On Saturday morning Priscilla spoke on Ephesians 3:20,21. "Now to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to His power that is at work in us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations foirever and ever, amen." We already have all the right resources. We just need to open our eyes and see! Now is the time to connect our impossible situations with God's ability. The power of God is "dunamis" - the word "dynamite" derives from this. The dynamite power of God is beyond our beyond.
God's power is:
more than we can ask or think
abundantly more than we can ask or think.
exceeding abundantly more than we can ask or think!!!
We need to take the lid off our God box. When there's a lid on your God box, your ability to accept God's power in your life is limited! Our God is an immeasuably MORE God.
All things are possible with God!!!!!
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Monday, January 11, 2010
Notes from Kay Arthur at Deeper Still
Kay taught us on Hebrews - the entire book of Hebrews! "In these last days God has spoken to us by His son, whom He appointed heir of all things, and through whom He made the universe." (Hebrews 1:2) In these last days, we must pay careful attention to what we have heard from the Lord, so that we will not drift away!
Now is our hour. God is raising up an army! We are to fix our eyes on Jesus and persevere! We will not shrink back and be destroyed, but we will believe and be saved! Even if we suffer greatly, we won't quit. We will receive rich rewards! The Israelites in the desert blew it because they did not mix the Word of God with faith.
The Word + faith = the Rest of God
Of God's Kingdom there is no end. Let's be the women of God who will not look to the right or to the left. Our eyes are fixed on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. We will stand our ground for the Lord! We will grow up so that we can get off the milk and eat solid (spiritual) food. We will grow up!
Now is our hour. God is raising up an army! We are to fix our eyes on Jesus and persevere! We will not shrink back and be destroyed, but we will believe and be saved! Even if we suffer greatly, we won't quit. We will receive rich rewards! The Israelites in the desert blew it because they did not mix the Word of God with faith.
The Word + faith = the Rest of God
Of God's Kingdom there is no end. Let's be the women of God who will not look to the right or to the left. Our eyes are fixed on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. We will stand our ground for the Lord! We will grow up so that we can get off the milk and eat solid (spiritual) food. We will grow up!
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Notes from the conference
In December Ann, Rosie and I went to the "Deeper Still" conference in Oklahoma City. Here are some notes I took.
When we were seated in the Cox Center before the event began, I started to mist up just looking at the crowd of 10,000 women who were assembled there! The Lord has been busy these past ten years uniting His Body in a most beautiful way. There were women from 30 states and probably just as many denominations. They came to praise and worship the Lord, to pray to Him and to hear His Word taught by these anointed teachers!
Jesus' prayer in the book of John was that we would all be ONE even as He and the Father are one. That is happening before our eyes as denominational barriers have crumbled and we're uniting as we major on the important issues. Jesus is not coming back for a weak church, a powerless body. He is preparing us for the future and uniting us to be His Bride!! To God be the Glory!
Travis Cottrell and his band led us into the manifest presence of the Lord as we praised and worshipped God! Everyone really entered in as we sang and praised the Lord! I was reminded once again how important praise and worship are in breaking up the fallow ground of our hearts so that the Word of God can be planted.
When we were seated in the Cox Center before the event began, I started to mist up just looking at the crowd of 10,000 women who were assembled there! The Lord has been busy these past ten years uniting His Body in a most beautiful way. There were women from 30 states and probably just as many denominations. They came to praise and worship the Lord, to pray to Him and to hear His Word taught by these anointed teachers!
Jesus' prayer in the book of John was that we would all be ONE even as He and the Father are one. That is happening before our eyes as denominational barriers have crumbled and we're uniting as we major on the important issues. Jesus is not coming back for a weak church, a powerless body. He is preparing us for the future and uniting us to be His Bride!! To God be the Glory!
Travis Cottrell and his band led us into the manifest presence of the Lord as we praised and worshipped God! Everyone really entered in as we sang and praised the Lord! I was reminded once again how important praise and worship are in breaking up the fallow ground of our hearts so that the Word of God can be planted.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Are you hungry for the Lord?
Are you more hungry for God than you are for food? Our hearts cry to You, Lord. "I love You and want to fellowship with You. I'm hungry for Your Kingdom, Your agenda, Your plan in the earth!!"
1 Cor. 10:7 warns us not to be as the idolators. Then Phil. 3:19 states "Their bellies were their gods." I don't want my belly to be my god. Adam fell from grace because of food. Esau sold his birthright because of food. The Israelites died in the desert because they weren't content with God's food; they yearned for meat.
Fasting brings the flesh off the throne of your heart. In 1 Cor. 9:27 Paul stated that he brought his body under subjection.
Every time we fast unto the Lord, we will grow closer to Him.
