When you have conceded to deny yourself, a quiet peace will flood your soul. Your stormy thoughts will bow to your inner man that is led by the Spirit — Christ within you the hope of glory. There is a sense of knowing that the course of action you have taken is right. This peace allows you more clarity of thought, word and action. It also allows you to see the riches in others more.
You will find great riches on many levels of life if you deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Jesus. There are small moments of self-denial in life that unlock spiritual riches for you.
There is a lot of push in the world for self-development and success, but Jesus calls us to die. Here are some keys to Godly success.
Pontius Pilate asked Jesus, ‘what is truth?’ He should have asked, ‘who is truth?’ Truth became personified in Jesus Christ. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. And then the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. (John 1:1-3 & 14) Emmanuel – God with us. The Word or Truth of God sanctifies us.
Fear is the affection of the mind, arising from what the mind conceives as danger approaches. Fear is not real yet. It is what you perceive might happen.
For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
God chose the foolishness of preaching whereby we can be saved, according to I Corinthians 1:21: ‘it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.
“If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.” – John 14:15-17
“Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” -Philippians 2:9-11
David’s brothers and mighty men eventually finished the job of slaying the giants of their enemies. David had slayed Goliath, but he had 4 brothers. That’s why David picked up 5 smooth stones and the first hit its target. In this passage of 2 Samuel 21:15-22 we uncover some identifications of spiritual giants and the strategies to slay them.
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God. -Ephesians 2:8
What breaks your heart? Have you felt shattered lately? What feels crippled in your emotions? What part of you is maimed, wrecked or crushed?
God is near you right now to comfort and mend you with His gold to increase your value. The word of your testimony that overcomes the accuser in your life, becomes a valuable history that increases your spiritual status and in turn encourages other broken vessels to endure and follow the same process of mending by the great artisan that loves you and gave Himself for you.
Preached by Apostle Aje Pelser, content based on the Apostolic Summit Notes from 2004-5 where we were discussing the configuration of the Household of Faith.
Qualifications of God’s Bondmen.
The specifications of the Cornerstone that in turn, builds us into a spiritual house for God.
In order to have an understanding with someone, you have to have a special relationship. There are unspoken laws and references to a long history and a fondness that allows room to make mistakes. But there is also a responsibility to remain transparent so that the understanding can continue – that understanding is so precious that you willing to work through anything together to preserve it. Without Jesus we would never have had an understanding with the Father, the fact that Jesus came to earth when He was sent, opened up new levels of understanding so that our relationship with the Father can grow.
“But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly.” -Hebrews 12:22
Faith opens the window into the spiritual realm for us.
And Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever. The LORD will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.” And the LORD said to Moses, “Why do you cry to Me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward.”
The anointing takes us beyond what can be done normally. The supernatural opens to us because of the anointing of the Holy Spirit.
Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord, the shield of your help and the sword of your majesty!
Principles of faith from Apostle Aje Pelser.
Patterns for heavenly citizens to live holy lives.
The first principle of apostolic reformation is calling the old things obsolete. God is restoring dance to the church, and using it to transform our faith. It is more than interpreting song through moment. What gives dance an apostolic quality is realizing that movement in the natural has an equal and corresponding action in the spiritual realm.
Here are some vectors of the Force of Mercy that move us towards full potential in Christ.
The most important work we can do as a church is to see Christ formed in people. If you can connect someone to Christ within, they will realize how to live, to care for others, to love God and humanity without external motivation. This is really the genius of God through the church that helps people to coordinate their functions and synergize their faith to see a corporate representation of Christ through a local church.
“Redemption on a global scale takes a big sacrifice.” That is why Jesus had to suffer on the cross for us, so that he can save the world forever!
“Love and laughter is what we’re all after.” -Dr. Sachs
What we need to give the world is rest, love and laughter. People will know us by our fruit — what people will remember is the love we show them.
Cyrus received an anointing to open the double doors that could never be opened before. (Isaiah 45:1) He is an example of apostolic anointing in the Old Testament. Those who shared in the vision enjoyed the corporate anointing that brought personal success.
