We work from victory, not towards it. When we pray that the Lord would deliver us and heal us, he does not hear that prayer, we have a disconnect. I went to a bible school in 1988. It was called New Life bible school and was founded by Norvel Hayes. Before I attended, there was… Continue reading Who are you?
Category: Appropriation
Beholding and becoming
We carry a deep and immeasurable call on our life, placed there by God Himself. It is completely beyond your natural ability to accomplish – God has called you to do something you cannot possibly do in yourself. You can meditate on that call for the rest of your life, and never see your destiny… Continue reading Beholding and becoming
What kind of food have you been eating?
In John chapter 6 we read one of the references about our appropriating and partaking of the Lord Jesus Christ. Following His feeding of the multitude in the wilderness, there came a discussion out of which they could have created a good political slogan to establish Christ as a king or a great leader. This… Continue reading What kind of food have you been eating?
Let’s kill time
This is truly the day for the Living Word, for every seal to be taken off His Book, for every barrier to our understanding to be lifted. It is a day for our faith to be aggressive, for it to be demanding and insistent. It is a day for us to believe, to expect and… Continue reading Let’s kill time
Everything goes better with praise
The Lord is setting before us a way of life. We have been changing constantly, and we have actually come to the place where we are conditioned to change. Before, we changed reluctantly. Even when we were adamant in wanting to change, there were deep, built-in traps in our very nature that were resisting change.… Continue reading Everything goes better with praise
Do you have a false image of God !
I recently had a revelation of the Lord, and it was so real to me that I wept for hours. God gave me a revelation of what He is really like, and I had to repent over the fact that I have had such a misconception, in some ways, of the Heavenly Father. I had… Continue reading Do you have a false image of God !
Is that legal?
This message is very precious to us because it highlights how much people are yet tainted with legalism, and the Word comes to release us from it. Many times there has been counseling and ministry which confused people’s minds so that they did not move in faith to appropriate the righteousness which comes by the… Continue reading Is that legal?
Don’t read it, eat it!
A most effective time to break through to a greater level in the Lord comes when we cease to function by our understanding of our circumstances, and we reach up because we feel a burden in the Spirit. Then we are reaching in to be totally one with the heart of the Lord, and our… Continue reading Don’t read it, eat it!
The drawn sword-you get the point
After many years of walking with the Lord together and hearing His truths, we are being confronted with the realization that now we will either obtain what we came into this for, or we will not! If we are going to obtain it, it will require drastic measures on all of our part, because the… Continue reading The drawn sword-you get the point
Humanly inadequate but divinely fulfilled
Why do we find it difficult to fully use the principle of appropriation, even at the Holy Communion? Is it because we rely upon our human capabilities so completely that we tend to use our own experience or wisdom—or that of those round about us—to solve every problem? We tend to be dependent upon our… Continue reading Humanly inadequate but divinely fulfilled
We’re hearing Words of Spirit
If you hear the Word of God, but a lying demonic spirit tells you that you cannot really walk in it, the result in you is a low level of appropriation. Why not rebuke that lying spirit right now and proclaim, “What I hear, that is what I will experience! I determine to appropriate that… Continue reading We’re hearing Words of Spirit
Let’s dig a canal
Visualize a beautiful tree, laden with lush foliage and bearing delicious fruit in its season. Next to the tree is a canal full of flowing water. This is the picture portrayed in the first Psalm when it describes the blessed man. How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the… Continue reading Let’s dig a canal
Fix your hope on grace
We want to possess everything that God has set before us. To that end, let us revive our hopes and visions and dreams. Let us leave our foxholes of passivity and charge over the top! In his first Epistle, Peter tells us how we can do this. Blessed be the God and Father of our… Continue reading Fix your hope on grace
Awareness… lest we wander from grace to self-condemnation
Every time we come together for worship; we should strive to break through into a higher level in God than we reached in the previous service. There should never be a service without a purpose. Progressively we must come into a greater awareness, of the Lord Jesus Himself, of what the Lord has promised us,… Continue reading Awareness… lest we wander from grace to self-condemnation
Baby, you are going to fly!
Our Lord does not make mistakes. He knows exactly what He is doing, and He is doing everything right. At one time or another, He places each of us in a very difficult position, and we may not know which way to turn. We know that we love the Lord very much and we are… Continue reading Baby, you are going to fly!
