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Hope does not disappoint! Romans 5:5

Find yourself afraid you will be disappointed by God?

Good news!  As a result of believing in Jesus, His blood cleansing us from all sin, once for all- qualifying us to be the Temple of the Spirit of God ( as God cannot dwell in a temple that has not been cleansed by blood, and God cannot remain in a temple (us) unless the blood sacrifice was able to cover all sin- once and for all- as Jesus' did- otherwise, God Spirit would have to leave us every time we sinned, every wrong motive, thought, attitude, etc). 

But God never has to cut off fellowship with us.  Why? Because of Jesus' once for all sacrifice, we are given the GIFT of Right Standing before God, it is a gift, was not and cannot be earned by right doing, only right believing, which is belief in Jesus having made us right (righteous) before God.   As a result of our belief in Jesus, God Himself takes up residency within us (Eph. 1:13), and it's for a purpose.

That purpose is to give us an inner knowing of several things (here is a short-list):

1. That we're loved by Him (Romans 5:5)

2. To give us Hope (Romans 5:5)

3. To write His law on our hearts / Give us the inner knowing of right and wrong, aka: being led by His Spirit in all things ( Hebrews 8: 8-13)

4.  He leads us into all Truth / we know Truth when we hear it (John 16: 13)

As a result of believing in Jesus, we access the forgiveness of God, for all sin, once for all- qualifying us to be the Temple of the Spirit of God (1 Cor. 6: 19)- God takes up residency within us, the believer, and by His Spirit, He pours out His Love within us, giving us an inner knowing we are loved by Him, which, gives us Hope, and Hope Does Not Disappoint us!

The biblical definition for hope: A confident expectation of good

Romans 5: 5

And hope (confident expectation of Good) does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit (which is God's Spirit) whom He has given us.

 Encouragment: Refuse condemnation, the feelings of guilt, shame, etc., rather, insist on believing what Jesus has done for you- made you righteous (right before God), and He's done this as a gift to you- Jesus was sent and came to us as a gift from God - out of His love for you. 

As a result of knowing you're right before God, knowing that He did this out of His love for you, you now have a confident expectation of ONLY good things for you and your loved ones.  

Refuse to be afraid, rather, know that God is always setting you up for His best, and though things may not unfold as you see them, it doesn't mean that God is going to let you down - trust Him, that He is bringing what it is that you need / desire, in His way- which is THE best way for you!

*Meditate - roll over and over in your mind, as you picture God holding you, "God loves me..."

Choose to believe and receive, and watch how you and situations transform- effortlessly!

No need to worry! Matt. 6: 33

Seek His Righteousness?

But seek first His kingdom and His Righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Matt 6:33

According to Romans 3: 21- 26 His Righteousness has been provided to us through Jesus, and we become Righteous, just as Jesus is Righteous, simply by believing IN Jesus.

When we believe that we're righteous, simply because we take God at His word, that it is by Faith (IN Jesus having made us Righteous before God) we will then have peace within ourselves knowing, that we cannot do anything right or wrong to increase or decrease God's love for us.

According to Ephesians 1: 3 we are already blessed by God with EVERY spiritual blessing through Christ.

This means that God has ALREADY supplied EVERYTHING we need and desire, and the key to accessing the blessings is our FAITH IN Jesus having made us right before God.

When we know that we are right before God, no matter what wrong thought we just had, no matter what wrong deed we just did, no matter how we blow it, our wrong doing does not negate Jesus' right doing on our behalf, we will then, will full faith, receive AND expect the blessings of God.

Seek first His Kingdom and His Righteousness AND ALL these things will be added to us- explained:

When we know we're righteous, we have peace with & before God, we in turn become full of Joy and we stand firm in the Faith (this faith is faith IN Jesus having done everything for us) having a constant, confident expectation of God's best, and this is the kind of Faith that moves mountains- this is faith without doubt.

God's promises to us are not contingent on our right doing, rather our right believing.

** When we believe right, we will live right- we will experience all the spiritual blessings provided for us through Jesus- Effortlessly!**

He takes our mistakes and works them for our good! Romans 8: 28

Got yourself between a rock and a hard place?  Damaged a relationship?  Feel like you've blown it good this time, and no hope of recovery?  God says different!

Exodus 34: 6-7   ... “The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, ⁷ maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin...

Encouragement: Receive the love, forgiveness and mercy of God, and forgive yourself.

