LAWS of PROSPERITY notes

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from LAWS OF PROSPERITY by Kenneth Copeland and the Bible

Notes compiled and amended by Katherine Bell 

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Matthew 6:33 GW

But first, be concerned about his kingdom and what has his approval. Then all these things will be provided for you.

3 JN 1-2 AMPC

2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in every way and [that your body] may keep well, even as [I know] your soul keeps well and prospers.

3 In fact, I greatly rejoiced when [some of] the brethren from time to time arrived and spoke [so highly] of the sincerity and fidelity of your life, as indeed you do live in the Truth [the whole Gospel presents].

“All mankind scratches for its daily bread, but your Heavenly Father knows your needs. He will always give you all you need from day to day if you will make the Kingdom of God your primary concern. So don’t be afraid, little flock. For it gives your Father great happiness to give you the kingdom. Sell what you have and give to those in need. [In other words, use your resources – including your talents or human capital to meet real human need.] This will fatten your purses in heaven! And the purses of heaven have no rips or holes in them. Your treasures there will never disappear; no thief can steal them; no moth can destroy them. Wherever your treasure is, there your heart and thoughts will also be.” From Luke 12 The Living Bible.

WHERE WE ARE HEADED: THE SHARING ECONOMY +

THE CARING FOR THE EARTH ECONOMY

= green banking such as Green FI, greenfi.com

=ministries such as blessedearth.org

=Adopt a Stream; Adopt a Street

=Dream Center cltdc.org

=green cleaning enterprises and other renewal ministries / B Corporations usca.bcorporation.net

Acts 4:32 NIV (New International Version)

All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had.

Acts 4 NIV

Acts 4:34-37 NIV (New International Version)

that there were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned land or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales and put it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to anyone who had need. Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, whom the apostles called Barnabas (which means “son of encouragement”), sold a field he owned and brought the money and put it at the [true, certified by the LORD] apostles’ feet.

Acts 4 NIV

Acts 4:32 ESV (English Standard Version 2025)

Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common.

B Corporations that benefit and bless humanity // Isaiah 58 The Message

Freedom from demonic evil (generational) roots of sloth and gluttony

Prophetic problem solving in the marketplace // Kingdom companies //

See restore7.org

See Understanding Financial Prosperity by David Oyedepo download via scribd.com. 

AI

You are likely thinking of Acts 4:34, which states that “there was not a needy person among them”. This describes the early Christian community in Jerusalem, who were so deeply united in heart and soul that they pooled their resources and shared everything they had. [1, 2]

Key Details of the Passage:

  • The Mechanism: Believers who owned land or houses sold them and brought the proceeds to the apostles.
  • Distribution: The money was placed at the apostles’ feet and distributed to anyone who had a specific need.
  • The Heart of it: Instead of clinging to possessions, the early church viewed them as common property to ensure no one in their community was left behind.
  • Examples: The passage specifically highlights figures like Barnabas, who sold his field and donated the money to support the church. [1, 2, 3]

This radical economic sharing highlights the profound unity and selfless generosity that defined the early church. [1, 2]

Further Exploration:
If you want to dive deeper into the historical and theological interpretations of this passage:

  • Explore a breakdown of how the early church operated and why they shared resources from Join The Journey.
  • Read a detailed theological discussion on whether this level of communal property is a binding command for modern believers on Uncommon Pursuit. [1, 2, 3]

If you are interested in exploring how modern communities interpret this model, let me know. I can share examples of how congregations or groups approach charitable giving and resource-sharing today. [AI]

ISAIAH 58 NABRE

Chapter 58

Reasons for Judgment[a]

1 Cry out full-throated and unsparingly,
    lift up your voice like a trumpet blast;
Proclaim to my people their transgression,
    to the house of Jacob their sins.
2 They seek me day after day,
    and desire to know my ways,
Like a nation that has done what is just
    and not abandoned the judgment of their God;
They ask of me just judgments,
    they desire to draw near to God.
3 “Why do we fast, but you do not see it?
    afflict ourselves, but you take no note?”
See, on your fast day you carry out your own pursuits,
    and drive all your laborers.
4 See, you fast only to quarrel and fight
    and to strike with a wicked fist!
Do not fast as you do today
    to make your voice heard on high!
5 Is this the manner of fasting I would choose,
    a day to afflict oneself?
To bow one’s head like a reed,
    and lie upon sackcloth and ashes?
Is this what you call a fast,
    a day acceptable to the Lord?

Authentic Fasting That Leads to Blessing[b]

6 Is this not, rather, the fast that I choose:
    releasing those bound unjustly,
    untying the thongs of the yoke;
Setting free the oppressed,
    breaking off every yoke?
7 Is it not sharing your bread with the hungry,
    bringing the afflicted and the homeless into your house;
Clothing the naked when you see them,
    and not turning your back on your own flesh?
8 Then your light shall break forth like the dawn,
    and your wound shall quickly be healed;
Your vindication shall go before you,
    and the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.
9 Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer,
    you shall cry for help, and he will say: “Here I am!”
If you remove the yoke from among you,
    the accusing finger, and malicious speech;
10 If you lavish your food on the hungry
    and satisfy the afflicted;
Then your light shall rise in the darkness,
    and your gloom shall become like midday;
11 Then the Lord will guide you always
    and satisfy your thirst in parched places,
    will give strength to your bones
And you shall be like a watered garden,
    like a flowing spring whose waters never fail.
12 Your people shall rebuild the ancient ruins;
    the foundations from ages past you shall raise up;
“Repairer of the breach,” they shall call you,
    “Restorer of ruined dwellings.”

Authentic Sabbath Observance That Leads to Blessing[c]

13 If you refrain from trampling the sabbath,
    from following your own pursuits on my holy day;
If you call the sabbath a delight,
    the Lord’s holy day glorious;
If you glorify it by not following your ways,
    seeking your own interests, or pursuing your own affairs—
14 Then you shall delight in the Lord,
    and I will make you ride upon the heights of the earth;
I will nourish you with the heritage of Jacob, your father,
    for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

Footnotes

  1. 58:1–5 The prophet is commanded to condemn the formalism of the people, specifically their hypocritical fasting.
  2. 58:6–12 Fasting is not genuine without reforming one’s way of life. A true social morality will ensure prosperity.
  3. 58:13–14 Sabbath observance becomes a cornerstone of postexilic piety; cf. 56:2, 4, 6.

Deuteronomy 28:1Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC) / CJB

If you will listen diligently / listen closely to the voice of the Lord your God, being watchful to do / observing and obeying all His commandments which I command you this day, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:8 Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC) / Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)

The Lord shall command the blessing upon you in your storehouse and in all that you undertake. And He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God gives you / Adonai will order a blessing to be with you in your barns and in everything you undertake; he will bless you in the land Adonai your God is giving you.

Laws of Prosperity by Kenneth Copeland

Available  from www.dealoz.com // thriftbooks.com 

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—Rom 13:8 Owe no man any thing but to love one another for he that hath loveth another hath fulfilled the law

—tell needs only to God and expect what He was teaching — to produce

—the rest of God: how to operate in His laws

Phil 4:19 But my God shall supply all of your need according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus

Mal 3:10 Prove Me now herewith…if I will not open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it

3 John 2-4 Beloved I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health even as thy soul prosperity

—that the Lord will make sufficient provision for the believer

—succeed in reaching – succeed in business affairs – have a prosperous journey

—your will whole and in submission to His will so you and God can work in unity

—emotions: Jesus had feelings but continued to move in the Spirit

—faith a spiritual force, a spiritual energy, a spiritual power

—this force of faith makes the laws of the spirit world function

—laws of prosperity work when they are put to work and they will stop working when the force of faith is stopped // study the Word of Faith pioneers (EW Kenyon and Kenneth Hagin) and those moving in the anointing of faith today: The Shuttlesworth family for one. All books by Jonathan Shuttlesworth.

