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God’s Will? Jesus Healed!

Tuesday, 22 March, 2011 07:51 Written by Pastor Bruce 1 Comment

Jesus’ earthly ministry was the manifest will of God. He went about healing and doing good! (Acts 10:38)

One Sabbath day as Jesus was teaching in a synagogue, He saw a woman who had been crippled by an evil spirit. She had been bent double for eighteen years and was unable to stand up straight. When Jesus saw her, He called her over and said, “Dear woman, you are healed of your sickness!” Then He touched her, and instantly she could stand straight. How she praised God! – Luke 13:10-13 (NLT)

Healing is always and forever the will of God because Jesus always did the will of the Father. There was never a time in the earthly ministry of Jesus where He withheld or denied someone healing yet there are some today that doubt whether it is God’s will to heal. Leave your doubt and come over to the life-giving truth of God’s Word!

Jesus is God’s will in action and He heals. Hebrews 13:8 declares that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever therefore we know with absolute certainty that He is healing today. Regardless of who believes this truth or who got mad at Jesus for healing on the Sabbath decide to believe the Word of God and align your heart and mouth with His Word.

Say out loud – I believe that Jesus is healing me right now and I receive it! I line my body, my heart and my mouth up with the Word of God and I praise God for my healing! Thank you Jesus for fulfilling the will of the Father!

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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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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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Storm Proof Life

Tuesday, 11 January, 2011 09:40 Written by Pastor Bruce 0 Comments

Storms come but they do not have to destroy you.

“Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. – Matthew 7:24-25 NKJV

You can determine today to never ever be destroyed by a storm again. The Lord has given us a way to live a storm proof life. He has given us the responsibility to protect our lives from destruction. Many times we pray for Him to protect us from calamity but we need to understand that walking in His Word is so powerful. By conducting our lives according to His Word and becoming a “doer” of the Word of God we will stand strong against any and every storm…and continue standing after the storm passes!

Declare yourself as a DOER of the Word today (and everyday from now on!). Commit to do everything that you see in His Word, immediately. He has given us a rock to build our houses upon.

No matter how many storms you have been through and how many times your house has fallen from storm damage, you can begin today to build a fortress on the ROCK by doing the sayings of Jesus. Make His Word first place in your life and others will see your “storm proof life” and begin to ask “how can I do what you have done?”

It’s all about doing the sayings of Jesus!

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