Posted on 12/23/2011 2:39:19 PM PST by Frank Broom
Jesus said, "I am come that you might have life and have it more abundantly" (John 10:10). There's something in the account of the birth of Jesus that if you get a hold of the abundant life he came to give you will be yours. When God gave us Jesus He supplied us with everything we would ever need. Notice what the scriptures say, "Blessed be the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ" (Eph. 1:3) also "According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness" (2Peter 1:3). And all the promises of God are in him (1Cor. 1:20). God has already given and now it's up to you to receive. Like in the parable of The Prodigal Son when his brother heard of his father having a party for his brother coming home and he had been there working and the father didn't give him a kid for him to have a party with his friends the father told him all that he had was his. Notice even though it was his he went without because the son did not know how to receive. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God(John 1:12) and as a son of God all that He has is yours.
The story of Jesus birth is interesting because it shows you how to receive all the promises of God. I know people like to put everything on God, but you have a part to play in receiving the promises of God. There's a spiritual exchange that has to take place. Notice in 1Corinthians 1:20 All the promises of God are in him(Jesus) yea and amen. God has already said yes and amen to his promises and now He needs your agreement. What does amen mean, so be it. So when the angel explained to Mary how she was going to have a baby and she said "Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word" she was saying amen. Then the angel departed, why? Because she sealed the deal with her amen. The spiritual exchange took place, God had her agreement.
Now watch this, Jesus was before all things(Col. 1:16,17), but he was spiritual. He was spiritual before he was physical. What did God choose to get Jesus which was spiritual to become physical? Words. God used the mouths of men and a virgin girl to speak his word to get his will in the earth. You have to know how to speak and what to speak to get God's will in your life. Because it's the word you believe and speak that you will have (Mark 11:23). In Luke 1:45 Mary's cousin Elizabeth said "And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord." Well, we know she didn't just believe she also spoke. You see the word of God is suppose to produce for you. Any word from God that you believe and speak is suppose to do just what Jesus did, turn from words to physical. Notice he's the word made flesh (John 1:14).
Jesus said "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." So when Jesus hung on the cross and said "It is finished" what he came to do was complete. That's why all the promises of God are in him so without him there wouldn't be any promises. He was born to be our sacrifice. Galatians 3:13 says he was made a curse for us so that we could receive the blessing of Abraham. Through him we can receive the free gift of righteousness and an abundance of grace (Romans 5:17). Now it's time to manifest Jesus finished work. The abundant life is to be manifested. 1John 1:1,2 says For that which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands handled, of the word of life. (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;). Notice Jesus was manifested, you and I were born, but Jesus was not just born he was manifested. Understand Mary didn't just bring forth a son, but a physical manifestation of the word. Mary had Jesus(the word made flesh) because it's the word that you speak from your heart that you will bring forth. The word has to be in you so you can speak it forth out of you. Physically a woman brings forth from her womb, but spiritually you bring forth by your mouth. Jesus came out of her mouth before he came out of her womb.
Jesus represents the word. Whatever Jesus did the word will do if you believe it and speak it. That's why Romans 10:6-8 says you don't have to call Jesus up from the grave or call him down from heaven because the word is near you even in your mouth and in your heart that is the word of faith. Notice it has to be in your mouth and in your heart. Jesus said in Mark 9:23 "All things are possible to him that believe." Now what should you be believing, the word. And according to 2Corinthians 4:13 when you believe you speak. Anything you believe and speak from the word is possible. No more impossibilities so that healing you need is possible. That deliverance you need is possible. Whatever you need from God is possible. But it starts with putting the word in your heart and speaking it out. For the word to become physical it has to be spoken.
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Thank you GOP Poet for taking the time to read this article. Thanks!!
Thank you Vendome for reading this article. Thanks!
Thnx for writing it.
Merry Christmas
The Son of God was Incarnate in Jesus Christ.
It isn’t accurate to say He was spiritual before He was physical, because all things that were created were through Him.
Jesus said "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Indeed he has. Indeed we do. Thank you Lord. Thank you.
Good post,..
Please allow me to offer a few study notes which might be used in fellowship with Him to further our worship.
DOCTRINE OF AMEN
A. Definition and Etymology.
1. AMEN is a transliteration that has retained its purity in all three languages: Hebrew, Greek, and English.
2. Amen refers to acclamation of doctrine in Christian worship.
3. Amen is often said at the termination of doxology or prayer.
4. In the Hebrew, AMEN is the verb “to believe.” AMEN means faith. It could be translated, “I believe it,” or “Amen.”
a. Remember that gnosis doctrine is receptive comprehension and therefore only doctrine that is understood academically. Gnosis doctrine has no spiritual connotation until it is metabolized.
b. The whole goal of the perception of doctrine is for it to become epignosis doctrine in the heart. The Holy Spirit converts gnosis into epignosis where there is positive volition faith perception.
c. So “Amen” is what you say in your soul to convert gnosis into epignosis. In other words, you say “I believe it. I understand what is taught (gnosis); now I believe what is taught (epignosis).”
5. “Amen” at the end of a prayer means you have approached the throne of grace as a believer-priest through our great high priest, our Lord Jesus Christ. “Amen” at the end of the prayer means you relate the prayer and its content to the faith-rest drill under the pattern of prayer promises.
a. “All things whatsoever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive.”
b. Mk 11:24, “Therefore, I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you shall receive them, and they shall be yours.”
6. A single “Amen” before a phrase, as when Jesus said, “Amen, I say to you [AMEN LEGO HUMEN],” means “Truth I am communicating to you.”
7. The doubling of AMEN, as our Lord often used, means “a specific point of doctrine I am teaching you.”
A cautionary note. Your post could be interpreted as a ‘Word-Faith’ movement stance verging on blasphemy.
The Word was well known to the Hebrews as MEMRA.
We as individual human beings are not creating anything when we speak our own words, rather His Word is powerful and when the are thinking His Word and it circulates through our soul, becoming faith in us in our heart and manifest in our output, then indeed all things are possible through faith in Him.
His work is our belief in Him, but our belief independent of Him is not His work, but it is a type of sin.
Thank you Cvengr for reading this article. Please explain what exactly do you mean the son of God was incarnate in Jesus Christ. And isn’t God a spirit(John 4:24) and He is existant in 3 persons God the father, God the son, and God the Holy Spirit. So how is it wrong to say he was spiritual first.
Thank you GOP Poet and Merry Christmas.
Thank you Cvenger for taking the time to share that.
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