WHAT DO WE KNOW?

     

                              

        2 Peter 1:2 Grace and Peace be multiplied unto you through the Knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,     

King James Version

(emphasis mine)

             I get home from school, drop my bookbag by the couch, set my phone on the table and begin to prepare my lunch. About the time I start frying my eggs, my girlfriend calls. I walk toward the phone, pick it up and, amongst my roommates and their friends, I say, "HEY Woman." The reaction of the crowd varies. Those who know me begin to laugh.  Those who don’t know me look at one another and get a little uncomfortable; perhaps assuming I’m very upset with my girlfriend and completely disrespecting her.   Once they catch on with the others that this is more a flirtatious word of endearment, the comfort level begins to rise again.
          My example, although silly, has a very good point to it. Once you KNOW someone, things no longer have to be explained in detail. Everyone can bring to mind that one person or several people that they just KNOW and when anyone else enters in on the conversation, they may be completely lost.  My brother and I have a completely different language than I share with any other person. When people enter in on one of our conversations, it’s not long until we get some eye-rolling, then a few unexplainable questions, until, finally, it’s back to just us. But I KNOW my brother and he KNOWS me.  For 19 years we have been developing this language.
         We often “look” at God as words on a page. The tone is constant and the meaning is always direct as we see it. When you don’t KNOW someone, you will relate what you hear to your own understanding but not the meaning of that individual. I, myself, use to do this with God constantly.  I would read a verse and analyze it according to what I would mean if I had said that. But, once I began to KNOW God through his word, I related what he said; first, to who he is and then, His meaning - not mine. This impacted my relationship in such a magnificent way because scriptures that use to not make sense suddenly became clear because I KNOW Jesus.  I also know my interpretation of the scripture couldn’t possibly be right because it didn’t line up with who HE is.
        This, just as any other relationship, was a process. It’s not hard to know Him; he reveals himself throughout the whole Bible. However, the good news is that, although it’s a great thing to do, you do not have to read the Bible Genesis to Revelation before you KNOW Him. There are key verses and principals that I base my relationship of knowing God through and the Lord has laid on my heart to share some with you. However, understand that I could tell you how incredible a movie is or Disney World is, but until you go and experience it for yourself, you will never know for yourself.

           Many people tend to make God very difficult to understand and mysterious. But in Matthew 13:11 Jesus said, “Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.” God is only mysterious to the world. We, as Christians should know him and reveal him to the world. Therefore, I know God on a very simple level, I know God is Love; or Agape - complete unconditional love.  I know God is good and compassionate and if I don’t see that in a verse I’m reading, then it’s me who is misunderstanding God’s meaning or motive.
3 John 1:2 says ^2”Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.”
Verse 4 continues:
^4”I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.”
 When I see these verses, I see the simple goodness of our Loving God:
(1)        I see that God desires at all times for me to be prosperous and healed.
(2)        I see that it is not God who puts sickness and disease on someone and takes away their prosperity.  How foolish would it be to assume the same God that desires prosperity and health in our life to be the same God that takes it away from us? Right now, I desire for my brother to see his prosperity manifested.  Now, why would I go to his work and put in complaint after complaint with the manager and tell him all my brother’s shortcomings?  Then, when he gets fired say, “You’ll thank me later, Houston; you weren’t ready.   I desired your prosperity more than you; but as much as it hurts me, it’s best you don’t have that abundance right now.”  
            Another example would be when, as we are praying and desiring the healing for someone, somehow we believe that God isn’t as good and loving as us. That possibly he has a purpose for them in their wheelchair because they are better off sharing God’s love under those conditions rather than standing up and proclaiming their healing for Christ. Even furthermore, if they should die, it’s because God “needed them” in Heaven because he can’t handle it up there by himself, maybe things are getting a little out of hand.
            I’m telling you – God’s desire for our health and prosperity is greater than ours.
(3)        I see a good God who gave man free will and although I can’t explain completely why people are sick (even though I have a pretty good idea) or why Christians are on Welfare, I know it’s not God.  That is not his desire.  Man messed up in the Garden of Eden, not God.   He's not the one who ate the forbidden fruit.
(4)        I also know God is excited and has joy when I’m walking in truth, because if I KNOW the truth, I KNOW him and if I KNOW him, I discover he is Love.  His Grace is sufficient and much, much more. The more I begin to KNOW God, the more I want to KNOW him.  He only gets better and better.
      You see, God’s love and goodness are unreal. Whenever I read something, I read it with the mindset, “When I read this, I’ll read it with the most Love, the most Grace, the best Goodness and the most Peace; then multiply that by 100 and realize I’m not even denting the surface of God’s Goodness and Love.”
3 John 1:11 says
 ^11”Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.”
I’m pretty sure God has seen himself. He is a Good God and every good gift come from him.  A house divided against itself cannot stand.  Therefore, if God is good, that’s all he is.  He isn’t evil as well.
      It’s to my knowledge that John KNEW God pretty well.  He was still man, but he had great KNOWLEDGE of Christ. So, it’s wise to discover what John knew of him. God revealed to me through 1 John many things that we know of God and that we know about ourselves as Christians and who we are. I love sharing what God has revealed to me, but there are times when you should allow the Holy Spirit to minister to you through the verses and not me.  These verses speak for themselves.

