer - Psalm 19:14 NIV The Builder - Hebrews 3:3 The Foundation - 1 Corinthians 3:11 A Sure Foundation - Isaiah 28:16 A Stone - Isaiah 28:16 A Living Stone - 1 Peter 2:4 A Chief Cornerstone - 1 Peter 2:6 A Precious Stone - 1 Peter 2:6 A Stone Cut Without Hands - Daniel 2:34-35 The Last Adam - 1 Corinthians 15:46 God’s Firstborn - Psalm 89:27 The Firstborn Among Many Brethren - Romans 8:29 The First Fruits of Them that Slept - 1 Corinthians 15:20 A Witness to the People - Isaiah 55:4 The Amen - Revelation 3:14 The Light , The True Light- John 12:35, John 1:9 77. The Light of Men - John 1:4 He is the Lamb Who was Slain - Revelation 5:12 79. He is Faithful - Hebrews 3:2 He is Our Strong Tower - Proverbs 18:10 81. He is Our Foundation - 1 Corinthians 3:11 82. He is Preeminent - Colossians 1:18 He is the Tree of Life - Revelation 2:7 The Bright and Morning Star - Revelation 22:16 85. The Sun of Righteousness - Malachi 4:2 He is Our Gift - 2 Corinthians 9:15 The Head - Ephesians 4:15 The Head of the Body, the Church - Colossians 1:18 A Life-Giving Spirit - 1 Corinthians 15:45 The Head of All Principality and Power - Colossians 2:10

Who gets raptured, who gets left beind, can I loose my salvation, Jesus, Rapture, Perfect, Jesus Perfects Us to be saved & the rapture Article below or click link for downloadable PDF PDF Definition from Greek of “Perfect ”: complete, wholeness. In James repeatedly faith goes with good works but we are not saved by good works. Good works because of our faith in God deepens our relationship with God. It doesn’t save us nor equip us for the rapture. The only thing we are asked to do for the rapture is to “watch” - Luke 21, Matt. 24, Mark 13. And there is a crown that those who “watch” are given. Those that do not watch are not given a crown. It’s the reward. 2 Tim. 4:8 - in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing. Matt. 24:42 - Watch therefore: for you do not know what hour your Lord will come. (Verses 42-51 are about watching.) Mark 13:33-37 - Be on guard! Be alert! It’s like a man going away: He leaves his house and puts his servants in charge, each with their assigned task, and tells the one at the door to keep watch. 35. Therefore keep watch because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back- whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or at dawn. 36 If He comes suddenly, do not let Him find you sleeping. 37 What I say to you, I say to everyone: Watch! 1 Corinthians 1:7- So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: Luke 21:34-36 - Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will come upon you suddenly like a trap (because they are not watching). 35 For it will come on all those who live on the face of the whole earth. 36 Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man. One of my favorite scriptures that has really helped me is: 1 John 2:28 - Four different translations: New International Version - "And now, dear children, continue in Him, so that when He appears we may be confident and unashamed before Him at His coming." New Living Translation "And now, dear children, remain in fellowship with Christ so that when He returns, you will be full of courage and not shrink back from Him in shame." English Standard Version "And now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He appears we may have confidence and not shrink from Him in shame at his coming." Berean Standard Bible "And now, little children, remain in Christ, so that when He appears, we may be confident and unashamed before Him at His coming." Given that, cross reference other scrip’s: Ephesians 3:12 - In Him and through faith in Him we may enter God's presence with boldness and confidence. The bottom line is to abide, continue our relationship with Him. If we do not, it doesn't mean we aren't saved. What it will mean is we are open to attacks from the enemy, we will be extremely unhappy in this life and there won't be rewards in heaven at the Beama Judgement Seat, 2 Cor. 5:10 - "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad." When we are doing what He said to do out of heart because we love Him, not from “works”, we can be bold and confident at His coming and receive a crown of righteousness. If we do not, and are going our own way, for whatever reasoning we have...we will be ashamed at His coming because we knew what He wanted us to do but refused to. Jesus is Truth, (the Way, the Truth, and the Life) and Truth is instantly revealed when He is on the scene. Matthew 16:27 - For the Son of Man will come in His Father's glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done. There are scriptures that refer to the judgment seat or what is called the Baema (Greek) seat at the rapture. This is the reward ceremony for what we did that the Lord gave us to do. We get rewards for following out His plan, His calling on our lives. If we don’t do it we don’t get rewards. We are not “kicked out” of heaven. We are saved for good works, in our calling. We don’t have to do them but when we do it pleases the Father. Here’s another scripture that stings a bit...again, it doesn’t say we will be kicked out of heaven. But it does say the Lord won’t be pleased with what we did if we disobeyed. And if we “didn’t please Him” it means what we did was not in faith, because “faith pleases God”: Mark 8:38 - If anyone is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in His Father's glory with the holy angels. Jesus doesn’t come in His own glory, but in His Father’s. Beautiful. Jesus said, in Me I can do nothing. It is the Father in Me that does the work. Same with us! Notice in scriptures never sections out parts of the Body of Christ for the rapture. Never. He speaks of “you”, "we" or “our” - which means “all”. On the other hand for the rewards, yes - what did we do with what we were given. Colossians 3:4 - When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. 1 Thessalonians 2:19 - After all, who is our hope, our joy, our crown of boasting, if it is not you yourselves in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming? We see in 1 John we will be transformed just like 1 Cor. 15:51-52 . It’s God who does this in us, not us: 1 John 3:2 - Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is. Colossians 3:4 - When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with Him in glory. Again, scripture says “our” and “you” - never makes a differentiation between believers. We are theBody of Christ. Jesus wouldn't return for just one or two body parts. But wait...there’s more...I love that the Lord keeps putting these things in His Word for us!! 1 John 3:21 - Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. If our heart condemns us simply ask for forgiveness. It doesn't necessarily mean you will miss the rapture. But it does leave you open to attacks and troubles, and some that can cause death. Get the sin out to keep your relationship right with the Lord. Sin causes us to not hear properly. We want to keep our spiritual ears clean. Why do we have confidence? Because we are made right with Him because of Him. All we had to do is simply receive Him. He has made us in right standing with God the Father!! (2 Cor. 5:21 - “righteousness” means “right staining”. ) All we had to do was receive Him. He took our sin so we could receive His righteousness. We can never be right with God on our own. It takes Jesus!! 1 John 4:17 - Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world. Isaiah 25:9 - And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation. Let’s address the “being holy” issue. Do you think you can do anything to “make yourself holy”? That is what the Pharisees were doing. They thought following the law to the last detail would make them holy before a HOLY God. Never going to happen. We cannot make ourselves holy by our behavior. We are in a sin fallen state on this earth. We have flesh (body) and a soul that needs to be renewed. The body will not be renewed until the transformation (1 Cor 15:51-52; 1 John 4:17; 3:2 ). The Lord has told us to renew our minds. We are to start this here per Romans 12. Holiness comes from the Lord. The more time you spend with Him in the Word and in prayer the more of Him "rubs off" on you. He is holy. Like Moses on Mt. Sinai who spend 40 days and nights with God, he had the holiness of God on him! God is who makes you holy. 1 Thess. 3:13 - May He strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all His holy ones. Definition of Holy : to be set apart or separate from sin and evil. Deep within each of us is the Holy Spirit leading us. When we listen and obey we are living in holiness. But when we do not we are heeding the voice of sin and greivgin the Spirit of God. Get back on track by asking the Lord for forgiveness and changing your thoughts and actions about the thing that has been a problem. Always ask the Holy Spirit to help you. He is our Helper. 1 Peter 1:13-16 with Romans 15:16 Passion Translation: 13 So then, prepare your hearts and minds for action! (*Note: we should prepare our hearts and minds for action. Doesn’t mean all believers will.) Stay alert and fix your hope firmly on the marvelous grace that is coming to you. For when Jesus Christ is unveiled (rapture), a greater measure of grace will be released to you (‘cause our bodies will be transformed). 14. As God’s obedient children, never again shape your lives by the desire that you followed when you didn't know better. 15 Instead, shape your lives to become like the Holy One who called you. 16 For Scripture says: "You are to be holy, because I am holy." *Let’s take a look at the word: “obedient”. In KJV verse 14 says As obedient children, do not be comforted to the passions of your former ignorance. Not all children are obedient. All parents can testify to that. Same with the Lord. We see “knowledge” is a part of “obedience” and what we do with that knowledge. We have a choice. Always. Ignorance means you do not know consciously - not willfully. Let’s look at Romans 1:5 - Through Him we received grace and apostleship to call all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith for His Name’s sake. “Obedience” comes from faith. Not by “doing” but by “believing”. When you receive Jesus you automatically want to do what is right. The Holy Spirit is there telling you right from wrong, and when we grieve Him we know it...maybe not instantly but we know something isn’t right. Where do we get faith from? The Word (Romans 10:17 ) and more than that faith comes from the Lord. He put it there from His word. We had nothing to do with it. All we had to do was believe. Ephesians 6:23 Faith from God and 1 Tim 1:14 faith and love are found in Christ Jesus. We are in Him and He is in us. WE have holiness in us because He is in us. But how much do we let His holiness be exhibited in our lives is up to us. It’s like the Eph. 3 prayer - according to the Power at work in you. How much of His power do we allow to work and bubble up from our Spirit through our soul (minds) through our bodies....that is up to us. How much do we cherish the Lord and do what He says? That is what get’s us the reward if we obey. I’m not saying that we don’t have to be obedient. We should. We are told all over 1 John to follow His commands. His commands are not grievous, they are to love the Lord your God with all your heart and to love your neighbor as yourself. Those are His commands. Do we do that? I’m sure you’ve noticed it’s hard to actually “hate” another believer. You don’t have it in you. Because He is in you. We may behave incorrectly because of stupid - soulish ways of thinking but it’s not in our spirit-man because the Holy Spirit is there. We are not the same as we were before we received Jesus. He is who makes us Holy. The Holy Spirit in us. A little leaven.... And the Spirit is called “Holy” - His Holiness is in us. Back to verse 13 So then, prepare your hearts and minds for action! Stay alert snd fix your hope firmly on the marvelous grace that is coming to you. For when Jesus Christ is unveiled, a great measure of grace will be released to you. 14 As God’s obedient children, never again shape your lives by the desires that you followed when you didn’t know better. 15 Instead, shape your lives to become like the Holy One who called you. 16 For scripture says: “You are to be holy, because I am Holy." Let’s add on to verse 17 - Since you call on Him as your Heavenly Father, the impartial Judge who judges according to each one’s word, live each day with holy awe and reverence through your time on earth. This again talks of the Beama Seat judgment. Okay....let’s unpack that. The Aramaic (notes from the Passion) can be translated: “no one will put on a face mask before Him.” Believers in Jesus will not be judged for their sins, since that happened once and for all when Jesus was crucified to redeem us. We will be judged, however, for our works in order to determine the reward (or lack of reward) that God gives to those who believe in Christ. See Isa. 53:4-5; Romans 14:10-12; 1 Cor. 3:12-16; 1 Peter 2:24. You’ll notice Romans and 1 Cor are about this Judgment Seat. Here are other scriptures that are part of all of this: Matt. 24:33 Hebrews 11:6; 10:39; 9:14 Rev. 1:5 Titus 2:13-14 2 Tim. 1:9 2 These. 1:10 - says “His saints”, doesn’t say a certain group. #40 Greek - to be a child by the Holy Spirit; set apart by and for God, holy, sacred. If we are set apart...what are we set apart for? We do know we are saved from wrath. Could be the rapture is before or could be we will be preserved like Israel in Egypt in the land of Goshen during the first Passover. I don't know. We do know the Church gets judged first according to 1 Peter 4:17 . Which is happening now. We are set-apart for God and set apart for the rapture. I'm not speaking to "when" the rapture is. But the rapture is a catching away, escape, set apart - harpazo in Greek. (Rev. 12:5 .) Whether that means a pre-trib rapture, or kept safe like Israel in Egypt, or like Noah and kept in safety, I don't know. I do know that no matter what, God has us! If God be for us, who can be against us!

