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06/24/2026

What about the blood of Jesus?

Was Jesus’ death and the shedding of His blood necessary? What did it accomplish? What does His blood mean for you?

For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. (Mt. 26:28) (Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin. – Heb. 9:22)

Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. (Jn. 6:54) (Faith in the blood opens the way into eternal life with God.)

…shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood. (Acts 20:28) (The church was purchased by the blood of Jesus which is God's blood! Without the blood of Jesus, the debt would still be owed).

Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. (Rom. 5:9) (The blood justifies us and saves us from the coming wrath of God. The coming wrath indicates that the shedding of Jesus’ blood was necessary).

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace (Eph. 1:7). (The blood, and thus the sacrifice of Jesus, was necessary for the forgiveness of sins).

…how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? (Heb. 9:14) (Jesus offered Himself to God through His death and the shedding of His blood in order that we might, with a conscience free from guilt, serve God).

Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, (Heb. 10:19) (The blood gives us access to the throne of His grace. It gives us boldness and confident relationship with the Father.)

The blood of Jesus isn’t to be used as a superstitious chant. It is to be understood and received by faith as the door into the new creation, righteousness, authority, joy and peace. We by faith stand in the finished work of the cross and receive the full blessing of His blood.

06/23/2026

The Acid Test

When you're facing a crisis, that's the acid test. You need to put things in God's perspective and say, "So what if I fail? I haven't really failed in God's eyes."

When I considered having to shut the ministry down, I sat down and thought, "Well, the ministry isn't everything God has for me. I could quit this. I could go back to pouring cement and lead people to the Lord doing that. I'd still be blessed."

That was a tremendous victory in my life. I didn't tie success to things. My success was in having the Lord. I began to look at the broader picture. I still had the Lord, I still had love, I still had joy.

I enjoyed the Lord when I was just pouring cement. We led many people to the Lord. It was just a tremendous time. I could go back to doing that right now. I don't have to be a preacher to minister. That's powerful, because it defines success as it really is.

What is success? Success is knowing the Lord.

If you're born again, if you have the hope of eternal redemption, if you know you're going to be with the Lord, if you know all your sorrows and tears will be wiped away, Satan can't defeat you. He can't dangle that fear of failure over you.

Regardless of what he does, you're going to win. It's important to put things in the perspective of eternity.

I've seen people who had miraculous conversions. They were alcoholics or drug addicts, their spouses had left them, they'd lost their jobs, their lives were falling apart. Yet God did a great miracle and brought them completely out of it.

Then two to three years later, they get caught up in some problem, say, a $100 bill they can't pay. Now they're ready to renounce their faith. Their whole world is coming to an end. They can't stand it.

That's not rational. Someone like that shouldn't fall apart after God has done such great miracles in their life. Their present problem shouldn't taint everything else. They've lost their perspective.

In my denominational church, we used to sing a song: "Count your many blessings, name them one by one, count your many blessings, see what God has done." Its purpose was to put things into perspective.

Sometimes we get so zeroed in on one negative fact that we forget all the great miracles God has done. Satan gets us to thinking that this is the greatest problem that ever existed.

Yet, if you'll draw back from it and look at it in perspective, it's nothing compared to what God has already done in your life. If God has already healed you of cancer, a cold should not defeat you.

If God has delivered you from hell, you should not struggle with doubt that He won't deliver you from the problems of this life.

Failure to put problems into perspective will give you tunnel vision. You can't afford that. One way of overcoming it is by thinking about eternity and recognizing that our big problems really aren't that important. A thousand years from now in eternity, everything will look different.

It's like adolescence. Do you remember when you first had puppy love? It was earth-shattering. It was a huge thing. You'd just die if it didn't work out. Yet when it was all over, you found out that it wasn't really big or important at all. That's one of the problems of adolescents — they blow things out of proportion. They don't see things the way that they really are. It's the same with adolescent Christians.

One thing you can do to counter that is to keep things in the perspective of eternity. When you do, it will take care of fear.

06/23/2026

Ezekiel 12:27-28

27 “Son of man, look, the house of Israel is saying, ‘The vision that he sees is for many days from now, and he prophesies of times far off.’ 28 Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “None of My words will be postponed any more, but the word which I speak will be done,” says the Lord God.’”

06/21/2026

Relationship Starts by Knowing God’s True Nature

Jesus is alive, and He wants to heal you and set you free. He also wants to reveal Himself to you. When you connect with Him, everything He is and has becomes yours. But to have a good relationship with God, you need to understand His true nature.

Many people acknowledge God’s existence, but they miss out on truly knowing Him as a friend. This lack of understanding can lead to doubt and confusion. Even as a believer, if you don’t have a close relationship with God, it’s easy to fall into the trap of doubting His goodness during life’s storms or when prayers seem to go unanswered.

