My Dear Friend
Let's create an atmosphere for miracles!!!
Study GOD'S WORD ! Get the WORD in your heart and in your mouth.
Faith is NOW !
When you pray, believe you receive !
When?
NOW !
Praise God ! He is worthy !
From this moment on, I want you to put a guard on your tongue. Only let faith-filled words come out of your mouth. Watch and be very careful what you let enter into your heart and mind.
Watch and Pray !
God will honor only what you do behind closed doors. What you get from God will not come from crowds, but by getting alone with God.
Open up before God - let Him fill you. Tell God you need to be refreshed.
It's time to get up ! There is something God wants to tell you. He's not through with you. God wants you going forth in His name!
Remember ! Faith must be in two places to work. It has to be in your heart and in your mouth. It cannot be in one place, it has to be in both places: in your heart and in your mouth. So, plant God's Word in your heart and speak it with your mouth. It will produce faith that will remove mountains .
Your Friend,
Shirley Oliver
DESTINATION: HEAVEN OR HELL?
When we leave this planet, whether by death or rapture we will go to our final destination. HEAVEN if we have lived according to God's Word. HELL if we live by our rules or thinking. The Word of God tells us in (Proverbs 9:9-11) 9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
(Jeremiah 17:5-10)
5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
WHEN GOD SEARCHES YOUR HEART WHAT WILL HE FIND?
(Proverbs 16)
2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.
(You may fool people, but you can not fool God. He knows the heart & mind of man.)
CHECK LIST: LOCATE YOURSELF
(Matt. 22:37,38)
37 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.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
Do you love God with all your heart? Y or N
LOVE TO GOD MUST COME FROM:
1. The heart: All inward affections
2. The soul: All consciousness
3. The mind: All thoughts
ALL OF YOU
(John 14:23,24)
23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings:
Are you keeping the WORDS of GOD? Y or N
(Mark 8:34)
34 And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
To deny yourself & take up your cross & follow Me.
The gospel benefits are solely on the basis of personal choices & meeting certain conditions.
(John 3:16)
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
4 things one must do to be saved after being born again:
1. Continue willing to follow Jesus
2. Deny himself daily; renounce all self-dependence, self-interest, & self-pursuits which are contrary to God
3. Take up the cross daily
4. Follow Christ daily
(Romans 6:12-23) (NASB)
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body that you should obey its lusts,
13 and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
14 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!
16 Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?
17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed,
18 and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
19 I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification.
20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
21 Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death.
22 But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Do you present your members as slaves to righteousness? Y or N
Does sin have dominion over you? Y or N
GOD THROUGH JESUS HAS MADE US FREE! IT IS UP TO US TO STAY FREE.
(Matt. 22:39)
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Do you love your neighbor as thyself? Y or N
1 Cor. 13:4-8 (NASB)
4 Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,
5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,
6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails;
From the Problem to the Answer
The Divine Order of Faith
Step 1: Identify the Problem
Is it Spiritual? Physical? Emotional? Financial? Whatever it is, the first step in conquering it, is facing it head-on and identifying what it truly is.
Step 2: Make a Quality Decision
You've got to say, "I'm coming out of this situation. I'm coming out by the power of God and I'm coming out by the Word. I've made my decision and from this point forward, nothing is going to change my mind."
Step 3: Find Your Title Deed
Once you've determined that you're going to overcome by the Word of God, the next step is to go to God's Word and find a promise that speaks to your particular situation. That promise is your "title deed" to the power and provision of Almighty God.
No matter what you're facing today, there is a promise in God's Word that addresses your need. A promise you can stake your very life on.
Step 4: Hear the Word
Once you've found the title deed to your miracle, you need to bring faith onto the scene by hearing what that deed has to say. Faith comes by hearing the Word of God (Romans 10:17).
Shut your ears to the world and open them to the Word. Then you'll be ready to take the next step.
Step 5: Meditate the Word
To get that Word into your heart where it can do some good requires more than just listening -- it requires meditation.
Joshua 1:8, God says, "this book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, ...."
Meditating on God's Word is an essential key to success and prosperity. Psalm 1, "How do I know when I've meditated on the Word long enough to have faith deposited in my heart?"
That's simple. When you can "see" it. When the inner image of what you're believing God for becomes more real to you than what you see with your natural eyes.
Step 6: Harness the Power of Confession
Finding a promise in God's Word, hearing it and meditating on it until it becomes real to you, is somewhat like taking a bullet and loading it into a gun. It still takes another action -- pulling the trigger -- to release its power.
You pull the trigger of faith when you confess God's Word from a heart overflowing with faith. "For of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh" (Luke 6:45).
You may not see it manifested right away. That's why the next step is so important.
Step 7: Act on the Word
Once you've released God's power through faith-filled words, it's important to keep the pressure applied in the spirit realm by acting on what you have spoken.
If you truly believed you received when you prayed, then act like it. James tells us that faith without corresponding action is dead (James 2:17).
Step 8: Apply the Pressure of Patience
Hebrews 6:12 tells us to not be "slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises."
Faith gets your miracle moving but it is patience that brings it home. Faith and patience go hand in hand.
Step 9: Wait for God's Timing
One of the most important truths you can ever grasp in your Christian life is this: With God, there is an appointed time and a due season for everything.
This is a concept you must keep in mind as you begin to pray and believe for certain things in your life.
The key to avoiding frustration, fear and the temptation to quit when standing in faith on God's Word, is understanding there is a time and due season for everything. "And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not" (Galatians 6:9).
Step 10: Expect the Answer
Expectation is a very powerful thing.
When you expect something, you begin to position yourself to receive it.
There is something about expectation that places you before the face of God. God blesses expectant people !
Expect to receive a hundredfold return on all your giving. Expect to walk in health. Expect to be promoted. Expect to have a good marriage. Expect ALL the blessings of God to be yours in fullness here and now. That's the final step in God's divine order of faith.