Rewards, reward, are there rewards in heaven, What are the rewards in heaven, rewards at the judgment seat Crowns Article below. For downloadable PDF click link. PDF Crowns Awards for Running Our Race 1. IMPERISHABLE CROWN 2. CROWN OF REJOICING 3. CROWN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS 4. CROWN OF GLORY 5. CROWN OF LIFE There are five crowns that are seen in scripture that are given for specifics actions. We will get into each one specifically later. These are given at the Bema Seat of Judgment - it’s a judgment of awards after the rapture. God wants to give gifts to His children. Take a look: Revelation 22:12 - “And, behold, I come quickly; and My reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be.” 2 Corinthians 5:10 - “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he has done, wither it be good or bad.” 1 Corinthians 3:12-15 - “Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. If any man’s work abide which he has built upon, he shall receive a reward. If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.” God is a consuming fire! - Hebrews 12:24 The word is not specific on how this fire works - whether it will come from God Himself, or in the Judgment that is upon the earth. Perhaps it will be both. Whatever the case may be, the work we have done on earth that remains because it is of gold, silver, precious stones will receive a reward. It is the seeds we have sown into people. These last eternally. We need to ask ourselves what kind of seeds are we sowing into others. As Paul says in 2 Corinthians 3 how the people he ministers to in the church at Corinth are the epistle written in his heart and that they are the result of his ministry written with the Spirit of the Living God on human hearts. And such confidence he has through Christ before God. When? At the Judgment Seat - Bema Seat. Here’s another: 1 Thessalonians 2:19-20 - “For what is our hope, our joy, or the crown in which we will glory in the presence of our Lord Jesus when He comes? Is it not you? 20 Indeed, you are our glory and joy.” Malachi 3:16 - “Then those who feared the Lord talked with each other, and the Lord listened and heard. A scroll of remembrance was written in His presence concerning those who feared the Lord and honored His Name.” There are books for born-again believers that are records of good things of which we are rewarded at the “Bema Seat,” the Greek word used in the New Testament for “judgement.” The Greeks used it when speaking of the games where the athletic contestants would compete for the prize of a crown - a garland of leaves worn upon the head, under carful scrutiny by judges who would make sure rules of the contest were obeyed. They win a prize for following the rules and winning the race. This is what Paul is referring to when he speaks of this Judgment Seat in the Epistles. Salvation is a gift and there are rewards given for walking out this life in faith being moved by the Spirit of God, thus bearing fruit. These are things we get crowns for. And there are five different crowns that are awarded: IMPERISHABLE CROWN CROWN OF REJOICING CROWN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS CROWN OF GLORY CROWN OF LIFE CROWN: Greek word for “crown” is “Stephanos” - comes from the martyr Stephen, who when he was being stoned, he looked up into heaven and saw the glory of God. It means: “a badge of royalty, a prize in the public games or a symbol of honor generally.” IMPERISHABLE CROWN: 1 Corinthians 9:24-25 - NKJV “Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate [disciplined] in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown” As 1 Peter 1:4 states, faithful endurance wins a heavenly reward which is “an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you.” CROWN OF REJOICING: 1 Thessalonians 2:19 - NKJV “For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Is it not even you in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming?” Paul tells us in Philippians 4:4 to “rejoice always in the Lord” for all the bountiful blessings our gracious God has showered upon us. As Christians we have more in this life to rejoice about than anyone else, for the law of the Spirit of Life has made us free, Romans 8:2. Luke tells us there is rejoicing even now in heaven Luke 15:7. The crown of rejoicing will be our reward where “God will wipe away every tear . . . there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away” Revelation 21:4. An eternity of rejoicing! CROWN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS: 2 Timothy 4:8 - “Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing.” For all believers who are anxiously waiting for Jesus to return there is a crown for it! CROWN OF GLORY: 1 Peter 5:4 (1-4) - “And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that does not fade away.” This passage of scripture is referring to elders of the church. This would go for any of the brethren who teach and help other brethren. CROWN OF LIFE: Revelation 2:10 - “Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.” This is for all believers who endure testing. All believers go through tests as 1 Corinthians 10:13 says, “No temptation (test, testing, tested) has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when your are tempted, He will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.” No matter the test and the end point of it, if we endure to the end of the test we get the crown of life. James tells us that this crown of life is for all those who love God - James 1:12 -“Blessed is the man that endures temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive that crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them that love Him."

Who is the Holy Spirit, How to follow the Holy Spirit, How does He lead, Is tongues really from the Holy Spirit, Gifts of the Holy Spirit, God, Jesus, Are they real, Isn't the Bible just stories Holy Spirit He is in you and He is a person, He is the Spirit of God. Article below is long. Take your time. For downloadable PDF use link. PDF Holy Spirit He is in you and He is a person, He is the Spirit of God. Areas of discussion: 1. Who is the Holy Spirit 2. When do we receive the Holy Spirit? 3. How do we recognize Him? 4. Leading and Revealing by the Holy Spirit 5. Specifics: Let’s look at specifics of “Who” He is 6. The Holy Spirit Is the Spirit of God Almighty 7. He Counsels Us at Night While We Sleep 8. He Is The Spirit of Power and Spirit of Love 9. The Holy Spirit Guides Into All of the Truth, and He Speaks 10. The Holy Spirit Is Also Called “Water” 11. The Holy Spirit is your Comforter, Helper, Teacher 12. The Holy Spirit can be grieved: 13. Praying in Tongues 14. Spiritual Gifts 15. Spiritual Fruit: 16. Having “Utterance” and “Revelation Knowledge” Go Together 17. Spend time in reading Romans 8. 18. Test the spirits 19. The Holy Spirit is the Anointing 20. How to “Hear” 21. He Gives You Strength Other Scriptures to Note: 1 Corinthians 2 Romans 8 - ESV ...and so much more. 1. Who is the Holy Spirit Teaching on the Holy Spirit is sparse unfortunately and the Church as a whole doesn’t exactly know “Who” He is, how He operates, and how we are to work with the Holy Spirit. And yet there are over 800 scriptures that speak of Him. If we look to see how Jesus operated with Him we get a clear idea: He was always in prayer and obeyed what was given Him. It’s that simple. Here are some details that will help answer questions and build your relationship with the Holy Spirit. We need to know Him because as born again believers He now lives in us and He gives us rights and privileges we did not have before. Since there are over 800 verses in the Bible about the Holy Spirit we will only go into small portion of course. God wants us to know about Him, we need to know about Him. He is a Spirit. He is the Spirit of God. He is a “person” - if that is the correct term…maybe not…but you get my point. The Holy Spirit is God and He lives within you, the born again believer. Now how do we operate accordingly? He is Wisdom. He is Understanding. He is Might. He is Council. We will get into more of this later in “How do we recognize Him?”. 2. When do we receive the Holy Spirit? Ezekiel 36:26-27 - “And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes and be careful to obey My rules.” When we received Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior and as the sacrifice for our sins, God put in us a NEW heart and He put His Holy Spirit in our new heart. This is how we are born again. Our mind (soul) needs to be renewed and our flesh is corrupted. It will not change until the Lord resurrects our bodies and changes those who go in the rapture. Don’t we receive the Holy Spirit when hands are laid on us? I know many believe that you have to have hands laid on you and have a second prayer for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. I used to think so too, but what I see is this is not clearly stated in scripture consistently. When you look at what happened in Acts you see that Peter took the one time God told him to lay hands on people to receive the Holy Spirit and he interpreted that as “do it every time.” Even Peter was shocked in Acts 11:15-17 - “15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, as upon us at the beginning. 16 Then I remembered the Word of the Lord, how He said, ‘John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ 17 If therefore God gave them the same gift as He gave us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could withstand God?” and Acts 10:44-46 - “44 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the Word. 45 And those of the circumcision who believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also. 46 For they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God.” No hands laid on them. And particularly in the Epistles laying on of hands to receive the Holy Spirit is not mentioned. When there are scriptures that appear to “contradict” that means there is not enough understanding. Missing something. Because all of God’s Word is “yes” and “amen” and there are no contradictions. There are not two or three scriptures that say you have to have hands laid upon you to receive the Holy Spirit. It’s actually a “doctrine” of men that was taught from a misunderstanding. Peter and John, and the other apostles believed hands had to be laid upon people to receive the Holy Spirit as it says in Acts 8. In verses 14-17 - “14 When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the Word of God, they sent Peter and John to Samaria. 15 When they arrived, they prayed for the new believers there that they might receive the Holy Spirit, 16 because the Holy Spirit had not yet come on any of them; they had simply been baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus. 17 Then Peter and John placed their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.” There “seems” to be a contradiction. But it is not. It was the apostles understanding. So many other scriptures talk of believing in Jesus Christ the Holy Spirit falls upon them. In the book of Acts it is clearly telling what the early church did. Like a journal. It’s not carried on into the Epistles, there’s not even one scripture there that says that is necessary. It is the book of Acts where doctrines have been built around this. But Acts simply states “what” occurred. Like I’ve said before in another article, all of God’s Word is truth. It is truly stated. Not all that is in the Bible is God’s Truth…meaning, some things are explaining what transpired. Just because something transpired doesn’t mean it was God’s will. Case in point, Adam and Eve. It was not God’s will for them to fall. Another is Samson and Delilah; David and Bathsheba; Peter denying Jesus, and many more. None of those were God’s will. But they are in the Bible. They are lessons for us to learn by. There’s one scripture where Jesus stated to ask for the Holy Spirit, in Luke 11:13 - “ 13 If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” Yes, we can absolutely do this. Jesus said so. But this should not be a doctrine in the Church because it is the only time in the Gospels where Jesus said this. And out of two or three witnesses let every word be established. (2 Corinthians 13:1; Deuteronomy 18:15; Matthew 18:16.) Meaning, we can’t make it a “doctrine” of the Lord unless it is stated more than 2 or 3 times. So what does scripture say? Above Ezekiel 36:26-27 - when we get born again we get the Holy Spirit. AND a second scripture: Ephesians 1:13 - “In Him you also, when you heard the Word of Truth, the Gospel of your salvation, and believed in Him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,” If you don’t give credence to the Old Testament, then look at John 3! In verses 1-21 shows Jesus speaking with Nicodemus and telling him that we must all be “born again” - and that this happens only by the Holy Spirit coming in and changing the “flesh heart” to a “God-heart”: verses 5-8 - “5 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. (Word and Spirit.) 6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. 7 You should not be surprised at My saying, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.” 1 John 4:15-18 - “15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. 