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Good morning everyone here in Hawaii and throughout the world, all through the distant countries, and hopefully to some areas of the 10/40 window, there still is 3,000 languages that don’t even have one sentence of scripture, it is a shame that we have so many translations and thousands of self help bible books, we have to start thinking of the others our sisters and brothers in a poor areas, places that do not even have clean water and food for every living soul, we know that the death rate for starvation is still very high, if I can’t get anyone to donate an old piano to my home town office, I don’t know what is happening as far as giving, there are so many areas that people are starving to death. The counter is on the Early Services Page also. The end times are here and there will be so much destruction as we reach the end, God has been patient, waiting for people to change and repent of their sinful ways, and to go back to the realism of the early church where there was (no one) in need. We are trying to bring back the attitude of the early church, but people today are so hammered down with work and trying to take care of their own families. Now the mother has to work just to put clothes on there children and food on the table. And our children are getting personalities from other people, besides their true parents. General personalities are made for life between the age of 1- 6 after that the personalities of any person is divided with the company they share their lives with, and the fact remains that our own parents spend very little time with their real children and an average child spends time with the babysitter a pre-school or those places that a woman takes care of a group of children or are shared and educated with others in all different kinds of facilities. Then we have to look at how many broken homes we have also. Then we have to imagine what happens to the children. Have you all noticed the suicide rate in young kids of today? We should all be concentrating on our own families before we even think about missions, but missions are suffering an intense amount especially in the slum areas. We have to find a middle ground the way they did centuries ago. We must understand that we have to help anyone that is in need. Some people can and some people can’t. We must admit that there are many people that are very well off and have all kinds of savings but that never reaches missions, even through the church, most of the content of the collection plates that money goes right back in to the same church, and we have done studies that less then 1% at an average gets to the people that most need it. People and children are dieing from starvation all over this world and there is hardly a sure hold on the situation. Then we have to look at well who do I donate to, then you worry if your money is being used to save these lives. We do now have charity navigator which tells what is going where, and who is doing what with the money, which is a blessing to have, if you are interested you will find charity navigator on the first page or our Index page of this site, just press home. I would rather see the money go to people that are starving then to us that are going through the same thing but God has blessed us, like He has been for all the time of my sickness, plus just enough to keep everything on and running. I guess I will go through this sermon in a different way I need the help, and it saves me so much typing, most of you all know that I have been deeply suffering, and have gone through a great amount of anguish, distress, misery, torment, and pain. My body is weak, but the power of God is strong, and He has influenced me and sent me certain teachings, to share with all of our membership, plus the influence of the Holy Spirit, as He enters into everyone’s hearts, ears, eyes, spirits, plus other ministries and churches that use the sermon for a different day of service or a Sunday school class, or a Wednesday night service, that is why I keep it up all week and you can turn to any of the sermons on the Early Services Page, and you can share with one village to a regular town or big city, or to a place that all they have is a place to sit on rocks and tree limbs in the middle of the jungle. Remember my love for all of you means so much to me, and I pray you all get anointed and actually feel the Holy Spirit, no matter where you are, or what day or time it may be, all who hear, read, listen or translate this sermon, I ask in the name of Jesus that you all be blessed, healed, sanctified and any other help you all may need as you join us at any time or any day, with the sermon inspired by the three in one, and the one in three. I wish to thank all the added help and directions and paths I have been taken to this day, and hopefully you all will gain a peace or some hope or education, there is so much we can all learn from a sermon, especially when your being lead by the Trinity.

