Against Such Things There is No Law

Galatians 5: 22 - 25 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit."
Since there is no law against the fruit of the spirit, then we see that the same applies to the Love of God. There is no law "against" it. This fruit has a limitless supply of seed to plant, which when given, returns a bountiful supply of its own kind. If there are any laws associated with these fruit and the Love of God, it is in favor of or FOR these things.

Now one can see how the kingdom of God operates. The kingdom operates on the law of Love; God's own Love. The laws of nature or natural things are suspended, (for they have limits or laws against them), but in this realm, the real of Love, there is NO law!

Now you can understand what Jesus meant when He said "you are free indeed!"

Now you can see what the "new creation" is made of; its possibilities are endless;

"All things are possible to him that believes."

You, in Christ, filled with the Holy Spirit, walking in the Spirit, have come to a place where you have the mind of Christ.

Your confidence in Him is unshakable; you know who He is and who you are in Him.

You walk where He walks; You speak what He speaks through you; You fear nothing because His perfect love has casts out fear; You see the truth in every situation.

You have a peace; calmness; gentleness, a kindness that quietly overcomes every situation.

You pray for others and God answers. You spend time in prayer for others. All your needs are met, and you give as He directs you.

You have more than you could possibly imagine. The Kingdom of God has come to you! You live in it!!!

You wonder why anyone would choose anything else. Why would anyone choose a life of troubles and turmoil, when life in the kingdom of God is peaceful and full of joy?

You live and walk above worldly things. The adversary comes to you with reasons to be angry, BUT you are not easily angered.

He comes to you with pride, BUT your are not boastfu1! The adversary brings doubt, you have trust; he brings selfish thoughts, you think of and give to others. Nothing the devil brings to you can take hold...it floats away into oblivion, for only God's way, God's truth matters to you now!!

This is living in the Kingdom of God!  Praise God!!!
In the previous note "Love Hopes All Things" I mentioned 15 characteristics of God's love, and how it is projected outward towards mankind, in an overall sense. However, it is in the personal reception of this love where we experience the limitless benefits, such as: (For God is Love)
God is always (patient) with you. God is always (kind) towards you. God does not (envy) you (for he made you) God does not (boast or present Himself proud) towards you or the world. God is never (self-seeking) but seeks the best for you. God is not (easily angered) towards you. God doesn't (keep records of your wrongs) God does not (delight in evil, but rejoices in truth) God always protects you (in every way) God always trusts you God always hopes for you God preserves you (sustains) God (never fails) you
This is Salvation.   Hallelujah!!!!

Power For Us Who Believe

Do you ever feel like the whole world is against you? If you have not, well please be aware that many others have felt exactly that. Ever felt helpless? How about feeling powerless against the government, whether local or Federal? How about powerless against sickness and disease? Everything in life seems to be under the control of laws or rules. You, I and others seem to be “powerless” against this world machine we live in. You would like to just fly away into the heavens, but the law of gravity holds you down, and the atmosphere above the earth is cold and doesn’t have the life giving air mixture for you to breathe efficiently. It seems as if there is no escape. We see pain and suffering around the globe, while our leaders seem to not notice, but only hear and see through selfishness eyes, producing greed, avarice, and corruption.

Yet we live. Our gracious creator, Father, giver of life, has made everything here on earth, not only bearable but possible to live in victoriously!! You see, this physical world is what we make it (or what man has made it). God has made it so that we have victory over the world, “even our faith”. Our faith in Him, and His marvelous faith in us, His children; joint heirs with Jesus, gives us absolute dominion over our enemy and the world. That place is what Jesus spoke of in the gospels: The Kingdom of God. What is even more wondrous is, Jesus said: “the Kingdom of God is within you.” Luke 17:21

Ephesians 1: 18-20  I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, (19) and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, (20) which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms.

In my studies of workplace diversity, workplace environments, team building, managing diversity, and leadership, I have learned much about human behavior. However, one issue I feel that is of great importance is discovering how people respond to new ideas, new technology, organizational change, and new or different types of leadership, and then how to address their responses accordingly.

More importantly, is when “believers” receive revelation from God through the Holy Spirit from His Word. How do they respond? Is it the same or similar to how people respond in their places of work when confronted with change? Since the spirit of God has essentially been removed from the workplace, one can 'naturally' assume that the response is from the soul… the mind, will, and emotions. The actual percentages of response in the workplace are quite interesting.
They are:
20% will respond favorably
50% will take the 'wait and see' approach (pragmatic or skeptical)
30% will have a negative response (traditional)

However, in the Christian Church, one would like to believe that believers in the Lord Jesus Christ would welcome revelation. Not only welcome revelation, but also internalize and act accordingly. In most cases the latter is not realized. People listen but don't hear. They look but do not see. Their senses are dulled by the familiar; revelation is filtered by religious tradition; truth seems to bounce off or is repelled by belief systems based on feelings, not 'by faith'. Growth is actually retarded by the hindrance of sense knowledge or the 'flesh'. So, it could be safe to say that most church-goers would respond just like those in the workplace.

As you can see, 80% will have non-favorable responses. What is the cause?
Doubt and unbelief! Why? There is a prevalent refusal or unwillingness to renew the mind with the word of God. The spiritual eyes seemed to be blinded by the enemy. Their spiritual ears seem to be blocked so they can’t understand.

John 3:6 'That which is born of the flesh is flesh (senses), that which is born of the spirit is spirit.' 
Jesus said, 'According to your faith (belief system) be it unto you.'