1 John 2:29  If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.”

1 John 3:5     ^”And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.”

1 John 3:24  ^“And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.”

 1 John 4:13  “Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.”

 1 John 4:16  “And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.”
 1 John 5:13  “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.  ¹⁴And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:  ¹⁵And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.”

1 John 5:18  “We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.”

1 John 5:19  “And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.”

1 John 5:20  “And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.”

1 John 2:20   “But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.”

God truly is incredible and I can promise you’ll never be sorry for KNOWING him. You don’t have to quit your job and your life and just read the Bible; you just simply have to open yourself up and allow the Holy Spirit to reveal himself to you. Remember, he is a mystery to the world, but not to you or me.
I love you.  God bless and may His grace and peace be multiplied to you through the KNOWLEDGE of God, and of Jesus our Lord.

The Beauty In Knowing GOD

           I walk in my room I shut the door turn on some hillsong praise and worship then i begin to dive into the word and I read across a scripture making God sound like Rambo coming to destroy the earth. I take a look see im in the New testament witht eh new covenant all sins and wrath upon Jesus no longer about me but it sure sounded like it. But I have bagan to know God and My God is LOVE therefore i must be reading it wrong, with a simple, "God please show me your love in this scripture and what you truly meant." Within a few minutes of soaking in Gods LOve i read it again, ahhhh there it is, it turns out this same scripture that seems loveless and condemning has more Love behind it then we can begin to realize. Thats the beauty in Knowing God.

        You know God isnt hard to figure out he says he is Love. And if we cant figure him out he gave us a hint called the bible and i hope you sense the sarcasm because the bible is like having the key to everything youll ever need in life and how to be strong in this world. I like to look at the bible as a book of seeds that I plant in my life im like a very prosperous farmer I plant righteousness, prosperity, healing, peace, Joy, ministering to others . Im just sowing and sowing and sowing in to my life. And these seeds are beggining to not just sprout but flourish and thrive and I dont by any means have all my ducks in a row but eh ones i do have in line are pretty straight. Were so impatient we wanna read a scripture and bame look I raised them from the dead. But if we begin to plant the seeds now and water them and take care of them in not to long your gonna have some pretty fancy fruit in your Garden.
         I heard a long time ago that theres a certain amount of money you can put in a savings account around 20 dollars a week for 20 years and in savings account and through interest you can have a million dollars, when i heard this i thought thats nothing i make that in a hour someitmes delivering Pizza. But the point is you have to begin to sow and sow and sow and then the abundance comes in a very short 20 years. It was very little money only 20$ not 1,000 but over time just a little bit continually insilled into your spiritual account will give you a million dollars. Now imagine if you were puttin in 200$ how much faster it would grow. Now dont quote me on this im sure im not exact but you see my point.
          A farmer doesnt wait the day before a harvest to plant his seed. A good Farmer anyway. Romans 10:17 says this, 
¹⁷So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
I use to believe that like a magic formula the more I was reading my bible my faith was growing and growing. And Then God revealed the fact that i was reading, thats just works, it was that I was beggining to know God on a personal level. Faith is just Trust in the goodness of God, how can you trust someone if you dont really know them. I know theres only a few people i entirely trust in the natural and those people are the people that i truly know. For my personal life there is principal verses i stand on that if how i perceive something doesnt line up with it then chances are im not perceiving it right or its just simply wrong, one verse is James 1:17
¹⁷Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

         This is an incredible verse because it very simple God good Devil BAd, and James says there is no variableness so God doesnt change or vary he is constantly at all times good. James 3:11 says
Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring? [NIV]. So if God is everything good comes from God then bad stuff doesnt come from God it must come from a completely different source so its either satan or ourselves but not God amen![James 1:13]Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
        In discovering God i have discovered his Love because he is Love, we learned that all through 1 John 4. We need to understand that God is always for us, and who can be against us then , its his will that your always healed always prosperous, always in perfect peace and so much more. But we may know it but we dont KNOW it until we discover his uncoditional Love through his word then it becomes reality to our SOUL AND SPIRIT and we can have TRUST in the GOODNESS OF GOD.

          This was simply an introduction to knowing God i Hope it Got you excited because the next teaching will be on discovering Gods will for our lifes and giving you great scriptures to stand on in Ephesians and 1 JOhn and Hebrews and just all over the Love of God is his word we just have to begin to KNOW it for ourselves. Next lesson I will give you insight to what JOhn and Paul knew and that the prayed we would know, and a very Important and simple KEY to knowing GOD best.

