Peace is so much more than the absence of turmoil. The Hebrew word SHALOM indicates far more than absence of turmoil. In essence, it means: Completeness, wholeness, with nothing missing out of your life and nothing broken in your life
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John 10:10
The thief comes not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might hve life and that they might have it more abundantly.
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Jesus came in order for me to possess life in superabundance, more and better life than I have ever dreamed of.
His purpose is to give me life in all its fullness.
He desires for me to have life to the full.
That full life is one which is free from sickness and disease.
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John 14:27
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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GOD IS NOT THE THIEF!
John 10:10
The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).
Let me summarize this passage of scripture from several other translations (Wuest, The Message, the New Living Translation, Moffatt’s). Jesus came in order for us to possess life in superabundance, more and better life than we ever dreamed of. His purpose is to give life in all its fullness, to have life to the full.
In the above passage of scripture Jesus Himself makes it very clear that His purpose as God coming to this earth was so that we can have and enjoy life, so that we can have life in abundance, overflowing into others’ lives. I don’t know about you, but the last time I looked, sickness and disease do not produce an overflowing of a great life. So, that leaves me with one conclusion. If Jesus did not come to steal and kill and destroy, who did? Of course, we all know the answer to that question. The devil is the thief who comes to steal and kill and destroy. Anything that fits that definition is from the devil.
Sickness steals health and finances and the good life. It destroys the body. It destroys families. It destroys finances. It kills or maims or hurts. Sickness is not a good thing. God is a good God. Don’t ever accuse Him of putting sickness on you to teach you a lesson. He does not operate that way. First of all, He does not have any sickness to give you. He would have to borrow it from the devil, and I don’t think He is employed by nor is He under the devil’s dominion.
Sickness is bad. It is the result of the curse that Adam and Eve brought on us because of sin. All the natural laws that you see in effect around you today are the result of sin and the curse it brought not only to you but also to the earth in which you live. Accidents, tornadoes, earthquakes, storms and catastrophes, floods that continually occur, came with the fall of man. Satan is the author of all this, including sickness and disease and all that happens to man contrary to God’s blessing.
These natural laws and their effects are all around us, but we do not have to be affected by them. Jesus came that we might be redeemed from the curse of the law. That includes anything of which satan is the author. He is the one who has perverted (twisted, wicked) all God has created. Satan doesn’t have the ability to create. We must understand this before we can believe for healing or for anything else from God for that matter. This is not a game of win a few, lose a few, sometimes you win and sometimes you don’t. God created us to win every time, whether it is against sickness and disease or some other perversion of God’s beautiful creation.
Until you find out who you are in Christ and what He has done for you, you are a victim and not a victor. Many Christians blame God for what happens to them, saying God allowed it for their good. God doesn’t need the devil’s help to correct you. The only sense in which God allows it is the sense in that He won’t stop you from robbing a bank or driving 100 miles an hour. He will do everything He can do to get your attention, but if you insist on doing it, He cannot stop you because of your human will to make decisions. You are not a puppet on a strlng. He has given you the authority over all negative and bad situations, and it is up to you to use it.
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WHAT IS PEACE?
John 14:27, Amplified Bible
Peace I leave with you; My [own] peace I now give and bequeath to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. [Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and disturbed; and do not permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and cowardly and unsettled.]
Peace is so much more than the absence of turmoil. The Hebrew word SHALOM indicates far more than absence of turmoil. In essence, it means: Completeness, wholeness, with nothing missing out of your life and nothing broken in your life. Most of us cannot say that exists in our lives. There is brokenness all over the place for us—-broken relationships, broken bodies, broken finances. My question to us is this: Why is it that we who have accepted Jesus as our Savior have the same brokenness dictating our lives as the world has? What is the problem with us? What is going on?
I’ll tell you what the answer is: We know Jesus as our Savior but we do not know Him as our Prince of Peace. We are living in, and surrounded by, a world full of brokenness, a world of darkness and sin and sickness and poverty and broken relationships. Instead of pondering and submitting to that brokenness, we need to be submitting to the Peace of God, to His SHALOM, His wholeness. We as God’s children are living in the Kingdom of God while we are here on this earth. We are to be living in His presence, the One Who is the Prince of Peace, the Prince of Wholeness. And we have been giving more attention to the brokenness of the world than the wholeness of Jesus. We have been allowing the world and its circumstances around us to determine the way we feel about our lives. Our focus has been on what is wrong rather than what is right with Jesus. We are looking with our physical eyes at the mess and listening to others describe the mess to us.
