B.E.S.T. Shabbat

"Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner." John 5:19 (NASB) Click here to listen to " Whose Image Are You Bearing? " Graham Cooke once said: “ If we have a giant in our life it is because we are meant to be a giant ourselves. The circumstances in front of us are designed therefore to increase our size in the Spirit. So, upgrade your stature in relation to Jesus; and radically increase your power in the Holy Spirit. Or, if you prefer, just quit and never realize your true self and the inheritance that goes with it. ” We are privileged to live in times when the giants we face make us, like the children of Israel confront the size of the God that lives in us. We can be a Joshua or a Caleb and look at the harvest before us or we can be like the other spies an...

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was. (Jas 1:23-24) Click here to listen to " Who am I?- Healing the image in our soul " We have been, over the past few weeks, looking at the inner conversation that frames our world, what the Bible calls faith. Every person lives by the inner conversation of their heart. The conversation of our heart will come from one of 2 sources, summarized by the names of 2 trees in the garden of Eden. One is known by the name: The Knowledge of Good and Evil. The other tree is known by the name: Life! We know from the account recorded in Genesis 3 that Adam and Eve, our ancestors were forbidden from partaking of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. We also know that they were deceived by the serpent in violating that instruction of their loving Father wi...

Then the LORD answered me and said, "Record the vision and inscribe it on tablets, That the one who reads it may run. "For the vision is yet for the appointed time; It hastens toward the goal and it will not fail. Though it tarries, wait for it; For it will certainly come, it will not delay. (Hab. 2:2-3) Click here to listen to " Hope and Vision " Last session we began looking at hope through the lens of vision.   We realized that the vision we carry on the inside of ourselves about who we are affects what we have hope for.   Mostly, we saw that the image we have of God affects the image we have of ourselves and the nature of our reality.   Looking at Genesis, we saw that we are created in the image and likeness of God. Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image , according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that cree...

And Yahweh answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tablets, that he may run who reads it.   For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it delays, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.   Habakkuk 2:2 -3 We have been sharing about 3 eternal keys to abiding in the Lord, or if you like, in the Spirit of the Lord, faith, hope, and love.   But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.  1 Cor. 13:13.   Click here to listen to " Vision-The Technology of Activating Hope " Faith, hope, and love are entry points into the realm of the Spirit, which is the Kingdom of God.   We  have been pressing for hope as the anchor key to our future destiny. Love transforms our present. Faith transforms our past. Hope transforms our future.   Today, I want to access the power to activate hope through visi...