WHY Do I exist?
God created you
because He Loves and wants YOU!
Do you ever wonder if there is something or someone bigger than you in this world?
Do you ever wonder if there is more to this life than what you have experienced?
Do you ever wonder if your life has a deeper meaning and a truer purpose than you have known?
I have wonderful news for you. You were actually created by a very loving, kind, and caring God!
And you were created by a big, strong, all-powerful God!
No matter what the circumstances of our conception, God was there creating you out of His heart of love.
He created you to be able to have a close, intimate relationship with Him and others.
He created you because He wanted YOU in this world!
He wants to have a close personal relationship with you all the days of your life and demonstrate His love to you again and again.
He wants to teach you how to live life well and build your life on the solid ground of His ways and wisdom.
He wants you to experience the depths of His heart and His purposes for your life.
He wants to satisfy the longings of your heart for connection, value, and hope.
You may think, "But I am nothing special." You may think, "But my family is a mess. My life is a mess. I'm addicted. I sin too much. I am not a good person." Actually you would be surprised how many people have come out of the same situation you find yourself in.
My life was an absolute mess. As a professional drummer in a band, I drank excessively in the bars every night for years. I drank so much, the doctor gave me a few weeks to live before he said my stomach lining would rupture!
I smoked three packs of cigarettes a day. I smoked pot daily and was addicted to other dangerous drugs. I was addicted to pornography from an early elementary age. I wanted a lasting relationship with a woman but I was so messed up, I could not build any healthy relationships. I was mean to my parents and selfish. I was a grade A sinner! Everything I did was about me and my desperate attempts to fill deep wounds and empty places in my heart with numbing activities.
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But God broke in! He broke into my messy life, and I promise you, He can break into your messy life too.
I heard God speak to my heart, "John, I want you to come and serve me."
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I had served no one but myself for years and my life had plunged into an out-of-control downward spiral.
I hated my sin! I hated the mess I had made of my life. I was ready to dramatically leave my ways and answer His call. On a Friday night He spoke to my heart, and on Sunday morning, I was at a Bible preaching church. I went forward when the preacher asked if anyone wanted to repent of living their life for themselves in their own way. God's power went through my body like a bolt of lightning, and I could feel hot oil pour from my head into my being. I could tell I was instantly changed! He set me free of all the addictions instantly and dramatically. His forgiveness washed through me like pure water carrying away my sins and shame. In that moment, He made my sin-hardened heart soft and able to receive His love. I walked out of that church service that day as a new man. I even threw away a brand new pack of cigarettes! Then, I went home and cleaned the house out of all alcohol and drugs. God set me free and kept me free as I kept saying "yes" to Him and whatever He asked me to do.
As you read my testimony, if you hate your sin like I hated mine, and you long to start over with a soft and open heart to God's love, I promise you, Jesus can rewrite your life too! If you seek Him with all your heart you will find Him and He will transform you. As you read all the sections below and watch the videos in the "Videos" section, ask Jesus to speak to you. And then, ask Him to help you do what He says.
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God loves you! He sent His son Jesus to win the victory for you and bring your life into victory through living your life in deep connection with Him. You are wanted, valuable, and your life has a great purpose.
AM I A MISTAKE?
God DOESN'T
MAKE MISTAKES
God, the Creator of all we can and cannot see, is a kind loving perfect Father who loves you and desired greatly for you to be born. No matter what circumstances you were conceived in, God was there with you when your first two cells bonded to create your own unique dna. No one today or in all the span of human history has your fingerprint, your dna, or your soul. God made you a unique and precious child and He is very happy you are alive.
Even if your mother and father tell you they did not want you to be born, your perfect loving Heavenly Father says, "I want you and I want you every moment of every day." Even if your mother and father say you were a mistake, your perfect loving Heavenly Father says, "I was there when you were conceived. I covered you with my hand as you grew inside your mother, and I don't make mistakes. You are fearfully and wonderfully made by Me!"
