IT SHALL BE DONE UNTO YOU
Wednesday – March 11, 2020, Adar 15, 5780
Greeting to our precious friends and partners of this Ministry and The Three Minute Word blog. God is so good to bring such wonderful people into our lives. Welcome back to this in-depth Bible Study of the Book of John which can bring all of our lives into a far better place than we currently are no matter our financial or health condition. There is no upside limit in the Kingdom of God. In other words, if we have only one dollar and we choose to focus on God, on the Kingdom of God, there is no limit to what God will do for each of us personally. That one dollar can become several billion. Just think what the Lord could call on us individually to do with several billion dollars (even trillions) in our control subject to the voice of God. Is the one dollar in our pocket yielded to Him or do we hold back? God is never the one holding back. Perhaps some of us can now see why our finances never progressed or have even regressed. The horrible financial and health teachings in the Church cause the Church to be impotent (weak, powerless). The same is true for our health as well. If you are reading this on Facebook please take a moment to hit the “love” and “share” buttons to give us feedback and to expand the reach of these teachings. The featured picture today is from our game camera looking back at a part of our home. Yes, that is snow on the ground and on the roof. Now, let’s turn our attention to our primary Bible text for today and read it aloud.
John 15:7-10 (KJV)
7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
10 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.
Yesterday, as I do frequently, I issued a serious, thought provoking, challenge to us all (including myself). Why are we not doing and seeing done the things Jesus did and the greater things? It always boils down to faith, our faith, and the faith of the people who need a change in their lives. How does faith come?
Romans 10:17 (KJV)
17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Faith always comes by hearing. Do we have ears to hear, are we hearing physical sounds only or are we hearing both physically and spiritually? Are we actively seeking to make the Word of God a part of our continuous thought stream, words, and actions or are we hearing Word and becoming excited for the moment and then filing it like other information? Have you thought about this in the context of the Truth Jesus presented in the parable of the sower? Are you and me in the first three unfruitful groups in the parable of the sower or are we in the fourth fruitful group? Are we overcoming the world system or caught up in it and being trounced by it? When our text talks about abiding in Jesus (the Word) and the Word abiding in us, that is us confessing, decreeing the Word out loud and on purpose. Are we really abiding with the Word or is the Word (Jesus) outside the door knocking? Perhaps we don’t want to get too radical. Was Jesus radical? What would be too radical? Let’s take a look at our text in the Passion Translation.
John 15:7 (PassionNTPsa)
7 But if you live in life-union with me and if my words live powerfully within you—then you can ask whatever you desire and it will be done.
Now, let’s take a look at how the Apostle John even many years later expressed the same idea.
1 John 5:14 (PassionNTPsa)
14 Since we have this confidence, we can also have great boldness before him, for if we present any request agreeable to his will, he will hear us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we also know that we have obtained the requests we ask of him.
Notice how when we put a demand on the Covenant in present tense it shifts to past tense? We declare things that be not as though they already are (Romans 4:17). If we abide in Him (the Word) and His Word abides in us seems to me we will know the will of God. We will know the thoughts, the words, the ways of God, our Father, our Brother (Jesus), and the Holy Spirit will be listening for our words. It is His Words in our mouth that activates the Power of God. A question does not get a job done and a request does not get a job done, a demand, a decree, a command, or an instruction gets it done. So, let’s look at it like this. We find the will of God in the Word of God; the Holy Spirit leads us to declare the will of God and then and only then will He (the Holy Spirit) perform it. We must have faith without wavering in the will, the Word of God. We must be led of the Holy Spirit to put a demand or to declare the will of God. This is part of our abiding in Him and His Word abiding in us. I have talked at length in the past about doing it the way Jesus did it. Everyone with results since Jesus, and everyone with results before Jesus did it that way (check it out). We must know the way of God which is part and parcel of abiding or living in the Word, living the Word.
Until our next publication, as a Bible Teacher and Prophetic Voice I speak this blessing over each and every one of you, receive it, believe it, and speak over yourself and your family by faith in Jesus name! Quit asking God to bless you, you are already blessed, you have the Blessing, give Him something to do by the words of your mouth. Once you know the will of God, decree the thing (Job 22:28, Isaiah 45:11, Mark 11:23). (The Blessing is the Holy Spirit) We have left God way to long with nothing to do in our lives.
Numbers 6:24-26 (AMP)
24 The Lord bless you and watch, guard, and keep you;
25 The Lord make His face to shine upon and enlighten you and be gracious (kind, merciful, and giving favor) to you;
26 The Lord lift up His [approving] countenance upon you and give you peace (tranquility of heart and life continually).
By: Dr. David Wood, Author, Bible Teacher, and Prophetic Voice
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