Day 244 - Should I Know Good?

Thoughts on Michael Wells’ teachings in My Weakness for His Strength (Vol. 1) - # 280

         

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Some things in life we can handle.  Some very easily.

Michael gives us a glimpse at one thing for sure we CANNOT handle.  Then he gives us God’s choice we can make that gives us victory.

Look at the “spoil” of that victory…  Wow.  Beautiful!

DAY 244

Should I Know Good?

“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus answered, “No one is good—except God alone.” --Luke 18:19

Eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was prohibited, and that prohibition is still in effect. We are not to eat from it, for to the extent that we know good, we will also know evil. We eat from the tree for the appeal that we will be like God. However, our problem is that when we set out to know and practice good, we know evil, and we do not do the good that we wish; instead we do the evil. In short, we cannot handle the knowledge that comes from this tree. However, if we are intent on knowing good without the pitfalls of evil, then we can set our hearts to know God. God is good. God is love. The knowledge and experience of Him is freeing.

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Red – GP, Greatest Promises

Turquoise – UR, Unfathomable Riches           Pink – PV, Priceless Victory

I find it truly interesting after 35+ years of ministry that far too many Saints get wrapped up in the peripheral rather than the main thing in Christianity.  I always appreciated Michael’s illustration of a wheel…with the hub (the main thing) and the spokes (the peripheral).  Of course, the spiritual leaders and the “church” are the ones that lead the people away from the hub and get in a dither over the spokes.

Every teaching of God comes down to something uncomplicated, and basic, like: “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.  This is the first and great commandment.  And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.  On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” (Matthew 22:37-40).  Whew…uncomplicated.

Setting our hearts to KNOW God and EXPERIENCE Him is everything, and IS FREEING!  Well, amen.

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Day 241 - Separating Light From Dark

Thoughts on Michael Wells’ teachings in My Weakness for His Strength (Vol. 1) - # 279

         

Michael’s book is available through:

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Light is a special part of life.  And, Jesus as The Light of this world, is more than just special…He brings the spectacular to life.  Walking in The Light is our choice to take on Christ’s spectacular Life.

Michael shows us the difference between Light and darkness, and how our enemy tries to steal (the big thief) our walk in Jesus/Light.

DAY 241

Separating Light From Dark

God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. --Genesis 1:17 & 18

The day that you received Jesus you received everything. How could you not? He is, actually, everything. Colossians 1:16, “For by Him all things were created, {both} in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities--all things have been created by Him and for Him.” Each day, since that first day, it has been the mission of the Holy Spirit to convince you that you are lacking in nothing. In opposition, Satan has taken it upon himself to convince you that you are lacking in everything, to persuade you that your job, mate, kids, situation, physical appearance, and position in life are all substandard. He also has to convince you that holiness, mercy, fellowship, maturity, blessings, and forgiveness must all be worked for, his goal being to have you so consumed with what you think you do not have that you will never recognize what you do have.

Sometimes I feel as though my office, wherever I happen to have it set up, is a place where light and darkness meet, and it is God’s gracious work to separate the two. My job is to witness to the work of the Spirit, the Jesus that is in believers. So many come to my office possessing so much, and yet they cannot see the blessings for obsessing on the negatives. They are men with beautiful families, children that are not rebellious, financial security, and a wife who puts up with and even loves them, despite their goofy behavior. Yet the devil has blinded them to the point that they cannot see positives in any of it; they sit there recounting the offenses they have had in life, the people who have let them down, and their failed attempts to be Christian. Every preacher must learn to be free from the fear of repetition. I am! What gets a person’s attention gets him! We are to obsess on what is true, right, pure, and lovely. I guess everyone is just self-centered enough to think only about himself! We mingle light and darkness to the point where we do not know the difference and all of life is gray. Pray for a word from Him that would separate the two!

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Red – GP, Greatest Promises

Turquoise – UR, Unfathomable Riches           Pink – PV, Priceless Victory

It has been my experience for almost 40 years to encounter so many Saints who do not know “who they are IN CHRIST,” or “who Christ is IN THEM.”  Therefore, it seems they obsess on the negatives, believe they are lacking in virtually everything, don’t recognize what they do have, and life is a “dark gray” for many.

Jesus is Light.  All Saints have Jesus.  Therefore, all Saints have Light.  Light takes away darkness…Saints have to “hide themselves from Jesus (Light)” to walk in darkness.  Not much of a life (no pun intended…all Saints HAVE THE LIFE!).

I like Michael’s two directives: “we are to obsess on what is true, right, pure, and lovely”…and, “pray for a word from Him” that would separate us from any darkness and to a focus on Jesus/Light.

Jesus, Who is the Light, says His words are Life…Jesus, give us a word of Life from You to Light our way!

