March 2021 "Dearly Beloved" Articles
Dearly Beloved 3/30/20 "Live in Peace"
Live in Peace
Dearly beloved of God, you should not let these troubled times steal your peace from you.
If you walk with God there will be very few times in life that you will be without challenges. One day it may be a virus, on another day job problems, the next day money troubles, the next it will be something else.
To walk with God you must be at peace, and to be at peace you will have to lead your thoughts captive to who you are in Christ.
All the great cargoes of life come over quiet seas. To hear God’s voice you must be at peace because God speaks with a still, small voice. If you want to hear His voice, you can’t be walking around condemning yourself, or worrying about what other people think about you, or have your mind cluttered with thoughts of worry, anxiety, frustration, or fear.
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 3/29/20 "The Reality on the Ground"
The Reality on the Ground
Dearly beloved of God, the reality on the ground is that we truly are the sons of God, we have access into the kingdom of God, and our sonship rights are accomplished realities because Jesus Christ paid for them with his life.
We were at one time dead in sin, and we came short of the glory of God. We were guilty before God. We were children of wrath. We were deserving of the condemnation against us.
Now, in Christ we are justified before God. That means that we no longer come short of the glory of God, we will be glorified together with Christ. We are no longer dead in sin; we are born of His spirit, and we are alive before Him. In Christ we are now righteous before God, and we stand before Him without any sense of sin, guilt, or condemnation. Jesus Christ paid for all of this and it no longer comes between God and us. Jesus Christ redeemed us.
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 3/28/20 "Bathing in God's Wisdom"
Bathing in God's Wisdom
Dearly beloved of God, God has revealed His hidden wisdom to us, wisdom that has been hid in Him since the beginning of the ages.
God’s wisdom to us who live in the Administration of the Grace of God today is revealed in the gospel of God concerning His Son Jesus Christ.
To those who are called, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. It is from God that we are in Christ Jesus, who was made not only wisdom from God to us, but also justification and sanctification and redemption.
God has revealed wisdom that before was concealed from men; it was a mystery. No one except the Spirit of God knows the things of God, and He has revealed that information to us so we can know the things that have been freely given to us by God. In fact, God reveals that he freely gives us all things with His Son.
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 3/27/20 "Walking Like Sons of God"
Walking Like Sons of God
Dearly beloved of God, even in the midst of this pandemic we can walk with God by believing, not by what the senses dictate. We are the sons of God filled with power from on high. The Father made His children overcomers, super conquerors, victors – not victims.
In the new birth God has given us extraordinary spiritual ability; it is power from on high. He determined beforehand that we would be conformed to the image of His Son, so that he might be the firstborn among many brethren who are born of His spirit.
When we confessed Jesus as Lord and believed that God raised him from the dead, we were saved, born again of His spirit. This is sonship, and sonship is a permanent relationship with God. He is our Father and we are His children.
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 3/26/20 "You Have Won!"
You Have Won!
Dearly beloved of God, you have won! The payoff is greater than the payoff in the Powerball lottery; it is even greater than the Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes payoff, and on top of that, it will pay off both now and throughout eternity! Confirm your winning ticket; it is “in Christ.”
In Christ we were called and chosen. In Christ, we are saved, justified, forgiven, righteous, sanctified, redeemed, holy and in him we are without blame before the Father.
In Christ Jesus we stand in God’s grace. God made us alive together with Christ, He raised us up together and caused us to sit together in the heavenly realm in Christ.
God the Father blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm!
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 3/24/20 "Besieged but More Than Conquerors"
Besieged but More Than Conquerors
Dearly beloved of God, the Father has provided us with access to Him. How good is our access to Him?
“Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.” Romans 5:1 and 2
It was God’s idea that through believing in our Lord Jesus Christ we have peace with Him, and we have access into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of obtaining the glory of God.
Through the Lord Jesus Christ we obtained the access into God's Divine favor, in which we now stand. Now we are highly favored in His sight.
