Take  a little time to reflect back on the emotions you experienced the past couple of days!

Did you feel anxious, or out of control, perhaps a lttle despondent or even depressed. Did you maybe feel like you were getting nowhere or were negative about something around you. Perhaps you felt not pretty enough or even that you were overweight. Maybe you were even scared or fearful.

If you felt even just one of these feelings from a very shortened list of emotions, then the chances are that the devil has been working on your mind a little. These are all feelings that stem from the pits of hell and not from the word of God.

Taking control of yourself.

The most important thing that you need to come to grips with is the function of the devil. His sole purpose is to rob, steal and destroy that which God has prepared for you. If he can steal your joy or rob you of the promises of God, then he has succeeded in his mission.

Your sole purpose in life is to live the life that God has planned for you and to take up the power and authority that is yours in the name of Jesus. Jesus has already overcome satan and has given that same victory over to you, if you would only receive it.

The devil is prowling 24/7 trying to destroy you and everytime that you experienced one of the emotions discussed above is an indication that he succeeded in his purpose.

How to overcome.

Spend time in the word so that you know what is rightfully yours. If you do not what God has promised to you, how can you ever receive it.

Use the power that you have received through the name of Jesus. Unless you use the weapons given to you, how can you defeat the enemy. If the weapons were not necessary for you to succeed then Jesus would never have bothered giving them to you.

Take control of your mind and renew your mind to Godly thinking. There is simply so much power in the renewing of your mind that you can not even begin to comprehend it. There is amongst other things, a christian weight loss program based around this scripture and which has helped thousands to lose massive amounts of weight without dieting, without exercise and without diet supplements - just the power of Gods word.

You can overcome depression, sickness, disease and any other problem simply by changing the way that you think, or rather by casting out the thought patterns that satan has placed in your mind, and replacing them with godly thinking.

Romans 12:2 " and do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may  prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God."

My personal translation:- " Do not allow the world to control and shape you, but change your thinking to God's thinking and you will take on a new shape (Figure, Appearance). Test God in this so that you can see how good and perfect His plan is for you."

It is important that this is one of only two scriptures in the bible that God says that you can test (prove) Him.

Renew your mind to a new you with Gods word.

What will make this move of God so different from previous moves of God is that unlike the previous moves like the Toronto Blessing, no man wil be able to take credit. God will move swiftly and powerfully through the churches so that just like God Himself, God will be the beginning of this movement to which there will be no end.

The power of God

As I slept last night, in the middle of the night I was bitten by a mosquito and woke up due to the itchiness in my hand where I was bitten. I got out of bed and waited for the itchiness to go so that I would not disturb my sleeping wife with my scratching.  I found it strange that I was bitten by a mosquito at this time of the year as we are already in winter and it was bitterly cold - not exactly mosquito time.

Anyway, as I returned to bed, I started to see the visions that God was placing in front of me. I saw as His power started to sweep through the churches, a power that people were virtually unable to stand in, miracles and signs and wonders were flowing like never before, and the people were returning to God in their masses.

The power of God that swept the entire earth could not be contained. It was a reenactment of the book of Acts, except a million times stronger and more powerful. 

As I sat at my computer this morning, God started to challenge me again, asking whether I was going to post about what He had shown me. In faithfulness to Him I have posted what He wanted me to post.

May the full power of the move of God come upon your life and my life, and sweep through and change the entire earth and it's inhabitants.

God Bless.

Who Is Jesus To You?

Who Are You In Christ?

Are you walking in the victory that you deserve to walk in or is there something wrong in that you never seem to be able to achieve the spiritual high that you should be in.

One of the key reasons why you fail to reach the full blessings in your life is simply that you have been programmed to believe that you do not deserve them and so you have never sought them out or believed that you could ever attain them.

"What you believe in your heart and confess with your mouth will come to pass."

In most cases, people who are not able to succeed in their christian walk or who are unable to achieve the peace and walk in the love of Jesus, simply believe that they do not have a right to it or that they are not worthy of the love of Jesus in their lives. They are defeated and fail to comprehend that Jesus did it all for them.

Entering into a New Life in Jesus.

