God Wants You To Fly

Burdens Give Us Wings

By Abraham Israel

An old legend relates that long ago God had a great many burdens which He wished to have carried from one place to another on earth, so He asked the animals to lend a hand. But all of them began to make excuses for not helping: the elephant was too dignified; the lion, too proud; and so on. Finally the birds came to God and said, "If you will tie the burdens into small bundles, we'll be glad to carry them for you. We are small but we would like to help."

So God fastened upon the back of each one a small bundle, and they all set out walking across the plain to their destination. They sang as they went, and did not seem to feel the weight of their burdens at all. Every day the burdens seemed lighter and lighter, until the loads seem to be lifting the birds, instead of the birds carrying the burdens.

When they arrived at their destination, they discovered that when they removed their loads, there were wings in their place, wings which enabled them to fly to the sky and the tree tops.

They had learned how to carry their burdens, and their loads had become wings to carry them nearer to God. Burdens we carry for others may become wings of the spirit, to lift us into happiness such as we have never known.

Even though this is a hypothetical story, there is a great truth behind it. You know Jesus said, "28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” (Matt 11:28-30). Just like the birds volunteered to carry the great many burdens of God and were blessed by God to fly high as a result of it, if we choose to take the yoke of Jesus in carrying out the burden of Father God's heart for this present generation of souls that are perishing and are longing for the word of God, then we will be able to learn the eteral character of Jesus by experientially receiving the grace of God to become like Jesus and walk in the world like Him. Saints believe me, there is no greater reward we can receive in this life and in the life to come than inheriting the character of God and walking in the purity of His life acting from within us. Actually when we agree to take the burden of God for perishing and wandering souls, actually Jesus gets yoked with us in our spirit man and starts to walk through our physical bodies on planet earth. Thus we become a living sacrifice for God to walk through us, as a result of it we no more walk in our strength but let God be the strength of our day to day walk, such life becomes the conduit of God's blessing to the world.

Are you ready? You are asking me for what, to let God walk through us. As the gentle and lowly heart of Jesus' character is displayed by our sacrificial life of ours, God will be very pleased with our life and will shower His abundant favor and blessing upon us and our family for generation after generation. As we continue to be yoked with Jesus, our soul will become lighter and lighter with the heavenly Presence of God and we will start to fly with the heavenly wings of the Spirit, higher and higher in joy, peace and righteousness of God. We can never rise up with wings like young eagles until we wait for the Lord to act through us and remain in the rest that God provides supernaturally in our souls (Isa 40:31). GOD'S BURDEN IS ALWAYS LIGHTER THAN THE HEAVIEST OF ALL HUMAN LOAD OF WORRIES BECAUSE WITH GOD'S BURDEN COMES HIS SUPERNATURAL STRENGTH TO CARRY IT.

Yes truly as we carry the burden of God more and more through carrying the burden of our fellow unsaved humans, welfare of Brothers and Sisters in prayer and loving our weak family members of our own family, God will give a supernatural wings of joy to us to make us fly in to spiritual realm of the supernatural life of heaven within our hearts. The more we carry God's burden in our heart, the lighter we will feel at each destination of our life. We will start to sing as we carry God's burden in our heart. I challenge you to ask God today to give you the burdens of His heart and help you carry it through his supernatural ability that he provides. Once you start to carry God's burden day after day, your heart will become lighter and lighter that you will have a smile for every one you meet, a twinkle in your eyes for everything you see, a leap for every turn and a laughter for every word you speak that will gladden people's heart. You will never have a dull moment of heaviness in your heart because your God-given burdens will start to lift you up towards heaven as God carries you by His strength. But one important thing to remember, Your spiritual wings cannot be realised until you start to take the burdens of God's heart upon yourself voluntarily. So dare to take it to see the difference. Enjoy the abundant life of God and be enjoyed by him!

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Get New Mercies and Grace Every Morning!

You Should Go Down Before You Can Come Up Spiritually!

By Abraham Israel

The man who has come to realise that each day no matter how good he can act, it is the Lord's mercies that can keep him from dying both physically and spiritually, will not fail to live a joyful life of gratitute towards God.

All of our disatisfaction in life are because of want of gratitude and thankfullness towards God. The self realization that we are sinners bound to hell without our Savior Jesus Christ should make us understand the innate sinfulness of our own heart.