—True prosperity is God manifesting Himself to us in His Word

Proverbs 22:7 The rich rule the poor; the borrower is slave to the lender

—when you learn to believe God especially in the area of giving – you become dangerous to Satan 

—Satan comes to steal the Word

—The Word is key to the laws of the spirit

—laws of the spirit govern the laws of the natural

—Satan works in the natural / carnal / fleshy world

—true prosperity is the ability to use God’s power to meet the needs of mankind in any realm of life

—prayer / intercession for others

—to live a prosperous life, your soul must prosper in all the truth of the Word

—God’s power is in direct relationship with His Word in you

—your faith in direct relation to the level of the Word in you

—if you can believe God for healing, help someone get healed

—if you know how to believe God financially, start helping others

—growth results as you reach out to help others

Is 1:19 If you be willing and obedient you shall eat the good of the land

Mark 11:24 What things whatsoever ye desire when ye pray believe that ye receive them and ye shall have them

James 4:2 ye have not because you ask not

—get your mind off of yourself – begin to take up the needs of the Body as if they were your own

—begin to include the Body in your needs

—begin to include the lost, the pre-Christians, in your needs

Luke 6:38 Give and it shall be given unto you good measure pressed down and shaken together and running over shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again

—begin to consider the needs of others before my own – your needs will be met supernaturally

—give to them; get involved with them

—by believing God and including the needs of the Body in your needs, you become an open channel for the things of God to flow through (you – the BODY) to others

A constant channel, a constant flowing – the flow of love… The flow of power… The flow of money…the flow of food… The flow of everything you need

Ecclesiastes 11:1 Cast your bread upon the waters for thou shalt find it after many days

—the key is to give continually

Mark 10:23 With what difficulty will those who possess wealth and keep on holding it enter the kingdom of God; (Ask the Lord how can I give of my substance?)

—give God’s life to meet needs – freely you have received freely give

—feed the gospel to the unsaved

Jesus is the channel to us, and we are the channel to the world

—True prosperity is the ability to look a man in the eye in his moment of impossibility and take his needs as your own; those who are spiritual are to help those who are not

—bear one another’s burdens

Pray – put pressure on Satan with the name of Jesus

Put pressure on the laws of the Spirit of life in Christ; Yes, NAME IT AND CLAIM IT according to the promises AND in union with and in synch with the leading of the Holy Spirit 

Lean on your righteousness in Jesus Christ

Lean hard on your sonship

Lean hard on the blood

Praise God // Thank our Creator: this was the key to Yeshua Hamaschiach’s multiplication of food

[See all the books by Heidi and Roland Baker]

Deut. 8 God gives the power to get wealth for His purposes:  to establish His covenant

Joshua 1:5-9Living Bible (TLB)

5 No one will be able to oppose you as long as you live, for I will be with you just as I was with Moses; I will not abandon you or fail to help you.

6 “Be strong and brave, for you will be a successful leader of my people; and they shall conquer all the land I promised to their ancestors. 7 You need only to be strong and courageous and to obey to the letter every law Moses gave you, for if you are careful to obey every one of them, you will be successful in everything you do. 8 Constantly remind the people about these laws, and you yourself must think about them every day and every night so that you will be sure to obey all of them. For only then will you succeed. 9 Yes, be bold and strong! Banish fear and doubt! For remember, the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Meditation

The truly successful man is one who knows the Lord; has learned to believe God and can share Him with others; This man valuable to God to himself to the people around him; dangerous to satan

We are to live in a constant manifestation of God’s presence from His Word

Keep His Word; and He will manifest Himself to you

Feed on the Word – read study meditate [go over the Word and over the Word in your heart, taking it in ever deeper and deeper] then your heart will be established, fixed, trusting in the Lord Ps 112 His heart is sustained; he is not afraid;

He has given to the needy

Prov 3:13,14 there is a better market for wisdom and understanding than for gold and silver. The merchandise of it is greater; it will provide more

Prov 3:15, 16

Proverbs 3:13-161599 Geneva Bible (GNV)

13 Blessed is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. 14 For the merchandise thereof is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof is better than gold. 15 It is more precious than pearls: and all things that thou canst desire, are not to be compared unto her. 16 Length of days is in her right hand, [a]and in her right hand riches and glory.

Footnotes: Proverbs 3:16 Meaning, that he that seeketh wisdom, that is, suffereth himself to be governeth by the Word of God, shall have all prosperity both corporal and spiritual.

1Cor 1:30 Yet from this same God you have received your standing in Jesus Christ, and he has become for us the true wisdom, a matter, in practice, of being made righteous and holy, in fact, of being redeemed.

James 1:5-6 And if, in the process, any of you does not know how to meet any particular problem he has only to ask God—who gives generously to all men without making them feel foolish or guilty—and he may be quite sure that the necessary wisdom will be given him. But he must ask in sincere faith without secret doubts

Col 1:9-10 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Colossians 2:2-3King James Version (KJV)

2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; 3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

The moment God begins to bless you, you will get persecuted because you become dangerous to Satan – you begin to know that God is the source of your success, that He is the one giving to you, that there is an endless supply behind you and an endless supply in front of you – all you must do is be a channel for it and giving is the key that opens the door [as opposed to worldly economics and limited supply and demand: the dismal science]

—Hundredfold return – the royal law “Love your neighbor as you love yourself “

Be as quick to care for the needs of others as you do your own needs

Meditate

—apply the Word personally

—Allow the Holy Spirit to make God’s Word a reality in your heart

—Ponder as to how the Word applies in every circumstance 

—Dwell on how this Word changes your situation

—Place yourself in agreement with what God’s Word says about you

—see yourself as God sees you

—realize the integrity of God’s Word

Matt 6:20 Store up wealth in heaven. Be an investor in people: the citizens of heaven

20 Instead, store up for yourselves wealth in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and burglars do not break in or steal. 21 For where your wealth is, there your heart will be also. 22 ‘The eye is the lamp of the body.’ So if you have a ‘good eye’ [that is, if you are generous] your whole body will be full of light; 23 but if you have an ‘evil eye’ [if you are stingy] your whole body will be full of darkness. If, then, the light in you is darkness, how great is that darkness! 24 No one can be slave to two masters; for he will either hate the first and love the second, or scorn the second and be loyal to the first. You can’t be a slave to both God and money.

1 Timothy 6:17-19Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)

17 As for those who do have riches in this present world, charge them not to be proud and not to let their hopes rest on the uncertainties of riches but to rest their hopes on God, who richly provides us with all things for our enjoyment. 18 Charge them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, to be generous and ready to share. 19 In this way they will treasure up for themselves a good foundation for the future, so that they may lay hold of the real life.

Mark 4:19Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)

19 but the worries of the world, the deceitful glamor of wealth and all the other kinds of desires push in and choke the message; so that it produces nothing.

—heaven my financial reservoir -my bank and place of deposit

Make deposits with Me according to the rate of exchange guaranteed in the Word – operate under My system of finance instead of the world’s system

No man has given until he has given all he has

Be delivered of a possessive spirit

—deposits with God on call // heavenly bank accounts 

—tithing; giving to the poor; investing in the gospel; giving as an act of praise to God

—when you tithe “I profess this day unto the Lord that I am come into the inheritance which the Lord swore to give me” – present offering to Jesus

“I bring the first fruits of my labors to Him as the High Priest and worship You with it.” “I rejoice in all the good which You have given me – my household “

I have hearkened to the voice of the Lord and have done according to all that He has commanded me” “Bless me as You said in Your Word. “

—the blessing of God is received by faith in His Word

My money – a tool used in worshipping God

Deut. 26

Mal. 3:10-11

Prov. 3:9-10 honor the Lord with your capital and sufficiency from righteous labors and with the first fruits of all your income

Prov. 19:17 give to the poor and you are lending to the Lord – He will repay you

Deut. 33:19

Always give the gospel – Jesus – to the poor – THE LORD your Vine-branch Source of Supply

Giving as a Praise to God – give your good things and you will never lack good things – no blemished sacrifices

Combine praise with the law of giving

– call upon deposits to God and make withdrawals

Eph 6:8 knowing that whatsoever good thing any man bring forth, the same shall he receive of the Lord – whatever good thing you do to any man, you will receive the same thing from the Lord

Luke 6:38!

