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ARE YOU MADE OF THE RIGHT STUFF TO BE A FRONT LINE OVER-COMER AND LEADER ?

Posted By: GLarrabee
Date: Thursday, 25 October 2007, 10:53 p.m. ARE YOU MADE OF THE RIGHT STUFF TO BE A FRONT LINE OVER-COMER - BRANCH?

Faith Says You Are Made of The Right Stuff

Today every true believer in God regardless of what he may be labeled or call himself is in a great battle. Many may not realize this and may not know how to fight this spiritual battle. But this battle is taking place within the minds of men and women to control their thinking habits.

This battle affects every thing not only upon earth, but also in the heavens, There is no way of escape, we must either fight or be taken over by the enemy.

Anytime one is drawn into battle one needs to gain as much knowledge as possible about the enemy and make some choices. Each battle decision is made at a great cost and sacrifice.

If you should decide not to fight or put up resistance you will die in the enemy’s camp, and will take many with you that were depending upon you for support. Your choice of whether to resist or go along with the world will be your consciousness within or your sense of values. This God consciousness within each one of us is our spiritual man. So our choice comes down to whether we follow the direction of what our eyes and ears tell us or whether we follow the leading of the spirit.

The scriptures talks in terms trees and branches, and in the New Testament the Lord said that we are Branches when we abide in Christ the vine. In the Old Testament we see the same symbolism. We see green trees and branches as symbols of the spirit and we see Dry limbs as illustrated in the story of Aaron's rod as symbols of self or self will.

The Lord said that each one of us is a branch and when we come into unity and the Branches come together we become a green tree. Zechariah writes a lot about the work of this generation and the 4th chapter brings together many aspects of what is now taking place upon the earth.

For right now pay particular attention to the green olive branches. Visualize the Body of Christ in total unity as a green olive tree; that is totally submitted to being led by the Lord through his spirit as the Army of God.

The Bibles talks about the might Branch that will come forth not in powe nor mite bu by the Spirit of the Lord

Read Zechariah 4:1-14

How can we join the army of God and be a part of that Branch?

There is a tremendous battle going on within each one of us to keep us from becoming that army with power and the anointing of God as his BRANCH. The battle within each one of us is being fought with all our self wisdom, self desires, and all our physical desires trying to defeat the spirit man within us. Everything is coming against our God consciousness.

Most people who believe that we are in a spiritual war are putting up a strong effort in this spiritual battle. They practice positive thinking and self discipline, and this helps them in moral living. Many of us think that if we lead honest and moral lives we are winning the battle. We feel like we have kept control, and have at least defended our selves against the enemy’s attacks.

It is a very shocking experience when we learn that we have not done very well in the battle, and it is devastating when we learn that we were being used as a tool of the devil to do his work. All the battles that we thought we had won we find ended in victories for the enemy.

The fact that we thought we were doing the right thing made us determined to guard our minds from giving into any bad habits, or vices. All of these efforts filled us with pride as we overcame and many of us became arrogant and self righteous.

All our efforts to make ourselves righteous have done just the opposite. We have disciplined our lives into a self will and self protecting mentality, with a strong seance of accomplishment and pride.

The motivating force we have been working under is the knowledge of good and evil and we have willed to do good.

How could this be bad? How could it be said the we are being used as a tool of the devil when we have always tried to do what is the motivating force we have been working under is the knowledge of good and evil and we have willed to do good.

How could this be bad? How could it be said we are being used as a tool of the devil when we have always tried to do what is right?

The knowledge of good and evil in itself is bad, and was right from the beginning.

Genesis 2:9;16,17

9. And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

16. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat.
17. Buy of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

From these scriptures we see that the knowledge of good and evil was the beginning of unrighteousness. The knowledge of good and evil created a problem that did not previously exist.

The tree of knowledge of good and evil had the effect of creating a line in the sand. We can go up to the line and not do evil but if you cross the line or dwell across that line is evil. But this line was not in the sand it was in the mind of man.

So man in order to be righteous in his mind establishes goals and makes laws to never cross that line. We established a religious mentality.

As a result of this we established a strong will that became a religious act, in our minds and we determined to do right. We pray to always do right, and to always have strength to do right.

These seemingly righteous thoughts and goals were not of God. This was turning away from God and looking at our selves, in our religious way of thinking.

We were determined to fight the good fight and earn our way into heaven through doing all kinds of good works.

In reality this thinking on our part created a trap for the enemy to snare us, and he keeps drawing the net tighter by making us more determined to fight the good fight to the end. We keep putting tight control on our conduct by creating religious rules of conduct.

