Now that the sin debt has been paid, God is now at peace with humanity. God’s need for a blood sacrifice for sin has been satisfied through Jesus’ death. Eph. 2:11-22, Heb. 9:22

Although God has made peace with humanity, humanity is still under the condemnation of sin and has to make peace with God if it wants to have a relationship with and spend eternity with God.

When you were born-again “You” spirit got saved!

Your soul, the seat of your emotions, which was contaminated by sin at birth, did not get saved, it is being saved. God calls it your sin nature; it seeks to be independent of God in expressing itself in life. Rom. 7:1-25.

To make peace with God humanity must accept God’s offer of peace (salvation) which starts with being born-again through faith in God’s sacrifice of Jesus His only begotten son which instituted a new covenant.

That new covenant is, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind” and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. Luke 10:27

1 John 5:2,3: This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome,

This offer of salvation is really an offer to go back to your God created position with an opportunity to reconnect with God and regain your position over creation.

1 John 3:2,3: Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known.

But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.

Hebrews 13:4: Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Ephesians 5:3: But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.

1 Corinthians 6:18: Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

Colossians 3:5: Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5: For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God.

1 Corinthians 6:9: Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,

2 Timothy 2:22: So, flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10: Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Matthew 5:28: But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Galatians 5:19-21: Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 6:13-20: Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So, glorify God in your body.

Leviticus 20:13: If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

Romans 1:24-27: Therefore, God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

For this reason, God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Jude 1:7: Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

1 Corinthians 10:8: We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.

Exodus 20:14: “You shall not commit adultery.

Leviticus 18:22: You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

1 Corinthians 7:2: But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

1 Corinthians 6:9-Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Matthew 5:27-28: “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Romans 1:26-27: For this reason, God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Matthew 5:32: But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-7: For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God; that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you. For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness.

Proverbs 6:32: He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself.

Matthew 15:19: For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

1 Corinthians 6:15-20: Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, …

Revelation 21:8: But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

1 Corinthians 5:9-11: I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.

But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one.

Deuteronomy 27:21: “‘Cursed be anyone who lies with any kind of animal.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Ephesians 5:5: For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

Acts 15:20: But should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.

Deuteronomy 23:17-18: “None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, and none of the sons of Israel shall be a cult prostitute.

You shall not bring the fee of a prostitute or the wages of a dog into the house of the Lord your God in payment for any vow, for both of these are an abomination to the Lord your God.

Colossians 3:1-25: If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. …

Matthew 19:9: And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

Leviticus 18:20: And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor’s wife and so make yourself unclean with her.

Ephesians 5:3-5: But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.

Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

God is a God of order, and He tells us to do things decently and in order. Whether in the physical or spiritual realm, God has constant and consistent principles that do not change.

For instance, the principle of sowing and reaping, cause, and effect. This principle of sowing and reaping makes life more predictable, which allows us to operate with a certain sense of assurance and anticipation.

This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him. 1John 5: 14,15

God has put this principle of sowing and reaping in place to help us analyze, live, and understand life. This principle of sowing and reaping, is the principle of cause and effect; introduced in Gal. 6:7:

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. You will always harvest what you plant. Those who live only to satisfy their sinful nature will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature.

For those who are sowing to satisfy their sinful nature set their minds on the things of the sinful nature. The mindset on the sinful nature is hostile toward God and does not subject itself to the principles of God. The mind, set on the sinful nature cannot please God. Rom. 8: 5-8

But those who are sowing to please God will harvest everlasting life and abundance. Those who are sowing to please God have their minds set on the things of God and are putting to death the sinful nature, will have life in abundance. Gal. 6:7

Therefore, do not be deceived by the enemy’s schemes and take God’s word lightly or turn your nose up at it; do not be tricked. Although God loves us, His word is not to be taken lightly.

Keeping in mind that all things are lawful for you, but not all things are profitable. Profitable in the sense of fulfilling your desires in a way that pleases God. If pleasing God is your objective.

So, you must know the outcome you are seeking to determine what you must sow. The choice is yours!

To bring this principle of sowing and reaping into proper perspective, God uses the word “whatever.” Whatever means you can count on this principle of sowing and reaping working because it covers any category or situation.

The principle of sowing and reaping assures that you can expect a harvest in accordance with the seed sown, confirming that what is happening in your life is a direct result of the decisions you made.

When God created woman, it came on the heels of God saying, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.”

God created the woman to be man’s helper in creating a replica of the kingdom of Heaven here on earth.

God created man and the woman to work in perfect harmony in their roles in this purpose.

God created man for His sake and the woman for man’s sake. Man is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of man.

