Your Past – Your Future.
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!
Name of Jesus
We are mostly fairly comfortable in our little worlds knowing that Jesus loves us and that we are secure resting in His love. However not all goes right and you have possibly seen and wondered that certain people seem to walk in more faith and in more authority than you seem to.
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.
Faith in the Name of Jesus
Faith in the name of Jesus is the key to opening the windows of heaven and for the glory of God to come pouring out on you. Without faith in the name of Jesus you are not even able to be saved. Without faith in the name of Jesus, you can not be healed and you will not see the glory of God the Father.
Acts 4:12, "Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." If you wish to accept Jesus as your Lord and Saviour, you can never be saved unless you have the faith to believe that Jesus has the power to forgive your sins and set you free. When you call upon the name of Jesus, you are calling upon Him because you realise, and therefore have faith, that He is able to set you free. Therefore everyone who has already accepted Jesus into their lives already has a measure of faith.
Once you have accepted Jesus into your life, you begin to increase in faith and to walk in faith. Different people walk in differing amounts of faith according to what they believe and accept. Some believe in their hearts that Jesus only performed miracles when He was walking on the earth and that the miracle power of Jesus does not exist anymore. Others have huge faith in the power that lies in the name of Jesus and so are able to walk in faith and see massive and incredible miracles on a regular basis. Others only have faith in the name of Jesus for small things.
Faith is believing in things, the evidence of which have not been seen. In other words it is when you believe that something is going to happen when there is no other evidence that it will in fact happen. In Mathew 9:21, the lady with the flow of blood, followed Jesus and had faith that if she were only to touch the hem of His garment, that the blood flow would stop and she would be healed. She had no physical evidence that if she managed to touch his garment that she would be healed. ther was no previous medical research to prove the fact that she could be healed by merely touching His garment. All she had to go on was her faith that Jesus was indeed so powerful, that merely by touching His garment, even without His knowing, that she would be healed. She had faith for it to happen and so it happened.
Matthew 21:22, "if you have faith and do not doubt." Faith and doubt do not go together. In many of the healings performed by Jesus, there are clear cut words that are repeated by Jesus, "Your faith has made you well."
When Jesus ascended to heaven He left behind something for us to use. We have the power in the name of Jesus. Jesus gave us His name, that not only can we be saved by His name, but we are also able to receive and witness the same miracles through the name of Jesus, that were performed by Jesus while He was on the earth, if we only have Faith.
Acts 3:16, "And his name, through Faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the prescence of you all." Jesus is the same Yesterday, today and tomorrow, and His word carries true. Jesus has already said in John 14:12, "Most assuredly I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do and greater works than these he will do, because I go to my Father." Jesus states clearly in this scripture that the works that He did on earth such as healings, will be carried on and will even become greater, by those who believe and have the faith to walk in the authority of the name of Jesus.
Jesus is right here, right now, and if you merely have the faith to believe in the power in His name, then you can expect a miracle from Him. If you wish to be saved by Him, then merely ask Him to come into your life and accept Him as Lord and Saviour. If you are sick and in need of healing, then have faith in His name and you will be healed.
Above all walk in His name, trusting that He is watching over you and is guiding and leading you into everlasting life.
Keys to Heaven
" And I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be lossed in heaven," Matthew 16:19.
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.
Resist the Devil
Most Christians know the verse in James 4:7 that says " Resist the devil and he will flee from you." Many quote this scripture over and over again, fighting against the devil, and yet often the devil does not flee from before them! What is wrong. Is the bible verse incorrect, or are the christians who are ineffectively quoting this scripture missing the point somewhere.
In Acts 19:13 "Then some of the itinerant exorcists took it upon themselves to call the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, ' We adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches." These Jewish exorcists had no relationship established with the Lord Jesus Christ. They had never accepted Jesus into their lives and had never accepted Him as their personal lord and Saviour.
They had, however, seen some of the power that was in the name of the Lord Jesus, and they then decided that they were going to try and tap into some of that power for free and for their own gain. Verse 15" And the evil spirit answered and said, "Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?"
Unfortunately, the same thing still occurs today. No, the scripture in James 4:7 does not say, "Resist the devil and he will flee." Read the whole scripture carefully. It says, "Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you." Submit to God is a prerequisite of the power of God in your life. If you have not submitted to God and formed a relationship with Him, then you become just like the Jewish exorcists, and the devil will turn around and laugh at you, saying, "And who are you?"
Matthew 6:33 "But seek thee first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you." Unless you have accepted Jesus as your Lord and Saviour, and then developed a relationship with Him that is bonded in Love, you can not walk in the power of Jesus.
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