FIGHT IN HIS STRENGTH

God is in the midst of your trials and therefore you can be confident of a good outcome. He allows suffering and trials and brings it all together for your good. Therefore keep positive and see how he works the tapestry of your life and forms you into the person He created for good works. He has planted His seed in you and you can never move from Him. He is in you and He will never leave you. All you need to do is be aware of his presence. This will protect you from the fiery darts of the devil. He will embrace you with His love. His love is deeper then any human love. He expresses Himself through you. He expresses Himself through His thoughts, feelings and actions. What you feel is His feeling of compassion for mankind. He will cause you to seek for the lost and hungry. He will soften your heart and drive out all selfishness and hardness of heart. He will give you a new heart. Praise God who chooses and never abandons. In Him you can rest when the path gets rough. Fight the good fight and never relent. Fight in His strength. You will never grow weary and you will gain strength which will be renewed like the eagle.

FIGHT IN HIS STRENGTH

God is in the midst of your trials and therefore you can be confident of a good outcome. He allows suffering and trials and brings it all together for your good. Therefore keep positive and see how he works the tapestry of your life and forms you into the person He created for good works. He has planted His seed in you and you can never move from Him. He is in you and He will never leave you. All you need to do is be aware of his presence. This will protect you from the fiery darts of the devil. He will embrace you with His love. His love is deeper then any human love. He expresses Himself through you. He expresses Himself through His thoughts, feelings and actions. What you feel is His feeling of compassion for mankind. He will cause you to seek for the lost and hungry. He will soften your heart and drive out all selfishness and hardness of heart. He will give you a new heart. Praise God who chooses and never abandons. In Him you can rest when the path gets rough. Fight the good fight and never relent. Fight in His strength. You will never grow weary and you will gain strength which will be renewed like the eagle.

WHAT IS YOUR TANK FULL WITH?

What have you filled your tank with? Worry and fear will manifest in different ways. When you fill your tank with good thoughts then goodness will manifest. What you fill your tank with is what will manifest in your life. Life is a spiritual walk. When you are filled in the spirit then your life will manifest spiritual fruits. Fruits are to be enjoyed by the giver and the receiver. When you are filled with love then you feel loved and will be loving. This is a principle of the Kingdom. All authority is given to you from heaven, now go and do. When Jesus left the earth He gave His disciples authority to do many things. He asked them to preach the gospel, heal the sick and rule on earth. All we have to do now is exercise this authority. Only authority that is exercised will produce results. You express this in word and deed. Imagine what this means when you know that you are living under His command. He will give you the words and the thoughts that will turn a situation round. The devil sows discord. Christ sows accord. There is no greater commission then the great commission.

INVEST IN THE TRUTH

Truth will finally win out. Therefore hold on to the truth for it will give you the hanging on power. Remember truth is eternal and therefore whatever may challenge it in an era will be reversed. Truth can never change. It can be compromised but never change. Why invest in the sale or counterfeit when the real is available. New Age is the devil's alternative to the truth. Mixed in is the truth which has been compromised. The devil is good at duplicity and imitating the real. It is an illusion. Fantasy and illusion promises you much but gives you nothing. Why invest in fantasy when all it gives you is temporary pleasure. You need to choose what is eternal. What is eternal is based on truth and not on lies. Don't give in to the temptation to invest in what is temporary. When you invest in what is eternal your life will take on an eternal quality. The fruits of the spirit are eternal. Love, joy, peace, these are qualities or values that last forever. Everyone desires love and joy but few experience it. This is because they have not invested in these virtues. Where your heart is, there your treasure is. Invest in God's Kingdom and reap a harvest of plenty.

BE A GIVER

Give and it will be given to you. This is a principle that works for all. A giver is a person who has found the secret to abundance. A miser will hold on because he believes his security is in hoarding things. A giver realises that all that is seen is temporary and therefore it is best to give away then hoard. A giver lives by faith for he believes all things come from God and not from man. A generous giver is even more blessed because generosity flows through his veins. He has learnt what it means to be poor and now wants to bless others. In every area of your life this principle will work, not just in material things. If you want more love then share more love. If you want more friends then be more friendly. It is better to give then to receive. God is a giver and He gave His greatest gift, His only begotten Son, Jesus. When you receive His free gift you receive eternal life. Now what greater gift is there then eternal life. Money cannot buy eternal life. Therefore give for this is the life style of the Kingdom of God.

