Luke 6:38 (NKJV)
.38 Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.”
Teachings - April 2015
Here are various teachings which have been compiled by me and shared with you all. I encourage anyone with specific doctrinal or biblical questions, to contact me.
Open Doors
Posted: April 7, 2015
Isaiah 22:22 says that GOD opens doors that no man can close and GOD closes doors that no man can open. Verily the LORD says whatever door I have closed or open will stay closed or open until its appointed time. God says: what is left after the storm, is it not the sweet fragrance of cleansing; does not everything seem refreshed and new and when the tranquility comes oh how tranquil it truly is. What does the air smell and feel like after the storm? Is it not the sweet fragrance of renewal a beautiful cleansing smell. What of the storm, what of the thunder does it not remind you of my great voice and my great power. How beautiful are the ears that long to hear my voice and how beautiful are the eyes that behold my power and the mouth that praises me from infinity to infinity I will not disappoint those who put their trust in me.
Alingning prayer with the purpose of God
Posted: April 9, 2015
Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublimest; the weakest and the most powerful; its results lie outside the range of human possibilities-they are limited only by the omnipotence of God. Prayer puts God's work in his hands-and keeps it there. It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers. The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God, for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces. Prayer is our most formidable weapon, the thing which makes all else we do efficient.
Learning to live the Christian life..
Posted: April 11, 2015
Supposing I am wanting to learn the game of tennis, I get all the books, and I read and I read and I read, I study all there is about tennis. I study all the rules and memorize all the rules. I get one of those book with pictures on how to hold the racket; the illustrated ones. I do it on my living room floor.I get out on the court and the first attempt to hit the ball; I realize I can’t play tennis. So I go back and studied even more; I study the lives the great tennis players. I make pilgrimages to Wilmendon . I have got to learn this game. I got to get it. It is useless. I only discover what I can’t do I. So I hire a coach. He is a champion of his own right. He tries to teach me and I am dumb at it, I can’t do it, I just don’t get it.Now supposing that coach could actually come inside of me and that he could be muscle of my muscle, mind of my mind, without displacing me, so that I am still there one hundred percent me, but I am now one with a person who is actually one hundred percent himself. All I have to do, my only thing that I have to do, is to admit two things; #1 I cannot play tennis, #2 he can, so I choose to let him. Now, I can now play tennis, yet not I but the coach that lives within me.Now this automatically falls into place. You see the obvious.
We come to Christ and we want to live this Christian life. We want to learn how to live this Christian life. So we try very hard. We struggle by law method. Do this, do that, do the other and it doesn't work. Though, sometimes we are like the king that no clothes. We won’t admit it. It doesn’t work. It is as though we think, God forbid that we should admit it. It doesn't work. We actually seem worse. We have a list of rules. In some of our churches we have to sign a paper with 32 rules and regulations before you can join. So it “I will not, I will not, I will not”. Then we study the lives the saints and it makes us look terrible, we can’t do it. We can even study the life of Jesus, the great coach of all, and if all I study is what He said and look at what He said as if they were commands that I must in my own strength obey, forget it.The miracle which is no fantasy is when the coach comes to live inside of me. I live, He doesn’t take me away. I am more me today then I have ever been before. I am one hundred percent me. It is not to annihilate you. No one can or will express Christ in your uniqueness as a person with your gifting, your strengths and your weaknesses as you can. This unique person that you are, He made. He made you; He comes to live inside of you. Paul said I live, hear it again, I live. There are no two people with the same fingerprints. You are unique and Christ does not take away that uniqueness. He enhances it. I live, yet not I.When the realization comes that it is not by our self effort, but realizing that He is within, you can rest and say, I cannot, but Christ can. You can turn to your Lord Jesus within you and speak to Him, I cannot, but YOU, Lord Jesus Christ can.