So, it’s really important for you to truly know God, not just know about Him. Without grasping His true nature and character, you won’t be able to understand your new nature (2 Cor. 5:17) and other fundamental truths.

Navigating Misconceptions About God

There’s a lot of misinformation out there about God. Some of it comes from not understanding the Bible correctly. The key is to study and rightly interpret the Word of God.

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

2 Timothy 2:15

There is a right and wrong way to interpret the Word. Sad to say, a lot of religious teaching today presents a distorted image of God, often misrepresenting His true nature.

Understanding God’s Wrath and Love

The wrath that God released in the Old Testament is often misinterpreted as His defining nature and character today. However, no scripture explicitly states, “God is wrath.” Instead, 1 John 4:8 declares, “God is love.” Despite the instances of God’s wrath in the Old Testament, His true nature is revealed through love.

To understand this properly, we need to rightly divide the Word of truth, as stated in John 8:32: “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” We can’t just believe whatever we want about God without seeking the truth. That’s actually a form of idolatry—creating a God based on our own thoughts or ideas. We need to understand and accept the truth about God exactly as He has revealed Himself to us through His Word. And when we do that, we can recognize His deep love and kindness.

Jesus: The Perfect Representation of God

The Old Testament gives us a glimpse into parts of God, but Jesus reveals the whole picture to us. Hebrews 1:3 describes Jesus as “the express image of his person,” meaning Jesus is the perfect representation of God. When we look at Jesus, we see what God is really like. Jesus said in John 14:9, “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.” This means that by knowing Jesus, we can know God.

Some people say that God inflicts sickness on people to punish sin and teach them a lesson. But consider this: Did Jesus ever put sickness on anyone? Did He ever deny someone healing? No, Jesus always healed those who came to Him. There is not a single instance where Jesus refused to heal a person.



Mark 6:5 recounts instances where people wouldn’t receive the healing He offered, but it was due to their unbelief, not Jesus’ unwillingness or inability. Jesus never made a single person sick or sent anybody away unhealed.

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

Acts 10:38

Jesus went about doing good and setting people free from demonic oppression because it’s not God’s will for a single person to be suffering physically, mentally, or emotionally. God’s will is for all to thrive and to repent and receive the free gift of salvation (2 Pet. 3:9).

God’s Nature Revealed: Jesus Came to Give You Life

Right now, through these words, God is revealing Himself to you. He wants a close relationship with you, and He wants you to know the truth and experience life more abundantly (John 10:10).

You need to believe what the Word of God says and understand that your suffering and problems are not from God. They could stem from the devil, personal ignorance, or rebellion, but never from God. He is not withholding healing or an abundant life from you. Jesus’ mission was to bring you life, and that life starts the moment you are born again, not just after death. John 3:16 emphasizes that it was God’s love that led Him to give His only begotten Son so that believers might have everlasting life.

Experiencing Heaven on Earth

Jesus taught us to pray for God’s will to be done on earth as it is in heaven (Matt. 6:10). This means we don’t have to wait for the afterlife to experience heaven’s abundance and peace. It’s not just pie in the sky by and by. It’s steak on the plate while you wait! Amen.

Reconciled to God Through Jesus: Finding Forgiveness

Second Corinthians 5:19 reveals that “God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.” This means that in Christ, we are reconciled unto God. How did He reconcile us? By not imputing our trespasses unto us.

This is another profound truth about God that’s often misunderstood. Many believe God holds their sins against them or is dealing with them according to their sins to some degree. Some even believe that if there’s any sin in their life, they’ve got to confess it or God won’t answer their prayers and they’ll go to hell. Others believe they might not go to hell or be hated by God, but He won’t answer their prayers, bless them, or use them. But that’s not what the Bible says!

According to 2 Corinthians 5:19, God does not impute trespasses to a believer. Jesus bore all your sins on the cross and paid the penalty you deserved so you could be forgiven. All your sins have been atoned for— past, present, and even future sins you haven’t even committed yet. You might question how God can forgive future sins. Remember, Jesus died once for all sin two thousand years ago. If He couldn’t have forgiven future sins, we couldn’t have been forgiven at all.



Free from Sin, Not Free to Sin

Being forgiven doesn’t mean you have a license to sin. Living in sin is just stupid and allows Satan to eat your lunch and pop the bag. It gives the enemy an inroad to cause a lot of damage in your life. So quit living in sin. Remember, if you do sin, God still loves you. But as a believer, there is a much better way to live.

When you become born again, you become a brand-new creature in Christ (2 Cor. 5:17) with a new heart and new desires. Your born-again self is transformed into a new being that never existed before. And because Jesus bore all your sin, God does not give you what you deserve; He gives you what Jesus deserves. Man, that’s awesome. Let that truth sink in.

