LET’S DECLARE AND DECREE THIS PROCLAMATION: I’M A NEW CREATION, OLD THINGS ARE PASSED AWAY, ALL THINGS HAVE BECOME NEW, THIS IS MY MOMENT TO RISE UP AND OVERCOME. I CHOOSE JOY.
Psalm 16:5-9- “O Lord You are the portion of my inheritance and my cup; You maintain my lot. The lines have fallen to me in pleasant placed; Yes I have a good inheritance. I will bless the Lord Who has given me counsel; my heart also instructs me in the night seasons. I have set the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad. and my glory rejoices;my flesh will rest in hope”
Truths: We are His Warrior Bride dressed in white We are clothed in new garments of praise and worship as New Creations, wearing our Holy Armor. We are being formed into New Wineskins. We have access to the heavenly realm and kingdom.
Proverbs 4:23 Hebrews 4:16
We submit to the progressive maturation process.
I John 3:8 Colossians 3: 2,9,10 Colossians 4:12 Stand perfect and complete in all the will of God 2 Corinthians 2:14-17 Ephesians 2:1,5,12b,13 Psalm 27:14
Father, I want to be filled with Your compassion. Show me Your heart. I am a settling place for Your Reigning Presence of glory!
The distinguishing quality or characteristic of the Favor of the Lord is His Presence. SOAK IN HIS PRESENCE AND BE A CARRIER OF HIS DIVINITY.
Jerimiah 6:16
His Presence is teh greatest weapon we can engage with when we are in spiritual warfare. His brilliant Presence is the very atmosphere that assures us of His favor and blessing and REST.
Psalms 46:10
WORSHIP, THANKSGIVING, REJOICING IN PRAISE- RECALIBRATES OUR HEARTS TO HIS MAJESTY G.COOKE
Exodus 30:34-36
Stacte-myrhh- His Word
Onycha- shell-humility, brokenness
Galbanum- flower- God is good
Frankincense- tree resin- the righteousness of Christ
It is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, meekness, temperance, and faith. –Galatians 5:22-23
I want to enrich your thinking about God’s fruit and elevate your perspective about it.
The fruit of the Spirit manifested in your life is evidence of His Presence.
His Presence displays His fruit.
The full nature and character of God is evidenced in the fruit of the Spirit. The fruit of the Spirit is Evidence of the new creation life.
WHAT YOU BELIEVE ABOUT GOD WILL BE A KEY IN WHAT KIND OF FRUIT IS SEEN IN YOUR LIFE.
ALIGN YOURSELF WITH GOD.
We can elevate our vision to align with His perspectives of peace, promise and provision thereby displaying His life: His fruit in our lives.
Alignment is relational.
relationship
relative
receive
remain
John 15:1-4, 8
abide
agree
align
Galatians 5:22-23
The first fruit is love: all the rest are complementary to this foundational truth. God is love and
HIS LOVE COMPLETES THE LAWS OF GOD.
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, meekness, temperance and faith.
Love that completes
Joy that overflows
Peace that subdues
Patience that endures
Kindness in action
A life full of virtue
Faith that prevails
Gentleness of heart
Strength of spirit
THESE ARE LIMITLESS QUALITIES.
As we rest in Him, we find ourselves experiencing a greater revelation of His gentleness, kindness, joy and love which is His very Essence. His peace, His goodness, His faith – THE VERY NATURE OF GOD.
We can draw closer to God through studying His Word, through prayer, by being connected and committed to a local body of believers.
Make room for Him, remain in constant communication with Him, waiting on Him in His Presence until the flow begins and the Holy Spirit takes over your very breathing.
Cultivate a spirit of surrender to intimacy with the Holy Spirit.
Faith in the logos – Hearing the rhema
The Word is alive causing us to progress into ever-deepening expressions of the Lord’s mighty power: fashioning us into Warriors of truth of His kingdom displaying His fruit.
Ways to deepen relationship with the Word
Memorization
Visualization
Personalization
Melodization
Hebrews 5:14
Luke 6:44
Philippians 4:17
Our transformation – He loves… He triumphs in our new man image coming forth and rising to be seated with Him in heavenly places as we are created to please Him and encounter Him every day; having our eyes enlightened with a deeper understanding of Him. His true nature is visibly displayed through us every day as we “see Him” in ourselves, and those around us; as we encounter and depend on His Grace being more than sufficient.
Remain in a rest produced by believing that His Presence is present.
Amen!
Turn to the One Who has enfolded you into His grace.
Lion of Judah or the toothless roaring of a dead lion without teeth or power?
2 Corinthians 2:14 – Now thanks be to God who ALWAYS causes us [leads us] to triumph in Christ…
Psalm 106:47
Intimacy with the Living Christ, the Living Word of God in the secret place where we meet Him, worship Him, and learn about Him, establishes that reality and builds in us a concrete foundation of Truth with Jesus as the Capstone of the Arch and the Head of the Corner.