Christianity is an enigmatic paradox. The more a person grows spiritually, the lesser he thinks about himself and his own righteousness. The lesser a person becomes in his own eyes, the greater he will become in the eyes of God. For example in the life of the great apostle Paul, when he started his ministry he introduced himself to his readers as "Paul, an apostle (not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Him from the dead)" (Gal 1:1) approximately in 50-60 AD. Then while writing to Corinthians in his first letter later in 54-59 AD he said, "I am the least of the apostles" (1 Cor 15:9). Then a few years down the line when he was writing to the Ephesians in 60-63 AD he said, "I am less than the least of all the saints" (Eph 3:8). Then some years before the end of his life when he was writing a letter to his apostolic son in 62-63 AD he said, "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief" (1 Tim 1:15). Then finally just months before his death, writing to his apostolic son Timothy he said in 67 AD, "the Lord stood with me and strengthened me...I was delivered...and the Lord will deliver me...preserve me. To Him be glory forever and ever. Amen!" (2 Tim 4:17-18).

What happened to the great Apostle Paul here, the man who has started his ministry knowing and saying that he is a apostle to the whole Church of the Gentile world (Gal 2:8)...goes in to a downward spiral in his own estimation and at the end of his life ...fails to describe about himself but only gave glory to God for his very life. Then he signed the apostolic letter saying, "The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen." (2 Tim 4:22). What is this? He is no more mentioning himself but only the grace of God at the end of his life. Why? Because Paul knew that any person who stoops low in his own esteem will receive a grace of God just like himself to do the works that he did. In other words, he is saying that all believer can live supernaturally like him spiritually, if only they receive the supernatural grace of God in their spirit-man within. He wishes towards all believers to become humble enough to receive the grace of God inside them for the glory of God just like himself.

God want us to start the day by understanding the new mercies of His that he releases anew by forgiving all the yesterdays sins of our wrong thoughts and actions, known and unknown sins, presumptuous sins and those of ignorance and sins of both breaking comissions and failure to fullfill by our omissions, and instead gives a new grace and thoughts of empowerment each morning. SO WHAT IS YOUR THOUGHT ABOUT YOURSELF TODAY? Both Paul and Peter, the greatest founding apostles to the gentiles and the Jews say, "Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up." (James 4:10) and " 5 Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” 6 Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time." (1 Peter 5:5-6). REMEMBER, YOU HAVE TO STOOP LOW AND HAVE TO GO DOWN IN A DOWNWARD SPIRAL IN YOUR OWN SIGHT BEFORE YOU CAN REALLY EXPECT GOD TO LOOK UPON YOU AS SOME ONE GREAT AND THEREBY RECEIVE AND GROWN IN GRACE TO BE BLESSED AND BECOME A BLESSING TO OTHERS.

Always at the start of the day, the one who comes saying to God "I am a begger in need of your righteousness today to be spiritually successful," will never fail to receive God's grace and enjoy the new mercies of the Lord every morning (Lam 3:22-23). God never makes a difference between the righteousness of a new believer and a spiritually mature believer because both should come to Him every morning to receive it humbly by faith. The righteous man will live by faith to appropriate and bring God's grace to empower him to spiritually excel (Rom 1:17; Php 3:9).  These humble spiritual beggars who come begging before God will be great before all men because they will be thankful for God's compassion by knowing and confessing back to Him that He is good at the end of the day (Lam 3:32). They will declare the faithfullness of God to their generation (Lam 3:25). Such people who are poor in their spirit will recall this spiritual truth of humility often everyday and will therefore excel in hope to reach the promised destiny of God in His time happily (Luke 5:3; Lam 3:21). Keep praising and thanking for the Lord's mercies given anew every morning. Praise the Lord!

"When you go down in your own sight, actually you are going up in the sight of God." — Abraham Israel

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Being Positive By Faith!

Count It Right And You Will Be Positive!

By Abraham Israel

Being positive needs no special techniques to practice. It all starts when we see life in the heavenly light of gratitude and thankfulness towards God for what we already have, instead of thinking that we can be happy only when we have something. Dear friends, life is more than what we have and what really matters in life is, who we have with us. If we have God on our side, we already have everthing we need in this life and in the life to come. Do you believe it saints?

Hear what God says in His word, "5 Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” 6 So we may boldly say: “ The LORD is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?”" (Heb 13:5-6). Three important things we can learn from these above verses which was spoken to us from God's mouth to make us excel in the art of living life to the fullest.

