Reconciled to God

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…
Reconciled to God, there is only ONE Way and that is through Christ Jesus!
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.
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Does your life seem 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…
Does your life seem empty and void? You’ve tried everything that money could buy, but your life still seems empty. Maybe it’s time to fill it with Jesus and the Love of God the Father!
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 remittance 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.
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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…
Are you trying to stand in your own strength and power? 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.
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Who’s Or What 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…
What or who’s word are you meditating on? 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 (God’s Holy 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.
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Born again?

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…
Born again? Then you have overcome the world and are victorious – now live it out! 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. It’s the only way to heaven, there is NO other way! 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.
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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…
What part of “I have forgiven thee” do you not understand? 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. Notice also that these are in past tense – they are 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.
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Alive 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…
Did you die in Christ so that you can live in Christ? We must understand that 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

Justified

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…
Justified before God

Nothing in the Law (10 commandments) can justify you before God. Are you justified? Definition, Justified: To be in right standing before God, to be acquitted of all sins 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 then 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.
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Praising God

Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, O Lord, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all.
1 Chronicles 29:11 New International Version

THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY’S VERSE…
Do you know how and do you regularly praise God?
Praise is letting God know we recognize Him for who He is, what He has done, and what He is doing (His promises in His Word.) But more than informing God of His greatness, praise is rejoicing before Him in His greatness and recognizing that not only is His grace and mercy without comparison, His majesty and Might and Holiness and Faithfulness and Righteousness and Love and Forgiveness and Justice and, and, and … are without comparison. Praise is thankful celebration that He is God in our lives even when things around us are a mess. Praise is our thankful appreciation that even more importantly He is our God and that we are His Children.

MY PRAYER…
Great and Gracious God without comparison, You are truly worthy of my best praise and best thoughts and best imaginings. I give you ALL praise and ALL glory as I humbly submit myself to You, I rejoice that You are who You are, I celebrate in what You have done, and long for what You are yet to do. I know that all god things come down from the Father of light and that You only do good things for Your children. You are magnificent, my Father and my God. Through Jesus, and His matchless love, I praise you.
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Praying The Right Kind Of Prayers

O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you and praise your name, for in perfect faithfulness you have done marvelous things, things planned long ago.
Isaiah 25:1 New International Version

THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY’S VERSE…
What kind of prayers do you pray?
Are your prayers pro-active or reactive prayers? God’s actions are NOT reactions to current situations, but part of His long-term plan to bring redemption to the lost. Yes, He has done marvelous things: He took the evil intent of a mob who cried “Crucify Him” and turned it into an opportunity to fulfill the prophesies and redeem us. He took my wife and I half way around the world to be a part of the redemption of over 12,000 spirits for His Kingdom in Feb. – Mar. 2000. He protected lives and prevented the attempt on Sep 11, 2001 from taking the huge toll of lives that the attackers had hoped for originally. So don’t ask where God was on 9/11/2001 he was hard at work preventing many more from dying than did. Those that died probably didn’t heed His warnings or couldn’t hear Him anyway.
He has instead turned many lives back to His Kingdom and to prayer. It’s His plan, His way, or no way, there is no other way. He is perfect in His faithfulness and has done and will continue to do marvelous things. If we let Him. Important point: “If We Let Him!”,your choice. Pray for prevention it before it happens, NOT after it happens when you then need a miracle!

MY PRAYER…
Holy God, You surprise me with new wonders and new things daily. Yet deep in my heart I know they are not new to You. You ask new things of me daily and yet I know they are not new to You. Thank You for not making life boring or predictable so I might thirst and hunger after more of You. You who are forever fresh, new, exciting, and marvelous. Lord I will exalt You and praise Your name, for You are perfect and faithful always.
Through my Savior, Jesus Christ, I pray.
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