NOTHING CAN SEPARATE YOU

Who, then can separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble do it, or hardship or persecution or hunger or poverty or danger or death?

ROMANS 8:35 TEV

Nothing you could ever experiences, no matter how terrible ot frightening, could ever separate you from the love of God. No tribulation and distress you might ever suffer could be so intense that God's love for you is not even more fervent. No persecution could be so painful that God's love cannot bring comfort. Famine might starve you food, but you will never hunger for tge Father's love. Poverty cannot strip you of God's compassion, just as even death itself is incapable of robbing you of your heavenly Father's infinite love.

If you base your view of God's love on your circumstances, you will become confused. There may be times when you will ask, "How could a loving God allow this to happen to me? You may begin to question wgat you find clearly stated in tge Word of God. God promised that you would never be separated from His love; He did not say that you would never face hardship, persecution, poverty, or danger. If you doubt that God could love you and still allow you to experience difficult experiences, consider the life of Jesus.

If you allow the death of Jesus on tge cross to forever settle any questions you might have about God's love, you will approach difficult circumstances with confidence. Knowing that there will never be anything that could separate you from God's perfect love, you will watch to see how God expresses His love in each circumstance. Don't ever judge God's love based on your circumstances. Instead, evaluate your circumstances from the perspective of God's love. 

GOD'S KIND OF FAITH

If you can even get just a glimpse of the beauty of this realm of faith, your whole life will change. If you see it, you will see the Christ-life, and you will give all so that you may have it. To live in this realm of faith is God's will and great desire for all of us He who is for you is a million times more than all than can be against you.....What an advantage it would be if we could just come to a place where we know that everything is within reach of us.

Faith was build in the fact that he "knew that he knew that he knew" that God was a million times greater than any difficulty or trial he cames across. He lived in this reality of faith, which was such a great joy. This faith and the pursuit of this faith caused you, me to count all trials as joy. All of life became sweet with this outlook.

This is the "like precious faith" (2 Peter 1:1) "which was once for all delivered to the Saints" (Jude 3). This "faith that prevails," "the ever increasing faith," cannot be generated by anything else but seeing God through every situation and circumstance. It is the "pearl of great price" that the merchant found (Matthew 13:46).

No real joy is found in the faith built by man's Precept and programs. (God will develop in us a joyful faith as we allow Him to do so). But there is exhilaration, "joy inexpressible and full of glory" (1 Peter 1:8), in the faith that God builds. The Lord Jesus is "the author and finisher of our faith" (Hebrew 12:2), and He will develop in us a joyful faith as we allow Him to do so.

"He who has an ear, let him hear what the spirit says to the churches" 

(Revelation 2:29). We must not settle for anything less than this reality of faith that is available to all of us not just a mental assent or hope, but the faith that only ask once, believes, and sees its object come to pass. You will not get it from any book. You will not get it from any seminar. You will not get it from any course or college or teacher. You will not get it, no matter how good it is. Although these things can instruct you, guide you, and help your faith to grow, youth ultimately can get this kind of faith only from God Himself. From walking in close relationship with Him, living in His Word, hungering and thirsting for Him, and continuously yielding to His Spirit, you will obtain God's kind of faith as you learn to "count it all joy" (James1:2)

INSTANT VICTORY

We live in an "instant" generation, in a time of quick answers. we have instant coffee, instant dinners, and many things a instantly at hand. We cook our food almost instantly in microwave ovens. Through all this, our patience level has been slowly whittled down.

Spiritually, we have also been affected to the point that we expect immediate, miraculous answers to superficial prayers. Few have any real any real tenacity these days, any real determination to press through, to "stick it out" until they see the desired result. By patient, enduring faith is what God desired to build in us the opposite of today's "instant" faith.

Many try "the walk of faith," but because it does not work instantly, they give up and continue in unbelief. Some react by living in a fantasy world of faith clichés, shallow confessions, and vain hopes, never pressing on to real faith. When coming across this opposition of faith, this godless environment, he did not even pretend to have any quick answers, He knew that he had a fight on his hands. because he saw that the one afflicted had "faith to be healed," he stayed.

Some places exist where we can do nothing because the people are so opposed in spirit and in mind to God's will through their unbelief. Scripture tells us that this affected even Jesus: "Now He did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief" (Matthew 13:58). But saw some faith here, and willing to press through to victory.