1) Do Not Covet — When we covet after anything of this earthly life, we are indirectly saying to God, 'I am not satisfied with the life you have given to me. I need something more than you God and your customed desgined destiny to make my life better.' Think about it saints, do we know more than God and can our plans in this life be more effective than the plan God has designed for us individually before the foundation of the world (Eph 1:4). Sometimes we are so foolish to think that we know more than God. So be wise not to covet after earthly things that perish, but only covet after God and His heavenly spiritual gifts and riches so that we can now be a blessing to many (1 Cor 12:31; 14:1). Coveting brings dissatisfaction in the life of a believer and is a virus that destroys the spiritual growth of his soul and thus makes him fall in to destruction of heavenly abundant life which Jesus has already provided for him. And coveting leads the unbeliever to perdition which is eternal damnation (John 10:10; 1 Tim 6:9-10). The best life we can live now is to have food and clothing, then be content with it and then enjoy every single day of our life rejoicing in the Lord with gratefulness and thankfulness by serving Him all the days of our life (1 Tim 6:6-8, 17). LET NOT YOU ACTIONS IN LIFE BE DRIVEN BY COVETEOUSNESS, IF YOU ALLOW IT, IT WILL MAKE YOUR LIFE MISERABLE. Praise the Lord!

2) Be Content — Contentment is a gift of God that makes us satisfied with who we are in God than what we have with us in this world. It is a divine state of satisfaction in our soul that makes us busy with the joy of our heart, it is the power that God gives to use the wealth we have with us wisely for our eternal benefit and enjoy the good of all our labor (Eccl 5:18-20). Who knows what is good for man in life except the God who has created us for His purpose (Eccl 5:12)? Nobody can guarantee that they will be alive tomorrow for sure. Why? Because our life in itself is like a shadow that might suddenly vanish when a cloud covers the sky or the darkness sets in at the appointed time of our death. We cannot predict what will happen on earth after we die because while we are still alive itself we have no power over our own lives, how then after our death. One who covets will never be satisfied with contentment from God (Eccl 5:10). Contentment is a process that we need to learn day after day by replacing thoughts of coveteousness with the intentional thought of grateful gratitude of thankfulness and praising attitude towards God for who He is to us and what he has already done for us, in us and through us. Hear what the great apostle Paul says, "11 ..., for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: 12 I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." (Php 4:11-13). First contentment is a process and not a one time feeling that comes and goes away, it is acquired by learning. We can grow in contentment as we learn to live satisfied by God's heavenly presence by prioritising the heavenly purpose of God for our life as the sole purpose of our existence in this life (Php 1:21-23). When we come to realize all we have is God, then we will come to know God is all we ever need. We will become content with what we have only when we know the God who we have with us in life is all we will ever need. So contentment is learned when we experientially walk in this supernatural knowledge of the abundance of heaven and the availability of God's power always to us as God's children to fullfill all that we are designed to do in the pre-planned God's blue print that he has planned before the foundation of the world for us. We have brought nothing in to the world and we cannot take anything out of the world (1 Tim 6:7). So the bottom line is, whatever contentment and the purpose driven life that you have lived on earth with the help of God will only matter at the end of your life. BE CONTENT WITH WHAT YOU HAVE BECAUSE THAT IS ALL YOU NEED TO MAKE A IMPACT IN THIS LIFE.

