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Now concerning spiritual gifts
If thou knewest the gift of God,
God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.
every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
God gave them the like gift as he did unto us,
the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.
I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
So that ye come behind in no gift;
given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ
receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness
ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him
there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit. To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.
on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost
God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money
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He walked with the Lord
He walked with the Lord
Malachi 2:4-7
And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord of hosts. My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name. The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity. For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.
Here we are talking about walking with the Lord, not like Enoch or Noah walking with God. No here we have a man walking with the Lord and like Moses after him he has blood on his hands.
He is a Levite he is a warrior
I propose that we think of the Old Testament Lord God as father God. When in reality the Lord Jehovah is the Father, and God is Elohim (Jesus) in the Old Testament. (see The Trinity in the Old Testament)
As we look at the Old Testament we find that God started all the new things. God created the heavens and the earth. God told Noah how to build the ark. God finally gave Abraham the orders to circumcise himself and his offspring.
We see that the Lord was with God at creation the Lord told Noah that it was going to rain. The Lord closed up the arc after Noah entered in. The Lord caused the rain and God remembered Noah and caused the wind up to dry off the earth.
Noah sacrificed to the Lord. As we look at the Old Testament we find that almost all the sacrifices were made to the Lord not to God. God (Jesus ) is the sacrifice..
When the Spirit of God desended on someone He gave them Wisdom, Understanding, Knowledge and the Skills to build Gods Tabernacle. It is the same today, the Spirit of God helps us to build His Church.
We find this Spirit on the three Hebrew children and Daniel, Joseph, King Saul when he was given a new heart and he prophecied. In both Enoch and Noah they preached righteousness and prophesied.
When the Spirit of the Lord came on someone that person became skilled in warfare, in leadership. The Spirit of the Lord was upon David, Gideon the mighty man of valor, Samson, and Levi. The Spirit of the Lord, is a warrior Spirit. …men annointed with this Spirit fight to keep the Word pure, powerful and effective in leading people to Holiness, Righteousness, Obedience, Sanctification. …to bring whosoever will into the Holy of Holies.
It is the Spirit of the Lord that annointed Jesus to preach the gospel, to heal and comfort the sick to work miracles. This is still a “Billism”, a working theory if you may. I believe Pastors are annointed with the Spirit of God. …They have Wisdom, Understanding, Knowledge and skills with people and the Church is built.
The Spirit of the Lord, I believe we see Him in the lives of Oral Roberts, R.W. Shamboch, Benny Hinn.
As you read the Old Testament. …look for the differences in the Natures of the Lord and God…. Let me know what you think.
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How “I AM” became “He Was”
(or how the church lost the Power of God)
Some might say this is blasphemy. ” Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.” But unfortunately it is the truth.
We no longer preach the Great “I AM”. The church is weak, ineffective, ingrown. ” Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.”” Not my church,” you say.
I ask, do our churches really measure up to the early church? ” He gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.” They had no building, pulpits, children’s ministry, teen ministry, homeless ministry.
They had the POWER OF GOD and He added to the church daily such as should be saved. Be honest if someone comes into church with a contagious disease, we are more likely to say you should have stayed home till you feel better. When we should say “Be healed in the name of Jesus.”
What are we to do?
God heard the cries and groaning of the Hebrew captives in Egypt, because they were in bondage and He remembered His promise to Abraham.
Moses hiding in the desert, turned aside to see a burning bush. The Lord saw and God said; ” Take off your shoes, you are on Holy Ground”.
The first step in the transformation of “I AM” to “He Was” is that we really do not treat the Lords presence as Holy anymore. I am not a clothes line preacher…if you are at the beach…..beach clothes are certainly fine for church. I am more concerned with our attitudes. Do we understand Reverence, Sanctity, Praise, Meditation, Worship?
