Month: January 2013

Sage Advice

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I love u. I have been waiting for Sage Advice most of the past week.
I kept looking down the road, is that Sage Advice coming from the
Junior Burger Restaurant??? Oh yes! OH NO. It wasnt’. I kept
looking, “oh there he is , Sage Advice coming up the mud ridden main
road!!!! It’s him , it’s Him!!!””
Alas, it was not. I dove into a box ox of really really stale mexican
Oreo knockoffs (not advisable as all mexican bked sweets taste
strongly of cardboard.) . Sage Advice had eluded me. What to do???
Rant some more……………weep endlessly………..kill myself
upside down??? No, but then I’d puke and be an ugly dead person. But
my slightly unendowed chest would probably look okay. Probably. Still
I found myself hating Zuckerburg and seeking Sage
Advice……………..
It rained some more and a Oaxacan baby projectile vomited upon me.
Surely I DID desreve that. A day passed and Sage never showed.
Then my Wise Husband advised me to go to my room and pray in tongues
and nt come back out 1) until my monthly hormonal torment (thanks eve)
was over or 2) til I could just shut up about it.

Wise husband is big and rather convincing when he is faced with my
hormonal issues even in his less than normal state, hence I retired to
do as told. Grudgingly.

Got my travailing over and finished with a really good 20 minutes with Yahweh.

Felt better!!! ha. Then opened my computer to see who???? Who but , my
good eatherly/earthly father, Sage Advice had eveidently spoken with
Yahweh, too and gotten the same answer.

So, hallelujah. I love Henry, Mark and both Fedex and UPS plus my dad,
Sage Advice.

Plus, today I had a great day, Sage A..

It was Clinic Day, but a different one. My friend , sister and doctor
Norma Prado a strong believer in Christ Jesus came to minister with
us. We had about 58 women and twwo men and really uncountable children
come in. 6 walked all the way from Maneadero!! All the way. I can
hardly really still believe that.
The idea today was for Dr Norma to hook us up with some top of the
line “Social security” doctors and nurses and they wer going to teach
about nutrition and prevenative healthcare to the people waiting on
lin eto see our regular doctor.
It turned out to be so amazingly much more. I can see why the enemy
did try to derail me the past days.
Norma has been down on herself and feeling burned out as a Christian
who has faced some of the same stuff we all have, children walking
away from the Will of Yahweh was among her latest cross to bear. One
to suicide the other to an out of wedlock relationship and all the
guilt that comes upon us believers when our kids don’t do what we
think they should.
Before today I could see her fire going out and it was sad as it
always is to see someone just become religious and grow chilly.
But today she showed up and as soon as she saw the people we minister
to on a daily basis, I could see her eyes come to life. She, once a
hard business only lady, single mother who had struggled to the” TOP”
of her profession…………pushing everyone aside who might be on or
in her way…………………..as she walked the gaunlet up to the
front of the sanctuary that doubles as our dining room /waiting
room/community center , I could see tears in her eyes, yet to water
her cheeks. She an upper class Mexican woman (an dthere is no MIDDLE
class here , just poor and very rich…………………was so
touched to see HER people , the indigenous, the original people from
whom the Spaniards had stolen this land. She was there to talk to the
young and old women about prevention of cancer with a bsis on the Word
of God. But man, as she stood to face this grouo, our little church,
she was BROKEN by what a priviledge it is to minister to them and
really all she could do was pray for them and cry.
I watched her as she mingled among them laying hands on them and
praying in Spanish which they do not speak but Yahweh does and I saw
the FIRE get lit again in her. She attends a huge church, of 1,000 or
more but today I realized again that we are so blessed to have these
few treasures in broken vessels a people with many lnguages but a
simple single hungry heart.
And i wept , too. I realized I have not appreciated these precious
ones as I should have. I have hungered for MORE, for MANY, for a BUNCH
to show up constantly. Today I had to repents and realize that with
what we are given we are blessed to have and only for those are we
capable of caring.
Thanks to Yahweh for breaking my heart thru another broken heart
today. Damn, am I blessed. Sounds weird but that’s what comes out so
I am letting it.