1 Corinthians 3:16 “Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you” and we have Him because we believe. We have accepted Jesus and made Jesus Christ the Lord of our lives. The Holy Spirit IS the Spirit of God Almighty. God is omnipresent - everywhere at the same time. This is far-out trippy stuff to think about because yes, God the Father is in heaven, Jesus is in heaven, and Jesus said He would not leave us alone and would send the Holy Spirit to us once He (Jesus) was resurrected, that the Holy Spirit is our down payment of what is to come: Jesus Christ in the rapture and our new immortal bodies. And He’s everywhere at once. Hard to wrap our minds around but it’s pretty cool. 1 John 4:15-18 - “15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God.” When we are born again we are Born of the Spirit. Can’t have one without the other. God is the Author of the entire Bible. Not just the New Testament. It all matters. Just ask Him. 3. How do we recognize Him? Isaiah 11:2-3 - “The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him— the Spirit of Wisdom and of Understanding, the Spirit of Counsel and of Might, the Spirit of the Knowledge and Fear of the LORD—3 and He will delight in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by what He sees with His eyes, or decide by what He hears with His ears;” The Holy Spirit is: Wisdom The Holy Spirit is: Understanding The Holy Spirit is: Counsel The Holy Spirit is: Might The Holy Spirit is: Knowledge The Holy Spirit is: Fear of the Lord WE have this within us because the Holy Spirit is within us!! This is “Who” He is. He is in Jesus and He is in us. He is love. God is love. Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God. Always check your motivations. Should always be love. Proverbs 3:5-6 - “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths.” With Proverbs in mind, always acknowledge the Holy Spirit. Talk with Him. He is in you!! It’s like being an adult and living with your parents. You are in the same house with them. But never talk with them. You ignore them. How does that make them feel? It’s the same thing. You and the Holy Spirit are living in the same place, within you. Don’t ignore Him. Talk with Him. All throughout your day. Acknowledge Him. Tell Him “thank You” when He leads you throughout the day. Those great ideas you get during the day, that help…that’s Him. Let Him know you appreciate it. As you acknowledge Him, He will lead you more, and more. And of course, let Him know you love Him. For He certainly loves you! God leads God reveals God stirs He gives light He gives life He is love These are part of how we judge what we are “getting.” As Isaiah said (scripture above) Jesus did not judge by His body - by what He saw or what He heard. He judged by the Holy Spirit deep within Him. We are to do the same. “Where” are you hearing from? By judging by what you see? By what you hear someone say? None of this is necessarily accurate. What is the Lord saying on the “inside” of you. These things are crucial to know when you want precision in following the Holy Spirit. He gives wisdom. He gives understanding. He gives counsel. He gives might. He gives knowledge. He gives fear of the Lord. All from deep within you. If you’re not seeing one or more of these then spend time in looking up scripture about the subject matter and take them personally. Because they are in you. This is ‘Who” the Holy Spirit is; how He operates; and these are things we can expect from the Holy Spirit within us. When we need God’s knowledge on a matter in our lives, ask the Holy Spirit. He will reveal it to you. When you need Godly counsel - ask Holy Spirit. He will reveal what needs to be done. When you need might, ask Him. He will do it. And if we want to continue hearing from Him we must act on whatever He reveals to us. What He reveals will leave us with light, insight, love, & joy. A good tree produces good fruit…fruit of the Holy Spirit. These things will be the result. This is how you can tell what is happening in your life by what is showing up. If there’s a sudden “thought” and it’s accompanied by “light” and “joy” That’s the Holy Spirit. God is light and in Him there is no darkness - 1 John 1:5. In God’s presence is fullness of joy - Psalm 16:11. God’s Words are life - John 6:63. This is how you judge the revelation you are getting. Does it bring light? Does it bring joy? Does it show you something you couldn’t have known any other way? Does it bring life? If it’s yes to all of these questions, it’s from the Holy Spirit. If only one of these questions has a “yes” throw it out. 4. Leading and Revealing by the Holy Spirit Definition of Reveal: to make known through divine inspiration; to make something secret or hidden known. Definition of Lead: to guide on a way especially by going in advance; to direct on a course or in a direction; to go through; to direct the operations, activity, or performance of; to have charge of; to go at the head of. Ask yourself this: “Do I allow the Holy Spirit to reveal and lead me? To direct me? Do I follow what He says?” Being brutally honest with yourself will help you tremendously and lead you to your next step. 1 Corinthians 2:9-10 - “However, as it is written: ‘What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived’ — the things God has prepared for those who love Him, 10 these are the things God has revealed to us by His Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.” Isaiah 11:2-3 (listed above) is how Jesus operated here on earth, by being led by the Holy Spirit. Matthew 4:1 - Jesus was led by the Holy Spirit to go into the desert to fast and pray. This particular “leading” by the Holy Spirit involved a test for Jesus. Read Matthew 4 and Luke 4. The devil was allowed to tempt Jesus. It was a test. It was a temptation for Him. Otherwise it wouldn’t be called the “temptation in the wilderness.” Even Jesus got tested by the Father. The trying of your faith produces patience - James 1:3 - written by Jesus’ brother James. Jesus’ faith was refined by fire. God has to allow this because Jesus had to go through every trial and temptation that man has to go through in order to pay the price completely for us. The Holy Spirit leads us too if we follow His leadings from deep within our inner man. Not from the outside. And Not from our emotions. (See article on “Spirit, Soul, & Body”) He is wisdom. He is understanding. He is counsel. He is might. He is knowledge. He is the fear of the Lord. And He is in us. If you’ve read many of my articles the Lord has had me write, you see often I talk about the emotions. This is a big subject matter that causes the most trouble for people. Everywhere and in everything. We think we are our emotions. No, we are not. Emotions are something we have . Not something we are. We are so easily swayed by our emotions, and if they can sway you, they can stop you. Case in point, if you “feel” depressed, you then think you’re depressed. No. Depression is darkness. You are light. You are in God and He is in you. Cast off that depression in the Name of Jesus, and ask the Holy Spirit what are the “doorways” you opened to let that thing in. Yes, it can be biological, chemical imbalance. Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal it and to help you with it. It is not who you are. If there is a chemical imbalance, pray over your med’s. Just like you do your food. Expect God’s blessing upon it to help you. (See article on “Healing.”) Pray about how He wants you to handle the situation. Don’t go on automatic pilot. Follow His leading. Same deal with all other negative emotions. Guilt. Bitterness. Lying/Deception. You name it. It’s not you. Ask the Lord what the deal is. Most of the time it is a spirit that has attached itself to you and is making you “feel” a certain way. Because if you are swayed by your feelings, it is likely you won’t fight it because you think it is “who you are” and the spirit can burrow in and make your life miserable. Take your Authority in Jesus Name and loose that thing and cast it off permanently in Jesus Name. (See article on “Taking Authority.”) There is likely a stronghold, an embedded way of thinking that needs to be changed by the Word of God. Ask the Lord how to handle it. Usually there is some unrepented sin, so repent of it, truly. Close the doorway in the Name of Jesus. Cut all cords to the sin in Jesus Name. And praise God for your deliverance. Then ask Him what scriptures to renew your mind with. This means every time an “old” thought shows up, cast it down in the Name of Jesus, and speak the scripture out loud to yourself to replace the old thought with the Word of God. Do this each time the old thought comes up. The first day is the roughest. The second day is easier. The third day it will only happen a couple of times. By day 4 it’s gone. This is how you renew your mind. When we need wisdom on a situation, ask Him. When He reveals it, I call these moments “ah-ha” moments. That’s because it’s like the “light” was turned on. Perfect phrase we have in our language. God is light. And when you get a “bright” idea…and it makes you smile…it’s revelation…that’s Him. The Holy Spirit. Haggai 1:14 - “So the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of the whole remnant of the people. They came and began to work on the house of the LORD Almighty, their God,” I know this is Old Testament but God is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8; Malachi 3:6, John 8:58, & Hebrews 1:12) - The Lord stirs our spirit’s within us!! A “stirring” to do something. This comes deep down within our being. Not outside. You have to discern where the “stirring” is coming from: outside of your physical body; or within, deep within your physical body, within something you can’t quite figure it out where because it’s deep within you. This is your spirit. It’s imperative to recognize. Many fellow brethren I have encountered are “moved” from the outside and they interpret it as the Holy Spirit. It is not. And if you don’t know what the Lord has said in scripture well enough you will be deceived. Deep within your inner man is where the Holy Spirit is. It is where leadings will come from. A hunch. A deep-down knowing. Sometimes they percolate from deep within your inner man to your mind and a thought will come up that way. Pay attention to those. That is the Holy Spirit. Psalm 16:7 says, “I will praise the LORD, Who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me.” God counsels us, the Holy Spirit Who is our Counselor, teaches us as night if we allow Him to. Deep within our inner being. Not outside of our body. When you feel as if you are “forced” or “can’t help” but do a certain thing…that is never the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a Gentleman. He never forces. Only the devil forces. Ask the Lord how to handle it. An evil spirit most likely needs to be loosed, sin repented of, cords burned, and ask the Holy Spirit for direction in the matter. (See article on Spiritual Warfare.) 5 . Specifics: Let’s look at specifics of “Who” He is: The Holy Spirit Is the Spirit of God Almighty 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 - “16 Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.” 2 Chronicles 24:20 - “20 Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest, who stood up before the people and said to them, “This is what God says: ‘Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, He has forsaken you.’ ” 1 Corinthians 2:12-13 - “12 We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit Who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.” Genesis 1:2 - “2 Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.” 6. He counsels us at night when we sleep. Psalms 16:7 - “I will praise the LORD, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me.” 7. He Is The Spirit of Power and Spirit of Love Acts 1:8 - “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you.” 2 Timothy 1:7 - He is the Spirit of Love. He is the Spirit of Power, and a Sound Mind: “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” As we pursue walking with the Holy Spirit, we pursue Him moving in us in these ways. Because these things are in us. They are Him. Romans 5:5 - The Holy Spirit has shed the love of God within our hearts; and God is love - 1 John 4:16. 1 John 4:15-18 - “15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.” 8. The Holy Spirit Guides Into All of the Truth, and He Speaks John 16:13 -“When the Spirit of Truth comes, He will guide you into all the Truth, for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak, and He will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take what is mine and declare it to you.” And John 17:17 says “Your Word is Truth.” - The Holy Spirit will guide you in the Word if you let Him. And John 16:13- God’s Spirit is the Spirit of Truth: “But when He, the Spirit of Truth, comes, He will guide you into all the Truth. He will not speak on His own; He will speak only what He hears, and He will tell you what is yet to come.” The Holy Spirit will guide you in the Word if you ask Him and let Him. The Holy Spirit “leads”: Luke 4:1 - ““Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,” Romans 8:14 - ““For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.” Galatians 5:14 - ““But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.” The definition of “lead” or “leading” - to go before or with to show the way; conduct or escort; to conduct by holding and guiding; to influence or induce; cause; to guide in direction, course, action, opinion; to bring; to take; to command or direct; to go at the head of or in advance of. All of these are ways to expect the Holy Spirit to “lead” you! The Holy Spirit will give leadings that are in line with the Word of God always. That is how you can check the leading or prompting within you. Sometimes it comes as a “hunch”. Sometimes it comes as a “thought” from deep within. Always test it by scripture. If you don’t know the scripture then ask the Lord. If you don’t get a scripture than let it go. Recall Paul in Acts 16 with the servant girl who was demonized with a spirit of divination. Paul didn’t do anything about it for weeks. Not until he was so bothered in his spirit by the Holy Spirit that he acted on how the Holy Spirit led him which was to cast the thing out of her. See also Ephesians 1:17-19 & 1 John 2:20,27. The Spirit and the Word, they go together ALWAYS! - John 4:23-24. Never one or the other by itself. And as the Holy Spirit leads you there are results: Peace - 1 Corinthians 14:33, Colossians 3:15; Light - 1 John 1:5; Joy - Psalm 16:11. When the Holy Spirit is leading you always look at what you are left with? If it’s heaviness, questioning, confusion = FORGET IT! It’s not the Holy Spirit. God is peace, light, love, joy. This is what you are left with when the Holy Spirit is leading you. 9. The Holy Spirit Is Also Called “Water” John 7:37-39 - “37 On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to Me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in Me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” 39 By this He meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.” And John 4:13, - “13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” The Holy Spirit and the Word are equated to “water”. Ephesians 5:26 - “(That He would) make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the Word.” Need a bath? Get into the Word! The world is dirty. Too much time in it you can tell you need to go for a “swim”. 