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Your Assistants
Your Assistants
Assistant: something that aids and supplements another.
Prayer
Fasting
The Word
Matthew 17: 19Then the disciples came to Jesus and asked privately, Why could we not drive it out? 20He said to them, Because of the littleness of your faith [that is, your lack of firmly relying trust]. For truly I say to you, if you have faith that is living] like a grain of mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, Move from here to yonder place, and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you. 21But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.
Even the disciples had problems in the area of utilizing their assistants.
What was proven in the above scripture?
1. The disciples obviously needed some assistance because in the area of demonic possession, they were powerless.
2. They did not have the faith required for the calling.
3. Jesus knew they needed something extra called fasting.
The number one assistant: Belief
Belief: confidence in the truth or existence of something not immediately susceptible to rigorous proof.
Jesus told the disciples “if you have faith the size of a grain of mustard seed”.
As stated in my book; Where you attend Church, how often you attend service, the people around you think you are anointed and all of the like does not count for anything if you question in your heart whether God exists or if the statements and stories in the bible are true. Christianity is about what you believe. The first action of a Christian is the confession that we believe Jesus Christ is the son of God and He did in fact die on the cross for our sins.
How strongly we believe in our faith equals our level of faith that God will perform everything written in His Word.
Our belief is our greatest weapon against the enemy.
The definition for satan is the accuser.
When he brings an accusation against you, what do you belief? When he tells you that you are sick, what do you belief?
Isaiah 53 1WHO HAS believed (trusted in, relied upon, and clung to) our message [of that which was revealed to us]? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been disclosed? 4Surely He has borne our grief’s (sicknesses, weaknesses, and distresses) and carried our sorrows and pains [of punishment], yet we [ignorantly] considered Him stricken, smitten, and afflicted by God [as if with leprosy]. 5But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities; the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed and made whole.
The first statement in Isaiah 53 asks a question; whose report will you believe?
If you do not believe that Jesus carried our sickness to the cross and by His stripes we are healed, why pray for healing. Christianity is not something we are by happenstance, God chose us to be His children.
I will shout it from the rooftop, RELATIONSHIP, RELATIONSHIP, RELATIONSHIP (WITH GOD).
Christianity is not about your favorite Preacher, speaking in tongues or Sunday worship service. Christianity is about our personal relationship with God.
Fasting: To abstain from food for a time.
There is no other weapon more powerful that fasting. Read the book of Esther. A fast caused a declaration or sentence of death to be overturned. No matter how pretty Esther was groomed to be, she could not effectively revoke the King’s decision without the power of God.
Stemming from our personal ignorance about fasting, Christians are not operating in complete power, because we lack wisdom and knowledge about the power of prayer and fasting. And NO, it is not the responsibility of your leader to teach you.
2Timothy 2: 15Study and be eager and do your utmost to present yourself to God approved (tested by trial), a workman who has no cause to be ashamed, correctly analyzing and accurately dividing [rightly handling and skillfully teaching] the Word of Truth.
So let’s say it all together: IT IS NOT MY LEADERS RESPONSIBILITY TO TEACH ME EVERY WORD IN THE BIBLE.
On the Day of Judgment there is going to be a party of two at your eternal party. And guess what, your leader will not be number 2.
There are many assistants in the bible and most are listed in Ephesians six. I encourage you to effectively utilize the above three and watch your life transform.
Hosea 4:6
my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. "Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children.
Assistant: something that aids and supplements another.
Prayer
Fasting
The Word
Matthew 17: 19Then the disciples came to Jesus and asked privately, Why could we not drive it out? 20He said to them, Because of the littleness of your faith [that is, your lack of firmly relying trust]. For truly I say to you, if you have faith that is living] like a grain of mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, Move from here to yonder place, and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you. 21But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.
Even the disciples had problems in the area of utilizing their assistants.
What was proven in the above scripture?
1. The disciples obviously needed some assistance because in the area of demonic possession, they were powerless.
2. They did not have the faith required for the calling.
3. Jesus knew they needed something extra called fasting.
The number one assistant: Belief
Belief: confidence in the truth or existence of something not immediately susceptible to rigorous proof.
Jesus told the disciples “if you have faith the size of a grain of mustard seed”.
As stated in my book; Where you attend Church, how often you attend service, the people around you think you are anointed and all of the like does not count for anything if you question in your heart whether God exists or if the statements and stories in the bible are true. Christianity is about what you believe. The first action of a Christian is the confession that we believe Jesus Christ is the son of God and He did in fact die on the cross for our sins.
How strongly we believe in our faith equals our level of faith that God will perform everything written in His Word.
Our belief is our greatest weapon against the enemy.
The definition for satan is the accuser.
When he brings an accusation against you, what do you belief? When he tells you that you are sick, what do you belief?
Isaiah 53 1WHO HAS believed (trusted in, relied upon, and clung to) our message [of that which was revealed to us]? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been disclosed? 4Surely He has borne our grief’s (sicknesses, weaknesses, and distresses) and carried our sorrows and pains [of punishment], yet we [ignorantly] considered Him stricken, smitten, and afflicted by God [as if with leprosy]. 5But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities; the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed and made whole.
The first statement in Isaiah 53 asks a question; whose report will you believe?
If you do not believe that Jesus carried our sickness to the cross and by His stripes we are healed, why pray for healing. Christianity is not something we are by happenstance, God chose us to be His children.
I will shout it from the rooftop, RELATIONSHIP, RELATIONSHIP, RELATIONSHIP (WITH GOD).
Christianity is not about your favorite Preacher, speaking in tongues or Sunday worship service. Christianity is about our personal relationship with God.
Fasting: To abstain from food for a time.
There is no other weapon more powerful that fasting. Read the book of Esther. A fast caused a declaration or sentence of death to be overturned. No matter how pretty Esther was groomed to be, she could not effectively revoke the King’s decision without the power of God.
Stemming from our personal ignorance about fasting, Christians are not operating in complete power, because we lack wisdom and knowledge about the power of prayer and fasting. And NO, it is not the responsibility of your leader to teach you.
2Timothy 2: 15Study and be eager and do your utmost to present yourself to God approved (tested by trial), a workman who has no cause to be ashamed, correctly analyzing and accurately dividing [rightly handling and skillfully teaching] the Word of Truth.
So let’s say it all together: IT IS NOT MY LEADERS RESPONSIBILITY TO TEACH ME EVERY WORD IN THE BIBLE.
On the Day of Judgment there is going to be a party of two at your eternal party. And guess what, your leader will not be number 2.
There are many assistants in the bible and most are listed in Ephesians six. I encourage you to effectively utilize the above three and watch your life transform.
Hosea 4:6
my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. "Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children.
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