When you first give your life to Jesus, you become a new creation in Christ. All things are washed away by the blood of Jesus and you become a totally new person. As far as Jesus and God go, you did not exist before that day because you have just been made a totally new creation. It is only you and your friends and family that know that you even existed before the day that you gave your life to Jesus. At this exact point in time, nothing sets you apart or prevents you from being the greatest man/woman of God that ever existed.

If you became a new creation, then why do you still allow matters from the past to affect your life today? You are a new creation. What happened to you before has no right to affect what you are today. Your past has no right to determine your future.

However, from the very day that you hand your life over to God you start to determine your own future.

"But I thought Jesus was now in control and I did not need to do anything."

Jesus is in control and has already completed all the background work for you, but you need to now take what He has given to you and to start to use it. Jesus has given you all authority in His name. He has given you the keys to heaven and earth, but if you never take the keys and use them, then you can never expect to unlock the rewards in life that are yours through Christ Jesus.

A priest was one day called to go and pray with a old man who was busy dying. The old man was particularly poor and had led a miserable life of poverty. While the priest was in the small room where the old man lived, he noticed a single piece of paper on the wall. He asked the old man what it was. "Oh, it is a beautiful piece of paper that someone gave me once. I was not sure what to do with it so I stuck it up on the wall".

On closer inspection, the priest was shocked to find that the piece of paper was a cheque that had been made out to the old man for the sum of $1 000 000-00. The old man was rich and yet he never knew it.

You are also rich in what Jesus has already done for you, but unless you are prepared to accept the fact that Jesus has given you all the power and authority to use in His name, and unless you start to actually stand out in faith and use the name of Jesus, you will never be able to walk in the full blessings that He has set aside for you.

Isn't it time that you took the cheque off the wall and started to cash it!

I remember a statement that was once issued from the pulpit in the charismatic church that I attended.

"We want to start some communities in the church. A support group for gays and lesbians. Sorry, let me change that. A support group for ex gays and ex lesbians. Practising gays are not welcome."

I still remember thinking, " How can you ever become a ex gay without Jesus, through the church, to help you."

So many churches that I know of reject the gays, lesbians and other sinners right out of their close and select little communities. "They are sinners you know, and they are going straight to the pits of hell. I want nothing to do with them."

Years ago, in the same church mentioned above, a guest preacher was invited to preach at a yearly conference. The preacher, whose name I will not mention,  was one of the most down to earth and incredible preachers that I have ever heard preaching.

He spoke on how his own spirit filled church was filled with gays, lesbians, and sinners of every class, and how every single person was welcomed into his church without criticism or judgement and each and every soul was loved regardless of what they were involved in.

Now is that not how you would picture Jesus to be. Jesus rejected the upright and "righteous" people of the time and chose instead to spend his time in the company of tax collectors and other sinners.

Needless to say, that preacher was almost run out of town and every word that he preached was rejected by the church. Where was Jesus.

If you are expected to be washed and cleansed of all sin before you enter a church, how will anyone ever get to enter a church and meet with Jesus. If you expect a gay person to repent and give up his ways before he can come into your church to meet the living Jesus, then chances are he will never get to meet Jesus and accept Jesus into his life.

Were you free from all sin in your life before you first entered into your church and met Jesus? No  - I did not think so.

Are you free from all sin in your life now - even though you have already been a christian for a long time? Again No!

Well if you are not free from sin, why do you expect a Gay or Lesbian or any other sinner to be free from their sin before they can enter your community? Is it perhaps that you consider that their sin is worse than your sin? As far as I am concerned  sin is sin and there is no variation between sins. There is no single sin that is better than another sin. Sin is sin and in order to cleanse yourself of sin you have to go before Jesus, repent and be washed clean by His Blood.

Jesus does the changing .

Jesus loves you enough to accept you as you are, but loves you too much to leave you as you are.

When you come to Jesus and give your life to Him, crying Jesus help me please, Jesus opens his arms out to you and embraces you. He accepts you as you are, forgives you and washes you clean with His Blood. Slowly but surely He begins the process of changing you, your life and your passions. It is not an overnight or instant process. It takes time. He is the potter and you are the clay. Slowly you are molded into what He wants you to be.

In the case of gays and lesbians who are often some of the most hurting people in the world and who need the loving embrace of Jesus more than most, why do we reject them further and cast them out, expecting them to remove the sin from their lives immediately whilst we readily accept the fact that Jesus is still working in our own lives and has not yet completed the task of removing all the sin in our own life.