Psalm 118:22
Psalm 118
Psalm 118:12-13
Psalm 118:15
What Jesus accomplished on the Cross:
Colossians2:14, 15
Jesus said to me: I came with the purpose to defeat all of your foes.
Your triumph is My delight
I John 3:7-9
Colossians 2:3
Colossians 2:19
Hebrews 4:16
Genesis 1:26
I Corinthians 15:49
Romans 8:29
We are to grow in the image of God.
“As we are conformed to the image of Christ, He is made more and more the center of things” – Piper
Galations 4:19
His desire is to conform us into His Image through: the Scriptures, awakenings, encounters, the process of sanctification, the impartation of the reality of Jesus’ Presence, the truths of Holy Spirit as He teaches us through experience, and the pouring of Himself into us through supernatural love and wisdom which encompasses the mind of Christ. Through His very Living Presence and Essence in our lives as He causes us to triumph in praise and worship.
Two ways that Holy Spirit builds our images to look like God through Christ:
1. Process
2. Impartation
Process comes through life experiences and leads to divine acceleration through relational learning- Holy Spirit is the Tutor. In the process the Word becomes truth which leads to encounters.
Divine ACCELERATION comes to a heart that is open to God’s processes.
Hebrews 4:12
Isaiah 55
Pay attention to His Word and believe His prophetic promises. Learn His thoughts, His ways, set your affections on Him. Walk in the destiny He has carved out for you and stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. Believe.
FIX YOUR ATTENTION ON HIS WORD AND HIS WAYS. He is limitless. Allow Him to conform you into His image.
Our purpose is to become Partakers of the divine nature and to walk through the entrance that has been made for us abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Jesus is a Light that shines in a dark place until the day breaks and the Morning Star rises in our hearts.
2 Peter 1:19
in 2 Peter 1:21 Peter writes about men who were moved by the ‘Phero” the mighty rushing wind of the Holy Spirit from God and they wrote the Divine Word.
Paul wrote a specific testimony to his son in the faith Timothy.
1 Timothy 1:14– and the grace [unmerited favor and blessing] of our Lord [actually] flowed out super abundantly and beyond measure for me, accompanied by faith and love that are [to be realized] in Christ Jesus.
Simon Peter wrote 2 Peter to believers declaring his faith, and giving instructions to us.
At the end of the chapter he describes how he actually heard the Voice {Matt 17} from the Excellent Glory declare that Jesus was His Son on the Mount of Transfiguration. He was an eyewitness of His Majesty. He declares that because of this He proclaims that the prophetic Word was confirmed that Jesus is the Messiah as described in the Old Testament.
He begins the letter as such:
2 Peter 1: 2- GRACE AND PEACE BE MULTIPLIED TO YOU IN THE [FULL, PERSONAL, PRECISE, AND CORRECT] KNOWLEDGE OF GOD AND OF JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.
GRACE- divine favor, God’s lovingkindness in our reality
PEACE- perfect wellbeing, serene confidence, all necessary good, all spiritual prosperity, and freedom from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts.
Who we are becoming… Who we are now, is linked with our future destiny as we believe in what the Word says. Our identity is in our transformation as new creations in God in Christ. Holy Spirit supports our journey from the present to the future.
2 Peter 1:3-4
Some definitions to consider when reading this chapter:
Diligence- constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken, persistent exertion of body or mind; carefulness and long term effort.
Partake- eat or drink, join in, engage in, become involved with.
EMPLOY EVERY EFFORT… to what?
We need to be DILIGENT to submit and flow with Holy Spirit in the fullness of the Godhead which is in us and submit to the process of Galatians 2:20, so that HE CAN RISE FROM WITHIN AND DISPLAY HIS GLORY THROUGH US.
Exercise- use or apply, employ, utilize, make use of [a faculty, right or process]
Develop- grow and become more mature by going through a process of successive stages, disclose, bring into existence, advance, unfold, arise, emerge, erupt, Change into a more advanced, larger, or stronger form: something bigger usually over a period of time.
2 Peter 1:5 -7, 8,9,10
GIVE DILIGENCE- CAREFULNESS AND LONG TERM EFFORT.
CALLING- ELECTION
2 Peter 1:11
Warnings: 2 Peter 3:13-14, 17,18
GROW IN THE GRACE AND KNOWLEDGE OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST.
Who Is Jesus? The Author and Finisher of Our Faith
by Pastor Marie Esposito
“The Son is the dazzling radiance of god’s splendor, the exact expression of God’s true nature-His mirror image. He holds the universe together and expands it by the mighty power of His spoken words. He accomplished for us the complete cleansing of sings, and then took his seat on the highest throne at the right hand of the Majestic One.”
