WHEN GOD CREATED ADAM GOD HAD A PLAN FOR US, ADAM WAS A PATTERN OF THE ONE TO COME. THE ONE TO COME WAS JESUS CHRIST!

 WE ARE GOD'S HANDS AND FEET IN THE WORLD, GOD WANTS US TO CARE ABOUT PEOPLE BECAUSE GOD CARES ABOUT PEOPLE. GOD WANTS ALL HIS PEOPLE TO KNOW GOD'S JOY AND GOD'S PEACE AND GOD'S LOVE. GOD WANTS TO RESTORE GOODNESS FOR ALL CREATION. DON'T LET ANYTHING COME BEFORE GOD.

TODAY WE ARE SO DIVIDED BECAUSE MY ENEMY THE DEVIL HAS  BLINDED US FROM THE TRUTH THAT THE DEVIL IS THE SOURCE OF ALL EVIL. SO WHEN EVIL HAPPENS IN THE WORLD REMEMBER NOT TO BLAME EACH OTHER FOR WHAT DEVIL IS DOING.

 JESUS SAID: "NOW" IS THE TIME FOR JUDGEMENT ON THIS WORLD; "NOW" THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD WILL BE DRIVEN OUT."  (John 12:31) THE DEVIL IS DEFEATED, THE BATTLE HAS BEEN WON, GOD IS VICTORIOUS!

THE WORD OF GOD HAS POWER OVER THE DEVIL. WHEN JESUS WAS TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL; JESUS ANSWERED "IT IS WRITTEN" THEN QUOTED THE WORD OF GOD. THE WRITTEN WORD HAS THE POWER TO DEFEAT THE DEVIL AND ALL HIS EVIL FORCES. I INVOKE THE WORD OF GOD IN THE WORLD TODAY BY SPEAKING THE WORD OUT OF MY MOUTH INTO MY HEART, BACK IN MY MOUTH INTO MY HEART. THIS IS A DIVINE CYCLE THAT POWERS GOD'S WORD.

CAN I GET AN AMEN FROM ALL WHO CALL ON GOD. AMEN!

"DO NOT REPAY ANYONE EVIL FOR EVIL. BE CAREFUL TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT IN THE EYES OF EVERYBODY. IF IT IS POSSIBLE, AS FAR AS IT DEPENDS ON YOU, LIVE AT PEACE WITH EVERYONE. DO NOT TAKE REVENGE, MY FRIENDS, BUT LEAVE ROOM FOR GOD'S WRATH, FOR IT IS WRITTEN: "IT IS MINE TO AVENGE; I WILL REPAY," SAYS THE LORD. ON THE CONTRARY: "IF YOUR ENEMY IS HUNGRY, FEED HIM; IF HE IS THIRSTY, GIVE HIM SOMETHING TO DRINK. IN DOING THIS, YOU WILL HEAP BURNING COALS ON HIS HEAD. "DO NOT BE OVERCOME BY EVIL, BUT OVERCOME EVIL WITH GOOD! (Romans 12:17-21)

THE DEVIL IS MY ENEMY, BECAUSE I AM A CHILD OF GOD, DESERVING OF LOVE AND RESPECT. AND GOD WILL USE ME TO CHANGE THE WORLD. ALL I KNOW IS JESUS CHRIST CRUCIFIED, JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS FOR MY SINS AND THROUGH JESUS CHRIST I HAVE A RECONCILED RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD "NOW" THIS PRESENT MOMENT.

LENT IS OUR FORTY DAY MARCH TO THE CROSS OF JESUS CHRIST. LENT IS A OPPORTUNE TIME TO RETURN TO THE GOD WHO RESCUES, TO RECEIVE THE GIFTS OF GOD'S GRACE, TO BELIEVE WITH THE HEART AND CONFESS WITH THE MOUTH THE WONDER OF GOD'S LOVE IN JESUS, AND TO RESIST TEMPTATION AT EVERY TURN. THIS IS NO SMALL PILGRIMAGE ON WHICH I HAVE  EMBARKED. IT IS A STRUGGLE JESUS KNEW. IT IS A STRUGGLE JESUS SHARES. THE NEARNESS OF THE LORD, IN BREAD AND WINE, WATER AND WORD, WILL UPHOLD AND SUSTAIN ME.

OUR COMMON SPIRITUAL ENEMY IS THE IGNORANCE OF OUR SPIRITUAL UPBRINGING. BECAUSE WE ARE BLINDED BY OUR SPIRITUAL ENEMY THE DEVIL TO KEEP US FROM UNDERSTANDING GOD'S SPIRITUAL PLAN FOR US:

"NEVERTHELESS, DEATH REIGNED FROM THE TIME OF ADAM TO THE TIME OF MOSES, EVEN OVER THOSE WHO DID NOT SIN BY BREAKING A COMMAND AS ADAM DID, WHO WAS A PATTERN OF THE ONE TO COME." (Romans 5:14)

WHEN GOD CREATED ADAM GOD HAD A PLAN FOR US, ADAM WAS A PATTERN OF THE ONE TO COME. THE ONE TO COME WAS JESUS CHRIST. THAT PLAN WAS BROKEN WHEN ADAM SINNED. ADAM SINNED BECAUSE HE DISOBEYED GOD'S COMMAND AND EVEN THOUGH CHRIST DIED ON THE CROSS TO PAY THE DEBT FOR ADAM'S AND OUR SIN AND TO RECONCIL OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD THAT THE PATTERN COULD BE COMPLETED. THE PLAN GOD HAS FOR US GOES UNCOMPLETED TODAY BECAUSE THEIR IS SOME ACTION REQUIRED OF US. WE HAVE TO ACCEPT AND RECEIVE GOD'S INDVIDUAL PLAN FOR EACH OF US. THE SCRIPTURES BEAR THIS OUT IN MANY PLACES.