1 Corinthians 12:13 - “For we were all baptized by One Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the One Spirit to drink.” Holy Spirit = Word = Water = Truth. You can also put “love” in this mix. God is love. His Spirit is love. Want to knock your socks off sometime with revelation from the Holy Spirit: substitute one of those words for the one of the others in your study time. Like every time you see “Word” - substitute Holy Spirit. Or every time you see Holy Spirit - put in “love.” And so on. Major revelation!!!! The Word = Spirit. The Spirit is the Word. The Word is Spirit. Like John 4:23-24 that we are to worship God in Spirit and Truth. They always go together. If you try to do one more than the other, things will go off kilter. Too much “spirit” can get one off into “spiritualism” which will be effected by the devil and his angels - you have to balance “spirit” with the Word. Always. And rightly dividing the Word. I say that because I have seen fellow believers who get off track because of wrong doctrine and then when they “hear” a voice, or a so-called “prompting”, this false voice and false “prompting” uses scripture incorrectly the way the person believes it and it throws them way off base. (Think of Jesus when He was tempted. The devil used the 91st Psalm incorrectly. Jesus responded with how to correctly use the Word in that situation. Luke 4.) The Word, rightly seeing through revelation knowledge by the Holy Spirit what God has said, is your guard rail. Out of two or three witnesses - complete witnesses, complete understanding of the scripture (2 Corinthians 13:1) let every Word be established. Meaning, when you have a prompting or leading, or “hear” a voice - Check all of Scripture and what God has said about it on that subject matter and see if it goes with it or against it. Nothing contradicting. Pay attention to the contradictions if they are there. That means something is off. The Holy Spirit will NEVER lead you contrary to the Word. Never. That’s how you judge what you “heard” or “saw”. Not every vision, dream, or word is from God. What does it leave you with? There is also the pendulum going the other way and you can get too heavy in the Word and it will be “dry” and intellectual. No Spirit. Word without the Holy Spirit is simply written intellectualism. The Spirit isn’t in it. Just Rules. No Spirit. Just like the Pharisees. The two go together - Spirit and Word; Word and Spirit. Always. And where the Spirit is there is wisdom and revelation knowledge so that your eyes are enlightened to what He wants you to do. (Ephesians 1:17-18.) God IS wisdom! He IS revelation! He will enlighten your eyes as to what needs to be done. If there’s no “light” happening for you, ask the Lord what’s the deal. Have Him show you where you missed it. We all miss it. The important thing is to have a willing heart to be corrected. We can’t do life successfully without Him. If you’re around “Christians” or a church where there is no revelation and Godly wisdom, get out! Quick. Because He’s not there. And there won’t be any “joy,” “light” or “peace” - in God’s presence is fullness of joy , Psalm 16:11; God is light - 1 John 1:5; and God is the God of Peace , He keeps us separated unto Him wholly - spirit, soul, and body, and His peace settles our minds - guarding them . (1 Thessalonians 5:23; 2 Thessalonians 3:16; Philippians 4:7.). Jesus is the God of Peace . These are the markers. These are what you “look” for. These are what you are left with when He is present! Not bondage. Galatians 5:1 - “1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.” 10. The Holy Spirit is your Comforter, Helper, Teacher John 14:26 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My Name, He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.” One translation says: Helper, Comforter, Advocate, and Standby. He is all of these things for you. He is there, within you, to help you. He is there, within you, to comfort you. He is there, within you, to be your advocate…most often to yourself. Because we always tear ourselves down. Once you are saved, the Blood of Jesus covers you. If you get off into sin, then He will let you know you shouldn’t be doing that particular thing. If you keep on doing it and ignoring Him, He will just stay quiet and let you deal with whatever outcome will come upon you because of your actions. He will never leave you or forsake you even to the end of the world. (Hebrews 13:5) If someone is led to intercede for you, then you will be given grace. The ultimate of it, sin, will be the death of your physical body so that your Spirit may live with the Lord (1 Corinthians 5:1-5). God never turns His back on a prodigal son or daughter. Ever. 11. The Holy Spirit can be grieved: Ephesians 4:30 “And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by Whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.” You are sealed by the Holy Spirit. Sealed means sealed. The seal cannot be broken. But you can grieve the Holy Spirit by not obeying Him. That scratchy, uncomfortable feeling you have on the inside of you when you are about to do that “thing” that you want to do. That is grieving the Holy Spirit. Sometimes there can be a “heaviness”. Heaviness can also be demonic oppression. Whatever the situation, get on your knees and repent of it and ask the Holy Spirit how to clean this up. He will lead you. If you have repeatedly disobeyed the Holy Spirit’s leading your heart gets hardened. You won’t be able to “hear” Him. There needs to be repentance if your heart has gotten hard. Talk with the Lord about it and follow His lead. 12. Praying in Tongues: Let’s clear up some questions about this subject because there are many. All believers can pray in tongues, whether they do or not is up to them. It is part of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit that we received when we got born again. And for those who do not they will only have a certain depth in their relationship with the Lord because they are relating to the Lord in physical terms and not by means of the Spirit. God is Spirit. Those that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and Truth. (John 4:23-24.) Let’s look at a few Scriptures: Mark 16:17 - “And these signs will accompany those who believe: In My Name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues;” We see signs accompany ALL those who believe - speaking in tongues is one of the signs. It’s the Holy Spirit that gives us utterance to speak: Acts 2:4 -“All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.” You have to enable the Holy Spirit to speak through you, you are using your voice with the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. It may be done in your known language, or in wordless groans, or most often it is in another language. Sometimes in God’s heavenly language, sometimes in another known language that will minister to someone who hears you, just like Acts 2. But you have to allow it. You have to release it. You are the one speaking, the Holy Spirit is giving you the utterance. He is enabling you. Ephesians 6:19-20 - (Paul asking for the Ephesians church to pray for him) “And for me that utterance may be given to me so that I will fearlessly make known (in boldness) the mystery of the Gospel….Pray that I may declare it fearlessly, as I should.” We can pray to access utterance and boldness through the Holy Spirit. But if you want to go a step further…simply expect it. He’s already in you. You have all of the Holy Spirit within and all His giftings. Your expectation creates God’s manifestation in your life!! And we see this in Mark 13:11 - “11 Whenever you are arrested and brought to trial, do not worry beforehand about what to say. Just say whatever is given to you at the time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.” The Holy Spirit inspires the words we speak! How can you tell? What is your “joy” level and “peace” level? He will always leave you with joy and peace. And you’ll tend not to know what you are saying until you say it. Always check your joy and peace level. 1 Corinthians 1:5, 7 - “5 For in Him you have been enriched in every way—with all kinds of speech and with all knowledge—7 Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed.” You don’t lack any spiritual gift. He’s given you everything. Now what are you doing with it? Are you using what He has given you? Isaiah 56:6-7 - “And foreigners who bind themselves to the Lord to minster to Him, to love the Name of the Lord, and to be His servants, all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and who hold fast to My Covenant—7. These I will bring to My holy mountain and give them joy in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on My altar; for My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations. Romans 8:26-27 - “26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. 27 And He Who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.” Notice the Holy Spirit has a “mind”. He is a person. Not an enigma. And He is a Spirit. We are physical. We have to learn how He operates and work with Him. Sometimes we don’t know what to pray regarding a situation. Let’s face it, we don’t know everything. We don’t have all the facts. But God does! That’s the perfect time to pray in tongues!! Talk with Him about the situation in your natural language just like you would with a friend. Then begin speaking in tongues and by faith trusting the Holy Spirit will give you what needs to be prayed in tongues according to God’s will, as He has said in Romans. Sometimes we wind up praying for something completely different than what we started out. Case in point: One time I was concerned regarding a personal matter, so I spoke to the Lord about all my concerns - I know He knows my concerns but when I speak them out loud often He gives me revelation about the situation. Sometimes I don’t even need to pray in tongues over it when that occurs. Sometimes He reveals scriptures to stand on for the situation. So that is what I will pray, using those scriptures and by faith receive it. But there are other times I don’t get anything as I’m talking with Him. So I kick it over into tongues. In this situation I was praying along and suddenly the word “Puerto Rico” comes out. (Often the Lord has me pray over nations/geographical regions, so this isn’t unusual for me.) This wasn’t what I was intending to pray over. Never crossed my mind to pray for that island. But I don’t know what is important and what should be prayed as Romans 8:26-27 says. I know the Holy Spirit does. I trust Him and keep praying. The Holy Spirit often reveals something of importance and gives me direction regarding something entirely different than the thing I had started praying. And the entire notion of the original request simply goes away and I know He’s got it handled. The situation resolves as the Lord simply takes care of it without me messing with it. I love that. I simply trust He has “got my back” so to speak. And so, the Lord had me pray for Puerto Rico instead. In this prayer the Holy Spirit showed me a vision. He does that often with me while praying in tongues. The vision comes from deep inside me. I saw the area, looked like rural areas, covered in water. Things floating in it. I saw bodies floating in it. And I saw heavy rain falling. I was led to pray for the island for people’s protection. Within a few months the island had the most sever hurricane it has ever encountered in recorded history. Not blowing smoke up my skirt. It was all the Holy Spirit. He knows what’s what. We just simply follow Him. I shared this as an example of how to trust Him and what He gives you. Just do what He gives you to do. We trust whatever He gives because we know it is according to God’s will that the Holy Spirit leads us to pray. It is what He sees as important, not necessarily what we “think” is important. You can trust the Holy Spirit will give you capability to pray in another language and it is always in line with the will of God according to Romans 8:27, Mark 16:17, Acts 2:1-14. He’s got the facts and He knows how to lead you in praying what is needed and bring scriptures to your remembrance to use for praying over them in English, (or whatever is your natural tongue) using your faith that He has given you. It’s nothing you have to muster from within yourself. Simply trust He will do what He has said He will do. He is not a man that He should lie - Numbers 23:19. This is a “dimensional” thing and Authority thing. Meaning God gave us Authority on this planet. What we say, goes. In this dimension God gave us this Authority. He will not interfere or intervene in this dimension unless asked by a person. He can’t. Legally. That’s how He set it up, that man has dominion on the earth. That is why God is looking for people who will pray in tongues, to intercede for people, nations, people groups, families because we have Authority to ask Him. God is looking for prayers to intercede, stand in the gap for those who can’t or don’t know how to pray. Ezekiel 22:30-31 - “30 “‘I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall (in prayer) and stand before Me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one. 31 So I will pour out My wrath on them and consume them with My fiery anger, bringing down on their own heads all they have done’, declares the Sovereign Lord.” Very important: when the Lord gives you something in prayer, whether it comes out in the words you speak (prophecy), or a vision - He gives it to you to pray about! There are one of three possible reasons why: 1. Through prayer you can stop it from happening; 2. Through prayer you can’t stop it but you can decrease how bad the event will be and how many it will effect; 3. Through prayer you cannot stop the event or decrease it but you can prepare people for what’s coming. As you are praying over the event the Holy Spirit will give you the impression of which one of the three it is. And if you are to prepare for what’s coming, He will tell you. He will give you details of what needs to be done, just like He did with Noah, and Joseph in Egypt with the famine. One more part. Sometimes you will be so excited as you pray you’ll sense the “excitement” and you want to move. Like jump, run, or dance. DO IT!! Sometimes the Holy Spirit expresses Himself that way through people, through you. You know it’s correct when your joy goes even higher. And you feel like a huge weight got lifted. That is all a result of the Holy Spirit breaking stuff off of you. And yes…even this in scripture: 2 Samuel 6:16-23 - “16 As the ark of the Lord was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul (David’s wife) watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him in her heart. 