1 Cor. 10:7 warns us not to be as the idolators. Then Phil. 3:19 states "Their bellies were their gods." I don't want my belly to be my god. Adam fell from grace because of food. Esau sold his birthright because of food. The Israelites died in the desert because they weren't content with God's food; they yearned for meat.
Fasting brings the flesh off the throne of your heart. In 1 Cor. 9:27 Paul stated that he brought his body under subjection.
Every time we fast unto the Lord, we will grow closer to Him.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Monday, January 4, 2010
Why fast?
Jesus taught His disciples the principles of the kingdom of God which are in direct conflict with those of this world. Jesus said, "When you give" and "When you pray" and "When you fast." He made it clear that fasting, like giving and praying, is a normal part of a Christian life. Even Jesus fasted! He's our example in all things, so why do we think we don't need to fast? We may be missing our biggest breakthroughs because we fail to fast.
Matthew gives us the story of a father who had a demon-possessed son. He took his son to Jesus and cried, "Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and suffers severly, for he often falls into the fire and often into the water. So I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not cure him." (Matt. 17:15,16)
Jesus rebuked the demon and it came out of him, and "the child was cured from that very hour." (v. 18). What made the difference? Matthew 10:1 says that Jesus had already given the disciples power to cast out evil spirits to heal every disease. So why couldn't the disciples cast out the demon and cure the boy?
Jesus told them, "Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, "Move from here to there" and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting." (Matt. 17:20-21)
If Jesus could have accomplished all He came to do without fasting, then why did He fast? The Son of God knew there were supernatural things that could only be released through fasting. How much more should fasting be a common practice in our lives!
Matthew gives us the story of a father who had a demon-possessed son. He took his son to Jesus and cried, "Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and suffers severly, for he often falls into the fire and often into the water. So I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not cure him." (Matt. 17:15,16)
Jesus rebuked the demon and it came out of him, and "the child was cured from that very hour." (v. 18). What made the difference? Matthew 10:1 says that Jesus had already given the disciples power to cast out evil spirits to heal every disease. So why couldn't the disciples cast out the demon and cure the boy?
Jesus told them, "Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, "Move from here to there" and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting." (Matt. 17:20-21)
If Jesus could have accomplished all He came to do without fasting, then why did He fast? The Son of God knew there were supernatural things that could only be released through fasting. How much more should fasting be a common practice in our lives!
Sunday, January 3, 2010
What is fasting?
Simply stated, Biblical fasting is abstaining from food for a spiritual purpose!
Fasting is not just going without food for a period of time. That is dieting - maybe even starving - but fasting it is not. Will we lose weight when we fast? Yes, but that must not be our motivation. Will we fit into our clothes better when we fast? Yes, but there has to be a spiritual reason and purpose for fasting.
As expressed by David in Psalm 42, fasting brings us into a deeper, more intimate and powerful relationship with God. When you eliminate food from your diet for a number of days, your spirit becomes uncluttered by the things of this world and amazingly sensitive to the things of God. "Deep calls to deep." (Ps 42:7)
David was fasting. His hunger and thirst for God were greater than his natural desire for food. As a result, he reached a point at which he could cry out for the depths of his spirit to the depths of God, even in his trial.
In Acts 13, as the disciples fasted and prayed, they ministered to the Lord! Do our hearts cry for a closer walk with the Lord? Do we need answers to the crises in our lives? Victory over habits and addictions? Breakthroughs in certain areas in which we're stuck in a rut? Do we need cleansing? direction? healing? deliverance? Do we need to take dominion over something that is blocking our way?
Our motivation for a fast is important! There will be many, many side benefits, but let's make sure were fasting for a spiritual purpose. Soon we will realize that fasting is a joy that is overlooked by many!
Fasting is not just going without food for a period of time. That is dieting - maybe even starving - but fasting it is not. Will we lose weight when we fast? Yes, but that must not be our motivation. Will we fit into our clothes better when we fast? Yes, but there has to be a spiritual reason and purpose for fasting.
As expressed by David in Psalm 42, fasting brings us into a deeper, more intimate and powerful relationship with God. When you eliminate food from your diet for a number of days, your spirit becomes uncluttered by the things of this world and amazingly sensitive to the things of God. "Deep calls to deep." (Ps 42:7)
David was fasting. His hunger and thirst for God were greater than his natural desire for food. As a result, he reached a point at which he could cry out for the depths of his spirit to the depths of God, even in his trial.
In Acts 13, as the disciples fasted and prayed, they ministered to the Lord! Do our hearts cry for a closer walk with the Lord? Do we need answers to the crises in our lives? Victory over habits and addictions? Breakthroughs in certain areas in which we're stuck in a rut? Do we need cleansing? direction? healing? deliverance? Do we need to take dominion over something that is blocking our way?
Our motivation for a fast is important! There will be many, many side benefits, but let's make sure were fasting for a spiritual purpose. Soon we will realize that fasting is a joy that is overlooked by many!
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