Love and buenas Noches,
sd

PS–Miracle Report-
Early this morning Charlie Dania Junior and me were making cakes and
preparing for the day. On the second cake a BRAND NEW mixer died. Just
up and quit with an ugly burning smell.
The frosting for like 5 sheet cakes unmade. What to DO???
Charlie, my little gangster son……………says oky Dee, lets pray
for it. (Remember he is like still in the street and a baby baby
believer.) And he has this WAY of praying. So I say okay, Charlie
Brown, let’s do it. But u better believe it and I used the minute to
explained “THE LAYING ON OF HANDS 2013.” So he put a hand on it, I put
and hand on it, the mixer. okay, and he commenced …………I kid
you not one iota. “Dear SIR” (he calls the Father sir for some
reason), now in a loud voice, “DEAR SIR OH SIR I DID DROP IT REAL HARD> FORGIVE ME SIR
PLEASE JESUS AND MAKE IT WORK>” By now I am having serious stomach
cramps from not laughing and seriuos faith simultaneously, I mean you
had to hear it- the fear and reverence -of both Frank and Sir Jesus.
I did however hold it together. He finished with a righteous freaking
“AMEN SIR.” Like Yahweh is a marine drill sergeant and we proceeded
to plug that muther in. And it WORKED!!!!!!!!!!! Even with the
ginormous crack I had not yet seen from his obvious dropping of it.
Charlie was one happy, full of faith real person, I tell you. And so
was I. You had to be there!
And the frosting was really really good!
> *omnes amandi.* *All must be loved. *
> * oppressi liberandi, **The oppressed to be liberated, **
> *
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What is Our God’s Name

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What is Our God’s Name?

The Bible is full of references to the awesome power and importance of the Name of our God. For instance, Proverbs 18 refers to His Name as “a strong tower.” In Psalm 119:55 the psalmist says, “I have remembered your Name in the night and have kept your law.” Psalm 138:1-2 says, “I will bow myself towards your sacred temple and give thanks to your Name . . . for you have magnified your word, your Name, above all.” There are many other Scriptures that speak of the sacred Name of our God.

One such verse has been adopted by CBN during this time of prayer for revival: “If my people who are called by my Name shall humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their evil ways, then I shall hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin and heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:14).

An interesting thing to notice is that none of these Scriptures uses the plural word “names” but the singular “Name.” This clearly indicates that there is but one Name for our God. So what is it?

In Exodus 3, when Moses encounters our God in the burning bush, he asks the following question: “See, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His Name?’ what shall I say to them?”

What follows is one of the most profound and meaningful truths that can be found in Scripture. The answer to Moses’ question is . . . “YHWH.”

What’s in a Name?

So, what does this mean? First, let’s look at the word’s structure. This Name YHWH given to Moses in Exodus 3 is comprised of the Hebrew letters Yod (Y), Hay (H), Waw (W – pronounced “Vav”), and Hay (H), which together are often referred to as the Tetragrammaton (“The four lettered name”). Although the issue of how to pronounce this Name has been the source of much debate and controversy for centuries, the pronunciation more Hebrew scholars agree is correct is “Yah-oo-way” (as in the transliteration Yahweh).

But let’s not worry about what scholars think about pronunciation for a moment. Try saying the name aloud, using no vowel sounds at all. When I do it, it sounds very much like breathing. The Breath of Life.

Now, let’s examine what this Name means. The Name YHWH is an archaic form of the verb “to be,” so the concept drawn from the English translation of this word is “I am that I am,” or “I am who I am.” YHWH is not, however, the word used as “I am” when Yahweh says, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I am has sent me to you’” (Exodus 3:14). Although the Name YHWH conveys the same idea of His perpetual existence and presence as “I am,” it means so much more, as we’re about to see.