Grace and peace to you, we are talking two wonderful words from a few nations and molding them together, We would like to say Charis like greetings, Caaris is a greeting the Greeks began in there letters, Shalom was the greeting of the Jews when they associated with each other and the Greek form of that was eirenne, but let us get back to Charis it is such a beautiful word, the basic ideas of the word in it are joy and pleasure, brightness and beauty. Charis is connected to our word charm, with the life in Christ it becomes lovely, and it is meant to explain a life of joy and beauty. Shalom and Eirenne are words to represent peace and they are never to mean a negative peace but rather absence of trouble. They mean total well being, they are connected with the word eirene which means to join to weave together, they refer to a kind of peace that comes through reconciliation, in other words the word did not exist until the focus of God was in the subject, so it is a peace that has resulted from reconciliation with God. So we end up with a holy peace that has resulted and established with reconciliation with our brothers and sisters and our fellow human beings. In other words we can not have any conflicts, everyone in the church is effected when just two people are not at peace with each other, they need that bond of peace and forgiveness it is so beautiful when the word peace moves into action and when we see two people are rejoined, reconciled to each other, that is why the joining of the two words, Grace and peace are so wonderful of words of togetherness and bonding with both meanings and feelings of a welcome with affection. I started writing this prayer, and I felt good and things were in tune and my spirit was in tune and I just had everything in line and the power goes out it only went out for a few minutes but it changed my whole heart, here I am under attack everyday and I finally sit down and write a prayer to help and my whole character and whole inner self broke, a man can only have a certain amount of broken hearts . I was joyful and happy and trying to forget the last two months of my experiences and I wanted to help and heal, and my words do get out there and I just looked up at God and said why, does it never end? So I just thought about the scripture "and He will give you all you need from day to day if you live for Him and make the kingdom of God your primary concern." Matt. 6:33 Dear God, Sometimes I feel like I have poured myself into many different things like the church or with people or with a particular person that needs more prayer than others, and worked and spent hours even years on things and fought for a many people to see the light and to know that their healing is out there, only to see no fruits for my labors. It is times even when I write out prayers for people it seems like it is done in vain. But I know that You can work in all of that to fulfill a greater purpose. Please, don't let the labor of my heart and hands be in vain. I pray that all I do would be as unto You and for a good purpose and eternal value. Please bless the works of my heart and hands for Your glory. Please empower me with wisdom and insight through Your Holy Spirit. Please guide me every step and every day, to have a part in reaching this world for You and ministering to those I love. Dear God please help me be an over comer, help me to find the right words to help so many others please Father help me with the right words to give them, with joy and to let them know that they are not alone, Father I am so alone, and I thought I would get closer to you and it seems we are so far, I love you and all people can you let me write the right words for them to read. “My gracious favor is all you need. My power works best in your weakness."(2Cor.12:9) When we pray, "Give us this day our daily bread," we are, in a calculation of today, shutting tomorrow out of our prayer. Our concentration is on today we can not forget about tomorrow because today has enough trouble of it own We do not live in tomorrow but in today. We do not seek tomorrow's grace or tomorrow's bread. To point is we do a lot better and get more out of life and in any situation if we live for today or in the present time span, once we start thinking way ahead then we have all that time to analyze and that might tend to add confusion, there is that old saying live one day at a time, and if we sustain that attitude, we seem to concentrate on just today this hour and if we are going through pain and hardship or any burdens the whole thing is reduced to this day and this hour. People do prosper best and get more out of life, when there are just living in the present. You see I pray better when I just think about today's needs, not for tomorrow's, our prayers are for today are for right now and some times I get answers immediately and sometimes I get answers down the road but when the lights went out it just came over me that I might have to wait till tomorrow what needed to be done today.

True prayers are born from present trials and tribulations, pains or burdens and just prayers of thankfulness and praise and present needs. So our prayers for bread today or what ever the matter may be, it is still a prayer of today, of course the pattern may follow into tomorrow and the needs of today will follow suit for tomorrow but our prayers are still for any day because the timing of God is quite different than ours. If we pray for your victory today, it will defiantly carry on till tomorrow and the next. Our prayers need to be focused upon the present, We must trust God today, and leave the tomorrow entirely with Him in His hands, I had to learn that the hard way, because here I am waiting for a phone call weather I have a house to live in and the answer of my life was held in a persons hands that had no care in the world what was happening and his timing was tormenting my life day by day. The present is ours in what happens to each one of us and how we deal with our own faith; the future belongs to God. Prayer is the assignment and duty of each returning day, remember our daily prayer are for our daily needs. Yes we still may have the same problem or affliction , but tomorrow can bring changes and healings, some what like a friend of mine who did not write to me in a year and right when I needed healing and I figured all my work was done in vain I get this letter and it told me this person was holding on to my prayers or should I say the Lords prayers, and she was healed of two major afflictions and I didn’t have any idea but God gave me the letter when I needed it to heal me, there is nothing I can do on my own, once you are a slave to God you become a servant and a child and the thing is some people out there still think that they are doing things on there own merits. I cannot take credit for the gifts of God. All I can do is relay a message of hope to another and utilize my physical ability to help someone feel just a bit better or get through there problem or what ever it may be at that time. As every day demands its bread, so every day demands its prayer. No amount of praying, done today, will be sufficient for tomorrow's praying. As we look at it another way, no praying for tomorrow is of any great value to us today. Praying for our daily bread today is what we need, tomorrow God will see that our needs are taken care of, and there are so many promises of God that I have seen that just open the windows of heaven the day after. This is the faith which God seeks to encourage. So leave tomorrow, with its cares, its needs, its troubles, in God's hands. We can’t store up any of our prayers for the events that will happen tomorrow we can pray for a better tomorrow or a better thing to happen so let us not entirely forget about the next day we don’t know what that day will bring. But remember we can’t eat tomorrows bread and we can’t pray tomorrows prayers today that is why we as Christians we live in the moment not in the past of the future, any day our beloved Jesus can come and change our whole lives for eternity, and all that worry and concentration about tomorrow will be all wasted. I got a bit carried away, but my prayers are with you and my heart is also, I just want to say that things will turn out better they always do, just like me like I said before I have been sitting on the edge of my chair for two months and I still don’t have any answers plus I have been facing an affliction on top of that and that I am living in the unknown, but God has me praying for others and that is what I will continue to do.

A RENEWAL OF OUR MINDS

1 Cor. 2:16; Rom. 8:6; 12:1-2;

[- The average brain weighs about three pounds – It contains 12 billion cells.

- Each one of these cells is connected to 10,000 other brain cells, totaling 120 trillion brain connections.

- Dr. Duane Gish has observed that “the human brain is the most complex arrangement of matter in the universe.”

- Some have compared the brain to a sophisticated computer, but technology still has a long way to go before it can duplicate the brain’s capabilities.

- The brain is not only the most complex mechanism in the world; it is the most influential organ in your body.

