Gideon

That one is easy. I see an unworthy servant made worthy by my savior alone. I see a new creature who has been delivered from the power of darkness and who owes the flesh nothing. I see me in the mirror (duh, lol) yet not I any longer but Christ who now lives in me. I see a man who has not yet fully attained to what God is calling me to be but a man who is pressing in, yielding himself to God as one who is alive from the dead, confident that God, the potter will fully finish His work in me. blessings, Gids

I disagree. Yes, the word does say those things. How did Jesus define "free indeed"? He defined it as free from committing sin. He that sins is a slave to sin. So, most definitely, we are not seeing saints walking there. Overcoming is walking is victory over the enemy.... the world, the flesh and the devil. David, these statements in the Word should be enormous red flags to us. This is what should be happening. The fact it is not is cause for great concern, yet by and large, our answer is "we have need of nothing." How was it the God could judge Ananias and Saphira if they were walking free indeed as overcomers. Their sin was frankly, far less than multitudes of saints today. How could the Lord speak to the Laodecians as He did, if He saw them as walking free indeed as overcomers. Why did John tell us "He that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as He is righteous"? Grace, real grace, is supposed to teach us how to possess our vessels in sanctification and honor. If that is not happening, we are by our unbelief limiting the holy one of Israel. We are missing the mark. Do you not see? Something is badly amiss in our spirit, yet none seem to want to admit it, for it will upset their doctrinal understanding of the truth. We hear these things and think the only alternative is going back to legalism, and that terrifies everyone.... including me, lol. We do not! What if...... what if God actually does cause His children to obey Him? He has promised it, you know. The New Covenant is promised both in Jeremiah 31 and Ezekiel 36. But interestingly, in Exekiel 36, an additionsl promise is given.... a gospel-altering one that has been hidden from our understanding. "And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments and do them. Ezekiel 36:27 Oh, that we might see. Obedience, the core of the old covenant, is a promise to us in the new! We do not see it as possible, for we do not see it working in our walks. Why? Why, when temptation comes, do we not take the way of escape every time? What good is it for God to make a way of escape every time we are tempted if we do not choose to avail ourselves of it? The message I have been given exposes the reason why we are not enjoying the benefit of that promise. If we are new creatures and the old "us" died when Jesus died, that is truth. Rock solid truth. BUT, this amazing truth must be mixed with faith in order to work. We are asked not only to know we died with Him (head knowledge), we are then asked to "reckon ourselves dead indeed unto sin" and by faith, appropriating that truth as OUR truth. It must become our shield. Why have we not believed that? Because up til now, we have not thought our old nature too bad.... just a work in progress. SLOW progress, lol. But here is the truth. We cannot change our old nature into a new nature. We must come to the point we HATE our old nature. It can never please God. It must die, and we do that, not by effort, not by legalistic obedience, but by FAITH! The axe must be laid to the root of the old tree. It must die. Sanctification is not slowly changing from sinner to saint. The change actually begins once we put off our old man by an act of audacious faith and begin agreeing with God that we ARE new. Sanctification starts when we believe we ARE new, and agree with God that we may still have fleshly bodies, but we no longer possess a fleshly spirit and owe it NOTHING. When satan comes tempting, how do we react? Do we resisting steadfast in the faith with the truth we are new and he has no authority or pull over us? Or do we try by our efforts to resist, but eventually, when it gets hard, we fall back on "well, no one is perfect and after all, I am only human." We are told if we resist him steadfast in the faith, he will flee from us. Bit if that is not happening, what is that telling us? It is telling us we are doing something wrong and our error is short circuiting the promises of God to lead us into the FREE INDEED He promised us. Our excuses sound reasonable to our minds. But the bottom line is that they are unbelief, pure and simple. Satan is lying and we are buying into it. Therefore many times, we do not take the way of escape. Instead, we give in, we sin, we repent, and yes, we get forgiven. But here is the deal.....we never GROW in faith! We stay the exact same. We never abide because the ones who abide have come to the place they are kept from fulfilling the lusts of the flesh. The ones who abide believe God's promise that our shield of faith actually works. And praise God, it does! blessings, Gideon

I think we have thoroughly beaten this horse to death. We obviously believe differently. Thanks for taking the time to express your thoughts and concerns. blessings, Gideon