God heard our cries and groaning when we were trapped in the bondage of sin and shame. He desires us to pay attention to whatever our personal burning bush is and take off our shoes; this means, set ourselves apart, present ourself a living sacrifice, Holy and acceptable unto God. Our minds should be renewed by reading Gods Word. Then we will know the good, acceptable and perfect will of God.
When we enter church, we should think of it as turning aside to see our burning bush….Entering into the presence of God.
The second step in the transformation is how we introduce God.
Moses asked God: “Who should I say sent me?” God answered: “Tell them I AM THAT I AM sent you.”
God is the Great “I AM”; He preformed signs, wonders and miracles to free the Hebrews so that the Egyptians would: “see, know, consider, understand and believe that the Lord “IS” and he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.”
When Jesus was on the earth He preformed signs, wonders and miracles and sent His disciples to do the same. For the same reason: So people would “see, know, consider, understand and believe that Jesus is and is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.”
He promised that “these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.”
When Jesus sent out the 12 they cast out devils and healed the sick. At The Day of Pentecost they spoke with new tongues. …had a boldness to preach, they had power and knowledge to handle the Serpent, the devil and God confirmed the Word with signs following.
So what happened?
“Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works;”
The signs and wonders have grown scarce. We have to many wonderful speakers and not enough dedicated seekers.
I am not saying we don’t love the Lord. Just that we have forgotten what it means to Walk with the Lord. To seek His face and will, in all that we do.
We are afraid our prayers will not answered, we don’t want to say He doesn’t do that anymore, we want to believe but we don’t really know how to reach the Holy of Holies. We can tho. …
The church can and will have power again, when we fast, pray, meditate, praise and above all learn to Worship and share the Great “I AM”. “He is a very present help in times of trouble. ” “Ask, ye shall receive, seek, and you will find, knock, and the door will be opened.
ps.
Have you ever wondered if the gifts of the Spirit might be the talents that the Master left for us to increase till His return. A lot of churches have buried those talents.
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that they may not understand
These were Gods words when He came down to see the city and tower the people were building.
They had one language, Continue reading
Signs of an Apostle
2 Corinthians 12:12 King James Version (KJV)
12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.
The signs of an Apostle: What a concept? Is there a way to prove if someone is an Apostle? What are these signs?
◆ Something that is recognized by people (seen)
◆ Something done with patience (love, the fruit of the Spirit)
◆ Signs (supernatural)
◆ Wonders (unknowable)
◆ Mighty deeds (beyond human ability) Continue reading
Christian, who can you trust?
A nameless Man of God, (MOG), Only mentioned in one chapter of the Bible is our subject today. He appeared in 1 Kings 13.
God sent him from the tribe of Judah to speak with the King of Israel, Jeroboam: whose name means “he that opposes the people. ” or one who leads his people to sin. Continue reading
6. Concerning Spiritual Gifts
In this section, I will be giving a lot of scriptures. …
For to one is given by the Spirit discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues.
For the best example of discerning of Spirits, we need to look at King Saul. ..
He couldn’t decern but those around him could.
1 Samuel 16:14 King James Version (KJV)
But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.
1 Samuel 16:15 King James Version (KJV)
And Saul’s servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubleth thee.
1 Samuel 19:20. King James Version (KJV)
And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.
1 Samuel 28:3. King James Version (KJV)
Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him i Continue reading
5. Concerning Spiritual Gifts.,
brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
For to one is given by the Spirit, prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
prophecy:
13 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
The gifts where we speak; Lord help me are the scariest gifts to work. Perhaps it is a lack of faith on my part. I love to preach the Word of God, share the promises o f God but jump out there to say thus says the Lord; interpret tongues.
I just don’t think the Spirit has annointed me in this area. I am more than confident to proclaim the truth of His written word but the other is a limb that scares me.
Definition of Prophesy and Prophets:
“Prophet
The ordinary Hebrew word for prophet is nabi, derived from a verb signifying “to bubble forth” like a fountain; hence the word means one who announces or pours forth the declarations of God. The English word comes from the Greek p Continue reading
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