When you tithe you receive from God above

When you give, men give into your bosom

Mark 10:30 a hundredfold return when we give for His sake and the Gospel’s

Withdrawals from the bank of heaven are accomplished through the power of agreement, the power of confession, and the power of standing expectantly on God’s Word

Agreement in prayer

Mark 11:23 salvation based on the confession of our mouths

Faith released with the mouth Rom 10:9,10 // it’s voice activated

– the powerful force of the spiritual world that creates the circumstances around us is controlled by the words of the mouth Rom 10:9-10

Matt 12:36-7

Discipline your vocabulary. Discipline everything you do, everything you say, and everything you think to agree with what God does, what God says, and what God thinks! God will be obligated to meet your needs because of His Word – not because of your righteousness or your lack of it – because of His covenant – stand firmly on it: the truths of the Word – your needs will be met

Rom 13:8 I will go to any lengths to love a man with the fullness of what God has given me

1 Timothy. 2:1 pray for all men, for kings, and for all in authority

Rom 13:7 re: taxes (no negative words)

  1. Decide on the amount you need. // an abundance for every good work

2 Cor. 9:8 AMPC

And God is able to make all grace (every favor and earthly blessing) come to you in abundance, so that you may always and under all circumstances and whatever the need be self-sufficient [possessing enough to require no aid or support and furnished in abundance for every good work and charitable donation].

2- Agree with Matt 18:19

3- Lay hold [the Greek for lay hold = take] in faith Mk 11:23,24

4- Bind the devil and his forces in Jesus’ name

– order Satan out of your financial affairs

5- loose the angelic forces of heaven

6- Praise God for the answer

Example prayer

Father in Jesus’ name I ask for $ sum [the sum you have given me and/or the promise of this certain provision] for income for 2026

I am withdrawing this sum from my account in heaven [study Kingdom economics and heavenly bank accounts; Kingdom financial provision via downloadable ebooks on scribd.com]

By Mk 11:23, 24 I believe in my heart and confess that it is mine now in 

Jesus’ name. I agree that I have $ (the sum the Holy Spirit has given / promised you) according to Matt 18:19

Care of finances cast onto Jesus

Satan your operation against my finances is bound I render you helpless

Ministering spirits I charge you to go forth and cause this sum to come to me according to Heb 1:14

Father I praise You for meeting my needs according to Your riches in glory by Christ Jesus and for multiplying seed for my sowing in the name of Jesus

2 Corinthians 9:6-11

Mark 10:30

It is because of the Word that you have persecution and affliction. When you begin dealing in the Word you are marked; and satan will do everything He can to defeat you. However if you will use it; the Word will fight its own fight and cause you to be more than a conqueror Rom 8:37

“The Word works if you’ll work the Word” // quote by Michael Rozell Refuge Ranch pastor

– it is when you are thinking of yourself that lust gets in

– no unforgiveness – faith works by love

Eph 4:29-30 When you commit that your words will minister grace to the hearers 

or else you won’t say them then you will know the anointing

Your words will begin to mean something – then God can trust you with His power via your mouth. The secret to ministry, to life, to prosperity, to healing – you can have what you say. Line your words up with God

Decide to make your conversation becoming to Jesus

– Jesus your refuge

Proverbs 11:25 (TPT)

Those who live to bless others will have blessings heaped upon them, and the one who pours out his life to pour out blessings will be saturated with favor.

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The Bonded Position: the key to the walk of acceptance and the glory of God’s love with freedom from shame, loneliness, impotence, and all manner of old creation dysfunction

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Song of Solomon 2:6 AMPC

The Bride speaking:

6 [I can feel] [a]his left hand under my head and his right hand embraces me!

Footnotes

  • Song of Solomon 2:6 Do I have a constant sense of my Shepherd’s presence, regardless of my surroundings?

Song of Songs 8:5-6 TPT

The Bridegroom-King speaking: 

Who is this one? She arises out of her desert, clinging to her beloved. [up from the wilderness leaning upon her beloved. (AMPC)] When I awakened you under the apple tree, as you were feasting upon me, I awakened your innermost being with the travail of birth as you longed for more of me. Fasten me upon your heart as a seal of fire forevermore. This living, consuming flame will seal you as my prisoner of love.

It’s a brand new reality being indwelt by Christ when we are first born again and made one with our Creator. The truth that explains things and sets us free from slavery to our inherited adamic sin nature plus a frustrated existence of ever reacting to the circumstances of the disorder around us vs. the abiding union with the Spirit ever working to bring order out of chaos and redeem and restore all from the fall in the garden is 1 Cor. 6:17 by way of the sine qua non of Gal. 2:20.

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Income Streams via the Kingdom Economy

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“Sow with great expectation today.”

Luke 6:38 MSG Give away your life; you’ll find life given back, but not merely given back—given back with bonus and blessing. Giving, not getting, is the way. Generosity begets generosity.

TLB For if you give, you will get! Your gift will return to you in full and overflowing measure, pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, and running over. Whatever measure you use to give—large or small—will be used to measure what is given back to you.

KJV Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

WHAT YOU MAKE HAPPEN FOR OTHERS, GOD WILL MAKE HAPPEN FOR YOU.

Jesus IN us is THE WAY to our anointing to function in selfless love as we yield, branch to Vine, to supernatural grace (ZOE life fruit). (See John 15.)

 (SEE 1 JOHN, all different translations.)

Chapter 58

Reasons for Judgment[a]

1 Cry out full-throated and unsparingly,
    lift up your voice like a trumpet blast;
Proclaim to my people their transgression,
    to the house of Jacob their sins.
2 They seek me day after day,
    and desire to know my ways,
Like a nation that has done what is just
    and not abandoned the judgment of their God;
They ask of me just judgments,
    they desire to draw near to God.
3 “Why do we fast, but you do not see it?
    afflict ourselves, but you take no note?”
See, on your fast day you carry out your own pursuits,
    and drive all your laborers.
4 See, you fast only to quarrel and fight
    and to strike with a wicked fist!
Do not fast as you do today
    to make your voice heard on high!
5 Is this the manner of fasting I would choose,
    a day to afflict oneself?
To bow one’s head like a reed,
    and lie upon sackcloth and ashes?
Is this what you call a fast,
    a day acceptable to the Lord?

Authentic Fasting That Leads to Blessing[b]

6 Is this not, rather, the fast that I choose:
    releasing those bound unjustly,
    untying the thongs of the yoke;
Setting free the oppressed,
    breaking off every yoke?
7 Is it not sharing your bread with the hungry,
    bringing the afflicted and the homeless into your house;
Clothing the naked when you see them,
    and not turning your back on your own flesh?
8 Then your light shall break forth like the dawn,
    and your wound shall quickly be healed;
Your vindication shall go before you,
    and the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.
9 Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer,
    you shall cry for help, and he will say: “Here I am!”
If you remove the yoke from among you,
    the accusing finger, and malicious speech;
10 If you lavish your food on the hungry
    and satisfy the afflicted;
Then your light shall rise in the darkness,
    and your gloom shall become like midday;
11 Then the Lord will guide you always
    and satisfy your thirst in parched places,
    will give strength to your bones
And you shall be like a watered garden,
    like a flowing spring whose waters never fail.
12 Your people shall rebuild the ancient ruins;
    the foundations from ages past you shall raise up;
“Repairer of the breach,” they shall call you,
    “Restorer of ruined dwellings.”

Authentic Sabbath Observance That Leads to Blessing[c]

13 If you refrain from trampling the sabbath,
    from following your own pursuits on my holy day;
If you call the sabbath a delight,
    the Lord’s holy day glorious;
If you glorify it by not following your ways,
    seeking your own interests, or pursuing your own affairs—
14 Then you shall delight in the Lord,
    and I will make you ride upon the heights of the earth;
I will nourish you with the heritage of Jacob, your father,
    for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

Footnotes

  1. 58:1–5 The prophet is commanded to condemn the formalism of the people, specifically their hypocritical fasting.
  2. 58:6–12 Fasting is not genuine without reforming one’s way of life. A true social morality will ensure prosperity.
  3. 58:13–14 Sabbath observance becomes a cornerstone of postexilic piety; cf. 56:2, 4, 6.