God assigned to man the responsibility of representing God as the head over creation. God assigned the woman the role of demonstrating the submission of humanity to man. 1 Cor. 11: 3-8

The fall of Adam led humanity to rebel against God’s will and order of things. Humanity now seeks to operate independently of God in living his life, Gen.3:16.

Humanity now has the opportunity to restore its relationship with God because God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them. 2 Cor. 5: 16-19

Therefore, God sent Jesus the second Adam to put things back in order. Jesus, through His death, burial and resurrection, became to the Church what Adam was to humanity. 1 Cor. 15:45

Fundamentally, we must understand that the Church, God’s showplace, is intended by God to be a replica of the kingdom of Heaven.

God is now using the Church to demonstrate how the kingdom of Heaven operates.

The foundation truth behind the role of women in the Church, then, is to represent humanity’s submission to man as the head of humankind, since all humanity comes from the man. Gen. 2: 21-23

Through the Church, Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ. 1 Cor. 11: 3-8:

God is no longer holding humanity’s sin against them. The sin debt created by Adam has been paid by the second Adam, Jesus Christ. Rom. 5:19, 2 Cor. 5: 19

Now that the sin debt has been paid, God is now at peace with humanity. God’s need for blood sacrifice for sin has been satisfied through Jesus’ death. Eph. 2:11-22, Heb. 9:22

Although God has made peace with humanity, humanity is still under the condemnation of sin and has to make peace with God if it wants to have a relationship with and spend eternity with God.

To make peace with God humanity must accept God’s offer of peace (salvation) which starts with being born-again through faith in God’s sacrifice of Jesus His only begotten son which instituted a new covenant.

This offer of salvation is really an offer to reconnect with your roots, your spiritual beginning and culture. Humanity’s roots and culture are embedded in God and the kingdom of heaven. It is a culture of love and righteousness.

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness. Gen. 1:26

God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 1 John 4:7-1-16

Your spiritual roots are your source of life, health, and strength providing a stabilizing factor which will deliver you from and prevents you from succumbing to the elements of a fallen world.

Humanity’s, roots are deeply embedded in God and the spiritual realm. They provide nourishment. They anchor us. They feed our souls.

This reconnecting to God is essential because at the fall humanity was separated from God leading to death and contamination of the soul with no hope of ever regaining a relationship with God resulting in spending eternity in hell. Eph. 2:12

At your new birth God gives you a new heart, a new spirit, takes out your stony, stubborn heart, and gives you a tender, responsive heart to the word of God and puts His Spirit in you so that you will follow His decrees and be careful to obey His regulations. Ezek. 36:25-27

So, the sin debt has been paid!

What does that mean? I’m glad you asked.

Now that the sin debt has been paid, God is now at peace with humanity. God’s need for blood sacrificed for sin has been satisfied through Jesus’ death. Eph. 2:11-22

However, humanity is still under the condemnation of sin.

Although God has made peace with humanity, humanity now has to make peace with God if it wants to have a relationship with and spend eternity with God.

To make peace with God humanity must accept God’s offer of peace (salvation) through faith in God’s sacrifice of Jesus His only begotten son.

God’s new covenant with humanity which only has two commandments.

The new covenant only has two commandments and they are to love God with all their heart, mind, body, and soul. And love their neighbor as themself. Love does no harm to a neighbor.

Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the Old and New Testament law. Matt. 22:37, Rom. 13:10.

This is how God describes love for Him. For this is the love of God that we keep His commandments, and His commandments are not burdensome. 1 John 5:3, 4.

By agreeing to the new covenant in faith you are declared righteous by God with no doing on your own to achieve it. You are now a Saint saved by grace!

Humanity was declared unrighteous sinners because of Adam, now humanity can be declared righteous because of Jesus a standing that will never change in the sight of God.

Once humanity accepts the new covenant through faith by being born-again, God then performs spiritual surgery on you.

God gives you a new heart, a new spirit, takes out your stony, stubborn heart, and gives you a tender, responsive heart to the word of God and puts His Spirit in you so that you will follow His decrees and be careful to obey His regulations. Ezek. 36:25-27

Without this spiritual surgery, it will be impossible for you to obey God which will be characterized by righteous living. 1 John 3: 7-10

The inability to practice righteousness will only happen if your confession of faith to accept the new covenant was not genuine, proving that you are not born again. 1 John 2:19

God validates this truth in 1 John 3: 7-10:

These are the conditions of God’s offer of salvation to humanity, complete with all the resources necessary for you to be successful in fulfilling them. Phil. 2:14

As I look across the community of professing believers, there is no lack of faith in God, devotion to God or belief in God’s word.

