Hello friends and followers I hope that your Christmas has been a good one and your hope for the new year is surpassing all else. I want to update you on a few things that are going on with my website as well as with everything else in my life. I was attending Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry and felt it best that I should return home. I have done that and I am currently back in Canada. I have not updated or really done much with this site for awhile now. My plans are to continue as I can. I think some of my greatest setbacks are that I feel sometimes its not beneficial to others. I know in my own life I find those that speak and teach are put into a category that they are all the same and we here the same messages over and over. I even find myself speaking the same things over and over nonetheless though their is a reason that I speak and teach on the things over and over because God wants his people to be equipped and his people to be taught and nurtured in the way of the Spirit. Without the teaching I have received from others and have spent abundanty on I would not have the same maturity I do now.
I encourage you to help those that are teaching the body of Christ on practical ways and understanding to activate their spiritual senses. It is imperative that we honor them and help them reach the masses. David Reid at Reap by Faith is one that I know is in need. He needs people to partner with to bring the Gospel to the world he is gifted and has the heart and the word of the Lord in his life. Please look him up and considering donating to his cause.
As for me I am currently involved in a relationship with a wonderful young lady. It has been such a blessing and has taught me more about myself and given me humility beyond humility. I pray that God would grant me wisdom and continued support in our relationship. I believe that God's kingdom is based on family. Abraham was a man who had wealth, a family and inheritance beyond inheritance to continue his seed. Jesus relied on his Father to do the things he did on earth. God is looking for men and woman who can be found faithful with his pattern. My earthly Father was taken from me this past year. As many of you may or may not know I was adopted by loving parents who have filled in the gap. It has led me to many questions and for the most part I didnt know how to react to what happened. I didn't know my earthly Father apart from a short hug this last August, about 3 months before he passed on. Grieving and dealing with inner feelings and connecting with my heart became a priority at Bethel. I then realized that their were other things I had not revealed about my life to my adopted parents. I was sexually abused when I was younger by a close friend of the familiy. It was hard for me to really open up about it but I have allowed others into this area. The light has been shined forth and truth was revealed.
Their were many instances where I didn't see the protective side of my Dad or other characteristics of my parents because I had hid myself away from their nurturing love and care. A lie had deceived me for years after I had revealed to them what happened things changed in our relationship and God has laid his truth their. I am loved by him and by my parents. I am protected and cared for it has brought me to a new place on my own. I am now reaping what I have sown and God has been faithful.
My plans for the new year are to find a job and find a way to take care of some neglected financial mistakes in the past. I want to establish myself as a husband and a provider someday. I also plan on continuing with my website changes may happen and I am still waiting for some to get back to me about perhaps doing a video or two for my website. I am thankful for those that do know me and have inputted into my life online and off. I truly have seen God change me more into his likeness. I continue to ask you for support and prayer for the new year as well. Thank you for your time and patience more to come soon.
Alvin Kaufmann
Friday, December 28, 2012
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
The joy of the lord
for the joy of the LORD is your strength- Nehemiah 8:9-12
I want to bring to you some thoughts I have had recently on this verse and how God uses Joy to defeat the devils schemes. The kingdom of God is righteousness, peace and Joy in the Holy Spirit (Romans 14:17) What we find when we can enter in to the presence of God and stop looking at the worries and the list of things we have to do in our daily lives we find wholeness. God's joy is our strength he delights in every single individual on this earth. We as believers have access to his presence and knowledge of his presence in our lives. We have been given the keys to give us the joy of the lord daily without measure. It is a matter of lifting the veil of our busy minds and letting his love and peace in to consume us. It may take time laying or focusing on the Lord because those thoughts that would persuade us from seeing who he is are always present it seems. When we can push aside those things while waiting on the Lord we will then start to feel his presence. It may take time to sense or notice a change, but when it does their is nothing like it. It is not that the presence or the Spirit comes at that initial moment we enter in to it. Many think that we need to praise, and worship sing and dance with all our might. Yes God takes delight in his children but when we lay and we come in faith saying I know your presence is wherever I am and acknowledge it we begin "practicing his presence" if you will. It then will only take moments the next time and hardly any moment the next. We then get an awareness for his presence. I can enter into his presence at this moment, I can go in and out. It started out with me, waiting on the lord, giving him what was on my heart and letting my heart be heard by him. Whether it was in my inner mind I was talking to him or my tongue actually confessing and being heard.