The Hebrew language is one of complexity and intricate beauty. Each of its letters has its own meaning and numerical value. In this case, the meanings of the four letters used to form the Name of YHWH give the Name a powerful and prophetic significance. First, the letter Yod literally means “hand,” while Hay means “behold,” and Waw means “nail” (or “hook”, depending on the context). So, in sequence: “Hand (Y), behold (H), nail (W), and behold (H).” The context of the word YHWH means, “Behold the nailed hand.”

Clearly, this is no ordinary, every-day name. But wait, there’s more: Yahushua (often Yeshua or Yahshua), the Hebrew name of the Messiah, the son of Yahweh, means “YHWH is salvation.” Therefore, you can take that a step further and see it as “Behold, the nailed hand is salvation.” This not only powerfully illustrates Yahushua’s role as Savior, but also His divinity (as Yahweh incarnate) and His relationship to Yahweh as His only begotten son. As Yahushua Himself said, “I have come in my Father’s name (John 5:43).” Just as His life and character point us to His Father (John 14:6 – “no one comes to the Father but by me;” see also John 17:23-26), so also does His name point us to the sacred Name of Yahweh. He even instructed us to pray: “Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name . . . (Luke 11:2).”

What About Those Other Names?

You have no doubt heard most or all of the following descriptive terms and/or titles that have often been applied to Yahweh: El (meaning “mighty one,” also the name of the sky god of the ancient Syrians), Elohim (the plural form of El), El Shaddai (“almighty one”), and Adonai (“my lord”), among others. While those words, like the commonly used English terms “Lord” and “God,” can certainly express different aspects of the character of Yahweh, they are merely generic titles and descriptions. None of them is His Name.

If someone were to ask you “What is your God’s name?” your first response might be “Jehovah.” This is one of the most popular terms attributed to Yahweh, and is often thought by many to be His true name, but let’s look at it more closely.

When the Scriptures were being transcribed, it was believed by the Jewish scribes performing the task that they should not pronounce the sacred Name of YHWH, for fear of violating the third commandment (“Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain . . . ” – Exodus 20:7). This led to the use of other words, generic titles (such as “Adonai”), as substitutes for the true name, Yahweh. Therefore, if you were to compare a typical, modern English translation of the Bible with the original Hebrew texts, you would see how YHWH (which can be found a total of 7,038 times in the original Hebrew Old Testament) was replaced by “the Lord” or “God.”

The following excerpt from Webster’s New Riverside University Dictionary (1984 edition) details what the scribes did and the origins of the word “Jehovah:”

The form Jehovah did not exist as a Hebrew word. It is actually a conflation (blend, fusion) of two Hebrew forms that came about through a peculiarity of the Hebrew writing system. The Hebrew name for God, the consonants of which are transliterated YHWH, was considered so sacred that it was never pronounced and its proper vowel points were never written. In some texts the vowel points for a completely different word, Adonai, “lord,” were written with YHWH to indicate that the word Adonai was to be spoken whenever the reader came upon the word YHWH. YHWH was never intended to be pronounced with the vowels of Adonai, but Christian scholars of the Renaissance made exactly that mistake, and the forms Iehovah (using the classical Latin equivalents of the Hebrew letters) and Jehovah (substituting in English, J for consonantal I) came into common use.

Other texts agree: The Encarta Encyclopedia (2000 edition) says that Jehovah is the “name of the God of the Hebrew people as erroneously transliterated from the Masoretic Hebrew text.” A New Standard Bible Dictionary (1936 edition) states, “The form ‘Jehovah’ is impossible, according to the strict principles of Hebrew vocalization.”

So, it is clearly no secret that Jehovah is not the true Name of our God. But don’t worry – this doesn’t mean that the wonderful suffixes normally attached to Jehovah (as in Jehovah Jireh, Rapha, Nissi, etc.) are also wrong. Those transliterations are for the most part correct, and when added to the name Yahweh (as in “Yahweh Yireh” – “Yahweh the Provider”), they can serve as powerful expressions of certain attributes and characteristics of our Lord Yahweh.

