OntheROAD

  PASTOR     It was my ultimate goal as a young man to become what I saw as the pinnacle of achievement in the Christian society…  A PASTOR.  I strove to be one.    And yes… I finally became one… for quite a while.    Ministry was like a drug to me. The euphoric high while used by God in any situation was unparalleled.  I liked the title… the position… the way people looked up to the wisdom, revelation, counsel, and teaching.      I had started and now was growing a church,  where it didn't matter what sickness or disease came in – it was healed… demons were cast out… the lame walked… the blind saw… the deaf heard… the dead were raised…   I was living the dream!     I was building according to an  IMAGE  of ministry I had seen modeled for generations before me in every meeting, conference, or church I had attended or been on staff.     Jer10:14 “Every man is stupid, devoid of knowled...

  In banking they have the tellers handle real money so much that they can tell a counterfeit by the slightest touch. It is not done by handling, nor dwelling on the counterfeit... they KNOW the genuine!   “That which was from the beginning,  which we have heard,  which we have seen with our eyes,  which we have looked upon,  and our hands have handled,  of the Word of life… …declare we unto you…” (Jn 1:1-3)   HOWEVER… too often we dwell on all that is vile and bad in our life…   …the counterfeit.    We pray, begging our Father to deliver us,   reminding Him of all that is going wrong..  as though He has turned a blind eye to our plight.    What if we truly believe we ARE precious… the apple of His eye (Zech 2:8)… chosen… and bought with the blood of Christ?   We would then separate the precious from the vile, proclaiming what HAS BEEN DONE through Christ… and what HE BELIEVES about the situation....

  FROM WHERE I AM SITTING…     I CAN SEE  I am whole, restored, healed, delivered, and free Because it pleased My Father to put all sin, pain, sickness, disease upon Jesus Christ.  He bore it so I wouldn't have to. (Isa53)     I CAN SEE  I am a new creature in Christ that never existed before… not just an old, revamped version of myself. (2Cor5:17)     I CAN SEE  old addictions, sins, thoughts, and patterns - all the other “LORDS” - that have had dominion over me…  “They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them and made all remembrance of them to perish”. (Isa26:13-14)      I CAN SEE  I have been translated OUT OF the rule, reign, dominion, and power of the kingdom of darkness INTO the kingdom of God’s Son (Col1:13)     I CAN SEE  Yahweh, The God of Angel Armies, “always leads me in triumph in Christ, and manifests th...

  MADE     You can't grow in Righteousness.    You have been  MADE  the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus (2Cor5:21)     You can't grow in sonship.    You have been  MADE  a son of God. (Gal4:5-7)     You can't grow in freedom.    “If the Son  MAKES  you free, you are free indeed.” (Jn8:36)     NOW…     As you get the revelation of Jesus Christ, YOU GROW in your understanding of what God did through Him… …that you have ALREADY been  MADE  nigh by the blood of Jesus. (Eph2:13)…  …comprehending more and more how He sees you as a free, righteous, holy, loved, close, accepted, and approved son of the Living God… …a whole newly  MADE  creature that never existed before (2Cor5:17)… …translated OUT of the kingdom of darkness INTO a whole different kingdom where power and liberty is a way of life. (Col1:13).      YOU GROW in the wisdom and...