Wow. Quite a history. I could respond, but I suspect I could never measure up to your resume. One comment. It is concerning the word "compel". It reminds me of a true story I once read about. A man condemned to death was being led to the gallows in England early in the morning at sunrise. In back of him, a sleepy unenthusiastic minister did his duty, praying, most likely thst he could go back to bed. Suddenly the condemned man turned round and asked the man of God if he believed in hell as the Bible described it. The startled minister nodded that he did. Then the man, soon to face the noose and the eternity that followed, said this: "If I believed as you say you believe, though all of England was strewn with shards of broken glass, I would crawl across it on my knees, if needs be, to save just one man from such a fate." Brother, what that man was describing is simply one compelled to move on the behalf of another for their good, even if at times, the hearer do not see it nor yet value it, and yes, even if there is a cost associated with following through in obeying the Spirit that is doing the compelling. No, you are absolutely correct. It is not my job to compel others to walk in the fullness of their new nature that Jesus died to give them. It is my privilege, and one that I in no ways deserve. But I thank God for the love that He has placed in me urging me to share with others. And yes, this even includes other brothers and sisters in Christ, who far too often have been taught by their appointed official religious shepherds that the best God can do is forgive sins but it will take physical death to accomplish what Christ's death could not as to walking in victory over the sins they cannot defeat. I pray that the love and the urging of the Spirit of God He has granted me never goes out. blessings, Gids

Do you remember a few posts back I asked that we stick to the actual subject of the OP? Could we try that? blessings, Gids

We may want to remember the scripture that says "but it did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it." We are all new creatures. But there is still a need to reckoning it so in or lives, for this is God's will that we exercise our faith and believe to "activate" his amazing truth so hat we can be partakers of its blessing. thanks for your additions to this post, Alive. i appreciate them. Gids

The only reason I questioned 'trusting in the Lord' is that some people assume this means that when God is ready to make me free indeed, He will. Our heart desire has much to do with what we receive from the Lord. Hungering and thirsting is a huge part of receiving. I am greatly blessed that we walk in much agreement. Be greatly blessed, David Gids

Thank you for that, Blade. You are a blessing. Gids

Long post, and I had to leave for a while, but let me take a atb at answering you, David. As to my discussion of faith principles, there is no doubt that the WoF movement has twisted things far out of kilter. If you are interpreting what I share from your anti-WoF opinion, and in my mind it is a very justified thing to do so, I can understand why you may think my faith principles are suspect. So, let me clarify here if ai can. First, faith is like a muscle. It must be exercised. As we are told, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. We have a need. We ask God for something we know to be His will for us, believing for the answer. If we doubt, we are not believing but doubting, and James tells us we will not receive our request from the Father. We are also told that we are to believe we receive it when we ask for it, what is often referred to as NOW faith. If we believe we will receive it some day in the future, we are edging away from faith and more in line with hope. Hope is good, but it is not faith. Now the receiving of our petition may take time to be manifested, but we are to receive it now, and believe it is a done deal. And so it is with our reckoning ourselves dead to sin and our believing we truly are new creatures that have been delivered from the power of darkness. We read that the old us died. We desperately want the old us out of the picture. God tells us to reckon it so.... to, without any evidence outwardly, declare it so. God asks us to appropriate the truth of who we are as a done deal. We believe it with our heads, in a generalized sort of way that we died when Christ died, that when Christ rose from the dead to newness of life, so did we. But that is truth lying in our heads. It does nothing to change our circumstances. Ah, but faith grabs hold of those two truth, when we are desperate enough to exercise audacious faith. For me, it was when I had tried everything I knew to walk in victory and still ended up yielding to sin I hated, that the only thing left to do was believe for it. And even this I could not see until Jesus opened my eyes to the beauty of faith and why it so pleases God. God wants us as His children to believe Him . He has given us some amazing promises, promises we for the most part have never walked in and truth be told, currently do not even think realistically possible. Yet Peter tells us that it is through our stepping out to believe in these promises... because we believe we serve a God who cannot lie.... that we are transformed more and more into the image of the one we all love. When we step out to reckon ourselves dead to sin and alive to Him, satan immediately comes and tries to pry those words out of our mouths and hearts, for he is well aware the dangers posed by someone truly walking as an overcomer. Thus, another principle of faith is continuing to believe, despite any lack of phtpysical evidence. It is in this continuing that patience is developed. If we do not see immediate results, do we assume God didn't answer? Not at all! We continue in the faith, grounded and settled. This is our good fight of faith, where we do not allow the enemy to rob us of our reward. There are more, and I personally have much to still learn, but I know this much. Jesus died to deliver us from the power of darkness. Our walk began with forgiveness. But He desires we walk free indeed, for that was His goal for every one of His children. His will has been clearly stated. Our full sanctification, with us possessing our bodies in holiness and righteousness. And if we know wecask according to His will, we also know He hears us and gives us what we ask for. A pure heart is certainly not something we ask for to consume upon our own lusts. It is a noble desire! So we ask in confidence, reckoning the truth that when Christ died, so did our old carnal nature as OUR truth, OUR possession. I pray this helps. blessings, Gids