  What ever we've done to put ourselves in a disappointing and painful situation, God doesn't say, "You made your bed, now lay in it!"  NO-  He is merciful and compassionate!

He will take our mistakes and work them for our good! (Romans 8:28)  Our part?  Simply - believe.

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Exodus 34: 7 (cont)

Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.”

IMPORTANT: The above scripture no longer applies to believers thanks to Jesus taking the punishment due us for ALL our sins, and cutting a New Covenant in His Blood- cleansing us from ALL our sins.

^{Galatians 3: 13} Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.”

Colossians 2: 13- 14

... He forgave us all our sins, ¹⁴having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness (the law/10 commandments) , which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.

 NKJV: Colossians 2: 13-14

... having forgiven you all trespasses, ¹⁴ having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

Dust yourself off and try again! Romans 11: 29

Don't give up- Keep running!

Receive mercy and love from God who is Love, and don't give thought of what people may think, the only thoughts that count is God's- just dust yourself off and try again!

The call on your life, the gifts given to you by God are Never revoked!

Romans 11: 29- for God's gifts and His call are irrevocable.

No matter how far off the path one may get, God never gives up, never turns His back or revokes what He has given to you to do His will!

How do I love the unloveable?

“Why, if I love God, do I find it hard to walk in love?”

Answer: we can not give out what we are not full of

1 John 4: 7 & 8- let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

One of the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22) is Love

For us to be able to bear any one of the fruit of the Spirit with must get to know the Spirit (God), and that Spirit is God (2 Corin. 3: 17)

This is the definition of Know in the Greek: ghin-oce'-ko (Verb)

Definition:
to learn to know, come to know, get a knowledge of perceive, feel
to become known
to know, understand, perceive, have knowledge of
to understand
to know
Jewish idiom for sexual intercourse between a man and a woman
to become acquainted with, to know (Intimate)

Many of us have been long time Christians, however, have struggled with being able to walk according to the Spirit.

It’s actually quite easy, however, the challenge comes in slowing down and spending time with our Living, Loving, yet invisible God.

 We as humans are Not love, but we're capable to love; conversely, God is not just capable to love, He IS Love.

When we spend time in the presence of God (Love) believing He love 'me', receiving His love, we will in turn, out of the fullness we receive from God, give out love to His people- Effortlessly... we always become like those we spend time with.

All summed up: When we get to know God by spending time in His presence, we will give out what we are full of- Effortlessly!

If we believe and receive we’re freely forgiven, we will freely forgive.
If we believe and receive mercy, we will give out mercy.
If we believe and receive Love, we will give out Love!

 

 

Fear Not- Only Believe! Luke 8: 50

About to lose your home or car? Can’t find a job or may be losing your job? Children making decisions that may jeopardize their future? Sick and in pain, and medical bills piling up?

All the above are the cares, the worries, so many carry on a daily basis.

There is hope! 1 Peter 5: 7- Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

“I try, but I’m not sure He will do this for me…”

Encouragement: God is always setting you up for His Best! God does love you, and His love is perfect (complete) for you. His love is the kind that you don’t have to second guess.

Many fear that He may or may not help them with their problems, it’s almost like a crapshoot; however! When we believe that God’s will is to prosper us, that He is always setting us up for His best (Jer. 29:11), no matter what it looks like right now, and no matter how it “plays out” during the process of getting to that "Best" place for us, but are fully persuaded that God is for you- loves you and IS working on your behalf, THAT is being made Perfect (complete) in His love.

Perfect Love casts out Fear, because fear has to do with punishment.

Jesus took all the punishment due us on the Cross. He paid for our right standing before God at all times, no matter how bad we’ve blown it.

When God looks at us, he doesn’t see our failures, the things we’ve done to get ourselves in the trouble we may be facing, he doesn’t wait until we put ourselves in the right, NO! All our doing right is as filthy rags to Him; it’s His Son that has put us in the right and it’s our faith in Him, Jesus, that makes us righteous, worthy and qualified for God blessing us.

Be at peace and strive to enter into rest (Heb. 4:11) knowing that Jesus has already given all we need to experience victory in all situations, it is God’s will for us to remain on top and He is always at work on our behalf to set us up for His best.