Hebrews 1:3
He is the Author and the Completer of our faith. -Hebrews 12:2
Faith-complete trust and confidence in something or SOMEONE. Strong. Believe.
Faith is a substance…Faith comes by hearing…
Colossians 2:15 – He is the complete fullness of deity living in human form. He is the Divine Portrait, the true likeness of the invisible God, and the firstborn of all creation And our completeness is now found in Him. We are completely filled with God as Christ’s fullness overflows within us. He is the head of every kingdom and authority in the universe~ Through our union with Him we have experienced circumcision of heart. All of the guilt and power of sin has been cut away and is now extinct because of what Christ, the Anointed One, has accomplished for us.
WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THIS JESUS?
WORSHIP HIM.
Hebrews 12:1-3
Colossians 2:10-13
It is finished! – John 19:30
Psalm 52:9
Revelation 21:6,7
He that overcomes shall inherit all things; and I will be His God, and he shall be My Son.
Ephessians 1:14-16
We can walk in His powerful IDENTITY in us
and become His DESIGN for us.
Our identity in Him and with all that His blood sacrifice won on the Cross is our DESTINY.
He is the AUTHOR AND THE FINISHER OF HIS OWN DESTINY IN US.
Gentleness is the entryway into His Peaceful Presence. His gentleness opens our hearts to self control, as we rest in Him, and leads us to surrender and soft heartedness so that we can be transformed
What is it? How is it connected to our walk?
Gentleness- praotes- a disposition that is: even tempered, tranquil, balanced in spirit, unpretentious. and that has the passions under control
Meekness- power and strength under control. A person who possesses this quality pardons injuries, corrects faults and rules his own spirit well.
the essence of fully controlled power of His Presence, with an ability to move and operate within the confines of His Kingdom with authority, power and FULL RELIANCE ON THE HOLY SPIRIT
Power- kratos- dominion, strength, manifested power. exerted strength, power shown effectively in a reigning authority, His kingdom authority, dominion and majesty
GENTLENESS IS FROM GOD.
HEis gentle.
Psalm 18:35
Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
I Timothy 6:12
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence being the proof of things we do not see and the conviction of their reality. Hebrew 11:1
Exercise your faith.
REST is the key to winning the fight. we rest in what we believe.
Rest creates a relational cycle. – G. Cooke
Galatians 5:22-23 fruit of the Spirit
Matthew 11:28-20
Romans 8:2-6
Colossians 3:2
I Timothy 1:5
LOVE HAS A NAME.
BUILD A TREASURY THAT WILL LAST.
BUILD A LIFE IN GOD.
GOD’S NATURE AND HIS TRUE RICHES:
Righteousness
Godliness
Faith
Love
Patience
GENTLENESS
I Timothy 6:6
Philippians 4:11-15
I Timothy 6:6-7
I CAN REST IN HIS CARE KNOWING THAT I AM LIVING IN GOD’S PROVISION.
I Corinthians 13:4-5
Psalm 18:35
I Peter 5:6
Matthew 5:3
Matthew 5:5
Psalm 37:11
Matthew 5:3
Matthew 5:8
Psalm 17:15
Isaiah 57:15
WHEN WE STAY IN COMMUNION WITH THE GENTLE ONE WE LIVE IN CONTINUOUS REVIVAL. HIS GENTLENESS WILL MAKE US GREAT.
what is it? where is it? how do I find it in the chaos?
Grace is the exousia and the dunamis divine power of God.
Our continuous spiritual conversion id out Life in the Spirit as we live from the inner life moving as the inner man. This is our identity as we walk in His Grace.
Divine empowerment. MULTIPLIED GRACE.
we want to be a people who start the wave and ride it all the way to the shore. Transformed children of God.
LIBERTY WALKER KINGDOM WALKER SPIRIT WALKER
2 Peter 1:3
ALL SUFFICIENT ALL POWERFUL SUFFICIENCY TO MEET EVERY NEED.
We can walk in a sovereign graced country.
The kingdom of God, awakened to righteousness.
Phil 4:19
Root your identity in the kingdom of heaven and remain stable and fixed under His Shadow, totally relying on His Grace for each day. Ps 91
GRACE-DIVINE MEANS OF HELP AND STRENGTH
Romans 5:17
2 Cor 12:9
Col 1:20
Heb 4:16
Jer 33:3
Numbers 17:1-11
Is 11
BE THE BRANCH. Bear His fruit.
John 15:8
EMBRACE THE GRACE
Rms 5:17
Eph 2:14
GRACE IS A FREE GIFT FROM GOD THROUGH HIS SON JESUS THE LIVING CHRIST.