Intimacy in any relationships starts with being heard. Our hearts need to be heard, when were mad, sad, glad, happy joyful whatever it may be. Honesty creates intimacy in a marriage or a relationship because trust is formed. Their is no greater need in our lives than to know and to be known. That is what every human is created for. God wants to know us and he wants to know what is going on in our lives. He wants us to be real and open with him. Their are moments in prayer and supplication when we go to God willingly and readily to be used and we often come out with him asking what we want, he is a God that fulfills desires. We need to see the fathers face full of Joy, and we need to see the father delighting in us. When our earthly father or those around us have let us down we must be careful we don't associate the heavenly father as someone who is a father of lack or that will harmfully put you through things.
Keep your eyes on his loving and joyful eyes. Get a picture in your mind of your father laughing over you and delighting over you in joy, let his joy fill your soul until your belly is so full of laughter and let it out. Laughter brings freedom, not only to you but to those around you as well.
In Judges 6 and 7 Gideon chooses men who will come and fight the battle with him. Those that lapped with their hands to their mouth were chosen to fight the battle of the Lord. Those that were on their knees to drink were not chosen. I believe that God chose those who lapped because they had not a care in the world for the enemy. Those that were on their knees were positioned so that they couldn't be overtaken by anyone still looking around or at the enemy. They were distracted and could not consume the living water of the Lord. In Psalms 2 we get a picture of God laughing at the plans of the enemy. We to should be like him, when something comes are way that is suppose to get in our way as children we should laugh and be full of Joy because God is not worried about the plans of the enemy he is merely joyful at his children learning to know who their father is a warrior ready to bring his presence, and his glory as he has promised. God bless you!
I want to bring to you some thoughts I have had recently on this verse and how God uses Joy to defeat the devils schemes. The kingdom of God is righteousness, peace and Joy in the Holy Spirit (Romans 14:17) What we find when we can enter in to the presence of God and stop looking at the worries and the list of things we have to do in our daily lives we find wholeness. God's joy is our strength he delights in every single individual on this earth. We as believers have access to his presence and knowledge of his presence in our lives. We have been given the keys to give us the joy of the lord daily without measure. It is a matter of lifting the veil of our busy minds and letting his love and peace in to consume us. It may take time laying or focusing on the Lord because those thoughts that would persuade us from seeing who he is are always present it seems. When we can push aside those things while waiting on the Lord we will then start to feel his presence. It may take time to sense or notice a change, but when it does their is nothing like it. It is not that the presence or the Spirit comes at that initial moment we enter in to it. Many think that we need to praise, and worship sing and dance with all our might. Yes God takes delight in his children but when we lay and we come in faith saying I know your presence is wherever I am and acknowledge it we begin "practicing his presence" if you will. It then will only take moments the next time and hardly any moment the next. We then get an awareness for his presence. I can enter into his presence at this moment, I can go in and out. It started out with me, waiting on the lord, giving him what was on my heart and letting my heart be heard by him. Whether it was in my inner mind I was talking to him or my tongue actually confessing and being heard.
Intimacy in any relationships starts with being heard. Our hearts need to be heard, when were mad, sad, glad, happy joyful whatever it may be. Honesty creates intimacy in a marriage or a relationship because trust is formed. Their is no greater need in our lives than to know and to be known. That is what every human is created for. God wants to know us and he wants to know what is going on in our lives. He wants us to be real and open with him. Their are moments in prayer and supplication when we go to God willingly and readily to be used and we often come out with him asking what we want, he is a God that fulfills desires. We need to see the fathers face full of Joy, and we need to see the father delighting in us. When our earthly father or those around us have let us down we must be careful we don't associate the heavenly father as someone who is a father of lack or that will harmfully put you through things.
Keep your eyes on his loving and joyful eyes. Get a picture in your mind of your father laughing over you and delighting over you in joy, let his joy fill your soul until your belly is so full of laughter and let it out. Laughter brings freedom, not only to you but to those around you as well.
In Judges 6 and 7 Gideon chooses men who will come and fight the battle with him. Those that lapped with their hands to their mouth were chosen to fight the battle of the Lord. Those that were on their knees to drink were not chosen. I believe that God chose those who lapped because they had not a care in the world for the enemy. Those that were on their knees were positioned so that they couldn't be overtaken by anyone still looking around or at the enemy. They were distracted and could not consume the living water of the Lord. In Psalms 2 we get a picture of God laughing at the plans of the enemy. We to should be like him, when something comes are way that is suppose to get in our way as children we should laugh and be full of Joy because God is not worried about the plans of the enemy he is merely joyful at his children learning to know who their father is a warrior ready to bring his presence, and his glory as he has promised. God bless you!