The Lord knows my strong desire to share with others where I have given my all, held nothing back, and done so with love on my heart for all I share with. Do I always hit that mark? I wish! LOL. As to making it personal to you, I have apologized and will do so again. May God keep me from doing so again. My motive was right, but my delivery was certainly needing improvement, and for that I am truly sorry. As to your concern about bringing eschatology into it, why I do so is that oftentimes, when one knows that time is running out, we are moved to change course in a way we would never do if things were assured to never be different. If we knew we would die a week from today.... guaranteed..... would we go on with our lives as currently lived? I sincerely doubt so. The hour is late, even though you do not agree. The need is great. The church as a whole is languishing, and displaying little of Jesus to a lost and soon-to-be-judged world. That should bother us to our core. Tha fact that it does not speaks volumes as to our overall condition. We read in the parable of the messenger of the King announcing the King's imminent return. But the King's servants were too busy to respond, being occupied with other things, things of this life. Thus, they refused to make ready for the arrival of their master. The King heard this and was hurt and angry. He commanded his messenger to go instead to the poor, the halt, the lame, the broken of this life and COMPEL them to come in, for His house WILL be full. I love that word.... compel.... , and thus, in my weakness and imperfect ways, I am attempting to compel His children, my fellow saints, to open their hearts to the truth that Jesus can... and WILL... keep us from falling as we trust Him to do so. Paul tells us that despite us still having physical bodies, we are no longer in the flesh spiritually and owe it nothing. Oh, that we would grasp such an amazing truth! As I have stated, what I share is not perfection. It is rather the way we can abide in Him all day every day, and see ourselves changed to where we are almost unrecognizable from who we have been up till now. And what is one of the acid tests of whether or not we are truly abiding? We do not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. Have I arrived? Ha! But..... and this is a huge but...... have I seen my heart, my demeanor, my actions, my motives changed since reckoning myself dead to my old nature and putting on the new me now fourteen years ago? Yes, yes, yes and yes. Is more changing needed? Absolutely! Do I have confidence that He can keep me in Him and do a complete work in me, filling me with all the fullness of God He He destined me to walk in? Praise God, yes, I do. blessings, dear Josh Gideon

The question is not if it is a new thing. I am not privy to a revelation never before given to others. I am nothing special. I simply saw myself as more wretched! LOL. Thank God for those who have seen the truth of who they are and who believe it, never letting the truth of who they are become 'just another truth'. The question is, however, "Is it a critically needful thing?" Can you live without it? Those content where they are are not yet ready to only believe. The coming shakings are being sent to change that in us. Several years after my revelation that literally turned my life around, I came across a book written that almost exactly matched what I had been shown. It had been written in 1978. Excitedly, I looked up the author to try to contact him. I found several books he had written afterwords, and none even mentioned the life altering truth of who we truly are. This truth can be understood with the mind, yet ungrasped at all by the heart, and such knowledge is totally unprofitable. To be given a way to abide in Him all day every day, to be given weaponry that will send satan fleeing because he has become incapable of penetrating our shield of faith, are these truths commonly found in the body of Christ? We are told that holiness is the will of God for our lives,that we are to kbow how to possess our bodies in holiness and righteousness. Please share with me as to which churches actually teach such amazing news. Why can a man know this truth with their heads and still be held captive to sin and self? Simply because he does not yet hate his old nature. He instead thinks that if he feeds his old nature enough head knowledge about the truth of his newness, he will become new. It will be his 'revelation of the day', shortly to be replaced by a new one. But when a man is broken of all self confidence, snd hates his rebellious old nature that so often refuses to take the way of escape when undergoing temptation, and cries out to the Lord for true deliverance from evil as Jesus taught us to pray, God breathes on his faith and he finally sees with his spiritual eyes what had previpusly been hidden from him. Free indeed is not a positional state. Nor is it a mental state. It can only be seen with spiritual eyes, when we come to the end of our rope hungering and thirsting for righteousness and yet realizing we simply have no strength to resist sin, nor ability in ourselves to oust our old nature from its position of sitting on the throne of our life. Brokenness, a crisis point in our lives, must be passed through. Like Paul in Romans 7, we too must see ourselves as wretched men, powerless men in resisting evil. Only then will we be able to look completely away from ourselves and cry out for our deliverer. The temptation is to get saved and rest. Yes, we have escaped Egypt. But a land of promise awaits each one of us. The rest is reserved for those who have finally escaped the wilderness and entered into the land of promise. I pray none come short of its full possession. blessings, brother Gideon

