“It Either is, or it Ain’t”

It Either is, or it Ain’t

Our thoughts and prayers are always on this ministry, and the people who are faithful to continue with us in obedience to God’s Word, and our work in this community.

I mentioned last week that God was speaking to multiple people. It seems to be a common message of entering a new season for Amazing Life Church. I am excited to see God confirming His word, and challenging us to get ready to embrace His greatness.

Our faith and confidence in the Father must remain strong. Our prayers for wisdom and understanding must be consistent.

Holy Father knows that I will never embrace cookie cutter religion. I am not interested in following the popular movement. Being religiously correct.

I am however, very interested in stepping out of the boat. Climbing the mountain. Casting the net. I am interested in stopping to help the one who has been beaten and left for dead. “Beaten down with life, alcohol, drugs, failure and disappointment.” I am interested in becoming more like Jesus. Embracing His fulness, and I am very interested in challenging you to do the same.

I come to you in His name to share some thoughts titled,“It Either is, or it Ain’t”

For your information. I googled, “How many promises are in the Bible?” Several sites came up and I chose Bible Gateway. It responded with 5467 Divine promises. “Promise number one”

Hebrews 6:13-18

13 For when God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself,

14 saying, “I will surely bless you and I will surely multiply you.”

15 And so, having patiently waited, he obtained the promise.

16 For men swear by one greater than themselves, and with them an oath given as confirmation is an end of every dispute.

17 In the same way God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed with an oath,

18 so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us.

Hebrews 6:18 AMPC

This was so that, by two unchangeable things His promise and His oath in which it is impossible for God ever to prove false or deceive us, we who have fled to Him for refuge might have mighty indwelling strength and strong encouragement to grasp and hold fast the hope appointed for us and set before us.

God has laid the foundation for our life and its purpose. The foundation to build upon has an eternal cornerstone. A chief cornerstone. All the weight of our life. Our destiny, our success, our ministry, our everything is built upon Jesus. “His birth, life, death, resurrection, and ascension.” Himself declaring, I am the way, the truth, and the life.

God said to Abraham, “I will surely bless you and I will surely multiply you.”

In verse 17 God said He would do the same for the heirs of the promise, In verse 18 Father defines such, as those who have taken refuge in Him.

Deuteronomy 1:6-8

6 “The Lord our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying, ‘You have stayed long enough at this mountain.

7 Turn and set your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland and in the Negev and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

8 See, I have placed the land before you; go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to them and their descendants after them.’

The word Horeb from the Hebrew means, desert. It comes from a root word which means, to be waste, lay waste, make desolate, be desolate, be in ruins.

God said you have stayed long enough.

Why the urgency?

Preach conforming to your surroundings.

No blessings there.

The blessing is in the promise.

You may have to go through the desert, but don’t stay too long.

You have to get up and leave the ruins, and take what God has promised. God gives, and we have to take it.

The children of Israel never realized the promise under the leadership of Moses. Joshua took His place and did two very important things to claim the promise of God.

Joshua 11:23

So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses, and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Thus the land had rest from war.

He took it all. The second is very important, and relevant to us today.

Joshua 12:7

Now these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the sons of Israel defeated beyond the Jordan toward the west, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon even as far as Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir; and Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their divisions,

It goes on to list all the kings by name and territory.

Joshua 12:24

the king of Tirzah, one: in all, thirty-one kings.

To realize the promises of God, you will have to believe they are yours. You will have to remove every obstacle that hinders you from receiving them.

Colossians 2:8-15

8 See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.

9 For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form,

10 and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority;

11 and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ;

12 having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.

13 When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions,

14 having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him.

“It Either is, or it Ain’t”

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