Take the log out of your own eye before you remove the splinter from your neighbours eye.

Before you judge and reject someone according to their "sin" and cast them out of your select community, simply ask yourself what Jesus would do if that person was standing in front of Him. Would He cast them out, or would He open His arms to them and love them. Sure I know that you are not Jesus, but then can you really claim to be a follower of Christ if you do not accept His ways and teachings.

Open your hearts and love someone today. Show them how the love of Jesus shines through you and help them to change their life simply by being accepted by someone like you. Your accepting someone for who they are could be the biggest thing that ever happened in their life and could make the real difference that will alter their lives forever.

God Bless

May God's Blessing be upon you

Blessings and curses are old testament matters that have no real relevance in today's times - WRONG!  Blessings and curses have as much power over your life today as they did in the old testament times.

If I had to stand before a packed church on a Sunday morning and ask the congregation if they are blessed, I am sure that at least 99% or more would put up their hands and say that they are blessed.

If I again ask the same congregation if curses exist in todays times, I would estimate from past experience that the huge majority would deny that curses even exist anymore and the rest would say that they have no power in todays times.

However, many Christians do not even understand the word "Blessed" and when asked exactly what it means to be blessed, you are likely to be met with blank stares and very confused faces. If you use the simple standards, as set out in Deuteronomy 28, to determine if you are blessed or cursed, you will find that at least 90% or more of the congregation that said that they were blessed, suddenly finds that they may not be walking in as many blessings as they thought that they were, and that it is indeed possible that they may in fact have a curse or two hanging over their life that they were totally unaware of.

Blessings.

The word "Blessed" is best defined as "To be Envied."  If you are not envied by all around you, then the chances are that you are not walking in God's full blessings. Let me say right now that blessings have nothing to do with being rich. I know many rich people with whom I would never ever trade places with and whom I do not envy at all.

Riches have never brought happines into anyones life. Mostly, new riches starts to breed greed and the desire for even more riches. Money becomes an obsession in life instead of  it being a means to obtain what you need in life. Money in itself is not evil, but the love of money is the root of all evil. When your love for money overtakes your love of God, you are in the clutches of the devil.

 The first section of Deuteronomy 28 gives us clear instruction on how to walk in the blessings of God and what they are :-

" Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth.

And these blessings will come upon you and overtake you because you obey the voice of the Lord your God."  Verses 3 to 14 continue to list the blessings. Take these verses, modify them to todays terms ( ie cattle increases refers to increases in your investments etc), and see if you have the full blessings of God in your life.

Although these are Old Testament scriptures, they stand true to today and unless you are walking in the commandments of God and in full and total obedience to Him, you can not receive the full blessings of God.

Curses.

There are many curses that exist in the Old Testament. These are curses that are directly from God and do not even involve satan or witchcraft or black magic.

Briefly, Malachi describes that you are cursed if you do not tithe. Zaccariah describes the curse that rests upon the liar and the thief. However, all of these sub - curses can be summarised by the main curse found in Deuteronomy 28:15

"But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:"  Verses 16 to 68 continue to describe the curses that can come upon you if you are disobedient to God's word.

When reading these verses it is important to understand that times have changed dramatically and so you do need to modernise the scriptures slightly to adjust for modern times. There were no bank accounts and investments in those days so where it talks about your increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks, in modern times it would refer to the performance of your investments, etc.

Jesus came and set us free from the curse.

I have had many argue with me that curses have no relevance in todays world because Jesus took all curses upon himself when He hung on the tree. Jesus also took all sickness upon himself as well and yet many christians are dying daily from sickness.

Curses still have the ability to affect you today as much as they affected the Old Testament people in the past. If you are disobedient to God and do not obey His commandments, then you nullify the works of Jesus and the curses are able to rest on your life and affect you. As much as Jesus loves you and wants you to walk in total freedom from curses, the curses will remain in your life until you identify the curse and the cause of the curse, repent and turn back to obedience to God.

Are there other curses that can affect us?

Sure - there are many powerful curses that can affect your life today. Possibly the most powerful is the word curse.  A word curse is a something that is spoken into your life usually by someone who is in position of authority over you. This can be a parent, a teacher etc, who says something like " You are stupid". You then accept these words as factual in your life and go through life being controlled by these words and believing that you are stupid.