Fear Not, Only Believe… in the finished work of Jesus:

1. Salvation: the forgiveness of ALL our sin/ making us righteous, worthy and qualified- permanently- never based on our doing right.
2. Healing: we are ALREADY healed- body and soul
3. He became poor- making us rich
4. Stripped the enemy – gave us authority

1 John 4: 18- There is no fear in love. But perfect (complete) love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment (Jesus took the punishment due us). The one who fears is not made perfect (Complete) in love.

If we continue to meditate on Jesus/ Grace, that He took the punishment due us, see ourselves complete (perfect before God) in Jesus and because of Jesus, we will renew our mind from the old way, the sin- conscious (which is law- conscious) expecting punishment way of thinking to being fully persuaded that we are now under Grace thanks to Jesus and  we're ONLY to expect that ALL Jesus paid for us on the cross is - Our Victory in every circumstance- this is when we will experience the Peace we all long for, and has already made available to us through our faith in Jesus.

God loves us- perfectly, completely, and just as we love our children, and would do anything within our power to help them (in a healthy way), how much more our God?! 

He's already sent us what we need (out of His love for us John 3: 16) for us to focus on to bring the manifestation of His blessing- Jesus.  It is our Faith in Jesus- which is the kind of faith that moves mountains that takes us from lack to full.

When we look to Jesus and His fullness, as our source of supply in every circumstance, we will experience His Grace- His fullness, the result is our lack will disappear.  This is the kindness, the love of God for us, He provided everything through Jesus because of His Great love for us.

Believe, receive, expect - Experience!

When we look to Jesus in His Grace, He turns and see's us in our Faith! 

Renew your mind with the word of Christ = Renewed life- experiencing the promises made available thru Christ!

When we believe we are Righteous, we will live Righteous

"Don't teach that! If you teach people they are forgiven of all their sins, why would they stop sinning?"

From the revelation that we have been made permanently righteous because Jesus paid for all our sins (Colossians 2: 13, 1John 2:2, 2Corin. 5:21) comes a greater understanding that God so LOVED the world (us) that He Gave His Son, not to condemn us, but to Save us (John 3:16).

When we understand what God's Love did for us by sending His Son, we realize God's kindness which draws us to repentance (change our minds), draws us into relationship and causes us to desire to obey.

So let's begin with what was accomplished by Jesus, for us, thanks to God sending Him to us:

These are the 4 accomplishments of the Cross, for our benefit/ our blessings out of the kindness of God:

1. Salvation/ the Forgiveness of ALL our sin/ Permanently Righteous before God/ Put us under Grace by fullfilling the law and set us free from the curse of the law.

2. Healing: Body and Soul (Isaiah 53)

3.  He became poor making us rich (2 Corin. 8:9)

4. Stripped the enemy/gave us authority (Col. 2:15)

All 4 accomplishments on the Cross by Jesus = Victory. 

We do not need to hope for victory; we are already victorious, because of the finished work of the Cross!

When we understand that we have been made worthy only because of the shed blood of Jesus, him taking the punishment for ALL our sins and making us right before God no matter what, it is then that we realize how good God is and how much He loves us -how much He desires to be not only in relationship with us, but desires daily fellowship with us.

It's this revelation that draws us to repentance ( change our minds).  Romans 2: 4 ... God's kindness leads you towards repentance.

When we realize and  mediate on the Fact/truth that we Are Righteous, ONLY because of Jesus- Never by our works, never by our doing anything right or good, we will feel what is already a fact/truth... We ARE Worthy to be in the presence of God, worthy of the blessing that is ALREADY ours and nothing we do disqualifies us from the blessing- thanks to Jesus.

The only reason we do not experience the fullest measure of God's blessing is when we are sin-conscious and we disqualify ourselves.  We go from expecting God's blessing to expecting punishment for our wrong-doing.

When we are sin- conscious, we are law minded, when we are law minded we are sin- conscious and fall under condemnation, which empowers more sin.

Romans 3: 20 Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.

We are no longer under law, but under Grace!

Romans 6: 14 For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.

Remember, sin- consciousness is being law minded, being law- minded causes us to be sin-conscious and when we sin, we fall under condemnation, and condemnation empowers more sin... it's a cycle.

Romans 8: 1-4

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, ² because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. ³ For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh,God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering.And so he condemned sin in the flesh, ⁴ in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

What is the fear?  That if the law isn't taught, people will continue to sin.  This is why we have heard the teaching:

"If you knowingly sin, you are not blessed, and you've open the door for the devil to come steal from you..."

It's from this teaching that fear comes that people will not stop sinning if they have no fear of consequences that has continued the teaching of the law/ sin- consciousness.

