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Faith in the Blood of Christ – Part 1

Posted in The Blood of Jesus, tagged , , , , on August 17, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Scripture reading: Leviticus 17:10-11

We are told that we are saved by the Blood of Jesus Christ. Let us see what is meant by being “saved by the Blood.” In Leviticus 17, God is speaking about the blood and the life of an animal. The principle laid down is that “the life…is in the blood.” The animal’s life is in the animal’s blood. My life is in my blood. It is as simple as God laid it out. If the blood is to make atonement for a soul and this blood is only a type of the true Blood of Jesus Christ, therefore, by faith it was applied and it worked. In Egypt, we are told, the blood was put on the doorposts and on the lintel. When the devils, the spirits of darkness and of death, came to the house and saw the blood on the door, they could not face the blood, because it was shining with the faith of the person who had applied the blood. It was FAITH IN THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST. Remember, we are talking about DIVINE PRINCIPLES.

If each creature’s blood has energy, a life in itself, then the Blood of Jesus Christ has the life of God in it. The life of God is something devils cannot face. They cannot overcome. When a man sins, he has been transferred from light into darkness. God made Adam and Adam was in the light. Adam sinned and Adam fell from the light into the kingdom of darkness. There are TWO KINGDOMS – the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness. Jesus comes and His intention is to translate us from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light. (See Colossians 1:13-14 and Ephesians 5:8.) Because God wants to translate us from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light, there is something WE MUST DO. This something involves the Blood.

First of all, when Adam sinned, he lost his rulership, his power, his energy of God. Jesus Christ came to restore Adam’s fallen race thus bringing the energy of God’s life within the reach of man. When God says you must accept Jesus Christ as your Savior in order to receive HIS BLOOD, it means you are making your choice. We were all part of the kingdom of darkness, born in sin, shaped in iniquity, and belonging to the kingdom of darkness without doing anything. If you were born and were never born again, you are part of the kingdom of darkness, no matter how good or how nice a person you might be. You might go to church a thousand times, pay your tithes, take a million communions, and preach the Word like Paul, but if you are not born again, you are still in the kingdom of darkness. Therefore, those who are in the kingdom of darkness, in order to be translated according to the Word of God into the kingdom of light, must first do something. They must exercise their freewill choice. We did not exercise our freewill choice to be sinners – we were born sinners. Therefore, God must make a way for every human being to exercise his freewill choice to be in the kingdom of light.

In Romans 10:9-10, God said that all that call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. By exercising this freewill choice, we call upon the name of the Lord asking Jesus to save us, knowing we are sinners, not wanting to be sinners. God then, according to His law, His rule, must save you. How then is He going to save us? He saves us by touching our souls with the Blood of Jesus Christ. As the Blood of Jesus Christ touches the realm of human existence, called the soul, man is quickened and comes alive. He was dead, dead in trespasses and sin, and he is now alive. God made Adam a living soul and Adam died. To bring Adam back to life, Jesus Christ must remake the man a living soul. As He touches your soul with the Blood, your soul becomes alive.

What do I mean alive? Your soul becomes conscious and now wants different food. It does not want to feed anymore upon the things of the world, the trash, the darkness. IT WANTS LIGHT. This is the basic difference between the person who is saved and one who is not saved. One wants life. It does not mean he is perfect. He is just as imperfect the moment he called on Jesus Christ as he was the moment before, but he has changed his position and now he is in the kingdom of light. He has a right to the tree of life. The TREE OF LIFE, which is CHRIST JESUS, begins to feed him through the Holy Spirit. New energy begins to flow into his being. His mind begins to think differently. His emotions begin to feel differently. His will is beginning to change. His desires are no longer after the flesh. This is the difference between the man who is saved and the man who is not saved.

(Excerpt from The Book of Revelation, Volume 1, pg. 101-103)

Thought for today: Has your soul been touched by the Blood of Christ? Then feed on a different food than the world has to offer; feed on the Tree of Life, which is Jesus Christ.

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Lay Hold of the Power and the Victory

Posted in The Power of God, tagged , , , , on August 15, 2011| 2 Comments »

Scripture reading: Daniel 7:27-28

The Christian church has been given a rule book called the Bible.  A victorious book, which has stood fast from the time of Genesis to the present, and has conquered the devils right along the whole passage of time.  We have seen some mighty deeds of men.  In the example of Job, the book showed us man (stripped of God) conquering the devil.  When Job conquered Satan, it was all on his own, since God had withdrawn from him; and the natural man kept his integrity before God and was able to beat the devil.  In Job 2:4, Satan said, “skin for skin,” in disdain of man, but the man whom he scorned defeated him; to the glory of God! 