- It accounts for your ability to think, remember, love, hate, feel, reason, imagine and analyze.

- Everything we see, hear, touch and smell is recorded on the lobes of the brain.

- Your brain elevates you high above the animal kingdom – It literally sustains your life.

- If you are brain dead, you are dead because the brain supervises everything you do from the involuntary beat of your heart to the conscious decisions of daily life.

- It also houses your intuition, your conscience and your sexuality.

- It both houses and actually constitutes the mind.]

- Proverbs 23:7 summarizes so well the over-arching significance of the mind as far as God is concerned in this poetic declaration:

- For as he thinks within himself, so he is. – Proverbs 23:7a (NASB)

- We may rightly conclude that the human mind is the single most important entity in Creation – for as it goes, so goes the person and the society in which he/she lives.

- Who and what we will be then must have its origin and sustenance in the mind.

- What we sanction or suppress mentally determines whether we take the high road less traveled or the low road which is far more popular.

- The degree to which we attain the mind of Christ will determine the quality of life we enjoy as well as the eternity we will experience.

- When we train our minds to become like the mind of Christ Himself we will find ourselves well on the way to personal renewal, because we will begin to think, act and do things like Jesus Himself.

- Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will know what God wants you to do, and you will know how good and pleasing and perfect his will really is. – Romans 12:2 (NLT)

- The point of this is simple – the pattern of conformity to the world is broken and a person’s life is transformed only if and when the mind is renewed.

- Whether this renewal of the mind will take place depends upon our daily mental discipline.

- Unquestionably and repeatedly the thought life is identified in Scripture as the very source of godliness or worldliness; holiness or unholiness.

- Our thinking may be dominated by the Holy Spirit or the evil one.

- We make the determination – we give the permission – we exercise the control.

- Our thought life is the real battleground – it is in our thinking that the most basic spiritual struggle takes place.

- In the OT and the NT the government of the mind is the condition which brings about spiritual transformation at the deepest level of a person’s being and determines whether we are holy and pleasing to God.

- There are two basic areas that we need to really concentrate on this morning, so that we can truly experience personal renewal.

THE GOAL: TO OBTAIN THE MIND OF CHRIST

- We’ve talked about personal renewal through the Holy Spirit, and through Vision– now is the clincher – if I am going to be thoroughly and completed renewed, my mind must be like Christ’s mind.

- I want to spend the rest of my life developing the mind of Jesus Christ.

- There are three things I need to do continuously for that to happen.

1. I NEED TO KNOW CHRIST

- When Paul writes to the Corinthian church He mentions the deep secrets of God and quotes the prophets to show that no one can really know the depths of God’s mind – yet there is one exception to this rule – those who have the Spirit of God can understand the mind of God.

- He puts it like this: "Who can know what the Lord is thinking? Who can give him counsel?" But we can understand these things, for we have the mind of Christ. – 1 Corinthians 2:16

- This “mind of Christ” that Paul talks about is able to discern the things that God Himself is thinking.

- This, to me, is one of the most astounding statements in the Scriptures – that I, a mere human being, have the ability to understand what God is thinking.

- This promise is not made to just anyone, but only to those that know Christ through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

- In fact, just a couple verses earlier Paul stated this:

- People who aren't Christians can't understand these truths from God's Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them because only those who have the Spirit can understand what the Spirit means. – 1 Corinthians 2:14

- While the concept here is profound, my point is very simple – to possess the mind of Christ we begin by knowing Christ through the salvation experience.

- If you are a Christ follower you can have the mind of Christ.

2. I NEED TO SURRENDER CONTROL

- I have been mentioning this control issue frequently during this series.

- And that is because I know this is probably the biggest hindrance to most of us experiencing personal renewal.

- We allow many things to control us – sin, our schedules, our friends, our culture, but for some reason we have trouble allowing God to control us.

- If we just cut to the chase here, we need to recognize that someone or something is going to control our minds – and it is up to us to decide who or what it will be.

- There are really only two choices – our sinful nature or God.

- If your sinful nature controls your mind, there is death. But if the Holy Spirit controls your mind, there is life and peace. – Romans 8:6

- Notice the contrast here – it is between the sinful nature and the Holy Spirit – the first leads to spiritual death, the second to life and peace.

- Until I surrender control of my mind over to the Holy Spirit I will not be able to possess the mind of Christ in all of its fullness.

- This mind of Christ that the Bible talks about is something that seems to move in and out of our possession in varying degrees.

- Let’s put it this way: When I am fully surrendered to God I am able to discern His will and His way with clarity and precision.

- When I am not fully surrendered to God, the things of God are no longer clear to me, and I am not able to understand His will for my life, and might even begin questioning God’s intentions for me and the world in which I live.

- Many of us live life trying to live right dab in the center of this.

- We allow our sinful nature to control us most of the week, and let God take over on Sundays or when we’re at some type of Christian function.

- But I cannot hope to obtain and continuously possess the mind of Jesus Christ on a part-time basis – if that is the case I will always be torn between having my way and letting God have His way.