Acts of aggression
AN ANALYSIS OF THE EPISTLES TO TIMOTHY The apostle Paul’s letters to Timothy give us a picture of the tremendous impact of the early apostolic company. Paul incited them to spiritual acts of aggression. In his exhortations to Timothy, Paul gives us one of the most unusual approaches to faith that is found in the… Continue reading Acts of aggression
A promise with a problem
One of the greatest conflicts you have in walking with God is the conflict with God Himself. How can He be so gracious to you and yet so contrary? There is a principle you must see in God’s dealings with you. Usually God’s Word comes in two forms: first, the precepts and the commandments of… Continue reading A promise with a problem
God said it! I must have it!
Do you hunger and thirst for righteousness, not with a casual desire, but with an intense, burning drive? Do you want to walk with God, not just to know about Him, or even to minister in His name, but to really know Him in a deep walk with Him? The Lord circumcises our hearts so… Continue reading God said it! I must have it!
Wring every promise dry
How can you be truly receptive to a word from God? This is one of the most practical truths you can ever learn. You can hear a word, but you want to be able to receive it. If you really open your heart to receive as you should, you will almost embarrass the preachers and… Continue reading Wring every promise dry
How much God has given-how little we have taken
See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles (elementary spirits) of the world, rather than according to Christ. For in Him all the fulness of Deity dwells in bodily form, and in Him you have been made complete,… Continue reading How much God has given-how little we have taken
It can happen so quickly
God seems to move according to a certain timetable. The Word tells us, for example, that when the fullness of time was come, God sent forth His Son made of a woman (Galatians 4:4). In Habakkuk 2:2, 3 the prophet wrote: Then the Lord answered me and said, “Record the vision and inscribe it on… Continue reading It can happen so quickly
Spiritual perception tune in, then bless!
Would you like to learn more how to beam a blessing to someone or how to tune in to someone and find out what their need is? I will give you a little procedure that should work, one that will be a practical application that you can exercise and be able to move into some… Continue reading Spiritual perception tune in, then bless!
Aggressive appropriation
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; and for me that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel … Ephesians 6:18–19. Have you ever wondered why the… Continue reading Aggressive appropriation
How to appropriate God’s power
How can you develop an awareness of the presence of the Lord? There sometimes seems to be a veil between you and the Lord, and you don’t sense that the Lord is with you. You know now and then when He answers a prayer that the Lord was really with you, but if that veil… Continue reading How to appropriate God’s power
Initiative-God’s and ours
In this walk the subject of initiative becomes a big issue. How much does God do sovereignly and how much is at our initiative? Is it important to know exactly what to expect God to do apart from us and what to expect to happen when we exercise the initiative of faith? In appropriating the… Continue reading Initiative-God’s and ours
A revelation of ourselves
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple … Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean… Continue reading A revelation of ourselves
Acting upon what you receive from God
Let’s talk about how to walk in what we have now. The problem has always existed, that when people receive ministry they go away on an assumption that everything is finished. It is sort of like the end of the fairy stories that you read; “And they lived happily ever after,” meaning, they got married.… Continue reading Acting upon what you receive from God
Continually in God’s word and praying unceasingly
We are sensing what is ours and the privileges we have. We must allow nothing to take away our aggressive faith and our violent approach to God, as we prevail before the throne of grace in intercession. We are in a transition. God is doing the work in our lives that He promised, and we… Continue reading Continually in God’s word and praying unceasingly
The neighbor next to thee
And if the household be too little for a lamb, then shall he and his neighbor next unto his house take one according to the number of the souls; according to every man’s eating ye shall make your count for the lamb. Exodus 12:4. The children of Israel were to leave none of the lamb… Continue reading The neighbor next to thee
God provided-you make it happen
The Passover seemed to be an act performed by God sovereignly; God directed each step of it. However, when you read the book of Hebrews, you find that it was created by human initiative under divine direction, but human initiative brought that judgment to pass. Some of us are looking for God to do such… Continue reading God provided-you make it happen
Have staff-will travel
When you meet people some have heavy hearts and many needs. The human face is made to conceal much of the emotions, feelings, and needs. But when the Lord gives discernment and revelation, it goes beyond the expression of the face: that which we put on because of human relationships. When we assemble together with… Continue reading Have staff-will travel
God’s set time for our appropriation
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, even as ye are unleavened. For our Passover also hath been sacrificed, even Christ: wherefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the… Continue reading God’s set time for our appropriation