CERTAINTY IN THE NAME OF JESUS

 CERTAINTY IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST

When I first decided to buy a house in Las Vegas, the Lord blessed me with the absolute best realtor, Cheryl Jones. She found the perfect house, and she knew all the right people. Just mention her name, and you got great service. Everybody connected to Real Estate and everything that goes with it knew Cheryl. Her name alone had clout; this is a great example in the physical realm of what the name of Jesus Christ is in the spiritual.

 

Philippians 2:9-11 tells us how powerful the name of Jesus is: ^“Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

 

Since God created everything in the first place, if He says everything is in subjection to the power of the name of His Son Jesus, then it’s true. And if anyone says differently, they’re lying. John 8:44 tells us the devil “was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”

 

Sometimes at night, when I used to have a bad dream, I'd wake up and say the name of Jesus over and over, and then I'd go back to sleep easily. Just saying and believing in the power of His name got the job done. There is certainty in saying the name of Jesus Christ when you believe in its tremendous power over everything!

 

Jesus told his disciples in John 14: 19-20: “Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.  At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.” When we follow the Lord Jesus, we are in Him, and He is in us too.

 

When I pray for someone or minister healing or deliverance, I check with Jesus first, and then He often directs me to speak straight to a demon or demonic forces and tell them they must bow and obey whatever I say in Jesus’ name. I remind the devil spirit that it is not more powerful than the Son of God. Then I believe for wisdom and revelation and do whatever the Lord directs.

 

James 4:7 says: “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” We’ve been given the powerful name of our Lord Jesus and the authority to use it in making any demon spirit flee from around us. And we can also help others. Just like I’ve told friends about Cheryl’s recommendations, and they’ve been blessed, we can help others by sharing what happens when we use the name of Jesus Christ; they can do likewise and get blessed too.

 

In the book of Acts, we have many examples of the believers using the authority of the name of Jesus. In Acts 3, Peter and John healed a man who was born lame, and the people were astonished. “And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, ‘Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk? The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus” (vv.12-13).

 

Peter goes on to say: “Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole” (Acts 4:10).

 

That’s a lot of power behind a name, the biggest power in the universe, in fact! “And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, ‘All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.’”

 

“And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, ‘Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name’” (Luke 10: 17). Jesus gave the disciples the authority to use his name to cast out devils. We have been given that same authority as well: “in my name they shall cast out devils” (Mark 16: 17b).

 

Our God, the Only High God, our Creator, loves us so much He’s given us the name of His Beloved Son Jesus to flash at any force that is coming against us or the people we love. Let’s get more familiar with the power of Jesus in His name—read the Gospels and the book of Acts too, and start to walk in even more victory than ever before.

 

Love, Carolyn

 

NOTE: Remember there’s a Zoom class on Deliverance starting this coming Thursday, August 20^th, 6:30 pm PST. Text Apostle Philip Peters at 1-702-767-2059 to get the link. It’s available worldwide, not just in the USA. 😊

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Just a few snippets from the intro. to the book we’ll be studying on a Zoom call starting tonight: BREAKING CHAINS OF DARKNESS.

 

“We have an adversary who hates the gospel, hates the presence of the church, works around the clock to discredit the message of Jesus Christ and has a systematic plan to attack every believer. “

 

“The purpose for the development of this manual are to (1) educate the Body of Christ regarding the ministry of deliverance and spiritual warfare; and to (2) train those who desire to be used of God to set their brethren free from the torment of demonic spirits.”

 

“It becomes obvious when a believer wants to continue in their spiritual growth and realizes that every hindrance to their spiritual growth must be eliminated.”

 

“One important thing to remember is that needing deliverance is not just about what you did, but what the enemy has done to you. The need for deliverance is not something that should make you feel guilty but rather you should view it as an opportunity for freedom. Not only does deliverance bring emotional and spiritual healing and the freedom from tormenting spirits like rejection, bitterness, and anger, but it is often necessary for physical healing, as was seen in Jesus’ ministry. When we pray for someone and they are not healed, it is possible that they need deliverance from a demonic spirit that is causing the illness. When the spirit is gone then you can pray for the healing.”

