Acts 1:12-14 (KJV)
“12 Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey.
13 And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.
14 These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.”
With much life yet to live, this is what they did as they hung out with each other; they prayed together.

SING

Psalm 146:2 (KJV)
“While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.”
Connecting to why we are here, why we are at all exalts Him. Mind and spirit attend His presence to clarify our gratefulness of existence. Singing is a way of extending gratefulness and thanksgiving; it is not He needs it, He simply loves it. He revels in our singing to Him.

FEEL THE SWELL

Acts 1:7-8 (KJV)
“7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.”
Speaking Jesus out of our character and out of our actions say more than words could ever say. Have I failed in this? Yes. Nonetheless, I will continue to work on being available to it; it would do us all good to make ourselves available.
How can we know the time and the season His power moves? When we do notice it, we must catch the wave and ride it as far as it will take us.

Proverbs 3:7 (KJV)
“Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.”
God is not a convenience He is a staple

PROTECT

Matthew 1:24-25 (KJV)
“24 Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:
25 And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.”
Are we willing to sacrifice our pleasure and desires to protect the instructions God has given? JESUS

SAVE

Matthew 1:21 (KJV)
“And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.”
Save? “Sozo” is the word for save in the original language of scripture. This word is applied three different ways to mean: To be delivered, to be healed, and to be made whole. Deliverance and healing are vehicles taken us to wholeness; ultimately salvation is to bring us to wholeness and soundness of spirit and mind concerning sin. For saving to be complete healing cannot take place until deliverance happens and deliverance is never complete until healing is complete; when these two work their full course is when wholeness becomes reality.
Finding JESUS, knowing JESUS, and learning JESUS is what saves us. He is the process in salvation; He is health to all nations, all people, and all humankind. He became human to deliver us, to heal us, and to bring us to wholeness. He shall be called JESUS – one who saves.

BLESSING

Matthew 16:16-17 (KJV)
“16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.”
We put weight in cognition and our ability to connect with facts; some are cognitively more competent than others. Does this give the more competent a greater advantage? What are we going to do w...ith the peace of God that passes all understanding? What are we going to do with a God that is past finding out? How do we believe what we cannot see?
Goodness is a virtue in the heart of those willing to think beyond themselves, willing to think beyond this world. Goodness is a virtue in the heart of God gifting us with the ability to receive revelation from heaven. In this scripture people were saying one thing and heaven was saying another.
Cognition would say something like this “Is Jesus using the term Father as a metaphor or is God really His Father?” “Is God a Father at all?” “Why did He not use Mother as a metaphor?” Flesh and blood cannot give us what God gives; and when God gives it, Jesus describes it as a blessing.

REPENT/TOTALLY TURNED AROUND

2 Peter 3:8-9 (KJV)
“8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”
Besides being born with sin nature inherited from Adam, cannot imagine also, being born with predisposed desires and feelings inherited from generational curses visiting children ten and fifteen generations later; people born with desires inordinate and unnatural to their physical design. Yes people are infected, affected, and influenced even beyond this; it is a living emotional hell.
Biased to explain with the intent to justify these inherited predispositions, philosophy, psychology, and even theological perceptions tend to work against the broken, the inheritors of sin nature and generational curses embedded in their DNA. We wonder why Jesus blood was spilt for us. His blood with a heavenly DNA was shed to untwist twisted philosophy, twisted psychology, and twisted theology.
When Jesus’ DNA is spiritually injected into ours it brings about a reaction to all these predispositions. Regardless of our predispositions, God’s predetermined will calls us to repentance. Through the power of His shed blood and broken body we can change what we were born with. It is when our mind and heart lines up with the bread and the wine that His sacrifice genuinely works into us the culture of heaven against the culture of this world predisposed in our birth.
Can things change? Yes, no matter how twisted they are. We must prepare our heart and our mind; this world will not and cannot agree with us when we decide to accept God’s predetermined will above our inherited predispositions. Jesus said, except you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have no life in you. Are we really ready for this DNA shake? My heart is broken for all the broken; the word repentance is not judgment it is a gift from God to change.

TRUE

1 John 5:20-21 (KJV)
“20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.”
Jesus is the life of God in us, outside of Him there is no eternal life; He is eternal life working in us. This eternal life understands Him that is true; anything and everything else is a fabrication of empty lies. Nothing more real than Jesus putting us in who is true; this true, this “Him” here, is faithful, trustworthy, responsible, legitimate, and simply present.

YAHSHUA REASON

 Matthew 24:12-13 (KJV)
“12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.”
Iniquity is simply self-will unharnessed; people doing what they want to, when they want to, and in any way they want to without regards of the consequences it creates. This turns us from love to being waxed cold; no mercy, no remorse, brutal in conscience and reason.
If we allow iniquity to abound without calling it into check, coldness will continue to grow. Those who refuse to succumb to selfishness and prideful lust; those who endure the temptation of lawlessness can be delivered, healed, and made whole (saved). Otherwise, we will continue to be lost without clear direction.

Romans 11:20-21 (KJV)
“20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.”
We must be careful we do not exalt our faith above whom our faith is in.

SAVVY

Ephesians 1:5-6 (KJV)
“5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.”
Savvy folk can make us feel good about ourselves for only so long – ultimately – we must decide to feel good about ourselves for ourselves.(br)
Predestination is nothing more than something predetermined. God made a deliberate predetermined move in adopting us as His children. Dejection, rejection, or even objection is nowhere to be found concerning His will for our lives. It is our choice to work towards it or against it; His approval is not something we win, His acceptance is not something we earn.
If we make the choice to work with it all the support we need is there; if we work against it, He becomes broken and so do we.