3) Believe God's Promises and Boldly Speak Your Faith — Finally, as we believe the promises of God in our life, we will never be ashamed of it because in a matter of time, God will begin to fullfill all the promises which we have believed in our life day in and day out. When we believe, we will start to speak boldly of our faith (2 Cor 4:13). When we believe, our mouth will automatically start to get tuned to speak only the postive promises of God and boast in it irrespective of the circumstances we go through in our lives. Faith people are most postive people who make a difference in this negative world. So you be one to make a difference for the GLORY OF GOD! Because God's presence stays with us because of His unbreakable promise given to us from God, we should never allow fear to overcome us when we are pushed to tight situations in our faith life. Such times we should get recharged with faith and grow in it by speaking to ourself saying, 'The Lord's is with me through his Presence and therefore "The LORD is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?"' The simple answer is, no man can do to you anything but what the Lord allows (1 Cor 10:13). When such kingly prosperity of contentment and faith acts together, you will be able to proclaim like Jesus saying to judges, governors and presidents boldly, "...You could have no power at all against Me unless it had been given you from above." (John 19:11), even if you are standing for the verdict of the highest court on earth to decide whether you should live or die for the sake of your faith in God. The one who will not be able to inherit anything of value are those who do not live by faith and have no endurance when trials come against them, all others even if they are fools will definitely receive God's promise after they have done the will of God to endure through the trials that come their way (Heb 10:35-36). So let us keep doing good to all the saints that God brings our way and not grow weary while we have the God given oppurtunity to do good. Let us not be discouraged when nothing tangible happens, because in God's appointed season we will start to reap all the promised blessing of God continually (Gal 6:9-10). KEEP WORKING FOR GOD BY FAITH, BEING CONTENT WITH THANKFULLNESS AND PRAISING ATTITUDE, BY DOING SO YOUR REWARD WILL NOT ONLY COME IN DUE SEASON BUT THE RETIREMENT BENEFITS ARE SURELY OUT OF THIS WORLD!

I believe that now you are ready to count it rightly and be positive in your life of faith.

Count your blessings instead of your crosses;
Count your gains instead of your losses.

Count your joys instead of your woes;
Count your friends instead of your foes.

Count your smiles instead of your tears;
Count your courage instead of your fears.

Count your full years instead of your lean;
Count your kind deeds instead of your mean.

Count your health instead of your wealth;
Count on God instead of yourself.

--Anonymous

"You can count your chikens before they hatch if you continue to walk by faith" — Abraham Israel

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Expressing Christ-likeness

Are You God's Wife?

By Abraham Israel

An eye witness account from New York City, on a cold day in December, some years ago:

A little boy, about 10-years-old, was standing before a shoe store on the roadway, barefooted, peering through the window, and shivering with cold.

A lady approached the young boy and said, "My, but you're in such deep thought staring in that window!"

"I was asking God to give me a pair of shoes," was the boy's reply.

The lady took him by the hand, went into the store, and asked the clerk to get half a dozen pairs of socks for the boy. She then asked if he could give her a basin of water and a towel. He quickly brought them to her.

She took the little fellow to the back part of the store and, removing her gloves, knelt down, washed his little feet, and dried them with the towel.

By this time, the clerk had returned with the socks. Placing a pair upon the boy's feet, she purchased him a pair of shoes. She tied up the remaining pairs of socks and gave them to him. She patted him on the head and said, "No doubt, you will be more comfortable now."

As she turned to go, the astonished kid caught her by the hand, and looking up into her face, with tears in his eyes, asked her . . ."Are you God's wife?"

What can we learn from this inspiring real life moving story saints?

We as the Church are actually betrothed now as virgins who will become the spiritual wife of Jesus in the coming days. In other words, all other people like this little boy should be able to understand that there is something of God seen in us as we live like Christ lived in this world. A wife is a partial reflection of her husband who will get more and more in harmony and one in beat with her husband's tune as time goes on together in life.

Now in the midst of this alien atmosphere of the world system of governance which is ruled by the rebellious thinking of the devil and his followers (Eph 2:2), we are trained to make a difference by walking and talking pleasing to our bridegroom Jesus and becoming one with Him in His likeness. We are being perfected from one level of glory of Christ to another level each day, as a result of it we are continuously renewed newly day by day and are built up spiritually to be more and more like Christ (2 Cor 3:18; 4:16).

My prayer for all of us is, may we become more and more a reflection of Christ and one in harmony in the likeness of His character, so that when other's see us, may they see Christ in us. So that like the little boy, they may dare to ask the incredible question, "ARE YOU GOD'S WIFE?"

"The proof of God's love is expressed to the dying humanity only when we choose to express it through our good works done towards them because of the love of God burning in our heart and soul." — Abraham Israel

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Who is Sheba? Is it a spirit or a Real Person?

Is there a spirit of Sheba?

Question : Greeting brother Abraham, just wanted to ask a question to see if I could get guidance on this matter. Yesterday while in church the Pastor brought up a subject on discouragement. He said somebody on facebook was telling the brethren otherwise, he said it was the spirit of Sheba. I bind and rebuke that spirit in the mighty name of Jesus and rebuked it to the deepest part of the sea. My question is this brother Abraham, is there such a spirit? Thank you very much for your time and support brother Abraham. Blessings to you and your congregation in the name of Jesus. Praise the LORD!!

