He's Got To Come Through Me!

Colossians 3:3 teaches "For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God". 

* God has established the right to possess ownership of our lives since He salvaged us through the work of Calvary and the victory of the grace

* Salvation produces the life which I have and ever want to have

* God paid the ransom for our lives and has ultimately saved us from the penalties of sin

* He also saved us from our self our most notable enemy from within

* There are many external enemies but ultimately one internal enemy..you!

* The only person who can destroy you is you with very little effort from anyone else

* The enemy can't come into our lives or experience unless we open the door! 

* Salvation from sin results in us no longer possessing the appetite to open the door

* The closer you move towards God through consecration and prayer the devil notices you!

* Grace covers us while we are working out our salvation experience

* Paul makes it clear that its through grace by faith that we are saved! Its the gift of God!  Dont take credit...all you did was believe! 

* When it looks like its getting worse..by the grace of God its really getting better!

* There is a difference between where you were and who you are becoming

* This is the attitude that you must take..what God has brought you to far better that where He has brought you from

* Whatever it takes we are going to make it..we do not operate by what we see but by what God said!

* If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves! God is changing and doing a new thing in you

* The old nature is gone and now I am a new creature..I am persuaded that God will keep me!

* We live in victory and walk in victory

* In Judges 7 God is testing the people!

* You have what it takes...I can do all things through Christ Jesus!

* For the enemy to make any advances in our life he must attack where we are vulnerable

* To attack means to pursue us directly which God has made improbable by placing our lives in His existence

* To get to us the adversary must deal with Christ and God in that order

* It is a foregone conclusion that the adversary cannot overcome either of these levels so we are protected through relationship!

WHAT IS IN FRONT OF YOU IS GREATER THAN WHAT IS BEHIND YOU!

Psalms 42:1-3

1 As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"

·         Debarred from public worship, David was heartsick and his only desire was to commune with the Lord. In the text we find David in a deep meditative mood. Sometimes we must have introspection (deep self-reflection) regarding what the Lord has allowed us to achieve!
·         Whenever David is upset or experiencing challenges, he is always able to express and identify what he is feeling. We can relate to David in many ways because he has the keen ability to express his anxieties, doubts and frustrations, yet still confess and proclaim the word of the Lord over his life!
·         (2 Corinthians 5:7) In this season we must walk by faith and not by sight. We must acknowledge that yes I may be sick in my natural body, but I am walking in healing through the mighty name of Jesus. Feelings are in the flesh but joy and faith are found in the spirit!
·         (1 Corinthians 9:27) Outcomes of fasting- we are creatures of habit, Fasting helps us discipline or train our bodies and bring behaviors, thoughts, emotions under subjection. If you can conquer and control self, then you can overcome anything! Every day there is a new battle and new stronghold to overcome in the lives of the believers. Every day we must walk in self-discipline!
·         The power of expectation- you must realize that God will not give you all your blessings at once. There are gifts are on reserve and will be given in due season when you are mature enough to receive.
·         (Psalms 27:14) Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD. David was a man of patience, he understood that delayed does not mean denied. In this season wait on the Lord patiently and with the spirit of expectation! If God promised it, he will surely bring it to pass!
·         We  must allow God to move outside our mind and into our spirit or heart! The heart is the most important organ in the human body. This is the time to have God in our hearts and not our intellect. God wants to abide and dwell in us continually. God wants us to love him from our heart and not our minds. We love people from the core of our being, not through intelligence. David teaches us how to move from knowing God, to being persuaded by God! God has to be in your heart!
·         (Through his heart) David sought the enjoyment of communing with God; he viewed it not merely as the sweetest of all luxuries, but as an absolute necessity, like water to a stag. Like the parched traveler in the wilderness, whose water bottle is empty, and who finds the wells dry, he must drink or die—he must have his God or faint.
·         David teaches us that the next best thing to living in the light of the Lord's love is to be unhappy till we have it, and to pant hourly after it. You see, thirst is a perpetual appetite, and not to be forgotten, and even thus continual is the heart's longing after God. 

The deer or hart is only concerned about getting to water and not concerned about being hunted. The hunter is behind it and the water is in front. The greater thing that God has for us is always in front of us!

WORD - You're Being Pushed Into It!

19 And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them (Exodus 14:19)

Ø  There is always something wonderful hiding behind something horrible. In life you must go through something, in order to get to the promises of God!

Ø  It does not matter how painful and unbearable it’s been, you have to know in your spirit that God is bringing you out! You must have this confirmation in your holy ghost because the situation may tell you something different; that’s why we live by faith and not by sight.

Ø  You must understand the process of being prepared for the next level. Whenever you are about to advance, or go to another level in God; he will turn up the heat! When you are baking a cake, the ingredients can only rise depending upon the level of HEAT that is applied! (No Heat= No Results. Elevated heat= elevated results)

Ø  In other words, sometimes people need a little motivation to get to that next level. The reason you are closer to God is because hurt pushed you to your knees the very thing that hurts, is the very thing that will push you into who you are in GOD.

Ø  When God wants to release greatness in you, he releases Satan for a season! Key word for a season. There are restrictions that even Satan must abide by during this time of testing!

Ø  During this season, your posture should be one of thanksgiving and celebration, because he’s only on a season pass! When the date expires, he will be ejected!

Ø  For weeping may endure for a night but Joy comes in the morning!

Ø  If you release the praise, the breakthrough will come through!

Ø  Stop questioning God and just go from glory to glory.

Ø  In this new dimension, everyone can’t handle where God is transitioning you; don’t be alarmed because God is bringing you to an expected end!

Ø  Quick shift taking place. Let the weak say I am strong and let the poor say I am rich because of what the Lord has done!

Ø  You are coming from a negative place to a positive, hopeful place