What I find lacking is professing believers’ lack of faith in themselves in Christ.

This poor self-perspective has led to a community of professing believers holding to a form of godliness but lacking godly power over the satanic realm and their human nature.

How do we overcome this negative self-perspective? 

We overcome this negative self-perspective by executing the principle of our completeness and adequacy in Christ. 2 Cor. 3:4-6, Phil 4: 13

 “I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. This principle is put in perspective by 2 Cor. 3:4-6, which states “Such confidence we have through Christ toward God.

Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God, who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move.

Nothing will be impossible for you.

Just like in the physical realm the rising and setting of the sun, gravity, the earth rotating on its axis, the laws that make the world work and the different seasons are constant and consistent they do not change.

In the same way, the spiritual realm has laws that are constant and consistent they do not change. These laws or rules you can bank on because that is how the spiritual realm works.

Matt. 12:27: “But no one can enter the strong man’s house and plunder his property unless he first binds the strong man, and then he will plunder his house.

Satan here is the strong man and his house is the world. 1 John 5:19” “We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one”

Matt. 18:18: “Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.

Binding and loosing is a Jewish legal phrase giving authority to someone to determine whether something is allowed or forbidden. 1 Cor. 5: 9-13, 1 John 3: 4-10

Jesus uses the phrase in Matthew 16:19 when talking to Peter, but within hearing of the other apostles. “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

John 14:12-15: “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to the Father.

“Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. “If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it. “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

1 John 5:14, 15: This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.

Prov. 18: 20, 21: With the fruit of a man’s mouth his stomach will be satisfied; He will be satisfied with the product of his lips.

Jesus told the clueless disciples to feed the 5, 000, Mark 6: 36-38,41. His comment to them was, “They do not need to go away; you give them something to eat!”

And He said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go look!” And when they found out, they said, “Five, and two fish.”

And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up toward heaven, He blessed the food

God asked Moses” What is that in your hand Exodus 4: 1-5

The greatest gifts that God has given the born-again believer is faith and the Holy Spirit!

God says in His word, “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you. Matt. 17:20.

The Holy Spirit is the power agent of God assigned to the born-again believer to bring the word of God they put faith to fruition.

Zech. 1:12: Then the LORD said to me, “You have seen well, for I am watching over My word to perform it.”

Zech. 4: 6: Then he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel saying, ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the LORD of hosts.

Faith is so powerful; in it you can do what is naturally impossible.  In it you can speak the promises of God into your circumstances overriding, facts, and natural reality. Luke 9:16

God wants to take you to a place of empowerment in Him you have never been before.

Matthew 21:21 “Jesus replied, “Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and it will be done.”

This starts with building your faith in yourself in Christ. I can do all thing through Christ who strengthens me.

If you want to operate at full potential, you need to be more intentional about applying your faith in your abilities in Christ.

1 Thess. 4: 3-8

The key to taking control of your life is taking control of your carnal emotions.

These carnal emotions are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, greed, filthiness, silly talk, covetousness, or coarse jesting. and things like these. Eph. 5:1-5

For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh.

For the mind set on the flesh is death because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God, for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. Rom. 8:1-8

To take control over these carnal emotions you must practice spiritual emotions which are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, and gentleness. Gal. 5:22-26

This is the new attitude in which you now respond in all situations. Like any discipline they must be practiced consistently with all diligence. This is how you establish your new life in Christ. Gal. 2:20

In other words, we must now get into the very character of God to think like He thinks. As the scriptures teach, a man is as he thinks. This is what we must do as children of God. God is love. Gal. 5: 16-25, Eph. 5:1,2

Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. 1 Cor. 13: 4-8

Now is your time to break free from pride and fear. You must possess and renew your mind in righteousness and holiness of the truth. (Eph. 4:23,24; Col.1:21; Rom. 7:21, 22, 24, 25)

However, getting into this new character requires becoming the mental and moral qualities that represent God.

So, how do I get here? Simple, God said that whatever you ask according to His will He will do.

Making these changes, becoming these mental and moral qualities that represent God, will lead you into the internal peace you were seeking when you decided you wanted to change your life to be right with God.

You must be aware of carnal behavior that wants to respond to your situations and talk to the Holy Spirit about how to overcome this influence on your body’s behavior.

It is here that the Holy Spirit will empower you and show you how to apply your knowledge of the word of righteousness that you have acquired as a way of escape when tempted to act outside of the will of God. (1 Cor. 10:13)

You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away.

Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins. He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross. 

