Do you have access to the Grace of God?

Through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Romans 5:2 New King James Version

THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY’S VERSE…
Our access to the Grace of God is by our faith in Jesus. Nothing else we do can provide us with access to that grace. Not our works, not our church attendance, not our denominational beliefs, not what our parents have done for us or tell us. Not some other god, spirit, or idol, not some priest in a confessional box, only the one and only Jesus, the Son of God and God Himself. The only way we have access to the grace of God is through Jesus Christ and our ‘personal’ faith in Him coupled with our ‘personal’ day to day relationship with Him. Do what you may, do what you will, say what you may, say what you will but if you don’t have faith in God through a ‘personal’ day to day relationship with Jesus Christ, if you haven’t made Jesus ‘The Lord’ of your life, you’ll not enter into God’s Grace and His rest. Nor will you have eternal life and everything else that comes with salvation. Do not believe those who tell you, “We all are going to the same place. There are just many ways of getting there.” This is a lie strait from the pit of hell and the devil himself. This is NOT true, there is NO other way! Those who try to convince you otherwise are deceived of and being used by the devil.

MY PRAYER…
Most Holy Father, thank You for Your Grace and Your mercy through Your Son Jesus. No other way is open to You except through Him. You made it so in Your Word. Spoken by the very mouth of Your own Son Jesus, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. (John 14:6) I thank You Father for giving me the way, the truth, and the Life through Jesus Christ. For I, who was once dead in sin, have been made alive through Jesus, my Lord and my Savior. I give Him all the glory and honor, that in Him I may also glorify You. In Jesus’ Name, Father, I pray.
Amen

Are you reconciled to God through Jesus Christ?

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
Romans 5:1 King James Version

THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY’S VERSE…
Being justified by faith in Jesus Christ and faith in His name gives us peace with God. The only way we can be reconciled to God is through Jesus Christ and our faith in Him. THERE IS NO OTHER WAY! Don’t let any one deceive or fool you into thinking there is some other way. Can’t happen! The Bible says Jesus is The Way, The Truth, and The Life, NO one comes unto the Father except through Him. The Bible says that if we try to justify ourselves (make ourselves in right standing with God) through works of the law we make the sacrifice of Jesus to no avail! Nothing we can do of ourselves can bring about our reconciliation with God and our justification (being made righteous before God), except believing in Jesus Christ and Him crucified for us. Not some other god, idol, or spirit, or even some other man can reconcile us to God, ONLY Jesus. No Indian ‘great white spirit’, no Buddha, no Allah, nothing except the Son of God, Jesus. We must come to God His way, the only way, through Jesus Christ, the Son of God and faith in Him. Jesus Himself told us, “I am the way, the truth, and THE LIFE: no man comes unto the Father except by me.”(John 14:6) Is God’s Word truth or not? There is ONLY ONE WAY to God period!

MY PRAYER…
Precious Father, thank You for Your Son. Thank You for sending Him to make peace between You and me, for allowing Him to reconcile us into eternal friendship. Thank You for bestowing son ship upon us who believe in Your Son Jesus, our Lord and Savior. Abba, Daddy, Thank You for your loving mercy and grace upon us. Thank You for sending us Your Holy Spirit to be our Comforter and our Helper. Thank You Father, for the power and the strength to live my life for You. That nothing this world has or can throw my way is bigger or stronger than He who lives inside of me, if I will only believe and have faith in Him. In Jesus’ name, Father, I pray and glorify You.
Amen

Is your life still empty?

You know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.
1 Peter 1:18-19 New International Version

THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY’S VERSE…
If value is determined by price, then we are incredibly valuable to God. God took the most precious, priceless treasure of heaven and sent Him to be the price to buy us out of sin and death and adopt us into His family. Silver and gold pale in comparison to that value. He sent His Word, manifest in the flesh, His only begotten Son, to be the firstborn from the dead. Born of a virgin by the seed of God, a flesh and blood man like us, filled with the Holy Spirit of God at His baptism in the Jordan, the only sinless man to ever walk the face of the earth. He sent Him, Jesus, to buy us back with His Life. We were redeemed, bought back by His Blood. Blood sacrificed on the Holy Altar of God, that we might become the righteousness of God in and through Him, Jesus. Receive it, it’s yours, He gave it to you. Only by Faith can you do so, you can NOT earn it!

MY PRAYER…
Precious Father, may I live today and everyday to become fully aware of the awesome price You paid for my life. May my words, thoughts and actions be permeated with a sense of worth and Holiness that comes from my fellowship with You through Jesus. Not so that I may seem important, but so that I may live in Your Holiness and bring honor to Your precious gift to me. Through Him that loves me, my Lord Jesus, I pray.
Amen

Are you trying to stand in your own strength and power?

