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Right Words will guarantee a Successful Year 2014

12/30/2013

Words contain thoughts that shape our communication and behavior, and ultimately our future. What are right words? They are God’s words. Psalm 33:4 declares, “For the word of the Lord is right; and all his works are done in truth.” They come to us through the Holy Spirit who came from Heaven. He is the Spirit of Truth. One of His major Ministries is to dwell inside our hearts and teach us words from Heaven. (St. John 14:26) He brings health and wealth with Him through words and deposits them within us through teaching. Therefore, for success in 2014, we must submit our hearts to Him, allowing Him to deposit new, good words there for us to speak, replacing old evil ones. Proverbs 16:23 declares, “The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips.” The Holy Spirit trains our mouth to talk Heavenly talk in a Heavenly manner. No arguing or cursing comes from Him. He does not teach us to murmur or complain. He teaches us Faith. Faith says what God has declared, not what our situations dictate.

The major focus of the Spirit’s training is our mouth. The tongue is unruly; it has to be trained to speak only good things. We must be disciplined by Him to keep our tongue from evil and our lips from speaking guile or deceit. Psalm 34:12 declares, “What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.” Our words can tear people down emotionally or build them up. We are to allow no corrupt communication to proceed out of our mouth, but only good words that will build up or encourage those who hear them. (Ephesians 4:28) Evil speaking produces destructive fruit that is eaten by our soul. This keeps it in a damaged state. In such a state, it cannot prosper. The heart of the wise must teach the mouth to speak correctly to bring restoration to the soul.

We must always use pleasant words in our communications with others to prosper our soul. III John 2 declares, “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. As we daily talk only good, pleasant words that the Holy Spirit teaches, we literally create spiritual Fruit that is transmitted to our soul which causes it to prosper. Proverbs 16:24 declares, “Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.” As our soul daily receives sweetness from the Spirit’s pleasant words that we speak, it prospers. Then we are certain to experience God’s best.

This year, determine to submit to the Holy Spirit and practice speaking good, pleasant words in your communications with others, even with disagreeable individuals. You will certainly be blessed in the process. Psalm 103:5 declares, “Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s. God Bless.

From Pastor Leroy Rankinhttp://www.christabundantlifeministries.org

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The Work of Truth within us

12/22/2013

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God’s words are creative and Powerful. All of His work of creation was accomplished by His spoken words, which are truth. Psalm 33:4 declares, “For the word of the Lord is right; and all his works are done in truth.” Further, Psalm 33:6-7 declare, “By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.”

Out of His great love, God sent His creative, Powerful words to earth through Christ to accomplish His Will in the hearts and lives of humanity. He designed words to travel within us and release His Supernatural Power and bless us. Hebrews 4:12 declares, “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” God’s living words move throughout our spirit, our soul and our body and release Power that blesses us.

God's words enter our heart by our hearing and mentally processing them. They are designed to actively work there and accomplish a number of things that please God. First, they sanctify our heart from sin, fear and unbelief or natural thinking. These are dangerous hindrances to the flow of His blessings into our lives. St. John 17:17 declares, “Sanctify them through thy truth: by word is truth.” Then, they produce a clear vision of things that God has prepared to be released into our lives as gifts of His grace. Also, Truth empowers us to achieve the spiritual state of knowing Truth. It is the power of knowing that defeats every evil force that attacks us. Truth is greater than anything that exalts itself against it. Knowing Truth, then, allows us to effectively resist manifestations (sickness, disease, lack, turmoil, etc.) that Satan uses to exalt himself against the Knowledge of God.

Our mind focuses on God’s words and receives the thoughts that are contained in them. Then we begin the disciplined habit of talking, or professing His words. (Hebrews 10:23) Since they come from God who created all things; there is nothing created on earth that can overcome them. They are greater than the structure, laws and order of the natural realm. Finally, God’s Knowledge inside our heart causes us to expect to see the things that He has prepared to be released in our lives as gifts. Remember, God watches over His words that are active inside us and performs them causing His blessings to flow to us. God Bless.

From Pastor Leroy Rankin http://www.christabundantlifeministries.org

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We are Transformed in Christ by Learning

12/9/2013

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As Year 2014 begins, Believers in Christ must commit to allocating more quality time and effort to daily learning God’s words. We must not only hear them; we must learn what we have heard. The reason is that God’s words contain transforming Power. He has already prepared great blessings designed to make our lives abundant this year. Ephesians 1:3 declares, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.” Notice two things in this passage. First, God has already blessed us. Second, the blessings are spiritual in nature. Since God is a Spirit and His blessings are spiritual, He releases them upon spiritually minded individuals. To partake of them, He requires that we become spiritually minded. Romans 8:6-7 declare, “For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.” Only God’s words can renew our minds to operate in the manner that positions us to receive His blessings.

