GOD KNOWS

God makes no mistakes. Many think that people with a disability are mistakes. This is the way people without external disability think. However we are all disabled in some way whether physical, mental or spiritual. We are all sinners and this is a basic disability we are born with. Sin then manifests in different forms. Look at the achievements in paralympics. Nothing is a limitation unless you allow it to be so. Where there is a limitation can sometimes be a strength. Some have allowed the limitation to be a cause for failure rather then success. God knows why He allowed you to be born. He has a purpose which is wider then you. In God's world no one is a mistake. What happens in life is totally in the control of God. He allows things to happen for a purpose. It is in overcoming our limitations that brings us strength. No weakness is insurmountable. Turning your weakness into strength is the challenge. With God's help you can do it and more. Therefore do not judge ny externals because there is more to a person then what is seen. Every person has gifts and talents that need to be exercised to fulfil His plan. Once sin has been cancelled then life takes a new meaning. Eternal life always brings a new dimension to your outlook. You become more a seeker then a pessimist. You become less cynical and more optimistic and hopeful. You look to God for help then rely on your own strength. Love becomes the way rather then fear.

FORGIVENESS

The flesh loves conflict. It will create conflict where there is no conflict. It will provide you with feelings that will attack your spirit with all kinds of negative feelings of pride, envy and jealousy. These feelings then energise you to destroy and not repair relationships. People have destroyed relationships of years through one small incident. When negative feelings are harboured over a long period of time against an individual it will only take a spark to get the fire going. This fire will destroy. This is why forgiveness is so important to exercise. This forgiveness must be from the heart. The issue must be separated from your feelings about it. This is difficult for the feelings drive the issue and not the issue at all. The issue is just the spark. What is said and how it is said sparks off feelings that are aroused that become the main issue. However the feelings are not addressed and the mole hill becomes a mountain. The mountain then blocks out all light and the participants walk away from it as this is easier then walking in forgiveness and love. This is at the root of all conflicts. Unless a person is prepared to die to their flesh there will be no reconciliation. Reconciliation is covering just as Jesus sacrifice covers our sin. In relationships reconciliation is death to self and uniting in the spirit to foster love and wholeness. Each time you forgive the other you take the step to reconcile and be made whole. This is not primarily for the other but for yourself. Forgiveness sets you free from the evil of the other and sets the other free to forgive too. Real forgiveness is from the heart and leaves you feeling clean and whole and all that is left is the memory and sometimes even the memory of the incident disappears. The Cross exemplifies the way of forgiveness and reconciliation and restoration. Praise be to God.

RHEMA WORD

The Spirit and the word work together. The word is the word of the Spirit. The Spirit and the word work together to bring forth the fruit. When you meditate on the word then the Spirit will make His word alive. Without the Spirit the word is like any other word. This is why you need to know the word so that the Spirit can bring life to it. His word is what will bring forth what is spoken. His word hid in your heart will bring forth the fruit. Your thoughts are not His word. This is why speaking forth His word and meditating on His word and believing His word is vital for your spirit. The Spirit works His word through your heart.Meditation is the activity of the heart and not the head. The head receives and the heart digests. Just receiving the word does nothing to the heart. The heart needs to digest the word and this then becomes life. The healing word becomes the healing for your flesh. Everything in the word is for your possession. You have to receive the word and make it your own. This becomes the rhema word when you personalise it. Praying in tongues enables you to hear what the Spirit is saying now. The now word is the rhema word for you. God's word is alive and brings forth what is spoken in your life when you receive it by faith. Faith working through love will produce fruit that is eternal.

God's address

The Lord is above all. There are so many distractions in life and the key to success is to stay focussed. Focus is difficult when the brain is bombarded with so many inputs from within and without. Yet a man whose mind is stayed on Him will flourish like the tree beside still waters. He will never grow dry because the Lord will control his mind. He will be like a well watered garden and many will come to him to be refreshed in His presence. His presence is in you and with you. You carry His presence wherever you go. This is the beauty of the gospel. God did not just give us a gift. He came to take residence in us. Usually a gift is something different from the giver of the gift. God's gift is Himself and He comes and takes residence in us. It is like  a life exchange. He gives His life as a gift for ours. His life becomes our life through the gift of His Son, Jesus. What a gift is this? The giver of the gift is the gift. God the three in one comes to dwell in me the temple of the living God. God's address is me.