I love the way the notes in the Recovery Version of the New Testament talk about the economy of God. (Available free at www.biblesforamerica.org). There IS another economy from the one around us governed and limited by supply and demand. It’s an economy based more on giving than receiving. It’s an economy the keys to which are found in God’s Word. And it’s an economy based on love. It’s an economy depicted at its height in the Book of Acts.

A book entitled You’re Not Broke You Have a Seed by Leroy Thompson, Jr. and The Laws of Prosperity by Kenneth Copeland set forth how to operate in God’s material economy. Other books help, too: 31 Reasons People Don’t Receive Their Financial Harvest by Mike Murdock, The Gift of Acquiring Riches by Jeronimo Onofre Da Silveira, and The Miracle of Seed Faith by Oral Roberts. The key thing to note is that all of these books revolve around a different type of riches—being “rich toward God” (Luke 12:21) or how being rich in the ways of God interfaces with financial return from Heaven. [Do go deep is Isaiah 58 (above); plus see all different translations for full effect. The Message is helpful for a contemporary take.]

As I have delved into what the Word says about return, I have noted a number of income streams in the Good Book. By income streams, I mean flows in the life of God that have import for favor and provision on earth. Flows that are part of being “rich toward God.” All are part of operating in the Kingdom that God has bestowed upon us.

The first is: sell off your extra possessions and give alms or monies to the poor. Heavenly bank accounts grow big from this type of giving. Give across the board to those in need as the Spirit nudges. 

Note Proverbs 19:17 Expanded Bible EXB:

“Being kind [gracious; generous] to the poor is like lending to the Lord; he will reward you for what you have done [fully repay you].”

And consider what you can give besides money as you consider the purposes of wealth:

“All mankind scratches for its daily bread, but your Heavenly Father knows your needs. He will always give you all you need from day to day if you will make the Kingdom of God your primary concern. So don’t be afraid, little flock. For it gives your Father great happiness to give you the kingdom. Sell what you have and give to those in need. [In other words, use your resources—including your talents or human capital to meet real human need.] This will fatten your purses in heaven! And the purses of heaven have no rips or holes in them. Your treasures there will never disappear; no thief can steal them; no moth can destroy them. Wherever your treasure is, there your heart and thoughts will also be.” From Luke 12 The Living Bible.

A second income stream revolves around the “gold” we are instructed to “buy” in the letter to Laodicea’s church from Revelation 3:18: “My advice to you is to buy pure gold from me, gold purified by fire—only then will you truly be rich.”TLB

It’s through partaking of the promises that we partake of the Divine Nature or “gold.” 2 Peter 1:4 KJV says, “Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature.”

We acquire “gold” as we are reconstituted with the Word. So “Receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.” James 1:21 KJV. Thus to get rich, feed and feed and feed on the Book. Yield or surrender yourself to its truths.

This key to the economy of God revolves around reinvesting in others the “gold” that you have learned to operate in successfully. Building up others will come back to you. At the zenith of such investment, you should operate out of a heart that desires to see others reach their full potential in God. Help brothers find and fulfill their destinies. Thus, you will approach the ability to “love others as you love yourself”—the command from Matthew 22: “a second like it: ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’” JB Phillips.

A third income stream is found in Proverbs 11:25. From becoming a blessing in the earth, blessings flow back. Take in these words from The Passion Translation:

“The one who lives to bless others will have blessings heaped upon them, and the one who pours out blessings, will be saturated with favor!”

The Proverbs also provides great equipping for becoming a prophetic problem solver. It instructs us to go after the depths of wisdom so as to walk free from foolishness. As a result, you will be in demand. Mike Murdock says we were designed to solve certain problems in the earth. Might the transfer of wealth noted in Proverbs 13:22 happen because of the power and superior wisdom God’s people finally operate in? The developed bride can be thought of as a Solomonic counterpart to King Jesus—a Proverbs 31 woman. (See Proverbs 31 Passion with notes.)“The wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just,” states the King James. The Amplified says, “The wealth of the sinner [finds its way eventually] into the hands of the righteous, for whom it was laid up.” Study the how and why of this transfer.

Ask for the ability to solve knotty problems. A marketplace minister solves the problems of the city as he or she operates in Kingdom realms. Become like Daniel. Daniel 5:12 TLB describes Daniel’s gifting: “Call for this man, Daniel—or Belteshazzar, as the king called him—for his mind is filled with divine knowledge and understanding. He can interpret dreams, explain riddles, and solve knotty problems. He will tell you what the writing means.”

Note also the relationship between wisdom and wealth in The Proverbs:

Proverbs 3:13-18

“To gain the riches of wisdom is far greater than gaining the wealth of the world. As wisdom increases a great treasure is imparted, greater than many bars of refined gold. It’s a more valuable commodity than gold and gemstones for there is nothing you desire that could compare to her! Wisdom extends to you long life in one hand with wealth and promotion in the other. Out of her mouth flows righteousness and her words release both law and mercy. The ways of wisdom are sweet, always drawing you into the place of wholeness. Seeking for her brings the discovery of untold blessings, for she is the healing Tree of Life to those who taste her fruits.”

All kinds of answers come from wisdom. Christians, those indwelt by God, have access to the brilliant mind of Christ in addition to the precepts of the Word. Believers can operate in what I call genius grace. Ask God each day to give you answers for other people. Note Ecclesiastes 9:15, “Now there lived in that city a man poor but wise, and he saved the city by his wisdom.” Don’t let your current station hold you back. See Jamie Winship’s books for help on standing tall in the earth indwelt by Christ.

Christians can function in other supernatural gifts as well including the gifts of healings. There is great demand for those who can minister healing. It’s a key way to be a blessing and solve sin and sickness problems by releasing the anointing. Pioneers such as John G. Lake and Charles and Frances Hunter have left books about acquiring the healing anointing. Take a look at www.akwellspring.com. Say yes to becoming a part-time faith healer as an income stream or conduit of the life of God with a return. Living in God’s Power by John G. Lake compiled by Roberts Liardon and The Walk of the Spirit the Walk of Power: The Vital Role of Praying in Tongues by Dave Roberson both open up this avenue. Plus, the need is dire for deliverance ministers. Gene Moody’s Deliverance Manual is comprehensive. And I note the pioneering walk of Tracy Harris. See Tracy’s “No More Curse” videos on YouTube. What is your calling? [Email me for helpful insights on the deliverance ministry world: katherinefbell@icloud.com.)

Finally, imagine the Book of Acts writ large as the mature church comes forth walking once again to the height of scenes from the Word.

From the Recovery Version: 

Acts 2:43-45

“Many wonders and signs took place through the apostles. And all those who believed were together and had all things in common; and they sold their properties and possessions and divided them to all, as anyone had need.”

Acts 4:32-35

“And the heart and soul of the multitude of those who had believed was one; and not even one said that any of his possessions was his own, but all things were common to them. And with great power the apostles gave testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all. For neither was anyone among them in need; for as many as were owners of lands or of houses sold them and brought the proceeds of the things which were sold and placed them at the feet of the apostles; and it was distributed to each, as anyone had need.”

Acts 2:47 JB Phillips

“Day after day they met by common consent in the Temple; they broke bread together in their homes, sharing meals with simple joy. They praised God continually and all the people respected them. Every day the Lord added to their number those who were finding salvation.”

So start your study and practice of God’s economy with Acts. Ask yourself before God, “How much can I give?” People in the day of Acts came well before profits. Relational life triumphed over the amassing of wealth. Kingdom of Heaven income streams manifested on earth. Love broke forth. Hallelujah!

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You Must Be Born Again—Regenerated

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The Bible, the God-breathed book of God, offers Jesus’ words on deliverance from sin, death, the grave, and hell. We must not refuse God’s offer of salvation through the crucifixion and resurrection of God’s Son Yeshua—Jesus. “I assure you,” said Jesus, “that unless a man is born from water and from spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God. Flesh gives birth to flesh and spirit gives birth to spirit: you must not be surprised that I told you that all of you must be born again. The wind blows where it likes, you can hear the sound of it but you have no idea where it comes from and where it goes. Nor can you tell how a man is born by the wind of the Spirit.” (John 3:5-8 PHILLIPS) 

Through the new birth, entrance opens to “the way, the truth, and the life” in Jesus and what was lost when Adam and Eve forfeited the tree of life for the tree of knowledge of good and evil is recovered and more. Fullness in Christ or abundant spiritual life results in freedom from bondage to the soulish and the carnal and addiction to the appetites of the body. In Christ, man regains the promise of dominion lost in the garden of Eden. (See Revelation 21-22 for the end of the history.) 