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Day 281 - The Love Of God!

Thoughts on Michael Wells’ teachings in My Weakness for His Strength (Vol. 1) - # 278

         

Michael’s book is available through:

ABIDING LIFE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL

Littleton, Colorado

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Today, Feb. 14, is Valentine’s Day around the world.  LOVE is in the air!  So, let us look at something Michael wrote about “love”…

DAY 281

The Love Of God!

For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. –Romans 5:6

Two boys in a village began to fight, and one boy killed the other; upon seeing what happened, the villagers began to chase the boy to put him to death. The boy ran to the house of the chief and fell at the doorway, crying out to the chief for his protection. The chief came and, seeing the crowd, asked for an explanation of what was happening. The crowd yelled, “The boy killed another boy in a fight, and we have come to take him and kill him.” The chief said, “I cannot allow you to take him, for he has fallen at my doorstep,” and at that he lifted up the boy and put him in his house. Then the crowd yelled, “The boy that he killed was your son! Give him to us.” The chief’s face became despondent. The crowd continued to yell, but the chief went silent until, after a long time, he spoke again, saying, “Then I will adopt him.” In wonder the crowd departed.

Do you believe in the love of God? Do you believe He would do the same for you? He has, and no matter what has happened in your life, the love of God is up to something.

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This truth will shake anyone to the core of our believing.  “He has.”  Hallelujah!

“and no matter what has happened in your life, the love of God is up to something.”  Well, amen! 

I think it is very interesting to see God tell us in the next two verses that He saw us as we truthfully were, “sinners,” and that He “made acceptable” His Love to us as such…an incredible act of His Love.

“For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.  But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:7-8).  WOW!

God, please show each and every one of us just exactly what You are up to in our life.

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NOTICE: another blog on Michael Wells’ book, Sidetracked In The Wilderness, called Getting Out of the Wilderness.  You can access by logging onto www.leemcchristianministries.blogspot.com

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Day 238 - Satan Works on a Permit

Thoughts on Michael Wells’ teachings in My Weakness for His Strength (Vol. 1) - # 277

        

Michael’s book is available through:

ABIDING LIFE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL

Littleton, Colorado

(303) 972-0859       www.abidinglife.com

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This day’s writing is chock full of truths.  As Saints, we have been given victory over the spirits, and reign in Christ as the Victor!

DAY 238

Satan Works on a Permit

And He said to them, “I was watching Satan fall from heaven like lightning. Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will injure you. Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are recorded in heaven. --Luke 10:18-20

When one king defeats another king, the subjects of the defeated kingdom become slaves. Satan conquered the man Adam and became the ruler of the world over which Adam had been given dominion. Through defeat, man yielded what was his to the enemy. However, when the second Adam, Jesus, conquered Satan, things above, below, and on the earth became the Son of God’s. We are in His Kingdom, and therefore, what is His is ours. This simply means that we do not have to be controlled by spirits! The believer who does not like a spirit can remember that in Jesus’ Kingdom he has authority over it. In Africa I met an old woman who would not call alcohol by that name, choosing instead to call it a spirit. If the spirit of alcohol is controlling some Christian, it is by his permission. I have known those that are controlled by the spirit of suicide, and there simply is no excuse for that when by drawing near to Christ a believer can simply tell the spirits to leave. Being in His kingdom, what is His, He has shared with believers. All spirits must now yield to Him. As I have said before, at the highest revelation of Jesus there will be no opposition.

I have been asked, “How much power does Satan give his followers?” None! How can a lesser creature give something to a greater creature? Man is greater, and therefore, all Satan can give is a lie, which is where he excels. None can argue with the fact of believers being oppressed, but that occurs when someone believes the enemy’s lie. Being the father of lies, Satan can visit his children, and so a received lie actually opens the person up to the demonic world and all manner of attacks from without, including psychosomatic manifestations. Many have made the mistake of not recognizing the work of Satan, so as a heavenly disciple, do recognize his work, but more importantly recognize the work of Jesus that made Satan fall from heaven, and camp at the work of Christ.

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Red – GP, Greatest Promises

Turquoise – UR, Unfathomable Riches           Pink – PV, Priceless Victory

I advise to take the time to read slowly and distinctly, and choose to go with Truth…Jesus.

I like Michael’s term, “camp at the work of Christ,” don’t you?!?

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NOTICE: another blog on Michael Wells’ book, Sidetracked In The Wilderness, called Getting Out of the Wilderness.  You can access by logging onto www.leemcchristianministries.blogspot.com

Lee McDowell Christian Ministries

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(blog) www.leemccmviews.blogspot.com  

P.O. Box 633244   Nacogdoches, TX 75963              936-559-5696