However, God is looking for a people possessed and controlled by Spirit, a people who will be led Him through every situation to enduring and determined faith. This generation, which is to rise up to the call of the last days, needs to be "rooted and grounded in love" (Ephesians 3:17) that produces tenacious, saying faith. The Question rings out louder than ever before in this instant generation, "when the Son of Man comes, will he really find faith on the earth?" (Luke 28:8).

Through hearing from God and obeying His voice, learned to press through, to have enduring faith. and spent the whole day in breaking the unbelief, "in prayer and ministering the Word." When he heard from the spirit of God that faith had been build, assurance came. God gave Him a vision, and the power was released. learn to obey God's Word to the extent that he continued in spiritual warfare until the battle was won and victory was obtained. Build your Faith that arounds you and watched as God Moved. When you live "clothed with" (2 Corinthians 5:2) the Spirit of God and are controlled by Him, you are not controlled by circumstances or unbelief you may see the circumstances and feel the unbelief, but you are not controlled by them. 

God will direct you in each individual situation, then stand in faith. And pray. What ever needed for the specific circumstances will be revealed to you by the guidance of Holy Spirit. And you have your instant Victory.

LIVING IN EXPECTATION

How do we build expectation in our lives? "Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (Romans 10:17).

Expectation comes from the truth of God being fixed in ours hearts by the Holy Spirit. Expectation is not a feeling or emotion that can be pumped up by positive thinking, but a direct result of the coupling of study of the Word of God with fellowship with the Holy Spirit. 

We must learn to build expectancy in our hearts before we arrive at a service. If we will do this, not only will we receive greater blessings and miracles in ourselves, but also our expectancy can increase the blessing on the whole meeting and into ourselves. 

How do we build expectation in our lives? Read (Romans10:17). "Faith comes by hearing by the word of God." 

Thank Him for each revelation. Mediate on it. Apply it specifically to you and your life. Commit yourself to do it and live by it. 

Praise God! What a mighty message from the heart of God. There us so much in these words for us today, if we will apply ourselves. We need to look closely at what was saying in this message and see how it applies to us personally. To do this, let us look at some of the major points in the message. They are keys for God's "end-times army." the Holy Spirit can so bring into our hearts these truth that we shall live in the top place of expectation. 

"The top place of expectation"! THIS IS WHERE YOU SHOULD LIVED, and where God would have us all live. It is important to note that the man of God started his message with expectation, for it is the ingredient that he knew people needed in order to fully receive the Word of God and, in so doing, receive faith to have their needs met. 

We see so much more ii a meeting when there is expectancy that God will move, and not just the presumption that it will be the same as before. 

Expectation is the eager and confident anticipation that you will meet with God. It is the faith attitude that paves the way for God to move; it is the foundation that makes the church alive. 

Don't rush ahead in the pursuit of intellectual knowledge, but allow the Holy Spirit to build faith and expectation in you "Precept upon precept, line upon line" (Isaiah 28:13). 

As you read this, read it expecting to grow, and allow the Holy Spirit to fix each truth in your heart according to this process. Then you will get the maximum out of it. 

THE JUDGEMENT SEAT

For we must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

(2 CORINTHIANS 5:10)

THERE ARE MANY MOTIVATION IN THE CHRISTIAN'S LIFE. One is our awareness  that one day we will give an account of our lives to Christ, as He sits in judgement  upon humanity. It is much more comforting to believe that Christ will be ushered into heaven with no question asked about our faithfulness upon earth, but that is no what Scripture says will happen.

Paul cautioned that in the final day of judgement, every Christian will give an account for his or her actions. This expectation terrified Paul and motivate him to strive to God  in everything he did (2Cor.5:9-11). Paul knew that although he might ignore the Spirit's quiet voice during His life on earth, a time of accounting  would come when he would to explain why he had rejected God's instructions. Paul never carelessly assumed that, because of all he had done for God's kingdom, God would overlook his sin. Instead, he understood that to whom much is given, much is required (Luke12:48).

God does not force His will upon us. He will ask us to answer for the way we responded to Him. Christians have been pardoned by the sacrifice of Jesus. We are not condemned. But because God  is absolutely just, we will be called on to give an account of our actions. The Christian life gives a tremendous freedom, but it also brings a pervasive sense of our accountantabiliy to God and to others. We can learn from Paul that accountantabiliy is healthy; it gives us a powerful motivation  to please God.

CLOTHED WITH

[Jesus said,] He who believe in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. 

(John 14:12)

Do you want a power? Don't take it the wrong way. Don't take it as power because you speak in tongues. If God has given you revelations along certain lines, don't take that for the power. Even if you have laid hands on the sick and they been healed, don't take that for the power. "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me" (Luke 14:18): that alone is the power.

