Source: https://fromdeathtolife.wordpress.com/category/the-name-of-jesus/
Timestamp: 2019-04-23 16:27:24+00:00

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The Name of Jesus – My Father's Place – A ministry without walls, proclaiming Jesus Christ to the world.
Steadfast and immovable! Standing firm! Nothing and no one able to sway you or move you from your faith in Jesus Christ and God’s promises!
Superabounding, excelling in the work of the Lord, proclaiming Jesus Christ! His glorious, powerful, life-giving work!
Going and making disciples of all men, teaching them to obey Christ (Matthew 28:19-20)!
Healing the sick, raising the dead, cleansing the lepers, casting out demons (Matthew 10:8)!
When you yourself have been filled with the Holy Spirit, laying hands on your fellow believers, so they are filled with the Holy Spirit (Acts 19:6).
If you are steadfast and immovable, you know without a doubt that this great labor in the Lord is not in vain. You won’t come to Him empty-handed, but bearing the fruit of His works in you and through you!
What rewards there are to those who remain steadfast and immovable?
Revelation 3:8-10 — You have a little power, you have kept His word, you have not denied His name. You are a faithful representative of Him, walking in this world like Him. You have kept the word of His steadfastness. You are steadfast, immovable, always superabounding in this work!
So Jesus Christ puts before you a door for you which no one can shut. It is a door that opens into great and effective work for Him. And false teachers will come and bow down at your feet. Jesus will make them know that He has loved you.
And you will not have to endure what those who reject Him and deny Him will endure. He will keep you, guard you, be a fortress around you! You will be protected from that hour!
And because you remain steadfast and immovable, even if your body dies before Jesus Christ returns, it will be resurrected when that trumpet sounds (1Corinthians 15:50-57)! Death has no victory! Death has no sting!
Therefore, be steadfast, Paul exhorts! Immovable! Against what? Is there something that could move you? What is the “therefore” there for?
Many winds of false teaching swirled around the Corinthians, and swirl around us today.
Great waves are stirred up by these winds, and if we are children and not mature in our faith, we will be tossed here and there, just as some of the Corinthians and Ephesians were (see Ephesians 4:14). But Jesus Christ will change us from children to adults, when we ask Him to make a 24/7 connection between us and the Father and the Son, by the Holy Spirit!
Back in 1Corinthians 15, deceitful teachers tried to convince the Corinthians that there is no resurrection of the dead (15:12).
So, they said, you don’t have to walk as Jesus walked when he was on the earth. Live the way you want to live. Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you die (15:32).
I tell you, the devil is at work. His goal is to kill you, to steal what God has given you, to destroy you, so you perish with him eternally (see John 10:10). Don’t let him get you!
BECOME steadfast, immovable! How? Ask Him to do it in you!
Christ has come that you may have superabundant life — His life, His eternal life (John 10:10)! Superabundant life that overflows, that becomes a rushing, flood-stage river of living water!
Paul said it was the risen Christ and not human reasoning that motivated him to fight with the demons that were in Ephesus.
He knew without a doubt that when men are delivered and saved, THEY will know without a doubt that Jesus Christ is Lord and that their own resurrection is sure! His labor was not in vain!
But some of the Corinthians were yet children, just as with some Christians today. They continued to live wildly, for which Corinth was world-renowned. Eat, drink and be merry!
Paul warns them and you today, to stop listening to false teachers who say you can do what you want — God’s grace covers you! Hyper-grace! Cheap grace! Shall we continue to sin so grace may increase? May it never be (Romans 6:1-2)!
Ah! That’s the key! When you are filled with the Holy Spirit, you won’t be a child any more, and the process of becoming more like Jesus will go into hyperdrive!
In Verse 34, Paul tells the Corinthians (and you), to become sober-minded (rouse yourself out of your stupor! Wake up! If some need to become, they are not yet!
They and you need to “become!” Stop sinning!
Those false teachers have no knowledge of God, no intimacy with Him, or they would never teach that you can sin and still be fine with God! Paul spoke it to the shame of those who listened to such ones. And the same goes for you, beloved!