I agree wholeheartedly with what you have shared. We all have a "self" image. If we see ourselves as sinners, still old-natured people, slowly becoming new ones, we will walk still in defeat. If however we see ourselves as truly new creatures with new natures, and yield ourselves to God "as those who are alive from the dead, to our amazement and delight, the promises of God begin to be fulfilled in us. The acid test of how we see ourselves is how we react when temptations arise. Do we resist him, steadfast in the faith, and watch as he flees from us. In Hebrews, we are told that if the blood of bulls and goats had actually been able to cleanse us of sin, we would have no more consciousness of sin. But we have the precious blood of Jesus as our sacrifice. And properly applied by faith, believing the old us actually died when He died, we are to have that exact mentality. No more consciousness of sins. Praise you Lord! This is our blessing of walking as new creatures. It does not lead to pride but a far deeper humility, know who we were. Glory! blessings and thanks for shring, Alive Gids

Great answer. We are in agreement. We are promised that a good tree WILL produce good fruits, amen? So, how can we be assured what wecthink we are looking at in the mirror is not a distorted image? how does our view of ourselves translate into our daily life? Our walk with our brothers in Christ? Our ability to resist satan when we are tempted to sin? Our ability to see fruits abound in our lives? It is in our honestly answering these questions that we can determine if we are seeing us, with doctrines as our support, but still as old natured people bound by sin and self or if we are actually seeing Christ in us, where we are actually set free to live our our doctrines. blessings, Gideon

And may I assume that you are convinced that your understanding is the 'correctly-rendered' one? Are you open to being corrected in your understanding? Paul was. Peter was. Yes, we must not be wishy washy, but if God appears to you, or if the Spirit within reveals to you that the truth is not as you have understood it in the past, are you willing to re-think things? After all, is that not the essence of what repentance actually means? Josh, I mean no harm. However, this post is drifting off its intended purpose, and it is too important a subject to let it be sidetracked. Can we stick to the subject matter of the OP ? I would really appreciate it. thanks, Gideon

All I can say is I was visited by God miraculously 14 years ago. He opened my eyes to what I had missed that had caused me to struggle with sin and lack of fruits of the Spirit. He asked me to share with those who are His children. I have done so, and by the grace of God, I will continue to do so . Is this the conventional 'go to seminary and get ordained by others in the hierarchy' route to ministry? No. There is your answer. There is no delay, no subterfuge, as you suggest. I try to be an open book. I fear you are just offended by what my book is saying. I pray at some point that is not the case in the future. be blessed, Gids

Brother, is this not my OP? Can I not, if I decide to do so, tie it in to the soon coning of Jesus? You can choose to ignore my post, or simply discuss the main premise, which is not end time events. You seem fixated however on my belief that Jesus will return soon and therefore cannot understand the main message I have been asked to share. It is simply my choicecto do so. Tour choice is to ignore my post altogether or simply discuss the main jist of it, that children of God can live free from falling to the devil's attacks and rhat this is accomplished by an act of faith, truly believing that the old us IS dead. As to how I am expected to share this glorious truth, God is able to correct how I am sharing it, is He not? Simply pray that I listen. I certainly want to do it in a way that it pleases our Father. be blessed, dear brother Gids

What do you suppose the pharisees and sadducees asked the early disciples of Jesus? These were fishermen, tax collectors, common unlearned men. They had not been institutionalized through the judaic system. The truth is, more often than not, our education and background in learning is a hindrance to us, rather than an advantage. This may not always be the case, but far too often, it is. Andrew Murray once said that religious pride is the most insidious of sins, because those affected cannot see their error. A lot of breaking is going to have to happen in our lives, for unbelief will not go willingly into the night, and pride, coming from love of self, will resist God's attempts to awaken and bless. Rhank God He WILL overcome our stubbornness, so great is His love for us. blessings, Gideon