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Update on things
Greetings and blessings in the name of our Lord.
I want to bring you up to date on the vision of this website. This will hopefully bring some clarity as to what to expect when coming.
Around one year ago I felt led to start a website dealing with hearing the voice of God, the gifts of the spirit, and ministering to those around the world. It is still in my heart and my dream that I have so far is to have simple, practical understanding teachings that are a foundation to what I want to build upon. It is hard to know where to start as you may know that you are continually learning new things. I am inspired and passionate to teach other people fundamental and sound truths relating to all of the previously mentioned above. I believe that my role is to impart and communicate solid understanding. I have gotten some very positive feedback already on what I have been bringing forth. I want to continue to do this throughout my lifetime. I love to minister to people and ministering to people is the platform in which you learn from. We have been hindered in local congregations because those that are wanting to learn have to go outside of the four walls of their local church. I believe that this should not be the case. Their are setbacks to the internet and using it for teaching and using it as a platform but this is the only vehicle I presently have to bring what I have. I want to start online and continue to grow and expand to all over the world.
I need your support in patience and understanding that this is not easy for me to do. I am doing this all on my own as led by the Holy Spirit and often times it is what is on my heart I am bringing for now. In the near future I plan on organizing and setting up one time videos that will have a teaching manual and a video, or mp3 that can be categorized.
Their will be How to hear the voice of God, learning and confirming what he is speaking, as well as keys to continue to grow in revelation. Their we will be getting into common edification and prophetic words. Words of knowledge and we will continue with other gifts, discerning of spirits, prophetic intercession and so on and so forth. We want to cover all the basics but give practical understanding not just biblical truth. I believe that the easier we can make the easier it is for those to grasp it and continue with it. God speaks to everyone it is just a matter of us acknowledging it and putting it into action. If you have any comments questions or concerns please feel free to email me. Please also leave feedback if this ministry has blessed you in the guestbook. Thank you
Alvin
I want to bring you up to date on the vision of this website. This will hopefully bring some clarity as to what to expect when coming.
Around one year ago I felt led to start a website dealing with hearing the voice of God, the gifts of the spirit, and ministering to those around the world. It is still in my heart and my dream that I have so far is to have simple, practical understanding teachings that are a foundation to what I want to build upon. It is hard to know where to start as you may know that you are continually learning new things. I am inspired and passionate to teach other people fundamental and sound truths relating to all of the previously mentioned above. I believe that my role is to impart and communicate solid understanding. I have gotten some very positive feedback already on what I have been bringing forth. I want to continue to do this throughout my lifetime. I love to minister to people and ministering to people is the platform in which you learn from. We have been hindered in local congregations because those that are wanting to learn have to go outside of the four walls of their local church. I believe that this should not be the case. Their are setbacks to the internet and using it for teaching and using it as a platform but this is the only vehicle I presently have to bring what I have. I want to start online and continue to grow and expand to all over the world.
I need your support in patience and understanding that this is not easy for me to do. I am doing this all on my own as led by the Holy Spirit and often times it is what is on my heart I am bringing for now. In the near future I plan on organizing and setting up one time videos that will have a teaching manual and a video, or mp3 that can be categorized.
Their will be How to hear the voice of God, learning and confirming what he is speaking, as well as keys to continue to grow in revelation. Their we will be getting into common edification and prophetic words. Words of knowledge and we will continue with other gifts, discerning of spirits, prophetic intercession and so on and so forth. We want to cover all the basics but give practical understanding not just biblical truth. I believe that the easier we can make the easier it is for those to grasp it and continue with it. God speaks to everyone it is just a matter of us acknowledging it and putting it into action. If you have any comments questions or concerns please feel free to email me. Please also leave feedback if this ministry has blessed you in the guestbook. Thank you
Alvin
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Taking God at his word
I want to share today about the wonderful thing that God has given us to reveal his truth and to reveal his promises to us. It is called the Bible. The Bible is such a rich book full of many great wonderful things that we cannot know in a lifetime. The Bible has been around for many years and has been translated from language to language. Their is such a deep history in it and many Bible teachers throughout the ages have tried to learn more from its depth by studying and revealing so many aspects of it. When I was younger I always use to read things to see how fast I could read it. I read things to learn more and more things about something or to know more than someone else. My attitude sometimes is still the same of the Bible I look at those who can quote scripture and who can tell me all these wonderful things and I'm like I want that. Little did I know it led me to realize how little I knew about the Bible. The promises of God were thrown out for depth and thrown out for knowing more of the bible and quoting this verse and that verse. My pride has led me to realize how much I have allowed myself to be distracted by those things then rather allow the promises of God into my heart.