Parents and teachers, as well as bosses, have to be extremely careful with their words that they speak over those whom they have authority over. Take care to confess only positive things over those whom you have authority over, knowing that your words can impact into their lives in a good way, or a negative way that can virtually make or ruin the rest of their life.

My brother was highly intelligent and very good with figures, but right the way through his life he was told that he was  stupid with his hands. As a result, even though he was fully capable and able to tackle odd jobs around the house, he always believed that his efforts were useless and that he was never able to do anything good with his hands.

"What you believe with your heart and confess with your mouth shall come to pass." 

Is it possible to break free from a curse?

Absolutely. In order to break free from a curse, you do need to first identify the cause of the curse in your life. If your problems are as a result of a word that has been spoken over your life, you must begin to reject that word and cast it out.

"Lord, I do not accept that word that was spoken into my life. I cast it out of my life in the name of Jesus and it shall have no power over me or my family."

If you have been disobedient to the word of God :-

" Father, I come to you in the name of Jesus. Forgive me for my transgressions. I turn away from them today and choose to follow your commandments carefully from this day forward. I break the curse that has resulted in my life in the name of Jesus."

Should you not know Jesus as your Lord and Saviour, then simply say "God help me please".

Caitlin holding Dylan.

On the 11 th February 2010 at 11h11 and 11 seconds, a new baby is brought into the world. Welcome to Dylan Botha born at Saint Mary's hospital in Springs South Africa. Dylan is a healthy baby boy born with a weight of 2.680 kg.

What is different about this baby. Well simply put, this is another miracle baby.

My daughter, Candy, was already the mother of a fairly healthy girl of 4 years of age. Her child, Caitlin was a miracle in herself as gynaecologists could not understand how she could have possibly fallen pregnant due to extremely low hormone levels. However, she fell pregnant and Caitlin Botha was born on 21/01/2005.

Due to an anorexic history, my daughter Candy had major problems with her womanly functions and after the first child was born, she battled to try and fall pregnant. This continued for 4 years and the Gynaecologist basically wrote it off as being  impossible for her to fall pregnant again. However, with God all things are possible.

In late March 2009, Candy approached me about weight gain that was worrying her. She had gained a fair amount of weight and having previously been anorexic, this was a danger that could throw her back into full anorexia again. I suggested that she join a program called Weight Loss God's Way by Dr Frank Smoot, which is an online christian weight loss program that does not concentrate on diet, but concentrates on building self esteem and relationship with God, which then causes weight loss as a "Side Effect".

I knew when I recommended this program that it would build her self confidence and self image, and yes, she would lose some weight but would not be thrown back into her anorexic ways. Well Candice joined the program and within 2 weeks I had an ecstatic visit from Candice again.

"I have lost 5 kilo's already and I did not even diet," she remarked exitedly. I went through what she had done and so far all she had been doing was to read and study the material from the course. She had not tried to lose weight or followed any diet. In fact she had continued life as normal and had continued to eat exactly what she was eating before. And yet she lost 5 Kg's (11 pounds) in a mere 2 weeks.

I was excited for her and was greatful to Dr Frank's weight loss course for being a safe way for my daughter to lose weight without risking throwing her back into anorexic ways.

Approximately 2 weeks passed and I had another ecstatic visit from Candy.

"You will never guess what, " she said. " I am pregnant again."

Coincidence, no I do not think so. How does someone who the doctors placed permanently on the contraceptive pill due to hormone problems, and who the doctors stated could not fall pregnant  again, suddenly fall pregnant. I attribute it to a total miracle which started along with the change in thinking brought about through Dr Frank's Weight loss God's Way program.

Well the month's passed and as pregnant Candy progressed, it was almost impossible to tell that she was pregnant from her stomach. At full term she was smaller in size than a normal woman of under 4 months pregnant. Yet the Gynaecologist was totally happy with her weight and so there were no alarm bells.

On the 11/02/2010 Candy was schedeuled to deliver by Caesaerean. She was called into theatre at 10H00 but due to incorrect prepping, she had to wait and was eventually brought in again at 11h00. The time of  birth was recorded as being 11h11. The attending paediatrician later stated that she could not believe the timing and so when she say the 11 minutes past 11 she decided to watch the seconds and guess what, the baby came out at exactly 11 seconds after 11h11 on the 11th February.