GRACE

Grace is unlimited and eternal. This is what the Father has availed for you through the sacrifice of His Son on the Cross. Few realise the immensity of this work. If not for grace we would still be slaves to sin. The law just exposes sin. It is sin that gives power to the law. Grace now cancels the power of sin. Sin has no more power over you because grace is at work in you. God's grace frees you from the constant turmoil of keeping the law. Now that grace has come the law has no more rule over you. Now the law of grace and life keeps you from sin and death. The law of grace has completed the work of cancelling sin and therefore there is no law to keep. Everything is covered by grace and now all you need to do is to avail of this gift. It is a gift for none of us deserves this as we were all born in sin. Now grace comes in and removes the stain of sin and replaces it with the righteousness of Christ. To avail of this blessing one must stand in the light of it. To stand in the light of grace is to be flooded with His unconditional love which covers a multitude of sins. In the flesh you are still prone to sin but this is covered by His grace. Now you can live in the consciousness of His finished work on Calvary. You still need to work out your salvation for this is what it means to walk in the Spirit.

TRUST IN JESUS

The walk of faith requires you to trust in God completely. You have to put all in His hands and take your hands off. He will then change hearts and circumstances to achieve His plans. His plans are made in heaven. The devil will try and stop His plans but God is greater then the devil. His people need to realise that they are only open to deception when they take their eyes off Jesus. Instead of an idol God sent Jesus to be our intermediary. This is why we pray in Jesus Name. In Jesus Name you have the authority to overcome every hurdle. God is above all and He will come through for you at the right time. This is the time for your victory. He has spoken His word to you and you have to hold on to His word and not what you see or feel. What you see and feel will line up with His word. In this way you will see His word perform what it promises. This is the way the devil works too. If you let him lead you then he will perform his word. This is why it is important to know what you believe in your heart. It is heart believe that will determine the final outcome. This is why no amount of information can change things. It is belief that matters in how your destiny will be. Believe in Jesus and trust Him to come through for you.

HEADSHIP

God has appointed me as the head of the family. He chose my wife to be my companion. She is a gift to me. How I treat her determines the fruit I will bear. My children are the fruit of my loins. How I treat them will determine the outcome of their lives. I have an adversary who is dead set to destroy what God has appointed for me. He always attacks my family for he knows that is the best way to undermine me. External attacks never have the same destructive power as internal attacks. The enemy always works from within. If he can infiltrate internally then he has support to kill and destroy from within. This is what is happening to families world wide. Divorce is on the increase because marriages are not under the headship of God as God intended. I need to take my place as the head and begin to reverse the damage done over the years. Only the blood of Christ can cleanse and heal. I will need to demonstrate by my works that I mean what I say. Asking for forgiveness is the first step towards change. It is a change of heart that will determine the outcome. I am delivered from the hand of the devil to be a saviour to my family. I will save them from total destruction by laying down my life for them. Not my way but God's way will be my instructor. The Holy Spirit in me will instruct me. I have no fear because He is leading me. I will remain focussed on Him in me. Any distractions I will dismiss and not allow the enemy to have a foothold. I will surrender all to Him and live in His presence always. I will pray till I receive the promise. I will believe that the change that happens in me will flow to them. Thank you Lord for your mercy and grace.

A NEW HEART

The heart needs to be changed for real change to occur. All other change is superficial. God came to give you a new heart. He then put His own Spirit into your new heart. Till the heart transplant takes place you are still operating from your old heart. You cannot try and grow the new life in an old heart. A lot of conversions these days are head conversions and not heart conversions. This is why many fall away when testing times come their way. A heart transplant is required for the new life to grow and take root. It is like putting new wine in old wineskins. New wine needs new wine skins. A heart transplant provides the nourishment for the new spirit to grow and develop into the full stature of Christ. You are a new creation. Old things have passed away. Behold all things have become new. Now you operate from a new heart and a new Spirit. This is real conversion. Many are ill and poor because they are operating from their old hearts. They know what is good but fail to receive it. They die in poverty and ill health. Come to the river of life and receive a new heart today and a new Spirit.

ETERNITY IS FOR NOW

Jesus, the Name above all other names is here and will be always here. He promised His Spirit would come and make Himself present with us. He will abide in us and help us daily as we walk and talk with Him. Complete trust in Him is the only way to live. All of life is a test in trust. Either we trust in Him or walk in the flesh. To walk in the flesh is death. To walk by faith in Him is life. Therefore choose life. Walking in the Spirit is the only way you can enjoy abundant life. Any other way is walking in the flesh. No compromise for you can't walk by faith and also in the flesh. A compromised life never bears anything. It is a fruitless life. Position yourself daily to walk in the Spirit. In this way you will overcome the flesh and be living in eternity. There is no time and place for the Spirit for He is eternal and in Him you live an eternal life. This life is for now and not for later. Eternity is for now and this is what makes the difference. Imagine the power of a never ending life in the flesh. Wow!

HIS WAY

Father I come to you and ask that you may bless me with your presence and see me through this day in your strength. I am weak but you are strong. You have provided enough evidence of your love and care for your creation. I stand amazed at your provision for me and cannot but be grateful for all that you have done. Many of your people are hurting and the world is hurting. Many go here and there seeking for meaning and freedom but few find it. Many seek for what they can control and are not prepared to surrender all to you. Jesus said I am the way but many prefer their own way of salvation. This is the time for reckoning. Lord have mercy and bring many into your Kingdom. I want to be your vessel Lord of deliverance to many. Come and fill me Lord with your Spirit so that I maybe faithful to the end.