“For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.” Ephesians 2:18
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 3/23/20 "Maturing Sons of God"
Maturing Sons of God
Dearly beloved of God, we are NOW the children of God since we have confessed Jesus as Lord and believed that God raised him from the dead. We were born again of God’s spirit, which is by incorruptible seed. This is sonship. This relationship is by birth, and like our natural birth it cannot be lost.
We are born into our earthly family as a baby. The same is true when we are born again in the family of God. Babies must grow up or mature. Maturity doesn’t just happen; a child has to be taught, and if they are to mature, they will have to be trained. They will have to submit to God’s plan for development.
Every baby in the family of God starts out with the same rights, the same privileges, and the same spiritual ability. We are complete in Christ Jesus, completely filled with everything he made available to us in the new birth. We are born again, each child having the same potential inherent in the birth.
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 3/22/20 "Whatsoever, Wheresoever, Whosoever"
Whatsoever, Wheresoever, Whosoever
Dearly beloved of God, the world is besieged by the spread of the Coronavirus, but God tells His sons and daughters, “Do not be afraid, neither fear you their fears, nor be afraid.” Why? Because, our God is the One True and Living God, the same God we read about in the Bible.
His Word to us is, “Fear not, only believe what I say for I will bring it to pass.” The Almighty God says, “Fear not, for I am your shield and buckler! What is too hard for Me? I will go before you and make a way for you where there is no way. I will bless you, I will defend you, I will deliver you, I will supply your every need, so be not afraid, only believe My Word and it shall be as I have spoken. Be still and know that I am your God, yea, I am your Father, and I will lead you forth by My mighty hand. I will deliver every one that is called by My name for I have created you for My glory. You are My dearly beloved.”
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 3/21/20 "From Birth to Glory"
From Birth to Glory
Dearly beloved of God, when a person confesses Jesus as Lord and believes that God raised him from the dead, he is saved. At that moment, the person becomes a child of God, one that is born of God’s spirit.
Our first birth was a natural birth consisting of a human body and breath life. We were born with the nature of our earthly parents.
When we are born again we are born with the nature of our Heavenly Father. God is Spirit, and we are born of His spirit, which is incorruptible seed.
Jesus Christ said: “That which is born of the flesh is flesh [the life of the first birth is of the flesh and it is natural life] and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit [the life we receive from God when we are born again is spirit life and it is everlasting life]. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.” John 3:6, 7
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 3/20/20 "Pandemic: Fear Not"
Pandemic: Fear Not
Dearly beloved of God, we can either believe or have fear. Both are believing, one produces positive results, and the other produces negative results. Believing is a law. We receive whatever we believe. Fear is our greatest enemy.
When we fear, we cannot believe God for deliverance.
Fear has ruined many a Christian’s life; it has ruined more lives than any pandemic.
God’s message to us is “Fear not.” God gave this message to Isaiah concerning God’s people.
“Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.” Isaiah 41:10
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 3/19/20 "Stand in the Gap"
Stand in the Gap
Dearly beloved of God, since our Father hears the prayers of the righteous this would be a good time to stand in the gap and make intercession concerning this pandemic. If not us, who? If not now, when?
Our Father delivered us from the authority of darkness, and He transferred us into the kingdom of His beloved Son.
He raised us up together and made us sit together in the heavenly realm in Christ Jesus. In fact, we are members of his body, the Church, the fullness of him, and he filled every one of us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm in
Christ:it is all in all of us. He made Christ the head of this body
We are now citizens in the heavenly realm, and we have the life-giving spirit of Christ within us, as well as all the rights, privileges, and ability that go with it.
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 3/18/20 "The Corona Virus and Sins Galore"
The Coronavirus and Sins Galore
Dearly beloved of God, every day we are inundated with somebodies’ sins and sickness of all kinds; just watch the news. Today it is the coronavirus, and the fear of a pandemic, and some perverted Hollywood producer’s sins. The fear of death is drummed into us. That’s all you hear. No wonder it is a challenge to believe the promises of God.
Instead of listening to the world, why not saturate your mind with what God says in His Word. Why not look up the verses that speak about healing and believe them? Don’t you think that might influence your believing? Believing comes by hearing, by hearing the Word of God.