17 They brought the ark of the Lord and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it, and David sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before the Lord. 18 After he had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the Name of the Lord Almighty. 19 Then he gave a loaf of bread, a cake of dates and a cake of raisins to each person in the whole crowd of Israelites, both men and women. And all the people went to their homes. 20 When David returned home to bless his household, Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet him and said, ‘How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today, going around half-naked in full view of the slave girls of his servants as any vulgar fellow would!’ 21 David said to Michal, ‘It was before the Lord, Who chose me rather than your father or anyone from his house when He appointed me ruler over the Lord’s people Israel—I will celebrate before the Lord. 22 I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes. But by these slave girls you spoke of, I will be held in honor.” 23 And Michal daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.” * So many times I have experienced people going off the rails and getting WAY WEIRD!!! The Holy Spirit is not weird! Inspired - yes! Doing things that are not normal - yes. But you won’t have this weird feeling, like you just feel like you jumped into dirt and need a bath. You can sense something is “off.” Trust that! That’s Holy Spirit letting you know you got off track. It happens to all of us. But we have to learn how all of this works. Praying in the Spirit is …well, Spiritual. We are not. Not yet. We are physical. We cannot naturally see into the Spirit realm. We do not know how it operates. This is why we have to rely on the Holy Spirit. He will lead and guide us in the way that we should go. Psalm 32:8 - “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with My loving eye on you.” When things start to go off the rails, prayer will get hard. Tough. Like you gotta push through something heavy. Can even seem like there’s “nothing” there. Dry. This shows the Holy Spirit has lifted! If there’s dryness, that’s a sign, a warning. That’s not being led by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit and the Word are water!! You need to “take a bath” in the Word. How you get back on track is get to scripture once again. Use the ones you started your prayer with, or whatever the Holy Spirit is leading you to. Speak it out. Repeat it. Knuckle down into your spirit and pull out words out of your heart by using the Scripture itself. Go as far as you can in your native language, then roll it over again into tongues. Order of praying in tongues: — Use a scripture to start with , can be any that you will go back to during your prayer time if and/or when you need it. Personally I tend to go to: Jude 20-21 (part) - “20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God,”; and Isaiah 28:11-12 - “'11 For with stammering lips and another tongue He will speak to this people’, 12 To whom He said, ‘This is the rest with which You may cause the weary to rest,’ And, ‘This is the refreshing’;” Ephesians 1:17-19 - “17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, 18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power” As I pray I go into prayer praying one or all of these, and any others the Holy Spirit is reminding me of, and praying them back to God and then I add something like this: “Father God, in the Name of Jesus, I thank You for Who You are and Who You are within me. I trust YOU with every ounce of my being. And I thank You that as I pray in tongues in the Holy Spirit, that I am edified. I am built up on my most holy faith on things I am standing for from Your Word in my life, my family, my situations, as I pray in tongues. I thank You Father God that You will reveal answers to me as I pray in tongues and I keep myself focused on Your love. For that is Who You are and Your love strengthens me and gives me insight. I am standing on what these scriptures say that praying in tongues is a “rest” - means I don’t have to work hard at it and you cause me to rest and not to stress; and I have wisdom and revelation from the Holy Spirit regarding stuff that I’m praying and regarding situations in my life, or anything else the Holy Spirit wants to show me, and I thank You for it.” Then I open my mouth and utter the strange sounds that come out of my mouth. — Slow down your words so you can hear them . Pronounce them. Speak clearly. Write down any that catch your attention. Sometimes a word or phrase will repeat. Write it down as best you can - because it’s in tongues you won’t know exactly how to spell words but the Holy Spirit will reveal it to you. Words in your own language may start coming out. Write them down. Sometimes a scripture comes up. Write it down. You can look it up when the time is right. If a word or phrase “bugs” you, ask the Lord right then and there, out loud, about that phrase or word and then roll it back over into tongues. Sometimes the Lord will reveal it to you right then. Write it down. (Sometimes He reveals it later.) You can look up some of the words with an internet search later. This is showing your faith. Acting on the Words He is giving you. He will then give you more when you pray. Be watchful of pride. It likes to seep in. The only reason you can pray in tongues is the Holy Spirit, it has nothing to do with you. You are simply being obedient to His leading. — Keep your focus on your words as you continue to pray. And when you don’t, no worries. Sometimes our minds drift off into random stuff like, what you need to do that day; what you need to pick up at the grocery store…you get my point. This is why we used scripture to start with. Go back to that scripture, speak it out loud again. You will now, on purpose, be focused once again on the Holy Spirit and see what Holy Spirit gives you to say in addition to it. Maybe repeating that scripture. Maybe adding other scriptures that come up out of your heart. There may be other things He gives you directly out of your heart. Phrases. Words. Keep hitting them. Repeating them. You’ll find a flow of the Holy Spirit. This is typically when prophecy comes out. You go as far as you can in English, then kick it over into tongues again. Often this gets “deeper” in Him. Trust the Holy Spirit is speaking into the atmosphere whatever He needs spoken into this reality. It’s that “dimensional” thing I spoke of earlier. — Groanings: As Romans 8:26 says. Sometimes groanings come out. Deep. Guttural. Follow it out BUT don’t be moved by your emotions! You may even wind up sobbing, uncontrollably. DON’T GET WRAPPED IN THE EMOTION!!! EVER!!! I REPEAT - DON’T GET WRAPPED UP IN THE EMOTION! E V E R!! PRESS THROUGH IT UNTIL you wind up laughing!!! THIS is vital! In His presence is fullness of Joy! There’s joy in the house of prayer!!! DON’T stay stuck in sadness, or heaviness, or grief, or sorrow. PUSH THROUGH until you hit the flow of the Holy Spirit in laughter and Joy!! I say this because I’ve seen so many prayers get off track because they “like” the emotion. The heaviness. The sadness. They “feel” like they are really doing something. No. They are not. They are getting pulled off by their emotions and ultimately getting hoodwinked by the devil. If they continue in this ultimately their life will be in torment. It never has a good outcome. Push through until you hit joy in the Spirit. Tears will turn to smiles. Then chuckles. You will start laughing. As you keep “following” it, you will wind up laughing in hysterics. No burden. And lightness of heart will come and you will absolutely know the presence of the Lord is with you. — Always date your prayer journal each time you pray . Sometimes when we pray we are able to stop things. Sometimes we can’t stop them but we can decrease how bad they will be - like that Puerto Rico prayer. I knew it was going to happen but I also “knew” that I could decrease how bad it would be for some people. That is what is called “standing in the gap.” (Ez. 22:30.) In your prayer journal you can always go back to see what the Lord has given you. Be sure to write down any “impressions” you get from the Holy Spirit. — Burdens of prayer. When the Holy Spirit knows He can trust you to pray, there will be times when you get a “burden” to pray. Sometimes it may start where you just “know” something is up, and you gotta pray. Do it! Sometimes it shows by you being “restless.” An uneasiness that you can’t shake off. All of this means something big is about to happen to you or someone you love; perhaps to your town, city, or state. And as you pray about it, you may not be able to get a “release” from the Holy Spirit about it. Means it’s not prayed through until you hit “joy” and you get the release. Keep staying with it until you do get the release. You know that you know in your spirit by the Holy Spirit that it’s done. For example: At one point in my life I had told the Lord that if He wanted me to get up in the middle of night to pray, that I would. So as I was sleeping one night He woke me up! He said, “Get up and pray. Now.” So I got out of bed. Went to the living room. I was about to sit on the couch but the Lord said, “Get on your face on the floor.” “Yes, Sir.” I replied. I could sense the urgency with this. As I began praying in tongues deep groans came out. I was quiet about it. I didn’t want to wake up my husband. It was like a silent movie. My mouth was moving but no sound. Spiritually it was intense. Deep weeping came out. And at the same time I was thinking, “Wow, this is strange. I wonder what’s up.” I stayed with it. And then the Lord showed me a vision. I knew it was the person I was praying for. I didn’t know who they were. I saw the face. They were engulfed in flames and screaming a blood curdling scream. As I was watching this I too was as if I was screaming her scream. Then it all STOPPED. Suddenly. Nothing after it. The burden was gone. The vision gone. The tears gone. I got up to my knees and asked the Lord “Was that it? Is that all. Am I done now?” He said, “Yes. Go to bed now.” So I did. The next day on the news I saw a report of someone who had died horribly from something that had burned. (I won’t disclose the detail of it.) I was shocked. I was very upset because I didn’t think I had done enough. (Notice “my thoughts” verses what the Lord had said. This is why you can’t trust in only your thinking.) The Lord said that prayer was enough. I trust Him. I knew by the Holy Spirit that the Lord wanted her to receive Him before she died. I knew that in the prayer. I didn’t have to figure it out. And I knew at the time of praying that the event was going to happen. I didn’t think it was anything I would ever know about. I didn’t need to. I simply trust Him. He got done what He needed. I’m sure He had others besides me praying for her and the others involved. It is only an example of how the Lord will use you, if you allow Him. He will do this with you too. 13. Spiritual Gifts Yes, they are for today, they did not “die away.” The teaching about spiritual gifts no longer a part of the Church is no where in scripture . Try to find two or three scriptures that say so. Spiritual gifts come from the Holy Spirit. You cannot have the Holy Spirit and not have His giftings. It’s not possible. They are the result of Him within you. The more you spend time with the Holy Spirit and being obedient to His leadings, the more the giftings will manifest. Spiritual gifts are in 1 Corinthians chapters 12-14. And as you read the New Testament you can see the giftings of the Holy Spirit in operation through people. God puts these things in His Word to teach us how they operate so we know when they are operating in us. Giftings are for other people. They are not for yourself. And they should operate by love . All the spiritual gifts when in operation correctly will be operating by