We separated ourselves and formed churches or groups to associate with and wanted everyone to keep the rules of doing good that we established. We called them our articles of faith so everyone could see what we stood for and that we were a righteous group. This became the rule by which one could become a member. And we had to vow to keep these rules and then we were allowed to be baptized into our church.

To keep all these goals we could see no other way than to establish strong wills and became determined even to the point of stubbornness to do what we thought was right. We have determined that we will not reason, we will not listen, we will consider anything different.

We must only do good and keep pure, because we are sure that everything depends on our being good in this world to be able to live in the world after.

Now look what religion has made us become, look what we have, we have many large independent bodies of believers that are all fighting so hard to do right.

They may be in deep water but they are determined not to ever give up. They are like a drowning swimmer struggling with ever ounce of energy to stay alive, and keep from drowning.

The rescuers are watching the swimmer struggle and refuse to help him, until he has totally exhausted himself. The rescuers know that if they try too soon he will fight so hard to save him self, that he will be in danger of fighting the rescuers and possibly drowning one or more of the rescuers trying to save the swimmer.

The leaders of our groups and as individuals have determined not to ever give up or lose control, because we feel like that swimmer that our survival depends on our struggle. The harder we struggle the nearer death we come and the worse things get.

We have determined to be good and faithful church goers. We believe by faith that we must do what is right. We become stronger and stronger in our faith and in our determination to do what is right.

We have been drawn into a trap of self destruction.

All our efforts to do good it seems have been used against us for bad. We have developed our minds and our will power and our positive thinking and we have great self confidence. People of the world look up to us; because of our self disciplined lives. We say this is a great testimony to the Lord.

The awakening! The Cost of becoming a BRANCH

We find out that we have been living on the wrong side of the line of good and evil. We thought we had been doing good, but now we find we have been in self righteous pride, and sin.

The greatest sin in the Bible, pride has become religious pride. Now we wonder if we are all wolves in sheep's clothing, because we have tried so hard to do good. We have been baptized into the church of Jesus. But now Jesus says he does not know us. Our own faith has destroyed us. The faith we worked so had to earn.

Without faith it is impossible to please God we have had great faith in doing good and we never knew Jesus. Whether faith helps to save us or destroy us is a very fine line. The fine line is like a directional signal and narrow is the gate into the Kingdom of God.

The directional compass is determined by more than the desire to be saved and be a part of the kingdom. The fine line of the compass is also more than being spiritual.

The directional signal to the fine line is found only in death of self. But I am not speaking of physical death. And I am not speaking of spiritual death.

I am speaking of the death of the self will to become an over-comer, the death of self desires. There must be a death of self before there can be a birth of the spirit.

We have trained our selves into building a tremendous obstacle that has become a stone around our necks that is pulling us down from entering into the Kingdom. We have been exercising faith but we were on the wrong side of the line.

We have been very self disciplined and have been doing good. But we missed the narrow gate because we were a little bit off course. How can we find the narrow gate and get on the right course?

Where can we go to find a councilor, for every one that can lead us correctly there are two that are in the same situation that we are in and don't yet realize it. Let the Lord Jesus Christ be your only councilor, all loyalties that might influence your spiritual direction must be put aside.

The answer is that we must humble ourselves. This is different and totally opposite of what we have spent our life time believing and training our selves to be. To have the power of God work through us we must totally submit everything including our own self will.

We must die to self will and give every thing that we have or ever will have, to the Lord and his purposes. This is taking all your titles, deeds, certificates, licenses of every material possession and laying it all before the Lord. Let him know that you no longer have any right to any of these things and you want to be led totally by the spirit of the Lord in every detail of your life from this moment on.

Total submission requires a period of waiting in a state of total submission to the death of all self will, and desires of your own. The Lord promised to be found by those who truly seek him, and he will be faithful. After waiting upon the Lord in total submission The Lord will allow you to hear his voice, in your conscience, and intuition as you earnestly pray.

After the Lord has revealed himself and spoken, we must always remember that we are still in a spiritual war and there are spiritual forces still trying to control our thoughts and desires.

So after you have heard from the Lord and received a word of direction or revelation, we will be hit with attacks from the enemy.

Are you willing to pay the great cost.

Even your former religious leaders will turn against you declaring that you have turned away from the faith. Those you thought were your friends may now treat you as enemies.

This will probably cause separation from many you love dearly, because satan and evil spirits will work through them to get to you.

Controlling spirits will come through others that satan is able to put a thought or desire to come against you. These thoughts will manifest themselves in evil deeds dressed in many forms, beauty, in love, in hatred, in doing good, in self righteousness, and every possible way.

So one has to be aware and use the keys to the Kingdom of God.

