Good Afternoon Brothers,
I’m looking forward to seeing many of you this Thursday at 1PM in the University Club of Tampa for our sixth lesson in Caleb’s Promise. We will continue our study of “Manifesting the Abundance.” I pray the Word you’ve received thus far has created a desire in you to seek the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation in the Knowledge of Christ so that your family, you, your businesses, your health, your faith, and everything in all areas of your life prosper greatly in the fullness of our Father’s precious grace to us. As you seek after the “truth” and not the “denominations” or the “religion,” you’ll fulfill John 8:31-32:
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on Him, If ye continue in My Word, then are ye My disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.
From “what” did the Jewish disciples need to be set free? From religion, from opinions, from preferences, from the world’s thinking and wisdom. And, what did Jesus say was the key to their freedom? The WORD. Jesus instructed the disciples, as he continued to do in the Gospels, and His disciples and apostles continued to do in the books of the New Testament, to be obedient to the WORD, to study the WORD, to rightly divide the WORD. This is going to sound harsh, but it is truth and said in love, God doesn’t care about our opinions or preferences. He doesn’t care what a denomination thinks, what a religion thinks, what man thinks. God can only deal in truth – which is His WORD. He is very clear in Psalms 89:34:
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of My lips.
Brothers, God’s WORD, and nothing else, has to be the final authority in our lives if we truly desire to live at and achieve at the best God has for us. And, what is the best God has for us? It is THE BLESSING (Genesis 12:2-3). Look, God got a hold of me December 2013, and He has since transformed my life through His WORD. I have not arrived yet. I promise you I have much, much, much more to learn and to achieve with the Holy Spirit leading me. But, I have set sail, and I will not turn back. It is not an overnight transformation. It is a journey of an earthly lifetime until we go home to our Father. We’ll learn more and more about our Father every day on this earth. But, the force of faith I now have, this day, from what I’ve learned from our Father, is massive compared to where I was four years ago. And, the faith comes by hearing and hearing by the WORD of God (Romans 10:17).
Look, we should all think seriously about our walk with our Father. Because, if we don’t choose to walk in THE BLESSING, to believe the WORD, we’ll have to answer for it at the judgment seat of Christ. We’ll have to explain to Christ why we chose to leave the abundance given us by His WORD (health, relationships, finances, ministry, etc) in the field to rot when there was a world full of people in need of it. We’ll have to give an account of why we acted so selfishly and irresponsibly – why we chose to believe opinions and preferences over His WORD.
Love to all of you in Christ,
Larry