Give Thanks!

September 30, 2020

Wednesday PM

Colossians 1:9-14  For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; 12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. 13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, 14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.

 Give thanks for the things God instructs us to be thankful for! While you’re enduring you can be joyful! Giving thanks is key! We have victory because of Jesus’ shed blood! Everything in your inheritance is because of His blood. 

 Hebrews 9:12 Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. 

 Many people believe victory, but the reality is, were not trying to get victory, we already have it! It’s already done. Jesus already got it for us! To receive your inheritance, you have to know it belongs to you. Jesus already got us salvation. In the word salvation is your inheritance.  It means total complete deliverance from all of darkness, transferring you from darkness into the kingdom of the Father.  We are qualified to be partakers of the inheritance! The blood is what qualifies us. 

 In the old testament, when the people would sin or mess up, they would bring a lamb to the priest. The priest would inspect the lamb, and if it was blemish free, he would say, “this is an acceptable sacrifice.”  And that lamb took the place of that person’s flaws. The priest didn’t inspect the person, he inspected the lamb.  Jesus was the lamb. He was accepted in heaven as the perfect sacrifice.  This is what qualified us. He was the perfect sacrifice!  The blood of Jesus washes us from all unrighteousness. The blood forgives us and cleanses us from all unrighteousness. The blood makes us righteous and redeems us from sin.  Sin has no power over us! The only way sin has power over us is if you CHOOSE to sin.  We have power over sin. The blood freed us from sin.  We are in a new kingdom with a new father!  You’re only defeated if you don’t know who you are and what belongs to you. But we are learning!  We are new creatures! All things are new! The old you is dead and no longer exists. Your growth in grace is a growing awareness of who you already are in Christ, based on what He’s already done.  You’ll never understand who you already are in Christ, until you understand all the Father has done in completely doing away with who you used to be.  We are brand new! New Father, new kingdom, new family, new future, out of darkness into light! That’s who you are now! And when you realize this, you will wake up every day thankful! We have to learn to be thankful for what is already ours! It will increase your capacity to receive what is already yours! It’s all based on the blood. 

 Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ

 All blessings are spiritual because they come out of the spiritual realm. God has already given you what you need for every single day. We aren’t trying to get it, Jesus got it for us! We have what we need to succeed! He gave us authority over the devil. He gave us healing for sickness and disease. He gave us prosperity for poverty. He gave us victory for defeat. He gave us the blood for sin. Mercy for mistakes. Blessings for the curse. Life for death. Joy for mourning. Peace for fear and torment. All of that has already been given! It belongs to you! It’s yours! Be thankful!! We aren’t the sick trying to get healed. We are healed and the devil is trying to take our health! This is how we have to think on things! Adjust your mindset! It’s already done. 

 

 

Interpretation of tongues at the end of the service:

For the enemy goes about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. It’s the cares that give him that road into your life. Refuse to take up those cares. Refuse to worry about those things. Refuse to allow that to get into your thinking and mind. Refuse to pick that up. Leave it alone! Lay it down. Give it to me. Don’t you know this,? says the Lord. I care for you. I care for you as only a Father can care for you. It touches My heart what touches your heart. I’ve come tonight because I want to lift those burdens. I want to lift those weights off of my people. For too long my people have been weighed down. For too long my people have been under a heaviness. But I’m telling you tonight, by my Spirit, says the Lord, that heaviness is lifting. That heaviness is going to come off of my people. My people are going to arise and shine in this hour. I have great things in store for my people. There are things that the enemy doesn’t know! There are things that the enemy hasn’t seen yet! That I’m going to do in this day and hour that my people are going to see and enjoy. And the world is going to look on in awe and they will still know that I AM God.  The world is going to know that I still do things that only I can do. For I am the Lord. I am the Lord thy God. And I will see to thee. I will take care of you. I will watch over you! I will protect you! And know this, says the Lord, I will provide for you!