Be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.
Ephesians 6:10-11 New International Version

THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY’S VERSE…
Many of the struggles in our lives are not mere accidents! They are put there to stumble us and make us fall by the enemy. But, understand this clearly, none (not one of them) are put there by God. God didn’t put you in a wheelchair so He could use you to teach others about Him form a wheelchair! No, what God would do would be to heal & restore you & take you out of that wheelchair and then have you tell people what He did for you!! Our challenges and struggles most often come from ourselves or from the hand of our enemy, Satan. He always prowls around looking for the best scheme to knock us out of our commitment to, and our relationship with, the Lord. Then he will use your own mind or a friend or a relative or even a complete stranger to cause his scheme to be put into motion. Placing ourselves firmly in the hands of the Lord and using His tools of warfare will help us keep our enemy, who has already been humiliated and defeated by Jesus and the cross, where he belongs. Under our feet! Trust in the Lord and all His might.

MY PRAYER…
Strengthen me, O God, that I may stand against my foe and triumph by the power of Your Holy Spirit and bring honor and glory to my conquering Savior. You will return one day and take me home in victory. Father reveal Yourself to me through Your Word, Your power and Your strength that are mine to use to keep the enemy down until he is finally cast into the everlasting lake of fire. In the name of Jesus, Your Holy Son, I pray Lord.
Amen

What or who’s word are you meditating on?

My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart; For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh.
Proverbs 4:20-22 New King James Version

THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY’S VERSE…
Here is part of the secret of The Secret Place of God. God tells us (Not me, not your Pastor, not some televangelist) in His Word that we are to meditate on His Word day and night. That we are to keep it in front of our eyes always. And then He tells us why. If only we would understand what He is trying to get across to us here! Read that last line, Proverbs 4:22, very carefully, then read it again and let those words sink into not just your mind, but your heart, your very being, your spirit man. “For they (the Words of God) are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.” Are you in need of physical healing from one thing or another? The Word of God is LIFE and it is HEALTH to those that find it. You can’t find it if your Bible lays on the shelf all week while you are watching worldly sitcoms or movies about demons and witchcraft (Harry Potter and the likes). You can’t get healed if you’re spending all your time watching SOAP Operas on TV or Sci-Fi movies or death and destruction shows. What ever you are feeding on is what will be in your heart! You can’t get healed if you don’t meditate the Word of God and allow it to penetrate your very soul and being. You can’t get healed if you don’t spend time with The Healer (Jesus). All the time, NOT just when you need a bail out healing from God. The Word must so impregnate your spirit man that those words cause a manifestation of healing from the spirit realm into the natural realm of you being, your flesh man.

MY PRAYER…
Holy Father, give unto us the wisdom and revelation into the meaning of what you have said here in Your Word. Help us, Father, to understand that You are giving us a key to divine healing, divine health, and long life. Father, place that revelation so deep into our spirits that we will never forget it. As we read and meditate Your Word, Father, increase our capacity to understand what You are saying to us, that we may make it life and health to all our flesh. In Jesus’ name, I pray.
Amen

Where do you abide – make your permanent dwelling?

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
Psalms 91:1 New King James Version

THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY’S VERSE…
Notice that God, my God, is THE MOST HIGH GOD! That means there isn’t no other circumstance, sickness, disease, thing, or god that is bigger or more powerful than my God! He is THE MOST HIGH GOD!!!
Do you dwell (live and abide) in the Secret Place of “El Elyown”, the Most High God? Do you dwell (live and abide) under the shadow of “El Shaddai”, The Almighty God or are you living in the shadow of the circumstances that are of the world around you? No matter how we are attacked or persecuted if we are in that secret place of the Most High God no evil can befall us, no foe can touch us. Look closely at this verse. My God is the Most High God, there isn’t anybody, no other God that’s as High as He is! He’s the Almighty, the most powerful, The All in All. He’s anything and everything you could possibly want or need! But you must abide in Him, you must walk and live in His shadow if you expect to receive from Him. I have found the secret of the “Secret Place”!

MY PRAYER…
Holy Father God, thank You for being my Fortress and my Refuge in life’s storms. Thank You Lord that You have covered me over and have delivered me from all evil. Lord thank You that I can abide in that secret place with You at all times and that You are my comfort and my strength when I am weak. Thank You Lord for placing Your angels with charge over me to keep me in all my ways. Lord, thank You that when I set my love upon You, You deliver me from life’s trials and that You know my name! That You have called me by Your name. Through Jesus, my Lord and Savior, I offer my thanks and praise forever.
Amen

Born again? Then you have overcome the world and are victorious – now live it out!