I am going through a season of realizing that the promises of God and the understanding he has given me in his word allow me to be free from anything else. The law was fulfilled in Christ Jesus. The law was broken when the law hung him on the cross and he overcame because he was innocent. He died for those he could only see in his heart and for you and me. He fulfilled the law meaning that the requirements were met by him. He was perfect without blame in all of the laws. It allows you and me to enter into the kingdom of God without doing anything but believing in that promise. He died and he rose again to restore us to a perfect place in Christ. Wait!? What, you mean all those times I needed to repent and wail and weep at the altar? Ya that is right you are perfect because you believed in God, that he sent his perfect sacrifice to take our place. You mean that I don't have to follow the law that God gave in the Bible? The law was revealed to us by Moses many moons ago and passed down to reveal sin. Yes that is right they never had the Bible such a great gift to understand all these great benefits we have. BENEFITS!? hold on hold on that sounds like a bad relationship to me, your in it for Benefits!? No, God freely has given us his benefits with the relationship.
God revealed sin by the law, the Pharisees and Saducees thought that the law was what got them right with God. Wrong, the promise was already in front of them, no man could fulfill the law. The Old Testament was full of those who were waiting on the promises of the coming Messiah but yet took actions and used the benefits of Jesus in the Old Testament. Those who knew God or were after his heart(King David) progressed years beyond his time. His knowledge of God allowed him to understand the full picture. His many prophecies concerning the coming and who he was tell us this story. The Law keepers then were out to lunch in their assumptions of scripture. They were trying to earn their way to heaven on their own works. We grow in societies where we need to go to work to earn. We need to go do this to earn this. We often still want our works to get what we want. Our works are not bad, but they are not required any more. It is the acknowledgment of sin and the understanding that God loves the world that he frees us from trying to fulfill it on our own. We our changed by his goodness because lets face it. A man died for you and me, for man and woman alike. I don't know many who would do that today. It scares me to even think about that. To allow us to be right with God and be like him. Wait, be like him no no no that doesn't come until after. I am like Christ because he is in me. What!? You can't say that!? If Christ lives in me, then the hope of all glory is in me. Colossians 1:27. Well that can't be right!? Your not perfect!? I don't have to be perfect I just have to receive his love and respond and accept it.
God paid the price so that we are free. His grace surpasses our understanding so often that we can't wrap are minds around it. We don't have to do anything. The truth has set you free but if the truth is just Jesus then you are missing out. He is the word! The living and active word when we believe the word, we believe Jesus and Jesus is looking right at us in the promises. Maybe it sounds to good to be true and hard to grasp and many scripture are saying this can't be right can it. It's that easy!? The work is finished on the cross, he paid for our sins 2000 years ago and he continues to pay the price today, tomorrow and forever more. Nothing will stop it. Repenting is to change your thinking, renew your mind. Confess your sins that is all we need to do and to understand that he loves us the same as he did before. Hebrews 8:12 says he forgives our wickedness and doesn't remember them no more. Wait what!? again, Ya that is right if your reminded of your sins that is not God. Its the act of confessing them is the only requirement he asks. Condemnation is not God, reminding is not God. Ya so what happens when that thought comes. You thank God he has made you pure and you stand on truth. That is how important truth is, and the word is. That we know who we are in Christ that we our the righteousness from God by faith in Jesus Christ in whom we believe (Romans 3:22) If we believe in Christ Jesus we are right with God, no matter what we do.