FANTASY

Fantasy is the capacity of the mind to enter into wishful thinking. It is self indulgent and an escape into unreality. It serves to gratify the flesh which is condemned to die. Why waste your energy in fantasy when the end is death. People who indulge in fantasy live in a make believe world and not the real world. It is an escape like drugs are an escape into the nether world. Demons live in this world and you are open to their influence. Fantasy is a killer for it is an escape and not a solution to your problem situation. Imagination on the other hand is creative. Many confuse fantasy with imagination and vice versa. To be real is to be grounded in what is and not what was or will be. You are here now and you feel and think in the now. Fantasy is a creation of your fallen mind that seeks to escape from present reality. Fantasy can never replace reality. You can waste your life in fantasy and never really live. Many live in this unconscious world of fantasy. They try to make it a reality but it is never the same. Reality confronts whilst fantasy pretends. It is like building castles in the air. It vanishes as soon as you waken. It is like a dream state. Confront your fantasy with reality, that is, become conscious of it and you can cut it off.

PRAY IN TONGUES

Confuse the enemy by praying in tongues. This is a weapon God has given you to confuse the enemy. He cannot understand tongues and it is the language of the spirit. When you pray in tongues you actuality bypass the human mind. Tongue praying is spirit to spirit. It is heart to heart conversation with God. God hears and answers when you pray in tongues. It is like a morse code. Only the decoder is God. How wonderful an instrument is the tongue that it is able to verbalise a language from the spirit. Imagine a situation and pray in tongues over it. Ask for interpretation of the tongue so that your mind is able to understand what is being said. The enlightened mind can then consolidate in prayer what is prayed in tongues. All the other gifts of the spirit are stirred up when you pray in tongues. Prophecy, word of knowledge and headings. Thank you Lord for the gift of tongues. I now can pray over all situations in the perfect will of God as I pray in tongues. By faith I believe as I pray that God's will is being done on earth as it is in heaven.

IN JESUS ALONE

Mighty to save are you O Lord. In your hands are the victories of life. The forces of evil come against your children. You alone are able to save us from the evil one. Evil is so real yet truth is even more real. Light is brighter then darkness. Where darkness prevails death and destruction will prevail. Yet when people pray then the darkness is removed. God's people must pray and push back the forces of darkness. In Him alone is salvation. In Him alone darkness has been overcome. In Him alone was Satan defeated on the Cross. This is why there is no other way to be saved but through Him. Pray and prevail. As long as Moses prayed the enemy was not able to advance. This is the only way to overcome. In this rationalistic world darkness is seen as light. Satan presents himself as an angel of light. Death and disease are not of God. These are evils that we should not accept. God is eternal and He has given us eternal life. The body may die but the spirit lives on. Live in the spirit and crucify the flesh. This is the only way to live abundantly. All negativity must be laid down and crucified. There is no place for negativity in your life. Negativity will attract the demons. Send them to hell by calling on the Name of Jesus and be washed in His blood. The blood of Jesus cleanses like none other. In His blood is life. Let His blood flow through you and cleanse your body, mind and spirit.

BREAK THROUGH

Break through occurs when you shift your focus from what is to what will be. What is ,is your normal state of operation. What will be is a change of focus to a different dimension. When you shift from a physical dimension to a psychological dimension, that is a shift. When you shift from a head space to a heart space, that is a shift. Each shift brings in a different dimension and you see things differently from this dimension. What is 2 dimensional becomes 3 dimensional. What is a square becomes a circle. This kind of shifts in thinking enable you to break through to new ground. Practice thinking with your heart and see how your walk becomes different. You will see and hear things that you never knew possible before. It is like shifting gear from normal to sports mode. It becomes effortless and you are blessed because what you experience is fresh and new. This is the dimension you will grow into and as you grow all things around you will be affected. Deep within you, there is a river wanting to burst its banks and overflow through you. Tap into this river and be refreshed.

