October 2018 "Dearly Beloved" Articles
Dearly Beloved 10/31/18 "God's Will Concerning You"
God’s Will Concerning You
Dearly beloved of the Lord, what is God's will concerning you?
You are a child of the Living God, His heir and a joint-heir with Christ. You are His dearly beloved and highly favored saint.
We are who we are by the grace of God. Everything we are in Christ is ours because of the grace of God and His great love for us. We have these things because of the good pleasure of His will.
We truly are His dearly beloved and His will is only good concerning us. We don’t have to wonder what our Father thinks about us or His will concerning us. We don't have to guess about what He is able and willing to do for us; we can read it in His Word.
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 10/30/18 "Time to Wake Up"
Time to Wake Up
Good morning dearly beloved of God. It is high time to awake from sleep; our salvation is closer now than when we first believed. The salvation this verse speaks of concerns the deliverance we will receive when Christ Jesus our Lord returns to gather us unto him. We are living in the last days before he returns.
We may live in this evil world, but we are not of it. God separated us out from among the common lot of mankind by His spirit; He sanctified us by it. We are citizens of the heavenly realm and we are members of God’s household. We are God’s dwelling place by His indwelling spirit. We are sons of the One True and Living God and He has filled us with the exceeding great power of His spirit.
Do not be conformed to the ideas and lies of this evil age as those who are of this world; we are not of them, dearly beloved.
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 10/29/18 "The Tale of Two Realities"
The Tale of Two Realities
Dearly beloved, whether we are facing affliction, calamity, persecution, famine, nakedness, danger, sword, are killed all the day long, and are destined as sheep for slaughter; in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. Nothing can separate us from God’s love for us that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
None of the adversary’s assaults on us can separate us from Christ’s love for us. His attacks are attempts to burden, obstruct, depress, discourage, and intimidate us in an effort to keep us from standing our ground on the Word of God.
The adversary is constantly trying to deceive us in an effort to get us to reject God and His Word. He wants us to think that his attacks are greater than our God’s ability to deliver us from them. He wants us to grow weary from the fight and think that God is a liar and that He will not deliver according to His Word. The serpent is the liar and the deceiver; not the One True God.
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 10/28/18 "Stand in the Presence of God"
Stand in the Presence of God
Dearly beloved, why do you believe what you believe? Our beliefs are not innate or intuitive; they come from information we gather outside of ourselves. Our beliefs are learned.
The Word of God reveals that, “Faith comes by hearing, and hearing the word of God.” If we want to have the power of God in our lives, we must hear what He says and believe it. We must learn from the instruction He provides us in His Word.
The Word of God reveals His will to us, the same as our will is known by our words. God revealed His will to us by His spirit so that we might know, believe, and walk with Him. His Word reveals the things He has freely given us. He plainly reveals what He has made available to us.
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 10/27/18 "Is There a Way?"
Is There a Way?
Dearly beloved, God makes a way where there is no way when we look to Him. It is no different for us than it was for Moses and the children of Israel when He delivered them from the captivity of Egypt, from Pharaoh and their mighty army and through the Red Sea.
Fear not! He will part your sea as He parted theirs. He will deliver you from your captivity the same as He delivered them. Don’t be discouraged; faint not. He is faithful that promised.
It does not matter how great the odds are against you, the One True and Living God, the Almighty God our Heavenly Father is for you! What is too hard for Him?
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 10/25/18 "It's Not In Vain"
It’s Not in Vain
Dearly beloved, if in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most pitiable, but our hope in Christ is not in this life only, dear ones, it embraces the ages to come, and it is as certain as that you are reading these words!
God provided us with the victory over sin and death in Christ Jesus our Lord. Death is an enemy whether we suffer its sting today when we lose loved ones, or we face it our self, but the day is coming that it will be destroyed, and we will be released from its power.
Christ died and lived again that he might be Lord over both the dead and the living. Whether we live or we die, we are the Lord’s.
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 10/24/18 "The Power of God"
The Power of God
Dearly beloved, the gospel of God concerning Christ is the power of God unto salvation. This joyful message from God reveals the righteousness of God to us so that we may believe it.