Reconciling the Old with the New

It’s really important to understand God’s unchanging nature (Mal. 3:6 and Heb. 13:8) because it’ll help you reconcile the Old Testament with the New. How do you do that? First, you have to realize that God didn’t give the Law for you to keep it. This is one of the big mistakes that people make. They think the Law was given for them to keep. But the Law was never meant to be a checklist for righteousness. It was given to show man God’s holy standard and reveal their need for a Savior.

Only One Way to Get 100 Percent on This Test

James 2:10 says that if you keep the whole Law and yet offend in one point, you become guilty of everything. That’s like answering 99 out of 100 questions correctly and still getting a zero on the test. If you miss one thing or break any precept of the Law, you become guilty of it all. So, again, God didn’t give the Law for you to keep it and thereby earn your relationship with Him. He gave the Law to reveal sin to us (Rom. 3:20). God’s standard is absolute perfection, which is why we desperately need to receive the gift of grace and forgiveness by believing in Jesus and His finished work on the cross.

Meditate on These Truths

Knowing God’s true nature and your identity in Christ is the only foundation for a victorious life. There’s nothing you can do to make God love you more, and nothing you can do to make Him love you less. God’s love for you is revealed through Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross. Your sins have been erased by His finished work:

Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross.

Colossians 2:14

All the truth you need to know is in God’s Word. I encourage you to read it daily so you can experience the freedom Jesus came to bring you. I hope you’ll meditate on these truths and let them guide you into a deeper relationship with God.

06/19/2026

He shall be like a tree
Planted by the rivers of water,
That brings forth it’s fruit in its season,
Whose leaf shall also not wither;
And whatever he does shall prosper.
Psalm 1:3


06/19/2026

we are not told to pray for the sick but to heal the sick (Matt. 10:8) by commanding healing into their broken bodies.
We have been deceived into believing that prayer is all about persuading God to release His power. We believe that He can save, heal, and deliver but that He is waiting on us to shape up and earn it. The truth is, we don’t deserve it, and we will never be good enough. Because of Jesus, all that God has is ours. That’s good news. We no longer need to beg or plead; we need to exercise the authority He has given us and receive His blessings.

06/17/2026

The Lord told His disciples what to do in their crisis situation, and it also applies to ours. We started with John 14. The first part of verse 1 says, "Let not your heart be troubled." The second part says, "Ye believe in God, believe also in me." We talked about taking control of your emotions, how not to panic. The first step is to grab a hold of yourself, to make the decision, "I am not going to be troubled by this thing." You do that by believing in God, by exerting your faith.

One Day, Brawtha, One Day...
Part of the reason I felt that way was because the church I was brought up in had prejudiced me on the subject. They didn't believe in victory in this present life. All the victory, they said, was going to be in the future when we went to be with the Lord. But in this life, they were sick, they were poor, they were defeated. They suffered the same things the world did and believed that all the Lord did was to comfort them in it. There was no victory.

So we sang songs like "When we all get to heaven, what a day of rejoicing it will be." We talked about the "sweet by and by," but the "nasty here and now" had no victory at all!

Because of that, I reached the point that when we talked about heaven, I felt it was a kind of escape. It was in effect saying, "Well, we aren't going to make it down here, but someday, it'll all be worth it." I came to resent that kind of thing, and I rebelled against it. (Eventually, the Lord helped me realize that even though that message was abused, there was still a truth in it. In 1 Thessalonians 4:18, for example, Paul talks about the resurrection and our gathering together unto the Lord in the air. He says, "Wherefore comfort one another with these words." It can be a comfort.)

So as I read John 14:2-3, it looked like, instead of preparing them for battle and overcoming the devil, the Lord was preparing them for defeat by talking about heaven. I couldn't grasp it until I saw that what the Lord was really talking about here was perspective.

Let's read it again. John 14:2 says, "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you." Verse 3 says, "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."

Remember that in John 14:1, Jesus told them, when they enter into a crisis situation, they must make a decision: Do not let your heart be troubled. Take the authority you've got and control your emotions, instead of letting them control you. Believe in God. Operate in faith. That's the victory that overcomes the world.

06/14/2026

The Miracle Mindset

Did you know that miracles should be a normal part of the believer’s life? They are not whims of God or divine “accidents.” Once we understand how miracles happen, we can move into a greater dimension of abundant life for ourselves and for others.

Therefore, He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? (Gal. 3:5)

In this brief verse the key to miracles is revealed. God works miracles in our midst according to our “hearing of faith.” In other words, the only requirement for miracles is that we hear God in faith. That seems easy enough. We were created to hear God.

My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. (John 10:27)

Man was created with “supernatural” ability. It was the ability to think God’s thoughts, speak God’s words and do God’s works. It was dominion over God’s creation. It all was to flow from hearing Him while in fellowship with Him. What we today call supernatural was actually meant to be natural (normal).