[- (God) cannot bless us unless he has us. When we try to keep within us an area that is our own, we try to keep an area of death. Therefore, in love, He claims all. There's no bargaining with Him. – C.S. Lewis, “The Weight of Glory”]

- If I am going to exist in the heavenly realms, thinking heavenly thoughts, and being able to discern the heavenly mind of God, I must give up the sinful nature which is controlling me – I do that, when I let go and let God take over.

3. I NEED TO WAGE WAR WITH EVIL

- Some in our modern culture have trouble accepting the fact that there really is a Satan, and that there really is a demonic army that exists in the unseen world.

- I even hear Christians sometimes making light of these things as if they are too sophisticated to take such a view of the supernatural world.

- Those who deny these beings exist are the most vulnerable to their attacks.

- The most volatile battle zone in which Satan wages war is the battlefield of the mind – the last thing that he wants is for us to possess the mind of Jesus Christ.

- He attacks us through images that make us lust for sex, power, and money.

- He attacks us through words that cause us to doubt the God we worship.

- He attacks us through circumstances that leave us vulnerable and weak.

- Sometimes his attacks are successful and cause us to give in to his purposes.

- …there is another law at work within me that is at war with my mind. This law wins the fight and makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin? Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. So you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God's law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin. – Romans 7:23-25

- Paul describes his internal struggle as a “war with my mind.”

- It is a war that we are all too familiar with – but what can we do? How can we overcome? How can we win when Satan is bombarding us?

- Let me give you a simple strategy – when a sexual image, or lust, or greed of some kind enters into your mind, do not give in for even five seconds before mounting a counterattack with the mind.

- I mean that! Five seconds – In the first two seconds we shout, "No! Get out of my head!" In the next two seconds we cry out: "O God, in the name of Jesus, help me. Save me now. I am yours."

- Good beginning – But then the real battle begins – This is a mind war.

- The absolute necessity is to get the image and the impulse out of our mind – How?

- Get a counter-image into the mind – Fight, Push, Strike, Don't ease up.

- It must be an image that is so powerful that the other image cannot survive.

- For example, have you ever in the first five seconds of temptation, demanded of your mind that it look steadfastly at the crucified form of Jesus Christ?

- I’m going to use an example here with men in mind, but you women can apply your own areas of mind attack in its place.

- Men, let’s say you have just seen a peek-a-boo blouse inviting further fantasy.

- You have five seconds. "No! Get out of my mind! God help me!"

- Now, immediately, demand of your mind—you can do this by the Spirit.

- Demand of your mind to fix its gaze on Christ on the cross.

- Use all your fantasizing power to see his lacerated back.

- Thirty-nine lashes left little flesh intact.

- He heaves with his breath up and down against the rough vertical beam of the cross – Each breath puts splinters into the lacerations.

- The Lord gasps – From time to time he screams out with intolerable pain.

- He tries to pull away from the wood and the massive spikes through his wrist rip into the nerve endings and he screams again with agony and pushes up with his feet to give some relief to his wrists.

- But the bones and nerves in his pierced feet crush against each other with anguish and he screams again.

- There is no relief – His throat is raw from screaming and thirst.

- He loses his breath and thinks he is suffocating, and suddenly his body involuntarily gasps for air and all the injuries unite in pain.

- In torment, he forgets about the crown of two-inch thorns and throws his head back in desperation, only to hit one of the thorns perpendicular against the cross beam and drive it half an inch into his skull.

- His voice reaches a soprano pitch of pain and sobs break over his pain-wracked body as every cry brings more and more pain.

- Now, I am not thinking about the blouse any more – I am at Calvary.

- And I’m winning the spiritual battle because through God’s help I’ve replaced the sinful image in my mind, with the image of the one who defeated sin on my behalf.

THE OUTCOME: PERSONAL RENEWAL

- This is what we’ve been talking about for three weeks now – when we are filled with the Holy Spirit, and we are in agreement with God’s Vision, and are in possession of the Mind of Christ, we will experience personal renewal at a level we have never even imagined before.

- And what is the result? Three things I’m going to give you very quickly.

1. SATAN IS DEFEATED

- Through personal renewal, relying on God’s power, I can completely and utterly destroy the work of Satan in my life.

- That doesn’t mean I won’t be tempted, but the temptation will not be given into because I am now experiencing something much greater than anything Satan has to offer me.

2. GUILT IS REMOVED

- Keep me from deliberate sins! Don't let them control me. Then I will be free of guilt and innocent of great sin. – Psalms 19:13

- How would it feel to go through life with absolutely no guilt on your conscience?

- We can know exactly what it feels like when we have been renewed.

- God promises us that not only will every sin be wiped from our record, but that the guilt will go out the door right along with it.

3. GOD’S WILL IS DISCERNED

- The closer I walk with God, the more I know God, the more I know God, the better I understand God, the better I understand God, the more I think like God, and the more I think like God, the more able I am to discern His will.