 

“As you continue this study you will realize that the ministry of deliverance is not a complicated or frightening ministry. Rather It is a ministry initiated and set in the church by Jesus Himself to ‘set the captives free’ from demonic spirits that negatively influence their lives.”

 

The FREE Zoom class on this book starts tonight at 6:30 pm PST. Text Apostle Philip Peters at 1 702-767-2059 to get the link. I am praying that I’ll see some of you there.

 

Love, Carolyn

47 years ago ordained into the ministry to serve the body of Christ

 

47 years ago, I was ordained into the ministry for my Lord Jesus Christ and for our God Jehovah, Elohim, creator of all things. I wanted to serve the Lord Jesus since the time I was born again at 8 years old in my grandma’s Sunday School class. I’ve done my best to serve Him ever since. I still err and need forgiveness often, but my heart of hearts is the Lord’s. I pray I will continue to grow, learn, and serve in more and better ways than ever before.

 

In Jesus’ name I pray. And I thank every one of you who have continued to befriend and pray for me, as I do for you.

 

Today I celebrate 47 years of recognized ministry to the body of Christ. 😊

CLUES TO UNDERSTANDING THE BIBLE

 

CLUES TO UNDERSTANDING THE BIBLE

In a mystery movie, the screenwriter spatters clues along the way, but it’s only when we watch more of the story, that we flesh out the clues and the whole story comes together to make sense—mystery solved.  The Bible is like that. In reading the gospels, there are so many passages along the way that are like those clues in a movie, and I don’t fully understand their meaning. When that happens, I go to a Concordance to start to flesh out what the Lord is really saying. A Concordance gives me the fuller definition of the original language before it was translated into English. Here’s an example, with Matthew 6:22-24.

 

22: “The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

 

23: “But if the eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

 

24: “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”

 

The first word I looked up was “light” in verse 22. In the original language, it is a portable candle, one that can be lit, or it can go out. The next word I looked at was “eye.” Here it is used metaphorically, of ethical qualities.

 

The candle guiding us is our ethical qualities – our moral standards. Our moral or ethical standards guide our whole body. The “body” is the whole natural man—body, mind, and emotions. What we do with our body and soul is maneuvered by our moral standards.

 

In the second part of verse 22, what does it mean, “if thine eye be single “? The word single means simple, clear, with nothing complicated or confused; without folds (not double-minded). Jesus was saying that if our eyes (ethical qualities) are clear and not jumbled, our “whole body will be full of light.” People think they can take some standards from the Bible, some from Buddhism, some from Hinduism, or Islam, or New Age, or situational ethics, but if those standards don’t jive with what the God of the Bible says, there’s going to be double standards, ethical difficulties, and a confused, jumbled mess. Granted, a person needs to understand what the Bible actually says, and not just unquestioningly believe what’s “always” been taught. Asking questions is perfectly okay with our God, and there are plenty of verses documenting that.

 

The first part of Matthew 6, verse 23 goes on to say: “But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness.” The word “eye” is again ethical qualities. The word “evil” is “the Evil one,” so this is saying that if a person’s ethics are inspired and motivated or manipulated by the evil one, Satan, then the intent is “wicked, actively bad, actively causing sorrow or pain.” They are actively “bringing toil, hardships, annoyances, and trouble.”

 

If moral codes are so deranged, the whole self is going to be full of darkness. “Full of darkness” is translated from one word that means covered in darkness, like a tent. Things are opaque; vision is blinded. Actions are shady and shadowy. There is “ignorance respecting divine things and human duties.” People whose moral standards begin to deteriorate, becoming prey to the evil one’s ethics, or lack thereof. They become “persons in whom darkness becomes visible and holds sway.”

 

And the last part of verse 23 says: “If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!” The word “light” in this part of the verse means the light of God. If that gets compromised, the darkness gets “great,” which means great in number, magnitude, and degree.

 

The Lord has the antidote to going to the dark side. It’s in the next verse, Matthew 6:24: “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”

 

The word “hate” doesn’t mean what we think it does. In this verse, it’s a relative preference. It means a person prefers one over another. They care about serving the interests of one rather than the other, for whatever reason. A straightforward analysis would be if a person has two jobs, two bosses, and both want the person to work on the same Saturday. The worker can’t do both, so they analyze the pros and cons and pick one.