Sometimes, when we get into accidents and have devastating experiences, we wonder how God would allow these things to happen to us.  These, however, are a part of the challenges that we must face as workers together with God against the powers of darkness.  It is not necessarily so, that we made some mistake or committed any sin.  We should come out praising God more than ever before, because though the outward man perishes, the glory of God rises inside, and is a light to others and a defeat to the powers of darkness.  The enemy never learns.  The more he gets beaten, the more he keeps coming.  This action makes us stronger and more determined to see the battle to the end.

All these stories in the Bible that God has been showing us, of David’s mighty men, Samson, Esther (a frail woman who was used of God to save the Jewish nation), Deborah the prophetess, Gideon with his 300 men defeating the Midianites, Shamgar with his ox goad defeating the enemy (Judges 3:31), and so many others, have been preserved in the Word for a purpose.  There is a people who will never be conquered, but will conquer through the power of their testimony and the Blood of the Lamb.  The evil weapons of the enemy’s warfare have now come under the judgment of God, and God has given us power over the power of the enemy.  As we rise more and more in the strength of faith and understanding, the great weapons of terror, which the enemy used in the past against the people of God, are losing their effectiveness.  We must bear in mind that, “…Though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds;) casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled” (II Corinthians 10:3-6). 

We need to realize that God has given the church the power over the power of the world and the devil.  Let us walk in the Spirit and in the faith of the living God.  By faith, we will tread upon serpents; by faith, we will bring deliverance to this generation of people by the power of God and the Blood of Jesus Christ. 

(Excerpt from The Omega Message, April 1997, pg. 26-28)

Thought for today: Remember that there is a people who will never be conquered, but will conquer through the power of their testimony and the Blood of the Lamb.  Determine in your heart that you will be amongst this people.

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The Great Tribulation

Posted in Christian Walk, tagged , , , , , , on August 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Scripture reading: Hebrews 11:8-10

We are now entering into the end of the Great Tribulation, which is the worst part of the tribulation and when many things are going to happen, like losing our houses, our bank accounts, and our present way of life that we know and love so much.  In this time, we must still hold fast to the promises of God and carry on His work for the deliverance of men.  God is strengthening us at this time in our walk with Him.  God is not expecting us to do it by our own will, but He is expecting us to believe Him. 

Somebody was sharing about Abraham and depicted him as an ordinary person, which he was.  But at the same time God testified of him several times in the Scriptures that “Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.”  Abraham was righteous in his generation, although the requirements in his day were not what God would require of us today.  The Blood of Jesus was not yet shed and the Holy Ghost was not yet given.  How blessed we are! 

In order for us to be found in the same heavenly places were faithful Abraham was, we have to be part of what the Bible calls the Firstfruits company.  Some of us might be saying to ourselves, “I do not know if I am in the Firstfruits Company.  I do not know if I am worthy.  I do not know if I will make it.  I probably am not because I slipped and fell last week, and nobody knows.  The people in church do not suspect that I get mad sometimes, and curse other times, etc., etc.”  All these thoughts are designed by the devil to convince us that we are not of God.  But the truth is that for us to be worthy, we only have to trust God.  God has a different design.  God’s design is that by faith we can lay hold of His promises and that by faith we can enter into His everlasting Kingdom.  If we sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ; and with the remission of sins comes purity and holiness. 

God is not asking you to do it by your integrity or by your own personal character.  God is asking you to put your character, integrity and abilities aside, by faith lay hold of the promises, and like the publican (Ref. Luke 18:13) to drop on your knees and admit your unworthiness.  Ask God to help you and to save you from the traps and snares of the devil; and say, “Lord, I believe; help Thou my unbelief.” 

(Excerpt from The Omega Message, April 1997, pg. 14-15)

Thought for today: Remember it is by faith that we can lay hold of His promises and by faith we can enter into His everlasting Kingdom.

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Foundation to Our Faith

Posted in Spiritual Warfare, tagged , , , , on June 9, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Scripture reading: Hebrews 11:1-6

Faith!  You must have faith, but your faith must be in something.  In other words, faith is a subsidiary weapon that cannot work by itself.  Let me say it again: Faith cannot work by itself!  You cannot have wild faith like the “Name It and Claim It” type.  That is a wild faith and it does not have substance in anything.  So, therefore, you have faith in a word.  I am going to give you an example. 

God anointed David to be king from when he was a young boy.  He told David, “You will be king over Israel.”  Now David knows that if God said he would be king then God could not allow him to be killed.  So later, young David faced Goliath with impunity knowing that his God will bring Goliath down.  He knew this, because God had told him he was supposed to be king down the road. 

Have you ever gotten a prophecy?  Do you remember in your mind what the prophecy said?  Do you know that the devil cannot kill you, because God gave you a prophecy that down the road you are going to be somebody?  Now, God does not say you can be presumptuous, go throw yourself over a precipice and say, “Well, God said I am going to be king (or queen), so therefore let me throw myself over this precipice, because God will keep me up.”  Presumptuous sin is against God. 