Here are some levers that we can learn to use to develop more of the character of Christ in us.
‘For in this the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’ I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”’ – John 4:37-38
I attended a filmmaker’s course with an emphasis on screen writing at the Artscape in Cape Town, 2003. They gave us some points in character development that I found very useful. But looking at it from a spiritual perspective has really given me some Riches of inner Character:
The first thing recorded of God is that He created. He created us in His image. A key is created in the image of the lock. The door of creativity is open to us because we are made in God’s image. This message will give you three keys to increase creativity in Christ.
Isa 32:1 Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, And princes will rule with justice. […]
The Good News is that you can escape the fire of the Lord’s anger and receive His forgiveness for evil and sin through Jesus Christ. Get on the Lord’s side of this eternal battle and share in the spoils of victory!
By Apostle Andre Pelser with additional notes on Cyrus and comments from apostle Aje Pelser […]
Reformation is a PROCESS that INVOLVES the entire Body of Christ in spiritual WAR; redesigning MENTALITIESto seek KINGDOM realities that help us enter new DIMENSIONS of God’s spiritscape where there is a PURIFICATION and MULTIPLICATION of leadership that value INNER realities versus OUTWARD impressiveness; obtaining the power to generate WEALTH to GLOBALIZE the True Church of the Firstborn registered in heaven.
So we first have to humble ourselves and give over to Jesus confessing that without Jesus, we are not good in ourselves. That is called repentance. When we repent it when we stop and make a bout turn and go the opposite way. In the Bible the word repentance links up with the process a butterfly goes through from egg to adult. The process is called Metamorphosis. That is what happens to our lives when we give up trying to be a beautiful butterfly and let Jesus change us!
There are many people in the Bible who achieved great things through simple acts of faith. One act of faith can change your future, your family’s future, and the future of those around you for generations.
As we make godly appeals it will motivate people from within to comply to divine standards set by the Apostolic appeals in the New Testament and bring reform in the Church that will reform the land.
But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.
As one studies God’s Word’s, it sharpens the spiritual senses of discernment to single out men and women who had the ability to break and destroy the enemy and who could build a stronghold for the people to be secure. Although there were many, I have chosen Nehemiah, Ezra, Jesus, Paul as focal points. Other reformers have also been mentioned in the chapters dealing with God’s principles.
Then the Lord your God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it. He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers. And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, spoke on the day of Pentecost in a way no one has ever spoken before and set an example for us to follow. Here are some indications that it was the Spirit prompting him to speak on that eventful & historic day.
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
The main difference between personal fasting and God’s chosen fast is that when you fast it changes your personal wineskin to receive new wine. When you apply God’s chosen fast it is for others to benefit as the passage in Isaiah 58 reveals: “Is this not the fast that I have chosen: To loose the bonds of wickedness, To undo the heavy burdens, To let the oppressed go free, And that you break every yoke?”
Awake, O north wind, And come, O south! Blow upon my garden, That its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come to his garden And eat its pleasant fruits.
Here are some ways that we can disappear and reveal more of Jesus’ glory to our generation. The early revivalist churches had a note on the pulpit for the new preacher: “Sir we would see Jesus.” John the Baptist said: “He must increase and I must decrease.”
God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. God has engraved your name in the palm of His hand. He is aware of every one of us all of the time. He will never leave you or forsake you, without end. He will be with us through eternity. There is no end to His love. Why don’t people accept His love?
I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
As a new creation, you have access to God’s wisdom, strength, provision, protection; you have access to everything God has through what Jesus Christ has accomplished. 2 Corinthians 5:17 – “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” Philippians 1:6 – “being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ”
“Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.” -Isaiah 43:18-19
It’s possible that we can learn to please God. Jesus said “My Father has not left me. He is always with me because I always do the things that please Him.” In Christ, we already please God because we believe in His Son. Here are some definite ways to please God.
Abraham was the first person who believed that God could raise someone from the dead. He believed that God would raise his son from the ashes of the offering. In doing so, he paved the way for us to believe that God could raise Jesus from the dead. Abraham came from a land of idols, where people sacrificed their children to false gods. God stopped him from harming Isaac, and told him that He Himself will provide: a prophetic statement that God would provide an offering for the reconciliation of mankind.