Answer : Greetings to you in Jesus name!

In the New Testament or in the Bible generally, we do not see specific spirits named or rebuked by Jesus and apostles in the first century. They did not need the names or character of any evil spirit particularly, but simply as they resisted the devil by their lifestyle filled with prayer and word of God in purity, the devil fled away from them whenever they saw them (James 4:7; Acts 6:2, 4; 1 Peter 1:15-16; 1 John 3:3; 2 Tim 2:21). But some writers like Luke the physician described a "spirit of infirmity" which Satan had used to bind and keep a daughter of Abraham to be sick for eighteen years (Luke 13:11, 16). Jesus ordered the woman to be loosened from this sickness and she was healed (Luke 13:12-13). The Characteristic of this spirit which brought weakness and infirmity to this believing woman of faith, must have been revealed by the Holy Spirit to the writer as the writing was done under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

Actually there are different spirits of evil like the following that are described in the Bible by their manifesting characteristics to make people understand that there are different kind of spirit at work for each manifestation in the spirit realm.

The Bible describes these spirits by name such as mute spirit (Mark 9:25), dumb spirit (Mark 9:25), distressing spirit (1 Samuel 16:14), foul spirit (Rev 18:2), unclean spirit (Matt 10:1), spirit of divination (Acts 16:16), spirit of bondage (Rom 8:15), spirit of error (1 John 4:6), spirit of the world (1 Cor 2:12), deceiving spirits (1 Tim 4:1), jealous spirit (Num 5:14), lying spirit (2 Chronicles 18:21), familiar spirit (Deut 18:11), spirit of antichrist (1 John 4:3), spirit of fear (2 Tim 1:7), perverse spirit (Isaiah 29:10), sorrowful spirit (1 Sam 1:15), spirit of harlotry (Hos 4:12), different spirit (2 Cor 11:4) and spirit of ill will (Judges 9:23). By no means this is a exhaustive list of all the spirits in the spiritual realm, but only those mentioned are some which were actively at work both in the Old Testament and New Testament. These different spirits of evil worked under the sovereign God-allowed permissive will on earth (Job 2:1; 1 Kings 22:19-23). Some times because of the kind of evil that people indulged willingly, the Lord Himself sent evil spirit as a sign of His curse to trouble them so that they might repent (1 Sam 16:14).

There is a gift of the Holy Spirit named as "discerning of spirits" in the New Testament which has the potential to reveal the true nature of the spirit entity that is coming against the Church or even a believer (1 Cor 12:10). This gift can work through any person whom the Holy Spirit wills to use at a particular time who is available and desiring to be used (1 Cor 12:11, 31; 14:1). Through this gift of the Holy Spirit, the leaders and saints in the Church some times may be used to rebuke certain spirits by their name and cast out the evil spirits.

But generally, I have seen people these days write books based on the rebellious character of people in the Bible and make a spirit behind the workings of their evil actions. This cannot be biblically accurate, but there is a chance for the Holy Spirit to inspire the writers to bring edification and exhortation to the Church in certain instances. For example, the spirit of sheba is such a making. In the O.T. Sheba is a person who brought division in the unity of the people of the kingdom of David by making people follow him, but in the N.T. context this has been assumed by certain writers as a divisive spirit whose purpose is to derail the vision of God. We can derive principles but not a doctrine which will be shaky in the spiritual realm.

Here is the Scripture that points to Sheba, "And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel." (2 Samuel 20:1).

Here in the above verse we see that Sheba was wicked in his heart with a motive to reject the God ordained leadership of David and wanted to promote his own agenda. To fulfill it he appealed to the fleshly tribal identity of the Israelites as outcast through magnifying the tribal identity of David as belonging to Judah to which he was accused as though he owed all his loyalty because of his flesh connection. Because of this, the peopl of Israel began to question the integrity and loyality of the God ordained king towards the other ten tribes of Israel (2 Samuel 19:40-43).

Therefore at the right time this rebel sheba blew a trumpet and divided the loyalty of many Israelites away from David (2 Samuel 20:1-2). "So every man of Israel went up from after David, and followed Sheba…" (2 Samuel 20:2a). But very soon judgment followed upon this rebel who created rebellion with in the Israelites, he was beheaded and his head was thrown over to David's commander Joab from the wall of the city in which he hid and stayed (2 Sam 20:22).