So, What’s the Big Deal?

You may be thinking, “That’s nice, but why do I need to know and use the name of Yahweh?” You may feel perfectly secure and content in using one or all of the generic and descriptive terms already mentioned, feeling no need to change how you refer to Yahweh. Perhaps you think the name sounds funny, or that it’s improper or even downright wrong to use it altogether. Well, you’re not alone, and I was certainly skeptical at first myself. It can be very difficult to eschew and let go of things we have practiced and held on to for many years. But let’s look at it in terms of relationship.

Our Father desires to know us intimately and yearns for us to reciprocate that desire. He loves us so much that “He sent His only begotten Son” as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. If we truly long to serve our God and have a deep and intimate relationship with Him, we should address Him in a more personal and intimate way.

When someone begins a relationship with you, one of the first things they learn is your name. As the relationship develops, they begin to learn more and more of your character, and eventually, if they want to, they will know you very well and will be devoted to your relationship. However, the relationship would most likely not last very long if they kept referring to you as “man” or “woman,” “sir” or “madam.” Such a thing would keep a certain amount of distance between the two of you, and would surely not be a good way to create and maintain intimacy and love.

They might tell you over and over again that they love you dearly, but would you really believe them if they kept addressing you by an impersonal title or description? The same applies to our relationship with our wonderful Creator, Yahweh. To continually apply generic terms like “Lord” and “God” to Him would be like a husband constantly calling his spouse “Wife” or “Woman.” To use “Jehovah” would be like the same husband calling his wife by the wrong name altogether, expecting her to respond.

As we saw earlier, there are countless Scriptures that place a great amount of importance on the Name of Yahweh. It is not simply another generic term in a long list of titles and descriptions, as some would want to believe. Nor is it a name limited only to the Old Testament, as others have said. As Yahweh Himself said when He revealed His Name to Moses, “This is my Name forever, and this is my remembrance to all generations” (Exodus 3:15).

This is why our deceptive adversary (who comes “to steal, kill and destroy”) has tried to wipe out the Name altogether by deceiving men into replacing it with other titles and generic or even false “names.” He does not want us to have a close relationship with Yahweh. In fact, that’s exactly why he is trying to deceive us, so that we will serve that which is not of Yahweh (and therefore is of the enemy). Since he cannot create but only corrupt, he has worked for centuries to corrupt and bury the sacred Name of Yahweh our God. He knows that the Name of Yahweh is a powerful weapon. Why else would it be virtually erased from all modern translations of the Bible? Why else would there be a counterfeit name (Jehovah) in its place?

I, for one, no longer wish to give the enemy any pleasure by continuing to deny the name of Yahweh. I count it as such a wonderful blessing and privilege to know and use Yahweh’s true Name. While He is indeed my “Lord” and my “God,” He is also my Abba Father, my Best Friend (who “sticks closer than a brother”), my Everything. Whatever question we have, the answer is always “YHWH . . . I AM THAT I AM.”