love. If you don’t, then the gifting(s) that the Lord has created you with can be used incorrectly out of ego and deception. Ultimately be twisted by the devil. All people have at least one gifting. It’s how the Lord created us. And when someone is not born again and has Word of Wisdom and Word of Knowledge operating in their life and they never turn to the Lord, the devil will use that gifting his way. The person will be deceived by deceptive spirits and be a “clairvoyant” or “fortune teller” and such like. It’s simply the gift the God gave that person being used in the wrong way. How you reflect on what your gifting is, ask the Lord. And reflect on your life. Especially as a child. The things you liked and wanted to do, what you're good at and are usually related to that gifting. Go to 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 and see how that “job” fits into the gifting(s). Every job does. 14. Spiritual Fruit: Comes from spending time with Him. Not simply a “Sunday Christian.” You have to put what you know to work. The result of the fruit is from spending time with Him, giving heed to Him and doing what He says to do. Galatians 5:16-26 - “16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other. Notice in verse 16 we have a choice. We can walk by the Spirit or not. When someone does not walk by the Spirit they are automatically walking by the flesh. And there are the outcomes listed of each. Again…look what is showing up in your life. When we see something we don’t like we have to ask the Lord where are we off track and make any corrections He gives us. 15. Having “Utterance” and “Revelation Knowledge” Go Together Acts 4:23-25 - "23 When they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them. 24 And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, Who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them, 25 Who through the mouth of our father David, Your servant, said by the Holy Spirit,” then the Holy Spirit gave them a scripture that Peter and spoke….continue on to verse 31 - “31 And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the Word of God with boldness.” The Holy Spirit gives you words to speak from the Word of God, whether it be in your known language or in tongues; and He gives you boldness and revelation about what the Holy Spirit is talking about! This is what He does. It is light. He is light. He is the light of the world. This is a result of having Him within your spirit. Utterance, revelation knowledge, light! - this is what you look for to see if the Holy Spirit is present. 1 Timothy 4:1 - “The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.” In 1 Timothy we can see that Paul was given utterance and revelation knowledge by the Holy Spirit. I say that because there’s no clear Old Testament scripture that states what Paul says. This was direct revelation from the Holy Spirit. And this most likely happened through prayer. Revelation from the Holy Spirit most often comes through prayer and studying Scripture as He leads. It is not the only way but it is the most frequent. It can come through teaching of the Word, or dreams, or visions, but the biggest way the Holy Spirit gives you revelation knowledge is through prayer and the Word. And as you are praying in tongues, He will at some point give you utterance in a known language. Write down whatever He gives you if you can. He will also give Scriptures along with it. If you didn’t get Scripture with it, ask Him. Sometimes He may want you to look up a subject matter in the Word. Another place where we see the Holy Spirit revealed something to someone is Luke 2:26 - “It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord’s Messiah.” The revelation corresponded to action and to speaking. This was Simeon, the priest in the Temple that year. The Holy Spirit was upon Simeon and revealed this to him. Most likely this was done while Simeon was in prayer. He had “gotten” that he was waiting for the “consolation of Israel.” He knew…by the Holy Spirit. There are so many places in the Word about when God revealed things to people, including Jesus. Recall how Jesus would suddenly “know” what people were thinking. Jesus would then respond with speaking. Speaking the revelation from the Holy Spirit sometimes. Everything the Holy Spirit reveals is not necessarily to be shared. Many times it is to pray about for someone else. It’s part of Word of Wisdom and Word of Knowledge (1 Corinthians 12.) 16. Spend time in reading Romans 8. (Printed at the end of the article.) And then re-read it. Read it in different translations. You’ll get more insight. And then do the same with John 10, 14-17. And then re-read it again. There is a wealth of Spiritual knowledge about the inner dwelling of the Holy Spirit within you and how to follow Him. Another really interesting thing Paul says so many times is to “follow your conscience.” Don’t violate it. When you do, you step out of faith. Romans 14:22-23 - “22 So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves. 23 But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.” See about the conscience: 1 Corinthians 10:25, 27-29; 1 Timothy 1:19; 1 Peter 3:16; Hebrews 13:8; 1 Corinthians 8: 7, 10, 12; Acts 24:16; 2 Corinthians 1:12; 1 Timothy 4:2; Romans 9:1; 1 Timothy 3:9; 2 Timothy 1:3; Titus 1:15; Hebrews 9:9, 14; Romans 2:15; 1 Timothy 1:5; Hebrews 10:22; 1 Peter 3:21; 2 Corinthians 4:2. 17. Test the spirits Not all spirits are of God and they always have a con game going to “seem” like they are from God, looking like an angel of light 2 Corinthians 11:14. 1 John 4:1-6 Any spirit that does not say Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not a spirit of God. 18. The Holy Spirit is the Anointing Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me because He has Anointed Me… This was after Jesus’ baptism with John the Baptist and the Holy Spirit came upon Him and within Him. The Holy Spirit IS the Anointing! Isaiah 10:27 The Anointing removes burdens and destroys yokes. The Anointing is a person. The Anointing is the Holy Spirit. “Christ” is the Greek word for the Hebrew word “Messiah”. “Messiah” means “The Anointed One”. So the term “Christ Jesus” or “Jesus Christ” refers to different aspects of the Holy Spirit Anointing on Jesus and how He is working in a particular manner. For example: “Christ Jesus” means The Anointed Jesus - scriptures with this term are specifically showing how the Anointing works. “Christ Jesus” is usually about the Anointing of Jesus in operation while He was in His earthly ministry, of which we have access to because of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. It is how the Holy Spirit works on Jesus - thus how He can work on you if you stay in repentance (because not doing so hardens one’s heart and clogs up the “hearing.”); and stay in prayer and the Word and follow Him. It’s simple. The second usage: “Jesus Christ” - has to do with the Resurrection. The epitome of the Anointing is the Resurrection with the changed mortal body. We see this in Romans 8:11 -“But if the Spirit of Him that raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He Who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of His Spirit Who lives in you.” And Ephesians 1:19-20 - “19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power 20 which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places,” “Jesus Christ” is talking about something that has been given to us in the Anointing by Jesus’ Resurrection from the dead. “Christ” means the Anointing which is the Holy Spirit. So if we word that passage like this: “and what is the exceeding greatness of His power, because His power is the Holy Spirit, toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power through the Holy Spirit which He worked in the Anointing when He raised Jesus from the dead by His power through the Holy Spirit in the Anointing and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places.” We see more to that passage than we did before. Every time you see the word “Christ” by itself it means all of what it can mean: The Anointed Jesus; the Anointing—the Holy Spirit; and it can mean the ultimate of Resurrection Power. You have to pay attention to the inward leading of the Holy Spirit about a passage to see what He specifically wants to show you. I have found that “Christ” when it’s by itself usually means the Anointing (through the Holy Spirit) and how it works. Ephesians 3:16-19 AMP - “16 May He grant you out of the riches of His glory, to be strengthened and spiritually energized with power through His Spirit in your inner self, [indwelling your innermost being and personality], 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through your faith. And may you, having been [deeply] rooted and [securely] grounded in love, 18 be fully capable of comprehending with all the saints (God’s people) the width and length and height and depth of His love [fully experiencing that amazing, endless love]; 19 and [that you may come] to know [practically, through personal experience] the love of Christ which far surpasses [mere] knowledge [without experience], that you may be filled up [throughout your being] to all the fullness of God [so that you may have the richest experience of God’s presence in your lives, completely filled and flooded with God Himself]. Notice the words “Christ” - The Anointing, and “His Spirit” are grammatically used interchangeably. They are the same. The Holy Spirit is the Anointing, and they are love within you. And God wants you to know about this, His Power…WITHIN you! Now look at these scriptures with the word “Christ” interchanged with “Holy Spirit”: 1 Corinthians 15:22 - In the Holy Spirit I am made alive. Colossians 1:27 - the Holy Spirit is in me and is the hope of glory. 2 Corinthians 1:21-22 - Now it is God Who makes both us and you stand firm in the Holy Spirit. He Anointed us, set His seal of ownership on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come. 2 Corinthians 2:14 - Now thanks be unto God Who always causes me to triumph in the Holy Spirit, and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of Him everywhere. Galatians 5:1 - I stand fast in the liberty where the Holy Spirit has made me free and I am not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Philippians 4:13 - I can do all things through the Holy Spirit Who strengthens me. Romans 6:7-8 - For he that is dead is freed from sin. I am dead to sin and alive with the Holy Spirit. *There is a difference in these two passages: Galatians 2:20 - I am crucified with the Anointed One; and I no longer live, but the Holy Spirit lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself for me. Ephesians 2:5-6 - Even though I was dead in sins, God has quickened me together with the Anointed One through the Holy Spirit. By grace am I saved; and made me sit with Him in heavenly places. Now the next time your in the Epistles keep this in mind and see what deeper revelations you get from the Holy Spirit by reading them like this! 19. How to “Hear” Like previously stated you are to judge what you heard or the prompting you got by several factors: “Where” did the voice come from? Outside of your head. Inside of your head: if it’s inside, did it come up from deep within your inner being; or did it just “pop” in. From outside of your head is NOT the Holy Spirit but another spirit. Sometimes it may seem like someone is speaking into your ear. If it’s inside your head it is either from a spirit or your own thinking. When it comes from deep down within you, like it’s bubbling up from the depth of you into your head, it’s the Holy Spirit. Does it go in line with all of scripture; or does it contradict some? The more you know of the Word the greater the tests. And the devil is sneaky. There are times he will use scripture to attempt to deceive you. Don’t go against any inner warning. It’s like this gut feeling like you got punched. Sometimes it shows up as a subtle warning. Quieter. Like this uneasiness about what you heard and it ALWAYS brings questions up to your mind. “Questions” always show that you DO NOT have peace in your conscience. So let go of what you heard cause it’s not God. What does that “word” leave you with: joy, peace, knowing what to do - insight, light, does it strengthen you. Or does it leave you with questions, confusion, not understanding, fear, uneasiness, consternation: Psalm 16:11 ESV - “You make known to me the path of life; in Your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.” 1 Corinthians 14:33 AMP- “33 for God is not a God of confusion and disorder but of peace and order.” Colossians 3:15 AMP - “15 Let the peace of Christ [the inner calm of one who walks daily with Him] be the controlling factor in your hearts [deciding and settling with finality all questions that arise in your minds]. To this peaceful state indeed you were called as members in one body [of believers]. And be thankful [to God always].” Romans 15:13 - “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.” 