The Holy Spirit's True Identity 5/29 Friday Faith

I'm going to break with my custom and give you a link to Charles Stanley's daily devotional on Who the Holy Spirit really is.  This is a great devotional for the week of Pentecost.

 http://intouch.org/read/magazine/daily-devotions/the-holy-sprits-true-identity

The Word 5/28 Thursday Thoughts

So you are to study the Word, pore over the Word, feed on the Word, act on the Word until the Word is built into you and becomes a part of your prayer life.  Then it is no longer an exercise of praying for faith but a fellowship with the Father.

--E.W. Kenyon 

Blessed Because We Believe 5/27 Wednesday Wisdom

Because of Ephesians 1:3, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ."
Notice that He has blessed us with every spiritual blessing -- that we are blessed.  He doesn't say that we are blessed if we believe.  We are blessed because we are believers.

-- E.W. Kenyon

The Failure of Christianity 5/26 Tuesday Truth

The failure of Christianity is not the failure of the nature of God in man, but it is because man has substituted church organization for the New Creation.
Sense Knowledge has gained the supremacy in the church, and Jesus is no longer Lord or Head of the Church.  Worldly-minded men rule most of the churches.

-- E.W. Kenyon 

Imitators of God 5/25 Monday Meditation

In Ephesians 5:1-2 he told us that we are to imitate God.  Now Paul says to "imitate me." Paul could not say that unless he was an imitator of God.
What does it mean to imitate God?  It means to walk in love.
I Corinthians 13 tells us that love seeketh not its own.  Love beareth all things.  The marginal rendering is "covers closely all things" so that no one can see or hear the unsightly scandal.  And above all things, love never fails.

-- E.W. Kenyon 

Pentecost 5/24 Weekend Bonus Devotional

This coming Sunday, May 24, is Pentecost.

 Pentecost is called "the birthday of the church".  It is the day that the Holy Spirit came to be with us  and in us.  Jesus told his disciples to wait in Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit came upon them.   Every male Jew was required to come to Jerusalem for Pentecost.

 

The Old Testament Pentecost celebrated God giving the Law to Moses on Mount Sinai.  According to non-Biblical tradition, the soul of every Jew who would ever be born was present  at Mount Sinai to hear God give the Law, each in his own language.

On the New Testament Pentecost, every male Jew from the known world heard the Gospel in his own language.

On the Old Testament Pentecost, 3000 who had worshipped the golden calf were put to death. 

 

On the New Testament Pentecost, 3000 who heard the Gospel received new life.

 

the letter (of the Law) kills, but the Spirit gives life

 

Quoting Pastor Robert Morris:    When the Law was given to Israel through Moses, no one could keep it.  The Law gave the Israelites an understanding of what pleased God, but it couldn't give them the internal ability to live it.

 

However, when the Holy Spirit fills a person's life, amazing things happen.  A dead human spirit is regenerated by the Holy Spirit, who writes a new law on the heart of the believer.  This law isn't the Ten Commandments; rather, it's the "Law of Love."

 

We receive the empowerment to walk in love.   In other words, we can't walk righteously without the power of the Holy Spirit.

 

Before that day, the disciples were timid and afraid -- hiding in locked rooms and dreading the knock at the door.   After Pentecost, the disciples were filled with boldness and confidence.  They proclaimed Jesus in public squares and synagogues.  The transformation brought by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost was astounding.

 

I encourage you to read the story of Pentecost in Acts 2. 

 

It is traditional to wear red on Pentecost.

Let Love Rule Your Life 5/22 Friday Faith

Do you want to be a soul winner?  Do you want to be a teacher of the Word?
Let love rule your life.  You can never amount to anything unless you do, for you can never be a blessing to the world until love dominates you.

-- E.W. Kenyon 

Love (cont.) 5/21 Thursday Thougths

Jesus is that love that fulfilled the Old Commandment and set it aside.  Love established now another Commandment of Love. God does not command the man in Christ to love Him.  If he walks in fellowship he cannot help but love Him.

-- E.W. Kenyon 

Love 5/20 Wednesday Wisdom

As we see Jesus walk in His earth walk, we see love walking.  Love healed the sick.  Love fed the hungry.  It was love at work; it was God in Christ unveiling Himself.  Love is the dominant law of God.
Romans 12:10, "Love worketh no ill to his neighbor:  love therefore is the fulfillment of the law."