You will rest and know the power of Him that can and will be in all you are called on to do, called to be and also in your temptation.Paul said, What Christ has wrought by me. It is in essence saying, when I touched you it is as if Christ has touched you by me.When we say, In the name of Jesus; it is as if He spoke Outside of Christ, this must be underscored, I am zero. Remember I can’t play tennis. I in myself, left to myself am zero, zero. It is not the calling forth of the human. This is an absolute statement, outside of Christ I am nothing, I do not become Christ and Christ does not become me. I remain Sandra….PERIOD, the human, the created, the helpless. Christ remains the eternal son, ever other from in one sense, YET by Grace, united to me by the Spirit. In that mystical union, when Christ comes to life in me, that for me, for me to live is Christ. I, I, I, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. He does it. I can do all things THROUGH Christ, yet it is me. The word strengthen means “fuses me with His strength.”When you make the tea, you have a tea bag and you have hot water. The tea is the tea, hot water is hot water. When you put the tea bag into the hot water and leave it for a while. What happens is the tea fuses, it steeps and the result is you have tea. There has been a fusion. That colorless, tasteless water has been fused with the tea and what you pour out from the pot has been teafied or fused; to such an extent that when we touch the water we say we have touch the tea, but everyone knows that the tea is other from the water.Christ is the eternal other at the right hand of the Father. I do not become Him and He does not become me, yet he so fuses His life, His strength, His love with me and yet when I speak to you In His Name it is as if I spoke to you. You touch Him. When I lay my hand on you His healing life comes to you, but say I am god is going too far because that was the temptation the enemy gave to Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden., You shall be as God. No we never will be God, but we operate in God’s class and I do that because I am in Christ and Christ is in me. Outside of Him, I can do nothing.
Do this in remembrance of me...
Posted: April 10, 2015
Do this in remembrance of me:
Jesus is speaking to Hebrews and Hebrews can't just "remember." They do it.
When thinking of the word remember you cannot think as a Westerner. When we think of the word remember in the West, we try to recall things that have happened. We go back into our memory and try to recall the details. You can recall your birthday party, your wedding, last Christmas. But how do you recall His death and His burial and His ascension? You were not there. Sometimes as a child I closed my eyes tight trying to remember Jesus dying and try to think of all the suffering and fill your imagination with sad thoughts about his suffering. You get yourself feeling the sad feelings, but that is not it.
Jesus says DO THIS in remembrance of ME.
The Eastern way of thinking is different. To remember means to enter into the past and bringing that past into the present, even though it is a once-for-all, forever done event. If you were going to "remember" your marriage, you would re-do, re-enact the marriage, put on the gown, wear the suit even though it is a forever done event. The Passover is repeated every year, but the Passover was a once-for-all forever done event.
So it is with the blood of Jesus Christ and the broken body of Christ; that is a once-for all, forever done event. You can take the emblems that represent the blood of Jesus and the broken body of Christ and the power and authority that was done once and for all and bring that past into your present. The blood speaks and yet speaks; the power and authority; the healing, the deliverance, the wisdom, the light, the presence of who He is can be partaken because you can have the power and authority of that blood and cross brought from the past into your present. We are going to get together and we are going to bring the power of that past into the present and we are going to now participate in what happened there and it is going to be a real thing now.
So you are repeating your marriage ceremony, do it again yet it was done and can never be repeated.
Jesus says DO THIS. Take the bread and the wine, or grape juice. They are symbols that have been set apart. It is a mystery, not chemistry and we don't need debates about how and if the substance becomes the body and blood of Christ. You will have missed it. It is a mystery and we need to leave it at that. God has given the command to DO THIS.
Look at a dollar bill: What is a dollar bill? It is a piece of paper. But if you say it is a piece of paper, you are being foolish. That is not a piece of paper, but it is a piece of paper and it will always be a piece of paper. But, that piece of paper, by an authority, has been set aside to be a very uncommon piece of paper and in being set aside to be an uncommon piece of paper, it has become a symbol of precious metal and not only just a symbol, but a communicating symbol so that piece of paper can be used as real currency. If you tell me that's just a piece of paper, I agree with you. It is a piece of paper. But, I also say, if you say that is a piece of paper you are foolish. That is no common piece of paper. That is uncommon paper because an authority has set is aside to become a symbol- a symbol of precious metal that probably you will never see, but a symbol that actually communicates to you worth of that precious metal. So, once you have got that piece of paper in your hand, you can use it as currency. We are people of symbols. God takes the things of earth to communicate. He used the symbols of blood covenant to represent His faithfulness. His word is enough, but God comes to where we are at. If I girl walks into her office with a diamond on, no words have to be said, just ear plugs as the screams and excitement convey what has happened. How many times have you notice how someone looks to see if you are wearing a ring on the left hand. God says to lay hands on the sick. Is there anything in your hands? It is a point of contact heavenward to man; God to man and in obedience to His word, His presence, His entrance into trouble places in people's lives and healing happens.
In Exodus 12: 11 This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover. This was earlier in the evening.