Brother, what you do not get is that my motive is FOR you, not against. You simply cannot yet receive this. I love you as a brother in Christ. I want joy in your heart and a bounce in tour step. I do not want to ague or go off topic. The topic is what we see when we look in the mirror. If we see ourselves as old natured children slowly becoming new, anything personal is viewed as an attack. It is not. It is simply an encouragement to believe all of what our God has promised us. If I have offended you, forgive me for that was far, far from my intent. I want to see you blessed beyond measure. blessings, Gids

If you have fully read my posts, things I have shared with great consistency over years, you would not need to ask these questions as to what I believe about faith. As to your first comment, my question was..... what do you do hen satan comes tempting. We are told that if we resist him steadfast in the faith, he will flee from us. God promises us that if we hold up our shield of faith, it will quench ALL the fiery arrows of the enemy. Your answer.... trust in the Lord..... what does that mean? Does it include the above? If not, is it real trust? If we are tempted with our Achilles Heel sin, and fall to it again and again, yes, we can be forgiven, but is this God's will for us, to stay weak and defeated? Are we truly believing the promises of God? How will it ever be possible to be brought to a position of victory, walking in holiness and righteousness before Him all tge days of our lives.... THIS life..... if we are ever shown how to see that brought about in our walks with Him? The saints of the last days are going to walk as true overcomers, victorious over the world, our old carnal flesh, and the enemy of our souls. How is this to be seen accomplished? We will finally understand the power of combining the blood of the Lamb with the words of OUR testimony. And what will that testimony be? "I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless I live. Yet not I, but Christ now liveth in me." May God open eyes to see and ears to here why the gospel truly is good news. There is more than forgiveness. Much more. blessings, Gideon

Can you define "official capacity"? As to your question about my visitation, when God asked me to share the truth that changed me from an angry legalist into a broken, joy filled man walking free from my old nature and its many propensities, i did not hesitate. Why would I not want this for all God's children? Sadly, the "official capacity" people, have, with a few notable exceptions, proven quite content to let children of God languish, leading them into pastures that can barely support life. Al that is about to change, and although some may misinterpret my motives at present, and misunderstand my message that they can say no to the devil and see him flee from them.... every time..... understanding IS coming. Of that, we can be assured. blessings to you, Josh Gideon

I am smiling here. Irony can be humorous. In almost all the posts you have shared since your arrival, I have seen little if any encouragement, edification, unity, maturity and unity. I truly do not mean this in a negative fashion. But your point of defense is a position you have up till now not displayed. Some take what I share in a negative light. But what I share and my motive for sharing as I do is love and concern. The hour is late, yet because you reject this, you see no pressing need to see people walk in the liberty wherewith Christ has made them free. But time IS short, and the church..... every single sheep.... will hear His voice and walk as overcomers. The early church was baptized in power, in love, in singleness of eye, in holiness and righteousness. And be ause of that, the church burned like a wildfire throughout the entire world. Men would exclaim "Behold how they love one another!" That, brother, is not what we hear today, is it? All that is about to change. The early rain got the church planted and sprouting, but after Paul's death, satan succeeded in infiltrating the body of Christ, and a watered down, religious version of the church appeared and with few exceptions, has continued on for 1900 years. A long, dry summer. The core truth and doctrines of Jesus were preserved. Skeletons upon which life was to be clothed. And as we sit here 20 centuries later, we have our doctrines all nice and neat, clinical truths, thinking we have it. But.... we do not have life. Not abundant life! And what is God's plan? He in coming back for a church without spot or wrinkle, a people that have prepared themselves to meet their king. And we are in no way ready to go. BUT, He has promised to awaken us near the end, and has promised both an early and a latter rain. And praise God, the latter will be greater than the former! We look upon the early church with awe and admiration. They will soon have nothing on us. What will it take to get there? Admit we, both corporately and personally, need the power of the Holy Sprit to cause us to walk as obedient, joy-filled children of the most high God. Changes are coning to the body of Christ. Huge changes. Everything that is not Jesus will be shaken away, thank God. What He has for us will blow our minds, as we begin to walk in victory, from the least to the greatest.... and in that order. ? blessings, Gideon

No, dear brother, that is exactly the answer. I pray you have eyes to see it. blessings, Gids