The Keys to the Kingdom of God is the power he has given each of us to bind the forces of the heavens, and bind the forces on earth, and also the power to loosen the forces of heaven and loosen the forces on earth.

Now we are in a position to start our journey of faith. We know that we cannot save ourselves by being good and doing good works and so we repent of that. We know that pride and self will is a great sin and we repent of that.

We now sense a change within us, we have a new appreciation for the things of God, and we sense our values changing from worldly things to spiritual matters.

Righteousness grows from the inner man outward and cannot be accomplished trying to reverse the process and become righteous by appearances or works of self.

We have new thoughts within ourselves and we now need to determine once and for all that this is real. It is true, and is not apart of our own imagination. We must determine not to let thoughts of doubt slow us down in our progress.

At this point it is essential that we do several things.

1. We need to learn about the Bible in a new way, because now we have the Holy Spirit within us to let us have understanding. We must study privately and let the Holy Spirit speak to us and not believe just because another believer says this is the way to believe. We must test every word that anyone says with the exact word of the Bible.

2. We must train ourselves in the things of God. We must train ourselves to through prayer and fasting how to pray more in God's will. We need to hear from God about the question of speaking in other tongues. We must learn to have the Holy Spirit lead us through the Bible in giving us revelation. This is all done through faith.

3. We must learn to trust this spirit voice above what anyone else says, even a prophet of God. The God consciousness with in you is much more reliable, when we have the assurance that God is speaking. When a Prophet speaks your spirit will let you know personally if this is of God.

4. We must commit the rest of our existence to abiding in Christ by giving up our own wills for God’s will to be done in our lives. We must commit this above all the other goals and desires of our life.

5. Are we will to pay the cost of this commitment? Are we willing to be ridiculed by our own families and the ones we love the most? Are we willing to give up all that we have or ever will have of this world for the Kingdom of God?
Are we willing to give our lives?

If we are willing to answer yes to every question we are qualified to enter the service of the Lord and his Kingdom. We are qualified to enlist in the army of God to bring forth his kingdom.

Now we have committed to stay committed. We have determined to keep on keeping on. Now we have faith to keep faith to our last breath. We have totally willed our own wills to do only the Lord's most perfect will.

Now you are living a supernatural life. The fact is you could not have gotten here to this point through your own efforts. You have reached life beyond the self life.

Now we are living and abiding in Christ. This is the normal believer’s life in his Kingdom. Now we have entered into a trust fund with the Lord. The Lord now trusts you. He trusts you because you totally trust him to do all things through you. Now he is able to give you thoughts and desires that will result in your accomplishing his perfect will. Now when you pray you pray a God directed prayer, that the spirit has spoke to you.

You have become a Branch.

Read John 15:1-17

As and Overcomer

Now we have faith that moves mountains. Your faith will not fail you. The Lord is answering your prayers. Your personal mountain may be removed in one day. Or it may take longer. Regardless of what anyone says or how it may look the mountain in your life is still being removed by your growing and continuous faith.

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen. But without faith it is impossible to please God. Some of us will die in our faith pleasing God. We see beyond the present life. We consider ourselves strangers here on this present earth. We are looking ahead to a better kingdom that our God has prepared for us.

We like Moses are choosing to suffer with the people of God, rather than enjoy the pleasures of this world any longer. We know the riches of the Kingdom ahead are far greater. By faith we see beyond all our present circumstances.

By our faith we will be victorious. We will bring forth righteousness and overthrow kingdoms of this world, even as we may be forced to wander in the desert or live in the mountains.

Gary Larrabee
vinesbranch.com

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RMN Reader - YOU GIVE CHRISTIANS A BAD NAME - GO AWAY

Posted By: GLarrabee
Date: Friday, 26 October 2007, 12:20 a.m.

In Response To: ARE YOU MADE OF THE RIGHT STUFF TO BE A FRONT LINE OVER-COMER AND LEADER ? (GLarrabee) Re: ARE YOU MADE OF THE RIGHT STUFF TO BE A FR....

You give us Christians a bad name here at this site. Please go away BH

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BH,
You have not heard me say anything against any one group or denomination. I am talking about the state of trying to do God's work in the power of the flesh, under the control of men who think they know what God desires. We have not allowed God to be the head of his Church through submitting our wills to his will. Most leaders have not let the Spirit work with the gifts of the Holy Spirit within the church.

If I have taken any scripture out of context or misused it in any way point this out to me.

Gary Larrabee
vinesbranch.c0m

Gary Larrabee

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Hey Gary..YOUR INFO IS RIGHT ON..most Christians need a WAKEUP!

Posted By: GLarrabee
Date: Friday, 26 October 2007, 12:02 p.m.