In the Bible, Psalm 139 verses 13-17 reads,
"For You (God) formed my inward parts;
You covered me in my mother’s womb.
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well.
My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
And in Your book they all were written,
The days fashioned for me,
When as yet there were none of them."
Because humans have chosen not to follow God, fathers and mothers hurt each other and hurt their children. Without a personal relationship fully yielded to Jesus, each parent attempts to build a life independent of the wisdom and guidance of their Creator God that loves them and created them. Often those who do not follow Jesus, rely on the wisdom and thoughts of the spirit of the world which does not value children like the Heavenly Father values them. The fact is, we live in a fallen world full of broken and wounded people. Even people that were supposed to protect us, care tenderly for us as babies and gently instruct us how to live wisely, have often done the opposite. You may have parents who pushed you away saying "you are a mistake to be alive" or "I never wanted you" or "you ruined my life." You may have parents who abandoned you or ignored your childhood needs. You may have had parents who took out their angers and frustrations on you or abused you. They may have made you feel small and insignificant or worse, they may have driven you to thoughts of hopelessiness.
Your heavenly Father was there when you were conceived and He was there when you were hurt by your father and mother who were supposed to demonstrate His love and care for you. The heavenly Father wants you to experience His perfect healing love. He sent Jesus to die for you and open the door for you to experience His healing love in all the places of abandonment, rejection and abuse. Ask the Heavenly Father to reveal Himself to you. Ask Him to help you forgive your earthly father and mother for hurting you, and let Him pour His tender perfect fatherly love deep into all your wounded places. As you receive Jesus as your Savior, the Heavenly Father adopts you as His own son or daughter, and He proudly declares, "You are wanted and you are mine!"
I am trapped!
Can anyone help me?
THERE IS ONE WHO CAN
transform YOUR LIFE!
We live in an age of human history where, in order to make us feel better about our lives, doctors prescribe pills. Pills to make us sleepy or make us peppy or make us think differently or make us stop thinking altogether. Professors tell us education will make us feel better. Pay more money to the college and take more classes. The wealthy tell us money will make us feel better. Get rich and all your troubles will fade away. The dealers tell us marijuana or other drugs will make us feel better. Take this drug, smoke this joint, and you will forget your worries. The Yoga teachers tell us they can make us feel better. Empty your mind and make it blank and you will feel better.
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And yet, the very ones who offer advice on how to feel better often are the ones who are the most miserable. Failing marriages, broken families, imprisonments, depressions, scandals, suicides. Is there anyone who can make us feel better?
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Yes! There is One. There in One who can literally transform your life, and He can make you feel much better. In fact, He can take the ashes of your life and turn them to beauty. He can take your sorrows and mourning and turn them to joy. He can take your heavy spirit and give you a garment of praise. He can deliver you from the prisons of addiction, depression, and all bondages.
When Jesus was on the earth, He read the following Bible passage in Isaiah 61 verses 1-3 to the people of that day saying that He Himself fulfilled this scripture. It reads:
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1 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me (Jesus),
Because the Lord has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,
And the day of vengeance of our God;
To comfort all who mourn,
3 To console those who mourn in Zion,
To give them beauty for ashes,
The oil of joy for mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
That they may be called trees of righteousness,
The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.
Jesus is the One who can transform your life. He came to the earth from heaven with one purpose and that was to die and rise from the dead so anyone who believes in Him can be born of His Spirit and live a fully transformed life. It all begins with coming into a real intimate relationship with the Jesus.
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No one else can give you true transformation. Jesus does not just give you coping strategies, or medicines to suppress or hide symptoms of sin. He goes into your mind and soul and treats the sickness at its roots. If you will give Him your broken life with all the ashes and addictions and self-rule, He will pull out the bad roots and replace them with good roots. Your life will be transformed to one filled with joy and good fruit.