When we take on the vision of Jesus as our Prince of Peace, we see wholeness in the middle of the mess and have confidence in Him to bring completeness out of chaos, wholeness out of brokenness, deliverance out of bondage, safety out of harm, and sweetness out of destruction. He is the One Who makes the desert bloom like the rose. He is the Rose of Sharon, the Lily of the Valley. He takes our stinking circumstances and brings a sweet-smelling savor to make our world brighter when the one around us is dark.
It is all about our focus. Where is our attention being drawn? That which is given priority on the inside of us will determine the direction of our prayer life. We are either praying from a place of turmoil or a place of peace. Turmoil brings the world’s results. Peace brings God’s results. Let us determine to learn to walk in God’s peace. It is time we give the world an alternative to their destruction direction. Instead of their dictating our destiny, let us present to them by our words and actions a better way, a better plan, one which is a pathway of freedom. It is the way of PEACE.
Lest you think that I am presenting a “lay me down rug” mentality, do not be mistaken. God is a protector of His children. His peace is more powerful than anything the enemy can bring against us. Anything of God is His pure power. When we learn that, we have nothing to fear. His peace overrides anything brought against us. Remember that no weapon formed against us prospers, is successful.
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The Holy Spirit of God is my Comforter, Helper, Counselor, and Strengthener.
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HOLY SPIRIT’S PERSONALITY
Today, let’s look at the wonderful ways in which the Holy Spirit totally takes care of us, if we will let Him. He never forces Himself upon us. He waits for our yielding to Him.
The Holy Spirit of God is many-faceted. He is our Comforter. He is our Helper. He is our Counselor. He is our Intercessor. He is our Advocate. He is our Strengthener. He is our Standby. He is our Truth. He is our Peace. He is the One Who brings all things to our remembrance when we need it. We see all of this in scripture, particularly in John 14, 15, 16 and 17. Read those four chapters again and see what Jesus has to say about Himself, about the Father and about the Holy Spirit. These 4 chapters give us the guide for our relationship with God, of knowing Him intimately.
The Holy Spirit is our Comforter. To comfort means to strengthen, to support the person, particularly during distress or danger, to cheer or enliven, to encourage, to strengthen the mind when depressed or enfeebled, to relieve from depression or trouble. A comforter is one who brings consolation to you when you need to be encouraged and lifts you up from the place where you find yourself.
The Holy Spirit is our Helper. This one is pretty self-explanatory. He comes to give assistance to us to accomplish whatever we are doing. He helps us to do what we need to do. He is there for us.
The Holy Spirit is our Counselor. Yes, we do need Him to give us instruction, direction, advice and recommendations. We need His input. He tells us what is the best way, and He is always right. He never makes a mistake.
The Holy Spirit is our Intercessor. Because of the blood of Jesus, He stands in the gap and pleads our case before the Father. He brings reconciliation for us when we mess up. He presents us before the Father as pure and clean because of the sacrifice of Jesus.
The Holy Spirit is our Advocate. An advocate is very similar to an intercessor. He pleads our cause before the Father. He supports us and pleads in our favor. He shows reason why we should be supported and accepted in the Kingdom of God.
The Holy Spirit is our Strengthener. We need His strength to grow strong and then to grow stronger and stronger as we continue our walk with the Lord. We cannot do it in our own human strength or effort. It is all about Him. We are strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.
The Holy Spirit is our Standby. He stands alongside us at all times to take care of us, to let us know that He is there to bring us forward successfully on our path of life toward our final destiny.
The Holy Spirit is our Truth. Nothing false will deceive us as long as we yield to Him and God’s Word. He shows us the true reality of God and His Kingdom as being the only way.
The Holy Spirit is our Peace. Wow, do we need this in the world right now. In God’s Kingdom, peace encompasses everything that makes us whole and free. It is freedom from this world’s trigger points like fear, anxiety, doubts, upsets, etc.
