The Author and Finisher of Faith

Hebrews 12:2  -  New King James Version (NKJV)

^“2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”

When you talk about the nature of faith in the New Covenant it has no struggle.  It's so encouraging to hear that in the New Covenant everything is up to Christ and the pressure is off me. God even takes cares of faith!  New Covenant faith is about God's faith in us, not our faith in Him 

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Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith.  So we have a high priest who authors our faith. We didn't author our faith. Our High Priest - HE is the originator and the perfecter!  We need perfect faith to be perfectly saved! 

In fact, the Old Covenant faith is me trying to please God. New Covenant faith is something God gives to me and something that Jesus has on my behalf. Jesus has faith for you. And Jesus has faith IN you. 

Did you know that our New Covenant High Priest is better than the Old Covenant priest that failed? He dealt gently with those who are ignorant and went astray - this perfect High Priest is touched with the feelings of our infirmities and He sympathizes with you. He has faith for you - but God has faith IN you. 

You see - the High Priest has to have faith for you. The power of the King is not rooted in man's faith in God. That is Old Covenant elemental milk teaching. The power of this kingdom is rooted in God's faith in you. He believes in you - His faith in you is not a blind faith. He invested everything at the Cross for you so that now His opinion of you is one of integrity. 

I want to say something life-changing here.  Your life is not primarily or essentially changed by who you believe in. Your life is essentially changed by Who believes in you. Jesus believes in you when He said “Greater  things shall you do in My Name!” because I go to my Father.

The most powerful influence over your life is not who you believe in - the most powerful influence over your life is Who believes in you. Our great High Priest has faith in you and has faith for you and is the author of faith and the perfecter of faith as the perfect High Priest because He has made you perfect forever. 

The Old Covenant had great emphasis on faith in God. The New Covenant's emphasis is on God's faith in you and for you. The Old Covenant lays the burden on you to have faith in God.

Many christians say, “Have faith in God ! – You must have faith, have more faith – you are not healed because you don’t have faith in God”.  Do not create faith you don’t have but looking to Jesus the author of faith and perfecter.  The Lord Jesus perfects your faith.  

The New Covenant lays the burden on our Great High Priest to have great and perfect faith on our behalf so you are not examining yourself all the time to see if you have faith - but your eyes are on Jesus all the time - the author and perfecter of faith. 

It takes all the pressure off self-focus! It is not your concern anymore. No - my focus is on the revelation of Christ and in Him I was crucified. He did it because He loved me and gave Himself for me. I am crucified with Him! And the life I now live, I live by the faith of the Son of God.   Galatians  2:20

Paul knows that the Law keeps us in sin’s power and defeat; God’s grace keeps us by His righteous power. If we are in one, we are free from the power of the other. Are you married to the Law or to Grace of God.   Before the Cross, the flow of faith was us to God. After the Cross the flow of faith was God to us. He that believeth in Me - out of his belly shall flows rivers of Living waters. Our faith is a flow,  prophesy is a flow.  Ministry is a flow – its a spirit to spirit flow.

Taken from Rob Rufus

A SUPERNATURAL VACANCY

A SUPERNATURAL VACANCY FOR YOU!!!
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SHALOM, DEARLY BELOVEDS OF YAHWEH ELOHIM!!!

YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL, JOYFUL, GRACEFUL, MERCIFUL, WONDERFUL, and POWERFUL, because YOU'RE SO FULL OF THE HOLY GHOST'S LOVE, POWER and GLORY!! 

THERE'S A VACANCY FOR YOU - TO BE ELOHIM'S END-TIME WISDOM, POWER and WEALTH BROKER - INTERESTED???

THE NATIONS ARE HUNGRY...... and WAITING FOR YOUR MANIFESTATION AS A SON OF THE MOST HIGH ELOHIM!!!

THE KEY TO UNLOCK NATIONS IS IN YOUR ANOINTED HANDS!!

YOUR DESTINY HAS BEEN CRYING OUT SO LOUD and SO LONG - PLEASE RESPOND TODAY, OK?

YOU'RE JUST TOO PRECIOUS, PECULIAR, PROPHETIC, PASSIONATE, POWERFUL and PROSPEROUS TO BE IGNORED and UNKNOWN TO THIS GENERATION!!!

YOU MUST FULLY EMPLOY YOUR AWESOME AUTHORITY and ANOINTING TO BLESS THIS GENERATION BEFORE THE GRAVE WOULD RECEIVE YOUR BODY, MINUS ALL THE GIFTS, GRACE, GLORY and GOODNESS OF YAHWEH ELOHIM!!!

PLEASE DON'T EXPIRE and EXIT THIS WORLD LIKE ELISHA - WITH THE FULLNESS OF ANOINTING STILL FRESH IN HIS BONES!!! 

YOU'RE A VESSEL OF HONOR, SO YOU MUST EXIT HONORABLY!!!

BY JUDAH GIAM

A PICTURE OF GRACE

I read this little dialogue between two friends once in a newsletter put out by my friend, Gregg Gibbons, who has a wonderful website called "Christ My Heart."  The dialogue went something like this:

Friend 1 had been explaining to Friend 2 about God's grace being free forgiveness and acceptance and right standing with God)..
Friend 2: "But I'm not worthy!"
Friend 1: "Of course you're not worthy!  That's why it's called 'grace'!"

