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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 Israel, praying for her, and laboring in prayer and with resources for the 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 deliverance ministry.]  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.wordpress.com. And do read: “Overcoming Pride Blindedness” 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 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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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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Bondslave Freedom

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The reality that becoming a slave to Jesus

resulted in ultimate freedom was birthed in the days 

of the Apostle Paul and company.

Romans 1:1 “From Paul, a bondslave of Jesus Christ…”

1 Corinthians 7:23 You were bought with a price [purchased with a

preciousness and paid for by Christ]; then do not yield yourselves up 

to become [in your estimation] slaves to men [but consider

yourselves slaves to Christ].

This ultimate freedom is a freedom from the rule of self

and freedom from the rule of the sin nature 

by way of co-crucifixion with Yeshua Hammaschiach on the cross of Calvary.

Romans 6:22 “However, now, freed from sin and enslaved to God,

you do get the benefit—it consists in being made holy, 

set apart for God, and its end result is eternal life.”

Bondslave Freedom: The way whose time has come again.

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Love Profits

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“I am bankrupt without love,” The Message translation states in 1 Corinthians 13. “If I do not have love, I gain nothing,” the ESV says. But what will love profit me if I obey God’s directive to “follow after charity” (KJV) or “eagerly pursue and seek to acquire [this] love [make it (my) aim, (my) great quest]?” (AMPC)

Today I inquired of THE textbook on love, the Holy Bible, seeking increase to my life in God in the way of walking out agape love, the fruit that comes from remaining vitally united to the Vine, the Lord. As I have been drawing closer to Yeshua’s heart, I am ever experiencing a deeper connection to Him and revelatory insights into Holy Writ.

Let me share some verses on love in Matthew 5 from the JB Phillips translation. First, though, let’s read from 1 Corinthians 13:1-3:

If I speak with the eloquence of men and of angels, but have no love, I become no more than blaring brass or crashing cymbal. If I have the gift of foretelling the future and hold in my mind not only all human knowledge but the very secrets of God, and if I also have that absolute faith which can move mountains, but have no love, I amount to nothing at all. If I dispose of all that I possess, yes, even if I give my own body to be burned, but have no love, I achieve precisely nothing. 

Clearly, allowing God’s agape love to flow from within our hearts out to others is of paramount importance to God. Clearly, love is the sine qua non for us.

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Let’s Say “Yes” to True Freedom this Fourth of July Season

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“So, if the Son sets you free from sin, 

then become a true son [of the Father, the Creator,] 

and be unquestionably free!” (John 8:36 TPT)

In our nation now, the understanding of freedom that’s out there in the culture is deceiving many. Voices that are influencing the dear hearts and minds of our fellow citizens are saying freedom is doing and having anything and everything one wants. In other words, freedom is license. The headlines and the dysfunctional relational life of the population at large attest to the destruction that results from such pursuits. 

Let’s consider another understanding of freedom and the purpose of life for which we are designed. And let’s consider that freedom is recovering that design. 

First, let’s admit that deep down inside we know there is a God, a Creator. Can we know Him and what He is like? Is there an ultimate fulfillment? The Bible has answers that we can experience in a way that we know that we know that what it declares comes from the heart and mind of God. The Bible reveals that Jesus is the Promised Messiah or the way back to Eden. When one meets this Son of God as Savior or Rescuer, one encounters the One who is the Way, the Truth, and the [Source of abundant] Life. (John 14:6; John 10:10) Another Kingdom opens. 

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