THINK WITH YOUR HEART

Think with your heart. How do you think with your heart? You listen and respond to what comes out from your heart. You stop reasoning with your head. You withhold your critical faculty of your mind. You look for spontaneous thoughts. These spontaneous thoughts bypass your mind. It is like praying in tongues. You don't think with your mind when you pray in tongues. Praying in tongues prepares you to tune into your heart. From your heart or spirit arises knowledge and wisdom from above. You connect with God's Spirit and He communicates with you through your spirit. God wants a heart relationship with you and not a head relationship. Head relationships do not last long. A relationship using your head alone is bound to fail in the long run. It is heart to heart communication that results in healthy relationships. When one communicates with the heart and the other with the head then a break down in communication occurs. Practice communicating with your heart and see how your relationships will grow and flourish like a well watered garden. Many fail in relationships because they fail to communicate at a heart level. Loving from the heart is different from loving from the head. Giving from the heart is different from giving from the head. Heart love produces a different kind of fruit from head love. Head love is dry and insipid. Heart love is juicy and refreshing. Fruit from the desert is different from fruit from the tropics. Imagine eating dried dates and juicy pineapples. Think with your heart and flourish.

HEARING HIS VOICE

The Father wants to commune with you and so hearing His voice is a must. There are so many voices and your moods are dependent on whose voice you hear. The Master's voice is always kind and reassuring and never condemning. His voice soothes you and encourages you. So whose voice are you hearing? If it is your voice then you are still overwhelmed by your ego. Your ego will only think of itself and its needs. The devil will always try and imitate God's voice but he is a liar and a deceiver. You know that because you don't feel right. Use your head and heart and you will find the truth. If your heart does not resonate with your head or vice versa then something is amiss. Learn to walk in unison and you will walk in peace. When you hear His voice your heart will leap for joy and your head will say amen. In the sprit realm it is important to discern whose voice you are hearing. Lord help me discern and cut off the voices that seek to destroy me.

ABUNDANT LIFE

God is with you and will direct you in your search for direction.He is with you and all you need to do is consult Him in all matters. Believe that He will reveal His mind to you. Wait till you hear His rhema word. Do not rush into things but wait. He is not limited by time and you should not be time limited either. In Him you too have eternal life. Your body may age and die but your spirit will live on. Therefore when you operate in the spirit you are operating with eternity in mind. Hold this perspective at all times and time will fade into insignificance. You are now free to live in a timeless dimension and so the stress of time keeping is removed. You now are able to take things as they come and do your best each day knowing that tomorrow is a new day. In God there are no days and nights. He is Lord of both day and night. He never sleeps. Live in the spirit and you will live like God. The material world will not affect you because you are connected more with the spirit world. Your spirit will rule your flesh and influence it. This is what abundant life means.

DESTINY ASSURED

Your destiny is assured and therefore everything that happens to you is carving you up for it. Don't resist what happens as in resistance you increase the push towards your destiny. Good and bad things happen and all these things unite to form your destiny. Nothing is lost in His cause. He is the controller of all things. The ying and the yang of life will happen as the balance will keep you on the straight and narrow path. When you pray you will not ask for the thing to be removed but that what it was sent for would bless you and keep you on the straight and narrow path. If there was no choice then we would be all like robots. It was in God's plan that evil would be present for this purpose that good would be seen for what it is. Without the darkness the light will not be needed. Darkness will be around you but you will still be the light that shines brightly in the darkness. When you can rest in the knowledge that your destiny is assured then you can accept all things that come your way. Nothing will be wasted. Everything will be assumed into the whole to make a beautiful tapestry of your destiny.