God is not limited in His ability or willingness to heal us or to forgive us. How much do you need?
“Who forgives all your iniquities; who heals all your diseases;” Psalm 103:3
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 3/17/20 "The Lord that Heals Us - Part 3"
The Lord that Heals Us
Part 3
Dearly beloved of God, if we are sick we go to God first. We can believe the promises about healing in God's Word. We can pray and ask God to heal us. We can have other believers pray for us. We can take communion and remember what the Lord Jesus accomplished for us and believe it. We can be ministered to by believers that know how to operate the manifestations of holy spirit for godly profit.
Jesus Christ paid for our sins and by his stripes we were healed.
"Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by Whose stripes ye were healed." I Peter 2:24
This is the truth from God's own lips. If the first part of the verse is true, so is the second part. This is the will of God if nobody believes it. This is the God-given potential that He made available to us in Christ.
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 3/16/20 "The Lord that Heals Us - Part 2"
The Lord That Heals Us
Part 2
Everything God made available to us is ours by the grace of God, and we receive it by believing what He says in His Word. This includes healing.
Mark 11:22-23: “And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. 23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.”
No man has ever seen God at any time, He is Spirit. The only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, which is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared Him.
Jesus Christ always did his Father’s Will. He healed the sick, cast out devil spirits, raised the dead, and forgave people of their sins. He demonstrated the goodness of God and His willingness to heal people.
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 3/15/20 "The Lord that Heals Us - Part 1"
The Lord that Heals Us
Part 1
Dearly beloved of God, God wants us to be in good health. It is not His Will that we are overcome by sickness, including the Coronavirus. God formed our bodies with the capacity to heal themselves. Our bodies are fearfully and awesomely made.
For example, when God designed the human body, He made it with systems like the immune system with the lymphatic glands, which secrete hormones that fight disease, and white corpuscles that fight infection, red corpuscles that scab over wounds, organs that filter out impurities, and systems that expel them in the bowel, urine, and through the skin pores, etc..
God designed the body with DNA, which is an information code. Information is information, not matter or energy. This information produces every function in the body. Scientists do not understand where the information came from or how it got there.
“We can look high or we can look low, in books or in journals, but the result is the same.The scientific literature has no answers to the question of the origin of the immune system” Behe said.
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 3/14/20 "A Pandemic Worse Than Coronavirus"
A Pandemic Worse Than Coronavirus
Dearly beloved of God, there is a pandemic worse than Coronavirus spreading around the world. Too few Christians know that we are who God says we are, that we have what God says we have, and that we can do what God says we can do. We need the immunization of God's Word against this pandemic so we can believe it.
The only way we can know these things is to know what God reveals about them in His Word. Once we know these truths we can believe them, renew our minds to the revelation, and then walk out on them with believing confidence.
All that we are, all that we have, and all that we can do revolves around Christ and his accomplishments. These truths are recorded in the Church Epistles, the epistles of Romans through II Thessalonians.
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 3/13/20 "Pandemic or Deliverance?"
Pandemic or Deliverance
Dearly beloved of God, our God is the Living God, the One True God, the Almighty. He is the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, and He is our Father. We will never have to live in fear if we will walk with Him. He will never, never leave us, nor ever, ever forsake us.
Today we are confronted with a pandemic virus; so what? What is it next to our God. Is He not the LORD that heals us?
Noah faced far worse, but God delivered him and his whole house from the worldwide flood.
Do not be afraid, nor dismayed. The same God that delivered Noah is present to deliver us today. We are His dearly beloved children and highly favored in His Beloved Son.
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 3/12/20 "What Is Too Hard for Him?"
What Is Too Hard for Him?
Dearly beloved of God, this is the CONFIDENCE that we have in our Heavenly Father, that if we ask any thing according to His will, He hears us, and if we know that He hears whatsoever we ask of Him, we know that we have the petitions we desired of Him.
God's Word plainly reveals His Will. Take Him at His Word and walk in His will believing what He says.
If you know what His Word says, and you need to know how to proceed in a specific situation, ask Him. If anyone lacks wisdom, let him ask of God Who gives to all generously and He upbraids not, and it will be given to him.