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There is no other God who can transform your life. Not medicine, not academia, not money, not drugs and alcohol, not men attempting to heal themselves. Jesus created you and He knows how to set you free. He is God's only Son who died for you on the cross and resurrected and He is alive and praying for you. Yes, He died for you, no matter who you are, where you are from, or what you have done.
Your new life begins when you receive Jesus as Lord into your heart. I promise, as you follow Jesus and surrender all your life to Him, you will find yourself feeling better and better as your life produces better and better fruit.
covenant prayer to receive Jesus as lord
JESUS RECEIVES EVERYONE who comes to him
Jesus, I have not done a good job of leading my own life. I have hurt myself and others. My life is not what I had hoped it would be. I feel empty, lost, rejected and alone. I don't want to be the director of my life anymore. I turn my heart and life completely over to You.
Please forgive me of all of my sins, known sins and even the ones I have don’t know about that I have sinned against You and others. Forgive me for all of my pride. I choose to be humble and teachable before You and those You place in my life to guide me.
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I receive you as my Lord and Savior (receive Him now into your heart)
I now take my own will off the throne of my heart. I make that place ready for You only, Lord Jesus. Please take Your rightful place on the throne of my heart. (receive Jesus as Lord and see yourself placing Him above all else on the throne of your heart). (receive Him as Lord)
Yes, Lord Jesus, I ask You to enter into every area of my life, even the secret ones no one else knows about, and help me to transform every area of my life with Your grace, wisdom and power.
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Deliver me from all addictions, all sex and pornography and anything
else that is displeasing to You.
Help me to read and understand the New Testament of the Bible to get to know You and Your ways.
Show me anything that You want me to take out of my life to follow You fully.
Please give me Your help and grace, strength and wisdom to do what I need to do.
Please give me some new Christian friends who can support my new decision to make You Lord and follow You. Show me which old friends I need to distance myself from, if they try to erode, attack or persecute my decision to fully follow You as Lord.
I give You permission to do whatever You want to do, with me or in me. I choose to make You Lord in every area of my heart, mind and body.
I repent of my prideful attitude of doing things my way.
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From today on I am Your son or daughter and I will seek with my whole heart to do things Your way.
(take a moment and surrender to Jesus, give Him the 100% Lordship of your life, and 100% Lordship over all your major decisions)
Lord, show me Your ways, become my Lord and my intimate friend.
Thank you Lord Jesus for saving me and loving me!
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Just begin to thank Jesus right now. You are in His family. You are accepted and loved. You are celebrated by the angels in heaven.
Congratulations and welcome to the family of God!
Jesus loves you and welcomes you home into His heart!
Read everything in this section and watch all the videos in the Video section, read your New Testament and pray to Jesus
everyday.
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When you need help, just say His name…Jesus. It is the most powerful name in the universe.
Talk to Jesus and pray to Him, Jesus is there for you. Always.
We love you and we are praying for you!
We would love to hear from you and share in your joy of receiving Jesus! Please write us in the Contact Section.
God the holy spirit
God is the Same yesterday, today and forever.
The trinity has as always been and will always be supernatural
Jesus prayed to the Father, and the Father sent the third member of the Trinity, God the Holy Spirit. God cannot be divided or controlled. He never lays down His Godness, not any of it. He cannot, it is who He is. He is always all powerful and always in charge. God is also lovingly supernatural all the time and always will be from before time began, which He created until eternity stops, which is never. He is the same today and forever (Hebrews 13:8). That means He is the same all the time and the same in every generation.
He spoke the world into being. He made the Universe, the Angels and then made us in His image. He is always the God of miracles because He loves and wants to help and heal His people in this fallen world.
But more importantly to Him than showing off His supernaturalness is the Trinity wants to be intimately known by you. His number one desire is an intimate relationship with you. Of course when He shows up, since He is supernatural, His supernaturalness naturally comes into your midst too. He does not leave a piece of Himself outside the door, because I AM THAT I AM is always God in every place and in every generation. It is who He is. We honor the Holy Spirit and let Him lead because He is God. And as God He can do anything He wants to do, and He wants to do plenty. Ask Him to reveal Himself to you and to help you. Yield yourself to Him and you will be blessed indeed.
