TO all “FRIENDS OF JESUS.” ON LEAP DAY 2024 ⛱️ recharge! A fresh insight for all. There was once an elderly couple named Zechariah and Elizabeth. They couldn’t have children. An angel appeared to our boy Zech and says, “your wife is going to have a son” Zech goes, “oh yeah? Give me a sign.” Angel: because of your doubt, you will be mute until your wife gives birth. Zech had his mouth shut.
GREAT LESSON: God was NOT punishing Zechariah because he doubted the word given to him. LIFE and DEATH are found on our tongue. Zech was prevented from speaking so he would NOT kill the PROMISE God had given them. Later that year, the man John the Baptist was born to PREPARE the way of our Lord Jesus. AMEN ❤️ When we rejoice and worship God in hard times, we prepare a way for others to seek the JOY found in Jesus.
I’m at the beach to renew and receive 🙌 on this very special EXTRA day! I lept for JOY! After a few awesome months of pouring out, my blessed Jesus is refilling my vessel. “Fine oils have been poured upon me. The righteous will flourish like a palm planted in the house of the Lord.” Psalm 92 “It is good to praise the Lord and make music to Your name, Adonai, O Most High. To proclaim Your love in the morning and Your faithfulness at night. For You make me glad by Your deeds, Oh Lord; I sing for joy 😊 at the work of Your hands.” Our Lord sent Pastors Gary, Suzanne, and Billie to Chapala to ignite a fire 🔥 and it is blazing. Remain in Him, listen to Him, and obey gladly.
Joy is one of the first fruits of the Spirit of God. Choosing JOY is essential to remain “in Him.” Our Father desires that His kids experience JOY which is ever in our midst. As our Father promised, He is faithful to never depart from us. His JOY is there for our choosing even in difficult times. JOY is that fruit that never lets us go. It just hangs onto us and waits to be chosen. JOY is a free gift that increases our mental health and our physical well being. Choose JOY!
At times, the ever-present JOY inside of us gets buried under a doubt, offense or fear. God gave us 24/7 access to His Throne of Mercy. For JOY to flush our toilet of stinkin thinkin, ask for His forgiveness. We are exhorted by Scripture to cling to our HOPE in HIM and to His promise to forgive us. Consider that Paul might have wrestled with forgiving those who beat him before he chose to sing while in prison? Maybe he had to dig up a root of bitterness towards his jailers and confess so that JOY could spring him loose! Yes, in times of trouble, we are wise to seek the Lord with all our strength. We also must admit when we are struggling and enroll the deliverance prayers of another so that we can once again taste the juicy fruit of JOY once again. We are forever covered by His blood and with authority we overcome through prayer by canceling Satan’s power and stepping into the power of the Holy Spirit, who never leaves us. We must choose to FIGHT for JOY.
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“I’ve been a Christian for 50 years or so. I’ve also listened to a lot of religiosity which is not of God. Jesus fulfilled the law and taught by His example. Love one another which includes the sick, and the blind. He issued mercy towards all. He passed by many who were deceived and broken. In church NO subject has been preached on as much as healing. Why? Because we have lots of folks that are sick and infirmed. Too often the emphasis for healing is on physical needs, while all people, saved and unsaved remain in a constant spiritual battle. 95% of prayer requests lifted up are primarily for physical healing. Yes ELOHIM cares about our physical difficulties, however we need balance in our asking. Good people can go straight to hell in a perfectly healthy body. His saints can go straight to heaven having expired with cancer. A healthy body is not necessarily the key to spiritual victory and eternal good health. No, I’m not saying that we ought to be content with any physical sicknesses. We stand on His Word and speak healing! If a saints focus is on their physical existence while living, I really don’t’ think those prayers avail the fullness of God. Most who followed Jesus came to Him and expected by faith to be healed. The cripple at the pool was a lesson for all other folks watching. Did He not leave without healing the remaining people around the pool? It wasn’t that they lacked faith in healing, but they lacked faith in WHO HE still is. Peter and John at the opening of the book of ACTS healed a man who sat near the temple gate for years begging. Surely YESHUA must have past by him many, many times. Why didn’t’ HE heal him long before the day that Peter came by? Did ELOHIM have greater glory and honor to share with His children by allowing them to be part of HIS plan? It is God’s will for us to walk in good health. So what’s the problem? Well, there is no pat answer. Christianity is not a catalog of prescribed answers. It is a daily walk with HAYAH (I AM), through the SON, BY THE HOLY SPIRIT. There is a trust that must be aligned between man and YEHOVAH. This trust goes beyond religious certainty. It goes beyond human wisdom and understanding. How? YESHUA said that He did not do anything unless HE saw or heard HIS FATHER doing it. When the FATHER told HIM to raise up that mother’s only son, it then became a certainty that the child