Sin in humanity changed all of that. But Jesus came to restore man to his intended purpose. Walking in the supernatural should be “natural” for believers. We should be hearing God and acting accordingly.

Miracles are simply God’s love touching man’s need. They can be obvious and spectacular, or they can be quiet and unseen by others. The supernatural is not always spectacular. But when we hear God, declare His Word and act on what He shows us, miracles will follow.

You must believe that miracles are for you. Don’t believe that miracles are only for the gifted few. You can begin to have a miracle mindset today. Spend time with Him giving thanks for everything you have. Envision the challenges in your life and see them resolved, restored and healed. Begin to speak words of life and blessing over your life, your family, your job and your future. Start where you have to start but begin to consider your life a miracle life.

Expect the unexpected. Expect to be blessed. Expect to be healed. Expect favor. Expect relationships to be restored. God is speaking these things every minute of every day. You simply must choose to hear Him.

06/12/2026

Let the Weak Say...

Instead of being a weakling, you can choose to be strong in the Lord. Joel 3:10 says, "Let the weak say, I am strong." You can choose victory. You can identify with victory. Isaiah 54:17 says, "No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD." If that's the truth, then how can we justify being defeated, or justify the fear we feel? We cannot justify it.

The answer is to recognize that we've made a wrong choice. The answer is to repent and to begin saying that it's not the problem, it's not these people, it's not that circumstance, which is causing all of my problems. That's the "Adam syndrome," where Adam said it's that woman that God gave him. He pushed the blame off on Eve, then tried to put it on God (Gen. 3:12).

Some people do the same thing. "Well, it's the flu season," they say. "The bug's going around." In other words, it's that bug's fault instead of your fault for making a wrong choice. Or, to put it another way, it's God — "God, why have you allowed this thing?"

God did not allow the problems in your life. The bug is not your problem. Other people are not your problem. Your mate isn't your problem. The people at work aren't your problem. The economy is not your problem. You are your problem.

I was teaching on this one Sunday in church. When I said "There is no justification for your depression," a woman sitting behind one of the pastors said "Unless you have a chemical imbalance." Some people try to push it off on chemical imbalances in the body. That's not your problem either.

If you have a chemical imbalance, then get healed! There is no justification for being less than what God told us to be. It is my opinion that even those who really do have a chemical imbalance have thrown that balance off through wrong thinking.

Again, there is no condemnation in this. God loves you. You can go to be with the Lord depressed, defeated, and discouraged if you want to. God still loves you. He is not condemning you — and neither am I.

I'm saying that if you want victory, it's available. But it starts with you making a choice. It starts with you recognizing that no weapon formed against you can prosper, unless you choose to let it prosper (Is. 54:17).

God gave you the choice over life and death. If you are experiencing death instead of life, it's because you made a wrong choice. God will not make the choice for you. Satan cannot make the choice for you. If you aren't healthy, happy, and prospering, it's because you've made wrong choices.

06/10/2026

That we might know

The world might call it intuition. Some would say it is a sixth sense. Perhaps in the realm of human experience there are such things. But in the realm of the Spirit-filled life we are called into a far deeper communion in which the things of God can be revealed to us. We have received the Spirit of God that we might know the things He has given us.

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. (1 Cor. 2:12)

Revelation knowledge is the key to faith and victory in the Christian life. It is the foundation for the overcoming life!

There are two kinds of knowledge in the world: natural knowledge and spiritual knowledge. Most of what we live by is natural in nature; even Bible knowledge can be accumulated with no real impact on our lives. We know what we believe with our minds, but many times what we believe does not manifest the way we think that it should.

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God. (Rom. 8:16)

The Spirit can reveal anything to our spirit and that revelation becomes a part of us. “ But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit” (1 Cor. 6:17). Since we are one spirit with Him it is simply a matter of His Spirit quickening our spirit to the realities of our needs being met in Him.

Revelation knowledge is spiritual in nature and not easy to nail down. You know it when you know it. It goes beyond the intellect and the emotions into the realm of spiritual vision.

While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. (2 Cor. 4:19)

Revelation knowledge transcends human intellect and the tangible world of the visible. It is the birthplace for true faith.

When we create the right environment for revelation knowledge by spending time in the Word and in prayer, praise and meditation, revelation will come. We will 'see' healing. We will 'see' our authority. That which was mental will become spiritual, and the victorious life will become a reality.

Revelation knowledge will prompt our faith to proclaim what we know to be true. When we speak to our bodies, it won't be a formula confession, but rather a powerful agreement with what we have received by revelation. There is a difference between the doctrine of 'by His stripes I am healed,' and the revelation of that same truth. One you can teach. The other you release through faith filled words.

Only by revelation knowledge can we truly know the nature of God within us and all that He has deposited into our re-born spirits. Head knowledge is not enough.

For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding (Colossians 1:9)

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