Weekly Wisdom

There is a simple answer to this question. Everyone of you would probably say that the world needs Jesus from us. This is true. However, if our concept of God is distorted, we give a wrong concept of God to people. I’m going to share with you some truth that will help clear up God’s image in you, to help the world.

God is our Father. His desire for His children is just like an earthly father’s desire is for his children. God’s desire for us is His BEST! Father God wants the world to know that He wants to be their Father and give them His best. James 1:17 says,

“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”

According to this verse, God is always giving good gifts. He does not hold out on His children. He wants His children to have all that He has promised them in His Word. No Christian on this earth has to go without God’s blessings in their lives. We must never blur the image of God by our concepts and reasoning. God never changes! Man changes!

Secondly, we must show the world God’s power. We must show them God’s ability to bring good gifts into their lives. God sent Jesus to the earth and placed His Spirit on Him. Jesus had the Father’s Spirit on Him to set the world free from the curse of the devil. Jesus was a free man of Holy Ghost POWER! Acts 10:38 says,

“And God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with Him.”

The world needs to see a Jesus of Power and not a Jesus of history! If Jesus is alive in us, He will do the same things He did while He was on the earth in His human body. He now lives in our human bodies, by the Holy Ghost.

In I Corinthians 6:15 we read,

“Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.”

The world needs to know that God lives in us. Jesus is still healing those who are oppressed by the devil. Jesus did not come just to take us to heaven. Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Jesus is still wanting to do what He has always done. The only thing that has changed is that now Jesus is not just in one place. He can be in you and me to bring the same healing to the world, if we do not distort His image to them. Let’s not give the world tradition.

We can stop God’s plan by not having a clear understanding of God ourselves. God hates for His children to be bound by satan in any way. He hates sickness, poverty, defeat, etc. God wants people free. He wants them free by the truth. John 8:31-32 says,

“If ye continue in my word, then are ye My disciples indeed: And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

When we hear His Word, the image of God will become clear to us. We can then present a clear message to the world that needs God in all His power!

So many Christians today are living below God’s plan for their lives because they believe the Bible is just a book. We must deal with this state of unbelief which has filtered into the Body of Christ. We should be the most blessed people on the planet. Why are we not? Because the Bible is read like a history book instead of a letter from God to man. II Timothy 3:16-17 tells us,

“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.”

The word “inspired” means God-breathed. God put the words into the men that wrote the Bible. They are vessels that God wrote through.

The Bible is also a legal book. It declares things that are so. There is no debate regarding it. If I try to debate with the Word of God, I’m actually debating with God. No man has that right.

In my life, I started wanting to experience God; and the Spirit of God told me that I could not experience Him without knowing the Bible. That was almost 24 years ago. I was working at Public Service Garage as a mechanic. I took my Bible to work and started reading and studying during my coffee break and on my lunch hour. I was being driven, and I now know why. God was letting me get to know Him by the letters He had written to me. Some people look at the Bible as a book of rules and regulations. I look at the Bible as God talking to me. The more I studied, the more God talked to me. God will speak from His written word to you. The written word is logos and the spoken word is rhema. As I read the logos, the Holy Spirit started speaking to my spirit and mind His rhema. This would have never occurred unless I had been obedient in making God’s Word first place in my life. I am convinced that God’s Word is true. When circumstances try to tell me differently, I don’t believe the circumstances. I believe the Word of God.

I want to give you a major revelation which helped me build a relationship with God through the Word. Way back in the beginning, I decided to tell myself that I would never argue with God’s Word. If what I perceived to be true was proven untrue by the Word of God, I would take the Word over my word. Many of you parents know how frustrating it is to have a child who thinks they know more than you. God is saying to us, His children, that He is smarter than we are! We must listen to the Creator and let Him teach us what He knows. As I read the Bible, I would see something that I hadn’t been applying to my life; and I would stop and say to the Lord, “Let it be unto me according to Your Word.” That’s what Mary did in Luke 1:39 when the angel told her she would be the mother of the Messiah. Every word I find in the Bible that applies to me as a believer, I say to the Lord “be it unto me according to Thy Word.” Then the Lord does it. I was baptized in the Holy Ghost this way. I’ve received healing in my body this way. I’ve received love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance this way. If the Word of God says I can cast out devils, I say “I receive it-according to Your Word, be it unto me!”