He visits His children with dreams and Visions. In dreams, He speaks in mysteries, He asks us hard questions to reveal our own hearts to ourselves and to reveal His heart of love to us. We grow in intimacy with God as we chase Him for the answers to these hard-to-understand dreams. It is a life exchange. The living God, calls to us individually by name to come to Him, and the closer we get to Him, the closer He gets to us and then we experience more of who He is, His love, His intimacy, His Lordship as our Creator God, and His Supernaturalness, because you can't pick and choose with God. When you make Jesus your Lord all the Trinity is really in charge of your life, your path, your dreams, and your desires. And when you surrender all those things to Him, you will surely be blessed.
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Ask Your Lord Jesus to speak to you through His word the Holy Bible and by His Holy Spirit to your heart. And read the New Testament, especially the four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John over and over and get to know the voice of Jesus. It will help you to hear His voice more clearly. With practice and the Word of God hidden in your heart you will begin to differentiate the difference of His voice over your own voice, the voice of others, and the voice of the devil.
Ask Him to let you feel His presence and feel is love. Ask Him to give you only His dreams and bind all the influence of the evil one in your life.
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Expect Him to answer! Expect to feel Him.
God is real.
JESUS CAN HEAL YOU
JESUS STILL HEALS TODAY!
Jesus came as the healer. Healer of our souls first and foremost to get us ready for eternity with Him in heaven. Our most important healing we will ever receive is our salvation. Which is our adoption as His sons or daughters and being Born Again. Then we are called children of God.
The Bible is inerrant, meaning it does not have any errors. Meaning it was written by the Holy Spirit through holy men.
When God writes it in the Bible you can count on it. So, when it says in Hebrews 13:8 Jesus is the same,
yesterday, today and forever. It means it.
Don't be confused by some well meaning Bible teachers who say that healing for your physical bodies or your severely hurt heart or your emotional or mental healing is not for today.
By Jesus death on the cross comes the payment for our sins which is accessed by grace through faith.
It is the gift of God. Healing is received in much the same way. By God's grace give to us and by the faith He also graciously gives us.
If we seek first the Kingdom of Heaven and His righteousness all these things will be added to us.
Like salvation, Jesus paid for our healing, for us, by His Stripes we are healed…
1 Peter 2:24-25
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. 25 For you were like sheep going astray, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
If you need any kind of healing start asking the Lord Jesus for it. Pray to Jesus in His name and request
your healing believing Jesus paid with His holy blood to give it to you.
And it is His joy to heal you both with Salvation and with any other kind of healing too!
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Begin to read the first five books in the New Testament. Especially all the healings. Read them over and over again and let your faith in God’s love to heal you arise. Not faith in faith as some have taught in the past. But Faith in Jesus's love and His desire to heal you. Jesus still heals today because of His love for you.
Jesus is real and He loves you! Expect to meet Him.
hungry, humble, teachable
Sarah and I have watched for many years these three simple words in people’s lives,
When these three attributes are alive and activated in people’s lives they produce amazing fruit and ultimately amazing transformation.
Those who choose to make themselves humble, those who choose to develop spiritual hunger and those who choose to make themselves teachable are the ones God chooses to pour into and are the ones God directs His leaders and teachers to pour into. They get grace from God and spiritual leaders, teachers and disciplers.
James 4:6
But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.”
The unhumble or proud get resisted by God. Not a place you want to be. And they get bypassed by spiritual leaders who can smell their pride a mile away.
But, please don’t take this too hard. We all start in pride. We all need to be needed. We all want to be noticed and we all want to be used by God and appreciated by leaders. But when we toot our own horn we loose favor with God and leaders.
Worse is when we think our own opinion is right and we will not humble ourselves and learn from the leaders that God places in front of us to teach us. Then we lose even more favor with God and leaders.
