Jesus Cleanses The Temple

No matter how committed all the world we are to God, we have a tendency to fall back into old patterns of behavior, bad habits, and toxic mindsets. It is if we want to go back to the way we were.

Jesus saw this tendency to fall into our old ways when he cleaned out the temple. In the beginning of his ministry, after his first miracle of turning water into wine at the wedding of Cana, He Travel to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover.

Temple courts He found then selling cattle; He Scattered acorns and the money changers and overturned their tables. Kill those who sold doves He Add to them all out of there! Furious that they had turned His Father’s house into a market.

Three years later, you’re his last week of life on earth, he just came upon the unholy activities again. Jesus enter the temple courts and roll out all who are buying and selling there. He overturn the tables of money changers and the benches a little selling doves.

How did the corruption happen for the second time? Perhaps it had happened all at once. After Jesus cleared out the temple initially it might have stayed that way for a time. But one day, and money changer set up his table. Then another one in a few pigeons, i’ll buy a couple cattle and then the pandemonium and ensued.

The next thing we see is that the temple isn’t any different that it was before Jesus cleared it out three years earlier. In three years it had reverted back to an unholy mess.

This is why Jesus came to earth and died on the cross. To redeem us from our sin. Which the gap between who we should be and who we really are. He turns over the tables of sin, idolatry and greed and instead, Since His hand to and I, And invites us to surrender to our desires, and align our lives with His very own.

Today the world have gotten back to our old patterns of behavior, bad habits, and toxic mindsets. The Lord must think they are they are at it again. Haven’t they learned anything. We have seen in scripture that God is slow to anger, but how much can He diffuse His anger.

Less resistance temptation and keep going back to the way we were. If you are willing to take a few moments and ask God if there is something you were allowed to creep back in your life, as the spirit to feel you again, and heal your heart, and He will be delighted to do so.

The world is where is today because we have fallen back into our old patterns of behavior, bad habits, and toxic mindsets. There is too much sin in the world. Prophecy tells us that when there’s so much shit in the world that has not been repented for. We will have to endure God’s wrath.

He will come again and take all the sin out of the world. Are you prepared.

Matthew 21:12-19

The Restored Years

The promise of abundance is found throughout the Bible. Zach 9:12 says, “ Return to your fortress, O prisoners of hope, even now I announce that I will restore twice as such to you.”

God says He will restore the wasted years, He will redeem the time. Do not look back upon the failed harvests because of drought or disease. The years have been spent in vain, I will cause you to produce such a harvest in times to come that the years of failure will be forgotten. Do not look back. Do not groan over lost opportunities. Do not your time thinking of what should have been accomplished, and what did not produce. Do not even worry over those years that set you back.

God has forgiven and forgotten the wasted years. He has forgiven and forgotten those wasted opportunities. He had forgiven and forgotten those times when you went backward instead of forward. Now you are to look forward to what I (God) have for you to accomplish as I bring you once again into a fertile place abs will cause you ti plant and water and harvest for my Kingdom and my glory in a unprecedented way.

The Lord says the best is ahead of you.

The Lord has prepared you even in the drought and years of disappointment to stay the course and trust in my presence. While you have learned by the difficulties that you have experienced. You must have faith as you have matured in the way you have waited for me,

You will benefit even by the times you failed because you saw My great faithfulness and grace I have extended to you.

We must realize God’s infallible love. We have all witnessed His mercy toward us and it is ever present for us. We must learn to depend on Him and trust Him when things become difficult. After the difficult times, He will lead you to a place of productivity, if you are willing.

The harvest will be great. We must keep pressing forward, and forget those things that are behind us.

Your season of blessing is before you, God will propel you into these blessings so that you will be enriched, with no sorrow.

You need only to ask and trust in Him

A Promise Fulfilled

When we median Christ’s ultimate victory over sin and death, we must remember the decisive event in human history that has taken place on the cross. It is the pivotal point of the greatest reversal even known: the place where sin, death, and the powers of this world were defeated, once and for all. There is nothing more central to the Christian life than this. But we can’t just stop there. Jesus is risen!

So often in our theology we focus on the suffering and mystery, as opposed to the strength and victory that has come from Jesus’s resurrection. The resurrection of Jesus has happened, and it is a community empowered like no other then or since to change the world in which we live by being changed ourselves.

For the cross to be a victory, it’s power must give us the strength to face the demands and pressures of life’s battles and to understand at a deeper level the nature of those battles. The cross, resurrection, and giving of the Spirit is the engine we need to be released into fulfilled lives of sacrifice, service, love, and purpose, to be agents of change in the world.

But first, perhaps this is the moment to ask God to come and bring about the change in us that will enable us to be the change we pray for.

The risen Savior changes lives not only for eternity, but right now, today, here on earth. That is a fact to celebrate.

We often take for granted what the risen Christ has done for us for eternity, and for today. We lose gratitude for the ever-present power of Jesus’s death and resurrection. But today let’s regain our wonder of living in the power of the resurrection.

Luke 24:44-49

4 Steps To Having The Mind Of Christ

Passover And Renewing Your Mind

1. Right standing with Faith in God -The Blood of The Lamb

2. Freedom From Sin – Sin removed inside and outside

3. Fruit of the Spirit- Evidence Of a Relationship with God, and true discipleship.

4. We must be filled with the Spirit – anointed to do His will.

Biblical Feasts

Leviticus 23:

Passover (Exodus 12; Lev 23-5) – Spring

Unleavened Bread (Lev 23:6-8 -Spring

First fruits ( Lev 23:9-14) – Spring

Weeks/Pentecost ( Lev 23: 15-22 – Spring

Trumpets (Lev 23:23-25) – Fall

Day of Atonement (Lev 23-26-32) – Fall

Tabernacles/Booths (Lev 23: 33-44) – Fall

Having the mindset of Christ during this time and should be easier time of year. We have 50 days from Passover to Pentecost. If you focus on even 1 of the principles of the 4 during this time. That means pray, meditate,and speak to God. You can change bad habits and begin renewing your mind.

