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Rebuking The Spirit of Ebola

16 Thursday Oct 2014

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I encourage the believers in Texas and Dallas to rise up and rebuke the spirit of Ebola. Please know and understand that Ebola is a spirit first and I am righteously angry because I see the spirit of fear causing many believers to turn tail and run when they should be fighting.

Catch a vision today of who you are in the Lord. Some believers in Dallas need to get together and go over to the Dallas Presbyterian Hospital property and rebuke the spirit of ebola right now. You need to bind that demonic manifestation and cast it out of your city! Churches need to gather and rebuke this spirit. You have the authority and the power to do so. There is no use praying about it… God is not going to do anything about Ebola when He has already given you the authority over that disease and spirit. You have the power and authority because it is your city. Experts from out-of-town are not your answer. If you do not get spiritually aggressive, the devil will have you sitting at home in fear, wearing hazard suits, believing nothing can be done.

Catch a vision today… there are two types of rivers. There is the River of Life and then there is every other river. Ebola means Black River and this blackness wants to flow into your city. Rebuke it! Stop its flow. Right now you are on the front lines of this battle … you did not choose it, it chose you. Bind that spirit, rebuke it and send it back into the pit of hell where it belongs.

Catch a vision today… your city is under siege. By the way, there are other types of spirits attacking your city too. If you neglect and refuse to rebuke them, you might lose your privilege to preach God’s word.

Catch a vision today… God has not given you a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a sound mind. Repent, rebuke these spirits which are attacking you, and ask the Lord to raise your protective hedge once again.

 

Blessings – From God’s Incubator,

Pastor

 

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Can God Trust You With His Presence?

16 Wednesday May 2012

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Can God really trust you with His presence? You are probably answering in the affirmative.  We should want it.  If He can trust you with His presence, then where is it?  You see, the Anointing is the presence of God.  It is not a vague reality that only certain “spiritual people” can discern about you.  No, the Anointing should be a matter of fact about us. God’s presence can become so THICK in your life that people can’t help but be affected by it.

It is all about the relationship we have with the Lord.  Our relationship with God’s Holy Spirit is of primary importance. You might get away “stiffing” God for a few weeks.  Some neglect to pray for weeks and months.  They put their whole relationship with God in neutral. Afterward they seek and receive forgiveness and are gladly welcomed back into the family of God.

But when you neglect and “stiff” your relationship with the Holy Spirit, He is not so easily found on the back side.  It is not that He will never come back. It is not that He will stop filling you.   But you have offended the Spirit of God.  The Holy Spirit takes your neglect personally. You are the one who sought a relationship with Him and now you have bailed out of the relationship.  The Bible exhorts us to not “grieve” or “quench.”

 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.  Ephesians 4:30

 

Do you think the Holy Spirit is going to continue to leave Himself in a vulnerable position so that you can continue to walk in and out of a relationship with Him. It is a dangerous thing for a believer, church, or organization to grieve and quench the Holy Spirit .  In many cases, the Holy Spirit has left the building and we do not even know it.  This is why many have had to place their trust in “man-made” programs.  The Spirit departed long ago.

The Holy Spirit desires a continuous, harmonious, enduring relationship with each believer and each church. “Quench and Grieve” are words no one would want to use in talking about a relationship they might have. Think about the things we have done to other believers that have absolutely grieved the Holy Spirit. Think about the things we have done in churches that have absolutely grieved the Holy Spirit.

The primary question we need to ask before doing any activity or church business is not, “What will old Uncle Harry think?” No, we should be asking, “Will this course of action quench, grieve, or invite the Holy Spirit’s work in my life and the church?”

When I was a mere lad (8-9 yrs. old) I had an old battery in one of my toys go dead.   It was a “C” or “D” sized battery.  I desperately wanted my toy to work once more.  I knew that electricity ran through batteries.  I also was aware electricity flowed in the wall plugs.  I figured out a plan to get electricity from the wall socket into my battery.  My mother was a beautician and had bobby pins all over the house.  So I made a V out of the bobby pin and stuck the two ends into the socket while connected to my battery.

REJECTION —- I learned that day there were certain principles that needed to be applied to harness the power of electricity.  No matter how I might want to cheat, shortcut, believe, or somehow get around those fundamental laws governing electricity — THE LAWS WERE STILL IN OPERATION AND I MUST ABIDE BY THEM.  I eventually learned, if you fail to abide by these laws you can be shocked, caught on fire, or destroy an otherwise working appliance.  I was blown across the room and sparks flew all over the place.  Those sparks politely burned holes in my bed spread.  I FELT THE POWER!  The problem was I did not want this type of power.  I was trying to invent the battery charger before there were battery chargers.  If I had just been a little more persistent, I could have been a millionaire by inventing the first battery charger.

The truth is God wants us to experience and share His power.  You must believe this truth.   Jesus said, “You shall receive power after the Holy Spirit has come upon you.“

He is not trying to keep us from power, God is trying to get us to use His power.  But there are Fundamental Spiritual Laws at work in the spiritual realm concerning the power and anointing of God.  It shouldn’t surprise any of us that the Lord only shares His power with those who can be trusted with it.  Can God really trust you with His presence and power?

Blessings,

Pastor

 

Anointing or Anti-Anointing?

20 Tuesday Dec 2011

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         A few years back there was a vacuum salesman making his rounds in the back woods of Tennessee. He had his vacuum cleaner, all of the tools and attachments.  Hungry to make a sale, he approached a house where he knew someone was home.  After introducing himself to the lady of the house he said, “I’ve got the most exciting vacuum cleaner you have ever seen. It will clean your house from top to bottom……you only have to pay so much down for this machine to be yours.”