WITH THE MIND OF CHRIST I AM FREE TO BE THE PERSON GOD CREATED ME TO BE

I am praying for all, I thank God for that free sample, I would be done so late it is now 3a.m. Sunday morning, so you know I am so sick I could actually hurt myself staying up all night, plus not eating, because if I eat I will fall asleep and I will end up with bumps all over my forehead, from crashing my head down on the keyboard, which is no good for my overall health. I almost gave up on the prayer ministry and I took a stand with the Lord and said to myself who is more important, these people that need prayer or should I just sit and think about my own afflictions, you see that is where we all get tricked and separated, it is evil that tricks and lies to us and makes us think that we don’t have any communication with God at all. Or evil makes us think our words are not good enough. Well I have learned to press on to the upward call of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. And stand tall against the enemy. Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, for you are the one I praise. (Jer. 17:14) You can always count on the Lord, but we have to give something in return, we have to believe in Him and have faith in Him, and have a Father -son relationship with Him. Those things are not hard; they are just examples of love, to love our creator and His Son, simple. Some people in this world just don’t know how simple it all is. “Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.” (Isa. 53:4-5) Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good (Rom: 12:21) “Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” (Isa 40:28-31) On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” (Matt. 9:12-13) Jesus is everything and he can heal you through the most darkest hour, you may think to yourself, I can’t take it anymore and that is when the most beautiful things happen, you have to take that step of faith! Don’t loose your faith because after the next step, after saying I can’t take it anymore, that is when we fall into sin and when we end up hurting ourselves. Think about it, it is those times when we thought we have given up, or it is all over, we end up doing or saying the wrong thing. When we really submit to God, and all that evil just vanishes. And everything around us just doesn’t seem so bad. “Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord's coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop and how patient he is for the autumn and spring rains. You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord's coming is near. Don't grumble against each other, brothers, or you will be judged. The Judge is standing at the door! (James 5:7-9)

Let us understand relationships, let us tell you a story, we have a mother and a daughter and a regular family, they all live in the country or on a farm or a place where there are few people, a basic small town, where the daughter grew up, and she wants to go to school or get a bigger job, or just move for an experience. So the daughter moves to the city, her mother wants to know everything that is going on, like what is new in her life, how is her new job, how is her apartment or where she lives, or how many new friends she made, the mother asks for some pictures of where she lives, and her friends and some pictures of herself so that she knows the daughter is healthy and happy. The mother wants to here about every secret, the good things or the bad or anything that is troubling the daughter’s heart. It is a sad thing when the parents feel their children slipping away from them. It happens to many families, once the children move things change, sometimes the whole family stays together as they all grow up together. Things change, people change, sometimes the children move far away, and the family remains separated for a life time. You see when children no longer communicate with their parents, or share their lives, the parents grieve and feel separated, or they miss their children.

So it is the same thing with God about His own children. How dear we are to Him. That is how much God loves us, so prayer is more than just for asking for things, it a sharing our life, and the deep insides, the hopes and dreams, wants and joys, with our heavenly Father.

And since I have learned this blessed secret, it has done wonders for my own eternal life. I have found out that I ought to talk about everything and freely take every desire or thought of my heart to God. God is the closest friend we will ever have, He is always with us no matter where we live. He wants us to literally pray about everything to Him. And this also means that I open all the doors of my heart, all the things that I may feel that may be hidden. Things I need to confess, or a feeling I need to discuss to our Father. He knows everything already, so why would I try to hide anything, I have learned to be completely open to Him, the thing is He wants us to tell Him everything, big or small, everything. He enjoys our company, He enjoys hearing from us, he wants to feel our hearts, and he wants to be able to help us. Don’t you feel good when someone asks you for a favor or a task that maybe only you can do? Don’t you feel good when someone comes to you and asks for your help and then you accomplish the task or a particular problem for them? You see this is what God wants, He wants to help us, He wants to hear our prayers, so the next time you feel that your prayer is so insignificant don’t hesitate, because God wants to here about it, He loves us, with so much unexplainable love. He wants to hear and feel all our thoughts. And even if I have a want, a desire that is not according to His will, should I not tell him about it? Should I not reunite my desires with His will? I have resolved before God that I will never want the things that I cannot talk about to God. And when I take things to Him, He cures the desires that are evil by helping me to declare them, and He also gives me a blessed confidence, that I have the right to ask of my heavenly Father for anything in the world that I need.

So my Christian bothers and sisters, do not shut God out of a single spot of your heart. Tell Him everything. Ask Him for exactly everything your heart desires. The principle is that God wants you to have everything you need. Unless it would harm you, or dishonor Him, He would certainly want you to have your heart’s desires. So pray for everything that you think you might need and don’t forget all the needs of the people that you know, people helping people through prayer, we help each other we love everyone and want to help everyone, meet God’s conditions and have a breakthrough. Or if you take a matter to God, and He shows you He does not want to give something to you, then ask Him to take away that desire, of which He does not approve, out of your heart. Ask Him for anything you want, or stop wanting it.

June 2, 2007

Gloria Copeland:

"GOD HAS YOUR MIRACLE ON HIS MIND"

What do you need from God today?

Stop and think about that for a moment. It's a serious question. Picture yourself the way you want to be, healthy and whole in every area of your life. That is the will of God for you, you know. 1 Thessalonians 5:23 says He desires you to be "preserved sound and complete [and found] blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah)" (Amplified Bible).

God wants you to be sound and complete. It's His perfect will for you to be whole, undamaged and intact--spirit, soul, and body--before Jesus returns. In light of that fact, let me ask you again: What changes would you need God to make for His will to be fulfilled in your life? What would it take for you to be whole?

