OntheROAD

  WHEN HE PRAYED FOR HIS FRIENDS   So often we are so consumed in our own pain… entangled in our own problems… wrapped up in our own lives… so introspective and indulged with our own circumstances we don't even realize there are others around us being stolen from… lied to… or destroyed.   For some reason we are solely focused on ourselves.   We have become needy and self-centered... still pleading for someone – a SAVIOR – to free us, deliver us, heal us, get us out of our predicaments… when… all along WE HAVE BEEN SAVED – SOZO – set free, healed, delivered, get on well, prospered, be made whole. OUR NEED HAS BEEN MET (Ph4:19) OUR REDEMPTION HAS BEEN PURCHASED (Col1:14) CHRIST BORE OUR PAIN (Isa53:4) BY HIS STRIPES WE WERE HEALED. (1Pet2:24) IT IS FINISHED (Jn19:30)   Once we realize that our deliverance HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED, we can finally turn our attention to those in need around us.   Jesus says to Peter, "…Satan has demanded permission to sift you lik...

  WITHSTAND AND RESIST     “Submit to God. RESIST the devil and he will flee from you.” (Jas4:7NKJV)     Once we have placed yourself under obedient submission to the orderly arrangement of Christ [SUBMIT]                   … THEN                                     we RESIST the devil                                                       and HE WILL FLEE. (run away, vanish, to flee)     I wonder if we really comprehend what it really me...

  Reigning today     1Cor15:57KJV “…Thanks be to God, which GIVETH us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”     Today is a day of victory!… overcoming!… having dominion in what has been given us!…     “For WHATSOEVER is born of God overcomes the world:  and this is the victory that overcomes the world,  even our faith.  Who is he that overcomes the world,  but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God?” (1Jn5:4-5KJV)     OUR FAITH is even born of God… as are we!     FAITH IS WHO WE ARE…  AND THE PLACE FROM WHICH WE NOW SEE ALL OF LIFE!     We overcome the world!!!     NOW !     2Cor6:2KJV “…behold, NOW is the accepted time; behold, NOW is the day of salvation”     Rom8:37KJV “…in all these things WE ARE MORE THAN CONQUERORS through him that loved us.”     Ps8:3–9KJV “What is MAN , that thou art mindful of him...