When we understand this goodness that we our the image of God and we look at him and understand how he looks at us and how much he values us and loves us then we raise the bar for who we are. Sin cannot hold us down, when we look at what we shouldn't do we become what we don't want to become. When we look at God we become like him because we our looking at him. Don't allow Satan to remind you or look at the law and say I have to do this and that, because it is already fulfilled. Look at the hope of all glory and realize that you our the hope of God's glory. What we fell short of he placed in us so that we would never depart from it again. God bless you
Alvin
I am going through a season of realizing that the promises of God and the understanding he has given me in his word allow me to be free from anything else. The law was fulfilled in Christ Jesus. The law was broken when the law hung him on the cross and he overcame because he was innocent. He died for those he could only see in his heart and for you and me. He fulfilled the law meaning that the requirements were met by him. He was perfect without blame in all of the laws. It allows you and me to enter into the kingdom of God without doing anything but believing in that promise. He died and he rose again to restore us to a perfect place in Christ. Wait!? What, you mean all those times I needed to repent and wail and weep at the altar? Ya that is right you are perfect because you believed in God, that he sent his perfect sacrifice to take our place. You mean that I don't have to follow the law that God gave in the Bible? The law was revealed to us by Moses many moons ago and passed down to reveal sin. Yes that is right they never had the Bible such a great gift to understand all these great benefits we have. BENEFITS!? hold on hold on that sounds like a bad relationship to me, your in it for Benefits!? No, God freely has given us his benefits with the relationship.
God revealed sin by the law, the Pharisees and Saducees thought that the law was what got them right with God. Wrong, the promise was already in front of them, no man could fulfill the law. The Old Testament was full of those who were waiting on the promises of the coming Messiah but yet took actions and used the benefits of Jesus in the Old Testament. Those who knew God or were after his heart(King David) progressed years beyond his time. His knowledge of God allowed him to understand the full picture. His many prophecies concerning the coming and who he was tell us this story. The Law keepers then were out to lunch in their assumptions of scripture. They were trying to earn their way to heaven on their own works. We grow in societies where we need to go to work to earn. We need to go do this to earn this. We often still want our works to get what we want. Our works are not bad, but they are not required any more. It is the acknowledgment of sin and the understanding that God loves the world that he frees us from trying to fulfill it on our own. We our changed by his goodness because lets face it. A man died for you and me, for man and woman alike. I don't know many who would do that today. It scares me to even think about that. To allow us to be right with God and be like him. Wait, be like him no no no that doesn't come until after. I am like Christ because he is in me. What!? You can't say that!? If Christ lives in me, then the hope of all glory is in me. Colossians 1:27. Well that can't be right!? Your not perfect!? I don't have to be perfect I just have to receive his love and respond and accept it.
God paid the price so that we are free. His grace surpasses our understanding so often that we can't wrap are minds around it. We don't have to do anything. The truth has set you free but if the truth is just Jesus then you are missing out. He is the word! The living and active word when we believe the word, we believe Jesus and Jesus is looking right at us in the promises. Maybe it sounds to good to be true and hard to grasp and many scripture are saying this can't be right can it. It's that easy!? The work is finished on the cross, he paid for our sins 2000 years ago and he continues to pay the price today, tomorrow and forever more. Nothing will stop it. Repenting is to change your thinking, renew your mind. Confess your sins that is all we need to do and to understand that he loves us the same as he did before. Hebrews 8:12 says he forgives our wickedness and doesn't remember them no more. Wait what!? again, Ya that is right if your reminded of your sins that is not God. Its the act of confessing them is the only requirement he asks. Condemnation is not God, reminding is not God. Ya so what happens when that thought comes. You thank God he has made you pure and you stand on truth. That is how important truth is, and the word is. That we know who we are in Christ that we our the righteousness from God by faith in Jesus Christ in whom we believe (Romans 3:22) If we believe in Christ Jesus we are right with God, no matter what we do.