There is no doubt it did not happen the next day. Israel did not straightway enter into the land of promise. The wilderness lay in the way. It was supposed to be a three week journey across the wilderness to the river Jordan. It took forty years. Why? Unbelief and confidence in the flesh had to die off. You mention this delay can also attributable to weakness and imperfections. But is not tbis the entire point of entering into the land of promise.... to make us strong? If this is not the case, then it is only the strong who can enter in, amen? It leaves us in the position of saying that we mist somehow overcome first, without Him doing it in us, and then deemed worthy enough to be given victory. I pray we see the craziness of such a position, lol. People have been taught we need more self-control in order to walk in the Spirit as overcomers. They forget that one of the fruits of the Spirit IS ..... self control. ? So, if it is simply a time related issue, would not some have already entered in, having escaped the prison of Romans 7? Would not we see man and women who have escaped Romans 7 and entered into the rest as an overcomer? Where are they? Why do we not see them? Why not? Because we have been led into a deep sleep by tge enemy of our souls. But praise God, Jesus is even now awakening us to who we are in Christ. Up til now, saints have been taught that Romans 7 is the best God can do, that no one is perfect, that we are only human, and faith that God can.... and will.... keep us from falling is simply not found. Multitudes live out their lives imprisoned in Romans 7, assuming this is 'normal'. We make the best of our life chained to our flesh, unable to taste of the free indeed Jesus promised us. But Romans 7, like the wilderness, is meant to be a place we all pass through, not a place we live out our lives, defeated and imprisoned by self. Paul stayed in Romans 7 just long enough until he HATED his old self nature. Here, the things one wants to do, they cannot. The things they want to avoid, they fall prey to. That, guys, is our old nature. That is what is holding us back from abiding in Him, where we do not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. Paul saw himself as a wretched man and he responded to that with a brokenness and heart cry for His deliverer to do what deliverers do.... deliver him from this body of death! And glory to God, Jesus did! The man who had declared his impotency in overcoming the desires of his flesh was able to declare 'I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me!" And why was he able to do so? Because he had come to the point he had NO strength. He finally understood his efforts to overcome self by self effort were futile. He looked away from himself just as those Children of Israel bitten by snakes who were dying from snake bites. We have up till now seen grace as what saves us. We are about to understand exactly how powerful grace really is. Grace teaches us the HOW of walking as holy, sold out, free indeed children. And what is the HOW? Grace thru faith! What a glorious day when we have come to the point of desperation in our battle to walk in holiness and righteousness before the God we love. When we let God break us of our contentment without Godliness. When we finally cry out to Him to bring us past sinnig and getting forgiven and instead to have our feet planted in victory and to walk as obedient children, pleasing Him all day, every day. When we conclude we do not have it in us to walk that way. Praisee God, that day is now upon us. Instead of resting short of the land of promise, assuming this is the best God can do, we give our God no rest, crying out to Him to deliver us from evil, and from our old nature chained to it, just as He has promised. Dark days are approaching. We are about to be washed over with a tsunami of evil. The first shakings are already being manifested and God is gently trying to awaken us to the truth that will give us full protection... the faith that we are new creatures and that as such, satan cannot.... CANNOT.... cause us to fall. Thank you Father! What we have walked in up till now is simply not sufficient for us to overcome that which is headed our way. . But praise God, our savior is about to open our eyes to what we have needed all along. Him no longer WITH us but rather IN us! Simply stated, it is the understanding that we really DID die when Christ died, and that when we arm ourselves with that truth, and declare as Paul did that it is no longer us that live, but Christ who now lives in us, we discover God actually causes us as new creatures to obey Him.... every time! The fruits of the Spirit will begin to appear in our walks and of all who observe the changes He begins to bring about in us, we will be the most blown away. Glory! blessings, Gideon

What I share, the message of reckoning our old nature as dead, stands alone.It could be preached any timecto any believer. However, it becomes a far more important subject when the shakings are beginning to be manifested, and Christians need to know there is a place of safety so that they can stay safe, kept by the power of God through faith. I know you do not adhere to my view of the second coming. So may I suggest simply ignoring my references to it, and keeping your mind on the main premise.... who do we see when we look in the mirror? blessings, Gideon

The acid test is this. When satan comes tempting us to disobey, big or small, do we resist him steadfast in rhe faith and he ends up fleeing from us, or do we give us, get forgiven, never question why we are not able to overcome, and run another lap in the wilderness only to repeat the entire cycle again.... and yet again. Thank God, even now, He is opening up he eyes of hungry saints everywhere to the birthright He has purchased for us and its amazing benefits. Who will finally fully mix truth with faith? The one who cannot livecanother day imprisoned by a self- lovong nature that refuses to bow to God in all rhings. blessings, Gids