It would take a miracle.

That may well be what you're thinking right now. If so, I am here to tell you God has one for you. He has as many miracles as you need. He is the God of the miraculous.

What's more, He is thinking about you today. That's amazing, isn't it? The fact that the Almighty God, the Creator of Heaven and earth, has you and me on His mind is almost more than we can comprehend. Yet we know it's true because the Psalmist says, "How precious it is, Lord, to realize that you are thinking about me constantly! I can't even count how many times a day your thoughts turn towards me. And when I waken in the morning, you are still thinking of me!" (Psalm 139:17-18, The Living Bible).

Just imagine that! When you woke up this morning, God was thinking about you. He was aware of your needs. He was mindful of the blessings He has laid up for you, and He was making plans to get them to you.

In other words, when you awoke this morning, God had your miracle on His mind.

Every Part Precious

I preach about healing a lot, and healing is wonderful. But sometimes you need more than healing, you need a miracle. A miracle is different. A miracle is something that is absolutely impossible apart from the supernatural working of God. It's something that cannot happen by natural means.

If you have a disease, you need healing. But if you have a part missing--if you were born without fingers or toes, for example, you need a miracle. For years, it's been prophesied that we will see those kinds of miracles again in the Body of Christ. It's been prophesied that we'll see all the miracles the early Church saw and even greater miracles than those. I sense in my heart that we're there!

I truly believe it. They might say, "Surely, you don't expect to see somebody grow a part on their body where there was no part before!"

Yes, I do. God has parts for people! The Bible says He made all of our parts before we were born, and we can easily believe that. Why is it so unthinkable that He could add another part at a later time if it's needed?

Just before the verses we read that tell of God's thoughts about us, Psalm 139 says:

"I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them" (verses 14-16).

According to those verses, God wrote down all your members (every part of you) in His book. And because God does all things well, He didn't write them down as broken or missing. He wrote them down as whole and intact.

My friend Billye Brim has revelation of that, so she speaks to her body according to those Scriptures. She says, "My parts are written in God's book. So, parts, I command you to be the way God designed you to be. I command you to be whole and complete in agreement with God's book. All my parts are intact with nothing missing, nothing broken. All the parts of my body function and work as they're designed. I receive what the Book says about me!"

You may not have thought God cared about your parts, but He does. Your parts are as important to Him as they are to you. He made them for you, and He wants you to have them the way He made them. We need to get that revelation, because God is ready to restore some parts. He wants to work miracles!

You might think this would be impossible and, naturally speaking, you'd be right. "With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible" (Matthew 19:26). "All things are possible to him that believeth" (Mark 9:23) so we need to start believing.

We need to start expecting the impossible!

It's Never Too Late

Of course, people with physical abnormalities or missing parts aren't the only ones who need miracles. Miracles are also needed when natural circumstances have gone on so long that it looks like it's too late for a turnaround. Abraham and Sarah needed that kind of miracle, for example. They needed a child for their lives to be whole and intact. Yet they were well past childbearing age when God told them He was going to give them one. They were about 100 years old.

No doubt, their natural thought was, Even if God did heal our barrenness, it's too late for us now. We're too old. That kind of thing can't happen this late in the game.

But God did it for them, didn't He? He proved that it's never too late for a miracle.

A friend of ours experienced a "never too late" kind of miracle in his family. His name was Justus Du Plessis and although he went home to be with the Lord a couple of years ago, he experienced some amazing things during his lifetime as a Pentecostal minister in South Africa. On one occasion, his father was desperately ill. In fact his father's death was so imminent that the doctor who came to see him went ahead and filled out his death certificate.

After the doctor left, the church members gathered around to pray and while they were praying, he was healed. Do you know what he did? He got up, took a shower, milked the cows and then walked to the doctor's house to return his death certificate.

Talk about a miracle coming late in the game! You know it's late when you have to take back your own death certificate!

Clearly with God, it's never too late for a miracle.

The Definitive Factor

Okay now, you may be thinking, if God wants to give me a miracle and I want to receive one--what's the problem? Why hasn't a miracle already taken place in my life?

For a miracle to get from Heaven to earth, a divine connection has to be made. Miracles aren't magic. They don't just happen--poof!--because God decides to wave His miracle wand one day. No, miracles primarily occur when people put themselves in position to receive them.

To find out how to position yourself for a miracle, you can study the miracles in the New Testament. As you do, you'll see patterns emerge. You will find certain elements were almost always involved when miracles happen.

The first of those elements is faith. Whenever a miracle takes place someone on earth is believing. It might be the person who needs the miracle. It might be the person who is ministering. It might be someone praying for the one who is in need. The situations may vary, but the fact remains that it is faith in God which connects the power of Heaven with the need on earth. For a miracle to happen, someone has to believe that God is willing and able to do it--and do it now.

Galatians 3:5 confirms that. There the Apostle Paul, rebuking the Galatians for their legalism, asks this question: "Does He Who supplies you with His marvelous [Holy] Spirit and works powerfully and miraculously among you do so on [the grounds of your doing] what the Law demands, or because of your believing...?" (The Amplified Bible).

