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God

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 From anointing to character

1 Jan 2006 God's made us for a purpose

God made us in his image until sin distorts it. Jesus came to reconcile us to himself through the Holy Spirit - so we have to move from a spirit form life to a spirit filled life -praising, singing and worshipping him and  inviting the Ministry of the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues.

Gen 1:1-2

¹In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. ²Now the earth was^£ formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

John 1:1 & 1:10

¹In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

¹⁰He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.

Job 33:13-26

Why do you complain to him   that he answers none of man’s words^£?

¹⁴   For God does speak—now one way, now another—

      though man may not perceive it.

¹⁵   In a dream, in a vision of the night,

      when deep sleep falls on men

      as they slumber in their beds,

¹⁶   he may speak in their ears

      and terrify them with warnings,

¹⁷   to turn man from wrongdoing

      and keep him from pride,

¹⁸   to preserve his soul from the pit,^£

      his life from perishing by the sword.^£

¹⁹   Or a man may be chastened on a bed of pain

      with constant distress in his bones,

²⁰   so that his very being finds food repulsive

      and his soul loathes the choicest meal.

²¹   His flesh wastes away to nothing,

      and his bones, once hidden, now stick out.

²²   His soul draws near to the pit,^£

      and his life to the messengers of death.^£

²³      “Yet if there is an angel on his side

      as a mediator, one out of a thousand,

      to tell a man what is right for him,

²⁴   to be gracious to him and say,

      ‘Spare him from going down to the pit^£;

      I have found a ransom for him’—

²⁵      then his flesh is renewed like a child’s;

      it is restored as in the days of his youth.

²⁶   He prays to God and finds favor with him,

      he sees God’s face and shouts for joy;

      he is restored by God to his righteous state.

 2^nd Corinthians 3:18

 ¹⁸And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect^£ the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

 Eph  5:19

 ⁹Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord,

 Acts 2:4

 ⁴All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues^£ as the Spirit enabled them.

8 Jan 2006     How "wet"  do you want to be ?

We need to experience a  spirit filled life – and enjoy the spiritual rain from above – when we are filled with the Spirit – there is harvest, fruitfulness,  gladness, rejoicing, restoration, refreshing and revelation.

 ACTS 10:44-46

⁴⁴While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came on all who heard the message. ⁴⁵The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles. ⁴⁶For they heard them speaking in tongues^£ and praising God.

Acts 2:33

Exalted to the right hand of God, he has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.

Zech 12:10

And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit^£ of grace and supplication. They will look on^£ me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.

Isaiah 32:15

till the Spirit is poured upon us from on high,and the desert becomes a fertile field,

and the fertile field seems like a forest.

 Joel 2:23 -28

 Be glad, O people of Zion,

rejoice in the LORD your God,

for he has given you

the autumn rains in righteousness.^£

He sends you abundant showers,

both autumn and spring rains, as before.

²⁴        The threshing floors will be filled with grain;      the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.

²⁵       “I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten—

    the great locust and the young locust,

    the other locusts and the locust swarm^£—

  my great army that I sent among you.

²⁶        You will have plenty to eat, until you are full, and you will praise the name of the LORD your God,

    who has worked wonders for you;

  never again will my people be shamed.

²⁷        Then you will know that I am in Israel,

    that I am the LORD your God,

    and that there is no other;

  never again will my people be shamed.

²⁸        “And afterward,

    I will pour out my Spirit on all people.

  Your sons and daughters will prophesy,

    your old men will dream dreams,

    your young men will see visions.  

15 Jan 2006     From anointing to character

Anointing is from God - it is the outward, temporal and direct at once, known by man and may be withdrawn. Our gifts and talents, speaking in tongues will come to an end. On the contrary character takes time to develop from the inward and is known by God and is consistent and last forever. The ultimate pinnacle of character is love.  In the midst of submission to authority, and of our rights in times of persecutions- character will be developed .Tracing Samson's life, we see a wonderbaby full of anointing, growing up in holiness and with supernatural protection- until he violates God's commands. We need to call out to God Like Samson- in repentence to reconile- so that God will restore us. 

1 Timothy 4:16

^{16Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.}

Judges 13:1-5 & 24

The woman gave birth to a boy and named him Samson. He grew and the LORD blessed him,

1st Corinthians 13:8 

^{8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.}

22 Jan 2006     How To be bless  ?

We  live in a world that is often deceitful- it is the human nature - so we need to allow God to step in to remove the deceitful nature -to be freed from deceit so as to enjoy God 's blessings. We need to cultivate a responsive heart for the poor- be a vessel of blessings by giving to the poor. The beginning of blessings is giving- bless the poor and be blessed  

Psalm 32:1-2

1 Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven,

whose sins are covered.

2 Blessed is the man whose sin the LORD does not count against him

and in whose spirit is no deceit.

^{Mark 7:21-23}

^{21For from within, out of men’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, 22greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23All these evils come from inside and make a man ‘unclean.’"}

^{John 1:47}

^{47When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him, "Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is nothing false."}

^{Isaiah 53:9}

He was assigned a grave with the wicked,

and with the rich in his death,

though he had done no violence,

nor was any deceit in his mouth.

^{1st Peter 2:2}

22 "He committed no sin,

and no deceit was found in his mouth."£

^{Psalm 41:1-2}

1 Blessed is he who has regard for the weak;

the LORD delivers him in times of trouble.

2 The LORD will protect him and preserve his life;

he will bless him in the land

and not surrender him to the desire of his foes.

^{Luke 12:33}

^{33Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not be exhausted, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys}

^{Acts 20:34}

^{34You yourselves know that these hands of mine have supplied my own needs and the needs of my companions.}

^{Luke 14:13}

^{13But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, 14and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."}

^{Luke 6:38}

^{38Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."}

29 Jan 2006