I AM

For I AM not come to call the righteous, but sinners unto repentance. ( Luke 5:32)

but after I AM risen again, I will go before you into Galilee. (Matthew 26:32)

I AM with you always, [even] unto the end of the world. Amen. (Matthew 28:20)

but I AM among you as he that serveth. (Luke 22:27)

I AM the bread of life. (John 6:35)

For I AM from him, and he hath sent me. (John 7:29)

I AM the light of the World. (John 8:12)

I AM not of this world. (John 8:23)

I AM in the world. (John 9:5)

I AM come that they might have life, and that they might have [it] more abundantly. ( John 10:10)

I AM the resurrection, and the life. (John 11:25)

I AM with you. (John 13:33)

I AM the way, the truth, and the life; no man cometh unto the father, but by me. (John 14:6)

I AM in the father, and the father in me. (John 14:11)

I AM ( John 18:5)

But who say ye that I AM? (Matthew 16:15)


* KJV EMPHASIS MINE

THis is something that God layed on my heart i simply looked up all the times it said I am, and didnt even get through a quarter of them by the time I found all these. Leave me a comment of your favorite I AM verse in the bible so i can update it and add it to the list. Your comments and support speak to me more then you know. IT declares to me the truth in Gods work through me and always sets me on fire. I recently got the following email from someone and it  really really meant a lot to me. 

 Just wanted to say I've enjoyed reading your blogs and I am telling others about it as well. Keep it up. God bless.

I cant tell you how much that simple email ministered to me and built me up. Be sure if you know a great I AM verse to drop me an email or comment. God bless you all I love you and be blessed to be a blessing.

1 John 4 Part III (Hindrances of Gods love through you)

        This is a continuation of other postings titled 1 John 4 part 1 and 1 John 4 part II. If you have not read the other two postings i would encourage you to do so, so you know where we are at in Gods Love.

        There is one commandment in the new testament that I have found, that is 1 John 4:21
 ²¹And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

and  also Galatians 5:14 says,
¹⁴For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

     Now some of you I know are thinking to yourself you got off easy because you dont have a brother and you dont live next to anybody so this doesnt apply to you. Well I think we all understand that this term neighbor and brother is a much wider scope then a family member or the family next store. But the blessing in these two verses is that God never gives us a task he didnt already equip us for. We are complete in HIM amen ( col 2:10).

    Now God wants me to LOVE hes given me the LOVE to love, so how come im not loving? is my lover broke? No because God is your LOVE but if you can recall God asked us to

 ⁸Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give (Matthew 10:8). He asked us to lay our hands on the sick and they shall recover (Mark 16:18). He also said whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith (Mark 11:23). And again if God asked us to do something or told us we could He has already provided and equiped us. The healing power and ability to mkove mountains and raise dead is inside of us. But God has blessed us with a free will. We have the healing power of God on the inside of us I can show you in the bible and i Have seen absolutely great miracles in my lifes and others but I have not seen 100% manifestation, WHY? I dont completely understand it there are many things I do know such as unbelief, I know we have to take our authority, and I know my faith lies with Jesus Christ and not of my own works, so I havent arrived but I have left. But just the same as God has given us Love and provided the ability for us to Love all we have to do is allow it to operate through us, we have a free will to choose to Love and Not to Love. Thats why the Lord asked us or commanded us to Love because its not an automatic thing because he has left it up to us.

      But in a world in such need of Love I think its so important the we as Christians display Gods Love at all times. The greatest gift was human ability to Love, every person has the desire to be loved and want to love despite what some may say, because thats the way we were created, so the world seeks to fulfill it with money, sex, drugs, cars and still at the end of the day there desire is not fulfilled. People I couldnt imagine one day without the fulfillment of Gods love, can you imagine how the lost must feel. When the World see's Gods Love in you they will see something they have never seen before true Love and they will seek to discover how to obtain such a fulfilling Love, but first we have to show the World Gods love, and sadly more christians are runnning people off the road, being rude to their waitress, easily letting there emotions tear down others. So God has layed on my heart to unveil some of these hindrances to Displaying Gods Love through you.

  (1)   In 1 John 4:1-6 we are warned of false teachers and prophets and men of God. Verse 1 says
¹Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Then verse 7-21 is completely about Gods complete and amazing Love and how his LOve dwells in us and we in HIM. It is to my understanding that John was warning us of ministers of the "gospel" whose teachings did not display a similar message of the complete love of God. So to me that is by far the number one hindrance to displaying Gods love, we only Love because he first loved us ( verse 19). How are we to display Gods Love if we dont even Know Gods love for ourselves. Ignorance of Gods Love will easily inable us to show the world his love.

