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[ Created: 2024-05-05 06:15:27  Updated: 2024-05-05 07:10:21 Owner: rl ]
Title: Our Lord Jesus Christ has given us His body, blood and Holy Spirit    
  
  
  
  

    

  
  
  
  


The God of Yes!   by Barry Bennett There is an invisible “force field” around many believers that hinders them from truly enjoying their walk with God.   

This force field is the idea that God’s purpose for their life is filled with potholes, thorns, poverty, sickness, and perhaps even tragedies.   
God is seen as a mysterious puppet master.   

Who knows what He might have planned?   We just have to endure, hang on, and hopefully make it to the end.   

The promises of the Bible are often met with responses such as,
    “not in this life,”
    “I tried that and it didn’t work,” or,
    “I don’t know why God won’t do that for me.”

The truth is, He’s already done it for you, and He has committed Himself to bless you!   

If your first thought to that statement is filled with doubt, then you just bumped into the “force field” of unbelief.   

It has taken me years to understand what was holding me back in some areas of my life.   I saw great progress in many things, but in others I felt blocked.   

Perhaps I had reached my peak in the blessings of God.   One day the blinders came off and I began to see that the problem wasn’t with the God, it was in me.   

I simply didn’t believe that God could be that good – to me!   

I finally decided to cast down all negative thoughts of unworthiness, guilt, and doubt, and began to expect more.   More than I felt I had a right to expect.   

I finally realized that it wasn’t about my rights based on my performance, but my rights base on His love for me.   

If I could believe, I could receive.   

When it says that all of His promises are “yes and amen,” , it means just that.   
For all the promises of the Lord in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of the Lord by us.
What the Lord has said will come to pass.     
    He cannot lie.     
    He is bound by His Word.     

Our faith in His integrity causes us to believe His Word and appropriate His promises by faith.

His “yes” isn’t the problem.   It’s our “amen” that is the problem.   

We often subconsciously change it to “yes and maybe,” “yes and hopefully”, or “yes but probably not.”

Unbelief is destroying more blessings that we can imagine.   

What desire do you carry in your heart?   
What would bless you?   
What would you do for someone else if you could?   
What would bring you joy?   

God is for you!   
    He is always “yes and amen.”
    He gets glory when you are blessed.   

Don’t be afraid to be blessed!   
Don’t let unbelief rule in your heart.   
Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
The Lord wants us to be joyful.     The second fruit of His Holy Spirit is joy.     Expect it, claim it and walk in it.     It is part of your inheritance in Christ Jesus.


Epilogue: Critical to our faith in the promises of 'God' is our grasp of this Truth:
    God is in us.   
    He is the Holy Spirit of Christ Jesus
    Christ Jesus has given us Himself
    There is no thing that He will withhold from us.   
For the Lord is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
The love of the Lord for us is boundless.     He wants to give us the desires of our hearts.     

We soon find that He and He alone satisfies us.     

To 'walk uprightly' is to walk by faith and not by sight .     

There are two distincts aspects of dealing with error:
    rejecting the lie and
    receiving the Truth.   

Reject the lie that God is different than the One we see In Christ Jesus.   
Receive the Truth of God In Christ Jesus.   

Reject the Spirit Of Unbelief.   
Receive the Spirit Of God - the Holy Spirit Of Christ Jesus.   

The Truth is that He abides in you.   Now abide in Him.   
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
To abide in Jesus is:
    to be Baptized In The Name Of Jesus Christ
    to be filled with His Holy Spirit.     
    to have the Mind Of Christ.     

When you are in the Holy Spirit, in the Word and have the Mind Of Christ, you know that He has provided all things for life and godliness, so that when you ask, you receive .