But, dearly beloved, let him ask in believing, without wavering, for he who wavers is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed about. Do not think that he will receive anything from the Lord. A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 3/10/20 "Overcomers by Believing"
Overcomers by Believing
Dearly beloved of God, we are today who we are because of what we believe. We will be tomorrow where our believing takes us. No one rises above what he believes, and no one can believe more than he has been taught.
What is believing? Believing is to have trust and confidence in information we receive. As the children of God, we are to believe the information God reveals to us in His Word, therefore we walk out on it.
Where do we get believing? Believing comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.
The Word of God instructs us that we are to conduct our lives by believing what He says. We walk by believing, not by sight.
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 3/8/20 "Does God Hear You?"
Does God Hear You?
Dearly beloved of God, the throne of God is open to your prayers; He hears your every cry; don’t doubt it. You stand before the Father in Christ and in his accomplishments and He loves you. He doesn’t hear and answer our prayers because of our goodness, but because it is the good pleasure of His Will.
When the adversary whispers in your ear that you are unworthy, that God won’t hear your prayers, don’t listen to his lies; set the record straight, and remind him what your Father says: “But you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the spirit from our God.”
The same tempter came to Jesus with his lies in the wilderness to tempt him not to believe God, so don't tell me he doesn't try to affect your believing. He responded with "It is written" and then told him what God said.
You tell that tempter, “For He [God] hath made him [Jesus Christ] to be sin for us, who knew no sin; [Why?] that we might be made the righteousness of God in him [Jesus Christ].”
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 3/7/20 "Before and After"
Before and After
Dearly beloved by the Father, have you ever been tempted to judge your life from a worldly perspective? If anyone could have, it was the Apostle Paul.
“For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh, Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any man thinks that he has whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more: circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.” Philippians 3:3-6 and following.
He had all the right worldly credentials. He came from the right race, the right family, he had the right education, he was in the right party, he moved in the upper echelons of the religious elite of his day, and he had the commitment, drive, and passion to go places.
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 3/6/20 "Exceeding Riches of His Grace"
Exceeding Riches of His Grace
Dearly beloved and highly favored in Christ, we stand before God in Christ, through him we are sealed with the promised holy spirit, and we have access to the Father by that spirit. We are God’s dwelling place by the spirit.
We have the glorious hope of His calling, and the riches of the glory of His inheritance in us, His saints.
We have the exceeding greatness of His power to us who believe, the power that is according to the working of His almighty power which He energized in the Christ when He raised him from the dead and He seated him at His right hand far above all in heaven and earth, both in this age and that which is to come.
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 3/3/20 "Stand Fast in the Liberty"
Stand Fast in the Liberty
Dearly beloved of God, the Word of God exhorts us to, “Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”
After all that Jesus Christ accomplished, you would think that God’s people would have stood fast in that liberty, and not be entangled with the bondage of the law, but within a decade of this writing, all Asia turned away from the revelation that God charged the Apostle Paul to deliver to the Church.
"The Lord is the spirit, and where the spirit from the Lord is, there is liberty."
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 3/2/20 "What's On Your Mind?"
What's on Your Mind?
Dearly beloved of God, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm.
If He had not revealed this information, we could not possibly know it, but He did reveal it to the Apostle Paul, and he wrote it down so that we could know and believe it.
In Christ dwells all the fullness of the divine nature bodily, and we are complete in him, completely filled with all that he accomplished and made available to us in the new birth.
If these truths do not bring you peace and joy, I do not know what will.
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 3/1/20 "Overcomers Like David"
Overcomers Like David
Dearly beloved of God, be at peace in your heart; you are not alone. Our Father will never, never leave you, nor ever, ever forsake you. Hold His words in your heart.
The world brings us troubles, but rejoice, our Father delivers us from them all.
The things of this evil age may be depressing, but our Father is greater than anything that may confront us. He is able and willing to deliver us, to care for us, to supply our every need.
We are His dearly beloved and highly favored children; don’t ever lose sight of it.