In this way, he disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the cross.

So don’t let anyone condemn you for what you eat or drink, or for not celebrating certain holy days or new moon ceremonies or Sabbaths. 

For these rules are only shadows of the reality yet to come. And Christ himself is that reality. 

Don’t let anyone condemn you by insisting on pious self-denial or the worship of angels, saying they have had visions about these things. Their sinful minds have made them proud, and they are not connected to Christ, the head of the body.

For he holds the whole body together with its joints and ligaments, and it grows as God nourishes it.

You have died with Christ, and he has set you free from the spiritual powers of this world. So why do you keep on following the rules of the world, such as, “Don’t handle! Don’t taste! Don’t touch!”? 

Such rules are mere human teachings about things that deteriorate as we use them. 

These rules may seem wise because they require strong devotion, pious self-denial, and severe bodily discipline.

But they provide no help in conquering a person’s evil desires. Col. 2:16-23

As a servant of God, it is very important that you understand that not everyone is going to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior.

This truth requires you to understand your role in both the lives of the lost and the born-again believer, in order to bring value to their lives.

This will require continually driving out the influence of worldly wisdom in our lives and our circles of influence.

Our message and ministry service must be rooted in authoritative proclamation of the word of God and demonstration of kingdom power, so that people’s faith will not rest on worldly wisdom of men, but on the power of God.

Your ministry must be a symbol hope, power, and soundness, only then will you be able to lead people into true salvation and deliver them from the destructive emotions controlling their minds.

Therefore, your ministry service and experience must be one of deliverance from the things that bind, providing guidance, comfort, healing, transformation, and empowerment.

This type of ministry service and message is realized when we bridge the gap between God’s spiritual standard for excellence and the limitation of the worldly knowledge stored in our minds. 

Through this process we can speak what goes on in heaven into our realm thus establishing kingdom rule and authority here on Earth as God’s representatives to a lost and dying world.

Therefore, as a servant of God you must serve in ministry from a position of accountability and personal responsibility.

The days of finger pointing, and blaming are behind you. It isn’t Satan’s fault, the economy, the people, or anything else’s fault.

Your ministry service success or failure is your responsibility, no one else. God has put this all in your hand as He has provided all you need for success.

Your goal is pretty simple: to bring light to those who sit in darkness, give hope to those who want to escape and life for those who do. 

Your main objective is to make disciples, lead them into the abundant life and establish righteousness in the kingdom of God.

And it doesn’t matter whether they are born again or not… the philosophy is the same,

“Unconditional Love requires no change it inspires change”!

“Until The Whole World Knows”!

Faith must be tested for you to know how real it is. It is easy to say you have faith but living it out is something different.

Faith is measured by walk, not by talk; faith is measured by life, not by lip service. (1 Pet. 1: 3-9)

God desires to know the experience of your love for Him which is revealed through your faith in His word in all circumstances and situations.

Although God knows everything, that was, is and that will be. God knows everything actual; He knows everything potential and He knows everything factual.

God does not know everything experientially until He experiences it! 

That’s why God leads you into trials and tribulations, humbling you and testing you to prove your character, allowing you to discover whether or not you would obey his commands in all circumstances and situations. (Deut. 8: 1-5,)

Sometimes God will put you in a contradictory situation by doing what you are told to do by God.

During some trials God will tell you to sacrifice something you love. God puts you between a rock and a hard place, a unique kind of trial.

God is getting ready to do something special in your life!

An example is God telling Abraham to sacrifice the promise He made to him. If he kills the promise, there is no promise. (contradiction of word: kill the promise; Child sacrifice, taking a life)

Sometimes God’s request contradict His word. (Gen. 22:1-12)

God wants to experience your love for Him. This brings pleasure to God. This is how you get to know yourself and God intimately. (1John 5: 1-5)

God disciplines you this way because all humanity since Adam was born alienated from God and enemies in your minds toward God with no hope of a relationship with God. (Eph. 2:11,12, Col. 1:21)

Humanity is born trusting in his own understanding which has been molded by worldly wisdom to serve and satisfy his desires. These desires are in conflict with God’s plan for humanity. (1 Cor. 1:18-25, Gal. 5:16-18)

The world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father but are from this world. (1 Cor. 5:19, 1 John 2: 16,17)

If the focus of your faith is to only obtain all that the world has to offer, you are to be pitied because you have fallen for Satan’s deception, that a good life is measured in an abundance of possessions.  

If your faith is focused on pleasing God what should you be hoping for? (Heb. 11:6, 1 John 3: 2-6)

So where are you in your faith in God?