Salvation in Christ involves a creative miracle of God: regeneration. And by the new birth, the realm of the Kingdom of God opens up. Yes, there are two kingdoms: the kingdom of darkness with all kinds of idols and false gods under its lord, satan, and the kingdom of Light under the headship of Jesus Christ. Once you are born again, you realize 1 John 5:19, “We know [for a fact] that we are of God, and the whole world [around us] lies in the power of the evil one [opposing God and His precepts].” (AMP)

What is regeneration? Take a look at Titus 3, “For we ourselves have known what it is to be ignorant, disobedient and deceived, the slaves of various desires and pleasant feelings, while our lives were spent in malice and jealousy—we were hateful and we hated each other. But when the kindness of God our Saviour and his love towards man appeared, he saved us—not by virtue of any moral achievements of ours, but by the cleansing power (regeneration) of a new birth and the moral renewal of the Holy Spirit, which he gave us so generously through Jesus Christ our Saviour. The result is that we are acquitted by his grace, and can look forward to inheriting life for evermore. This is solid truth.” (PHILLIPS) At new birth, God causes your spirit to be regenerated or formed again and connection to Him is restored. 

You become a new creation in Christ—part of a new race. From the new birth, you become a Christian with a new saint nature. Christ indwells you. You experience life as a branch connected to Christ the Vine. (Study John 15.) Now you have access to the life of God and can flow in the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, self-control. This fruit grows as the new life of union with God unfolds. 

You now have power through the cross to enter into the crucifixion of the flesh nature with its fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, divisions, sects, envyings, bouts of drunkenness, carousings, and the like. 

“Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.” (Galatians 5:21 RcV) (See the helpful book on freedom from the self, Dying to Live by Jessie Penn Lewis.)

The heart with its thoughts and intents is open and under scrutiny before God, too. Yeshua—Jesus, applied the Law to loving anyone or anything including self more than God, making anything into a god or a religion, using God’s name in vain, failing to make holy the Sabbath, failing to honor parents, refusal to forgive, holding anger and hatred towards others (having a murderous heart according to Jesus), looking with lustful eyes (adultery of heart said Jesus), stealing, practicing dishonesty and lies however slight, and coveting what others have. The verdict is Psalm 14:2-3: “The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any who understood, dealt wisely, and sought after God, inquiring for and of Him and requiring Him [of vital necessity]. They are all gone aside, they have all together become filthy; there is none that does goodor right, no, not one.” (AMPC) We have all failed the good person test. 

A great incentive to turning back to obedience of the Father, Your Creator, the Son, and the Holy Spirit and wise heeding of the Holy Scriptures through receiving Jesus Christ’s sacrifice of His lifeblood as atonement for your sins, is a cold, hard, look at death and hell. 

Job 18:5-14 depicts the fate of those who reject Jesus Christ, God’s “indescribable gift” to mankind: “The light of the wicked will flicker and die, not a spark from his fire will shine, the light in his tent is darkened, the lamp over him will be snuffed out. His vigorous stride is shortened, his own plans make him trip and fall.For his own feet plunge him into a net, he wanders into its meshes. A trap grabs him by the heel, a snare catches hold of him. A noose is hidden for him in the ground; pitfalls lie in his path. Terrors overwhelm him on every side and scatter about his feet. Trouble is hungry for him, calamity ready for his fall; disease eats away at his skin; the first stages of death devour him gradually. What he relied on will be torn from his tent, and he will be marched before the king of terrors.” (CJB)

Psalm 18:4-6 gives hope: “For when the spirit of death wrapped chains around me and terrifying torrents of destruction overwhelmed me, taking me to death’s door, to doom’s domain; I cried out to you in my distress, the delivering God, and from your temple-throne you heard my troubled cry. My sobs came right into your heart and you turned your face to rescue me.” (Passion)

I encourage investigate God’s Covenant, the Bible. Say yes to receiving Jesus Christ into your being as Savior and Lord. Acknowledge that He is the Messiah and risen Son of God, confess that you are a sinner or one who has failed the Bible’s (God’s Word) standards of holiness and righteousness, repent or turn from your previous ways of thinking and acting and ask for the new birth and deliverance out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of His marvelous light. Colossians 1:13 attests, “[The Father] has delivered and drawn us to Himself out of the control and the dominion of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.” (AMPC) 

Your call now is 1 Peter 2:9, “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a dedicated nation, [God’s] own purchased, special people, that you may set forth the wonderful deeds and display the virtues and perfections of Him Who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.” (AMPC) Follow Christ through obeying the Bible and seek fellowship with true Christian believers. The cost is surrender; the gain is God Himself, heaven, and many blessings and benefits. (See Psalm 103.)

Final note from 1 Corinthians 1:25-30, “[This is] because the foolish thing [that has its source in] God is wiser than men, and the weak thing [that springs] from God is stronger than men. For [simply] consider your own call, brethren; not many [of you were considered to be] wise according to human estimatesand standards, not many influential and powerful, not many of high and noble birth. [No] for God selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is foolish to put the wise to shame, and what the world calls weak to put the strong to shame. And God also selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is lowborn and insignificant and branded and treated with contempt, even the things that are nothing, that He might depose and bring to nothing the things that are, So that no mortal man should [have pretense for glorying and] boast in the presence of God. But it is from Him that you have your life in Christ Jesus, Whom God made our Wisdom from God, [revealed to us a knowledge of the divine plan of salvation previously hidden, manifesting itself as] our Righteousness [thus making us upright and putting us in right standing with God], and our Consecration [making us pure and holy], and our Redemption [providing our ransom from eternal penalty for sin].” (AMPC)

The Mirror Bible paraphrases verses 26-29, “You might as well admit it, my Brothers; it was not your academic qualifications or your good looks or social connections that influenced God to represent you in Christ. It is almost as if God deliberately handpicked the wacky of this world to embarass the wise, the rejects to put to shame the noble. The ones with no pedigree of any prominence, the “nobodies” in society, attracted God’s initiative to unveil his blueprint opinion in order to redefine man. Thus he rendered any other social standard entirely irrelevant and inappropriate. (Blueprint opinion, eklegomai, from ek, meaning origin, source, and legomai from logos, the logic of God; traditionally translated as “elect.”) Every reason for man’s boasting in himself dwindles into insignificance before God.”

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Husbands Learning to be Wives to YHVH (the 3 in 1 Godhead)

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The breaking of soul strength so we can flow in the fullness of heart union with the Lord, 

thus, coming into the closest places with our Lover-Leader Yeshua in charge 

Lots of times, I have experienced being “guided by His eye” from Psalm 32:8-9:

“I hear the Lord saying, ‘I will stay close to you, instructing and guiding you along the pathway for your life. I will advise you along the way and lead you forth with My eyes as your guide. So don’t make it difficult; don’t be stubborn when I take you where you have not been before. Don’t make me tug you and pull you along. Just come with Me!’” (TPT)

And yesterday, His eye guided me to something He is trying to get at in us, inclusive certainly of me! I picked up the book Jacob I Have Loved by the late Lance Lambert and began to read right where I had left off a couple of months ago: 

Jacob and This Promised Land

“The Lord had confirmed with Jacob the covenant He had made with His grandfather and father in which He had promised the land of Canaan as an everlasting possession to them and to their seed. The problem was not Jacob’s hearing. Jacob had heard the Lord and believed Him. The problem was Jacob!”