The miracle baby, Dylan Botha, is extremely healthy and an amazing 2.680 kg's considering the size of mom in pregnancy. Mother is in perfect health and all went well.

I give God all the Glory for this beautiful miracle and thank Dr Frank for his incredible Weight loss God's Way program which was the catalyst that God used to create this miracle.

You have possibly been an active christian for some years and it seems that even though you love Jesus with all your mind and all your soul, things do not always go right and somehow you are on the short end of the receiving stick when it comes to the blessings that are promised in the bible.

Sure, you know that Jesus wants you to be blessed and there is no real reasons why you should not be blessed, I mean you are a good person who does what is right and you keep all the commandments, but yet those blessings seem to avoid you but yet they tend to find others that you know.

Walking in the Blessings of Jesus.

Sometimes, especially when you have been walking the christian road for a longer time, it is not what you know that is important, but rather what you have forgotten and have neglected to do.  You may be familiar with the term, "I have already forgotten what you still need to learn." Unfortunately this is often the case with some of us older christians and can sadly be the reason why we are no longer receiving the blessings that we used to.

One of the most important things that we often forget is the very real power that is in the Name of Jesus. Can you remember how when you first got on fire for Jesus and everything that you did or confessed was in the Name of Jesus.

Are you still confessing and claiming everything by using the most powerful tool that you have ever been given, or are you like me and have "forgotten" that the name of Jesus is the real key to claiming and walking in the full power and blessings of Jesus.

Without the name of Jesus, you have no power or authority and whatever you say or confess is meaningless and carries no authority. The minute that you add "In The Name Of Jesus" to your statement or confession, whatever you confess suddenly carries all the power and might as though Jesus himself was saying it.

Bring the mighty Name of Jesus back into your life and start to use the power that is in His name so that you may return back to the blessings that are rightfully yours.

As part of a new year and a new decade I wish to bring this message of hope to you. It is a fresh start and new opportunities are waiting for you.

My Message of Hope to You.

Romans 12:2 says, "And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed through the renewing of your mind." 2010 brings forth a new way of thinking for you. You need to break free from the negatives of the world and look forward to the hope that there is through the love that Jesus has for you.

Your Past has no Right to Interfere with Your Future!

Do not look back but keep your eyes firmly before you. Whenever you are looking back at the past, you miss what is lying ahead in the future. For just 2 minutes, try walking backwards. When you are walking backwards, you can not see where you are going and you walk into obstacle after obstacle. You trip and you fall. So is our life. When we try to get through life constantly looking at the past, we fail to see what is ahead of us and trip and fall at every obstacle.

2009 Has gone and every other year before that. Whatever happened to you in 2009 or 2008 or even yesterday has absolutely no right to interfere with what is happening to you today. Jesus is the way the truth and the life, and what Jesus has planned for you is far greater than anything that you have ever encountered before. Keep your eyes on Jesus and concentrate and feed on the love of Jesus.

As I went outside for a few minutes this morning, I was met with an amazing sight that it seems as if the Lord had prepared just for me. It was  early and was just starting to get light. The sky was clouded over. There were flying ants flying around and a whole host of birds were swooping down and feeding on them.

The odd thing about this is that looking up and down the street in front of my house, the flying ants and birds were only in front of my house and nowhere else down or up the street. As I said, it was as if God had created the show just for me.

As I was watching the show it dawned on me that what I was seeing before me was life. God created the flying ants for the birds to feast on.  The birds from the whole neighbourhood came to feast on the flying ants. Some important facts :-

1) The flying ants  were in abundance. God gives us plenty of food in the form of opportunities.

2) The birds had to come to where the flying ants were. God did not send the ants to the birds, but rather the birds had to see that the flying ants were there and had to come to where the feast is. Sometimes we wait around hoping that God will bring the food to us instead of going out to where God has placed the food for us.

3) The show lasted about half an hour. Feed time was over. The birds had eaten their fill and the fresh rains chased the flying ants away. God created the food for the birds and fed them. Tomorrow he will feed them again, possibly in a different way, but they will never go without food. If you trust and abide in God, you may need to change and adjust constantly, but you will never hunger or thirst. Always remember that you are far more important to God than the birds.