Even worse is when we speak bad about leaders and others and put them down in a desire to lift ourselves up. We cause division, gather people around ourselves, have people pick sides, especially our side. This brings the most resistance from God and leaders.
It actually attracts more than resistance and it attracts correction and consequences to you. You may think, why do leaders always correct me I don’t do anything wrong. If you are prideful and unteachable whose fault is that? And you have no one to blame but yourself. Sowing and reaping is a real thing.
If you choose to make yourself humble and take the correction well and change you will develop humility and start growing spiritually and in your character.
Then after a time of proving you have really changed, everything starts flipping and you draw grace and favor from God and the leaders who corrected you.
All this change just by the simple act of becoming humble, hungry, and teachable and receiving correction and changing. These are the ultimate definition of true humility.
And this is where is where everyone’s growth comes from in their lives.
Hunger, Humility and Teachability.
WATER BAPTISM AND
HOLY SPIRIT BAPTISM
There are TWO life changing BAPTISMS
in the Bible
As you read the New Testament you will see two baptisms. One by water clearly explained in the book of Romans. It is where we get immersed in water after receiving Jesus as Lord.
This helps us enter spiritually into what our Lord experienced when He died for our sins, when He was buried and then resurrected and is now alive forever more.
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When we get water baptized we join Jesus in dying from our old life and letting it get buried with Christ and then when we come up out of the water we join Jesus spiritually in His resurrection because we come up spiritually into our new life with Jesus.
Romans 6:3-4
3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
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Meaning our old man or woman of sins is now dead and buried and the new spiritual man or woman is now alive with Christ. This continues as long as we continue to walk with Jesus till the end of our lives. Then we permanently go home to be with the Lord through death or when Jesus returns and we are changed in the blinking of an eye.
Then there is the Baptism in the Holy Spirit. This is explained in the Book of Acts.
Acts 1:4,5, 8
4 And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, “which,” He said, “you have heard from Me; 5 for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” 8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
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Acts 2:1-4
1 When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
The Holy Spirit is the gentlest of the Trinity. He even receives special protection and honor. If you blaspheme against the Son or the Father you can be forgiven, but not if you blaspheme against the Holy Spirit.
He is a He. And He is a person. He is the third person of the Trinity. The Trinity is a way of describing God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
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The Holy Spirit when He baptizes you brings power and anointing and transformation.
I could not even begin to live the life in Christ that I live now without Him and His Baptism.
Some well-meaning teachers and pastors say that God has changed and is not the same, yesterday, today and forever. They say God has stopped the Baptism of the Holy spirit and only gave it in the day of the original apostles. This is just not true. Just because they have not experienced the Holy Spirit in power does not mean He is powerless today.
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The truth is, since God is unchanging, He gives the Baptism of the Holy Spirit to every generation. That is until the second coming of Jesus Christ.
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And when you get the Holy Spirit Baptism you receive the power of God, the joy of God, and the beginning of the transformation of God deep in your life. And much more, you can receive all the Spiritual gifts that the Holy Spirit wants to give you.
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Seek the Lord Jesus for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Spend time with God reading the Book of Acts and praying for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. And receive Him as a gift from God not something you can earn.
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Remember God is real and expect to experience His love, His Power and His Presence.
Expect to experience Him!
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Remember to be a student of the Word of God. The Word and the Spirit together will keep you from many errors. And be teachable to mature men and women of God to help you avoid errors that you cannot easily see. And with much gifting from the Lord comes much responsibility and much accountability.
WHY SHOULD I GIVE?
THERE IS ONE WHO SCATTERs YET INCREASES MORE
Proverbs 11:24 reads:
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“There is one who scatters yet increases more;
And there is one who withholds more than is right,
But it leads to poverty.”​
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Sarah and I have found in our lives that God has these amazing spiritual laws, Kingdom ways, and Godly principles that are often very contrary to natural human thought and reason. His Kingdom is invisible, but still very active in the natural, seeing world. The natural world will tell you to store away for yourself and let each person fend for themselves. You may have heard people say of poor people, “They can work! Let them go earn their own money!”