When we understand this goodness that we our the image of God and we look at him and understand how he looks at us and how much he values us and loves us then we raise the bar for who we are. Sin cannot hold us down, when we look at what we shouldn't do we become what we don't want to become. When we look at God we become like him because we our looking at him. Don't allow Satan to remind you or look at the law and say I have to do this and that, because it is already fulfilled. Look at the hope of all glory and realize that you our the hope of God's glory. What we fell short of he placed in us so that we would never depart from it again. God bless you
Alvin
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Opinions hurt
I want to tell you about an encounter I had about a week ago in the mall. I was just fresh from doing street evangelism and ministry on the coast of Canada. I was still looking for opportunities to minister to people and quite sensitive spiritually speaking to the things around me. As I went into the book store and started looking at bibles and the Christian section I noticed a man looking at the New Age section next to me. I didn't think much of it but then I started to discern spiritually a darkness or heaviness in the realm around me. I then started to receive knowledge about this man as I opened my ears to God I heard the word betrayal in my spirit. I then kind of looked at what he was looking at and felt like he was seeking something on a lost relationship. My eyes then glanced immediately to his ring finger. Their was no ring, their was a young boy that came over to him later and I assumed it was his son. As I begin to feel things out and wondering how I should approach him I felt a check and didn't really know what to do with it. It caused me to withdraw from that part and slowly walk somewhere else in the book store. I started praying for him and praying for those things that I felt and then I didn't know whether or not if I should approach him. Now in my mind I felt he was betrayed by someone a partner and that he was married at one time. I did not actually approach this man but I could tell what was going on inside me wanted out. As I retreated to a safe distance I then decided to leave the store and carry on my way. It was a weird feeling for me to leave him as it was because I felt the hurt and pain he was going through but yet I just couldn't approach him on the inside something wasn't right. I ended up leaving and felt somewhat out of the ordinary about the whole experience because their was something more that wasn't being said.
I then carried on and kind of left it in the back of my mind and I was sitting in the movie theater watching a movie. My heart was still hungry for God and as I sat in the middle of the movie and a good hour in the holy spirit started gave me knowledge on the events of what just happened.
Isaiah 11:3 - He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes or decide by what he hears with his ears ...
I had been praying this verse over myself for quite some time and I went back to it often in my mind from time to time. God expounded on how I formed an opinion that he was married and judged by what I saw with my eyes. In this case if I would have approached him and told him the words of knowledge i had "thought" I had received I could have made a bad name for "my" God. I know that he is his own defender but my flesh and misrepresentation of him would have led to more roads or whatever the case it could have turned out just fine. Either way it is a reminder to those who move in the prophetic and not even that but what goes into your ear must not be what forms in your mind as an opinion that is unmovable. Or by what you see with your eyes because then the fact is its hard to love those that we see if we form opinions. One of the greatest keys to hearing from God is not thinking. Sounds funny but when we allow ourselves to put the good in our minds and Love the Lord god with all your heart mind and soul it establishes honor and allows God to speak freely in our minds. Opinions also get in the way of hearing and operating in a ministry spirit because it holds back Gods eyes and how he views those people. We are human and Jesus did not judge by what he saw or by what he heard. We know that he only did what he saw his father doing and only spoke as his father did in heaven.
This is giving up your will and your life this is the cross Christ took to glorify his father. Speak life and not death our tongues our powerful and when we can steward our tongues and mouths and weigh our thoughts we show God that we our ready to receive his word for others.
God Bless you
Alvin
I then carried on and kind of left it in the back of my mind and I was sitting in the movie theater watching a movie. My heart was still hungry for God and as I sat in the middle of the movie and a good hour in the holy spirit started gave me knowledge on the events of what just happened.
Isaiah 11:3 - He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes or decide by what he hears with his ears ...
I had been praying this verse over myself for quite some time and I went back to it often in my mind from time to time. God expounded on how I formed an opinion that he was married and judged by what I saw with my eyes. In this case if I would have approached him and told him the words of knowledge i had "thought" I had received I could have made a bad name for "my" God. I know that he is his own defender but my flesh and misrepresentation of him would have led to more roads or whatever the case it could have turned out just fine. Either way it is a reminder to those who move in the prophetic and not even that but what goes into your ear must not be what forms in your mind as an opinion that is unmovable. Or by what you see with your eyes because then the fact is its hard to love those that we see if we form opinions. One of the greatest keys to hearing from God is not thinking. Sounds funny but when we allow ourselves to put the good in our minds and Love the Lord god with all your heart mind and soul it establishes honor and allows God to speak freely in our minds. Opinions also get in the way of hearing and operating in a ministry spirit because it holds back Gods eyes and how he views those people. We are human and Jesus did not judge by what he saw or by what he heard. We know that he only did what he saw his father doing and only spoke as his father did in heaven.
This is giving up your will and your life this is the cross Christ took to glorify his father. Speak life and not death our tongues our powerful and when we can steward our tongues and mouths and weigh our thoughts we show God that we our ready to receive his word for others.