Apostle Nicolas Schmidt and Prophet Claire Schmidt share their experience of planting a Harvester Church in France. Evangelist Brian Adams encourages us regarding stewardship of our most holy faith.
How do people grow in the knowledge of the presence of the Lord? Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. When we focus on God and His Word and practice His presence in the menial tasks of life, we eventually become automatically aware of His ever-present reality.
Every generation demands an anointing that is relevant to its time, an anointing that’s in touch with the time. When you understand the level of hostility that the devil has released and is expressing himself in, you’ll understand that the church cannot survive with anything less than a radical, authoritative, governmental and pioneering spirit.
Jesus baptises us with the Holy Spirit and with fire. Prophet John the Baptist prepared the way for the fire of God through prophesying and speaking into being the destructive process with which Jesus was to baptise. John understood the technology of God’s fire as he had himself experienced God’s fire during his life of separation.
Confidence must have a permanent source if it is always going to be available. Self-confidence soon runs out, but there is a source of confidence that will never run dry.
Joseph was the first brother to be lost, and the last to be restored — in this there is a parallel to the apostolic office of the 5-fold ministry. Apostles were the first office lost to the Church, and the last to be restored and accepted.
Lies of the enemy are structures that harbor demonic spirits. We receive God’s Word by faith which washes us and removes the original lie — that of doubting God, and all of the other lies built upon it crumble. We speak the truth of God’s Word to combat falsehood. We overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony.
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.
Faith moves God, but forgiveness releases His power. Jesus’ act on the cross achieved a galactic realigning. We are supernaturally translated from the kingdom of darkness, to the Kingdom of Light. We are justified by faith. We are born again, and we are new creations — we are something that never existed before. When we forgive others, there is a galactic realigning in our lives.
Sound is produced when something vibrates. The vibrating body causes the medium (water, air, etc.) around it to vibrate. These are some ways to develop patterns of Christ that release an unmistakable frequency.
“Now the end of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith” – 1 Timothy 1:5
The word fullness is pléróma. The image given is of a boat loaded with oarsmen, provision and soldiers to protect the supplies. It has everything it needs to reach it’s destination. Jesus came at the fullness of time, and the fullness of God dwells in Him bodily.
Sometimes we think that the death of Jesus is the most important part of Jesus’ life, but the most important part of his life is the resurrection. Jesus tells us that if we don’t take up our cross and follow Him, then we cannot be with Him. Jesus’ resurrection was the most important moment in the history of the universe. He not only raised from the grave, but HE IS the resurrection.
James tells us that faith is work and work is faith. The word anointing was first used in the Bible in reference to craftsmen. As a church, we are called to work in the anointing so that our work becomes Christ-like. We each have a distinct calling, and when we discover that calling and walk accordingly, money will come to us instead of searching after money. Your excellence of work will bring you before kings.
Representatives from Harvester churches throughout the globe gather for the sixteenth Harvester International Summit. This is the first session of the summit.
Jesus told his apostles “I give you the keys of the Kingdom.” We are part of the eternal Kingdom. These are keys that will help you to live the kingdom lifestyle, learning meekness and humility from Jesus, operating in rest and bearing fruit to the glory of God.
There are certain aspects of Moses’ faith in God that makes it outstanding enough to stimulate our faith thousands of years later.
“…let him take hold of My strength, That he may make peace with Me; And he shall make peace with Me.” -Isaiah 27:5
The church is not merely the house of God. It is the gate of heaven! That is the entry point into heaven. God’s presence is there. No matter how hard or dark your situation might be, God’s presence will never leave you if you are part of a church. He will give you a dream that will change your life and change the place where you are.
Faith works through love.
Love is patient.
Between the manifestation of your faith and the release of your faith, there is a time where you must exercise patience.
Our work has to do with the restoration of all things to the church and to the King of the Church Jesus Christ. Our work is spiritual.