In Response To: ARE YOU MADE OF THE RIGHT STUFF TO BE A FRONT LINE OVER-COMER AND LEADER ? (GLarrabee) Re: RMN Reader - YOU GIVE CHRISTIANS A BAD NAM....

Hey Gary...your info is right-on...most Christians need a wakeup
call...because most are not born again and therefore can't
understand your message.

keep up the good work.

God bless, in the name of Jesus.
Robbie

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Robie,
Thank you for your word of incouragement.
God Bless you,
Gary Larrabee

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RMN Reader: The Christ Conspiracy, The Best Story Ever SOLD

Posted By: GLarrabee
Date: Friday, 26 October 2007, 4:54 p.m.

In Response To: ARE YOU MADE OF THE RIGHT STUFF TO BE A FRONT LINE OVER-COMER AND LEADER ? (GLarrabee) Re: RMN Reader - YOU GIVE CHRISTIANS A BAD NAM....

Please consider reading two books by Acharya S, entitled: The Christ Conspiracy, The Best Story Ever SOLD; and The Suns of God. All religion is originally based upon AstroTheology. You just might learn about the truth of the originations of all religions.

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Glenn,

I have had a hunger for God since 1968, when I finally learned the plan of salvation and how to have eternal life, when I was 28 years old. This was a very real experience of what is called being born again. I had not learned this in my religious up bringing.

So I now have no doubt about the truths of the Bible because I have experienced the reality of the personal relationship and communicating with God personally.

I have also been exposed to other spiritual beings that try to get a person to doubt, and they try to lead a person from the Truth.

In my mind and through my experiences I know that I know the Bible is the greatest truth available to mankind. But to find this truth, the Bible must be lived and studied in great depth. I have read many ancient manuscripts from Biblical times that speak of the truth of Jesus Crist being born and his death on the cross and his resurrection.

So this is an absolute truth of history acording to earths history. I believe the intent of Christianity is and always has been good to spread the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The world has trusted the fact of this reality by calculating the earths history on a callender divided in time by this single truth that Jesus Christ was born.

So calling something the Christ Conspiracy, seems to me to be coming from an anti-christ spirit right from the start. I know there are all kinds of seducing spirits that speak against the truths of the Bible.

The main thing I am saying that Christianity has become changed by man trying to reason the things of God with out letting the Bible be the test of truth. Now the Bible is being tested by writings of the mind of men that are not going by the rules of testing the Truth with the greatest source of Truth the Bible and the Spirit of God. They are testing Bible truth with what they in there minds beieve is the truth, without first studying the Bible in depth.

The reason and the difference of the old and the New Testament teachings need to be understood. The difference between being under the law and what is the meaning of Grace and how this applies to life now and our future need to be understood.

We have spiritual sensitivity, but how are we to know if we are hearing from the right spirit. We must test every spirit with the truth of the life, death and resurrection and and the revelations of the scriptures.

My aim is to speak to Christians to test everything being taught with the scriptures, because I believe that God has a greater plan for men and women of God to be used today than has been taught in the church to be a part of defeating evil and bringing forht the Kingdom of God on this earth very soon.

Glen, I thank you for reading my post and giving your comments. I ask you to compare the books you have read to the truths of the Bible but, not by what you think the Bible says as you understand it now. But by the prayer of asking God to reveal the Truths of the Bible in your spirit as you re-read it.

We all need to be sure of what we beleive and why we beleive it because our future destiny for eternity depends on that alone.

Gary Larrabee
vinesbranch.com

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From God’s perspective, the way down is up, giving is receiving, dying is living

Posted By: GLarrabee
Date: Friday, 26 October 2007, 10:32 p.m. From God’s perspective the way down is up, giving is receiving, and dying is living.

Your Victory in Adversity

Do you realize the calling upon you? You are called to God's purpose. Every thing that happens to you happens for a reason. God has been preparing you so you can do your part to fulfill your duty in his plan for eternity.

People have thought satan has hindered God's plan, but satan has not really hindered God's plan. Satan has actually helped in bringing together God's perfect plan. The infinite intelligence of our creator is using all the actions of the adversary to perfect his people.

Your pain has been the ingredient needed to strengthen you, as tempered steel. Your sorrows have determined your ways and have set the direction of your life. This has made you turn from your self desires. You have been crushed, broken and you are now ready to be trained and prepared for the duty assigned you before the creation of heaven and earth.

You have felt weak and drained to a state of bewilderment. All the expected joys have become great pain and sorrow. All your planned success's have turned to failures. Your gains have become loss's. All your self worth and self assurances are past, your once positive mental attitude has been drained from you. You have thought and wondered what could be the purpose of this life.

