September 19, 2007 - Wednesday
Help for our unbelief...
Hi folks!
I just have to share this with you all! I was listening this a.m. to Gary Carpenter's
series on Dominion, more specifically the lesson called "Practical Help in Believing".
This is not word for word what he taught, but a "mini-study", if you will.
Anything that is not a numbered point or a scripture, are my ramblings...not Gary's words.
4 Points I want to Share... (with Scriptures, not necessarily given in the lesson):
1) Gather God's Word to you! The Scriptures, as well as prophecies
...the Words directly imparted to you by the Holy Spirit by prophetic
utterance.
1 Timothy 4:13-16
(Amplified)
13 Till I come, devote yourself to [public and private] reading, to exhortation (preaching and personal appeals), and to teaching and instilling doctrine.
14 Do not neglect the gift which is in you, [that special inward endowment] which was directly imparted to you [by the Holy Spirit] by prophetic utterance when the elders laid their hands upon you [at your ordination].
15 Practice and cultivate and meditate upon these duties; throw yourself wholly into them [as your ministry], so that your progress may be evident to everybody.
16 Look well to yourself [to your own personality] and to [your] teaching; persevere in these things [hold to them], for by so doing you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
2) Write down the vision.
Habakkuk 2:2-3
2 And the Lord answered me and said, Write the vision and engrave it so plainly upon tablets that everyone who passes may (be able to) read (it easily and quickly) as he hastens by.
3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time and it hastens to the end (fulfillment); it will not deceive or disappoint. Though it tarry, wait (earnestly) for it, because it will surely come; It will not be behindhand on its appointed day.
3) Meditate on both the Logos and the Rhema Word! Give yourself wholly to them...when you sit down, when you rise up...
Deuteronomy 6:5-9
5 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your [mind and] heart and with your entire being and with all your might.
6And these words which I am commanding you this day shall be [first] in your [own] minds and hearts; [then]
7You shall whet and sharpen them so as to make them penetrate, and teach and impress them diligently upon the [minds and] hearts of your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up.
8And you shall bind them as a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets (forehead bands) between your eyes.
9And you shall write them upon the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
and then I had to put these in for good measure...
10And when the Lord your God brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you, with great and goodly cities which you did not build,
11And houses full of all good things which you did not fill, and cisterns hewn out which you did not hew, and vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, and when you eat and are full,
When I read 10 and 11...God gave me a vision of walking through those vineyards totally worthy to freely enjoy and pleasure in them even though I had nothing to do with growing them! It was a SWEET vision! I wish I could show it to you!
4) Imagine it until it's so real in your mind that you see it, say it, sense it...until it touches your very being and comes alive in you!
2 Corinthians 10:5 (KJV, because I like the word imagination here)
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ...
The verses 3&4 had said,
3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
You have an enemy who wants to steal the Word from you...he wants you helpless and hopeless. He does not want you to see the fulfullment of the promises of God for your life. He wants you sick and weak.
God, Who loves us with an everlasting love, and Who wants us RESTORED and WHOLE and IN FELLOWSHIP with Him, has given us the way to receive the blessings and fullness that He has already provided for us. As we do the things stated above, we will BECOME all He wants us to be and we will WATCH as His plan unfolds...His Kingdom COME...(in us now and in its fullness to come).
This is by no means an exact representation of all that was taught, but my impressions of what I heard this morning.
I hope it blesses you, as it did me!
Grace & Peace,
Teresa
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