LOVE

When your tank is filled with love then all you see changes. It is the negative feelings that cloud your perception. Jesus was so filled with love that he could say forgive them for they know not what they do. Yes it is the same today. Many do not know what they do and only love can save them. Jesus knew that sin had so clouded consciousness and that His death was the only way to cancel the debt to sin. Sin is a slave driver and it will not bow to reason. Love is not based on reason but a decision. I will love as Christ loved and in this is the salvation of mankind from the ravages of sin. Love will never be a loss. Love will always win. You think you are losing but in the end you will win. Fight the war of hatred and evil with love. All your sins are covered in one word, love. Love God who fills you with His love and love others as you love yourself.

CHOICES

Sing aloud to the Lord for His grace and mercy surrounds you like a canopy. His grace is sufficient for me. But for His grace I am lost and by His mercy I have been found. God was merciful because He knew man had no hope of eternal life. Eternal life was present in the Garden but lost through sin. This sin continues to cause death and decay. God intervened and through His Son now sets us free from all condemnation. He has the final word. Man may rebel but God is merciful. Yet God's mercy too has a limit and that is conditional on receiving His salvation through His Son. Yet man rejects this as the only way. Adam and Eve had a choice and that choice remains to date. We can eat of the tree of life or the tree of death. We choose and God will honour our choice. Pray that many will make the right choice and believe.

POSSESSED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT

What does it mean to be possessed by the Holy Spirit? To be possessed means to be fully occupied. Self must be crucified for full occupation. There cannot be 2 occupants at the same time. Either the Holy Spirit is in control or self. To be possessed is to be occupied by the Holy Spirit. Only total surrender to Him is able to avail this. As long as you are in the flesh you will shift your focus. It requires constant vigilance to stay focussed. Most of us are unconscious of what we do. We live our life on automatic pilot. We go about doing our daily business on automatic mode. Our mind is somewhere else while we drive. This is living in unconsciousness. We are programmed in a way that limits creativity. We live life controlled by our stories. We have stories of others too which boxes them in. We perceive our world through our lenses and think that is reality. Yet we know all that is an illusion. When we lose a sense we realise how much we are handicapped by the loss. That wakes us up to consciousness. Any dramatic change like a life event wakes us up. Change sometimes occurs only when events occur. Our natural tendency is to default to our set programme. In the Holy Spirit this can change. He takes over and He changes my outlook. He changes my programming and so I will see things and do things as Jesus did. I will do things as I see the Father doing. His works will I also do.

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The Lord is your Saviour and your Maker. He knows everything about you. He has put His own Spirit within you. Now be filled and be possessed by His Spirit. This is your destiny and in this is your desire and hope. To be possessed by the Holy Sprit is to be set apart for Him and His works. He will manifest Himself through you by working through you. You will marvel at His works and give Him all the glory. Everything is an illusion for there is nothing real in what you see. It will be gone forever. What you see is what you see. Behind what you see is another reality of the spirit world which you do not see. When you begin to see in the spirit then what you see in the physical changes. This transformation occurs to enable you to do what you see the Father doing. This is what He did. He saw His Father doing and He followed Him. No more thinking and analysing, just doing what you see the Father doing. This is how you are meant to live but the flesh wants to be in control. Therefore you lead a life of the flesh and not of the Spirit. Open my eyes Lord that I may see you and do what I see you do.

CENTRE IN JESUS

When your focus is not on your centre, Jesus, then you will make yourself vulnerable to your circumstances. Circumstances change and if your centre is there then you also will change accordingly. When Jesus is your sure foundation then whatever changes around you will not disturb you. Jesus was in the boat sleeping and the winds came and the disciples shifted their focus and were frightened. Once they shifted their attention to Jesus then all they heard was a word from Him and the seas went calm. How centring enables you to influence your circumstances. But even if your circumstances do not change you can sleep like Jesus within a storm! This is the peace that passes all understanding. This kind of peace is supernatural. This world needs His peace. It is your responsibility to make His peace known to all.