God has worked all these events into your life to test you. To reveal what you are really made of on the inside. You have been angry and even rebellious, and now you can see that each act of anger or rebellion has added fuel to this fire of adversity and has brought you further heat.

You have pondered the answer, you have even considered suicide, you have cried out to God for his help. You ask; What is the purpose of this? What is the purpose of my life? You wonder where you will be a year from now physically and mentally, if things don't change.

You are not the only one who has gone through this and thought these thoughts.

You have prayed amiss in asking for help. As a result you cannot see where God has helped, but it even seems the more you pray the worse it gets.

This is the breaking process God has brought you through as he held you in the palm of his hand.

The Lord has brought you to the point of making a decision.

This decision will determine your destiny through out eternity. By this decision you will determine to get closer to the Lord through submission or flee from him in rebellion and self will. If you refuse submission, your life will continue in the direction it is going, because God loves you and is not will to let you go.

Maybe your suffering has not yet brought you to the point where you need to be brought to, to be changed.

The Father loves you and sent his son to die for you, but now his hands are tied because of your self will. He cannot help you unless you are willing to give your life for his and follow him.

You must die to your self. Not suicide or self destruction in the way you are going, but by turning your life over to God.

He has a wonderful plan and purpose for you. But first it requires you to release you from yourself. You now realize you have become your own worst enemy in allowing satan to use you as he has. By letting go of your self-will you will be allowing God to use you in fulfilling his plan for all humanity.

Be thankful for all the evil that has happened in your life, because good will come from bad. Success will come from failure and prosperity will come into all areas of your life by giving all that you have or ever will become to the Lord for his purposes alone.

Every evil that has happened in your life that has happened can be turned into something good. But it will depend on your actions or reactions. Are you still hateful?; Or are you rebellious? Do you still seek to get even?

Hopefully and prayerfully confess your sins, and surrender your life totally to the Lord for his perfect will for you.

The will of God is the greatest success story that has ever been told in all the history of mankind. With the will to do God's will it is impossible to fail. There is no such thing as failure.

Everything you do God uses to harmonize with his ultimate plan through out eternity. Even all past failures become important stepping stones in preparation for your life’s purpose on earth as well as your divine purpose throughout eternity.

You will than and praise God for your failures and his purpose being fulfilled. This has been a work that so called success in your life could not have accomplished.

Integrity and love of others comes not from self esteem or the pride of success, but from meekness and selflessness. These are the ingredients needed for your future leadership and ruler-ship.

God is raising you up to rule among nations and only by your failures and death to all self worth and self esteem will you become of any value to the Kingdom of God. The failures and sorrows of life have become important in developing the Christ like character needed in each of us.

If we really want to be used by God in the greatest way possible we must be willing to be prepared. The greater the work is in importance and responsibility, the greater is the preparation needed. This process of preparation takes us through the trials of total devastation of all our dreams and to the point of losing all our ambitions and hopes.

This is totally opposite of the human concept and desire for success.

We have to die to self and shed all security or self protection and assurances. Total self must die so that through meekness and total integrity you are able to have compassion to serve and bless others. Only after we have given up everything, is it possible to know the will and mind of Christ.

Through the sorrows, and pains that lead to the death of the self life we are being made into royalty. To rule jointly with all the power of the triune God flowing through us.

In all instances of this life of preparation for the Kingdom of God we are to be thankful. Knowing God's perfect will is being accomplished though our every apparent misfortune.

The quickest and easiest way to reach the position where we are prepared and ready to be used of God is through non resistance.

Instead of pleading with the Lord to change a situation in our lives, God's purposes will sooner be accomplished in our lives if we totally turn everything to him in thankfulness. So that his perfect will and plan will be accomplished.

If we learn to trust the Lord in all these sorrows and frustrations of life to use them for our good, He will trust us with blessings. There will come power and authority to act in his behalf upon this earth.

A law of the Kingdom of God is that our relationships and service to others in the leading of the Holy Spirit is directly related to our relationship and service to God.

Matthew 16:24,25

24. Then said Jesus unto his disciples, if any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me.
25. For whosoever will save his life will lose it, and whosoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

All of creation flows in harmony with God's perfect plan that was established from the foundation of creation. Every act of every day in every life is in accordance with the perfect plan of God from the beginning.

God's ultimate goal is to demonstrate his great love to his people, and then receive that same love and gratitude in return from the Bride of Christ.

We as individuals can either resist or harmonize by our decision of giving our wills to him, for his perfect will in accomplishing his plan for creation.

God is no respecter of persons, he loves you with the same quality and quantity of love that he has ever loved anyone else. He loves you with the same love that he loves Jesus who Gave his life in his love to us. He is asking you to receive that love and he wants you to give him your love in return.