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But God has this amazing Kingdom truth that does the opposite from storing away all our money for ourselves. When we give as the Holy Spirit leads us and with the loving leading of our Heavenly Father, we are blessed in the experience of giving and amazing increase comes back on our own lives. Some will call this God’s law of increase. It doesn’t make sense to the natural reason, but God gives back to us when we give, and He loves to do that!
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On the contrary, if we close up our hearts from giving and close our ears to hearing His voice leading us to give, we will miss incredible blessings. We may think we are protecting ourselves from poverty or we may feel a sense of security through accumulating our own wealth, but we may actually be stopping up the heavens from giving us the supernatural increase God wants to give us. (This increase is not just monetary. It can be supernatural peace, joy, healings, family blessings, etc. His increase comes in many ways.)
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Does this mean we can become poor by accumulating wealth for ourselves? It means, we may have money, but if we withhold what the Father is directing us to give, we will be stuck in many other areas of our lives with a poverty or stingy mentality despite having money stored away. We will not experience the lavish, overflowing, generous heart of the Father’s provision flowing into our lives and out through us to those in need around the world.
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As you pray about giving to us or any life-giving Bible-centered ministry that God leads you to prayerfully give to, we encourage you to examine Proverb 11:24 and other scriptures about God’s amazing heavenly monetary system and how it runs.
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Jesus said in Luke 6:38,
“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.”
That is pretty amazing! And what a joy it is to give by the Spirit with the Father’s loving heart! We want to help you be free of the fear of giving. If you are reading this and you sense you have been guilty of withholding more than is right due to fear or due to wrong beliefs you have agreed with growing up, we want to help you get free, so you can experience the joy of giving by the Spirit and the joy of God’s increase in your life.
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If you are ready, you can pray this prayer now:
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Father, I can see that I have followed the teachings of the natural world when it comes to money and giving. I have been taught by others to store away everything I earn, to accumulate wealth for myself alone, or to withhold more than is right. I have been afraid to give as You lead because I have believed I might run out if I give. I have built a sense of security by keeping more money than You have for me to keep.
I forgive and release anyone in my life who has contributed to me believing this worldy pattern and shaped this pattern of belief within me. I forgive and release them for any of the consequences this belief has had in my life leading to a poverty mentality and withholding from other what is right. (If anyone comes to mind, forgive them by name.)
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I ask you to forgive me for this sin of withholding more than is right. I ask you to release me from the sowing and reaping cycle of keeping your blessings only for myself. I receive your forgiveness and cleansing now. And because you have forgiven me, I forgive myself.
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I break agreement with the worldy wisdom of keeping more money to myself than You desire for me to keep.
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Based on the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross and with the authority He has given me as His child, I turn from this worldly mentality. I break the power of this belief from my life and from the lives of my descendants.
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I receive Your freedom now from all stinginess, hoarding, self-protection through accumulation, and withholding more than is right.
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I receive Spirit-led, Father heart giving that gives from Your leading freely and with joy.
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Amen.
JESUS CAN RETURN ANYTIME!
No one knows the day or hour JESUS IS COMING!
Revelation 22:1-21
1 And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 3 And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. 4 They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads. 5 There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever.
The Time Is Near
6 Then he said to me, “These words are faithful and true.” And the Lord God of the holy prophets sent His angel to show His servants the things which must shortly take place.
7 “Behold, I am coming quickly! Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”
8 Now I, John, saw and heard these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things.
9 Then he said to me, “See that you do not do that. For I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.” 10 And he said to me, “Do not seal the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand. 11 He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous, let him be righteous still; he who is holy, let him be holy still.”
12 “And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.”
14 Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. 15 But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.
16 “I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”
17 And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.
18 For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book;
19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
I Am Coming Quickly
20 He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming quickly.”
Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.