FEAR = NEGATIVE FAITH & NEGATIVE RESULTS

A common, major heart bondage is fear. 

Fear is placing your faith in what the world or the devil says, not in what the Bible and the Holy Spirit proclaim. 

Fear is negative faith which, when combined with your words and actions, brings negative results. 

The law of faith functions in both the negative and the positive. 

Your heart must be freed from fear. 

Knowing and receiving the love of God and trusting Him in all things frees you from the bondage of fear.

HE IS NOT FICKLE

Hebrews 8:1 – The principal point, says the author, is that we have a high priest at the right side of the throne of majesty in the heavens. 

In Hebrews 8:8 the writer quotes a long dead prophet through whom God spoke, saying that God would do a new thing aside from the Law of Moses.  It was the new deal of grace and peace.  

My point is that God is not just some force floating around the universe, He is not fickle just taking advantage of the moment – rather he IS. He has a plan and executes it.  As he made a diverse planet for mankind, he has a continuing plan for mankind and through Jesus we escape evil to go into that plan both here on earth and in the heavens.

JESUS VS SATAN

Phil. 2:6 

Being in the form of God he stripped himself of himself and became in the form of a man not thinking it something to attain to being God.  

Wow. Satan did exactly the opposite – he wanted to make himself God. From wonderful and beautiful, he became evil personified and ugly.  Jesus thought about saving, healing and life for us, while Satan and all his spirits only thought about selfishness and power and lies.  After Jesus died, God the Father exalted him highly above all things, and his name is above all names.  He proved himself to be the son of his father – and of the same character.  Satan proved himself to be only pride and all evil.  One died for us, the other exalted himself to destroy us and kill us by separating us from God .

CONTINUAL CLOSE CONTACT

Trusting Jesus.  I needed a very personal contact with God.  I certainly did not think it would be cool to be a Christian, but I had a big encounter with Jesus thirty something years ago in Kona, Hawaii.  A year later at a CDTS at YWAM, Jesus continued to reveal himself to me in a very personal way, then years later I saw him standing and holding his kingdom in Mazatlán, Mexico.  My life has been built upon a continual close contact with Jesus because of the time I spend with him each morning.

My understanding of life has been expanded with experience and knowledge.  One person on a planet of 7 billion, hurtling through space at a fantastic speed, open to the cosmos and co-existing with various other dimensions – me, a spirit temporarily in a human body with eternity before me, yet with physical, emotional and psychological requirements/needs. Including a need to be connected to other people as well as to my own life and experience. Living this life in experience and knowledge magnifies how much I need to know Jesus and understand not only why he came to earth, but his experience here. I draw strength from what he did and solace that as he came for me here, he has gone to prepare a place for me in the heavens. And I will follow him there as I have here.

Now it is my turn to experience a bit of what he did:  he left heaven and came here, as he grew he understood where he came from and who he was.  It must have been completely mind warping to grow up and understand the mission and continue to live as a man, have friends, be here and part of the creation, and then rescue it.  He sweated blood over it. The stress, knowledge, task, and juxtaposition from being a man with friends to returning to be with the Father was overwhelming – but he came for us, opened the way/road to heaven through himself, and is here helping us and there waiting for us.  We can do it because he did it and is here with us strengthening and helping us.   We can do it because he went first. Nonetheless, our true situation on this planet and in the multiple dimensions is mind warping and a bit of what Jesus had to deal with coming to us from heaven, living here and returning to heaven.

GOD GAVE US THE ABILITY TO CHOOSE

The greatness of God’s creation regarding man is choice. Unlike animals humans have the ability to choose their courses. You are not like the ant (preprogrammed) or like a bear operating on instinct. You are not like a dog that reacts to its environment and becomes the sum of its input. No matter what has happened to you, no matter how oppressed, you were given the power of transforming choice. Our species alone can understand, reason, and make choices, the most important being to choose to forgive, to truly love. In this regard, you were created to be God’s image-bearer, to mirror love, forgiveness, grace and to choose that which is necessary for you to be just, true, pure, and holy. (Phil 6:4.)

Forgiveness is a key heart issue and fundamental to be free of spiritual bondages. In this world there are many things, events, words and people that offend God’s sensibilities and ours. Jesus is your example of how to deal with them. He came to save, heal and bless, but was crucified by those He came to help. Still, He didn’t hold a grudge; to the contrary, He opened the door to forgiveness and right standing with God through His suffering.

The issue is never the offense, but how to respond to it. Because of everything God has forgiven you for, you have the obligation to forgive those who have offended you. And, to be blunt (the truth of this will set you free), you no longer have the right to withhold your forgiveness. Decide to forgive because Jesus forgave you; this should become the very core of your personhood.

The ability to forgive not only makes you human; the act of forgiveness is an extremely important part of the process of setting you free (and others free) and making you a warrior for God. Your lack of forgiveness is a spiritual tie (a connection to the spirit world) that binds you to life as it was before you knew Christ. It’s old (dead) news!