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Yes to Your Spirit and No to Your Flesh

Thursday, 22 September, 2011 20:56 Written by Pastor Bruce 0 Comments

A key to living a victorious life is taking control of your flesh and allowing your spirit to rule.

Romans 8:13 AMP – For if you live according to [the dictates of] the flesh, you will surely die. But if through the power of the [Holy] Spirit you are [habitually] putting to death (making extinct, deadening) the [evil] deeds prompted by the body, you shall [really and genuinely] live forever.

We have to become strong spiritually first by feeding on the Word of God daily in order to take control of our flesh. Galatians 5 lists some of the works of the flesh and they are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, uncontrolled drinking and feasting and “the like” (or things that are similar to these). This is a long list and only controllable by those who are walking in the spirit and after the Spirit of God.

The way that we gain control over our flesh and it’s desires is to learn an important word, “NO”! When we say NO to our flesh at the moment of temptation then we are able to say YES to our spirit! Our spirit wants to do right and wants to serve the Lord. We have to make the conscious decision to allow our spirit to rule over our flesh. Live in the supernatural rather than the natural. Take the high road and do the right thing by saying YES to the spirit. You CAN do it!

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Give the Lord Something to Work With

Thursday, 03 March, 2011 08:44 Written by Pastor Bruce 0 Comments

Your assignment: GO and PREACH! Jesus is with you to confirm His Word.

And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord kept working with them and confirming the message by the attesting signs and miracles that closely accompanied [it]. – Mark 16:20

Yes, God is omnipotent and at the same time chooses to use us to do His work in the earth. He is using His Body in the earth today to preach the Gospel to every creature!

You do not have to have a doctorate of ministry to share the Word of God with someone that is on the wrong road in life. But you must know what you believe and why you believe it. It must be real to you and working in your life. Your experience with Jesus and how He saved you is the most powerful tool that you have to lead others to the Lord. Paul used his “Damascus Road” experience many times in his life. What is real to you will be real to others as you share.

You may never “feel” ready but the truth is the Lord never said, “When you “feel” good and ready then go share the Gospel with others…” We need to be ready at all times to have an answer for anyone that would ask us about this great hope that we have in us! Jesus is the HOPE of GLORY that you and I have! And we are all called to GO and PREACH.

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Heavy Laden or Easy Yoke?

Monday, 17 January, 2011 11:52 Written by Pastor Bruce 0 Comments

“I am so busy”, “I just don’t have any time”, “I’m stressed out!” These are heard more and more commonly these days. And the sad thing is that it is accepted by most as “honorable”.

Matt. 11:28  Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest. [I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.]

Being stressed may be “fad-ish” but it is far from honorable and not the way that God designed us to live. We cannot live long and live strong carrying the weight and the stress of the world! Jesus worked hard doing the will of His Father but never once declared, “I am on the edge of burnout so I must take a vacation and vegetate for a few weeks”.

Jesus wants us to work hard to get the will of God done on the earth but be yoked up with Him so that we don’t become overburdened and stressed out.

If we have allowed ourselves to get stressed out it is because we have failed to get (and stay) yoked up with Jesus! We should be invigorated and energized by our fellowship with Him, drawing our strength from Him to press on and finish our course strong. Learn to wait in His presence until you be endued with power from on high! Take His easy yoke.

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Faith Can Be Seen

Thursday, 13 January, 2011 11:06 Written by Pastor Bruce 0 Comments

Faith involves action and can be seen. It is the link between the seen and the unseen.

Then behold, they brought to Him a paralytic lying on a bed. When JESUS SAW THEIR FAITH, He said to the paralytic, “Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you.”  – Matthew 9:2 NKJV

Faith sees what cannot be seen with the human eye in order to bring it into the realm of the seen! We walk by faith and not by sight.

Faith is a whole lot more than just positive confession of God’s Word although it involves a positive confession of God’s Word. When we believe something it affects our actions!

Hebrews 11 is full of people of faith that did mighty exploits by faith. They believed something but because they believed something it caused them to do something. We have a lot of “faith talkers” around but far few “faith doers”. It is time that we transfer what we believe into action. Pray in faith and then get up and do something about it.

I am sure glad that the friends of the paralytic were as filled with faith as their bedridden friend. They must have believed that Jesus was healing and that Jesus would heal their friend to go to the lengths they did to get him into the place where Jesus was ministering that day. They showed their faith by their works for sure! Determine to show your faith, do what you can do and God will do what He has promised you that He would do. Why wait?!

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Locating the Heart by the Mouth

Wednesday, 20 January, 2010 09:48 Written by Pastor Bruce 0 Comments

When you speak you give yourself away.

…How can you speak good things when you are evil (wicked)? For out of the fullness (the overflow, the superabundance) of the heart the mouth speaks. The good man from his inner good treasure flings forth good things, and the evil man out of his inner evil storehouse flings forth evil things. But I tell you, on the day of judgment men will have to give account for every idle (inoperative, nonworking) word they speak. – Matthew 12:34-36 AMP

These were Jesus words to the religious leaders of the day. This was in response to their accusation that He was casting out demons because He had a demon. Their words gave voice to what was in their heart.

All you must do in order to locate people is let them talk for about 5 minutes. If their words are filled with hate, fear, doubt, criticism and pride then it is evident what is in their heart.

(But to hear what someone has to say you must let them talk. This “exercise” also helps us develop the all important skill of listening.) The more that you begin to listen to people the more aware you are of the words that you are speaking, then naturally you begin to judge your heart and words to make sure that they line up to God’s Word.

Your heart and mouth are connected. It is useless to use the excuse, “Yeah, I said that but I really didn’t mean it…” Change what is in our heart and the words that are coming out of our mouths will change.

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