What is Honor

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Honor
Proverbs 29:23 ¶ A man’s pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.
Mark 6:4 Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and among his own relatives and in his own household.”
I picked up an article this morning about honor. it said all the right things using scripture. it encouraged us to honor God, the Word the Man of God. Of course you see all these tings involve money. Honor God with your finances which is true, honor the Word , buy my CD’s and honor the man of God, turn loose of some of your cash. I should sort of cenacle don’t I? All these things are born out of the fact that because there is no honor in the Church there is a lack of what Yahweh intends for the Kingdom to expand in the earth. He flows through people. Peoples brain stands in the way. You brain will block the flow of your spirit to your hand. When the hand withholds people suffer. Yahweh is not causing this suffering. My people perish because of a lack of knowledge. Now in an age of information you think this scripture would be obsolete. It is not from a lack of information that we perish but knowledge. Knowledge is intimate fellowship with the Truth. To know God is not to gather info on Him but to have intimate knowledge of Him and allow Him to have intimate knowledge about you. You know when a married couple share intimacy in the bedroom , in the light there is nothing to hide about their bodies.. As we get older and less perfect physically we tend to wear robes and prefer darker surroundings. Why we fear rejection by our mates because we no longer can hide behind our youthful bodies. To be intimate now we must look beyond the physical to the true value of our relationship. We must look into the soul and spirit. We must learn to honor one another.
I get back to honor. What is honor. We know we must honor. why because the Bible tells us so. that is very old covenant. We are in a new covenant We are not slaves to obey mindlessly but sons and daughts that have grown up or are trying to if allowed. No understand what honor is will enable us grace us to by faith honor and receive the benefits of honor.
To honor is to see the value often hidden , many times underdeveloped but there none the less. I honor a child because I see the value of that child’s life. Valuable because the child is but also that potential of that child. I honor that child because I see a man of God or a woman of faith as yet come into their own.
Most of the problems of society are caused by dishonor. We have not honored our planet , the order of creation in honoring one another as the children of God. We dishonor our creator because of being brainwashed by the world system to disregard His Presence in our lives.
Wake upon look around you at what is around you and begin to honor it. See beyond the senses See with your heart the riches that are hidden in your life. That is why being thankful is so effective. being thankful is an act of faith. Seeing the unseen but believing that in the midst of a bad event good is hidden ready to be revealed to an honoring heart.
Richard Chambliss Jan.28 2013

Word of Prophecy

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Prophetic Word given Jan 13,2013 by Richard Chambliss
There are those that sit here today.
There are those that here and shall hear us pray.
There are those that have come to great dismay.
I ,says the Lord , shall come and bring joy in their hearts.
I shall relieve the burden and lift off the back that which oppresses them.
And cause them to see with different eyes.
Cause them to see with clarity, with vision that they have never seen before.
And see beyond their own noses.
And to see what I have set in the earth to proclaim Jesus is Lord.
That He is the King of the Earth and that all people shall bow.
And the Kings in heaven and in Earth shall bow to His Name and declare that He is Lord and that He is Lord of All and declare that He is Lord of All.
This shall come to pass in this nation and many who have turned their backs on Me shall turn back unto Me.
And many who have turned their backs on Me shall turn back unto Me. says the Lord
And call My Name Great in the Earth.
Let it be so Lord.
Even as You have spoken.
Lord let it come to the hungry hearts, to believing hearts and to bold hearts to Proclaim.
Yahshua is Master and Lord of all.
We honor you now.

Inheritance Brings Inheritance

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Your Inheritance comes through your confession of what is your and what is true eternally.
Confession brings Inheritance
Let me say it again, your confession of sin’s ability to hinder and keep you from success gives the enemy dominion over you. Your confession of fear gives fear dominion over you. If you confess fear, your fears become stronger and you get more and more into bondage to fear. but if you confess Your Father’s care and protection and confess Yahweh’s Word and declare what He says about you is true, you will rise above fear’s influence every single time.
Every time you confess your doubts and fears and your disease, you are openly confessing to yourself , and the world that Yahweh has failed to make His word good in your life. think on it. See what place your confession holds in your life.

Worship and Obedience

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Gen 22:1 ¶ now it came about after these things, that god tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” and he said, “here I am.”
2 he said, “take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.”
3 ¶ so Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son; and he split wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which god had told him.
4 on the third day Abraham raised his eyes and saw the place from a distance.
5 Abraham said to his young men, “stay here with the donkey, and I and the lad will go over there; and we will worship and return to you.”
11 ¶ but the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” and he said, “here I am.”
12 he said, “do not stretch out your hand against the lad, and do nothing to him; for now I know that you fear god, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”
13 then Abraham raised his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the place of his son.
14 Abraham called the name of that place the LORD will provide, as it is said to this day, “in the mount of the LORD it will be provided.”
15 ¶ then the angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven,
16 and said, “by myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only son,
17 indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies.
18 “in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.”