The lady said, “It sounds real good.”  The salesman quickly proceeded, “You see that big pile of dirt right there on the floor with all those fur balls and bugs and things?” He said, “My vacuum cleaner will pick up all those things…just like that and if they don’t, I’ll eat it.”

She said, “Well you might as well get your knife and fork, because we don’t have any electricity out here!”

Needless to say, you are not going to sell many vacuum cleaners without the power to operate them.  The same can be said of the believer.  We aren’t going to convince and communicate the Good News of Jesus Christ without power. 

 

       Jesus didn’t even attempt to do ministry without power.  His first order of business was to be baptized by John in the Jordan river.  His Father blessed His obedience “and the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in bodily form like a dove, and a voice came out of heaven, “You are My beloved Son, in You I am well-pleased.””   (Luke 3:21-22)

“Christ” was not Jesus’ last name. The word Christ means “Anointed One” or “Messiah.”  There was a point in Jesus’ life when He wasn’t anointed and then the time came when He was anointed.  His title “Jesus Christ” points back to the experience He had at the river.

All believers need this same experience.  Yes, we do need to be baptized in water.  We also need to be anointed with power from on high.  The word anointing means “to smear.”  The Holy Spirit is the oil of God that was smeared all over Jesus at His water baptism.  The name “Jesus Christ” implies that Jesus is the One smeared with the Holy Spirit.

It was not sufficient that Jesus be sent from heaven to earth with a title. He had to receive the anointing in an experience to accomplish what the Father desired.

If the Son of God was this reliant upon the anointing, His behavior should clarify our need for the Holy Spirit’s presence upon us to do what the Father has assigned. It’s vital to understand that we must be clothed with the Holy Spirit in order to do any work of ministry.

 

BEWARE OF THE ANTI-ANOINTING

 

Because the power of God is such a threat to the forces of evil, the devil has sent another spirit out into the world to ambush the church and believers.   This power was identified by the apostle John when he said, “Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour.”  (1 John 2:18)

 

       The nature of the antichrist spirit is found in its name: “anti” meaning “against“; “Christ” meaning “Anointed One.”  Evil attacks by seeking to besmear the name of “Jesus” to the world.  But within the church, trashing the name of Jesus doesn’t do any good.  Inside Christendom, the devil seeks to destroy the “anointing.”  This is why John called him the “antichrist.”  These types of spirits are always against the anointing or power.

We must understand the spirits of hell are at war against the anointing, for without the anointing mankind is no threat to their dominion.  The demonic world is not really scared of our churches and believers absent of the anointing.  But when we stand like Jesus, full of the anointing, we destroy the works of the devil.  The presence of the Lord and the presence of evil cannot coexist. 

Billy Graham is credited with saying, “Ninety-five percent of today’s church activities would continue if the Holy Spirit were removed from us. In the early Church, ninety-five percent of all her activities would have stopped if the Holy Spirit were removed.”

I encourage you today to seek “to be filled and clothed with power from on high.”  The Lord never intended for His children to operate without His presence and power.

Blessings,

Pastor

Barriers Where Faith Will Not Go

22 Friday Jul 2011

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Therefore, when Mary came where Jesus was, she saw Him, and fell at His feet, saying to Him, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother (Lazarus) would not have died.” 33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in spirit and was troubled, 34 and said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to Him, “Lord, come and see.” 35 Jesus wept. 36 So the Jews were saying, “See how He loved him!” 37 But some of them said, “Could not this man, who opened the eyes of the blind man, have kept this man also from dying?”    John 11: 32-37

      There was a common, unspoken belief among those who followed Jesus.  It was believed Jesus could heal anyone at anytime from any distance. Everyone in Lazarus’ circle kept telling the Lord, “If only You would have been here.”  These types of statements implied the Lord’s reach of healing extended only unto death, not beyond the grave. 

      We know from reading the beginning of this chapter Jesus purposefully delayed so that Lazarus would pass away before He arrived.  This helps explain why Jesus delayed.  He wanted to correct the false beliefs of those who surrounded His ministry.  Jesus purposefully delayed so that He might raise Lazarus from the dead, proving His power beyond the grave. I like the way Jesus dealt with false beliefs.  He didn’t kick people out of His circle, He confronted their wrong beliefs with POWER! 

      Why couldn’t the people’s belief system allow Jesus to operate outside the area of healing?  Remember, even the disciples couldn’t believe the Lord for food, calming the storms, or even for power to cast out demons.  Since they had never seen power manifested in this way, it was beyond their spiritual comprehension. 

      Please know … These types of barriers were purposefully exposed by the Lord in due season.  If the Lord confronted these good folks’ lack of faith, don’t you think He must do the same in our lives?  Unfortunately, when God does expose our lack, we interpret His movements as being something else.  Instead of correcting ourselves, we get angry, blame the Lord, and throw ourselves a spiritual pity party.  Martha and Mary could have become angry because Jesus didn’t arrive in a timely fashion as they requested.  They could have easily blamed the Lord for delaying and being unsympathetic to their needs.  Like many other believers I know, they could have held this resentment for the rest of their lives.  Thankfully, this was not the road they chose to travel and neither should you. 

      Jesus will never let us settle for less when the best real faith has to offer is fully available.  Allow the Lord to expose all your vulnerabilities and areas of lack.  If maturity is your goal, then only the best will do. 

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