Many Christians are seeking spiritual power today. Praise God for that, for Jesus said, "Seek, and you will find" (Matthew 7:7). We so desperately need to see God's power fully operating in this day and age to come. Read our devotional verse. (John14:12).

Thus we know that "he who believes" is meant to move in the same power and do even greater works than Jesus did, but not many are doing so. Why not? The man of God supplies a key to the answer.

So many men and women are looking in the wrong places. We focus on the latest plan or popular teaching and hope that it will give us power. However, we can't work for it, buy it, or learn it from a book. We fail to realize that it is not the doing that brings power, but the yielding.

We can receive power only as a gift, through yielding and obeying. We may speaking tongues, have great revelations, and even see some healings, but this is far below pattern we are meant to work in. God's standard is for us to be fully yielded and controlled, fully possessed, and thus "clothed with" (2 Cor.5:2) His Spirit and power wherever we go, and in whatever circumstances we find ourselves.

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me" 

(Luke 4:18) is the prize that the church is looking for and What God wants to giver her. It is the beauty of yielding, the depth of possession, the joy of obedience, and the wonders of His power. If You have it lived with it "Clothed with" the Spirit, and he continued to talk again and again about it. If you are finding repetition here, it is so that you might be continually confronted with this model, so that you would adopt this standard as your own, and so that you will not settle for anything less. May you fight and pray, study and yield, until you have it.

This standard is what God wanted to bring the church at the beginning of the twentieth century. However only a few people really seized it for themselves.

In the great last-days harvest that is coming upon the earth, God will establish His standard in the heart and lives of His people. Many not just a few, but an army will walk fully "Clothed with"  (2 Cor. 5:2) the Holy Spirit. The time is now for the whole body of Christ to be Clothed with"  the Spirit of Christ. "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me." This is the true power; this is possession. 

POSSESSED BY THE SPIRIT

"The people who know their God shall be strong and carry out great exploits"

(Daniel 11:32)

To possess the Spirit of God is one thing but it is quite another to be possessed by the Spirit of God.

Millions around the world have received the baptism on the Holy Spirit since the great outpouring at the beginning of the twentieth  century. This is part of the preparation of the church, the bride, for the return of King of Kings.

However, the beauty and power of his life came from the fact that he went on from there to the position that he is talking about here. A further place in Spirit exists, a place of being controlled and possessed by Him. God really starts to use men and women when they become totally consumed by Him, to the fact, to the extent that their thinking, their ways of acting, their praying, their  worshipping, their all become Spirit controlled. Their lives are no longer their own but His.

Nothing less will please the Lord, only a constant, full burnt offering for God where He is in absolute and utter authority over my whole being until I am living thinking, acting  on the power of the Holy Spirit. 

We know that many people are affected by evil Spirits in our day. Now many people are "demonized," or affected by them in certain restricted areas of their lives yet they still carry on relatively normal activities, being bound just in those areas. For example they may be "demonized" by a spirit of alcoholism, spirits of anger and rage or spirit of lust, yet the evil spirit don't dominate or control their whole existence.

However, a very few people actually are possessed by a demon. Those possessed  are in an asylum strapped to a table or in a straightjacket, because they have no personal control because the demon spirit is controlling them. God is looking for those who will come to the place of absolute surrender.

In the same way, many Christian's are "Holy Spiritized," still living according to their own plans most of the time, affected by God"s Spirit in some aspects of their lives. But a few are actually possessed by the Holy Spirit. Those possessed are the ones who have given over total control to Him. "The people who know their God  shall be strong, and carry out great exploit" (Daniel 11:32).

This is the second step of the baptism in the Holy Spirit that the church needs to take hold of. The last days church, with opposition that it is up against  and the work it still has to do, must take hold of this further step of being Spirit-filled. God is looking for those who will come to the place of absolute surrender.  They will be the labourers used in the end-times harvest the last great world wide revival. They will he  God's end times army not those with great ability or gifts who have the Holy Spirit but those  who have God's  ability because the Holy Spirit  has them. If your desire is to be a member of this special "armed forces unit," it requires your absolute dedication. You need to be baptized in the Holy Spirit and received the gift of tongues  as a starting point. If you have not experienced this yet, seek the Lord for it. Then find someone who has, so that they might lay hands on you and pray for you.  Do not stop until you received it. Finally,  consecrate yourself to the surrendered life to become part of God's end times army and "a flame of fire" (Hebrew 1:7).