Belial means "worthless" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament this term is used to refer to various wicked people. In later Christian tradition Belial became an evil angel Satan associated with lawlessness and lust (2 Cor 6:15; 2 Tim 2:26; John 8:44). We see here how in a subtle way the meaning of Old Testament and New Testament usage of the same word "Belial" differs. Based on this difference, this person who is wicked in the Old Testament is clothed in a spiritual context as a wicked spirit in the New Testament. That which is physical in the Old Testament becomes spiritual in application in the New Testament. As the Old Testament is given to us as an example to the New Testament believers (1 Cor 10:6), now it has become an priciple manual to turn all the saints towards obedience to the faith and warn them against disobedience (Rom 16:26). The Old Testament is turned from a natural earthly physical point of view to a spiritual and heavenly point of view to be taught as a spiritual principles for spiritual learning which produces patience and comfort of the Scriptures, so that all saints might have hope which brings the presence of God and releases the love of God to fellowship one with the other for the GLORY OF GOD (Rom 15:4; Heb 6:19; Rom 5:5). The bottomline is that there is no direct evidence from the Scripture that there is a spirit of sheba present in our times, but that the people of God infer from the Scripture the character of this rebel sheba and are naming whatever spiritual rebellion that they see with in the Church agaist the God ordained leadership to be a spirit of sheba. They assume that there was a spirit within that rebel Sheba that is at loose coming against the Church. As the spirit of Jezebel which worked in the wife of the 1st century pastor against the Church (Rev 2:20), this might work against the Church if it was a spirit that caused this rebellion. But all the rebellion in the Church cannot be pointed towards this spirit of Sheba. But it is OK if someone describes a rebellion using the synonymous name "spirit of sheba", but rebuking it without knowing for sure by the Spirit of God through the gift of discerning of spirits, will dislodge no spirit in the spiritual realm and it will be just nice spiritual warfare phrase spoken in to the air (1 Cor 9:26).

So the pastor whom you have said might have seen a teaching from the word of God that is done in the Facebook that does not align with what he thinks and believes to be right about a particular doctrine, must have thought this to be bringing discouragement or is challenging his authority over the people whom he wants to believe what he believes to be right. In his insecurity, he might have thought that someone might cause division of belief within the Church. Many pastors do have the same insecurity towards others and para-church ministries. According to me, a pastor should point to the Bible and allow the Holy Spirit to convince a believer to believe that a particular doctrine to be right and not be insecure in such matters. Binding the spirit of Sheba and sending it to the deepest part of the sea is not Biblical, as your pastor is trying to do something that he thinks is right but is not right. Nobody can send a spirit to the deepest part of the sea until the appointed time of God in this world system of governace gets over legally when Jesus comes to this earth (Matt 8:29, 31; 1 Cor 2:6; Heb 6:5). The demons in the country of Gadarenes begged Jesus not to send them in to abyss prison under the earth, because it knew that the time given to them by God is still not over and will continue until the Millenium rule of Jesus starts when the saints will rule this earth with Jesus (Luke 8:31; Matt 8:29; Rev 12:12; 20:1-3, 4-6). Only God has challenged Satan and his cohorts that He will bring all of them in to the deepest pit of sheol through the saints, which has already started in the Church age spiritually and will be fulfilled physically when the Millenium rule of Jesus starts in the earth, and will reach its zenith end during the White Throne Judgment, and therefore only He has the rights to send them permanently in to abyss in His appointed time which is a prison under the earth and the lake of fire which is eternal abode of all devils and unbelievers alike (Isa 14:15; Rev 20:11-15; Matt 25:41; 1 Cor 6:1-3). We do not have a single command to send evil spirit under the sea or to abyss when encountered with a evil spirit, instead we bind its activity spiritually and even send them out of a physical occupation and location. But Jesus himself said that demons will return with seven more worse evil spirits as long as people are empty without the Spirit of God filling the bodies and sealing it as a sign of God's possession (Matt 12:43-45; Eph 1:13-14; 5:18). Even if the pastor thinks that he has used the name of sheba led by the Spirit, it should not be against believer who checks or simply reads a doctrine in the facebook in this digital age. God has given a free choice for every believer and all should get convinced by their own understanding through biblical research that a particular teaching is correct or not. One should not forget that the Berean believers even checked the mighty apostle Paul's doctrine which he taught to them, who has written nearly one third of the New Testament inspired by the Holy Spirit of God. The same Holy Spirit commended these believers as "fair-minded" and noble for their diligence in checking the Bible whether what apostle Paul taught is in the word of God (Acts 17:10-12). So each believer should be allowed freely to get convinced himself by searching from the Bible to know whether a doctrine is right or wrong. The Scripture should be used in context and therefore allow the power of God to manifest for the GLORY OF GOD (Mark 7:13). MAY GOD HELP US ALL TO GO DEEPER AND DEEPER IN TO THE WORD AND THUS LIVE BY THE POWER OF HEAVEN ON EARTH THROUGH OUR RIGHT BELIEF.