   (2) Galatians 5:16 says  ¹⁶This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

When you hear lust of the flesh you think of the obvious ones, sexual lust, money, adultery, murder, and drunkiness, but the lust of the flesh include hatred, strife, unforgiveness. That is why in verse 20-21 say

²⁰If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

 ²¹And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

Because Hate is a lust of the flesh and will confuse our spirit. We are now new creatures in christ and Full of the Love of God just completely Loving creatures and hatred and love should not dwell among eachother they are darkness and light so it hindures are ability to display love because we are now dealoing in the flesh. Because I want you to remeber something this is on Hinduring Gods love through you not Gods Love, Gods Love is complete and Complete in you because he is the same today and Always. It would almost be like this imagine if you had a safety deposit box filled with millions of dollars you had the key you had everything you were needed, in fact you had it sitting right in front of you all you have to do is open it and be set for life but an employee at the bank makes a rude comment towards you so you pull the key out of the box and walk over and give them a peace of your mind and never open that box full of money, instead of opening the box inspite of the comment and saying you know what Ive been blessed with so much I have more then enough to last me my family and there family here you go take a few million God bless you and changing your life forever. I know this story seems a bit foolish in the natural but christians do it everyday when they hoard up there love and mask it with hatred.

           These two are the main two that God has revealed to me but I promise if i receive a word from the Lord regarding this issue I will be Quick to update the Post. But of main in importance is not of works but remain in Gods presence at all times remind yourself daily of the Love of God for he is Love and herin is our love made perfect. We are still on this earth and will by no means ever be perfect and our flesh will always come against our love, but praise God its not us but Christ within and he has already provided more then enough. Allow Gods Love to flow through you today and change someones life. And know that God Loves you and so do I god bless you all.

1 John 4 Part II

     Do not allow YOUR earthly circumstances keep you from receiving from the Lord today, Remember its not about you its about HIM, taste and see the Lord is good today, yesterday, and forever AMEN!!!!.


     ¹⁸There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.


This verse has been on my heart for years. Its one I knew and could quote but I could never fully understand it. When I read this for a while I thought maybe it applied to marriage, that if you had doubts of your spouse it wasnt love because love cast fear out. Then i thought maybe if people feared anything they werent made perfect in Gods love, somehow they were hindering it with sin in there life. I played many scenarios in my head of what this verse might mean, so a light went off and i thought I know How bout I ask the Lord the man who inspired that verse maybe just maybe he will know.

     He recently led me to the message Bible to help me understand it. Now i dont agree with everythig in the message bible because it was written by man, so obviously its not perfect in everything it says just as I am not perfect in everything I write but I belive its an awesome tool that if it Lines up with the original word of God and the Holy Spirit quickens you its an awesome tool in your understanding. Verse 17 and part of 18 say this
^17-18God is love. When we take up permanent residence in a life of love, we live in God and God lives in us. This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and mature in us, so that we're free of worry on Judgment Day—our standing in the world is identical with Christ's. There is no room in love for fear. Well-formed love banishes fear.

WOW if you didnt read this and get excited I want you to pray and ask the Lord to reveal it to you and read this again. My eyes were finally opened to the beauty of this verse. If the verse your reading doesnt display Gods incredible LOVE and Grace your probably not reading it right. This verse was never meant as a correction that if we fear then shape up get in line and start LOVING PERFECTLY. The two previous verses the end of verse 16 and beginning of 17 say this.

16...God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
 ¹⁷Herein is our love made perfect,
There is only one perfect Love and that is GOD. When oil is poured in a cup then followed by water the oil and the water will never mix in fact if the water continues to flow into the cup the oil will eventually flow out of the cup and you will be left with nothing but a clean glass of water. God is our perfect Love. I love how it says our standing in the world is identical with Christ's. Gods our perfect Love for us and in him is no room for fear.
          If your not getting excited let me explain it to you like this, ive never ever once worried that My earthly father would provide for me care for me and Love me. Because he is my dad and LOves me enough to provide care for me and wipe away any fear of monsters in my room. True story when i was only about five a local gang yelled at me and my mom while walking close to the street. MY dad took me drove around until he found this Gang in their convertable and did the Godly thing and told them if they ever said a word to us again he would kill them. Well there was probably 7 or 8 of them but they all apologized to me and I was never afraid cause i was with my dad and i knew everything was alright he wouldnt let nothing happen to me.
        But how much more does our father which is in heaven LOVE US and will provide for us and protect us and wont let nothing happen to us. When you become born again God dwells in you and theres no place for fear. Any fear you may have today its as simple as this YOU have the perfected love of GOD inside and as your Daddy he wouldnt let anyting happen to one of his little ones dont focus on the earthly circumstances focus on his LOVE and i promise you cant go wrong cause he will never let you down.