“He was a man with such strength of natural character, such fleshly zeal, and such untiring energy that he could not leave anything to the Lord. He had to supervise the Lord’s work and make sure it was fulfilled. Men and women who have this kind of powerful soul energy are unable to wait for the Lord. If the Lord does not work, they will work for Him, with disastrous consequences. We see this clearly in Jacob. In the work that God wanted to do, Jacob was a trial to Him. Spontaneously and unconsciously, he was an obstacle to the fulfillment of God’s purpose. Indeed, it was the abounding grace of God that brought Jacob to that fulfillment, in spite of his own efforts to work in it. We must always remember that working with God is vastly different to working for God. When you work with the Lord, you are under His supervision and empowered by His strength. When you work for the Lord, you ‘do your own thing’ and seek His support.”

There it was: soul strength. Though with three-plus decades now of walking with the Lord as my Lord, resulting in significant understanding and experience of the believer’s cross, albeit the very hard way in certain lessons, I heard Him clearly: “More gentle breakings are needed to get you fully in synch with ME + the Godhead. You are, yet, getting ahead of Me sometimes with your own good ideas. I am the Captain.” 

[I reference a few key books for anyone learning the way of the cross: The Normal Christian Life by Watchman Nee; The Breaking of the Outer Man and the Release of the Spirit also by Nee; Dying to Live by Jessie Penn-Lewis; The Cross of Calvary How to understand the work of the cross also by Penn-Lewis; The Cross, and The Unity of Vision and Ministry in The Church, Which Is His Body by T. Austin Sparks; The Glorious Liberty of the Children of God by Stephen Kaung] 

This morning, the Lord focused on Romans 7:4-6, with Witness Lee’s keen notes in The Recovery Version of The New Testament. Our Bridegroom-King’s aim in all this: the full love union with His people by way of the successful marriage within in every bridal soul. Romans 7, as we know, addresses failure in the walking out of new creation life. The sin nature is in the ascendancy because self-effort still reigns. [See Romans 7:14-8:2.] As it’s been experienced, whenever a believer is in performance mode in any way, it’s self that is in the driver’s seat, and intimate union as beloved to Beloved, both son to Abba and wife to Yeshua Hamaschiach, is blocked.

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REMAINING in the LORD’S REST: AMMO IN THE WAR AGAINST DRIVENNESS

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-remember Jesus leads // the adversary drives

-remember that confession brings possession

-I have all the time I need to do all that God has called me to do (this day).

-I resist all stress and pressure in Jesus’ name.

-I bind any / all spirits that are driving / pressuring me in Jesus’ name.

-I release myself into the leadership of the Holy Spirit / the Shepherdship of Jesus.

-I release myself to be fully led by the Spirit

 -ask the Lord to free you from “shoulds and ought to’s”

  -practice continual/constant listening – radical listening

-Psalm 139:16 Living Bible “You scheduled each day of my life before I began to breathe.” 

“I walk in what You have scheduled for me today.”

I let You, LORD, navigate. Spirit, You show me what to do step by step; even minute by minute. I check in with You Lord: What are You saying? What are You doing? Radical dependency. This is vital given the reality that there is an unseen realm with familiar spirits / hosts of wickedness.

Look up Eph. 6:10-20 The Message on biblegateway.com. 

“We have all heard that when we are trying to be rushed by others and circumstances, the Holy Spirit may not be the person in charge. 

Agree? With the new beginnings, we want to walk steadfastly and in pace with the timing of our Lord and in His perfect will and path. Let us humbly bow before Him and our brothers and sisters, and especially those over us,  as we come into our new seasons. Exciting these new seasons are, but we want to be prudent.” Pat Pierce 4-21-08 Wake County, NC.

Know the Holy Spirit as Helper.

Prov. 3:5-6 Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight and understanding. In all your ways know, recognize, and acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths.

Phil. 4:6 Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything, but in every circumstance and in everything, by prayer and petition (definite requests), with thanksgiving, continue to make your wants known to God. And God’s peace [shall be yours, that tranquil state of a soul assured of its salvation through Christ, and so fearing nothing from God and being content with its earthly lot of whatever sort that is, that peace] which transcends all understanding shall garrison and mount guard over your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

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Three Keys to Three Keys to Destiny

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My intention is not to harm you but to surround you with peace and prosperity and to give you a beautiful future, glistening with hope. (Jer. 29:11 TPT)

Find your delight and true pleasure in YAHWEH, and He will give you what you desire the most. Give God the right to direct your life, and as you trust Him along the way, you’ll find He pulled it off perfectly! (Psalm 37:4-5 TPT)

Because I set you, YAHWEH, always close to me, my confidence will never be weakened, for I experience your wraparound presence every moment. Note f: It is possible to translate this section as “I have determined in my heart to be identical with the mind and heart of God. It was the heart and mind of God that had first place in David’s heart and thoughts. (Psalm 16:8 TPT) See all of Psalm 16 with the notes the Passion Translation, 2020 edition. Notes by Brian Simmons.

Main aim in life: I want to know Him inside and out. (Phil. 3:10 The Voice)

Philippians 3:9-11(Amplified Bible, Classic Edition)

9 And that I may [actually] be found and known as in Him, not having any [self-achieved] righteousness that can be called my own, based on my obedience to the Law’s demands (ritualistic uprightness and supposed right standing with God thus acquired), but possessing that [genuine righteousness] which comes through faith in Christ (the Anointed One), the [truly] right standing with God, which comes from God by [the gift of] [saving] faith.

10 [For my determined purpose is] that I may know Him [that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly], and that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection [which it exerts over believers], and that I may so share His sufferings as to be continually transformed [in spirit into His likeness even] to His death, [in the hope]

11 That if possible I may attain to the [spiritual and moral] resurrection [that lifts me] out from among the dead [even while in the body]. [Did this verse look forward to an Enoch-level walk that the bride/son company would attain to? The out-resurrection from the dead. See The Recovery Version of the Bible with notes by Witness Lee.] [Re: Enoch and his walk, see Michael Fickess’s books.]

Preliminaries: Recovering the Hebrew roots to the New Covenant. Knowing our Hebraic God: YHVH (Yahweh) (Abba), Yeshua (Son), Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit). Tracking with the Hebrew calendar. Identifying with the true, circumcised in heart, Israel, praying for her, and laboring in prayer and with resources for the tuly Jews to know Yeshua. 

The three keys that are opening up my destiny wide: I pray (1) Lord, change me as I am not all the way like the Pattern Son Jesus yet. How far can I go? From Psalm 139 (See all translations for the full effect.)“Search me and know me…” and the similar section from Psalm 19 identifying “secret, selfish sins.” (TPT) (2) How can I move in selfless love today, all day, in union with the Holy Spirit? (3) How can I be a TEAM PLAYER re: the whole born-again, connected to the Vine BODY in my region? In the world? [Instead, we will lovingly follow the truth at all times—speaking truly, dealing truly, living truly—and so become more and more in every way like Christ who is the Head of his body, the Church. Under his direction, the whole body is fitted together perfectly, and each part in its own special way helps the other parts, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love. Eph. 4:16 TLB] Am seeing amazing Divine favor a ton! Be spurred on! Many diagnostic tests and deliverances got me to this way of walking. [Say “yes” to lots of inner healing and state of the art deliverance ministry (such as The Immanuel Approach).]  And “yes” to His ongoing soul restoration program! He is perfecting us in love. I have said “yes” to majoring in 1 John Passion realities. His “Love School.” Much love in Christ-

Keys to walking in these keys:

  1. Going deep with the cross. See Jessie Penn Lewis’s book, Dying to Live, especially the chapter, “How deep shall the cross go?” Gal. 2:20. See Basilea Schlink’s Avoiding the Cross: Unwillingness to Suffer on sermonindex.net . See also Tom Finley’s site, seekersofchrist.org, for excellent free pdfs on The Victorious Christian Life and Romans 5-8 (The Believer’s Sanctification) and more. From Gift: a faithful, praying mom who walks in the spirit by Katherine Bell: Banqueting Table and Mom’s Prayer that invites Transformative Love. Email me at katherinefbell@icloud.com for these docs.