would be raised. The child did not recite the sinners prayer first. HE simply told the child to rise up, and the child stood up. YESHUA had all the power of heaven backing HIM up. If we are HIS disciples, should we not do as HE did? Should we not steal away to the secret place and be alone with YEHOVAH so that HE can direct our steps rather than us going out on limbs of faith that have no objective fruit? In my life, I’ve noted that 10 out of 10 people die. If a heart attack doesn’t kill you, something else can and does. We all will die in the flesh. No amount of faith will keep our bodies indefinitely out of the grave. I do BELIEVE we can all AGREE on that. This being so, then we must yield to the FACT that some PHYSICAL problem will overtake everyone sooner or later and we will DIE. No amount of fasting will keep us out of the grave. DON’T ’t let the lack of healing after PRAYER CRUSH your FAITH. Our blessed HOPE is NOT in our HEALING, but in the shed BLOOD of YESHUA HA’MACHIACH. Don’t let some preacher steal your salvation because he claimed you lacked faith and were not healed. YEHOVAH has our welfare at the center piece of HIS love. So why aren’t more people healed? I believe the biggest problem is sin. What sin? The riches and cares of this world have choked off the word and have kept it from bearing fruit. Too much compromise, and too much permissiveness in our personal lives and in our ministry. The truth of the Bible in regards to how we should live our lives is no more popular today than it was in the day of the rich young ruler. Preach the TRUTH regularly, and you will have a very small amount of people to preach too.
Smith Wigglesworth saw many people healed in his ministry, but NOT all. Surely he was more successful than most any other modern era minister. His KEY to SUCCESS? SEPARATION from the WORLD and living in FAITH. Smith couldn’t read or write. His wife taught him these skills. Then she gave him a BIBLE. He soon decided that it was the ONLY THING he NEEDED to READ. He would NOT read anything else. He lived before the age of TV and social media. He lead a life free from attachment to worldly passions. He stayed attached to YEHOVAH. YEHOVAH told him what to do and when to do it. He was a disciple of YESHUA HA’MACHIACH. He did things the way YESHUA did them. He talked them over with the FATHER, and then obeyed the FATHER’s leading and guiding. Alleluia. I believe that physical healing is part of the redemption victory. YEHOVAH is more interested in our SPIRITUAL HEALTH than HE is in our physical health. Sometimes sickness or disease keeps us ever before YEHOVAH and dependent on HIM, whereas if we were healed physically, our health might afford us the opportunity to get caught up in idolatry, that is, dependent on our personal effort and ability rather than on HAYAH. Liberty is not always good to some. There are some animals that do not need to be fenced to keep them at home with their master. On the other hand, others have to be corralled continually, or off they go into the wide open spaces. Sickness and infirmity are often a means of getting ones’ heart turned toward ELOHIM and keeping it there. YEHOVAH’s will is that all men be saved, and HE will allow most anything to enter our path, if our path is not the narrow way. A.W. Tozer penned “YEHOVAH crucifies without pity, those whom HE wishes to raise without measure”. See YEHOVAH wants us molded into the image and likeness of YESHUA HA’MACHIACH. For that to happen, we must die, by faith and affirmation. We must present ourselves as living sacrifices. Flesh does NOT welcome death. Flesh does NOT welcome the cross. But if we are to live in THE MESSIAH, we must die with HIM, by faith. If we are to enjoy the fellowship of HIS victory, we must suffer death of our selves. If we labor to keep our life, we shall surely lose it. “Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding”. Take everything to HAYAH in prayer, but leave how HE answers that prayer to HIM. I don’t have to understand how HAYAH does things to be blessed by HIM. I just have to believe that HE is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek HIM. I’ve seen hundreds leave a service in their wheel chairs, discouraged and disillusioned. Focus on spiritual healing and believe that what YESHUA wants is for HIS Body to come back to HIM. Come back to HIM in faith. Come back to HIM in worship. Come back to HIM in personal relationship. Come back to HIM in separation from the world and all it’s idolatrous passions and lusts. We need to become a holy nation once again. Then we will see more people healed. But we will see countless more saved, and filled with HIS SPIRIT. Thanks be to ELOHIM. I believe that is YEHOVAH’s heart and design for our lives. We must repent, and turn from our wicked ways, humble ourselves in prayer. We will find HAYAH there, rest from our labors of self righteousness, and healing for our souls, and our bodies too. I’m not implying judgment on anyone’s personal situation, their faith, or their battles with sickness. Each one’s walk with YEHOVAH is personal and unique. Take your troubles to HIM. Make spiritual health your number one goal, and all other things shall be added unto you. HAYAH promised. HE always keeps HIS Word.” Real Healing
by Lahry Sibley
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