1 Timothy 4:1 - “Now the Spirit expressly says …” - in this passage when you look for any other passages like this about what people will be like in the last days, there are none. This one speaks of “how” the Holy Spirit can communicate something: “The Spirit expressly says”. Restating: He speaks from deep within you. Not outside of you, your body. Visitations can happen but they are not common. If a visitation from the Lord occurs, always test the spirits as 1 John 4:1-4 says, ask the Spirit/spirit: “Did Jesus Christ come in the flesh?” The reason why you want to ask this question is evil spirits do not acknowledge that they have lost the eternal battle. They still think they can win. Seriously delusional. As 1 Corinthians 2:7-8 - “7 No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.” God had us on His mind before we were born! Before God created “time” - this was when we were written in the Lamb’s Book of Life - Revelation 17:8 - “The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and yet will come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. The inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the creation of the world will be astonished when they see the beast, because it once was, now is not, and yet will come.” And a second passage, out of 2 or 3 witnesses - Revelation 13:8 Berean Standard - “And all who dwell on the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb who was slain.” And Psalm 139:16 - “Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” 20. He Gives You Strength Ephesians 3:16-17 - “That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory to be strengthened with might by HIs Spirit in the inner man; that Christ…” John 14:16-17 AMP - “16 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper (Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor--Counselor, Strengthener, Standby), to be with you forever-- 17 the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive [and take to its heart] because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He (the Holy Spirit) remains with you continually and will be in you.” Here’s another verse of scripture that shows the Holy Spirit is not taken away. He remains within us — forever!! He is the Spirit of Truth. He is our strength. The Joy of the Lord is our strength…Nehemiah 8:10. How to judge what you have happening in your life: questions, confusion, unhappy, killing, stealing, destroying; or is it joy, peace, strength, life, love…these are markers of “Who” or “who” is active in your life - John 10:10. Other Scriptures to Note 2 Corinthians 5:14 (TPT, TMT, KJV, NIV)- “14 For Christ’s love compels us…” He compels us; He constrains us - doing so with urgency, a pressing necessity; He fuels our passion and motivates us; He moves us to extremes. 1 Corinthians 14:15 - “So what shall I do? l’ll pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my understanding; I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my understanding.” - As a statement of faith. Focus on scripture as you are praying in tongues. That is praying with your understanding. Then the Holy Spirit will give you tidbits of insight. And then you simply trust Him by faith that He has it handled. 1 Corinthians 14:4 - He that speaks in an unknown tongue edifies himself …. 1 Corinthians 14 - verse 19, Pauls said he spoke in tongues more than the Corinthian church. And they were prolific in it and got off track because there was no order to it. They were undisciplined and only leaned in to that part of the Spiritual gifts. That’s why Paul wrote 1 Corinthians chapters 12-14. Back to 1 Corinthians 14:14 - “For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prays but by understanding is unfruitful.” We make our understanding fruitful by using scripture to start the prayer with and go back to it if things go off , you get distracted, or if there is a lull. Speak the Scriptures out loud to the Lord and keep going as far as you can until you can’t go any further in your language, then go into tongues. Numbers 11:24-27 - So Moses went out and told the people what the LORD had said. He brought together seventy of their elders and had them stand around the tent. 25 Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke with him, and He took some of the power of the Spirit that was on Him and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied —but did not do so again. 26 However, two men, whose names were Eldad and Medad, had remained in the camp. They were listed among the elders, but did not go out to the tent. Yet the Spirit also rested on them, and they prophesied in the camp. 27 A young man ran and told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.” I love this scripture in Numbers!! The Lord came down and took some of His power of the Spirit that He had put on Moses and put it on the 70 elders, including the dudes who were back in camp! And they all prophesied. It sure is interesting that when the Spirit is on people, He talks. And He’s got a lot to say. He is a person! Nowadays it’s tough because there are so many false prophets BUT the Lord told us there would be in the end times chapters of the Gospels; and in 1 Thessalonians 5:19-22 He told us to weigh prophecies and throw out what is not right and hold on to what is good: “19 Do not quench the Spirit. 20 Do not treat prophecies with contempt 21 but test them all; hold on to what is good, 22 reject every kind of evil. ” And we test them by what the Word says: are we left with joy? - Psalm 16:11; are we left with peace? - John 14:28; are we left with light, revelation? - 1 John 1:5 and Isaiah 11:2. Ephesians 3:19 - God the Father wants us to know the love of Christ, the love of the Anointing, the love of the Holy Spirit which passes knowledge so that we will be filled with all of God’s fullness. The Love of God gives knowledge. We can’t have Godly knowledge unless we allow the love of God to flow and glow in our lives!!! Love and knowledge go together! ! Philippians 1:9 that our love would abound (because we choose to) more and more in knowledge and in all judgement. We can’t judge things correctly unless we are operating in the Love of God. Verses 10-12 we will then be able to approve things that are excellent, Godly, and sincere without offense and filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ and all of it is to the paise and glory of God!! 1 John 2:20, 27 - AMP “20 But you have an Anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the Truth. 27 As for you, the Anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as His Anointing teaches you about all things and as that Anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it (He) has taught you, remain in Him.” “Remain” - #3306 meno - abide, wait, remain. It’s the same word as abide and wait. Wait on the Holy Spirit’s leading, on His teaching you; abide - live with Him by obeying what He leads you to do. When we don’t we grieve Him. When we do grieve Him we won't have any peace. Just repent. Clean it up. Do whatever He is leading you to do. He never leaves us even if we don’t repent but He’s not happy. So make it right with Him. God said He would be with us even to the end of the earth! He would never leave us nor forsake us. So…yeah…once you have received Him, you are His! Now that we understand more of “Who” the Holy Spirit is, how He operates, and that He is in us, we can understand more depth in scripture - the Holy Spirit IS love, He has poured it out in our hearts, love is what teaches us, and He is this power within us, the power to raise mortal bodies and create universes!!! Let’s look at the Ephesians 3 prayer: Ephesians 3:16-20 - “16 I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. 20 Now to Him Who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,” The part of the sentence in bold - Paul is praying that we would grasp ALL the dimensions (length, height, depth) of the love of the Holy Spirit-His Anointing that is WITHIN us!!! And the more we allow the Holy Spirit to reveal it to us, the more that is activated within us!!! What we don’t know, we won’t have. What we have revelation about is what we will have! 2 Timothy 1:7 - “7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” John 14:26-27 - “But the Advocate, the Helper, the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My Name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you; My peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” 1 Corinthians. 2:3-16 - “3 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. 4 And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5 that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. 6 However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, 8 which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” 10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit Who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. 13 These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. 16 For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ. We have the mind of the Anointing. We have the mind of the Holy Spirit. 1 Corinthians 6:11 - “…But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.” John 14:16 - “And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever—” This is another very important verse to those who have thought you can loose your salvation. If you have thought that, read John 14:16 again. And put it with other scriptures like: John 10:28-30; Ephesians 1:13; & 2 Corinthians 1:20-22, listed below. Out of 2 or 3 witnesses let every Word be established: “28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of My hand. 29 My Father, Who has given them to Me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of My Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are One.” “When you believed, you were marked in Him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit,” “20 For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through him the “Amen” is spoken by us to the glory of God. 21 Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He Anointed us, 22 set His seal of ownership on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.” If you still don’t believe that salvation is eternal, you need to allow the Holy Spirit to show you in way you can receive it. God’s promises are “yes” and “amen”. You will either believe what He has said, or you won’t. Not believing something God has clearly stated will make your life miserable. “Choose you this day Life or death; blessing or cursing.” What will you choose? John 6:63 - “It is the Spirit Who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The Words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.” 2 Corinthians 3:17-18 - “17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.” 1 Corinthians 12:13 - “For we were all baptized by One Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the One Spirit to drink.” John 4:14 - “but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” Philippians 1:19 - Supply of the Spirit - "19 for I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance,” We serve God by His Spirit, Philippians 3:3 - “3 For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh—“ 2 Timothy 1:13-14 Keep the Word which is in you by the Holy Spirit - “13 Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. 14 By the Holy Spirit Who dwells within us, guard the good deposit entrusted to you.” 2 Corinthians 3:17 - “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” John 10:30 - “30 I and the Father are one.” 1 John 4:6 - “We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of Truth and the spirit of falsehood.” Titus 3:5-7 - “5 He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, 6 whom He poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that, having been justified by His grace, we might become heirs having the hope (absolute expectancy) of eternal life.” Galatians 5:4-6 - ‘4 You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. 5 For through the Spirit we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.” Galatians 5:17 - “For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want.” 2 Corinthians 3:17 - “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” John 6:63 - “It is the Spirit Who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The Words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are Life.” Matthew 12:28 - “But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.” Ephesians 1:13 - “In Him you also, when you heard the Word of Truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in Him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,” Acts 4:31 - “And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the Word of God with boldness.” Matthew 28:19 - “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,” Mark 12:36 - “David himself said in the Holy Spirit, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, Until I put Your enemies beneath Your feet.”’ Mark 13:11 - “When they arrest you and hand you over, do not worry beforehand about what you are to say, but say whatever is given you in that hour; for it is not you who speak, but it is the Holy Spirit.” John 15:26 - ““When the Helper comes, Whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me,” The word: "proceed" - means to come from the source. Romans 8:9 - “You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Him.” 1 John 4:1-2 - “Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,” 1 Corinthians 2 “1 And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. 2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 3 I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. 4 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, 5 so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power. God’s Wisdom Revealed by the Spirit 6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived” — the things God has prepared for those who love Him— 10 these are the things God has revealed to us by His Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 16 for, “Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ. Romans 8 - ESV 1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. 3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. 6 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot. 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. 10 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. Heirs with Christ 12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. 13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” 16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with Him in order that we may also be glorified with Him. Future Glory 18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. 19 For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. 23 And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience. 26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. 27 And He who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. 28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to His purpose. 29 For those whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, in order that He might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30 And those whom He predestined He also called, and those whom He called He also justified, and those whom He justified He also glorified. *(If this gives rise to questions for you read the article on “God’s Calling.” God’s seed He foreknew and wrote our names in the Lamb’s Book of Life, we are who He has called, justified by the Blood of Jesus, and will glorify upon death and resurrection.) God’s Everlasting Love 31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He Who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him graciously give us all things? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God Who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the One Who died—more than that, Who was raised—Who is at the right hand of God, Who indeed is interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written, “For Your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him Who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