If you focus on Christ, you will begin your journey to having the mindset of Christ.

The Strength We Need Today

The strength you want most may not be the strength you need most, because the weakness you feel may not be the real source of your weakness.

When we begin to feel weak or exhausted, it may be that we’re physically worn out – from work, from relationships, from parenting, from life. We all have days we could go to sleep early, and still sleep until noon – at least if it weren’t for, well life.

Diet, exercise, and sleep all factor into our strength for any given day, but only incrementally compared to Spiritual resources we need. The strength we really need most from God today isn’t weighed in calories or defined by REM cycles, because the most important things He has called us to do today run deeper and higher that what we typically see and feel.

What Kind Of Strength?

Seven words leapt off the page at me, when I was reading the account of Saul’s conversion the other day, in Act 9 – probably because I have felt especially weak in the stress of things in my life. In Acts 9:22 Saul increased all the more in strength.

Christ had blinded Saul after confronting Him on the road to Damascus.

Saul was so disoriented and awestruck that he had refused to eat or drink for three days. He was physically depleted. Then Ananias came along and laid hands on Saul to heal and anoint him, Luke says “Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he regain his sight. I think most of us need to in a sense has the scales that are on our eyes.

Acts 9:18-19 tells us the Saul rose and was baptized. and taking the food, he was strengthened. Food helped. He began to regain physical strength he lost without food or water.

But the word Luke uses for strength three versus later is different: “Saul increase all the more in strength, And compound the used Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that Jesus was the Christ” (Acts 9:22). Luke uses the Greek root of this strength, and various forms, 86 times in his Gospel and the book of Acts – and none of them were talking about food or sleep. We’re talking about power and ability, and very often the power and ability to the supernatural – understand and explain the word of God in Acts 18:24 to heal, Luke 9:1 to do good, Acts 10:38, or perform miracles, Acts 8:13, or to witness to Jesus Acts 1:8.

In fact, many other texts refer, directly or indirectly, to what God Himself can do for instance in Luke 1:37 ; 5:17, 21 ; Acts 2:24, even though He Chooses to do it through people like Saul. When you saw increased all the more and strength, God wasn’t refreshing his body to survive another day; He Was filling him with power to do the impossible. That is the strength you and I need most today

Stronger In God

So how do you live in Florida and work in that kind of strength? Saul, Who we also know as the apostle Paul, went on to write 13 letters to churches, and use the same verb seven times and his writing. Each one uncovers the aspect of the real, genuine strength we need to do the spiritually impossible.

Strengthen In Faith

No I’m good he made him waiver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised (Romans 4:20-21).

Strength we need mouth doesn’t begin in our arms or legs or back, but somewhere deep in your soul. The fatigue we feel physically should remind us how quickly our hearts are prone to wander and fail. Wisdom will ask God for strength and faith for more often than it will ask Him to strengthen the body.

Strengthened By Grace

We can become strengthened by the grace that is in Christ (2 Timothy 2:1).

The strength we need most is not earned, achieved, or micromanaged. It is given as a gift, to the undeserving. If you think you can schedule, diet, or even sleep your way to real strength, you will always laugh with resources you need to glorify God. The strength we need most is not earned, achieved, or micromanaged. It is given as a gift, to the undeserving. If you think you can schedule, diet, or even sleep your way to real strength, you will always laugh with resources you need to glorify God. Real strength knows that apart from Him we can do nothing.

Strengthened With God’s Strength

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might (Ephesians 6:10).

When you experience real strength, It will not only because you finally tap into your strength, But because you finally gave up relying on your own strength. Society may want you to believe you are filled with the unbound potential to accomplish the impossible, but the key to achieving anything truly meaningful or lasting is realizing we will not achieve anything truly meaningful or lasting on our own. If you feel weak, you do not need more of you; you need more of God.

Strength Against Evil

Ephesians 6:11-13 says Put on the whole armor of God, that you may able to stand against schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but… against the spiritual forces of evil and heavenly places.

God fills us with his strength and issues of His armor for more than that I can see. He is not simply preparing us to survive another day at work, or marriage, or family, or even ministry. He’s preparing us to defeat the devil, to stand in His strength against evil – The evil deceiving us from within the evil attacking us from within. If you try to battle Satan and his demons on your own, burn out will be the we least of your problems.

Negatively, God strengthens us against evil. Pit positively, God strengthens us to serve. That’s right we need milk today it’s not meant for you to keep for yourself, but to extend for the good of others. When God showers us with his grace and synthesis strength, He Means for it to be spent in love on our needs and interests of the people in our lives. When we use the strength we receive from God to serve others and not ourselves, He gets the glory (Matthew 5:16). We serve “ by the strength that God supplies – an order that everything God may be glorified through Christ Jesus” (1 Peter 4:11).

Strengthened To Speak

The Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it (2 Timothy 4:17).

We don’t only serve In God’s strength. He also strengthens us to say something. He also strengthens us to say something about Him. We don’t need strength mentally to do the right thing – at home, at work, in our neighborhood – but to speak up about the courage and boldness about Jesus. When you ask God for strength to do what He has called you to do toda, remember your first and greatest calling is to spread the Good new of your God and Savior.

Strengthened For Every Circumstance

I have learned that whatever situation I am in to be content. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether we’ll few or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all these things through Him who gives me strength.