Live Behind The Veil

How many ways do we have to be overcomers?

We should not “cross out” the good we create

How do we “Love not our lives unto death”?

• We have a choice in all things to live in faith or as a victim

• Getting our focus on the Lord knowing that He is handling everything.

• What does overcome really mean?

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

So faith comes from hearting, and hearing by the word of Christ

From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. It should not be like this, my brothers!

A spring cannot pour both fresh and brackish water from the same opening, can it?

Rejoice always,

Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God ’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

“ Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in Me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.”

• We are going to accept one of two things; faith or futility.

• If you do not have something to overcome, you will not become an overcomer.

• So, the choice you have is either being overcomer or a victim

• Overcome, what do we do now?

There are some simple steps that we all can take to be overcomers; speak the word positively/creatively, and give of what we value like our time in showing another that we care.

What is the Joy of the Lord?

Does discipline bring joy?

Is the Joy of the Lord an all or nothing type of thing?

• There are various experiences and expressions of joy

• Joy is tied into Love

• In His presence is fullness of joy

Then He said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for the joy of the Lord is your strength

You will make known to me the way of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.

Make me hear joy and gladness and be satisfied; Let the bones which You have broken rejoice.

until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming.

No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening-it ’s painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way.

For He will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.

• The Lord is putting us through the things to create us into sons

• I want to coin the term: Mature Joy

• As we mature the process gets shorter

As an immature child, discipline is not joyful at all. As we mature in the Lord the process is shorter as we do not run from it so much and realize the Joy set before us.

 

 

 

 

There is no working up a joy in the human nature

So, how do we get joy, or the joy of the Lord?

When you have His joy, share it with everyone you meet

• Why did the angel say: “good news of great joy”?

• Can we suffer and still have joy?

• If we are not joyful, what should we do?

Then the angel said unto to them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

Keeping our eyes on Jesus, the source and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that lay before him endured a cross and despised the shame and has sat down at the right hand of God’s throne.

But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

The story of Paul and Silas in prison

Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

Rejoice always,

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

A father who loves his children will discipline them

You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. And you are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.

You as and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

The Lord cased them to rejoice.

• The whole of the New Testament is about joy

• The word joy is used almost two hundred times in the New Testament

• Ask the Lord to give it to you

In His presence is fulness of joy so let us strive to be in His presence continually and let His joy exude from our being to others.

 

 

How do you see your neighbor?

How do you see your family?

• We want to see as the Lord sees

• Are we able to create another person?

• “Lord, show me what to speak to that person”

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.

But God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

1The angel of the Lord came, and he sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash, the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was threshing wheat in the winepress in order to hide it from the Midianites.

Then the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said, “The Lord is with you, Valiant warrior.”

Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love

He predestined us to adoption as sons and daughters through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

Yet to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God-

1They are reborn-not with a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan, but a birth that comes from God.

The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

• Don’t tell me where I am wrong, I already know that

• Human nature is negative

• Lord, show me who this person is

No one is how we see them in the natural, Let ’s ask the Lord to open our eyes to see how He sees and how He loves us enough to send His son to die for us.

The Lord is speaking, are we listening?

My sheep know My voice, and a stranger they will not follow.

• God can and does speak through a host of various vessels

• When someone is speaking and there is condemnation in it, that is not the word of the Lord

• Jesus spoke what He heard the Father say, so should we.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear;

When He hath put forth all His own, He goeth before them, and the sheep follow Him: for they know His voice.

And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.

Dear friends, do not believe everyone who claims to speak by the Spirit. You Must test them to see if the spirit they have comes from God. For there are many false prophets in the world.

This will by my third visit to you. “Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.”

Therefore there is now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus.

And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.

But when thou are bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.

and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, “My Son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by Him;

For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines, and He scourges every son whom He receives.”

But they that wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings as eagles; The shall run, and not be weary; They shall walk, and not faint.

“ Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted over the earth.”

• It is crucial to have experiential knowledge with His word

• It is obvious when one is speaking a word from the Lord

• Your circumstances can talk to you, I know that voice...

• There must be confirmation

Get someone to pray for you to have ears to hear, then listen. Ask the Holy Spirit to speak to you when reading the scriptures, listen to a five year old child and “perhaps the Lord would speak through that child to you”.

 

What happens when we pray together?

Just what does it mean to “confess our sins to one another?”

We do not need to know specifics to a problem to take it to the Lord.

• How do we overcome the fiery darts of the enemy?

• Some things cannot be overcome as an individual

• Our prayer is: Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done.

The armor of God

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

That if our heart should condemn us, that God is greater than our heart, and He knows all things.

Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.

Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

Finally brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

You will keep perfectly peaceful the one whose mind remains focused on You, because he remains in You

• You just can’t overcome it and you’re not meant to.

• God knows what you are going through

• Because it keeps their minds out of it

When we have issues or circumstances, let us call on those who will pray with us to see the victory over them.

Being thankful is not always easy, it is a learned response

Giving thanks places God in control over your life

Thanksgiving to God shows that you trust Him

• “He is enthroned upon the praises of Israel”

• Do not forget to give thanks for what you have already received

• Being thankful is a form of worship

When you have eaten and are satisfied, you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you.

Always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Where there is no vision, the people perish

Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”

But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding.

Seek His will in all you do, and He will show you which path to take.

The “4 horsemen” of the apocalypse

“ And of these things beginning to come to pass, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.”

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

• In giving thanks it gives Him control

• But even greater should our thanksgiving be when we receive it

• You cannot really have a thankfulness for everything unless you really have learned to trust in the Lord

Being thankful in all things is an expression of our worship to the Father, he is directing our paths more than we are aware of usually.

Rules do not have grace in them and there is no earning grace.

What happens to the initial salvation where joy and love are so real?

Rules, without grace, create condemnation which are not in Christ

• It is through grace that we can approach Him with boldness

• We are saved by grace, yet there is so much more

• As we grow in grace, we get grace to become and to do

Let us therefore draw near with boldness unto the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace to help us in time of need.

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

Not of works, lest any man should boast.

I have set the LORD always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him

• He is so willing to be graceful and give grace

• They all made mistakes, but their heart was set before the Lord

• Love and grace are interwoven

• God loved the guy just the way he was

Grace and love are not a one time “shot”, they are living and expand beyond our abilities to understand. They give us the means to become and do more and more as we grow in them.

Each of us have jobs or talents, how can we use them in serving one another for God’s glory?

It is not about our faith nor abilities; it is about His faith and His abilities.

• God looks to the heart, not a position nor ability

• When helping others, what is our focus? Is it on the Lord?

• It is the relationship with the Lord that is the goal

And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men,

Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not people,

For the body does not consist of one member but of many.

But the Lord said to Samuel, “don’t judge by his appearance or height, for I have rejected him. The Lord doesn’t see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

Rose from supper, an laid aside His garments; and taking a towel, He girded Himself about.

Then He poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded.

Choosing the 7 for service

And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.

Joseph becomes second only to Pharaoh

• My work was a form of worship

• I knew that is was just God

• That’s the fun of walking with the Lord.

• The thing that you are doing to serve one another are the things that God just treasures

When we do to others as unto the Lord, then we find a closer relationship with the Lord in what we do.