God knows every detail of every problem you have. He also knows the very thoughts and temptations satan is using against you, even right now. The Lord is preparing a reward for you for these sufferings and sorrows you have had to go through.

Jesus wants to help you. Yes he wants to help you right now. This very moment, that you are reading these words. He knows you and knows where you are wherever you may be in your life, or wherever you are located upon this earth.

Ask him right now; Right where you are. He has been watching and waiting for you to let him love you and lead you in his love as your Lord. He wants to be your savior and wants to use you as a vessel for the God of heaven and earth to use you in giving wisdom, strength intellect and integrity to do great and mighty things through you.

Rebuke and cast our all resistance.

Love will replace hate. Light will dispel darkness. God is giving you power. Right now in the name of Jesus, cast evil from your thoughts and bind satan from re-entering your thoughts.

Don't give up and don't quit. Do it again and again. For you are in a battle, but you are the over-comer, and victory is yours.

God’s ways are not mans ways and he works in mysterious ways. In God’s perspective the way down is up, giving is receiving, and dying is living.

The breaking of the outer man is so the spirit may break through to be the heard. The leader in everything you do or even think of doing.

Every believer needs to go through brokenness to release the Holy Spirit for a greater work.

It seems the Lord usually spends several years working on us to accomplish this breaking. In some lives the Lord is able to accomplish this work after a few years. In others it is evident that after ten or twenty years the work is still unfinished.

When we really understand the cross, we will see it means the breaking of the outward man. The cross reduces the outward man to death. The cross must break all that belongs to our outward man, including our opinions, our cleverness, our self love; our all.

The release of the spirit makes it possible for us to abide increasingly in God. We touch the spiirit of revelation in the Bible, and without effort our spirit can receive divine revelation. Once the outward man is broken, man's spirit very naturally abides in the presence of God in how we conduct our conversations to others and in prayer.

Our spirit is released according to the degree of our brokenness. The one who has accepted the most discipline is the one who can best serve. The more one is broken the more sensitive he is.

Whenever we desire to save ourselves, in that very thing we become spiritually useless. Whenever we preserve ourselves of a trial, at that point, we are deprived of more spiritual sensitivity and supply. The way to serve is by accepting the discipline of the Holy Spirit. Remember, whatever happens to us, is measured by the hand of God, for our supreme good.

There is nothing more beautiful than the inner beauty of one who is broken. Stubbornness and self love give way to beauty in one who has been broken of God.

Our only hope of being used for a work of God is that the Lord may blaze a way out. Breaking the outward man to such a degree that the inward man may come out and be seen. Only the person through whom God can come forth is useful for his work.

Everyone who receives the Lord has his spirit raised from death and at the same time receives the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

We often say that the Holy Spirit dwells in our spirit, but we find it is hard to discern which is the Holy Spirit, and which is our own spirit. The Holy Spirit and our spirit become mingled and are not easily distinguished.

So the release of the spirit is the release of the human spirit as well as the release of the Holy Spirit. When the Holy Spirit is working, he needs to be carried by the human spirit. The Spirit of God employs the human spirit as his carrier and through it, he is brought to man.

Anyone who serves God will discover sooner or later that the great hindrance to his work is not others, but himself. He will discover that his outward man and his inward man are not in harmony, for they both are desiring to go in different directions.

He will also sense the inability of his outward man to submit to the spirits control, making him incapable of obeying God's highest commands.

There is just one basic dealing which can enable man to be useful before God. Brokenness, we must be broken. We must know that the one who can work for God is the one whose inward man can be released.

The basic difficulty of a servant of God lies in the failure of the inward man to break through the outward man. Each disciplinary working of the Holy Spirit has but one purpose. To break our outward man so our inward man may break free.

We may fret over difficulties and fret over small loses, but this is the work of the Lord preparing us so that we may be used. The Lord is preparing a way to use us. But when he touches us we feel unhappy, even to the point of quarreling with God and becoming negative in our attitude.

The Lord longs to find a way to bless the world through those who belong to him. When we offer ourselves to the Lord to be at his service, we cannot afford to spare ourselves.

We must allow the Lord to crack our outward man. So that he may find a way of working out his life in us. We may realize that all the troubles and trials which the Lord sends are for our highest good.

Gary Larrabee
Vinesbranch.com

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DO WE HAVE THE POWER TO EVICT SATAN AND HIS KINGDOM FROM THIS EARTH?

Posted By: GLarrabee
Date: Sunday, 28 October 2007, 12:19 a.m. SATAN’S AND HIS WORLD SYSTEM NEEDS TO BE EVICTED FROM GOD’S EARTH

The Earth Belongs to the LORD JESUS

In the beginning God created all things.

