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Fig Trees to Mountains

Monday, 31 January, 2011 09:03 Written by Pastor Bruce 0 Comments

Changing what you can see with what you can’t see. Jesus taught us the power of faith and words when we spoke about the fig tree and the mountain.

Jesus answered them, “I can guarantee this truth: If you have faith and do not doubt, you will be able to do what I did to the fig tree. You could also say to this mountain, ‘Be uprooted and thrown into the sea,’ and it will happen. – Matt. 21:21 GW

God created the universe with words and He created man with the power to speak the same words that He spoke to create all that was created. We are created beings created with the ability to create…with our words…as our Creator did. What a deep revelation!

Jesus fully expects us to speak to a mountain (an obstacle) in our way and with faith, trust and confidence SAY – “move out of my way and jump in the sea!”. We were made in His image to do what He did! He did not give us the power so that we could put it up on the shelf and display it when friends and family come over to visit. He wants us to use it. Put it into practice and do something about those challenges that come against us. Pray and say. Believe (don’t doubt) and speak the Word. He guaranteed that it works.

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If You Say So

Tuesday, 18 January, 2011 08:22 Written by Pastor Bruce 0 Comments

“Whatever you say can and will be held against you in a court of law…” Words matter.

You brood of snakes! How could evil men like you speak what is good and right? For whatever is in your heart determines what you say. A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart. And I tell you this, you must give an account on judgment day for every idle word you speak. The words you say will either acquit you or condemn you.” – Matt. 12:34-37

These words that Jesus spoke are still ringing out over 200o years after He spoke them. Words are more important than we know. We are using more words today than at anytime in the past but communicating less. Humor and sarcasm are rampant which has produced a devaluation of words. Most people don’t mean what they say and don’t value what they say (or anything that is said by anyone else).

We have been led to believe that “talk is cheap” and words are a “dime a dozen”. This is far from the truth.

The words that you speak are an indication of what is in your heart (where your heart is). That is why you can listen to someone speak for five minutes and identify where they are in a spiritual sense. Your words are so powerful that the Word of God says that life and death are in the power of the tongue!

Watch what you say. Analyze your words and make sure that you are speaking life. Make sure that you are not just running your mouth but saying something positive and valuable. Don’t fall into the trap of believing that words don’t matter or that sarcastic humor is acceptable. Remember that your words are the most powerful thing that God has given you.

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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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His Sons and Daughters

Wednesday, 28 July, 2010 09:26 Written by Pastor Bruce 0 Comments

Sons and daughters of God have privileges. One of those is that we are privileged to be able to be led by His Spirit.

Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

Our Father wants us to be Spirit led not “head led”. Not education led, credential led, “networking” led, or any other way BUT, SPIRIT LED!

He has provided His Spirit to bear witness with our spirit that we belong to Him and how to follow His plan for our life.

If the Word of God declares that we as natural parents should bring our children up in the way that they should go (God’s way). Then it is His will that He desires to bring us up in the way that He wants us to go. Our ideas are just that…our ideas. We must take them to our Father in prayer and ask Him to shine His light on each thought that we have and show us His will (in all things!)

We have a right to expect to be led by His Spirit because He has gone to great lengths to give us His sure Guide (The Holy Spirit). It is time for us to declare by faith that “we are His children and we are led by His Spirit!”, on a daily (and hourly) basis! Be led today!

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You Can Do It

Thursday, 04 March, 2010 05:43 Written by Pastor Bruce 0 Comments

Face it, God would not ask you to do something that you could not do.

“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” – Phillippians 4:13

Following God requires that you walk in His strength. His strength in us is His ability flowing through us by His Spirit.

There is nothing that you can not do that God is leading you to do.

For example, from His Word we can see that it is His will for us to love our spouse and our family. This can not be done through our own strength, it requires the power of God working in us. He does not expect us to fulfill His supernatural will with our natural means. Through God we can do all things.

You may feel like you can not do what you know that you should and what you know that God is asking you to do, but remember:

  1. God is just and can not ask you to do something that you can not do
  2. He wants you to rely on Him and His strength to do all that you must do

Don’t say that you can’t because through Him and with His strength, you can! Rise up in the power of His might and show all those around you that you can do it! Declare I CAN DO ALL THINGS through HIM!

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