GOD'S GOODNESS

The Lord is good and His goodness is over you. He is your strength and your light. He walks with you and talks with you. He is a pillar of fire by night and guides you through your walk daily. God is good and there is no one who can replace Him. He is your Creator and in Him you will find your peace. His word is a light unto my path. His life is a spring of water to my tongue. I will speak of His mercies every day of my life. My life is hid in Him. There is no way but His way. He gives me thoughts and His thoughts are higher then my thoughts. His heart is bigger then my heart. I love Him because He loves me. His love is like no other because it is eternal and never changes. He lives in me. His Spirit keeps me strong and bold. I have no confidence in my flesh because it is worldly and keeps me in the rut. My flesh binds me while His Spirit frees me. I therefore choose to walk by the Spirit then by the flesh. For every fleshly thought, He gives me His thoughts to fight my thoughts. I love Him because He first loved me.

FAITH

Walking in the Spirit is like walking on water. You have to do it by faith. Faith is the confident expectation of things hoped for. It is the substance of things hoped for. It is the evidence of things not seen. Therefore when you move in faith you bring to existence what is not seen. What is in the heavens is brought down to earth. What is unseen is seen. Jesus walked by faith and looked to His Father and did what He saw the Father doing. You too will see into the supernatural and then see it in the natural. What is unseen is like radio waves which become sound waves when the radio is switched on. You are like a radio that catches what the spirit is doing and translate it into existence, substance, reality. Spirit speaks to spirit. Your spirit speaks to His Spirit and confirms His word with signs and wonders. Healing, wealth and salvation comes from Him. He is in you and will see through you and perform through you. Hallelujah.

AGREEMENTS

Praise God who calls you to come to Him and then chooses to reside in us. He will see through us and others will recognise Him through us. Imagine someone looking through the window of your heart? Your eyes are your window. You see through your eyes and others see you through your eyes. You could see love through your eyes or lies. When you walk in the Spirit you walk in love and feel His love and peace and joy. When you walk in the flesh you will experience all the feelings and thoughts of your flesh life. This is so simple. When you are down you must be walking in the flesh because you feel down and out. In the Spirit you never feel down and out because how could you? When the Saviour of the world resides in you all you feel is love and joy. There is no weakness or sin in the Spirit. He is pure joy and love and peace. Nothing can take Him away from you. He is your peace. Personalise every word of God and you will find yourself wanting more. His portion is yours by faith. When you feel down remind yourself whose you are. In this way you cancel all other agreements and agree with God.

HIS STRENGTH

Helpless in your own strength but helpful in His strength. This is the gospel in a nutshell. You were a sinner, helpless and hopeless but Jesus saved you and now you are hopeful and helpful. He helps you to help others. His Spirit in you is your only hope of glory. Eternity is your lot. Can money buy eternity? This is what you have gained in Christ. Now will you sit back and relax or fight to save others who are drowning and dying daily. They are doomed for an eternity in hell while you are going to heaven. How heartless can you be? No, the gospel is the power of God unto salvation to anyone who believes. The operative word is believe. I believe and therefore I am saved. I believe that Jesus is Lord and I confess that He is risen from the dead. This belief and confession results in a assurance of salvation. God's salvation is free but it is costly to the flesh. The flesh refuses to submit to His will. It always wants its own way. This is why you detest your flesh and its longings. Now you know what it is to be free in Him. In the Spirit you are free from its fleshly longings. You are free to love and not to hate. You are free to forgive and not be bound. Lord come and be a light through me to the gentiles who are lost in darkness and helpless.

SPIRIT LED LIFE

Praying in the spirit bypasses the mind and so you will be more accessible to the Spirit. You will see visions and pictures and hear Him. God works through His Spirit and you will understand with your mind. A spirit controlled mind will see and hear things differently from the fleshly controlled mind. A spirit controlled mind is under the Lordship of Jesus. The mind that is fixed on Jesus will respond to the Spirit and will act on what is revealed. In the Spirit you will have the power to do what the Spirit calls you to do. In the flesh you will try and work things out in your own strength. Be much in the Spirit. These are days when your heart will fail you if you don't spend time in the spirit. The flesh is weak but the Spirit is strong. You can choose to walk in the flesh or in the spirit. You are a spiritual being and when your senses are tuned into the spirit then you will sense things differently. This will be evidenced in the fruit you bring forth. A spirit filled life will bring forth eternal fruit. Therefore do not be lazy but spend time in the spirit as Jesus did. Hide away from the daily duties of life and spend time in the spirit. Let earthly distractions lose their attraction and delight to dwell in the holy presence of the Lord.  When your mind dwells on the cares of life, switch it off by praying in tongues.