When we are “Born Again” by the Spirit of God, our spirit is regenerated, or made new in Christ. However, our mind does not change at that point; it remains carnal, or natural, tied to the natural world. It, too, must be made new. God’s requires that we be transformed by our mind’s renewal to partake of His blessings. (Romans 12:2)

Transformation to spiritual thinking is accomplished by mentally laboring in God’s word and learning it. Using our mind, we must focus on, acquire and process the Knowledge of God, which is Truth. Living Truth has been provided by Him to be known. (St. John 8:31-32) Truth that we do not know is what hurts us. Hosea 4:6 declares, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:..” When we know Truth, it is permanently fixed in our memory and its power works to manifest a new way of thinking within us. We ultimately experience a total change in thinking and associated behavior, since we think to act. Equally important, our spirit is freed from the bondages of unbelief and fear that hinder the flow of God’s blessings into our lives.

It must be understood that one can be acquainted with Truth, but not know it. Learning Truth leads us to the state of knowing it. We learn from teaching and then by meditation upon that which is taught. This involves speaking. (Ephesians 4:20-21) As we daily speak Truth, it reshapes our mind into a new spiritual state. This state connects to God’s glory where His rich blessings are. A divine “thought channel” is established within us causing our mind to expect to receive the gifts that God flows to us from above to make life more abundant. So, think spiritually and be blessed this year. God Bless.

From Pastor Leroy Rankin
http://www.christabundantlifeministries.org

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Hope in God is an Anchor of our Soul

12/2/2013

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To experience the abundant Life that Christ came to give us, we are required of God to seek first His Kingdom and righteousness and all other things will be added to us. St. Matthew 6:33 declares, “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. The Kingdom of God is the spiritual place of God’s dominion over devils. It is located inside the Holy Ghost. Romans 14:17 declares, “For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

Inside Him is the “spiritual path” to the Kingdom. Our spirit walks in the Holy Ghost. That path that it walks in is a Faith path. Our spirit moves in Faith toward the Kingdom of God. It moves on Faith thoughts. Acts 14:22 declares, “Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

The Faith is dominion Faith. It comes by hearing words from God who has dominion over every principality and power that cause the trouble.

Dangerous things will happen in the natural environment (body, family, finances) . They must be seen as the means of spiritual movement toward the Kingdom of God. The troubles will have the capacity to cause harm and destruction. A perfect example is found in the book of Daniel. Three of God’s men Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were thrown in the midst of a burning fiery furnace because they refulsed to obey the King’d degree to worship the false God that had been set up. (Daniel 3:21) The fire had the capacity to burn them up. It was evidenced b y burning up the men that threw Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego into the furnace. (Daniel 3:22) The king was astonished that the fire did not hurt them. Daniel 3:25 declares, “He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurtT and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.

The problems that will come will encounter will be greater our natural strength and wisdom to overcome. We cannot overcome problems without trusting. Our spirit goes through the thoughts of the troubles. We are to walk through troubles by Faith thinking. We walk through trusting God who rules over all and what He declares that He will never leave us nor forsake us. (Hebrews 13:5) To forsake means to abandon. He will never abandon us in the midst of our troubles. Whn we see that tahe problem does not destroy, we know that it is by His power.

Faith is placing total confidence in God is with us and actively trusting Him to keep Promise to be with us and to act on our behalf. And His shielding Power. His protection inside trouble. We trust him as our shield inside the trouble. The hevbrew boys were shielded to that the fire could not hurt them. By His almighty Power God quenched the violence of the fire so that it had no ability to hurt them. He was hurt them. He created fire, therefore he was greater than the fire. The Holy spirit inside us is greater thatn the problem brought on by the devil. (I John    ) This ensures that we have the ability to overcome it.

When the trouble and making a way foir us to escape the trouble.

We must trust in God’s knowhow. Job 5:19 declares, “He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seen there shall no evil touch thee.. Our heart must be fixed firmly on God’s integrity and His Promise. He declares in Numbers 23:19 declares, “God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

3:19 Promise to do so.. There is absolutely no problem that we will ever encounter that our God cannot deliver us out (financial, health, relationships). II Peter 2:9 declares, “The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished.” It is imperative that we trust in God’s know-how. We do so by not leaning to our own understanding in the troubles. When we think on our situations naturally, fear is automatically generated because we see challenges to overcoming. We cannot overcome in our own natural wisdom and strength. We must receive the Might of God to overcome.

God’s Knowledge is already mighty. Greater thatn any satanic force because God created all things with Knowlede. . Natural understanding is an enemy of Faith and is prohibited in trouble. God instructs us not to fear because He is with us and will help us. Isaiah 41:10 declares, “Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee, yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.” God will not allow us to be defeated. For this reason, we trust Him and lean not to our own understanding. We must settle two things in our minds: (l) There is absolutely nothing that can happen to us that is outside of the control of our Lord. He is Lord over everything. (2) Our problem cannot resist His power to deliver us.

