Month: August 2023

 

Any faith you have comes by hearing God leading, teaching, or correcting you.

(Quote from https://realreality.org/downloads/how-god-will-transform-you/)

 

God can speak to you through the Bible. As God speaks through the Bible, He tells you about many of the other ways He speaks to you. No matter how God speaks to you, God’s faith will come if you listen.

 

Satan will try to convince you that faith is something faith is not. The liar will say faith is belief WITHOUT evidence when faith IS the evidence. Some deceived Christians will say faith is belief BASED ON evidence when faith IS the evidence.

The world and demons will try to convince you that you can get faith some other way. Your soul’s enemy doesn’t want you listening to God’s voice in willing submission and deep respect. Someone may claim you have to do works of piety to get faith. Demonic voices will try to get you to use your intellect, emotion, knowledge, observation, common sense, or something else to get faith. None of that works.

The life is the very life of God in an earthen house. ~ Herrick Holt

For context, here are some quotes from the same article:
Not likely men will be ready for the coming together of the Body of Christ, a happening of staggering import.
The incarnation is to bring into being a new seed, an entire change, a transformation of the human race.
You can’t have grace and truth without Jesus being present.
It is impossible to develop what God is through with, namely, your old man.
What God started in 1948 isn’t the end but the beginning of the end.
The coming together has been taught at length, but someday the Body of Christ will appear in a glory well described.
One could be bogged down on any teaching when he has lost sight of the Teacher.
Everything to do with redemption is totally outside of human ability. It is the administration of the power of God by the power of God.
Once you become protective of your snug position, endeavoring to cradle the light you have, death sets in.
Whatever ground our spiritual fathers gained in ages past were but stepping stones for us to ever walk upward and onward.
There comes an end to going around the mountain.
Today, we stand on the edge of resurrection life.
Anything you can rationalize concerning divine experience, it is not likely to be divine.
By the Grace and Truth of God, we all can have the indwelling Christ of the resurrection.
Christ in you in not the same as you in Christ.
The earthly man wants to be someone and will kill himself to be first.
Jesus abased Himself to demonstrate where greatness lies.
Jesus teaches not self-assertiveness but self-negation.
The demagogic, self-assertive, dominating, dogmatic, egotistic, and arrogant belong to the kingdom of power that constantly demonstrates the big “I.”
The virtuous Kingdom of God demonstrates the gospel of love in abasing themselves.
The highest gift is humility that can out-power any force of Satan.
You can walk the life of Christ indwelling you, the life of the resurrection that is beyond the power of the natural, or resort to living after your former life.
Separation [from the world] is not human effort but God’s finger changing the clay by His powerful hands.
Being led by the Holy Spirit is the norm for those whom Christ has indwelt.
Humility in the ministry God has given you in the place in His body, the Church, becomes the coveted holding.
You minister in all humility by the gift of the Spirit.
The fruit of the Holy Spirit becomes the norm for the life that is from the Christ.
THE GREAT MYSTERY OF REDEMPTION IS CHRIST IN YOU.
Where the Holy Spirit is there is resurrection life.
The power that raised Jesus is the same that will raise us when He indwells us as He did Christ.
The Church is a yielded body to a Headship centered in the Originator of the whole redemptive structure; not a people with as many plans as physical members.
When Christ comes in to abide, He becomes your life.
Now, the indwelling Christ wants total surrender and total submission to set in motion all He has purchased for you.
An indwelling Lord is the most real experience in human experience.
The living Foundation is within, welling up until you are beyond time and space.
To enjoy the life in the Indwelling Son requires submission completely to the Spirit of God who has come to make you His house.
If we persist on living the life of the rejected fallen Adam, we die.
If you live the life of the Son, you are being touched at all times with the Divine.
The life is the very life of God in an earthen house.
Humility and submission of us all to His will is His requirement.
The Resurrection has commenced, and the total change will come by Divine appointment.

Almost everything in the New Testament is written to Christians who are born again to bring them to maturity.

The focus of the New Testament is on coming to spiritual maturity.

The focus of the New Testament is on being conformed to the image and likeness of Jesus Christ and overcoming the fleshly nature with all its problems.

God has much more for you than being justified. (see Romans 5:9-11)

When you’re justified, God declares you innocent based on the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

Jesus paid the price. He paid your penalty. Wonderful as that is, God has much more for you.

God tells you to be transformed by the renewing of your mind. (see Romans 12:2)

Romans 12:2 speaks of transforming and the renewing in passive voice. That means you aren’t doing it. The Holy Spirit is changing you from glory to glory. (see 2 Corinthians 3:18)

The Bible says God will transform (metamorphoo) us. The Greek word, “metamorphoo,” is the same word used to describe Jesus coming when Jesus took Peter and Peter, James, and John the mount of transfiguration. (see Mark 9:1-13, Matthew 16:28-17:1-13, Luke 9:27-36, and 2 Peter 1:16-18).

The Holy Spirit does two things in you as He transforms you. He forms Christ in you. (see Galatians 4:19 and Romans 8:29) The sinful nature dies. (see Galatians 5:24, Colossians 3:5, and Romans 13:14)

God intends to join the body of Christ to Jesus Christ as the head of the body in one completely formed man. (see Ephesians 4:11-13)

 

Christ’s Army of those Seasoned Through Following the Holy Spirit

… we, if we are accounted to be faithful and true, shall be part of that army that will follow the Son of God as He goes forth to battle in the great Day of God Almighty … not only profess to have faith and truth; but faithfulness and truthfulness have been wrought into their very being … learned obedience … followed the Lord in all His ways. ~ George Warnock, Who Are You 1985

Faith Comes by Hearing the Rhema (Utterance) of God

Faith by Hearing (Quote from https://realreality.org/downloads/how-god-will-transform-you/)

Faith by Hearing

Never forget. God speaks. You hear. Faith comes. That’s why faith has authority. Jesus Christ, Who is the Word spoken by the Father, authors faith in every person who listens to the rhema of God. Faith can also be a special gift to some. Not only that, but faith is one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit. If faith comes as a fruit of the Spirit, it comes by hearing. If faith comes as a gift of the Spirit, it comes by hearing. The faith to be born again comes by hearing. Any faith you have comes by hearing God leading, teaching, or correcting you. God can speak to you through the Bible. As God speaks through the Bible, He tells you about many of the other ways He speaks to you. No matter how God speaks to you, God’s faith will come if you listen.

If you live the life of the Son, you are being touched at all times with the Divine. ~ Herrick Holt

For context, here are some quotes from the same article:
Not likely men will be ready for the coming together of the Body of Christ, a happening of staggering import.
The incarnation is to bring into being a new seed, an entire change, a transformation of the human race.
You can’t have grace and truth without Jesus being present.
It is impossible to develop what God is through with, namely, your old man.
What God started in 1948 isn’t the end but the beginning of the end.
The coming together has been taught at length, but someday the Body of Christ will appear in a glory well described.
One could be bogged down on any teaching when he has lost sight of the Teacher.
Everything to do with redemption is totally outside of human ability. It is the administration of the power of God by the power of God.
Once you become protective of your snug position, endeavoring to cradle the light you have, death sets in.
Whatever ground our spiritual fathers gained in ages past were but stepping stones for us to ever walk upward and onward.
There comes an end to going around the mountain.
Today, we stand on the edge of resurrection life.
Anything you can rationalize concerning divine experience, it is not likely to be divine.
By the Grace and Truth of God, we all can have the indwelling Christ of the resurrection.
Christ in you in not the same as you in Christ.
The earthly man wants to be someone and will kill himself to be first.
Jesus abased Himself to demonstrate where greatness lies.
Jesus teaches not self-assertiveness but self-negation.
The demagogic, self-assertive, dominating, dogmatic, egotistic, and arrogant belong to the kingdom of power that constantly demonstrates the big “I.”
The virtuous Kingdom of God demonstrates the gospel of love in abasing themselves.
The highest gift is humility that can out-power any force of Satan.
You can walk the life of Christ indwelling you, the life of the resurrection that is beyond the power of the natural, or resort to living after your former life.
Separation [from the world] is not human effort but God’s finger changing the clay by His powerful hands.
Being led by the Holy Spirit is the norm for those whom Christ has indwelt.
Humility in the ministry God has given you in the place in His body, the Church, becomes the coveted holding.
You minister in all humility by the gift of the Spirit.
The fruit of the Holy Spirit becomes the norm for the life that is from the Christ.
THE GREAT MYSTERY OF REDEMPTION IS CHRIST IN YOU.
Where the Holy Spirit is there is resurrection life.
The power that raised Jesus is the same that will raise us when He indwells us as He did Christ.
The Church is a yielded body to a Headship centered in the Originator of the whole redemptive structure; not a people with as many plans as physical members.
When Christ comes in to abide, He becomes your life.
Now, the indwelling Christ wants total surrender and total submission to set in motion all He has purchased for you.
An indwelling Lord is the most real experience in human experience.
The living Foundation is within, welling up until you are beyond time and space.
To enjoy the life in the Indwelling Son requires submission completely to the Spirit of God who has come to make you His house.
If we persist on living the life of the rejected fallen Adam, we die.
If you live the life of the Son, you are being touched at all times with the Divine.
The life is the very life of God in an earthen house.
Humility and submission of us all to His will is His requirement.
The Resurrection has commenced, and the total change will come by Divine appointment.

When you’re justified, God declares you innocent based on the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

God has much more for you than being justified. (see Romans 5:9-11)
When you’re justified, God declares you innocent based on the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
Jesus paid the price. He paid your penalty. Wonderful as that it, God has much more for you.
God tells you to be transformed by the renewing of your mind. (see Romans 12:2)
Romans 12:2 speaks of transforming and the renewing in passive voice. That means you aren’t doing it. The Holy Spirit is changing you from glory to glory. (see 2 Corinthians 3:18)
The Bible says God will transform (metamorphoo) us. The Greek word, “metamorphoo,” is the same word used to describe Jesus coming when Jesus took Peter and Peter, James, and John the mount of transfiguration. (see Mark 9:1-13, Matthew 16:28-17:1-13, Luke 9:27-36, and 2 Peter 1:16-18).
The Holy Spirit does two things in you as He transforms you. He forms Christ in you. (see Galatians 4:19 and Romans 8:29) The sinful nature dies. (see Galatians 5:24, Colossians 3:5, and Romans 13:14)
God intends to join the body of Christ to Jesus Christ as the head of the body in one completely formed man. (see Ephesians 4:11-13)