"IF WE ARE OUT OF OUR MIND, IT IS FOR THE SAKE OF GOD, IF WE ARE IN OUR RIGHT MIND, IT IS FOR YOU. FOR CHRIST'S LOVE COMPLES US, BECAUSE WE ARE CONVINCED THAT ONE DIED FOR ALL, AND THEREFORE ALL DIED. AND CHRIST DIED FOR ALL, THAT THOSE WHO LIVE SHOULD NO LONGER LIVE FOR THEMSELVES BUT FOR CHRIST WHO DIED FOR THEM AND WAS RAISED AGAIN.

SO FROM NOW ON WE REGARD NO ONE FROM A WORLDLY POINT OF VIEW. THOUGH WE ONCE REGARDED CHRIST IN THIS WAY, WE DO SO NO LONGER. THEREFORE, IF ANYONE IS IN CHRIST, HE IS A NEW CREATION; THE OLD HAS GONE, THE NEW HAS COME! ALL THIS IS FROM GOD, WHO RECONCILED US TO HIMSELF THROUGH CHRIST AND GAVE US THE MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION: THAT GOD WAS RECONCILING THE WORLD TO HIMSELF IN CHRIST, NOT COUNTING MEN'S SINS AGAINST THEM. AND GOD HAS COMMITTED TO US THE MESSAGE OF RECONCILIATION. WE ARE THEREFORE CHRIST'S AMBASSADORS, AS THOUGH GOD WERE MAKING HIS APPEAL THROUGH US. WE IMPLORE YOU ON CHRIST'S BEHALF: BE RECONCILIED TO GOD. GOD MADE CHRIST WHO HAD NO SIN TO BE SIN FOR US, SO THAT IN CHRIST WE MIGHT BECOME THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD.

AS GOD'S FELLOW WORKERS WE URGE YOU NOT TO RECEIVE GOD'S GRACE IN VAIN. FOR GOD SAYS, "IN THE TIME OF MY FAVOR I HEARD YOU. AND IN THE DAY OF SALVATION I HELPED YOU." I TELL YOU, "NOW" IS THE TIME OF GOD'S FAVOR, "NOW" IS THE DAY OF SALVATION. (2 Corinthians 5:13-6:2)

SPIRITUAL SALVATION IS GOD'S PLAN FOR US TO RESTORE US SPIRITUALLY THAT WE CAN HAVE A SPIRITUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST. I DECLARE TO YOU ALL THAT GOD'S PLAN FOR ME IS ACTIVE AND ALIVE AND WORKING IN ME DAILY. AS JESUS SAID:

"ONCE, HAVING BEEN ASKED BY THE PHARISEES WHEN THE KINGDOM OF GOD WOULD COME, JESUS REPLIED, "THE KINGDOM OF GOD DOES NOT COME WITH YOUR CAREFUL OBSERVATION, NOR WILL PEOPLE SAY, 'HERE IT IS,' OR THERE IT IS,' BECAUSE THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU." (Luke 17:20-21)

THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN ME "NOW" BECAUSE GOD'S WORDS ARE WITHIN ME "NOW"!

 DON'T LET THE KINGDOM OF GOD BE STOLEN FROM YOU BY YOUR SPIRITUAL ENEMY THE DEVIL. WHEN THE DEVIL COMES AND HE WILL, DO WHAT JESUS DID AND QUOTE THE WORD OF GOD TO HIM AND HE MUST FLEE FROM YOU! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!

SO AS I AM MARCHING TOWARDS THE CROSS OF CHRIST, I FOCUS  ON THE PROMISE MADE TO CHRIST. SO I AM NO LONGER A SLAVE  TO SIN, BUT A SON OF GOD; AND SINCE I AM A SON, GOD HAS MADE ME AN HEIR. SO I NOT ONLY LIVE BY THE SPIRIT I STAY IN STEP WITH THE SPIRIT. THAT WHATEVER PATH IS RIGHT, WHATEVER PATH IS FAIR, WHATEVER PATH IS JUST, MAY THESE BE THE PATHS I CHOOSE!

I SWEAR THIS IS THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH, SO HELP ME GOD!

"YET A TIME IS COMING AND HAS "NOW" COME WHEN THE TRUE WORSHIPERS WILL WORSHIP THE FATHER IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH, FOR THEY ARE THE KIND OF WORSHIPERS THE FATHER SEEKS. GOD IS SPIRIT AND GOD'S WORSHIPERS MUST WORSHIP IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH." (John 4:23-24)

TODAY THE WORLD HAS FALLEN FOR A LIE, AND IT IS MY ENEMY THE DEVIL WHO HAS DECEIVED THEM, BECAUSE THE DEVIL IS THE FATHER OF ALL LIES. GOD'S WORD OF TRUTH IS STRONGER THAN THE DEVIL'S LIES.