GO WITH JESUS

Decide to go with and into Jesus and what He says. 

Take no other exit. 

Fight the good fight so your particular war ends only after the enemy is defeated. 

Keep at it until you win. 

Bottom Line: you can get there from wherever you are, no matter how damaged you are, no matter how impossible it seems in the natural. Review the stories of Abraham and Moses. They started too late and only achieved what God had for them by living the supernatural. 

I’m laying out the principles of your existence and showing you how to manage things so you can live the life that God has for you. 

LIVING IN A REALITY OF CHRIST

Someone I know is fond of saying, “The way you see it – so it must be.” That’s a profound statement. Reality remains subject to each person who interprets it. How you perceive reality will govern you. What is your own point of view?

God wants you to understand what He’s saying so your subjective (understood) view coincides in truth with the natural, spiritual and supernatural reality (life) that God has opened for you to live in. Jesus said, “I am the truth, the way and the life.” When you live what God has for you in the way He makes for you, what you take by faith and your reality (life) become the same. 

You live in the fullness of the life God has given you through and in Jesus.

In Romans 12:2b, Paul lays out the principle when he says, “...be transformed by the renewing of your mind....” We have to understand, think, and ultimately live according to the truth of what God has given us.

Peter, the impulsive (perhaps unstable) fisherman got it. He left his prior understanding (which was reality for him) and the constructs that governed his life and went on to confirm Jesus’ work on the cross and God’s love through signs, wonders and miracles. In his first letter, Peter says in the first chapter, verse thirteen: “Therefore, gird up the loins of your mind....” -- that is, keep your mind strong, prepared and protected.

Grab what God is saying here: you need to protect both your mind and its strength to gain life in God and experience your true God-given reality. This is how we begin to live in the promised supernatural provision and life that God teaches in the Bible.

So the challenge is to understand God, His purpose, and what he has done – and to believe. When you do, your understanding through faith will open a new reality for you – and a corresponding new life!

Before I met Jesus, I didn’t take into account the existence of any God, much less a God Who could know me and who I could know (a real person). Yet that God and the host of evil were already working in my life. And although I was surrounded by a spiritual dimension, I didn’t realize it, nor did I know I was controlled by spirits.

In a very real sense, my life was a play. I lived as directed by evil. I was an actor playing the part that Satan assigned to me. The part I played was not the real life available in and given by God, but a sub-life created in a bubble. I accepted evil’s tale as true life much like Jim Carey in The Truman Show accepted his life. As he was in the movie, I was an actor in a created life which was not the life truly available – it was created by lies and sleight of hand. But like Carey in the movie, the possibility existed to understand and to open the door and see and live the real life available outside the bubble. That is what God offers us in Jesus Christ. 

The only correct understanding I had was that I lived in a human body. I lived a life based upon a complete lack of understanding of my true condition. I was living tragedy and my manifest life was largely fantasy: I became a sexy pirate smuggler to make living in the bubble tolerable.

At the moment I met Jesus, I grasped that everything I had built my life on was false – my conclusions and how I saw everything were based on certain misunderstandings and on an elementary, even primitive, level of knowledge. (Note Isaiah 65:2b.) The moment I encountered Jesus and heard His voice, I knew that my life was all wrong: Shortly after that I learned about evil spirits and how they had controlled me from birth.

The process of my salvation has largely been a process of understanding my environment, the players, and what God has done to take me from where I was to the promised abundant life (still continuing on) and finally into heaven. For me, it was necessary for Him to teach me what I needed to know to navigate in this world and in the spirit world successfully and in truth.

It has been work to leave the theater of my mind and body behind and successfully live the life God wants for me. It has also been the process of learning that God is God – a real God with limitless power who cares for me, and that I am loved, truly loved.

The point is that God has a good and abundant life for us in and through Jesus. 

RENEW YOUR WAY OF THINKING

The Western world has failed to see and understand the spirit dimension.

As a sad result, many walls of protection have collapsed, allowing Satan and his hosts of evil to overwhelm our society like a tsunami. The evil ones hate being exposed, hate when their tactics are revealed, and hate even more that you now know God, how to defend yourself, and that you are on the offensive to get what God has given you. 

If you react negatively to the teachings on this blog and in Defeat Your Saboteurs, please just consider the possibility that the source of your discomfort may be from spirits that fear being disclosed.

The truth is that you’re bombarded by evil beings hell-bent on conforming you to their distorted agendas. Your environment is intense. Our own spirits, souls and bodies are continually subjected to input from the spirit dimension. The input is in the form of thoughts, spirit “pressure” (applied directly to our spirits, souls and bodies) from local spirits, and by pressure exerted by the spirits in the air (the powers and principalities mentioned in Ephesians 6:12). Our minds and spirits are also influenced by the continual ungodly demands of our fallen body.

What we accept, believe, and conclude from our thoughts and experiences form our perception of reality. It is, by definition, a subjective reality, i.e. our individual reality. The entire host of evil is there to mold our subjective reality so we fail to understand Who God is, who we are, what He has for us now and in the future, and how to live it. Satan and his hosts want us to live their reality so they can manifest through us. 

God wants our perception of our situation in Jesus to be true and correct so we can experience and receive Him and what He has for us. 

FAITH IS A FORCE

Faith is a force. 
The Bible says that your faith, even faith the size of an almost invisible mustard seed (Matthew 17:20), is sufficient to move mountains. As we can push and move things in the physical dimension, so faith pushes and moves things in the spirit world (dimension). Great faith operates like a bulldozer or crane does in the physical dimension. If it is big enough, obstacles are removed.

Faith is a conduit. 
Faith is a passageway between the spirit and physical worlds.
The things (and works) of God that exist in the spirit world manifest in the physical by your faith in them. Your faith is the channel that allows spirit things to manifest in your physical world.

Faith also is the interface where God moves on your behalf. 

Faith, authority, and actions. 
You have authority over Satan and his power. Luke 10:17 and 19, respectively, say: “Then the seventy returned with joy, saying, ‘Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name’” and “Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.” Matthew 18:18 says: “Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed (let loose) in heaven.” Faith is your enabler; through faith you believe what He says; with it you exercise the authority that God has given you through Christ. Through faith you take actions. By faith you continue doing whatever “it” is until the results manifest, until they become solid and secure for you (i.e. you believe that your existence in God is as He says it is).