The law brings fear of punishment. 

But we've been given a Spirit that does not make us a slave to fear again, but the Spirit that causes us to cry Abba Father! (Romans 8: 15)

We must teach and believe in what Jesus did for us, we must live by faith, faith that we are Righteous/ Worthy/ Qualified, ONLY because of Jesus and NO other way.

New converts as well as old will continue to sin, even perpetual sin, until they understand the Goodness/ Kindness/ Love of God. 

That Kindness is : that He has made us Righteous, worthy, healed, whole, prosperous, and authority over the enemy- we already have the victory, no longer waiting for Him to do anything for us, it is already done, we must simply believe we are worthy and receive, and the more we believe, the more we will receive, the more we receive, the more we will come to expect, the more we expect that more it will manifest.

Law vs. Grace / Sin- conscious vs. Righteousness - conscious summed up:

When we believe we are Righteous we will live Righteous.

 

 

 

 

Refuse Guilt!

Walkin' around with some guilt? Feeling unworthy to spend time in God's presence? Did you know that is the enemy of our destinies, the devil's trick, to weaken God's people?

*Fact: Spending time in God's presence RECEIVING His Love is where we get our strength and confidence. God is Love, and His love is Perfect. (1 John 4:8)

* Guilt is a feeling, it is not from God.

ENCOURAGEMENT: Override the feeling of Guilt with the truth that you are Forgiven!  Receive that you are already forgiven; that you've never lost your right standing b4 God- Get right back into His presence,and receive His love which will = the fulfilling your destiny!

*Hebrews 10: 12,14 (NKJV)
12 But this Man (Jesus), after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God... 14 For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

Go ahead, BOLDLY approach God and let'em love on you! Good things happen to those that know God loves'em!

**Ministry this Saturday**

Where: In the Loaves and Fishes Bldg (19th & Garnett), Tulsa, OK.

Time: 10a

Praise & Worship lead by: Nicole Napie

All are Welcome

For more information or direction, you may email: contact@pamelaharrisonministries.org

Righteousness is not an action, it's a person- Jesus

I have some really good news! Righteousness is not an action, it's a person- Jesus. We Never, no matter what, lose our right standing before God. "Ya, but why do I feel that God is a million miles away?" Answer: We've not yet fully realized that Jesus IS our Righteousness, making us and keeping us in Right standing b4 God at ALL times. *Encouragement: Take God at His word, because of Jesus, those that believe upon Jesus are now and forever will be IN RIGHT STANDING BEFORE GOD! Refuse the lies of the enemy that you deserve any punishment and insist on staying in connection with God no matter what you do wrong. It's not what We do right or wrong that determines our status before God. NO! It's how perfect is our righteousness- Jesus b4 God- He IS Perfect! Receive the full measure of Grace that is ours. Receive 4giveness, Receive ALL the blessings that r ours thanks only 2 Jesus!
Romans 3: 22-24
22This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, 23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.

Perfect Love Casts Out All Fear... But What Does That Mean? 1 John 4:18

What does this mean?

1 John 4:18 (NIV)

¹⁸There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

Simply put:

When we are fully convinced that God truly loves us, we will trust Him.  When we trust Him, (fully, that is) then we are perfected in His love.

When the fearful thoughts come, we (because we are now convinced that we are fully and truly loved by God) will be able to cast that fear off. 

In being fully convinced of God's love for us, we will have an assurance that although we may not know how or when, we just know that He (God) loves us, and His plans are always to prosper us and never to harm us (Jer. 29:11).

According to 1 John 4:18, fear has to do with punishment, and God is not in the punishment business, thanks to Jesus cutting a new covenant in His blood. (  Is. 53, Romans 3: 6-8, Romans 6:14)

All of God's wrath towards mankind- you and me... was completely wiped away because of the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross.  (Romans 5: 9-11)

 It's finished. Nothing more required of us other than simple faith in Jesus having made us righteous and forgiven, and  all because of God's love for us.  (John 3:16)

Simple, however, profound reminders:

God - is - Love (1 John 4:16)

God is for you and not against you (Romans 8:31)

Key to transformation: As we renew our mind, becoming fully persuaded we are fully loved and accpeted by God, and He is ALWAYS setting us up for His best- hope will replace fear.

Biblical Hope: A constant, confident, expectation of good.

Result: Effortless Transformation!