Forsake mens to leave or abandon.

Remain walking in the light. Do not all any dark thought to draw you fro the light. The Word of God is ligh. of God ngs on earth Fellowship Ephesians ___

Psalm 119:130 declares, “The entrance of thy word giveth light, it giveth understanding to the simple. The simple minded will accept the things that Satan brings because they do not have spiritual understanding. Understanding is insight. It causes us to visualize unseen things. Satan has the ability to manifest in our lives. The thoughts that come from his manifestation are dark to draw us away from the light. We are to remain walking in the light. Do not walk in dark thoughts to draw you away from the light.

Transformation Process - Transformation to spiritual thinking is accomplished by mental laboring. Using the Mind, we must focus on, acquire and process the Knowledge of God, called Truth. Living Truth has been provided by God to be known within us, just as we know our name and other things. (St. John 8:31-32) What we do not know is what hurts us. Hosea 4:6 declares, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:” When we know Truth, it is permanently fixed inside of us and its power works to manifest new patterns of thinking. We ultimately experience a total change in behavior, since we think to act. Further, when we know Truth, our spirit is freed from bondages that hinder the flow of God’s Blessings into our lives. Such hindrances are (l) Spiritual ignorance, (2) Carnal behavior (3) Fear, and (4) Unbelief.

The state of Knowing Truth results from the process of learning it. One can be acquainted with Truth, but not know it. Learning Truth encompasses the following: (l) Understanding and accepting it from teaching and (2) daily Meditation on that Truth through speaking. (Ephesians 4:20-21) As we daily speak Truth, it forces the Mind into a new pattern of thinking. This pattern connects directly to God’s glory where His rich Blessings are. A divine thought channel is established within us causing the Mind to accept or believe to receive the gifts that God flows to us from above to make life more abundant. (James 1:17) God Bless

What is told must be believed to be performed in time and recdeived by the hearer. If the hearer rejects the thought, he or she rejects the things that are to manifest.

Design of Truth to Work

The Mission of the word is accomplished with two things: (1) Grace - the "Supernatural" Creative Power of God, and (2) Truth -the means by which God's Power "Works" and "Manifests" for us. Psalm 33:4 declar      es, “By the word of he Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by he breath of his mouth.

Spirit - God's words are "Spirit." They are designed to work inside spirit and sanctify it from sin, fear, and unbelief or natural thinking. Vision is Spiritual Understanding or “Enlightenment.” Truth enlightens when it is received, not rejected. Once Truth is inside our heart, it empowers to achieve a spiritual state of Knowing Truth. It is the power of knowing. All truth is greater than anything that exalts itself against it. Knowing Truth frees our spirit from Ignorance, the state used by Satan to “Blind” and “Bind” mankind. (St. John 8:32) Jesus said in St. John 8:32

The Mind focuses on the The Word of God and receives it thoughts that are outside the natural order of things.        and talk them day and night. (Hebrews 8:10) . Since they come from the God who created all things, anything created in the earth cannot cannot overcome it. It is greater thatn the structure and the order of the natural realm. You grow in it and the results manifests. Focus- It focuses our “Attention” only upon God, outside of the natural order of things.

The words produce a “Vision” of the Supernatural things that God will do and (2) Spiritual Understanding” to walk in.

Expecting is a part of Believing. We cannot believe and not expect. God remembers his thought He takes hold of the thought in time, He releases His Supernatural Power and performs the thoughts Psalm 105:37

St. John 6:29 states,, “Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.”

What we Must Do – First, we must accept Jesus Christ as Lord of our lives and be filled with the Holy Spirit. He brings Health with Him. Then, we must submit our hearts to Him, allowing Him to teach us new “Good” words to “talk,” replacing old “evil” ones. Proverbs 16:23 declares, “The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips. The Holy Spirit trains our mouth to talk heavenly talk. No arguing or cursing comes from Him. He does not teach us to murmur or complain.

As we daily talk only good, pleasant words that the Holy Spirit teaches, we literally create spiritual Fruit that is transmitted to our soul. This allows it to prosper. Proverbs 16:24 declares, “Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.” As our soul daily receives sweetness from the Spirit’s pleasant words that we speak, it prospers. Then we can experience God’s Best. God Bless.

Speak only Good words — The major focus of the Spirit’s training is our Mouth. The tongue is unruly; it has to be trained to depart from and remain from evil speaking. The heart of the wise must teach the mouth to speak correctly. (Proverbs 16:23) We are to be trained in being “Good.”

Our words can tear people down or build them up. We are to allow no corrupt communication to proceed out of our mouth, but only good words that will build up or encourage those who hear them. (Ephesians 4:28) We must always uses Pleasant words in our communication with others. The power of pleasantness is released to the soul, then brings God’s Divine Health to the body. We must practice the way of pleasantness.

From Pastor Leroy Rankin
http://www.christabundantlifeministries.org

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