Much Blessings.....

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Hearing God's Voice

Is It God's Voice Or My Own Flesh?

Question : I am having doubt. When I am praying, I am getting some verses in my thoughts. Sometimes it is absolutely related to my life, but sometimes I won't understand the verses. Then I am having a doubt whether it is God who is revealing those verses to me or am thinking on my own flesh.. I am really confused in this. What do I do for it?

Answer : Greetings to you in Jesus name! It is of course a right doubt that many of us have many times. When we feel that God is speaking, the doubt that arises in our mind often times is, "Is it God or my flesh?". See the one good thing in your way of thinking is, you are regularly reading the word of God and storing it in your heart. God and His word are one, so most of the times He will speak to us through His word primarily (John 1:1). We are actually born again in our spirit through the word of God (1 Peter 1:23). It is God's will that we become His children through His word Jesus who became flesh (John 1:12-13). Thus God has magnified His Word more than His very name (Psa 139:2).

Every time we are in need of God's healing, He sends His word to heal us physically and emotionally, and also deliver us from the trap of destruction that the enemy of our soul Satan and his demonic minions have set before us (Psa 107:20). Satan also knows that a strong saint will always depend on the word of God to fight against Him (Eph 6:17), so therefore he will try to use the word of God out of context to misguide and defeat us in our pursuit to hear the voice of God clearly in our soul. During these times of crises and doubt that arises in our soul because of Satan using Scripture to drive us to do his bidding, we will lose the sense of peace in our soul. Holy Spirit will guide us always, but Satan will try to drive us to do His bidding. In those times, we should depend on the Holy Spirit to help us do the will of God. When confusion and doubt arises because of such spiritual warfare, we should follow the following apostolic golden rule for overcoming it, "6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." (Php 4:6-7). Once peace returns, we know that we are in the will of God. When we hear the Scripture within us and the peace of God follows us within, we know that it is God who has spoken to us (Isa 32:17; Psa 119:165). God will speak and lead us through peace and never through confusion because Satan is the author of it (Prov 3:17; Matt 11-28-30; 1 Cor 14:33).

For example when Jesus was tempted in the wilderness, Satan tried his best to misquote and deceive Jesus, but as Jesus wholly depended on the Holy Spirit and not on his own understanding as a man, Holy Spirit gave another clear Scripture against the misquote of Satan that made him flee away from Jesus until an opportune time (Luke 4:9-13). The same thing will victoriously happen to us in our time of spiritual warfare against Satan and his demons in our heart if we too completely trust the Holy Spirit of God to give us the right Scripture again and again to dispel our doubts which creates confusion and stronghold of unbelief in our mind. This is a process in which we cooperate more and more with the Holy Spirit through communing with Him to become spiritually sharp with faith to do defensive war within our heart and offensive warfare against Satan and his demonic followers through the word of God spoken through our mouth (2 Cor 13:14; 4:13; Eph 6:16-17; Rom 10:10).

When you are doubtful, pray to God to give peace. When you are getting Scripture verses in your mind that brings no peace in your heart, it is not God who is bringing it, but your flesh that is self-seeking and even it may be the devil sometimes (James 3:14-18). But if peace follows a Scripture that comes in to your mind, it is God who is speaking to you. May God help you to grow more and more spiritually, and make you hear His voice like a trumpet inside you (1 Cor 14:7-8). May the God of peace make peace flow like a river in your life and thus cause you to Crush all satanic tactics that tries to diminish the voice of God in your life (Isa 66:12; Rom 16:20). May you hear the very word of God from His mouth always for the GLORY OF GOD! Be blessed and be a BLESSING!

Much BLESSINGS....

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