The first born were killed at midnight. He was saying the way you demonstrated your faith was in the way you ate. You ate in haste; put your belt on ready to go, walking shoes and staff ready for deliverance and answers to your prayers. You know that as you ate of the lamb, and drank of the wine, your answers to prayer, your deliverance, your healing, your intimate relationships with Him was to be received as you ate and drank.
At communion you are not bringing your mind back, you are bringing the Finished Work of Christ forward and WE'RE HERE. My sins are laid upon Him, my grief and my sorrow are made one with Him. There are the grief of physical pain, sexual abuse, verbal and emotional abuse. He bore it in His body on the cross. At communion I am there. I am there when they crucify my Lord. We are not re-crucifying Him, you can't do that. It was once and for all. But we can enter into it The bread and the wine is not magic. The bread and the wine are actually the means of grace. It is God delivery system. It brings all He did in His finished work here and now present to become a dynamic operation in lives of believer. The power of what happened 2000 years ago is present to you today I was scheduled to speak one evening and I had pushed and pushed until I could not and now was quite ill. I took a piece of bread and some grape juice and I was there with Him, His blood and broken body. There was an exchange. I received power in my physical body and went and spoke.
Another translation of this in the Greek is Preach it again. Declare again what the blood has done. He went into hell and took the keys of hell and death. The veil has been rent. We have access to God. Face to face. We have intimacy with Him. We know him personally and He has given His life to me to be My Shepherd, My Deliverer, My Healer, My Provider, My Wisdom, My Light in a dark place. Take my grief and sorrows, all my emotional pain. At His name all the powers of hell must bow. He is the king; the Lord of Lords and King of Kings.
Do this in remembrance of me...
Posted: April 29, 2015
The Throne room of God becomes realized as you give praise to His name. As you praise the realization becomes yours as you see it; you obtain and become sensitized.
Gathering of the priest; you and me; we are covered with dust of world, we feel the pressure out there. As we praise from the heart; you are lifting your heart and it cleanses you
Satan hates praise; darkness depression despair is his kingdom.
Hallelujah Halle primary meaning is radiating with light bragging and boasting of the I AM that I AM. When you need deliverance, I am the deliverer, You need water, I am the supplier, you need healing, I am the healer. You are praising God for who He really is; not the darkness and slander of the enemy about God, but who He is. For God is good; that is true, the enemy would speak to you why did a loving God allow this in my life? As you begin to praise Him for who He is. He is Good; His lovingkindness (sometimes translated as mercy, or love; but legal statement of the blood which says that God will treat you with love, kindness and goodness). Goodness and Mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, not defeat, sickness and poverty or this is the way it is in my family line. The cross of Christ has broken the back of your family line. He is in an everlasting covenant that will never be broken. It is the covenant between God the Father and the blood of His Son. He has promised to take full responsibility for your life.
Your faith is a response to His Faithfulness.
Light disperses darkness. Praise disperses darkness.
Praise doesn’t only do something for me but does something in the spirit world. Giving praise to God gives great achievement in the spirit world that are connected with prayer
Psalm 8:2 2Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
Who and what are these babe and infants that silence enemy and avenger?
Babes and infants are utter weakness; doesn’t look like very much strength. What is weaker? Nothing is weaker than a babe or suckling
God ordained and decreed praise (strength) to bring to pass
Strength is a stronghold; strength of fortress, tower of strength; a refuge you are in, so they can’t get you but a refuge from which you can get them.
Out of the mouth of these insignificant person you have brought to perfection the making of a tower of strength; the producing of a stronghold resulting is you may silence the enemy.
Hebrew - to hurl he enemy back and shut him up with nothing left to say
What comes out of them, the babes and infants, what comes out is that it creates a stronghold that the enemy is hurled back and shut up. Jesus quotes this verse He says it slightly different though.
Matt.21:16 And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?
The children were saying Hosanna. He is saying to the leaders, yes, I hear them. It is praise that the babes and infants are building the stronghold that causes the enemies of God to be hurled down and shut up; praise that comes out of the weakest person.
Praise builds audible fortress; shuts up and hurls down the enemy.
Praise God and the side effect build a stronghold that shuts up and hurls down all the opposing forces.
In church it should be to lift your hearts to the Lord not bind the enemies. The news is the devil is bound 2000 years ago. Get absorbed in the glory of God.
Psalm 50:23 He who brings an offering of praise and thanksgiving honors and glorifies Me; and he who orders his way aright [who prepares the way that I may show him], to him I will demonstrate the salvation of God.
Difficult to translate in Hebrews, but it does mean a road opens up to bring the manifestation of salvation; boulders become removed; track opens; road opens up to you.