Right at the beginning of this message, I quoted Romans 12:2. " Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed through the renewing of your mind." Do not allow the ways of the world to shape and form you, but rather take on a new shape and form and be totally transfigured when you start to believe in the word of God.

This is the most important scripture for you through the entire 2010. Memorise it. Do not allow the world to determine your future for 2010, but rather place your future in the hands of God and allow Him to guide and lead you so that you will never hunger or thirst again.

Have a blessed 2010.

You have the Key

Jesus says in this scripture, that he will give us the keys so that whatever we declare unlawful on earth will be declared unlawful in heaven, and whatever we set free on earth will be set free in heaven.  First a little on the theoretical side. There are some who believe that this was a power that was given to the disciples only. I believe that this was given to every christian who dares to rise up and take the authority that Jesus has given to us.

In Deuteronomy 30:19 "I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life." We are given many choices that we are able to make in our lives, and with each choice comes a consequence. One of the choices that we have to make is whether to believe the words of Jesus in the bible, or to reject them and say that they are not applicable to me. With that choice, there comes a consequence. you are able to choose to take up the keys of the kingdom of heaven and to walk in the total power that Jesus has given to us, or you can reject the words and say that they are not applicable and therefore be incapable of moving in the power of Jesus. Choose life!

What are the keys that Jesus has given to us, which are capable of opening the way for us right into the heavenlies, and which allow us to unleash the full power of God. When we use these keys, we already know that whatever we bind (declare unlawful, tie up) here on earth, will be bound in heaven. That means that the power of the Father stands behind whatever we declare! Very powerful if used correctly. 

The keys can be found in many places in the bible, but I will show you and lead you to one place only. John 14:6 , "I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." A key is an item that unlocks a door, and here Jesus clearly indicates that He is the door to the Father. No one may come to the Father except through Him. This carries on in verse 14, " If you ask anything in My name, I will do it." The keys that unlock the doorway to the Father is the name of Jesus. You can walk in the authority of Jesus through the use of His name.

The Scripture of Matthew 16:19 can therefore be restated as saying, " You have been given the name of Jesus and all of it's power to use, and when you use the name of Jesus, the heavens will open to you and so therefore whatever that you may declare to be unlawful will be made unlawful by the Father, and whatever you require to be set free will be set free by the Father."

Taking up the name of Jesus and to use it's power is a personal choice. You have been given the most powerful key to use, but the choice of whether to use it or not lies in your hands. Remember that now that you have your own key to open the door, no one is going to come and open the door for you. You have to use your key. Choose to use the key in your life, not for self seeking purposes, but to increase the work of Jesus.

Mostly people are programmed to being individuals, and into believing that they do things their way. We all like to believe that we have total freedom to do what we wish, when we wish. This is only partly true. We are all slaves in some form or the other, serving one of two masters, Jesus or Satan. There is no in between or grey area. Either you have chosen to give your life over to Jesus, or you serve satan.

Satan is the king of deception, and will have you believe that you are "free" to do what you wish. However, you are nothing more than a puppet on a string, bowing down to his wishes, and serving his purposes.

When you do truely break free from the ropes that bind you, and you invite Jesus into your life, you begin to know and understand true freedom. However you still serve a Master and the Master, Jesus, wants to take control of your life. He places His Holy Spirit  within you to lead you and guide you into His way. The more that you begin to listen to and obey the Holy spirit within you, the more you strengthen and grow spiritually.

As a servant of Jesus, He fills you with love and joy and peace, and His wish for you is that you would prosper and be blessed. He does not want any of His servants to suffer, and He has a great reward for you in the form of eternal life in heaven. Accept the navigation of the Holy Spirit in your journey towards eternity in heaven, so that the road may be good, and smooth. It is when you disobey the Holy Spirit's direction that you end up on the wrong road.

Allow the power of the Holy Spirit to increase within you. Feed the Holy Spirit through constant prayer and by reading the bible. Allow the Jesus inside of you to grow strong. Spread the love that Jesus has placed in your heart towards others and reach out to them. Allow the Jesus inside of you to increase, and the old man inside of you to decrease, that you may grow strong in Christ.