God wants us to know the exceeding greatness of His power to us who believe, the power that He energized in Christ when He raised him from the dead and seated him at His right hand in the heavenly realm.
By this same power, God made us alive together with Christ, He raised us up with Christ, and seated us together in the heavenly realm in Christ. We are complete in Christ, filled to the full with everything he made available by his accomplishments.
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 10/23/18 "Higher Education"
Higher Education
Dearly beloved of God, we do not know any more about spiritual matters than God reveals to us in His Word. He does not want His people ignorant. He would have all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth that He reveals for our believing. Believing comes by hearing and hearing the Word of God.
How do we learn about the will of God? He reveals it to us in His Word. The Word of God declares the will of God to us.
If we are to know the will of God about salvation, healing, prosperity, peace, deliverance, or any other spiritual matter we must hear what He reveals to us in His Word.
Dearly Beloved 10/22/18 "The Key to Deliverance"
The Key to Deliverance
Dearly beloved and highly favored by the Father, we walk by believing, not by sight. Everything we receive due to the new birth is by the grace of God and we receive it by believing, not by our works. We walk in this reality by believing God, by believing what He says.
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God is greater than any circumstance we may face. He had a book written providing us with example after example of His faithfulness to deliver His people when they were faced with overwhelming circumstances. Their only part in the deliverance was to believe Him. These records were written for our instruction and we can learn from their examples of believing.
Dearly Beloved 10/20/18 "Transformative Truth"
Transformative Truth
God has reconciled us unto Himself by Jesus Christ, by what he accomplished. Every believer in Christ is now a new creation created in Christ Jesus.
In Christ, we share a new nature; we are born of God’s spirit. He justified us from sin; its condemnation, guilt, and when he returns we will be delivered from the presence of sin. In Christ, we are sanctified; he set apart by His spirit for eternal life. We are the righteousness of God in Christ.
In Christ, we have entrance into the kingdom of God. We are sons of God, heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ. We are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God. We are seated in the heavenly realm in Christ.
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 10/19/18 "The Importance of the Individual"
The Importance of the Individual
Dearly beloved, God cares about you, the individual.
“God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
He sent His Son to save “whosoever”; the person that believes in him. “Except a man…” is born again “he”, the person cannot enter the kingdom of God. God’s salvation is universally available, but the individual that believes in him receives it. They receive it one person at a time.
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 10/17/18 "If They Are Hungry They Will Hear"
If They Are Hungry They Will Hear
Dearly beloved of God, how do you convince someone against their will? You don’t, but the truth will open the eyes of those who hunger and thirst for righteousness.
If people will believe the words of God, they will believe you. If they will not listen to Him, neither will they listen to you. If they reject Him, they will reject what you say, also. The servant is not above his master.
In the parable in John 10, the Lord said that the sheep hear the shepherd’s voice, and they follow him. Goats don’t listen and don’t follow.
Later in the parable the Lord said, “Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear My voice; and there shall be one fold, and on Shepherd. Therefore doth My Father love Me, because I lay down My life, that I might take it again. No man takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of My Father.”
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 10/16/18 "What Do You Know?"
What Do You Know?
Dearly beloved, knowledge puffs people up, but the love of God in the renewed mind in manifestation builds people up. If we think we know anything, we know nothing as we ought to know it, but, if any man love God, the same is known of Him.
Should knowledge make us more arrogant or more humble? Should it cause divisions, or should it bring us to the truth and common ground? We must remember that the knowledge of which I am speaking comes from God. He provided it for us by revelation and He gave it to us by His grace. Beloved, what do we have that we did not receive?
The gospel of the grace of God that concerns Jesus Christ is the revelation that God our Father gave us for our believing obedience. It reveals His will, His purposes, His plans; it is His counsel to us. Without it we would only have religion; man’s feeble attempts to invent carnal means to obtain spiritual ends.
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 10/15/18 "He Predestinated It All"
He Predestinated It All
Grace and peace to you dearly beloved of God our Father and by His wonderful Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Isn’t it wonderful to wake up and know that we are sons of God and have eternal life? We are heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, and what we suffer today is not worth comparing to the glory that will be revealed to us at his coming.