God created everything in all the heavens and everything upon the earth. The Spirit of God created all things by the power of God's spoken word.

John 1:1-5
1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2. The same was in the beginning with God.
3. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.
4. In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

And God said, Let there be light, and there was light. In him was also life and the light was the light of men. That was the true light, which lighteth every man that comes into the world, and the world knew him not.

12. But as many as received, him to them he gave power to become the Sons of God, even to them that believe and trust in his name.

Everyone who receives the Messiah Jesus he gives power to become sons of God. The wording of verse 12 seems to say, and even to those who do not receive him as Lord, only believe on his name also become sons of God.

Receiving him as Lord means submission to him. Believing in the name of Jesus, means believing in his name for ones salvation. But this does not necessarily mean a person is submitting their will to his will, the act of being submitted to him as Lord.

Salvation is s free gift that only needs to be received to be owned by the one receiving it.

The one who receive eternal life enters into the Kingdom. The one who reigns with Christ as kings and priests unto God are those totally submitted to God’s will and are part of the Kingdom Ruler-ship and the other becomes a child of God and receives eternal life to become’s a resident of the Kingdom without the honor of being a part of ruler-ship.

Jesus was not born of flesh and blood, but was born of God and of a virgin, the word was made flesh. Christ Jesus was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

The Word Made Flesh
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

The earth is the Lords. Everything upon it and all that is beneath it is the Lord's. The whole world and all life belong to the Holy One of Israel, because he founded it by making it and established it from nothing. Jesus as the word of God created all things out of nothing.

There is a great difference between good and evil and darkness and light. Jesus is the light of the world. Who can question the light? The light of God is the everlasting truth of Jesus and his word.

Darkness must flee, the light prevails. The Truth is revealed and redeemed by the light. Who shall ascend up to the hill of the Lord or who will stand in his place?

Only the redeemed of God will ascend into the presence of the Lord.
Redemption is for everyone through God’s plan of salvation. This is for all the house of Israel who have clean hands and pure hearts, all those of the original Israel and all those who are grafted into the full house of Israel as well.

The redeemed are all those with the law of God stamped and engraved upon their hearts of flesh. This is the one who will receive blessings from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation, Jesus is The Holy One of Israel.

Now is the time to call upon the Lord. This is the generation of them that seek him. This is the year of the restoration and the day of redemption for all people. Lift up your eyes, open the gates of your heart, and let the King of Glory enter and dwell forever.

Who is the King of Glory?

Jesus Christ is your redeemer? He is the King of kings and The Lord of lords?

Jesus is the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, the strong one mighty in battle. Lift up your heads and open your heart. Open those gates. Determine this in your mind. This is the gate to everlasting joy and peace. Let the King of Glory, Jesus Christ come in. He is the Lord, the King of Glory.

Jesus Christ is the healer, he will heal his people, body soul and spirit. His goal is to restore and redeem all things to the original plan of the Father as he planned from the beginning of creation.

Set your eyes, your heart and your ambition to be part of bringing forth the Kingdom of God.

By setting our eyes on these two principals of redemption and restoration we are setting our eyes on his Kingdom.

Seek first the Kingdom Of God and his righteousness and all things will be added to us.

We are his Branch to do a work on earth.

Jesus has given all power and authority in heaven and earth to his righteous people. God's people must now reclaim and redeem all that has been taken from them by satan and the world, by exercising this power of the spoken word in the name of Jesus.

We as believers in Jesus Christ are the corporate body of the Lion of Judah.

This is our Fathers Kingdom. Proclaim it. This is a call to action. The battle will be won through lining up through Jesus Christ not horizontally, but vertically, establishing this Plumb-line of power and authority from heaven.

Let the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ live his life in us and reach out to re-claim the Lost to him.

To be able to do what the Lord wants to do through us we need to know how to fight the spiritual battle and the secrets of having our prayers answered.

THE SECRET OF ANSWERED PRAYER

No believer should be ignorant of the word of God, for God's way of speaking to men today is to reiterate the words He has already spoken. At times God does speak directly, and we are to always have an open and sensitive heart to hear God. But quite often no matter how hard we try it seems we cannot hear the voice of the Lord and we are to rely on words which He has already set forth in the scriptures. God's speaking, then is his repeating what He has said before.

The Bible is a living word and is alive and sometimes God speaks through his Spirit not in any utterance but by directing a person to the written word of God to that verse of scripture in his written word that fills the present need of the one trusting in the Lord.

The Bible is the word of God that shows us what God has done for us in the past. It also shows us how and by what means he has revealed himself and led men in the past. In order to know the richness and fullness of God's provision for us, we must study the word of God in the Bible.