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world, our faith.
1 John 5:4 New King James Version

THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY’S VERSE…
Are you born again, born anew of God’s Spirit? Have you made Jesus the Lord of your life, it’s the only way to be born of God. Jesus must be Lord of your life before He can be Savior of your soul! If you are and you know it, then you have already overcome the world! Nothing in this world (the natural) should sway you from the things of God. But, how do we get that victory? It’s already ours, He said so in His Word and His Word is truth. First and foremost, by the blood of Jesus, but we get it through our faith in Him and His Word and then living out that faith by letting Jesus be our Lord and guide in what we do, say, and think! I didn’t say it would be easy, I only said we have the victory. Do you believe you have the victory? If you do then you have it. His Word says we win.

MY PRAYER…
Father, I pray that You would reveal unto each and every one of Your truly born again children through the eyes of their understanding that ‘victory’ which Your Son HAS ALREADY provided for us through His Death, Burial, and Resurrection. That we would have a deep heart felt understanding that mere words cannot express. That You would burn into each of our hearts the fact that we are more than conquerors through Him that loves us. Also Father I pray that You would continue to soften the hearts of those who do not yet know You and Your Son Jesus. That we might gain more of them for Your Kingdom. In Jesus’ glorious and mighty name I pray.
Amen

What part of “I have forgiven thee” do you not understand?

Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless His holy name. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
Psalms 103:1-3 King James Version

THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY’S VERSE…
He said it in His Word, we need to believe it. I have forgiven you, I have healed you, I will cause you to prosper and gain wealth. Actually that’s pretty straight forward. Why is it so hard to believe? He said in Matthew 6:14 “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you”, in Exodus 15:26 “…for I am the LORD that healeth thee.”, in Nehemiah 2:20 “… The God of heaven, he will prosper us;… “, in Luke 6:38 “Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom…”, in 1 Peter 2:24 “…who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness–by whose stripes you were healed.” And in many other places through out the Holy Scriptures. These are also past tense – already done! Why is it so hard to believe? Quit listening to man and his doctrines of demons. Quit listening to those preachers who do NOT rightly discern the Word of God, Quit listening with your natural ears and listen with the ears of your spirit and get the Word of God in your heart – your inner most spirit!

MY PRAYER…
Holy Father, I thank You for making me one of Your children, for forgiving my transgressions and my iniquities. But father, You also said that You healed me of my diseases. Father, help me to understand that You have already done this, that it is not something You might do in the future. You also said you would prosper me and everything that I set my hand to. Father, help me to increase my faith and to receive that which You have already so graciously provided through Your Son, Jesus. In Jesus name I pray.
Amen

Did you die in Christ so that you can live in Christ?

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 6:8-11 New King James Version

THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY’S VERSE…
We must understand what happened to Jesus on the Cross that day happened for us. We must know who we are in and through Him. When we understand that it also happened already to us, that we were there on the cross with Him (by faith), then and only then will we consider ourselves dead to sin. Once you consider yourself dead to sin you will no longer commit it. You will realize that you have dominion over sin. This will only come about when you get real revelation knowledge (when you know, that you know, that you know, that you know, in your heart) of what Jesus did for you and not just “head” knowledge (memorizing and being able to regurgitate the scriptures is NOT revelation knowledge).

MY PRAYER…
Father, I pray that the eyes of our understanding be opened, that You fill our hearts with revelation knowledge of Jesus Christ and Him crucified for us. That we may know from our hearts (our spirit man) what happened to Him for us and that it also happened to us in Your eyes. Father, fill us with Your spirit that we may walk in the newness of life that only comes from the life giving power of Your Holy Spirit. Let that same life giving power that raised Jesus from the dead; live, dwell, abide, and make it’s permanent home in our hearts. In Jesus name I pray.
Amen

Nothing in the Law (10 commandments) can justify you before God

Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Galatians 2:16 King James Version

THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY’S VERSE…
Are you justified? Justified: To be in right standing before God. Can you stand before the Creator of the Universe and be acquitted? There is only one thing you can do that will justify you before the Lord God Almighty. That one thing is to believe by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and what happened to Him for you on the Cross, and accept Him as your Lord and Savior! All the works of the law (Religion and religious works, keeping the ten commandments, being good, doing good, even going to church regularly, etc.) that you do will not justify you before the Lord God Almighty nor will it stand the test of fire on the day of judgment. Only what you have done by faith in Jesus will remain. Knowing ‘about’ Him is NOT enough. You must have had a personal day to day relationship with Jesus. If you have, He will stand before the Father and say “Father, this is Pastor Duane (insert your name here if this true for you), he is one of mine. I have justified him before You!”

MY PRAYER…
Everlasting Father, may Your love for Your people continue to be burned into my spirit. May what You had Jesus do for “ME” that day on the Cross be forever engrained in my heart, may I never cease to remember and to give You thanks and praise for loving me so much before I ever loved You. Father, I thank You that I have been justified (2000 plus years ago) by the Blood of Your Only begotten Son and that by my faith in Him I can come boldly before Your Throne of grace and mercy and that I may partake of all the blessings of heaven here on earth. Through the name of Jesus, who loves me, I pray.
Amen