God Bless you
Alvin
Friday, August 31, 2012
Knowing God
I want to bring this to you today because this is a foundation in which God has laid in me and it continues to be what I teach to many individuals who want to have a deeper walk with God. I was in the book of Isaiah for a month and could not get away from it and Isaiah 53 paritcular has always appeared time and time again to bring a reminder and a freshness to my course of life. While reading this I want to point out the word knowledge, this verse is a prophetic word speaking of the coming one Jesus Christ. By his knowledge it was not a miraculous instant God event that he performed the great feat on the cross but merely it was God in Jesus the son of man. Meaning he was a human like you and I. It was his knowledge that allowed him to understand Gods heart in every matter.
Isa 53:11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
This led me to search more in depth to the word knowledge. The word knowledge is made up obviously from the word know (yada in the hebrew Strongs Number 3045) It means an experiental knowledge of someone.
Now lets relate this word to another story in the Bible where David was chosen to have a beatuiful virgin lay with him to keep him warm.
The young woman was very lovely; and she cared for the king and served him; but the king did notknow her (1 Kings 1:4 NKJV)
The girl was very beautiful; she took care of the king and waited on him, but the king had no intimate relations with her.(1 Kings 1:4 NIV)
That is how deep the word know is and it can relate in so many ways to our relationships with Husband/Wives, we get to know each other by spending time with each other.
1. To know is to have experiential knowledge of the person or God
I had plans to start a business and to continue with my work running a truck in the oilfield with many customer prospects and things in place to finance the deal. It had me stuck to a job where I got paid well and could see many blessings and being blessings to others. God came and invaded me one night and shared with me my true desires to do ministry and to live by his provision. I knew that in the past how God had spoken to me and told me to go other places such as Bible College and remembered how he was faithful to provide for me. This Experience in the past helped me 1) recognize his tugging, and his voice to go 2) his faithfulness to get me where my heart desired to go 3) To trust and to give up my plans even though i thought it fitted me at the time. Now I am in ministry and have followed God in other areas because of his leading in my life and it was easier for me to trust and to turn right away to those things. This is an example of having experiental knowledge with God.
Trust is the most important aspect of it all and allowing ourselves to remember and being thankful for the things he has led us through in the past makes it easier for us to give up those things when he asks or is putting his finger on it.
2. To know is to be-loved and to love
God wants to be the first one you come to in good and bad. God wants us in the quiet place where we can hear his voice and lay aside our hearts worry. It takes time to cultivate this because so often our minds our at unrest and easily entangled in the things of the world. I always think of rest as Hebrews 4 type rest. When our souls our easy and at rest we can allow God into those areas of our heart that our often wounded or hindered by things we have been believing about ourselves. It allows the true lover of our souls to bring to memory those hurts and lies that our provoked and allows him to give us truth. Its not a quick fix often because we want it done but God is gentle and it often takes time for us to realzie we need to spend time in our day in the quiet place not just petitioning but listening.
Hab. 2:1-2 NKJV -I will stand my watch and set myself on the rampart And watch to see what he will say to me and what I will answer when i am corrected. THen the Lord answered me and said: Write the visino and make it plain on tablets That he may run who reads it.
Habakkuk was waiting for Gods response after asking God a series of heart cries and he stood watch until God answered his pleas. Being willing and allowing God time to speak is important it shows the love that he has and he wants to answer our hearts questions personally not just through someone else.
I believe that 1 Samuel Chapter 2 and 3 our a very good point for allowing time for God in our lives. Samuel was ministering to the Lord and waiting on his earthly master so to speak in Eli. He was honoring the leadership and when God started to reveal his word to him he instantly ran to Eli. Eli perceived that God was calling him after the third time and he shared with him how to be a willling and obedient servant to the Lord. 1 Samuel 3:10 Now the Lord came and stood and called at other times, "Samuel, Samuel!" and Samuel answred, "Speak for your servant hears," This was the start of Samuel the Judge and one who was faithful and wanted to do what was in Gods heart and mind. It states how the Lord stood and called as at other times! How beautiful is that, Eli's or those who know what the word of the Lord is need to teach Samuels or those who our young, how to hear from God for themselves.
Intimacy requires time and it requires cultivating a love for God or maybe you need to fall back in love with your creator again. Knowledge and to know God, I believe is the most wonderful aspect of him. He reveals himself to us and we need to respond with time and care and attention because from this relationship and the secret place it will bring us victory in every area of our lives. He wants to give you counsel and wisdom on every area of your life, but it requires us to take apart that time in our lives toknow God and experience him with our 5 senses just as the definition of the word dictates, to smell, touch, taste, feel and hear.