-- E.W. Kenyon 

No Demons or Disease 5/19 Tuesday Truth

In Mark 16:17-20, "And these signs shall accompany them that believe: in My Name they shall cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues; if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover."So after the Lord Jesus had spoken these words to them, they went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the Word with signs following.
Now you can see that no demons or disease can stand against the Word.

-- E.W. Kenyon 

In My Name 5/18 Monday Meditation

Several times Jesus said, "In My Name."  He has given us the right to use that Name against the forces of darkness and that Name is identical with Himself.  That Name has the same power that was in Christ in His earth walk.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Covenant of Life 5/15 Friday Faith

The Old Covenant was a covenant of death; the New Covenant is a covenant of life.
The Old Covenant commanded man to love God, but he could not.  The only thing that a Jew could give to God was fear and reverence.
The New Creation gives Him real love.
You hear us singing, "I love Him, I love Him."
Yes, we do --- we love Him.  We can't help but love.  Our spirits are filled with Himself, with His own Love Nature.

-- E.W. Kenyon 

Faith for the Impossible 5/14 Thursday Thoughts

You do not need faith for the things that are possible to the senses.  Faith is needed only for the impossible, and you dare to act on the Word as though the impossible had become a possibility... a reality.
Jeremiah 1:12,  "I watch over My Word to perform it."
And Luke 1:37, "No Word from God is void of power."
Act on these fearlessly, and God will unveil Himself to your spirit.

-- E.W. Kenyon 

God Backs Up the Word 5/13 Wednesday Wisdom

Every time you act on the Word, something enters into your spirit that increases your assurance.  Every time that you fail to act on the Word, you lose.
You stand in the presence of someone that is sick and you know that they want you to pray for them.  You fearlessly do it no matter who is with you or what your surroundings may be.  You act on the Word.
God honors you and backs up the Word.

-- E.W. Kenyon

Don't Struggle ... Act! 5/12 Tuesday Truth

You are not struggling to be righteous, you are not struggling to have faith.  You have faith; you have the Word, and faith comes by the Word.

The unsaved man may have to struggle to get faith, but you do not.  All you have to do is to act upon what He has said.  Your faith can only grow as you act upon the Word.

--E.W. Kenyon 

A Believer, Not a Doubter 5/11 Monday Meditation

Your faith requires no evidence but the Word, requires no proof from the senses.  Faith is blind to all but the Word. It rises above the realm of the senses.  It has its own way, its own weapons, its own ground for assurance.  It is the Word.  

II Corinthians 5:7, "For we walk by faith and not by sight (or senses)."
The believer is a believer.  He is not a doubter.

--E.W. Kenyon 

Waters of Plenty 5/8 Friday Faith

When want faces you, you read Psalm 23:1-3, "Jehovah is my Shepherd; I shall not want.  He maketh me to lie down in green pastures  and He leadeth me beside the waters of gentle stillness."

You see, I am by the waters of plenty.  There is not a need that He cannot supply.  You say it over and over again, "The Lord is my Shepherd -- my Bread-Provider, my Rent-Payer."

The world's lord may lead one into want, into pain and heartache; but my Lord leads into green pastures.

--E.W. Kenyon 

The Real Combat 5/7 Thursday Thoughts

Now you bring the Living Word of God to combat the reasonings of the Senses.  You are not swayed by the things you see -- an empty purse, a weak body, or a lack of work.  You must never think of your combat as against the thing that you can see or hear or feel.  Your combat is with the prince of the power of the air that rules people's feelings and fills them with fear.

-- E.W. Kenyon 

Act Upon the Word 5/6 Wednesday Wisdom

We act upon the Word as Jesus acted upon the Word of His Father.  Jesus used the Father's words to defeat the adversary, to heal the sick, to raise the dead, and to feed the multitudes.
We use the Word of God to defeat the enemy.  When we approach the Throne we come with our mouths filled with His Word.  

-- E.W. Kenyon

Authority and Might of the Word 4/5 Tuesday Truth

Ephesians 6:17 tells us how we overthrow reasoning of the disputer and we pull down all the lofty bulwarks.  "And take the helmet of Salvation, and the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God."  We show the world that we are absolutely masters in Christ.

We have never as a church realized the authority and might of the Word.

--E.W. Kenyon

The Word Can... 4/4 Monday Meditation

We are combating demons and disease with the Word.  The Word is the sword of the recreated spirit.  That Word can slay disease, and that Word can heal the sick.
The man who walks by faith in the Word requires no evidence of the senses.  He has proof that the thing he is praying for has come.

--E.W. Kenyon