Grace is a special gift, because it's a gift you don't have to deserve or be worthy of..

I don't have to be "good enough" or "strong enough" or "spiritual enough" or "faithful enough" to get grace. I don't have to be ANYTHING to have grace!
Grace is for failures!  Grace is for the empty!  Grace is for the messed up and broken!
Grace gives wholeness, love, favor, empowering, acceptance and blessing for free!

Grace gives JESUS for free, His Spirit coming to dwell in us, bringing with Him all that He is, which is wholeness, love, favor, power, acceptance and blessing!  He is everything we need a God to be!  And it is all ours for free in Christ, through His finished work on the cross that brought all that to us..

So if you don't feel worthy enough, don't feel good enough, feel like too much of a failure or a reject or a ruined person to ever be graced, favored, loved, accepted or blessed...guess what?  You qualify for grace!   Everyone qualifies for grace, that is the beauty of it!  Because it doesn't depend on anything in US, only the love in the heart of GOD -  grace is for all and we all qualify for it.  And it is already given, already released.  God's grace is already all over us, wow!

We may think our emptiness and inability will turn Him away, but no!  Our realization that we are empty and needy simply brings us to be ready to enjoy His grace, because when we finally see we're empty yet still loved, we aren't afraid to come boldly to Him, knowing we'll have all the help we need for FREE (Heb. 4:16!  Amen!

 

Even When You Blow It..

To me, grace means that even when we blow it, we're still blessed!
Even when we ruin everything, we're still built up and supported!
Even when we run the other way from God, He comes with us and still helps us!
Even when we fall flat on our face, He still loves and uplifts and empowers us!
Grace is the best thing going, isn't it?
We don't have to be good to be loved.
We don't have to do everything right to be blessed.
We don't have to have perfect understanding to be helped.
We don't even have to have some perfect faith to be favored.
We don't have to be anything - we can rest in His arms, for because of Jesus, we are blessed, helped and favored for FREE!

Unmerited favor means that everything is freely given as a gift, without our having to do anything to earn or deserve it.  Grace means a gift that is free, with no strings attached.  God's love, acceptance, forgiveness, reconciliation, help, deliverance, blessings, favor and strength all come to us as a free and unmerited gift.

In the land of Grace (God's Kingdom), everything is free for the taking!  He has provided all for us in the Son and His finished work has secured for us this amazing inheritance!

The best part of the inheritance is Christ in us!  His Spirit dwells in us in close, intimate, perfect, everlasting union!  This is how it was always meant to be, the dream that was always in His heart.
Thank You, Lord, for being my Father, Lord, Savior, Helper, Best Friend, Confidante, Protector, Provider, Healer, Sustainer, Keeper, and True Love!  Thank You for Your Grace! 

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DAVID'S PRAYER

DAVID’S PRAYER IN THREEFOLD:

1)      “GIVE ME” Prayer is something that every Christian can pray  it is so common that even a cat or a dog can do it.  “Angel” my neighbour's dog looks like a hound – Like the Prodical Son Prayer was give me my inheritance father! Later he went back to His father and say “Make me your sons” Then the father said “Today my son who was dead has come alive again.” Give me prayers have destroy a lot of Christians like the Prodical son who wasted his life away.   

Jesus taught the new born babes in Christ “The Lord’s Prayer” _ “Give us our daily bread” This is where we start. We call this prayer the “milk Christian.”

2)      “MAKE ME” Prayers is uncommon – unless God lays His hands on us and draw us into deep communion with Him we are not able to voice such a prayer – because of our selfish nature.  It is far too costly and alien to the flesh.  This prayer, you are inviting God to make you, mold you and change you.  You are getting into the Potter’s hand. There is abandonment to self.

Psalms 39:4 – Lord make me to know my end ..

Psalms 51:6-8 -  Behold You desire truth … You will make me to know wisdom. (heavenly)

Psalms 119: 27,35 – Make me understand the way of Your precepts.  Make me walk in the path of Your commandments, for I delight in it.

Hebrews 2:9,17 – But we see Jesus, who was make a little lower than the angels .. .  Therefore in all things He had to be made like His brethren.

Hebrews 5:8 – He learned obedience by the things he suffered.

If you seek His hand (Give me) but if you seek His Face (Made me prayers)

3)       “QUICKEN ME” Prayer is desperate

Psalms 71:20 Thou, which has showed me great and sore troubles, shall quicken me again and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

Psalms 119: 25,37,40,88,107,154,156,159. _ Quicken me according to the Word; Quicken me in thy way. Quicken me in they righteousness. Quicken me after thy loving-kindness. Quicken me according to thy judgement.

Psalms 143:11 – Quick me, O Lord, for thy name’s sake: for thy righteousness sake bring my soul out of trouble.

The word, “quicken” means “to make alive”  Many Christians, lose their will to live because they cannot take the pain and the pressure.  When David lost the will to carry on, he screamed out to God many times, “O God, make me live!”  He would not give way to suicide because he knew life came from God and it was not right for him to end it himself.

Let God live through you or live for Him.  Let His Resurrection Life lives through you. God would give you the strength to carry on with a destiny if you would allow Him to live through you.  To live is Christ and to die is gain.`  

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