Ask God the Father to fill you with His Holy Spirit, and He will give you discernment so you will run from the strangers, the hirelings the false teachers who are in it for personal gain. You will hear and heed the voice of the Good Shepherd (see John 10)!
2Peter 3:17 You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unprincipled men and fall from your own steadfastness, 18 but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
You will ever increase in Christlikeness!
You will remain steadfast and immovable, knowing without a doubt that when you proclaim Jesus (which is your work in the Lord), your work will bear the fruit of deliverance for many!
And you will know without a doubt that you will be with the Lord forever! And ever! And ever! And ever! Amen!
Word: The Lord is setting the stage for revival. It’s time to pray!
Spoken to: The remnant that returned from Babylon to rebuild Jerusalem and the Temple. Zechariah and Haggai prophesied to the rebuilders, encouraging them (Ezra 5:1, 6:4), for their natural AND spiritual restoration!
v. 1 Ask rain from the Lord at the time of the spring rain — it is spring, as of today!
— Ask rain not from man, but from the Lord! He is the only One who has what we need — His life, His heart, His love and His power in us!
Showers of blessing (Ezekiel 34:26)!
— And we who are His people will be fruitful and have abundance once again. What abundance? The Holy Spirit. What fruit? His fruit. When His fruit is manifested, many souls will be saved.
Rain represents blessing and revival. The need to pray for it means something has been amiss between God and us. The next verse tells us what is amiss.
— We have looked to dead, inanimate things that cannot answer us (Psalm 115:4-8), rather than to the living God. We have listened to ear ticklers, so we are wandering sheep without a shepherd. We have not heeded the voice of the Good Shepherd.
v. 3b But the Lord has visited his flock! He is our true Shepherd!
— Why does He use the past tense? Because in heaven, where He dwells, He sees the end, and He sees the beginning. He sits above time, so He says He has visited, even before we see that He has visited.
— Visit means He will go to see, avenge, care for, deliver to keep, and remember!
When we went astray, He left us to our own devices. But He has not forgotten us. At the appointed time, He returns to us — that’s what “remembered” means.
— He will make us like HIS majestic horse in battle.
— Horses were a superior instrument of warfare battle in those times.
— They were a symbol of swiftness, sure-footedness, power.
— No longer will we trust in men or natural horses. Instead, we will be like the Lord’s horses! Swift. sure-footed, powerful in His power! And He never loses a battle!
He has racham toward us (tender mercy, like a mother toward her child)!
It will be as though He never rejected us (cast us off, moved us away from Him), though He did reject us when we followed false gods and false shepherds.
Why? Because HE is our God.
He will visited us, go to see us, avenge us, care for us, deliver us to keep us, and remember us!
v. 9 Our exile from His presence caused us to remember Him, and now, He will remember us.
v. 10 He will bring us back from sin (Egypt).
v. 11 We will cross over and out of the sea of distress (trouble, anguish) and not drown in it.
He will strike the waves in the sea, as in the Exodus, so that even the mightiest waters dry up.
The scepter will depart Egypt — sin will no longer rule us.
Assyria’s (in this case, a typology or symbol of Satan as well as a real kingdom) pride will be cast down, it will fall down, Satan will fall down.
v. 12 Again, He says I will strengthen you in Me.
— And He says, “They will walk in My name,” as representing Me, having My character and nature. He declares it!
We will, indeed, become partakers of the divine nature, and that will permanently repair the rift between us and our God. HALLELUJAH!
Beloved, a warning from the Lord — when He sends the rain, do not try to manage it or manipulate it. Just stand by and let Him work in hearts. Simply rejoice as you watch Him!
And remember, it will no longer be necessary to work real hard to be like Jesus — He will do the heavy lifting. All we have to do is agree with Him as we walk with Him!
Ask rain from the LORD at the time of the spring rain! He is coming to visit us once again, to free His people and bring them back to Himself!
Come back to Him even now, this very moment! Cast away your idols and false shepherds to the moles and the bats! Now is the time!

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