Our Father works for our good in all things. He called us according to His purpose. He foreknew us. He predestinated that we would be conformed to the image of His Son, that he would be the firstborn among many brethren. He decided this from the time recorded in Genesis 3:15. He predestinated it.
What is predestination? It is the Greek word, “proorizo”, which means to mark out the boundaries ahead of time, to decide, or to determine beforehand.
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 10/14/18 "Elections Have Consequences"
Elections Have Consequences
Dearly beloved, what a difference a vote can make! I thank God that He elected us in Christ.
We are, “elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ.” God, our Father is the one in charge of our heavenly party. He determined the platform by the good pleasure of His will, and He made the outcomes available to us in Christ so that we can stand and walk in these realities.
We are the elect of God and we can put on the what He stands for; “holy and beloved bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any; even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.”
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 10/11/18 "It's True"
It’s True
What’s the worth of a man’s life, dearly beloved? God thinks that you are worth the wealth of the whole world to Him. The Lord Jesus Christ thought you were worth giving his life for you; I would say that makes you quite worthy. He said that the angels of heaven rejoiced when you were saved.
We should see our value in light of what our Heavenly Father and His wonderful Son think of us. As you read the scriptures from Romans to II Thessalonians, realize that this is how our Father thinks of us. He says exactly what He means and means precisely what He says. He uses words that convey His plans, His purposes, His counsel, His will, His heart.
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 10/10/18 "How Do You See It?"
How Do You See It?
Do we have the right perspective, dearly beloved? “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” At times we may think that we have to convince God to love us, while He is trying to get us to believe that He does.
At times we may beg Him not to condemn us, while He shouts there is no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus.
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 10/4/18 "The Good Pleasure of His Will"
The Good Pleasure of His Will
Dearly beloved, since we have confessed Jesus as Lord and believed that God raised him from the dead, we will be saved. We are benefactors of the new covenant. We have entered the kingdom of God. We have been baptized with the gift of holy spirit, God has remitted our sins, and He chooses to remember them no more. All of this is by the good pleasure of His will.
In Christ, we are justified, sanctified, redeemed, washed, and we will be glorified together with Christ at his coming. We have access to God by the spirit by the work of Christ. Christ even suffered and died so that we might be healed. All of this was done by the good pleasure of His will.
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 10/3/18 "Ever So Thankful"
Ever So Thankful
Dearly beloved, how could we enter a new day without being filled with thankfulness for all that God did and continues to do for us and in us through the Christ?
Remember who you were before God saved you through the Christ, and then thank Him for all that He freely gave you with him. Our Heavenly Father shows us such great grace, and He says that He will continue to display the exceeding riches of His grace to us from the time that Christ gathers us unto him in the air, throughout the ages to come, and furthermore, this display will be shown with His loving kindness and tender mercy.
Just think, right now we know that we are saved and have eternal life. We have the spirit of God born within us and we can manifest it for godly profit. “The one and same spirit energizes all these manifestations distributing to each person individually even as he wills.”
Dearly Beloved 10/2/18 "It's a Joyful Message"
It’s a Joyful Message
Dearly beloved of God, God sent His own Son to fulfill the old covenant of the law, and to accomplish the work necessary to establish the new covenant.
Jesus was the Lamb of God that was sacrificed for our sins. He is the high priest that ever lives to make intercession for the saints. He is the mediator of the new covenant for Jew and Gentile alike. He is the head of the Church, which is the body of Christ. God validated his accomplishments by raising him out from among the dead, and He made him both Lord and Christ.
You and I did not have a part in God’s plan to accomplish salvation. The Lord Jesus Christ did everything that was necessary to accomplish it; he gave his life to accomplish it. He is the one that believed to make salvation available for everyone who will believe.
Read more ...Dearly Beloved 10/1/18 "It's a Great Day"
It’s a Great Day
Dearly beloved, God our Father delivered us from the power of darkness, and He transferred us into the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Being citizens of the kingdom of God, He blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm in Christ. Rejoice!
It is starting off to be a great day isn’t it? It could only get better by Christ returning to gather us together unto him in the air, and who knows... it could be today!
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