May 2, 2004

 

“Believing God” (Acts 27:1-44)

 

Phrases:  Stop believing (renounce) in your past and start believing (develop your believing) in your future

 

What you believe is what is real or truth to you:  nothing else.

 

Many Christian people believe in the physical and sense world.  The physical and sense world are the fruit of your believing.  The physical things that you have in your life now came from what you believe now and yesterday with the help of satan and his demons or with the help of God and his angels. 

 

All of this and any “believing” is the direct result of the following exposures:  the constant hearing of words (preaching, what is heard with the ears), visualization (what is exposed to the eyes), association (being around the things that already look like what you will eventually believe and manifest), impartation (the sharing, exchanging and facilitation of a thing into your heart through a trust factor or openness), and meditation (you begin to get thoughts that look like what you will one day manifest).  I call the previously mentioned occurrences the “believing process”.

 

I have observed and continue to observe that many people still believe in what happened to them last week, yesterday or years ago.  Now that I understand believing, I know that what you believe is what you feel, see, say and think on the inside of you about a particular thing.  With this understanding, as I listen to people, watch people I realize that people will never move beyond what they believe about themselves or their circumstances unless there are different exposures occurring on a regular basis to give them new “seeings” (images), new thoughts, new “inside sayings”, new feelings.

 

Believe in something else; something more powerful, wonderful and joyous.  Believe God, His Word and His Kingdom.  Believe your words based upon the principles of the Bible.

 

Why did Jesus come?  To bring us back to Life (John 10:10, I John 3:8, John 3:3-16, Ephesians 2:1-22)

 

I.                 The reason for Redemption

a.       Restoration (Romans 5:1-21)

b.      Re-creation ( II Corinth. 5:17-21)

 

Note:  In the Garden we were joined to satan and we died because of disobedience and sin.  Someone had to pay the price.  Jesus died and paid the price for us all.  He was raised for our justification (sonship).  I am now one with my Father, His Kingdom, His Life, His Will and His family.

 

II.                How would He bring us back to Life? (Ephesians 4:17-32)

a.       through bringing us back to our real Father

b.      By giving us all that we had originally

 

III.              What Now?

a.       Now I am a son (I John 3:1-3)

b.      Now faith (Hebrews 11:1)

c.      Now no more strangers and foreigners (Ephesians 2:19-22)

d.      Now living by the faith of the son of God (Gal. 2:20)

e.      Now made nigh (Ephesians 2:13)

f.       Now no condemnation (Romans 8:1-3

g.      Now access to the Father (Ephesians 2:18, Eph. 3:12)

 

These are the things we should spend the rest of our Christian lives developing in our spirits to believe.  This is our destiny (Ephesians 1:4-5) not what satan and our union to the world did to us.