God bless you
Alvin
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Grace
Recently, as I was sifting through facebook and reading some of the posts I was grieved in my spirit because often times I see so many bible scriptures posted out of context. The nature of God is a very hard concept to grasp if God has not breathed and made alive the texts in the bible. Now I know their are many aspects to the nature of God some that we are still learning and others that we think we know the depth and the width of them. Grace is a message that is very dear to my heart and I know that God is a God of grace. I know grace because of my passed experiences and the grace message is one that is at is becoming more and more on the move. First off grace is absolutely biblical and it is the very nature of God. Grace is found in justification. The unmerited favor or unearned favor we have with God is grace. In the New King James version we read Romans 11:6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
As I begin to read more and more peoples view on grace I saw many verses of the bible quoted out of context saying that grace is demonic and using Matthew 7:21-22 as their scripture basis. I felt my heart twinge and ache because I was disgusted at the quality of God was used with little or no care at all. I wanted to type in the comment box all the feelings I had raging up inside of me. As I sat their staring at the computer screen I knew that my battle was not against flesh and blood. The devil wants us to team up with him and be the accuser of the brethren so I left it. I started telling God how I felt and how I understood grace as and then I asked him what grace was to him. Instantly I was reminded of the woman at the well. The story is found in John 4. I am not going to post it you can read it on your own. As we look at the story though we realize that Jesus, in the nature of God did not condemn the woman but offered her living water. Jesus loved her being a woman of "low stature" and out of his Jewish class. He did not look at the outward appearance but it was "the goodness of God" (Romans 2:4) that lead her to repentance and told the surrounding community about the Messiah. In all the other instances God gave undeserved grace, in healing, wholeness and deliverance to those who were afflicted by sin and in the darkness. How can they know their in darkness if their is no light? The Holy spirit is the convicter (John 16:8) It has nothing to do with us pointing the finger and telling people their living in sin. We need heavens perspective on every aspect of our lives and other peoples lives. Christians are not exempt from the grace message, we still make mistakes we our not perfect ourselves and we are being sanctified continually. You see the goodness of God, know thing that when we sin blatantly and that God loves us not for what we do but for who we are, when we can come to believe that it empowers us to live in holiness. Grace in another definition of it means to empower. Their is a coming holiness movement that is not going to be like the holiness movement of the passed, where much law and legalism came out of. Don't hear what I am not saying I believe in holiness, the law and legalism part is religion. The grace movement is going to empower us to live in holiness by seeing the goodness of God it is going to open our hearts to understand who God is more and more. Grace is empowerment and Holiness is power.
As I begin to read more and more peoples view on grace I saw many verses of the bible quoted out of context saying that grace is demonic and using Matthew 7:21-22 as their scripture basis. I felt my heart twinge and ache because I was disgusted at the quality of God was used with little or no care at all. I wanted to type in the comment box all the feelings I had raging up inside of me. As I sat their staring at the computer screen I knew that my battle was not against flesh and blood. The devil wants us to team up with him and be the accuser of the brethren so I left it. I started telling God how I felt and how I understood grace as and then I asked him what grace was to him. Instantly I was reminded of the woman at the well. The story is found in John 4. I am not going to post it you can read it on your own. As we look at the story though we realize that Jesus, in the nature of God did not condemn the woman but offered her living water. Jesus loved her being a woman of "low stature" and out of his Jewish class. He did not look at the outward appearance but it was "the goodness of God" (Romans 2:4) that lead her to repentance and told the surrounding community about the Messiah. In all the other instances God gave undeserved grace, in healing, wholeness and deliverance to those who were afflicted by sin and in the darkness. How can they know their in darkness if their is no light? The Holy spirit is the convicter (John 16:8) It has nothing to do with us pointing the finger and telling people their living in sin. We need heavens perspective on every aspect of our lives and other peoples lives. Christians are not exempt from the grace message, we still make mistakes we our not perfect ourselves and we are being sanctified continually. You see the goodness of God, know thing that when we sin blatantly and that God loves us not for what we do but for who we are, when we can come to believe that it empowers us to live in holiness. Grace in another definition of it means to empower. Their is a coming holiness movement that is not going to be like the holiness movement of the passed, where much law and legalism came out of. Don't hear what I am not saying I believe in holiness, the law and legalism part is religion. The grace movement is going to empower us to live in holiness by seeing the goodness of God it is going to open our hearts to understand who God is more and more. Grace is empowerment and Holiness is power.
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