YAHWEH knew and provided and blessed in the light of Abraham’s obedience and worship. I was not that Abraham obeyed Yahweh’s command only. but in his obedience he worshiped.
If you be willing and obedient you shall Isaiah 1:19 “if you consent and obey, you will eat the best of the land; If you consent. The Lord does not want us to be forced but to consent. Worship implies consent.
Several realities can be learned from this account of a pivotal event in the life of Abraham which not only affected him but us. He received the blessing ( grace) we received eternal life through his act and Yahweh’s in sending His son Yahshua to be our offering for sin. He provided Himself a sacrifice.
I see in this that the Lord speaks to us , we either respond in obedience ( our act of faith) or choose through unbelief or fear not to act on His word to us. then Yahweh releases grace or blessing beyond what we could ask or think. A key thing I have missed in the past is this. We may obey but do we worship in our obedience. Isaiah says that not only obedience but consent or willingness.
Isaiah 1:19 “if you consent and obey, you will eat the best of the land; NAS.
So many times I have in past obeyed but grumbled. My view of the Goodness of Yahweh was bent. As I see Him as Good and that He is Good to me I know whatever He speaks to me is going to result in good for me. therefore in my obedience I worship. Worship is fixing the eyes of your hungry heart to feast up Who He is. He is Good and He is love. Whatever He does in your life is for your good . You can’t worship under the law. the law is obeyed out of fear. Paul says to the Romans that we have not received the spirit of bondage unto fear , but the spirit of adoption as sons crying or worshiping calling Him Abba Daddy . I was at one time through ignorance Old Testament minded. I raised my first children under fear. I was afraid that if they disobeyed and went the wrong way they would die and go to hell. so out of fear I took God’s word and tried to force obedience out of them. They obeyed out of fear. but eventually their desire for life caused them to throw that aside. Thankfully the Lord has given me grace and mercy to recover them and show a more excellent way. I see so many Christians living this way. Obeying out of fear. Fear that if they don’t obey God they will be punished. but if they would see Him in light of His Word and not what they have been taught by bent men, blind guides leading the blind into a ditch. You know we always say Christians go from one side of the road to the other. One ditch of doctrine to the other. The Lord said He would make a highway a road in the desert not a ditch. yet I digress.
When you know Yahweh is good and that He is love and has accepted you into His Beloved. ( you are a target for His Love.) you worship at His command. You know His commands or Words to you bring Life. 1 John 5:3 for this is the love of god, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not burdensome. 4 for whatever is born of god overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
Faith is obedience and worship. Grace comes through faith and faith is a gift. there is a grace even to exercise faith . I believe help my unbelief. Yahweh’s grace is power to help you. receive Grace today.
Richard Chambliss
A Hungry Heart

Possessed of Unfailing Strength

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Possessed of Unfailing Strength
Years ago in the Body of Christ all we heard for a while was the debate over if a Christian could be possessed by a demon. Folks were very demon conscious . Every failure and short comings of a Christian was blamed on a devil of some sort. Looking back it seems ridiculous. I do understand there is spiritual warfare. that we do not fight against human forces but powers and rulers of darkness. But many of us fail to see that our warfare is not natural . We are encourage to resist the devil but to do so steadfastly in the faith.
So our resistance is not will power or efforts of our mind or strength of body. It is resisting the enemy in a spiritual or supernatural manner, in faith. Why? Because as the Bible teaches faith is the manner in which we access the spiritual force of grace. Paul the apostle writing to the church at Corinth shared his struggle with demonic powers. A thorn in his flesh an angel sent from Satan. He at that point of his walk with the Lord or in a time of forgetting his reality was reminded or enlightened by the Lord. This statement made by the Spirit of Christ is vastly overlooked many times in the debate over healing or whether Paul was sick. We miss the great life changing revelation of what the Lord said to him in a time of desperation. The Lord said, ” “my grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.”
I looked up the word sufficient in my Strong’s dictionary. It is translated from a Greek word arkeo meaning possessed of unfailing strength. So we see Grace has the characteristic of being possessed of unfailing strength . Paul was at a point of weakness unable to deal with the enemy . The Lord enlightened him to see that Paul was possessed of grace and that grace possessed unfailing strength. he moved from a state of “this is unfair, life is unfair to I have been given the power of grace to overcome this enemy come against me. As a friend of mine would say he moved from entitlement to empowerment. From God do something to the state of mind and belief that the Lord has done something. He has given us grace . The grace is activated by our faith. Our faith in what Christ has done to open the door to the Throne room of Grace the place of Yahweh’s power. Because of Yahshua’s finished work and His resurrection we have access to the place of grace. Grace that is possessed of unfailing strength. We are people of Grace. People not demon possessed rather possessed of the Creator’s unfailing power .
Many times we are frustrated in our prayers . Our request seemingly go unanswered. Ask the question. Are you asking for something you feel entitled to because of some action on your part. I have said myself or ask the question in my mind. why Lord are you letting this happen to me. I have served you and I have done what you asked. Then I am prompted by the Spirit of Christ to remember. Remember the Yahweh is not withholding from me nor am I deserving or entitled to anything because of my conduct. But because of Yahshua and my trust in Him I have access to His unfailing power His grace. That is enough. Let me assure you both from the word of Yahweh and from experience His grace is sufficient.
Richard Chambliss Jan. 2 2013