The answer is obvious. God works miracles because we believe! We could look at one miracle after another and see that truth in action.

In Mark 5, when the woman with the incurable issue of blood receives her healing, Jesus says, "Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole" (verse 34).

In Mark 10, when blind Bartimaeus receives his sight, Jesus says, "thy faith hath made thee whole" (verse 52).

In Luke 17, when the leper is not only healed but his body parts are restored and made whole from the disease that had eaten them away, Jesus says, "thy faith hath made thee whole" (verse 19).

In Acts 3, when Peter and John heal the man who was crippled from birth, they give glory to the name of Jesus. And Peter says, "And His name through faith in His name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by Him hath given him this perfect soundness" (verse 16).

It's interesting to notice that the power of God isn't mentioned in most of those instances, just the faith of the people. I think that's because God's power and His willingness to heal and work miracles never changes. The variable is people's faith. Faith is the definitive factor. Just Do It

As important as faith is, however, that alone won't get the whole job done. You can't just sit around believing on the inside and doing nothing on the outside. For faith to come alive you have to take action.

As James 2:26 says, "faith without works is dead."

You can see the connection between "doing" and "receiving" in the very first miracle Jesus ever performed. I especially like to think about this miracle because it was clearly not a miracle Jesus planned to do. It was one that was drawn out of Him by the person who most wanted that miracle--His own mother Mary. John 2 tells us that she and Jesus were attending a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the host ran out of wine. Mary looked to Jesus to do something about it. He told her His time to do such things had not yet come, but her faith was unshaken. She continued to expect a miracle, and she turned to the servants and said:

"'Whatever He says to you, do it.' Now there were six water-pots of stone standing there, as the Jewish custom of purification (ceremonial washing) demanded, holding twenty to thirty gallons a piece. Jesus said to them, 'Fill the water-pots with water.' So they filled them up to the brim. Then He said to them, 'Draw some out now and take it to the manager of the feast [to the one presiding, the superintendent of the banquet]'" (verses 5-8, The Amplified Bible).

What happened when the servants did what Jesus said?

They saw a miracle. The water was turned into wine!

It would serve us well to always remember what Mary told the servants that day. She said, "Whatever He tells you to do, do it." That's one of the major keys to receiving a miracle.

Whatever the Lord says to you--do it.

If the Lord tells you to get up and run, then get up and run. If He tells you to dance and shout, then dance and shout. One time a man attended Healing School, and during the meeting the Lord told him to run. He didn't want to run in the meeting, so he ran out the door--ran outside and ran around the block. If you think that's silly, think again, because he came back in healed!

Whatever the Lord tells you to do, do it!

If He tells you to repent of something, you repent. If He tells you to forgive someone, forgive them. He knows what you can do that will bring you into position to receive. So listen for His instructions, then obey!

Kick Doubt Out

Once you've believed and acted on your faith, refuse to doubt or fear. When the devil comes to you and says, You're not going to get that miracle. You don't deserve it. Remember how many times you've failed God. Refuse to entertain those doubt-producing thoughts. Instead, just answer him and say, "Bless the Lord, I don't get what I deserve. I get what Jesus bought for me. I get the mercy of God. I get a miracle!"

Every time I think about refusing doubt and fear, I think about the story of Jairus. Initially, when he came to Jesus, his daughter needed a healing. She was very sick, and Jairus believed if Jesus came and laid His hands on her, she would be healed. But before that healing could take place, Jairus' daughter died. Suddenly the girl didn't just need a healing, she needed a miracle.

Do you know that Jesus wasn't disturbed by that? He knew that God could work a miracle just as easily as He could perform a healing. So He said to Jairus, "Do not be seized with alarm and struck with fear; only keep on believing" (Mark 5:36, The Amplified Bible). We know that this worked because the little girl was raised up whole.

That's a good word for all of us who are positioning ourselves for a miracle. No matter what the devil says, no matter what our circumstances may say, no matter what our natural senses might try to tell us--if we'll refuse to doubt, refuse to fear, and keep on believing God, our miracle will surely come!

Gloria Copeland

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

Newark, TX

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Candle-light Prayer

1.Susan Jones a blessing of emails and cards and movies and still cards. She has been the most help with prayer and emails, with love and care.

2.Johan & Esther, with children Anneke, Jolene, and baby Simeon- Deo Valente Mission South Africa. Johan has blessed me over and over with emails. And he is still blessing me with hope.

3.Marcella- Living Waters Disciples Prayer Ministry

4.Willy and Liz- Local Best friends !

5.Karen Cookson Local Elder Region 2

6.Walter Regional Elder Region 2

7.Bishop Alicea Region 2

8.Senior Pastor Fred and Suzanne- Kansas

9.Eric Lewis and wife-California

10.Tony Z. and his wife

11.Larry- Bishop

12.Fred and Shirl Nero

13.Hugh Keith wife and family- California

14.Darla Izzo and children – California

15.Keith Ratclif -Amarillo, Texas-Good Friend

16.Bishop Director Joaquim Kalala and his wife- TCM –Angola, Africa. A special thank-you is in order for all the help Joaquim has and will do for this Church.