 

When Jesus says: “He will hold to the one, and despise the other,” it means he’ll “hold fast to, cleave to” one, and not really think much of the other. To “despise” means to think less of, disdain, to look down on.

 

We can’t be disciples (disciplined ones) of the Lord and get all the benefits of God if we play in the devil’s sandbox. The consequences just aren’t worth it.

 

To become true disciples of our Lord Jesus, we need to do what he asks of us, and most of us probably need to re-read the gospels and see with our eyes and our hearts what he says and what he does, so we follow him more intimately and more faithfully in the ethical choices we make. There used to be a phrase spoken by many, “What would Jesus do?” It’s a good one to bring up again, and if we don’t honestly know what Jesus would do, then we can ask him. He’s alive.

 

Just because Jesus gave his life for us once and for all doesn’t mean that afterward he retired to an easy chair in heaven! He just has a different job now, a huge job, leading and guiding every one of us, billions of followers, in the righteous ways of the kingdom of God on earth.

 

Let’s come to the feet of our merciful Lord and learn what it means to truly surrender all to Him.

 

Love, Carolyn

 

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FREE ZOOM CLASS ON DELIVERANCE

 

This class is available to those in the USA as well as around the world :-)

Next Thursday, the 13’th, starts a new FREE Zoom class on BREAKING CHAINS OF DARKNESS: SETTING THE CAPTIVES FREE by James Fent. We’ll be reading this book and having an open discussion about what we read. If you’re interested in Bible deliverance and casting out devils, please join us. Mark it on your calendar: August 13, starting at 6:30 pm PST. It’s going to be a great class. Text Apostle Philip Peters at:

1-702-767-2059 for the link. I’ve included a photo of the book cover, and you can get it at Lulu.com for about $27, which includes postage. I’ve also included photos of some of the pages from the table of contents. Hope to see you there 😊

 

The last instructions the Lord Jesus gave his disciples before he ascended: “And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover” (Mark 16:15-18).

 

Love, Carolyn 

FROM GLORY TO GLORY - WHAT ABOUT THE "to"?

GLORY to GLORY – WHAT ABOUT THE “to”?

A friend was traveling across three states to take his son to school. He was experiencing car trouble, financial drama, and now his son was having a terrible allergic reaction that was causing the boy’s eyes to swell nearly shut. Traumatic! But he still had a good attitude and continued to pray and look for the blessings.

 

2 Corinthians 3:18 tells us that when we seek the Lord, we are being changed from glory to glory. “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass [mirror] the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” It’s not just the one time when we get born again, but the many times God requires us to drop aspects of our old nature and put on the new nature of the Christ within. The glory part on either side is awesome, but what about the “to” in between?

 

CHANGE – OUCH! Keeping the status quo may not be exciting, but at least it’s somewhat comfortable—it’s what we’re used to. But when we’re looking in the mirror, wanting to see more of the Lord in our lives, we’re going to be going from glory to glory. The increasing levels of glory are great, but we have to get through that little “to,” and it can be tough, as my friend was finding out.

 

Psalm 23: 1-4 reads: “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want [lack]. He maketh [is making] me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth [is leading] me beside the still waters. He restoreth [is restoring] my soul. He leadeth [is leading] me in paths of his righteousness for his namesake.” (vv. 1-4).

 

An important key to understanding the King James Bible is to recognize that when there is “eth” at the end of a word, it means it’s an ongoing action, not something of the past.

 

I watched a video on a section of this Psalm. The video took place in Israel, where a group was in the Negev desert. The guide had the group look across at a bare hillside traversed with well-worn sheep paths. The group watched as two shepherd girls led their flock across the landscape. He explained that this area was called “green pastures!” It looked totally brown and barren in the video.

 

The guide said the sheep paths were just far enough apart so that a sheep on either side could reach into the area between paths to eat. Eat what? It didn’t look like there was anything there. He explained that there was a little moisture in the morning, and it was only enough to moisten around the bottom of the rocks. That’s where small tufts of grass would grow. The video panned in, and sure enough, you could see the damp, darkened part at the bottom of the rocks, and there popped up 3-inch to 5-inch thin tufts of what looked like a small weed-like grass. The take was so little, the sheep had to keep moving from one tuft to the next, but as they went, they were rewarded with enough food to satisfy them.  