Learning to pray follows studying the Bible. Prayer is both the most profound and simplest of a believers exercise.

Answered prayer is one of the basic privileges and rights of a believer. A believer is given by God the right of having his prayers heard. But in this right of having prayers heard there is a positive condition that must be met. That is, we must have faith to believe.

One must believe when he is praying that God hears his prayers, and will answer. If one believes in faith that he will receive; he will receive. Faith is trusting that the Lord hears our prayers and is simply believing that we receive what we are praying for according to God’s will.

We should search our hearts to see if there is anything that needs to be confessed, because un-confessed sin in our lives is a barrier to our communications with the Lord. If one feels that they have un-confessed sin in there heart they should take a moment asking the Lord to search there heart and bring to remembrance any un-confessed sin. When we have confessed our present sins we can trust the Lord and his word we are pure and cleansed from all un-righteousness. Then we should proceed to pray until we have a knowing faith. Knowing that we know God has heard us and knowing he is answering our prayer.

Faith is obtained at the point you are brought to the place where you can claim God has already heard your prayer, through your confidence. The point where you know that if God is real and his word is true you have what you have asked.

The following is the recorded words of Jesus speaking personally to you in his word, recorded in the book of John in the 15th chapter verses 1 to 16. This is spoken personally to anyone who will believe.

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing.
If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
This is my commandment, That ye love one another as I have loved you.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

It is not when you say God will hear you. Your own decision does not produce the results. It is when you are abiding in Christ. When you have given your will to do the Lords perfect will.

The Lord says, Believe that ye receive them and ye shall have them.

The Power of Faith.

Mark 11:22-24

22. And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
23. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatever he saith.
24. There for I say unto you, What things so ever you desire, when ye pray believe, that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

The Lord did not say, Believe that ye "will" receive them. He said, Believe that ye receive them, and ye will have them. Notice this is in the present tense and not some time in the future.

Faith knows it is done already. That is the key.

Prayer may be divided into two parts. The first part is praying without any promise until the promise is given. This is praying without God's word of assurance to have God's word of assurance.

All prayers begin this way. Pray by asking God, and keep on asking.

The second part is praying from the point at which the promise is given to realization of the promise. From having God's word of assurance to the fulfillment of God's word and promise.

When you intuitively feel you have received, this is the point you know that you know God has answered your prayer, even though you not able to feel or see the answer yet.

After this knowing that you know God has answered your prayer you are in a period of waiting and during this period there should be praise. Not prayer, but praise!

So the first part is prayer and the second part is praise.

Pray is the first part and you should pray until you have the inner feeling of the fact that God has heard your payer and you are to receive. Then praise the Lord for the promise that he has given you and keep praising him for this promise unto you receive, and the promise is fulfilled. This is the secret of prayer.

There is a cost of following the Lord but the blessings are worth eteranl life.

Matthew 5:
3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. 7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

This is something I firmly believe:

I THINK THE THING THAT SATAN DOES NOT WANT REVEALED IS THIS:

THE SECRET IS THAT WE THE PEOPLE MAY HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE POWER THROUGH THE ANOINTING BY LETTING CHRIST WORK THROUGH US AS A BODY TO KICK SATAN OFF THE ENTIRE EARTH.

WE HAVE THE POWER TO ONE DAY AT A TIME FOR A THOUSAND YEARS. IF WE CAN COME INTO UNITY AND AGREE TO BE OF ONE MIND WITH A SINGLE PURPOSE WE CAN CAST THE EVIL FROM THE EARTH.

God can do anything he wants in any way he wants, but his way has always been to work through his people that are called to his purpose and I believe this is the purpose of this generation to defeat the enemy and bring forth the Kingdom of God.

What is it going to take to get us to that point? To agree on anything it seem it will take all the plagues described in revelation before we realize the power we have been given.

As you now read this next verse take this as a personal message and a calling to you giving you all the power and authority in heaven.

Matthew 16:19

19. Soon I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM REALLY ARE.

The Lord says I will give you the keys to the kingdom. Now the Lord explains the key and the power of the keys. The key is the power and the anointing given to each member of the body. The power to bind and loosen the powers on earth and the power of the principalities and the powers of heaven.

We have the keys to the kingdom. The power to bind or release all the powers of heaven or earth. This is not an individual power to bind all the powers upon earth or in heaven. This is power given to each person to bind or release the powers of his life and purpose in taking upon himself the anointing given to carry out his individual purpose, or calling, of God.

Believers all over the earth have these powers. This power is increased as people join together as groups pray and agree together.

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

Gary Larrabee
vinesbranch.com

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