(2) A radical yielding to the directives and prophetic words and pictures from the Holy Spirit. [Major in the prophetic AND the Word.] [Mark Virkler, Liz Wright, and Virginia Killingsworth furthered me in recent seasons in the union walk that yields the accurate prophetic.] And a continual yieldedness to the Lord living and loving THROUGH me. See 1 John Passion with notes. Saying “yes” to winning souls and making disciples for Jesus. [Free tracts available from wmpress.org.] [And Boomerang University’s Soul Winning class is tops! Site: boomerangu.org.] “Give, and [gifts] will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will they pour into [the pouch formed by] the bosom [of your robe and used as a bag]. For with the measure you deal out [with the measure you use when you confer benefits on others], it will be measured back to you.” (Luke 6:38 AMPC) A key book is Dana Congdon’s The Fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Also, see cwgministries.org for attaining the flowing life in the Spirit with all the gifts by the Virklers.

(3) Philippians: Esteeming others more highly than myself. Loving others with the affections of Jesus. John 13 and the fulfillment or joy that comes from serving, going low, and washing feet or helping people in sanctification and growth in the freedom of holiness. Humility and the winning of the war of flesh vs. spirit of Galatians. Pride and rebellion crucified for full union with Christ. Gal. 2:20. See my blog post, “Caring for Christ” on lessonslove.com. And do read: “Overcoming Pride Blindedness,” written in 2013, on my bondslavefreedom.com. Basilea Schlink’s short text sermon re: Criticizing: Judging on sermonindex.net. And read Schlink’s other pdfs as they are very useful in preparing us, the bridal candidates and sonship joint heirs, for His coming back IN us and FOR us. For His habitation, He desires pure vessels / sanctified souls.

Postscript: Am pursuing the anointing as vital: 

http://joyalministries.blogspot.com/2013/03/seven-ways-to-increase-our-anointing.html

Re: the anointing and how to flow in it, the Bryan Wright YouTube videos on the anointing are most helpful and easy to follow in. Bryan is the pastor of Boomerang Church in Albemarle, NC.

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Get Behind Me, Satan: Leaders Operating in the Adamic Mind

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The part of the Word where Peter speaks from his own reasoning in response to Yeshua’s disclosure that He is headed for death on a cross is key light we need right now re: the way our design and functioning truly is as vessels. Matthew 16:21-24 reveals a discernment about the unseen realm that leaders and we, their followers, must possess so as not to buy into deceiving spirits.

From the Amplified Classic:

From that time forth, Jesus began [clearly] to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders and the high priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised from death. Then Peter took Him aside [b]to speak to Him privately and began to reprove and charge Him sharply, saying, God forbid, Lord! This must never happen to You!But Jesus turned away from Peter and said to him, Get behind Me, Satan! You are in My way [an offense and a hindrance and a snare to Me]; for you are minding what partakes not of the nature and quality of God, but of men.Then Jesus said to His disciples, If anyone desires to be My disciple, let him deny himself [disregard, lose sight of, and forget himself and his own interests] and take up his cross and follow Me [cleave steadfastly to Me, conform wholly to My example in living and, if need be, in dying, also].

If we truly understand verses such as John 6:53, John 15:5, and Romans 6:22 and even realize that in Genesis 3; the real sin was humankind choosing independence from their Maker vs. a dependent existence of flowing in the eternal life of God, ever drinking from the Almighty as source, we will get the scene with Peter and Jesus. 

In Eden, upon Adam and Eve’s choosing to operate by their own choice, their own reasoning and logic, satan got a stronghold and the captivity of Adam and his offspring ensued. Satan got expression in the earth which is what the evil one ever tries to do and does do again and again when leaders fail to yield and flow in the anointing or empowerment of the Spirit of the Lord. And when they fail to have Yeshua’s mind via His Lordship. “Yet not my will but [always] Yours be done” must continuously rule us if we are to have dominion over the demonic forces arrayed against our race. 

(See Eph. 6:10-20 The Message.)

Some verses revealing the radical dependence of the true Christian walk are: 

And Jesus said to them, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, you cannot have any life in you unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood [unless you appropriate His life and the saving merit of His blood].He who feeds on My flesh and drinks My blood has (possesses now) eternal life, and I will raise him up [from the dead] on the last day.For My flesh is true and genuine food, and My blood is true and genuine drink. (John 6:53-55 AMPC)

I am the Vine, you are the branches. When you’re joined with me and I with you, the relation intimate and organic, the harvest is sure to be abundant. Separated, you can’t produce a thing. Anyone who separates from me is deadwood, gathered up and thrown on the bonfire. But if you make yourselves at home with me and my words are at home in you, you can be sure that whatever you ask will be listened to and acted upon. This is how my Father shows who he is—when you produce grapes, when you mature as my disciples. (John 15:5-8 The Message)

But now you are free from the power of sin and are slaves of God, and His benefits to you include holiness and everlasting life. (Romans 6:22 TLB)

It’s only by way of deliverance from pride and rebellion and all idolatry of self that anyone can truly lead the way the Lord wants His sons and daughters to lead: “Pattern yourselves after me [follow my example], as I imitate and follow Christ (the Messiah).” [1 Cor. 11:1 AMPC] Jesus, Intercessor and Head of the church, always ministers in selfless love, and He is the Pattern Son. In 1 Cor. 13:3, we must face the truth that “without the pure motive of love, I would gain nothing of value.” (TPT)

Leaders who are not in union with the Lord, who are doing their own thing, and who are failing to give God glory as their source are often operating out of orphanhood. They do not know Abba’s unconditional embrace in Christ Jesus. Thus, they tend to performance mode. The need is for leaders to receive the love, affirmation, and attention/recognition they need as sons and daughters from the Father who called them to serve Him in the first place. We must pray that leaders fully bow before the Lord in humility such that pure Christ is released to their listeners. If they do not yield to the Lord Christ within them as they minister; the adamic mind of logic, reasoning, and control results. The human intellect dominates over the co-creativity, via spirit-to-Spirit union, with the flowing river of God happening in gatherings or one-on-one, that YHVH desires for His offspring.

A keen Rock Hill, SC sister in Christ has observed how quickly and how often believers, pastors, and other leaders proffer their own opinions and advice in ministry and counseling situations drawing upon all the books, videos, and teachings they have absorbed as opposed to listening for the voice of the Holy Spirit and only saying and doing what the Father is saying and doing like Jesus did. The Immanuel Approach, immanuelapproach.com, is a very necessary corrective to such tendencies, as by this approach, Jesus does the ministry. We must all go deep in intimacy with the Father’s heart as communicated to us in the Son and by the Spirit to come into our design as vessels meant to express the love of God. How we all need to drink and drink and drink of God’s unconditional love and acceptance to get free of any drive to prove ourselves or outdo others. The truth is the Father loves each of us as much as He loves Jesus. We are all a very important part of the Body. And the Father has scheduled the works we are to walk in before the foundation of the world. (Take in Psalm 139.) May our aim be merely to fulfill our individual callings to minister God’s love as Jesus did according to Luke 4:18. May we humbly obey the Master.

Michael Sedler wrote in Stop the Runaway Conversation, “Until I find my security in Christ, I will look for recognition from people, materialism, performance and other worldly ways. Of course, only repentance, deliverance, and healing from God will truly clean our spirits.”

Galatians 2:20 is the deliverance from self at the center: “I have been crucified with Christ [in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I who live, but Christ (the Messiah) lives in me; and the life I now live in the body I live by faith in (by adherence to and reliance on and complete trust in) the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself up for me.” (AMPC)

Deliver us, Lord, from the Diotrephes spirit. 

“I wrote to the church. But Diotrephes likes to be the number-one leader, and he won’t pay any attention to us.” (3 John 9 CEV) 

Let us wait upon the Master and stay submitted and receptive to Him. May we please Him and not idolize self, our Shepherd who gave His very life for us. (Study John 10:11-15 EXB)

The rule for the church: Likewise, you who are younger and of lesser rank, be subject to the elders (the ministers and spiritual guides of the church)—[giving them due respect and yielding to their counsel]. Clothe (apron) yourselves, all of you, with humility [as the garb of a servant, so that its covering cannot possibly be stripped from you, with freedom from pride and arrogance] toward one another. For God sets Himself against the proud (the insolent, the overbearing, the disdainful, the presumptuous, the boastful)—[and He opposes, frustrates, and defeats them], but gives grace (favor, blessing) to the humble. (1 Peter 5:5 AMPC)

Our Abba wants us to be great by His definition: the Sermon on the Mount. Matthew 23:11 records Jesus’ clear plumb-line: The greatest among you is your servant.