 

That’s how it is when we traverse the “to” between the glory spots. It is in these times that the Lord does some restoring of our souls. Our spirits are perfect the minute we get born again, but our souls need help, and it’s in the times between the glory levels that the growing pains take place in our souls. A great example of this is with Joseph.

 

Joseph was the youngest son and the favorite of his father. He was happy and blessed, but he had one recognizable downfall: his pride. He had a dream, and instead of keeping it to himself, he bragged about it to his brothers, who already didn’t like him because their father liked him best.

 

“Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. He said to them, ‘Listen to this dream I had: We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.’

 

“His brothers said to him, ‘Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?’ And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said” (Gen. 37:5-8).

 

Joseph was young and excited about his dream. He wanted everyone to know how blessed he was, so he told his brothers and his parents about the prophecy God gave him. But this was rude. The prophecy was for him alone. It was prideful of him and unthoughtful to blatantly blast his family with his private revelation. He was a child and probably meant no harm, but sometimes we as adults also want to blast people with how great and righteous we are and all the wonderful things we’re doing. But as we go through the “to” from glory to glory, the Lord has the knack for humbling us so we remember that we are not so smart without Him!

 

Joseph’s brothers were so jealous and hateful, they intended to kill him. The older brother talked the others out of it, but they decided to leave him in a pit to die. Then they sat down to eat, and when they looked up they saw a company of Ishmaelites and decided they could sell Joseph instead and make some money. But there was another tribe, the Midianites, who came by just then.

 

“Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.

 

“And Reuben [the older brother] returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes” (Gen. 37:28-29).

 

And this was just the beginning of Joseph’s travel through the “to,” between his glory with his father and the glory he ended up having as Pharaoh’s right-hand man.

 

What do you think Joseph thought about? What emotional trauma did he go through during this time? He found out his brothers hated him enough to want to kill him. They not only stole his prized jacket, a gift from his father, but they didn’t even leave him with any water. He never knew that they were going to come back for him and sell him instead, though the idea they would trade him for money would hardly be much of a consolation in such a situation. Then he was probably tied up by the Midianites, then handed over to the Ishmaelites, who also probably treated him harshly as a foreigner and a prisoner till they could get him to Egypt, where they’d also sell him as merchandise.

 

Then when Joseph got to Egypt, he had some glory times and went through more “to” experiences as well. But you never see that pride coming up again. He grew in the “to.”

 

God is with us in these tough life experiences so that we can grow. Each experience where we are challenged to get rid of some old man characteristic like pride, bitterness, anger, laziness, or whatever it is, we come through to a higher place of glory if we continue to seek the Lord and his ways.  

 

As Joseph said about his experience: “But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive” (Gen. 50:20).

 

So, let’s not stop where we are spiritually, but continue to seek an even closer relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ, by heeding his words and continuing in his works. As we follow in paths of righteousness, in green pastures, we are changed from glory to glory. We refuse to be deterred by anything we must go through in that “to” area, for the Lord God says: “Be not afraid, for I am with YOU.”

 

Love, Carolyn

 

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BIBLE STUDY ON THIS BOOK: BREAKING CHAINS OF DARKNESS - SETTING CAPTIVES FREE

 

Are you interested in Spiritual DELIVERANCE for yourself or others needing help?

 

I’ve been listening to a ZOOM call from Apostle Philip Peters for the past several weeks, where we’re reading and discussing the book PIGS IN THE PARLOR. We’re nearly at the end of the book and will be starting on a new ZOOM call on:

 

Thursday, August 13th, 6:30 p.m. PST.

 

Txt Apostle Philip Peters at 1-702-767-2059 for the link.

 

The new Bible study will be on casting out demons from the book BREAKING CHAINS OF DARKNESS: Setting the Captives Free by Dr. James Fent. We’ll be reading it together and having open discussion on what we read.

 

If this spiritual subject is something you’d like to know more about, you can get the book at https://www.lulu.com. Go to the bookstore there, and it’s about $20 plus $6 shipping. Mine came in 8 days. I’m really excited about the opportunity to learn more about how our spiritual enemies operate and how to cast them out effectively. I hope you will join us.

 

Love, Carolyn