God is Good and He Loves People

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God is Good and He Loves People
Psalms 34:8 O taste and see that the LORD is good; how blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!
Psalms 100:5 for the LORD is good; his lovingkindness is everlasting and his faithfulness to all generations.

John 3:16 “for god so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life. 17 “for god did not send the son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through him.
Luke 9:56 for the son of man did not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.”]] and they went on to another village.
Acts 10:38 “you know of Jesus of Nazareth, how god anointed him with the holy spirit and with power, and how he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for god was with him.

The death , the offering up of Himself on the cross for us is the ultimate expression of Yahweh’s love for mankind.

A man would scarcely die for a friend not any enemy.
Romans 5:7 for one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die.
Yahweh’s love is demonstrated in while we were sinners Christ died.

Romans 5:8 but god demonstrates his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

This act broke the pattern of death and destroyed its author, the devil,

Hebrews 2:14 ¶ therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death he might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

. The Man Yahshua faced the ultimate fear on our behalf in faith and destroyed its control releasing the power of Resurrection life into the earth.
the same power that raised Yahshua from the dead shall make us alive in our death doomed bodies

Philippians 2:8 being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 for this reason also, god highly exalted him, and bestowed on him the name which is above every name,
10 so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is lord, to the glory of god the father.

Romans 8:11 but if the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his spirit who dwells in you.

Perspectives For 2013 Posted on December 31, 2012 by tedjhanson

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Perspectives For 2013
Posted on December 31, 2012 by tedjhanson
Greetings;

I pray blessings for you all on this last day of December in the year of 2012. I am in Salem, Oregon with some great people. I have been participating in a conference of Marshallese congregations. These are really fun folks. I speak many blessings to my new hungry Marshallese friends. God is going to do great things for you in the new year!

As we close this year of 2012 and enter the year of 2013, I want to write concerning what I believe to be prophetic keys to what God is doing in the earth. Just in case you didn’t get the spiritual memo of 2011, you will need to know three things from that season that are essential to understanding the season that is at hand.

The first of those three is that God is good and He loves people. You cannot view the world as bad and it needs a savior and believe that this is a statement of truth to build upon. If you do, the center of your world is bad people. This becomes the center of your focus. You must see that God is good and He loves people. He is able to love in all situations to work things out for good. He loves good people and He loves bad people, but He is the center of every world. The fact that God is good makes it possible for everything to work out for good.

The second thing you must grab hold of is that love is a revelation and not a command. The Law and the Prophets were based upon two commands, but Grace and truth is based upon a revelation of love. We love God and others “even as He loves us”. The empowerment to love is based upon a revelation of His love.