Finally, the Holy Spirit brings to our remembrance everything we need to know and to do, so that we may live a successful life, carrying out God’s plan that He has given us to accomplish while we are here on this earth.
My prayer for you is that you will come to know the Holy Spirit intimately as your best friend and the One in Whom you can put your confidence. He is God here right now in you to love you and take care of you. Seek His Presence. God is such a loving and giving and good God
Categories Pearls of Wisdom
Today, let’s look at the wonderful ways in which the Holy Spirit totally takes care of us, if we will let Him. He never forces Himself upon us. He waits for our yielding to Him. The Holy Spirit of God is many-faceted. He is our Comforter, Helper, Counselor, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, Standby, Truth, Peace. He is the One Who brings all things to our remembrance when we need it.
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THE HOLY SPIRIT
The Holy Spirit is God set apart for us, sent to us by the Father in the name of Jesus to be in us and with us and for us and through us. Holy means set apart; in this case God setting Himself apart for His children, to be present in them and with them forever. The Holy Spirit is sent. He came to dwell in us.
In 1 Corinthians 6:19,20 Paul tells us that our bodies as Christians are the temples of the Holy Spirit. He lives in us as a Gift we have received from God. We are not on our own. He is there for us in all that we do 24-7. He is ever present in us to help us. We are bought with a price—-the precious blood of Jesus. We are paid for and made His own. So then, we honor God and we bring glory to Him in our bodies.
Also, in 2 Corinthians 6:16 Paul once again reminds us that we are the temples of the living God, of the Holy Spirit. God has said that He will dwell in us and walk in us and that He will be our God and we shall be His people.
Temples—-we are the abiding place of God. He lives in our bodies. Our bodies are the place where He chooses to live now, not the man-made buildings. We are God’s building, and our bodies are where He has chosen to dwell, as we allow Him. That is why satan hates it when we dance before the Lord, raise our hands in praise to Him, adore Him with our voices joining in choruses of worship and joy. Our whole bodies are indwelt by the Holy Spirit of God. He is the same Spirit that raised Christ Jesus from the dead, and He is dwelling in our mortal bodies, giving life to our bodies (Romans 8:11). Oh, my dear reader, disease, doubt, unbelief, fear has no place in this indwelt temple of the living God. Let us be in constant awareness of Who lives in us.
Living here on this earth, even in the middle of the Babylonian world system, even surrounded by trouble of all kinds, can be easy and should be a place of rest as we allow the Holy Spirit of God to empower us at all times to live a victorious life. Unfortunately, what we all have tended to do is attempt to solve our problems on our own, out of panic and fear that if we don’t do something immediately, everything will come unraveled and fall apart. That is exactly the devil’s tactics. Hurry up and do something. When you find yourself in that mode, STOP, STAND STILL and say: Holy Spirit, give me the voice and the words to pray in the spirit until I KNOW what to do through you.
In John 14:16 and John 16:13 Jesus said that He would ask the Father and He will give us another Comforter (One of the same kind as Jesus; in other words, God in the person of the Holy Spirit) that He may remain with us forever. He is the Spirit of Truth, Whom the world cannot receive. But we know Him. We recognize Him. We hear His voice. He lives in us constantly. He is with us.
The Holy Spirit is sent by God the Father in the name of Jesus, in Jesus’ place, to represent Jesus, and to act on His behalf. He will teach us all things. He will bring all things to our remembrance. What I find interesting is that in the very next verse Jesus said that He was leaving His Peace with us. The Holy Spirit is our Peace. He is our Shalom. He is our Wholeness. He is our Health. He is our Prosperity. He is our Salvation. He is God Eternal! Jesus says that because of His Peace, Who is the Holy Spirit (Whom God is giving to us) we do not have to let our hearts be troubled or be afraid. We are not to allow ourselves to be agitated or disturbed. We are not to permit ourselves to be fearful or intimidated or cowardly or unsettled. What a wonderful assurance in the days in which we all find ourselves living. Let the Holy Spirit be our everything, the solution to all that faces us.
Tomorrow we will talk about the many roles of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
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