Sometimes it happened fast and other times I’ve waited years to see results. In fact, I saw myself the pastor of a large church; and I said “Let it be unto me according to your word”, and it’s taken years for it to manifest. I don’t see 1,000, I see 2,000 or 5,000 and possibly 10,000 members. You may think that’s crazy; but just ask Dr. Cho in Seoul, Korea. He has a million in his congregation, and he started out with a small group just like we did. All things are possible to him that believeth!

This is a wonderful time to be alive. I’ve prayed for all of you today, and I believe that God is watching over you and protecting you from all harm and danger. For all of you that are fighting the good fight of faith, I say, “Keep on until you see the manifestation.”

I want to share with you the secret of true success. John 12:44-45 tells us,

“Jesus cried and said, He who believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on Him that sent me.”

Let me give you an example. When this newsletter is typed, we have one master letter in print. Then we send the master to the printing company. They take it and make copies off of the original. Every word on the original is copied on the duplicates. There is not one word missing. Everyone that is reading this letter is reading exactly what the first letter said. God made a duplicate copy of Himself in Jesus Christ. Every action that Jesus did and every word that He spoke was exactly what the Father told Him. There wasn’t anything left out. Anybody that receives Jesus' words will receive a pure message straight from the heart of God. The false religions that don’t make Jesus the center of their belief are not receiving and worshipping the true God. Satan has deceived them, and they have received a lie instead of the truth. Jesus said in John 14:6,

“I AM the way, the truth, and the life; no man cometh unto the Father but by me.”

Now let’s look at why many Christians don’t receive the best from God on the earth. If Jesus’ words are the Word of God, then I can receive from God, if I receive Jesus’ words. In John 17:8 Jesus prayed;

“For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them; and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.”

If I receive the words of Jesus, God will do exactly that word I received in my life. Generally speaking, most Christians have never given the words of Jesus much attention, believing they can make it without them. They are fooling themselves. John 15:7 says,

“If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what you will and it shall be done unto you.”

Can’t you see why we haven’t received much from God? If I hear the words of Jesus and don’t act upon them, have I received them? Example, if you ask your child to go to the grocery store and buy bread and he comes back an hour later without it, but with soda instead, did he receive your words? Jesus said in John 14:12,

“Verily, verily I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he shall do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto the Father.”

If Jesus really is the truth and He spoke this verse, Christians all over the world who read this verse ought to turn the world upside down.Why doesn’t this happen much? It’s because we read it but don’t receive it. I challenge you to let Jesus’ words abide in you. You will change your life first, and then you’ll change the world.

If God manifested to you in the natural and you could see and hear Him with your natural eyes and ears, what do you think He would tell you about Himself? I believe I know what He would tell you, because He has already manifested it in the flesh. John 1:14 teaches that Jesus was and is the Word made flesh. Jesus spoke His Father’s words. After John listened and watched Jesus for three and half years, he said in I John 4:16,

“And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.”

We can see very quickly what God would say if He manifested in the flesh to you. He never changes, so He would be saying, “I love you!” He would also tell you that He wants you to live like Him. God wants us to break out of satan’s prison house. Actions of un-love cause us to go against the nature of God. We have been given God’s nature, which is love. When we hate a person, or we don’t forgive; we are actually going against our born-again nature.

When we walk in hatred, bitterness, envy, strife, etc., we actually are living a perverted lifestyle. God made us to love. God is love, and we are born of Love to love! As God so loved the world, I so love the world. Why? Because I John 4:17 tells us,

“As He is, so are we in the world.”

God tells us in I John 4:18,

“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear; because fear hath torment.”

So many Christians today are living in spiritual darkness thinking they are in the light. Because they don’t smoke, drink liquor, or cheat on their spouse, they think they are okay. They provide for their family, so they think they live like God. But let’s ask these questions and see if they are really living like God.

#1 Do you talk about people’s sins, instead of covering them? Proverbs 10:12 says,

“Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.”

#2 Do you want others to succeed like you want to succeed? I Corinthians 13:5 says,

“Love doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil.”

I believe that we have a good way to go. Amen! Remember, you are born to love. God is love, and our true nature is love. Once we start finding out who God is and what we are, we will live on a plane of life that far exceeds the way man is living today.

Jesus came and showed us the life of God. In every action of Jesus, we can see God living through Him. When Jesus looks at the world, He says things like the words found in John 3:17,

“For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.”

We must be the same way. I’m not here to condemn the world. I’m here to reveal to the world the life of Love. We don’t have to fight our own battles. Love overcomes evil. Just let your life be full of love, and evil will be driven out. Evil can’t win against Love! Remember, I am praying for you.

Love,