PURPOSE

Purpose underpins goals. Goals are required for achievement. Without goals you hit at nothing. Have goals but it is your purpose that is the driver of your goals. Shoot goals for Christ by valuing what He values most, people. People come first in God's agenda. Everything else is secondary. You don't know what is hidden in a person waiting to be revealed. It is your task to encourage others to exercise their gifts. Gifts un exercised are like treasure buried in a cave. Such treasure is no use to anyone. Bring out your treasure and share it with others and see the kingdom of God established on earth as it is in heaven. God is at work in you. The more you surrender to Him. the more you will reflect His image in you. What is surrendered is committed to His cause. His cause is the salvation of men from the vilest to the brilliant.

KNOW HIM

Many will say Lord, Lord but He does not know them. Rituals and traditions cannot replace relationship. Man is satisfied from doing a ritual to calm his conscience. God wants a relationship and not just mechanical acts. These rituals were introduced to help people commune with God but they have replaced a relationship with God. To know Him is to love Him. This relationship is based on love. God wants willing obedience not blind obedience. God wants His people to come to Him by faith knowing that he is who He says He is. He is the Creator of the whole Universe. All the stars and galaxies are His handwork. Yet He has chosen to have a relationship with man who He created in His own image. In His image we are made and so we have the same make up as God. This is why we can imagine and be creative. Animals can't do this. Come to Him and be blessed and empowered to love the lost into the Kingdom of God.

HOPE

Hope gladdens the heart like no other value. Hope believes and expects the impossible. God is the author of hope. He put this value in us so that we can expect the best from Him. He is the author of eternal life. This is a life that has no beginning and no end. It is a life giving, joyful, vibrant life that lives in the now and for the now. It has no worries about the future because life is eternal. Why worry about the future for the future is eternal. It is the fear of death that leads to a hopeless life. Eternal life cancels the fear of death. Many die daily because they have lost hope. Their hope in eternal life needs to be restored to them. There is hope in Jesus because He is eternal and rose from the dead thus conquering the last enemy, death. No sickness or disease is able to resist the hope of eternal life. This life will expel all sickness and disease. It is His life in you that matters now and for eternity. Hallelujah.

MAN HAS MADE GOD A THING

Many are the woes of those who refuse the hand of the Lord and follow their own whims. In this they reject what God has revealed and go their own way just as Adam did. So many have to learn the hard way that the ways of the world lead to death. Money cannot buy your salvation, only faith in the finished work on the Cross. This is the battle that is raging in the world today. Money is determining many decisions and God is replaced by money. Yet we know money is just a vehicle and not the end. It is the means to an end and not the end. In putting your faith in money you reduce everything into a commodity with a value. God is also reduced to a thing. We make idols of God so that we can control Him. Yet He stands wanting to have a relationship with us. He has chosen to come and live within us but we reject Him. God created man in His own image. Now man wants to create God in his own image. What a upside down view the creation has of the Creator. In this is the fall seen and God sees this and His heart is grieved. Come to your Maker and be blessed.

JOY

Happiness is a state of mind. Joy is a state of the heart. Joy is constant while happiness is usually a result of a happy happening. Joy bubbles over and is a result of a commitment. He gives me joy and it overflows my whole being. Everything in me wants to shout for joy because He lives and breathes through me. I am so grateful to Him who calls what is dead to life. He is the resurrection and the life. In Him all have breath. All creation groans and waits for deliverance from the pain of life. Yet He is there through your pain and suffering. He identifies with our suffering so that we are not alone when we go through it. He is there in our up times and down times. He is the joy that flows when all else stops. Jesus first, Others second, Yourself last is the theme that should resonate all through life and heaven will be the same.

ANGELS

God's angels will help you in your time of need. There is very little teaching on the ministry of angels. Yet the Bible clearly teaches on their role in helping us. Being aware of angels enables you to seek their help for your needs. Angels will take your requests and get them answered. Angels are ministering spirits and they will minister to those you pray for. Therefore become conscious of angels. They have been sent to help you and to fight for you. They will fight against principalities and powers of the kingdom of darkness that have been sent to frustrate your plans. Angels bring the light to dark places. They minister to your spirit. These unseen beings are with you all the time even when you go astray and sin. Develop the habit of calling on them for help.