Postscript

Paul, the Lord’s designated master builder of the church, was “one with Christ’s inward parts, in which he enjoyed Christ as the supply of grace,” Witness Lee writes in his notes to Philippians in the Recovery Version of The New Testament. (Phil. 1:8 note 1) Paul lived subject to the cross in his inner man Lee explains. Footnote 1 to Phil. 1:21 states, “Paul’s life was to live Christ. To him to live was Christ….Christ was not only his life but his living. He lived Christ because Christ lived in him (Gal. 2:20). He was one with Christ in both life and living. He and Christ had one life and one living. They lived together as one person. Christ lived within Paul as Paul’s life, and Paul lived Christ without as Christ’s living. The normal experience of Christ is to live Him, and to live Him is to magnify Him always regardless of the circumstances.”

“For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.” (Phil. 1:21 RcV)

Recommended Reading

Humility by Andrew Murray

The Normal Christian Life by Watchman Nee

The Breaking of the Outer Man and the Release of the Spirit by Watchman Nee

Miracles are Normal —Co-Creating Through Oneness with God by Virginia Killingsworth

Crisis in Masculinity by Leanne Payne

Listening Prayer by Leanne Payne

Union with God Madame Guyon

The Walk of Love: Walking in the Light as He is in the Light, ebook by Katherine Bell, request by email katherinefbell@me.com. 

The Harness of the Lord Bill Britton, https://www.restorationlife.org/Notes/2017/The-Harness-of-the-Lord.pdf 

Walking in the Spirit in the Church by Katherine Bell, https://bondslavefreedom.com/2015/11/19/walking-in-the-spirit-in-the-church/ 

Mom’s Prayer that Invites God’s Transformative Love

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[from Gift a faithful, praying mom who walks in the Spirit by Katherine Bell]

Introduction

Some weeks back, I asked Mom to share the secrets of her oh, so close bond with the Lord. I had noticed over the years the way she had become more and more like Christ and walked out union with Him in heart, soul, mind, and strength. I knew she had sought out many anointed teachers and had received lots and lots of prayer from believers with strong prayer lives. And I had observed her many hours of soaking up the Word and mining it for spiritual and practical treasures. Mom is often found declaring out loud the promises of God which the Word tells us are all ours to receive. God says “yes” to every one of them.

2 Corinthians 1:20-22 The Message

20-22 Whatever God has promised gets stamped with the Yes of Jesus. In him, this is what we preach and pray, the great Amen, God’s Yes and our Yes together, gloriously evident. God affirms us, making us a sure thing in Christ, putting his Yes within us. By his Spirit he has stamped us with his eternal pledge—a sure beginning of what he is destined to complete.

But those things I knew. And they all have had a very important part. But the secret she shared with me that she said was a real, breakthrough key to experiencing deeper and deeper, closer and closer fellowship with the Holy Spirit, Jesus, and the Father—all three Persons of the Godhead that are in us by the Spirit—the key to letting God be her very life and flow out to others consists of daily praying the prayer below. This prayer positions you to receive God’s transformative love. [Listen to the prophet Graham Cooke’s short, YouTube video on God’s unconditional love titled “Love Encounter,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6wlClByBG8 .]

1 John 4:16 The Message

This is how we know we’re living steadily and deeply in him, and he in us: He’s given us life from his life, from his very own Spirit. Also, we’ve seen for ourselves and continue to state openly that the Father sent his Son as Savior of the world. Everyone who confesses that Jesus is God’s Son participates continuously in an intimate relationship with God. We know it so well, we’ve embraced it heart and soul, this love that comes from God.

Mom’s Prayer

I come before You, the God Who is love, to know You and to behold You in Your glory, beauty, and majesty. I humble myself in awe of You. I thank You that You are within me in the garden of my heart—the Eden within where I meet with You. I open my heart up fully to You. You passionately desire me to know and be known of You. You welcome me just as I am. 

Revelation 3:20 The Passion Translation

Behold, I’m standing at the door, knocking.[a] If your heart is open to hear my voice and you open the door within, I will come in to you and feast with you, and you will feast with me.[b]

Footnotes

  1. 3:20 The Aramaic can be translated “I have been standing at the door, knocking.” Jesus knocking on the door points us to the process of an ancient Jewish wedding invitation. In the days of Jesus, a bridegroom and his father would come to the door of the bride-to-be carrying the betrothal cup of wine and the bride-price. Standing outside, they would knock. If she fully opened the door, she was saying, “Yes, I will be your bride.” Jesus and his Father, in the same way, are knocking on the doors of our hearts, inviting us to be the bride of Christ.
  2. 3:20 This is likely taken from Song. 5:1–2, where the king knocks on the door of the heart of the Shulamite, longing to come in and feast with her.

James 4:8 The Message

Say a quiet yes to God and he’ll be there in no time.

James 4:8 The Passion Translation

8 Move your heart closer and closer to God, and he will come even closer to you.[a] 

Footnotes

  1. 4:8 The Aramaic can be translated “and he will be touching you.”

I bring everything of myself to You. I repent or change my mindset over anything that has not been of faith, Your love, or Your perfect will—anything that has not been aligned with Your heart. I thank You for Your forgiveness. I open myself to You for the continual restoring of my soul. Work out the restoration of all things in my life. 

Isaiah 53:5 The Passion Translation

5 But it was because of our rebellious deeds that he was pierced[a]
    and because of our sins that he was crushed.    He endured the punishment that made us completely whole,[b]    and in[c] his wounding[d] we found our healing.

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 53:5 See Zech. 12:10; John 19:31-37; Rev. 1:7.
  2. Isaiah 53:5 This is the Hebrew word shalom, meaning “peace, prosperity, wholeness, success, well-being.” All of these have come to us through Christ’s sufferings.
  3. Isaiah 53:5 The Hebrew word could be translated “among his wounds (bruises)” or “in his wounds (bruises).” See the split-open rock of Song. 2:14.
  4. Isaiah 53:5 The Hebrew word for wounding (“scourging”) is chaburah and means “blueness of the wounds.” But chaburah is taken from the root word chabar, which means “to join together, to unite, to have fellowship, to become a couple.” A nuanced translation of Isaiah 53:5 could be “In the fellowship of being one with him is our healing.”

I give me to You as a living sacrifice. Search me and know me and try me and see if there is any path of pain I am walking on. 

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The Greatness of Drawing Close to Christ

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John, the disciple of Christ who penned Scripture, experienced the glory of knowing God. Like King David, he drank deeply of the love of God. In Psalm 73:23-24 and verse 28 David wrote of his relationship with the Lord, “You love me! You are holding my right hand! You will keep on guiding me all my life with Your wisdom and counsel . . . . But as for me, I get as close to Him as I can!”[1] John, too, came close and drank deeply. 

There is a song with a line in it that says, “God of glory, Lord of love, Hearts unfold like flowers before You, opening to the sun above.”[2] And an unfolded heart wide open to God and His higher ways—a heart no longer crippled because it is severed from its Divine Source of perfect love—is a heart on a journey to glory and greatness because it is being restored by its Maker to His intended design. John had such a heart. In fact, so much did he draw close to Christ that he became the picture of what happens when a man enters into the closest possible places of the Lord’s heart and mind. Jesus was the lover of John’s soul as he transformed the darkness of the state of selfish ambition into the light of the state of surrendered sonship in the image of the Pattern Son. And John wrote of the mystical union we are called to find in and with the Godhead—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. John dared to lean upon Jesus to experience His heart and know His secrets. The Father through Jesus shared with John the very secrets of agape love—the love that God is in His being and ever exudes. Finally, God called John to write of the union of God with redeemed men and women in eternal marriage in the heavenly Jerusalem in time to come. There the curse from the fall in Eden will be no more and men will so know the intense love of God for them that they will fulfill the command to “Love the Lord your God with every passion of your heart, with all the energy of your being, and with every thought that is in you.”[3] And the second, “Love your neighbor as much as you love yourself.”[4] They will willingly serve Him as bondslaves—love slaves.

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