So therefore, you have a word from God.  If you do not have a word from God, go to God and get yourself a word.  Did you hear me?  Let every man of God, woman of God, child of God get a word from God that is absolutely, completely yours; and hold that word because there is a song that says, “When the storms of life are raging and you are tossed o’er sea and land, you will find a place of refuge in the hollow of His hand.” 

If you will take refuge under that word that God has given you, it will be “a lamp to your feet, and a light to your path” (Ref. Psalm 119:105).  It also says in Psalm 119:11, “Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.”   Glory to God! 

If God gives you a word, the word becomes a fortress and a weapon and something to hold on to.  And so, you must have faith in something.  You must have faith in a word of God and anybody who does not have a word, get one! 

I will give you a word.  When I was freshly saved, I did not know what salvation was and I did not know who God was.  When God came into my room, He gave me a word and He has given me the same word seven times.  He said, “As I was with Moses, so will I be with you.  I will never leave you nor forsake you.”  He also said, “No man shall stand before you all the days of your life.  Anywhere the soles of your feet tread upon that will I give to you.”  That is what He spoke to Joshua, but Jesus came to my room and He said it to me seven times.  There is no way or possibility of anybody ever discouraging me—any demon, any devil, any man!  Do you hear me?  The word of God has become a fortress and a monument in my soul.

Because of the word, the soul of man becomes a bulwark of God!  Do you hear me?  Your soul becomes a bulwark for God!  A walking, talking, conquering soul; not able to be defeated, because you have a word of God. 

So then, the faith of God must work with the word of God.  If God gives you a word, then you have faith.  If God gives you no word, then you have no faith.  You cannot have faith without having some foundation to your faith. 

(Excerpt from The Omega Message, January 1997, pg. 18-20)

Thought for today: Stand in faith on the word God has spoken to you.  If you have not a word or prophecy from Him, then go to God and let Him give you a personal word so that you can have foundation to your faith.

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Build Power in God

Posted in Spiritual Warfare, tagged , , , on June 8, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Scripture reading: Mark 15:16-26

It is the faith in the Blood of Jesus Christ that releases us from the powers of hell.  I began to learn from Jesus about the Blood.  First of all, He got me to believe in it; then He put me in a battle wherein it defended me. 

It so happened that when we went to India one time, we challenged the spirit of Kali and the ruling spirits of the area.  This great Kali is the great enemy of mankind that all India is afraid of.  We said to the people, “In the Name of Jesus, we will set you free from Kali.” 

That night we went to bed late, sometime after twelve; and no sooner than I closed my eyes, the thing jumped on me and grappled with me.  I had no fear.  That was one blessing—there was no fear.  I think God must have done it; I just had a job to do.  I said, “I rebuke you in the Name of Jesus!  The Blood of Jesus be upon you!”  The moment I said, “The Blood of Jesus,” he disappeared.  Thinking that I had won the battle, I turned to go out, but out of the wall the thing came with, “Hhyahh!”  He made that sound with his bared teeth and grabbed my hand. 

You have to understand the devil.  If he cannot frighten you, he cannot beat you.  Fear is one of his greatest weapons.  If faith is our weapon, fear is his weapon; and you cannot have faith and fear at the same time.  If you fear, you do not have faith, but if you have faith, you do not have any fear. 

He jumped right out of the wall.  His intention was a sudden attack to bring fear, fright, terror!  Again, I was not afraid.  He caught the two fingers of my left hand in his mouth and began to apply pressure on my fingers.  While I am rebuking him, I took the two fingers and grabbed his tongue.  There was a kind of stalemate there, but my rebuke did not stop him.  Did you hear me?  The word of my mouth needs to be purified so that I can blast the biggest enemy with the word of my mouth.  Amen! 

It did not stop him; he came back with a greater force.  The Spirit of God whispered in my ears and said, “The Blood.”  I said, “Jesus Christ, bring down the Blood upon him.”  The Blood began to flow from the ceiling and dropped on his head.  He began to wobble and I took one hand and pulled my finger out of his mouth.  He fell to the floor like a bundle of rags and in the name of Jesus, I finally KICKED him outside! 

I went to God and said, “Lord, what is it, then?  Why was I able to use the Blood so effectively?”  He replied, “Look back on your training.  The Blood has built a monument inside of you.”

(Excerpt from The Omega Message, January 1997, pg. 17-18)

Thought for today: Brethren, sleep on the Blood!  Talk about it!  Think about it!  Build power in God!  For the Blood of Jesus not only cleanses the soul, but it gives you power against the power of the enemy!

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