TAKE HOLD

James 4:8-10 (KJV)
“8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.”...
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GLORY

Colossians 3:1-4 (KJV)
“1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 
4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.”
This is not vain glory; this lends to being changed from glory to glory until we are in glory. We are in an already not yet tension with Jesus. As large as the heavens are (the universe) makes me wonder why we are on this tiny dust ball in comparison to the massive space it sets in. Since I was a child I have had the tendency to stare up into space when talking to God; it is as though He is somewhere way out there and I way down here.
Somewhere in the midst of all this space is where my affections are supposed to be; affection upon things I cannot see, touch, or handle from where I stand. Such glory is beyond us. We all have sinned and have fallen short of His glory. Catching glimpses of Jesus, understanding Him in ways it transforms us is where this glory rest; transformation in the ways we do life.
We go to church to try and figure out how to be the church; well, it is setting our affections on things above, it in this transformational glory we become the church. These transformations will continue to be until we appear with Him in glory. -Be transformed-

ANTICHRIST

1John 2:22
“Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.”
Antichrist is faulty understanding of Jesus Christ and refuses to have relationship with Christ. Furthermore, understanding the basic principle of “Father and the Son” is to understand the most fundamental foundational truth to Christianity. This is found in the prayer Jesus prayed in John 17:20-26 “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
John keeps bringing this thing back to the beginning. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Jesus prays the Father would put and cultivate this same relationship within us as He is in us.
In other words, His prayer is the relationship the Father has had with the Son from the beginning would be reproduced and multiplied in relationship with mankind and in mankind.
According to the American Heritage Dictionary relationship is the condition or fact of being related, connection, or association. God’s desire is to connect with us. What is a lie and what is truth is measured in and by relationship. Anything outside of or counterfeit to relationship becomes the bases to antichrist.

LEARNED

John 6:44-45 (KJV)
"44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me."
Jesus here is making reference to Isaiah 54:13 – “And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.” Our well-being is centered in the Father teaching us. To hear and to accept the Father’s presence in our thoughts is the most valuable discovery we can ever come into; He cannot teach us until we do.
His gentle yet firm presence must not be perceived as our conscience; His voice, His presence is much more distinct and “other.” He is not us and we are not Him. The prophets spoke of this “learning,” this discovery as the means by which God draws us. Carson describes it in these words, “When he compels belief, it is not by the savage constraint of a rapist, but by the wonderful wooing of a lover.”
An infant exiting the womb is surer of His voice than we who have accumulated nonsense all our lives. This is why Jesus said “…we must become as little children…” How do we know we have come to Jesus? It is when we have “learned of the Father” and we know the Father is telling us to.

HARDNESS

2 Timothy 2:3-5 (KJV)
“3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.”
To become and do what God has called us to, it takes the discipline of a solider and a course of achievement to master the work He has put in our hearts to do. Sher talent is not enough. There is a difference between power and authority. Power is the ability to act; authority is the right to act. The masteries God calls us to must be obtained “lawfully.” For us to wear the crown in our masteries we must have been submissive to authority to graciously carry the authority.
A good soldier will endure the hardness of being told what to do and how to do it. Soldiers do not have the privilege to size up those leading them. Our talent may possess great ability; nonetheless, it is of no value if it is not tempered with loyalty and submission. Elisha’s double portion came as Elijah exited. Elisha left his life to have a life with Elijah and Jesus calls us to the same course of action – we must lose our life to have a life with Jesus.

THE CROSS

1Corinthians 1:18
“For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.”
The power in deliverance, healing, and wholeness to sin sickness in the human life is the message in the cross. It is not the cross itself, rather, it is the act of love given to us on the cross. The cross in biblical times was just two pieces of wood put together as a tool to bring justice to an offender of Roman laws. The love of God on the cross for lost humanity took the pain and grief concerning our offence and bore the penalty of the cross to heal everything in us surrounding sin. Unto those who are perishing willfully with sinful lives the message of the cross is foolish and unnecessary; unto those who have embraced the cross and its message have received a power beyond themselves to face their sins and to conquer the power and influence sin has over their lives.
This is why the cross becomes to humanity it’s confrontations to sin; the cross becomes confrontation to our lifestyles refusing to walk in relationship with God. Sin is the distance between us and God, and the cross is the bridge closing that gap between us and God (we are made nigh by His blood, Ephesians 2:13).
Jesus death on the cross saves us; the cross we die on breaks the power of sin over our lives and settles the issues in our will surrounding our sins. For us who are saved the cross is the power of God in us; the cross is the ability to side against ourselves till sin is dealt with and willed out of our lives. Sin is willed into our living; the cross is the ability (power of God) to will sin out of our living.
Matthew 16:24-25 (KJV)
“Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.”

THE VOW

Micah 7:18-20 (KJV)
“18 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
20 Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.”
Jujitsu has nothing on God; He will subdue our iniquities. Subdue here means wrestle; in other words, God will wrestle us till we tap out. Our sins cannot be cast into the depths of the sea until our iniquities are first subdued. Iniquity is simply self-will unharnessed; iniquity is where sin is fostered in the will. This is where things become so twisted it takes a wrestling match to untwist.
Living lies is more twisted than telling a lie; wanting something so bad we cannot break its power over us puts our will in a prison of denial sealed with certainty. The only counteraction to these twisted lies is truth. This is why Jesus tells us, if we know the truth it can make us free. Only God’s mercy can bring this about; only God can perform the truth in us.
Once truth is performed in us mercy is released to the generations before us. Even when they are dead and gone, their struggles unsettled and unconquered finds mercy in us when truth settles the struggle and the lies we inherited from them is conquered. God is vowed to this by choice; scripture calls this “loving kindness.”