The third thing you must lay hold of is that you are not wrestling with yourself, others, your circumstances, or even God. God is actually wrestling with you, because He knows who you are and He wants you to manifest as a son or daughter of your Heavenly Father. God knows that you are a prince or a princess and the world is in need of you. I wrote in regard to this in my blogs of July 2011. You will need these three things in your weapons arsenal for the year of 2013:

God is good and He loves people
Love is a revelation
God is wrestling with you so you will manifest as an inheritor of God – a prince or a princess of life
As we enter into the year of 2013 you will also need three things given in 2012. If you didn’t get the Sprit memo, here they are. The first is that God wants us to be an accepting people. He accepts all people exactly as they are, but then He transforms us all into the likeness and image of our heavenly Father. His kingdom is a come as you are culture, but not a stay as you are one.

The second thing is that we are a people of empowerment. Life isn’t fair, so we cannot be people of entitlement. Life isn’t supposed to be fair, but God’s grace at work in anyone’s world will transform anyone’s world to a bit of heaven on earth.

The third thing is to be a people who are dependant upon God in all things. God dependence is the testimony of true righteousness. Self-righteousness, self-sufficiency, and self-dependency are the opposite of true righteousness. Our righteousness is in Christ, so we will need to be God-dependant in all things to see His glory revealed in and through our lives. You will also need these three things in your weapons arsenal for the year of 2013:

We must embrace a kingdom culture of acceptance
We must be a people who embrace and reveal the empowering grace of God
We must be a God-dependant people in all things.
Now this brings me to the challenge of 2013. Here are seven synonymous names that I believe describe the testimony of God’s people emerging in the light of 2013.

An Apostolic People
People Who Are Sent
People of Purpose
An Empowering Generation
People of Inheritance
Grace Empowered People of Truth
The People of God
We cannot be the people of God without being the family of God. It is time for the true culture of Christ’s kingdom to emerge to another level in the earth. To become who we were meant to be we must continually receive mercy and find grace (Receive Mercy & Find Grace -Posted on June 18, 2012 by tedjhanson). Mercy will free us from being stuck in our past and grace will empower us to reign in this life in Christ.

The year of 2013 will not come without trials. There will be trials and a testing of our faith in this new year. What is the purpose of those trials?

1Peter 1:6-9 In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls.

Trials only reveal the truth. Trials reveal the genuineness of our faith. Faith is a natural response to a supernatural relationship. Faith happens within us when we hear God in our hearts. Trials are not meant to take us out, but to manifest who we really are. Trials do not form us, but God in our midst forms us. God doesn’t want to deliver us from our trials. He wants to move into our neighborhood. He wants to move into our trials.

We have a genuineness of faith and that faith brings us to the place of seeing God in our lives. Faith comes by hearing, but it takes us to the place of seeing what we cannot see naturally. Faith leads us to a place of seeing Jesus. When we see Jesus we receive grace. That grace is the power of God at work in our lives. Grace comes to us at a revelation of Jesus Christ. The result is praise, honor, and glory to God. The end of our faith is the salvation of our souls.

The salvation of our souls is “His kingdom come, His will be done, on earth as it is in heaven”. His will is done by the power of His grace at work in our lives. Grace is the power that manifests His kingdom in our lives. Grace is the manifestation of Christ in our lives. This is the power of “becoming”, not merely doing.

1Peter 1:13-16 Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.”

When we receive a revelation of Jesus Christ in our lives we receive a manifestation of His grace. Grace doesn’t give us the instruction of doing holiness; it empowers us to be like Christ. It empowers us to “be holy”.

1Peter 1:17-21 And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear; knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

The Law could not redeem us. The religious traditions of men cannot change the substance of who we are. It cannot reveal the true substance that God intends for us to be. No law or religious ceremony can bring about true life in the earth. It was the sacrificial life of Christ that redeemed us. A human “being” redeemed us as human “beings”. Jesus made a way for us to become the people of God. Our faith and hope is in God, not freedom from trials. Let the culture of Christ’s kingdom prevail in 2013!

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson