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By Robert Carter

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Imagine...A world in which there is no sickness, death, pollution, war, natural

disaster…

Is such a thing possible? Certainly it is. I have met many people who see nothing but doom and gloom—pessimists who never see any future for us, but they do not know the plan of God! On several occasions, as I have spoken with others, I mentioned how we came through natural disasters untouched and told how we dared to trust God and say what He said. Psalm 91 is one example and it deserves mentioning below. When problems came, we turned to God and found out what He said on the matter and said the same things that He said.It works! Doubters, who do not know the ways of God have told us, “Yes, but how about the others who are Christians and they were killed or lost their homes? I cannot answer for all of them of course, but ask, “Were they r-e-a-l-l-y Christians, or people who are occasional church goers? Do they really know God at all?” Did they ignore the warnings? I doubt it.

Please look now at Psalm 91. It is a very powerful and wonderful Psalm that states-

Whoever lives under the shelter of the Most High wi! remain in the shadow of the Almighty. I wi! say to the LORD, “{You are} my refuge and my fortress, my God in whom I trust.” He is the one who wi! rescue you &om hunters' traps and &om deadly plagues. He wi! cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you wi! find refuge. His truth is your shield and armor. You do not need to fear terrors of the night, arrows that fly during the day, plagues that roam the dark, epidemics that strike at noon. They wi! not come near you, even though a thousand may fa! dead beside you or ten thousand at your right side. You only have to look with your eyes to see the punishment of wicked people. You, O LORD, are my refuge! You have made the Most High your home. No harm wi! come to you. No sickness wi! come near your house. He wi! put his angels in charge of you to protect you in a! your ways. They wi! carry you in their hands so that you never hit your foot against a rock. You wi! step on lions and cobras. You wi! trample young lions and snakes. Because you love me, I wi! rescue you. I wi! protect you because you know my name. When you ca! to me, I wi! answer you. I wi! be with you when you are in trouble. I wi! save you and honor you. I wi! satisfy you with a long life. I wi! show you how I wi! save you.

The terms and conditions of such promises of God are that we abide in Him, that we have placed our home in Him, that we trust Him implicitly, know Him in a covenant relationship and live the way He says to live. God has made an unbreakable promise to those who love Him that He would rescue us; protect us; answer us when we call to Him and be with us in times of trouble.

It is important to believe that God rescues us. Being with us, does not mean that when we are falling down the drain, that He would fall down it with us in the thing. He rescues us! He warns us of the danger!

He stated that He would send angels. They can at times perform a supernatural event to protect us or guide us, but they often come as messengers to deliver a message, warning us of impending danger, or preserve us in other ways.

An angel freed Peter from prison in Acts12. He was bound with chains beside two soldiers and was sleeping so soundly that the angel had to kick him on the side to wake him up. We can have peace in the middle of the storms of life.

An Angel told Joseph to marry Mary. He told Joseph to take the baby Jesus to a safe place to preserve His life. He also told Joseph when those who had been seeking Jesus’ life were dead.

The wise men were similarly warned not to return home the same way after presenting their gifts to Jesus (see Matthew 2) By the way, religious traditions tell us that there were three wise men, but that is not true. The bible never tells us how many were in that group that could have been as many as two hundred. It only states that they presented three groups of gifts, but this is another story.

Sometimes the messenger God sends is a prophet—a man coming on a specific assignment as we often see in scripture. In the Church at Antioch where believers were first called Christians, some prophets came, one of whom was Agabus with a message.

He told the people that there would be a great famine so God’s people were able to prepare for it. This happened in the days of Claudius Caesar and is recorded by history as well as in scripture (see Acts 11:26-30).

Prophets are still with us today, despite certain religious teachings. On many other occasions, there is a still small voice within us that we would do well to heed. It could be a simple feeling that you should not go to a certain place and there are many other illustrations I could use.

If we follow the advice of those God sends to us, we are preserved, but if we disregard those warnings we do so at our own peril.

We cannot meet those requirements if we are not believers. I often say that anyone can go to Church but that does not mean that they are Christians! I can go to McDonalds, but that does not mean that I am a hamburger. I can park my car in a garage, but that does not mean I am a car. Anyone can read a bible, but not have a clue about what God says, so such arguments just mentioned are worthless.

I have avoided certain death more than once, have had my homes saved in cyclones without damage, seen friends homes saved from bush fires (on one occasion a friend saw the flames racing to his property and witnessed the flames reach the fence line and stop completely as if an invisible line had been drawn to start again on the other side of the fence line and resume).

I know one missionary who visited our church and told of the time he was in a jungle and was woken at night by the Lord, telling him to get out of there immediately. He and his party did and were chased by natives intent on killing them, ran to a river and the Lord told them to keep going. They walked over, but the natives stopped. They found out later that the river was flooded and well over their heads, but they felt rocks beneath their feet as they obeyed the voice of the Lord to keep going!

When the media reported on a disaster in my country, the focus was on the damage and the heartache caused. It was hear wrenching and our feelings went out to everyone affected. Many other people people were preserved in the same disaster and little if anything was reported on them. When asked about this, the response was “That is good news. Good news does not sell.” I recommend that you look at the headlines carefully from now on. See if what I say is true. Most of the news that hits the headlines is bad news. Whilst we are not heartless and ignore the pain and suffering of others, I almost dislike what they report because the media does not always tell the truth. That’s all I will say on that, other than to ask you, “Whose report do you believe?”Fear-mongers, doubters and scoffers and those who choose to have a negative approach to life will always see doom and gloom in life.

Listening to them can place the hearer at risk and be dragged down to their level. Negativity begets negativity. It can be so invasive into the hearer’s life that illness sometimes comes upon them. The problem is that many of the people who speak negatively might not deliberately mean any harm. They have believed a lie. When we receive untruth and do not deal with it, that thing sometimes becomes like a splinter that has invaded the skin and becomes a festering wound that can spread like a cancer throughout the whole body.

One of the most prevalent lies is the poor state of planet earth. Whilst it may be in a bad condition, mostly because of man’s intervention, the late great planet earth is not doomed. Scientists can’t even agree if we have global warming or an ice age coming.Whilst certain species seem to have disappeared or are extinct, they still have a remnant—because God said so.

While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night sha! not cease.Genesis 8:22 .

What is overlooked is the fact that the earth belongs to God! See Psalm 24:1; Psalm 50:10; Haggai 2:8; 1 Corinthians 10:26. There is much more going on (behind the scenes perhaps) than many people realize.

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The negative reports do not have all the facts, people presume far too much and then form opinions that may or may not be correct. We need to have the full revelation on what God is doing and not look at things through natural eyes.

Scientists recent uncovered the well preserved remains of a huge wooly mammoth on the Lyakhovsky Islands, the southernmost group of the New Siberian Islands in the Arctic seas off northeastern Russia.The mammoth carcass is only the third to be found in the history of paleontology. Its blood is very dark, being found in ice cavities below the belly and when they broke these cavities, the blood came running out!The leader of the expedition, Dr Semyon Grigoriev, who announced the find on May 30th 2013 along with scientists from the Russian Geographical Society said the flowing blood surprised the scientists excavating the grown female mammoth because the temperature was -10C. He said, "It can be assumed that the blood of mammoths had some cryo-protective properties."The blood is now under bacteriological analysis.

There is more happening than many people realize.

Concern is raised (and rightly so) about the disappearing numbers of wildlife. Some voices where I live have said that the koala population here is diminishing! Really? During the last season, there were more koala sightings on my property and neighboring properties in those few months than for the past several prior years combined! Things cycle. Just as seasons change, nature also has a way of changing and recuperating. God is not going to let His work be done in vain.

People are concerned (again rightly so) about what seems to be diminishing natural resources. They are concerned about running out of oil. I had a discussion with another pastor about this and we prayed together, asking God to give us some understanding. He gasped and told me, Robert, the Lord just said, “Don’t you think I knew how much to make? I made enough to last for as long as it is needed.” If it runs out, we will have alternatives.

Another aspect to consider is closer to home life in religious circles. Due to ill formed opinions in religious circles, the original intent or pattern Jesus had for His Church has changed. When Jesus arrived at Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples,

Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?Matthew 16:13.

They gave a variety of answers as people do today. Some people thought that He was John the Baptist. Others thought that He was Elijah. Others thought that He was Jeremiah, whilst others thought that He was another prophet, or a teacher and so it went. Most answers were based on assumption or opinion, or secondhand knowledge.

Jesus made it personal. It always has to be personal. No one can do it for you, be a substitute, an intermediary, whatever. Our relationship with God has to be one-on-one. He looked right at them and asked, “What do YOU say?”Peter replied, “You are the Christ; the Son of the Living God.”How did he know that? Who told him? Jesus gave the answer, saying that it had been revealed to him by the Father (see Matthew 16:17).That is what is meant by receiving revelation knowledge.

Jesus stated that He would then build His Church (note my emphasis) and that no demon in hell could do a thing about it. She is founded on such revelation knowledge.

The Church Jesus is building will be a glorious Church, without spot or wrinkle or any blemish and it will be a Church with real clout! See Ephesians 5:26-27. The bible speaks volumes about this glorious Church, revealing that she would reveal the manifest wisdom of God to all creation including the spirit realm.

We are not there yet, but God is working on it.

Some people say that they are Christians who never go to a church (and in some instances I do not blame them), but their growth is stunted.Some believe that all they need to do is to read the bible and whilst this is a good thought, it is also fraught with problems.

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Unless the Holy Spirit, who breathed life into the scriptures, gives them illumination they are relating only to the things of God through natural reasoning and the natural mind is at enmity with God. Again they will stagnate.

Look at Luke 24:13-32. Two of Jesus’ disciples were walking from Jerusalem after His resurrection towards Emmaus when Jesus joined them. They shared what had happened, but did not know it was He! There are many people who attend churches but do not know Him and they were His disciples!They, as do many people today, had read the word of God (the Torah), but had no understanding of it until Jesus opened up the scripture to them.

Philip had been conducting a crusade in Samaria and the angel of the Lord instructed him to go towards Gaza where he found an Ethiopian eunuch who was a very well educated and influential man with great authority, being in charge of the Queen’s treasury. He was reading Isaiah in the bible when the Holy Spirit told him to go to him. He asked the Ethiopian if he understood what he was reading. The man replied, “How can I understand it unless someone helps me understand?” This further illustrates that anyone can read a bible, yet not understand a word. Paul stated-

Every Scripture is God-breathed (given by His inspiration) and profitable for instruction, for reproof and conviction of sin, for correction of error and discipline in obedience, [and] for training in righteousness (in holy living, in conformity to God's wi! in thought, purpose, and action), So that the man of God may be complete and proficient, we! fitted and thoroughly equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17.

If the scriptures are given by inspiration as we just saw, they need to be studied accordingly. That is, under the inspiration or revelation that only the Holy Spirit can give. Jesus said that He is the Spirit of Truth and that He is the one who teaches us (see John 14:16, 26; 16:13-15). In 1 John 2:20 & 27, we see that the anointing that comes from the Holy Spirit instructs us.

We need to balance our relationship with Godly advice and counsel of course, but depending on a man to interpret scripture is sometimes dangerous. If the other person does not have spiritual illumination, advice given can often stem from personal opinion or here say and opinions can be a fickle as the weather.

There is of course the need for diligent study and biblical meditation. There is a need for sound doctrine that comes by digging deep into the word of God, but theological debate is often that—debate and hair splitting over certain things does not always produce life. If anything it engenders strife, debate, division or bondage. Jesus came with a totally different presentation to the theologians of His day and people were amazed at His words that always accompanied results. The proof is in the fruit produced.

There is also the aspect of praying the word of God which is really quite simple. If you want to know if God answers prayer, the why not pray how He wants us to pray? I say to Catholics, “Why don’t you pray like Mary?” That really changes things. Her attitude is well recorded in Jesus’s first miracle, when she said, “Whatever He tells you to do—do it.” I often ask myself if I am doing things the way Jesus did. As for praying, He told us to pray to the Father. Our prayers are never intended to go to anyone or anything else!

If you want to know if God will answer Your prayer, then pray from the heart. There is no set formulae, no posture required, no religious act to perform for prayer is merely talking With God, not To God!1 John 5:14 states-

We are confident that God listens to us if we ask for anything that has his approval.

What better way to ask God about anything than to talk the way He talks. If you do not know how to speak, then say what He said and you can turn to a passage of scripture and read it out aloud as a prayer.

Our part is to find out what He says on a given matter and say that. Without that revelation or understanding, one may as well read a newspaper or a novel, or say meaningless and powerless words, regardless of how well structured and formatted and call that praying.

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When speaking with others, I often tell them that if they want to know what a certain passage means, then they should ask the author! We do have that right and privilege and it is also a responsibility to search out the truth. See 1 Timothy 2:15.

This lack of revelation knowledge often happens in theologian circles and by those who are not in intimate relationship with God. It’s all head knowledge! No wonder many people are confused and do not know the truth, become disillusioned, or harden their hearts. What they believe is in their minds but not in the heart. What is in the heart eventually comes our by vocal expression. Jesus said that, not me (see LUke 6:45)! What they say therefore may not be spiritually based and our words are meant to be spiritually based, because we are spirit beings.

We are not natural beings having a spiritual experience at all, but spirit beings having a natural experience. First Thessalonians 5:23 describes how we are spirit, soul and body. The only way we can truly relate to God who is a spirit it in the spirit dimension. The problems people have in comprehending what is really happening is because they are relating out of the intellect in preference to functioning in the spirit.

Once the truth is revealed in the spirit man, the information can then be filtered through to the mind. Doing it in the reverse causes problems.

This now brings us to the issue of our speech. There really is a miracle in our mouths, or I should say, there is a potential miracle in our mouths.

The atmosphere of expectation is the breeding ground for miracles. If you do not expect, then you will not receive. God will not force a thing on you. He respects your freedom of will, so if you choose not to believe, so be it! You must believe it first, then say it (see 2 Corinthians 4:13). If you cannot see it, you will never receive it. A parable according to Robert states, “Blessed are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed.” Jesus said in Mark 11:24 when we pray we should believe that we receive. That kind of prayer is positive. That kind of prayer is not using the vain repetitions He warned about in Matthew 6:7, but one that is full of confidence that the prayer is approved by God and will thus be answered.

Please notice that Jesus said we should believe that we receive—not a wishful hoping, or a some time in the sweet bye-and-bye or if God wills, but a confident knowing that we receive the answer—When we pray the prayer of faith, knowing the will of God which we can. See Psalm 91:15; Isaiah 65:24; Matthew 7:7; Luke 11:9; John 15:7, 16:24; Ephesians 6:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:13; James 5:13-15.

If praying does not produce results, then why bother?

Again, it comes back to saying the right words and I hasten to add that such things are not mere intellectual positive affirmations or recited prayers from a faithless prayer book. What are those right words? Hebrews 10:22-23 may provide a clue.

Let us draw near with a true heart in fu! assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled &om an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised.

We can draw close to God confidently because Jesus made the way available. He removed the barriers between us and God. We can approach God with boldness.

... at that time you were without Messiah, excluded &om the citizenship of Yisra’ěl and strangers &om the covenants of promise, having no expectation and without Elohim in the world.But now in Messiah יהוׁשע you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of the Messiah.For He is our peace, who has made both one, and having broken down the partition of the barrier,  having abolished in His flesh the enmity—the Torah of the commands in dogma—so as to create in Himself one renewed man &om the two, thus making peace, and to completely restore to favour both of them unto Elohim in one body through the stake, having destroyed the enmity by it.And having come, He brought as Good News peace to you who were far off, and peace to those near.Because through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.

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So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fe!ow citizens with the set-apart ones and members of the household of Elohim,having been built upon the foundation of the emissaries and prophets, יהוׁשע Messiah Himself being chief corner-stone, in whom a! the building, being joined together, grows into a set-apart Dwe!ing Place in יהוה,in whom you also are being built together into a dwe!ing of Elohim in the Spirit.Ephesians 2:12-22. See also ephesians 3:12; Hebrews 10:19-23;

We can draw near with true hearts and do so in full assurance as we exercise our faith and as we do, we can hold fast to the profession of our faith. That word profession in the Greek is Homologia. It means to say the same things that God says (about us).

What does He say about us?

There are many things that He says, but let us look at a few. When we read scriptures, we often think of the world in-general; impersonalized and nameless. It is as if God is talking about everyone but never to me personally. Of course He speaks to every human being on earth, or wants to speak with everyone but not everyone listens. John 3:16 says the God loves the whole world, but we often never think that God loves Me! 2 Peter 3:9 says that God is not slack concerning His promises and is long-suffering towards us and it not willing that any should perish, but they all should come to repentance, but think of the world, them, they and so on, but often do not put Me in the picture. God loves Me! Jesus loves Me! Jesus died for Me! Jesus is coming back for Me. This is not being selfish or self-centered, but accepting what God has done for every individual as if he or she were the only people on the planet and personally applying it.

Make those sample scriptures I list below personal. Say them. Let God and the spirit world hear them. Let your own ears hear them.

I am no longer under condemnation (Romans 8:1)

The blessing of Abraham has come on me through Jesus Christ (Galatians 3:14)

I have received the promise of the Spirit through (my) faith (Galatians 3:14)

I am Christ’s; that I am Abraham’s seed and an heir of all that God promised (Galatians 3:29)

I am blessed with all spiritual blessings in Christ [the spiritual manifests into the natural] (Ephesians 1:3)

I am accepted in the Beloved (Ephesians1:6)

I have an inheritance through Him (Ephesians 1:11)

I am made alive, my sins are gone and God has raised me up to sit in heavenly places with Jesus (Ephesians 2:1-6)

God has made known to me the mystery of His will (ephesians 1:9)

I am seated with Jesus in heavenly places (Ephesians 2:7)

I am accepted in the Beloved, that I know the mystery of His will and more

God supplies all of my needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus [God is not a pauper or stingy and He is not broke] (Philippians 4:19

I have been delivered from the power of darkness and have been translated into His kingdom (Colossians 1:13) Verse 14 affirms that I have redemption and my sins are forgiven

I am complete in Him Colossians 2:9

I have have calmness, a well-balanced mind, power and love, discipline and self-control and fear has no part in me (2 Timothy 1:7)

I can confidently state that The greater one (the Holy Spirit) lives in me (1 John 4:4)

As He is—so am I on this world (1 John 4:17)

He told us not to allow the world system to squeeze us into its mould. The devil is the god of this world system (see 2 Corinthians 4:3-4). He motivates those who are under his influence in one form or another to conform to his way of thinking and to his agenda. It is ultimately designed to bring us down. He is the thief who comes to steal, kill and destroy. All those problems I mentioned before are a result of his doing. The way we win is to stop being programmed by the system he controls, which often includes the media and to start thinking like God. When we do that, the thoughts give us the inner peace and stability we need and eventually become creative spoken words!

These are the kinds of things I am speaking of. It far surpasses mere positive affirmations or hyping ourselves up. Anyone can do that! Athletes do, but their activities are in the soul and physical realm. Ours start in the spirit realm and this eventually filters through into the physical.

If we say what God has said and if God’s word is creative, then the same creative power or ability in them can be released into the situation. Adam did! Jesus (as a man) did! So can we if we believe it!

This is why it is so important to know what God has said and we gain that understanding from scriptures.

Again it is a personal thing. I cannot do it for my wife Marjorie and she cannot do it for me.

As a pastor, I can encourage and lead, teach and train, correct in love, point to the truth, but I cannot force anyone to make a personal decision. It is distressing to see good men and women live less than Gods best for them, knowing that their situations and conditions can change and that they can change them.

God has great plans for every one of us. His plans are good. His way is true. We may not have complete understanding of them at times, but I know that it works (having proved it by personal experience as well as seeing it in His word).We might not know how it works at times and there are times when it defies all human logic. This is where that element of faith comes in.

Scoffers want proof. They look at things in the natural of course and want to see it before they will believe it. They say that there is no such place as Heaven or Hell, but they are very real places. All of us will one day spend eternity in one or other of those two. Unbelief often dismisses this fact thinking that a loving God will not send anyone to Hell. They are correct! He doesn’t send anyone anywhere. They choose their destiny as an act of their own volition and they send themselves there!

I have heard many people say that they do not believe in Hell. They will, ten-seconds after arriving there!

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That is not boasting falsely

That’s precisely what God says about me.

I share this so that you too can see yourself as God sees you. If we do not make such statements, we are denying what God has done for us and telling Him that He is a liar!

We need to do what Paul said.

I APPEAL to you therefore, brethren, and beg of you in view of [all] the mercies of God, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies [presenting all your members and faculties] as a living sacrifice, holy (devoted, consecrated) and well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable (rational, intelligent) service and spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you]. For by the grace (unmerited favor of God) given to me I warn everyone among you not to estimate and think of himself more highly than he ought [not to have an exaggerated opinion of his own importance], but to rate his ability with sober judgment, each according to the degree of faith apportioned by God to him.

It is amazing how people change their minds when facing death.

You can hear people curse using the name Jesus incorrectly but it is amazing how often they cry out that name when in an aircraft that is crashing, or a ship that is sinking. Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus and others strangely call out that name when their lives are running out, but why wait? All it takes is a quick prayer, asking Him to come into your life and save you now and you can then really enjoy life the way God intends.

That is real positive speech, but it, as with all the things of God, starts in the heart.

What is in the heart is expressed vocally. The thought processes are what you feed your being upon.Feed it with negativity and you become a negative person.Feed it with fear and you become afraid of shadows.Feed it with anger and you become an angry person.

What is sad is that such bad thoughts and feelings can have an adverse affect on the body. Worry causes ulcers. Anger releases excessive adrenaline in the body. Hatred is likened to murder in Jesus’ eyes.Such emotions can even make a person look strange, affecting the skin, posture, eyes and so on. I could elaborate much more but that illustrates what I mean and scriptures are full of examples.

This is one reason why we are instructed to think correctly, because what we think about

most of all is what we will say and what we say is what we become.

Always be joyful in the Lord! I'! say it again: Be joyful! Let everyone know how considerate you are. The Lord is near. Never worry about anything. But in every situation let God know what you need in prayers and requests while giving thanks. Then God's peace, which goes beyond anything we can imagine, wi! guard your thoughts and emotions through Christ Jesus. Fina!y, brothers and sisters, keep your thoughts on whatever is right or deserves praise: things that are true, honorable, fair, pure, acceptable, or commendable. Practice what you've learned and received &om me, what you heard and saw me do. Then the God who gives this peace wi! be with you. Philippians 4:4-9

That peace of God is real. Jesus promised to give it to us.

Peace I leave with you; My [own] peace I now give and bequeath to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither let them be a&aid. [Stop a!owing yourselves to be agitated and disturbed; and do not permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and cowardly and unsettled.] John 14:27

If we take His words seriously, what He just said is a command! Joy is real. Nehemiah 8:10 says that the joy of he Lord is our strength. This joy appears 228 times in the bible, so God wants us to be joyful. See Psalm 35:27; Isaiah 35:10, 51:11, 52:9, 61:3; Habakkuk 3:18.

When times get tough as they sometimes do, we have an

assurance that God is on our side, is with us and is for us. That is true, but is often misunderstood. We could be caught up in a tornado that is sucking us up in the sky and say, “God is with me” but I do not want God to be with me whilst I am being blown apart. I want to be delivered from that thing, not have God in the thing with me. He could have warned me to get into the shelter and I ignored that advice.

God is constantly talking to us. Are you listening?

You could have many problems and God has the answers. They could be personal as I once had. As a teenager, I had a massive inferiority complex. I often cried with the frustration of it, ashamed of the person I saw staring at me in a mirror.

When I was 26 years of age, I met the Savior, invited Him to come into my life, forgive my sin and started to do what I am advising you to do in this study. Jesus set me free.

I can now look at that man in the mirror and really like him! He’s a very wonderful man and he likes me too! I learned how to do that by saying what God said about me. I pointed at that man and told him that God loved him, that he was complete in Christ, that he was fearfully and wonderfully made and so on. It was not always easy but it worked.

45 years later this coming September, it still works.

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Life’s issues still abound and there are times when I just do not know what to do, but I turn to the source of my existence and ask Him for His advice and His help. When He tells me what to do, I do it. If He tells me to stop doing a certain thing, I do my best to follow instructions and stop doing it. If He asks me to start doing something, I do that also.

He could be speaking on such lines with you right now. Please do as He asks and please start to talk the way God talks. He does not say negative, fearful, doubtful, pessimistic words, but words of faith and love and peace and comport. What God says is positive and creative. They dispel fear and hatred. They produce life. If you are sick, then you can speak the words of healing. If you are broke, you can say whatHe says about poverty. If you need direction, you can speak words of counsel, guidance and direction.

Whatever God says covers every aspect of life. I have learned to speak the words of life and say what God says. Jesus told Peter that He would give him the keys of the kingdom in Matthew 16:19. One of those keys is the power of the tongue. Death and life is in the power of the tongue (Proverbs 18:21). Jesus said that from what is in the heart, we can speak words of life or words of death (see Matthew 12:33-37). For additional studies see Psalm 34:13: Proverbs 13:3, 21:23; James 1:26 and 1 Peter 3:10.

I asked on page one that you consider a world that could be vastly different from the one with which you are experiencing. Use your imagination and picture the changes in your life that you want to happen, them imagine it happening. Start talking about them. Start asking God for a scripture that you can hold onto and start declaring that.

You and I have a potential miracle in our mouths. What God says is the miracle in your mouth.

Start speaking it!

Remember that all things are possible to those who believe in the possibilities of the impossible!

Be blessedRobert

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Imagine…Think of your life. Are there times when you need

real help, are lonely, feel depressed, hurt, disillusioned, confused?

the atmosphere of expectation is the breeding ground for miracles

Pastor Robert Carter teaches in a down to earth approach how you can set the stage for God to change everything in your life.See yourself complete, healed, fulfilled, liberated!Say what God says about your life.Expect the answer to come and change to happen.

Bashan Ministries

P.O. Box 152 Mount Tamborine Qld 4272 Australia

E-mail info@bashanministries.org

Web site www.bashanministries.org

ThereIs a Miracle

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