17.Lillian Beal - Minister- Friend

18.Bishop Director Paul- TCM- wife Mercy, kids- Lesly, Hepzy, Belsy (Pastor: Salem Voice Ministries) India

19.Joanna- Prayer partner and Secretary for TCM

20.Randy - Prayer partner for over 3 years also

21.Bishop Director Vijay - TCM- India

22.Bishop Director Jacob and wife Daisy TCM-Andamam & Nicobar Islands.

23.Elena Ramirez- artist, poet, painter, (prayer cards for the needy)

24.Jeff Gale- Director owner- Spiritual Warfare Prayer Warriors-

25.Jan Lyall- and family SWPW-Australia

26.Janel Kobylanski-SWPW –Australia

27.Bishop Shawn Chamberlain- www.rootsandwings.org

28.Scott and Eileen- Baby Ministry- Virginia Beach

29.Mike from Mikes Prayer friends www.prayerfriends.org

30.Columbus Murphy- prayer partner 3 years- Chicago, Ill.

31.Robert and Judith- FBC-Florida-Orchestra partners for FBC

32.Larry and his wife. FBC

33.Kathy, Jimmy, Donna FBC

34.Pastor Bill, Pastor Dan, FBC

35.Mike and wife Joe, Larry and wife, Beth and husband-FBC

36.Lenny and his wife

37.Dr. K.P. Yohannan founder Gospel of Asia plus prayer for the one in danger.

38.Amy- Monastery- California

39.Phillip and Marie Hardgraves-Florid

40.Carol and the staff and all the workers and agents and repair people

41.Mr. and Mrs. Sakii and their two sons.

42.Alexander- In the middle of India alone

43.Debbie and her son Aaron- Pennsylvania, prayers for Aaron and his release.

44.Kim and Kevin who are prayer warriors, Local

45.Brett - best surgeon in Hilo

46.Herbert , Mr. Kirby of Hilo

47.Pastor George- and his wife plus his children plus the whole congregation.

48.Pastor Rob and Susie- and the congregation, and all the people that helped me and prayed for me.

49.Shiigi Drug- Shannon Hashiro my good friend, understanding and smart and knows her job. Plus she has that special care, full of compassion.

50.Annette- cares for me, and always asks if I am doing any better.

51.Sherry- Mel- Michael-friends that care

52.Dr. Conner, is probably my closest friend, and prayer partner, that truly cares about my life. Mother Ethel (Dr. Conner’s Mom) all of us have been in prayer for her to get completely healed and now she does not have to use the hospital machine as much. So we do see action and improvement, from our Lord.

53.The new girls Blair and Stephanie- Allen who I knew for a few years is gone.

54.My step sister Barbara who has lupus and she is having all kinds of problems with her stomach and her throat and we need prayer for her son and husband.

55.my mom, Someday she will be saved, and when she is, she will be guided by the Holy Spirit not all the other entities of this world.

56.Mark, Lil, Gary, Glen, Gail and their husband and wives and children. Uncle Aunt and cousins from my mothers side.

57.my little brother, his wife and kids plus my Dad and Judy, someday God will open the doors for my Dad to speak to me, and care about how sick I really am, and Judy my step-mother will someday love me again.

58.other step sister Debbie and her husband Paul, They didn’t even want to see me when I was so close but that was a long time ago, I still love all my family, I wonder if some of my family loves me as much as I love them.

59.Sis Shanna- Missionary (Belovedservant) has like 5 ministries the links are on the bible creed page.

60.Debora Bates from Prim ministry and prayer, she just sent me the story about the cancer and to pray for a miracle.

61.Peter Samuel, missionary, traveler, preacher

62.San Dee Harding, prayer warrior

63.Rebecca- Florida- Blessed, one of the nicest people I ever met but she had went through much longsuffering, and she helped me more then many people. She took care of my cat for the certain time limit. Plus was a good friend.

64.Terry and his wife and children- Florida He was a preacher but I saw a change in him and he would not believe the truth, someday he will see that I was right.

65.Kenney his kids his wife Gladis-Florida He was my best friend and we worked together hand and hand for free, helping to feed the hungry.

66.Pastor Kenneth and Mary-Kenya, Africa Their ministry is one of the most active with God and the spirit.

67.Kurt Showers and his daughter Courtney, hopefully they got back together.

68.Cindy, Tina, and Larry- Pink Elephant now that the store is not there anymore, but God will let me see them again.

69.Barbara at the sally shop, Salvation Army a good friend.

70.Deek- Sonny-New Girl and Guy- Salvation Army

71.Helping Hands- Goodwill- Everyone that works there, and they are all are from St. Joe’s church.

72.My buddy in the old antique shop, next to the sally shop on Kam ave.

73.Evangelical Free Church of America.-Everyone-Holly Fann

74.Mary and Jay, from His Will Ministries, Wyoming

75.Craig and Linda Hanson- “Best Friends” and 3 Children

76.Trevor Steel- Florida, who had all his friends write me from all over the world to give me hope.

77.Desiree from the Netherlands, tried to help but it seems nothing came about from it.

78. We can't forget Lynne our Treasurer

79. Norm, Carol, David, my Japanese lady that helps, and everyone else that works there at the store.

80. We can't forget our family Chick, who is like my bother, Plus his close friends Jim and Yolanda