Prepare to be Healed

Do you have stress in your life? That is a crazy question because we all have stress! To uncover the root cause of stress I highly recommend taking the time to read Jan Hick's book "Crossing to Freedom" Jan and many other Christian leaders teach together at the annual Wellspring Ministry Conference at YWAM here at Lakeside. IF we want to pick up our mat and walk in the freedom that Jesus Christ offers we must be obedient to His inner nudge. Click here: Pray with Others "For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”  Matthew 18:18-19   "How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me.” And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him; and the child was cured from that very hour. “  Matthew 17:17 NKJ - JUST DO IT, read this article in its entirety -  “Most assuredly, 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 My Father.  And whatever you ask in My name, that  I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.  If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.” John 14:12 NKJ  “Let not your heart be troubled, you believe in God, believe also in Me.”  … Jesus said to him “I am the way, the truth, and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through Me.” John 14:1-6 NKJ Dear heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, I give you permission to examine my heart for any wicked way and I covenant with You that when You reveal a wicked way, or any confused or perverse thought, that I will repent and ask for Your forgiveness.  I set aside this time for You and ask that the Holy Spirit

be in charge. In the name of Jesus, I bind all evil spirits and render them powerless to interfere with the restoration of my soul to purity.  Lord Jesus I desire that our intimacy be joy filled, I invite you Holy Spirit to prick my conscious to make me aware of anything that is not from You.  In the name of Jesus, I come before you with a humble heart, full of thanks because Your plan included that ALL my sins were to be paid in full on the cross.  Satan, in the name of my Lord Jesus Christ, and by the power of His blood, I cancel all of Satan’s power and authority over me and I legally and forever bind the spirits of deception, lying, false accusation

and confusion! Today, in Jesus name and by the power of His blood,  I pronounce that I will never again fall victim to the attempts made for these spirits to enter and destroy my intimacy with my Lord Jesus because I refuse to be offended.  Lord Jesus I ask that You help me to love myself, and ALL my neighbors as You love me, with forgiveness, mercy and grace. Heavenly Father, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and as an act of my free will, I confess, repent, and renounce any pride or rebellion that is in me, or operating in my life, and in all my generations, clear back to Adam.  Holy Spirit, heal my heart and mind.  I ask You Lord Jesus to forgive me for any bitterness and any unforgiveness  that I hold towards those who have  offended me.   Forgive me and all my generations for resisting the full power of Your written Word.  I release myself from the religious spirit in me and ask the Holy Spirit to seal me with the Truth, according to Thy will and power.  Holy Spirit please speak your words of truth to me for I am humble, receptive and  listening. 

CLICK here for a personal SOUL CHECK UP

SEE COMMENTS BELOW

C'MON MAN - Really?

People generally refuse to recognize that sin is a fact of life, and we ALL fall short, even baptized Christians. The grief Jesus bore cannot be compared to what we suffer here on earth. All the past, present, and future sins of all humanity crushed Jesus to the point of grieving blood droplets in the garden of Gethsemane.  People cannot associate with the kind of grief Jesus endured.  C'mon man, what do we really grieve? Jesus lost friends and family members as a result of His ministry. Like King David, we too grieve the loss of a loved ones, and our good friends. "I grieve for you, Jonathan my brother; you were very dear to me." 2 Samuel 1:26 -- QUESTION: Do you think we also grieve the Holy Spirit when He pricks our conscious with guilt and we choose not to confess any sin?  Do we love ALL, as we are loved?  Is'nt that a command of God?  There are Christians who claim they have surrendered all to God and that they have become new creatures in Christ, however, they choose NOT to completely obey His word.  Do Christians continually pray and “Praise God in all things”? Does their reasoning mind, at times, tell their belief system that God does NOT care and He does NOT listen to their laments? Do they confess that unbelief?  "Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions." Psalm 51:1

Do they continue to go to church, without fully believing that they are loved, forgiven and saved?  Do they ALWAYS fully trust that God is just in all His ways? Or...on their own, do they simply attempt to control their bits of unbelief from surfacing?  Do they live in denial, or do they admit that they hurt and struggle at times? Or, do they simply smile and continue to boast “Jesus is Lord" while doubting?  Do they really trust that they are covered by grace and that confessing sin is not really necessary, because they got the Holy Spirit, they got baptized, and they are good to go? Do they think that they intimately KNOW God because they have memorized some scripture? Reading first John should shed some light on thia self-centered thinking, but without asking and trusting the Holy Spirit to reveal truth in scripture, they continue to justify that they know God and say flatly “I am not a sinner”  The truth is: Christian or not, a rational mind filled with scholarly intelligence generally denies any need of a dependency on God.  So the sin nature of man’s proud mind keeps them blind to the truth.  Believing “Jesus is Lord” is not enough.  We must also confess our sins, surrender our ways, and trust and obey His living and active Word.  Having the mind of Christ is to surrender our thoughts to His way, His will, and His word.  “If sin rules in me, God’s life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed. What was true in the history of God on earth will also be true in your history and in mine— that is, sin will kill the life of God in us. All must bring themselves to terms with the fact that we all sin. Continued sin is the only explanation why Jesus Christ came to earth.” Oswald Chambers "Let us confess our sins to one another so that we may be healed." James 4 - Reveal any unholy thing or thought in me Lord!  AMEN