When our work is done He will fetch us and we will meet Him in the air and be with him forever in the new heaven and the new earth where righteousness dwells.
We see it even though it seems afar off, we embrace it and we confess that we are strangers and pilgrims on this earth like our faith parents Abraham and Sarah and we will not be the last but the first to bring back the king by His grace through faith.
In the battle of Thermopylae where the 300 Spartans along with a few thousands Greeks withstood the 70,000 -100,000 Persians is the stuff of legends and has inspired many armies to face the odds and win. Gideon had 300 and faced the Midianites and Amalekites who were as numerous as locusts – God gave him a strategy to advance and win in spite of what he had. Let’s look at some of the reasons for Abraham’s success in war and why he and Sarah were called a father and mother of faith and of nations.
Romans 8:29-30 - For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.
1 Timothy 6:6 – Now godliness with contentment is great gain. We need to learn contentment […]
Job 42:10 – And the Lord restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
John 17 – Oh Holy Father maintain a watchful care over them in your name, which you have given me, in order that they may be one as we are one. When I was with them I constantly maintained a watchful care over them in your name, those whom you have given me. And I guided them and no one of them were lost except the son of perdition, in order that the scriptures might be fulfilled.
Many people read & study the Bible, many people memorize and quote the Bible, some even meditate in the Word, but not everyone gets understanding. The understanding heart produces 100 fold results. If you understand something you are established in it.
There are many things that can make us fear our future, so it is important to understand how to address the future. What do we say about our future? The scripture gives us keys to understand and think about our future.
Faith is contagious. It stimulates others to believe. Let us today become a Caleb or a Joshua and say, ‘I believe we are well able to do this!’ What a difference it makes to a group of people if there is a Caleb among them.
Israel was not merely a chose people but they were chosen to serve God among all the other nations: ‘un people choisi pour me servir’ (Exode 19:1-25). In the New Covenant the Church is a chosen race, a peculiar and holy nations to show forth the praises of God in the world (I Peter 2:9).
“But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ.”
As an apostolic people, we need to understand the inner make-up of a true apostle, knowing that Christ Jesus is our main example as the Apostle and High Priest of our confession of faith (Heb 3:1). Paul’s defense of his Apostleship provides the spiritual technology for unveiling the inner workings of an apostolic mind-set and behavioral patterns for an apostolic reformation church.
So the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. Thus Israel saw the great work which the Lord had done in Egypt; so the people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord and His servant Moses.
By My Spirit, says the Lord. Zechariah, the prophet, made a proclamation that lasted for centuries and still rings true today! It is not just a motivational statement, but also an eternal truth.
The only two qualities that Jesus ever suggested that his disciples should learn from him were humility and meekness. He never told them that they should learn how to preach or how to pray or even how to heal the sick! Why are these two qualities so important to life?
When we return to the Hose of God, we return like an orbit to another level of existence. Although it may seem like a repetitive sequence of returns, at each instance God has achieved another victory, fulfilled another promise, and changed another part of Jacob’s nature so that this orbiting back to Bethel becomes even more significant for us today.
Friendship in Christ is keeping his words and commands. That is how we stay in the sphere of God’s love – keeping His word and acting it out by His Spirit daily. It is actually quite simple: let the Holy Spirit remind you of His Word in every situation.
Peace (shalom) means perfect well-being, completeness, with all necessary good, all prosperity (spiritually and physically); freedom from fears, freedom from agitating passions, and freedom from moral conflicts.
Confidence must have a permanent source if it is always going to be available. Self confidence soon runs out, but there is a source of confidence that will never run dry.
We have an anointing from the Holy One and we do not heed false teachers and winds of doctrine, but the anointing within teaches us concerning all men’s doctrine. When we build our house on the rock of revelation of Jesus Christ the Son of God, and the revelation of who we are in Him and Christ within us the hope of glory, then we will not be shaken by storms.
Patterns in Paul’s life that led to his salvation, we can use to reap the great harvest of souls in these last days.
Parallels in the account of Jonathan and his armor-bearer that will help us subdue our enemy and conquer for Jesus.