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faith, for children, protect my children, keep them from harm, What does God say about my children Believing Stuff for Your Children Article below. For downloadable PDF click link. PDF Believing Stuff for Your Children As a parent it’s your responsibility to pray for your children. But what do you pray? The Lord understands the yearnings of your heart for your children. He is there and knows exactly what your child needs even if you don’t. As stated in other articles, God can’t lie - Numbers 23:19 - what He has said is a guarantee. Yet it is difficult when our emotions are so involved. Don’t lean to your emotions. They cause the worst trouble. Instead lean into the Word of God and His promises for your children. There are two parts of “what” to be aware of with your children: 1. praying the promises of God as a means of rejoicing, not asking. Because it’s already given; 2. Is knowing when the Holy Spirit is giving you a warning for your kids. We will get into both. They are vital to know. 1. Praying in thanksgiving the promises of God for your children When you pray a scripture regarding your child, make it “yours.” Put your child’s name in the scripture. Let the Lord speak to you through that scripture. He will show you insights. They may come up as “thoughts”. He may “show” you something specific. Whatever He shows, hold on to it. If you have questions, ask Him. He will reveal it. Sometimes right aways. Sometimes not, it may take a while until you get it. Either way, trust Him. Realize that your child/children are God’s children first! He gave them to you. You are to be their “steward”. To train them in the things of God, teach them to obey God, teach them a relationship with God. Children copy their parents. That’s how it goes. So when your relationship and life is strong with God, theirs will be also. Including when they rebel. “Train up a child in the way that he should go and when he is older he shall not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6. As long as you did what you are supposed to do they will turn around. If you didn’t for whatever the reason, maybe you hadn’t received Jesus yet, or maybe you simply didn’t know - TRUST GOD! They are HIS kids first! Pray these prayers over them. It will change things! I will place 4 scriptures with a prayer using the scripture. You’ll get the idea. Subsequent scriptures are listed without the prayer and you can add a prayer as you’re using the previous examples. Romans 12:2 - “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—His good, pleasing and perfect will.” “Father God, in the Name of Jesus, I pray for my son/daughter. Lord Jesus, help him/her not to be conformed to this world, to his/her friends and going with the crowd and their ungodly notions. Cause him/her to lean in to You. To trust You in every situation - especially when he/she won’t tell me. That’s normal. But he/she can talk with You. Lead him/her. Talk them through each situation. And I thank You for it, in Jesus Name.” Psalms 103:17-18 - “…The Lord’s love is with those who fear Him, and His righteousness with their children’s children—18 with those who keep His covenant and remember to obey His precepts.” “Father God, in the Name of Jesus, I want to thank You that Your love is to (child’s name). You love him/her even more than I do. I thank You that You watch over them and that Your righteousness is with him/her. Lord Jesus, lead him/her in everything. If he/she is not listening to You, Holy Spirit lean on him/her, convict them if what (they) are doing is not right. Show them the way out. I thank You for taking care of (name). He/she is yours first. I am his/her steward. Show me what else I need to do to help in the situation. And I give You all the praise and glory for it, in Jesus Name.” Ephesians 1:17-23 and 3:14-21 - “17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know Him better. 18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in His holy people, 19 and His incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength 20 he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms, 21 far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. 22 And God placed all things under His feet and appointed Him to be head over everything for the church, 23 which is His body, the fullness of Him Who fills everything in every way.” And “14 For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from Whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its Name. 16 I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. 20 Now to Him Who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, 21 to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.” “Father God, I ask You and thank You for giving (name) Your wisdom and revelation knowledge and that (his/her) eyes are enlightened to Who you are and (his/her) place within in You! That they fall in love with YOU! And know what Your calling is for them. And that (he/she) knows, that (he/she) knows, that (he/she) knows what YOUR inheritance is, that is in (him/her) and what is YOUR amazing power that is IN (him/her) because they believe in You. I pray Father God that You show (him/her) how bid You are and how powerful You are and that You are within them! This is the same power that raised Jesus from the dead!! That (he/she) knows that the very same power of You is IN them! And that (he/she) knows this power is in all of the Body of Christ of which (he/she) is a part of and fill it up with Your glorious Self! I thank You Father God that we have Your Name! The Name of Jesus is Your Name and we have it to. It’s not something we only say. It’s part of “Who” we are in Christ Jesus and I thank You for revealing this to my kid(s). I pray Father God that You strengthen them with Your might in their inner man, the Holy Spirit Power in their inner being, so that the fullness of the Anointing - the Holy Spirit - can display Himself through (him/her), in Jesus Name, because (he/she) knows that You are there! I pray and I thank You for it that (he/she) is ROOTED and grounded in Your love and Your love passes Your knowledge to (him/her), and that (he/she) is filled with ALL the knowledge and fullness of You. Now I give YOU all the glory for this because I know that You do even more than what I ask or think according to Your Power that is at work within me and within (name).” Psalm 127:2 - “"It is vain for you to rise up early, To sit up late, To eat the bread of sorrows; For so He gives His beloved sweet sleep." “Father, it says in Your Word, that You give Your beloved sweet sleep. So in the Name of Jesus, I pray that You give (name) sweet undisturbed sleep. I loose all the fiery darts and arrows the enemy has thrown at them during the day (Ephesians 6:16). Holy Spirit, I ask You to cleanse all the residue from those darts and arrows from their bodies and seal my girls in the Blood of Jesus. I ask that You loose all the attacks from the enemy not only in (his/her) bodies but their souls: our mind, will and emotions; purging all the areas in us that have been affected by these attacks. I ask that You seal our bodies and souls in the Blood of Jesus and by The All Powerful Name of Jesus. I know there is nothing with more Authority than the Name of Jesus and His Glorified Blood which He spilled for us. Father God before I sleep I place my spirit into Your hands for safekeeping as I know that You love me and will take care of me as I rest.” As you can see how you “put yourself” and those whom you are praying for into scripture, you can do this with any scripture and use it as a prayer. Below are some scriptures that are useful. It’s not all of them by any means - that would be the entire Bible. Also read Proverbs. There are many passages there that are helpful. And remember to go on to part 2 - following the unction of the Holy Spirit when He is giving you a warning about your children. Joel 1:3 - “Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.” Psalm 51:10, 12 - “Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, And uphold me by Your generous Spirit.” Philippians 4:4-7 - “4 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! 5 Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Deuteronomy 4:9 - “9 Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them fade from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them.” Mark 10:14 - “When Jesus saw this, He was indignant. He said to them, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.” 2 Corinthians 12:14 - “After all, children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.” Proverbs 18:24 - “One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.” John 13:34-35 - “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.” Proverbs 17:9 - “A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.” Psalm 91 Jeremiah 29:11-13 - “11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call on Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart.” 2. Knowing when the Holy Spirit is giving you a warning for your kids As a parent, it’s a God-given ability, when you just “know” what’s going on with your kids. When you have that “knowing” it is not random. God is letting you know so you can pray to stop what is happening. “Knowing” or a vision, or a dream are all ways He can let you in on what is happening or about to happen. You may already have insight how to pray and what scriptures to use. If you do not, ask Him. Stay quiet until you know. Have your Bible because He will direct you to certain passages. For safety always be ready to plead the Blood of Jesus on your child and on the situation they are in; cancel any assignments the devil has launched against them; and pray the 91st Psalm over them…and anything else the Lord tells you to do. Let me share something from my own life. Many may know that I had a stroke when I was 26. That attack of the stroke was intended to take me out. I was in a coma for 3 days. Recovery was tough. Couldn’t read. Couldn’t write. Very difficult time speaking. Paralyzed on the right side of my body. And at that time I was a professional dancer. My entire life changed in a moment. Prior to this event, like 8 or 9 months, my mother had been led by the Lord to pray particular scriptures over me - confess them over me: Psalm 91:16 - “With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.” Psalm 118:17 - “I shall not die, but live, And declare the works of the Lord.” Isaiah 54:13 - “All your children shall be taught by the Lord, And great shall be the peace of your children.” The Lord had been impressing her to pray these over me each day for 8 or 9 months! He wouldn’t let her off of it. As she did this she was planting these scriptures in her heart by speaking them over me each day for all those months, and she could handle what she was about to be told. When she received the phone call about what occurred and was told that I would die, she immediately spoke these scriptures out of her heart to the person who had called her. Good thing too. She had to negate the words that were being spoken around me from friends and doctors. speaking - that I “wasn’t going to make it.” She spoke the Word over the situation in my life, took Authority over the negative words by speaking the Word of God. She cancelled out the words of death and destruction others were speaking. Words create. Words can activate the demonic realm to bring them to pass or God's realm to bring them to pass. And mom had to stop those words of death that were be spoken with the Word of God. You see, when people are in life threatening situations most do not know what to do. They freak out. They speak what they fear. And they attempt to be “sympathetic” saying, “oh, poor Rina (or whomever). (She) used to be such a great ……”. Instead my mother would retort: “No, she will not die but live and declare the works of the Lord. Great is her peace, her wholeness, in Jesus Name. And she has a long life because of what the Lord Jesus has done!” Usually there was silence on the other end of the phone. And a quick, “Oh, ok.” It wasn’t much different when she got to the hospital. They all thought she was nuts. But who cares when you’re trying to keep your kid alive. Speak the Word of God! It changes things! “Let there be light. And it was so.” That’s how you handle crisis situations. No matter what it looks like. No matter what you think. No matter what it feels like. Words create life or death - what kind of words will you speak over your children?