"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" - It's a Faith-filled Friday!

I am persuaded that NoThing can and so NoThing will be able to separate me or keep me or block me or hinder me or fool me or stop me or trick me or lead me away from the love of God in Christ Jesus! Hallelujah!!!

"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8:35, 37-39 NKJV)

"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" - Competition...in Ministry? NOT!

We're instructed to "Love one another". We're instructed to support one another. We learn in Scripture that "Iron Sharpens Iron". We are to be on "one accord".

You see, I'm not to compete with you, but I am to help complete you in ministry. You must know that by blowing out my candle, that it doesn't make yours any brighter!

Let's do this together; Souls are at stake!

"Since this is the kind of life we have chosen, the life of the Spirit, let us make sure that we do not just hold it as an idea in our heads or a sentiment in our hearts, but work out its implications in every detail of our lives. That means we will not compare ourselves with each other as if one of us were better and another worse. We have far more interesting things to do with our lives. Each of us is an original." (Galatians 5:25-26 MSG)

"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" - Heaven is Real

God's Kingdom, Heaven is the #1 priority, but it is often the last thing on our minds. Each one of us will experience the reality of Heaven one day. Some will see Heaven from inside the pearly gates and others unfortunately will see it from the outside of the pearly gates.

A bystander said, “Master, will only a few be saved?” A lot of you are going to assume that you’ll sit down to God’s salvation banquet just because you’ve been hanging around the neighborhood all your lives. Well, one day you’re going to be banging on the door, wanting to get in, but you’ll find the door locked and the Master saying, ‘Sorry, you’re not on my guest list.’ “You’ll protest, ‘But we’ve known you all our lives!’ only to be interrupted with his abrupt, ‘Your kind of knowing can hardly be called knowing. You don’t know the first thing about me.’ “That’s when you’ll find yourselves out in the cold, strangers to grace. You’ll watch Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets march into God’s kingdom. You’ll watch outsiders stream in from east, west, north, and south and sit down at the table of God’s kingdom. And all the time you’ll be outside looking in—and wondering what happened. This is the Great Reversal: the last in line put at the head of the line, and the so-called first ending up last.” (Luke 13:23,25-30 MSG)

"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" - Spirit Led!

There's a huge difference between reading scriptures with your eyes and reading scriptures with your heart.

For instance we read, "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” (1 Corinthians 2:9). I personally ABSOLUTELY LOVE this verse!

God has something for me that my eyes have NEVER seen. God has something to speak or say to me - something of which I've NEVER heard. What God has for me is so special that it has NEVER entered into my heart or even into my imagination!

But the Holy Spirit says to also read the next verse, verse 10. "But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God." (I Corinthians 2:10 NKJV)

Now these verses combined says precisely the opposite of how I've first read it and memorized it. I was too quick to memorize part of a passage, the part that I hear most often, and I neglected the remainder of the passage.

In doing this, I've missed out on so much. God has given us His Holy Spirit to teach us and guide us and to comfort us and to reveal those things that God would have us to know.

Now that I have The Spirit of God in me, I can clearly SEE His love for me and how far He's brought me from. When I was wondering around with no direction, I clearly didn't SEE myself teaching and preaching on the love of Christ! Once upon a time not long ago, I couldn't HEAR God speak to me about His Calling on my life, saying "Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” Whenever you turn to the right hand Or whenever you turn to the left." (Isaiah 30:21 NKJV), and I missed His guidance and walked many paths that were not meant for me to walk. It had never entered into my heart that I would awake every morning with a fresh Word of Encouragement for not only myself, but for all who would read what God has placed in my spirit to share.

Yes, all of this was possible when I realized that God is not withholding any good thing from me until some far off time! He has ALREADY GIVEN me those things that my eyes have NEVER seen, as well as those things that my ears have NEVER heard, Nor have entered into my heart while my heart lusted after the things of this world!

Yes, I'm seeing. Yes, I'm hearing. Yes, my heart has been forever filled with the love of Christ. Thank you Holy Spirit for Your continued revelation, inspiration, guidance, comfort, correction and admonition. I'm wide open for what You would have me to do next!

"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" - Understanding What's Important IS IMPORTANT!

If it's important for you to succeed, then set your mind and heart to those things that will make you successful.

If you set your mind and heart to obtain those things that will assist your demise, then eventually, but surely you'll fail.

Once you figure out what's important, choose!

“See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil, in that I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, that you may live and multiply; and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess. But if your heart turns away so that you do not hear, and are drawn away, and worship other gods and serve them, I announce to you today that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to go in and possess. I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that  I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.” (Deuteronomy 30:15-20 NKJV)

"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" - The Way; The Truth; and The Life!

As The Way, Jesus is our path to The Father. As The Truth, He is the reality of ALL of God's promises. As The Life, Jesus joins His divine life to ours, both now and for ALL ETERNITY!

Some would say that The Way is too narrow, if it were true that the only way to The Father is through Jesus. However, I would argue that the truth of the matter is that through Jesus, the way is large enough for every man, woman, boy and girl to make it to The Father if they so choose to accept it. Instead of getting hung up on the narrowness, how about saying "THANK YOU", God for providing a sure way to get to you!

Enjoy your journey on The Way and while you're enroute, search God's Holy Word for in it, you will find The Truth, and in The Truth, you shall have The Life that Jesus has come to secure if you only believe!

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." (John 14:6 NKJV)

"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" - The Ultimate Hookup!

God needs for you to know today that it is not Pills, Narcotics, Pain Killers or any other medications or sedatives that can be prescribed or obtained from the streets or the doctor's office that heals. These things only subdue or mask the underlying issues.

God will keep you, hold you, nuture, care and help you. God is our loving Father, our ever present help in our time of trouble, our Creator and our Healer! If you truly want to be healed, seek the Healer!

"I am the Lord that healeth thee." (Exodus 15:26 KJV)