If your belief system is based in sense knowledge (flesh), you will have difficulty understanding spiritual truths. Most of us live in the sense knowledge realm. It takes effort to release the 'flesh' and welcome the Holy Spirit; we actually have to quiet our minds and become God-inside minded. You just can not contact God the Father with the senses/flesh. You can recognize the need for Him, but contact is made only through the spirit. He contacts you through the spirit. You may experience His answer in the senses, but you won't understand it unless revelation comes through the spirit. He makes it so that you will know that the answer came by His hand.

This is the place where you will begin to experience 'the power for us who believe.' Once you can tap into, OR once you establish 'that' spiritual relationship with Him, all things in the natural or physical world become fresh and new. Your perspective changes from being a victim to victor; you begin to experience a “glory to glory” life style. You begin to see through His eyes; love begins to dominate your life; selflessness replaces selfishness! What a wonderful place to be.

You will begin to understand: "That power is like the working of his mighty strength, (20) which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms."

This is the place where you begin to understand that “It is God who is at work in you, to will and to work His good pleasure”. Philippians 2:13

This is the place where God the Father wants you to live, each and every day.  I know that I want to live there. Let us tune in and find out what He has in store for us. It is  nothing short of miraculous!!! Let's turn unbelief in to faith... let us ask for our spiritual ears to be opened and for our spiritual sight to see as He sees… Praise God, let's chose to believe God today!!!

Blessings;

Ben Qualls

And Sets the Course of Nature

James 3:6

“And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets the course of nature; and is set on the fire of hell.”

Such a powerful description of the human tongue and it’s nature. The word “course” translated from the Greek literally means “a circuit of physical effects”. In other words, the tongue will cause a "circuit of physical effects" in the body. That should be enough to cause one to bring pause to one’s thought and words. Think on, meditate on, believe in the heart words and thoughts and emotions…eventually actions are produced; situations are presented to cause those things to manifest or come to pass.

Your spirit is guided by the words you speak and what has been stored all from all your life’s thoughts and experiences. It does not rationalize or decipher what is truth or what is not. It seeks to act on and produce what you place in it as what you believe. “The sower sows the word” Mark 4:14. Words planted in the soil (our human spirits) produces fruit, just like planting corn in the earth….it will produce after its kind. Corn seed will produce corn stalks and more corn seed; grape seed, grapes and so on.

Without words the spirit is blank. Just think, no language, no communication, just the primitive nature controlling. Unregenerate man, sinful man is described in Jeremiah 17:9 "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?"

But Jesus said, Matthew 12:34-35 "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings forth good things."

Proverbs 18: 20-21

A man's [moral] self shall be filled with the fruit of his mouth; and with the consequence of his words he must be satisfied [whether good or evil].

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it [for death or life]

 The unsaved or "not born again" man brings forth evil.  The good man (born again) brings forth good things. The Word of God is nourishment for the newborn spirit; it will produce good fruit! Most “so called good people” will reject the notion and consider it reckless to suggest such a thing, even though it is there in the Bible, directly from the Holy Spirit.

Most people, including myself, have claimed unwise things as theirs/mine. We make statements such as "my back hurts"; "I really feel bad today"; "I HAVE the flu, cold, stomach virus, you name it and we have claimed ownership. We speak it at the first sign of a symptom, "guess I'm catching a cold", "hope I'm not getting sick (fear)". Guess what! Your spirit believes it's true , and it will guide you into a position to cause what you are saying to come to pass. "If you believe, all things are possible to him that believes." Your spirit will work night and day to bring you to a position to receive what you said. Even though in your mind you really did not want it, you spoke the wrong words into your spirit, or your prayed the problem; "Lord I'm sick, please heal me" is confusing. These two statements do not agree!! "Where two or more agree... "

For years now, I have been saying for years that we need to understand who we are in Christ! We need to realize that God has made us powerful beings who he has endowed with the power to create. Most will say, "I'm not creative". Well you have said it so much that your spirit has created a world for you that has stifled your God-given creative ability. But understand, your spirit still "created" something!! The spirit of man is soil for words. It will produce after what is planted. Fear produces more fear; Evil, more evil, good-more good, pure-purity; lovely-more lovely. We are have encouraged to think on things that are “pure and lovely and just”! We are encouraged to always think, say, and do what is right; refuse to think, say, and do what is wrong.

Who are we in Christ? There have been many books, poems, songs, and many other forms of verbiage describing who we are in Christ… let me offer one more.

God breathed His spirit into Adam. With that spirit, Adam was in fellowship and communion with God the Father. Even though sin entered, the creative ability did not. So when Jesus entered the scene, He re-introduces the Kingdom of God, showing mankind what goodness and sinless man could do. He demonstrated to all what being in fellowship and communion with God is like. Then He gave us the ability to do just that, by being born again and by receiving the Holy Spirit. That creative ability has now been energized by the Holy Spirit, where "all things are possible, only believe". We have access to all knowledge, to all wisdom, to all possibilities, in Christ.

Now we can understand the fruit of the spirit. Now we can see that, we've said things in the past that we don't remember we've said, and it manifests
in our life, and we wonder why "God allowed" it to happen, but it was us all along. We said, we believed it, and the spirit produced it, whether we remember or not. We must stop blaming God for our troubles, stop hiding behind the "sovereignty of God", and

James says, "Every good and perfect gift comes down from the Father of lights..."
Jesus said, "The thief comes to kill, steal, and destroy, but I have come to bring life abundantly"

I have heard people describe other believers as being "name it and claim it" believers. However, this only pertains to something good or a blessing, maybe a car, new job, house or something material. Yet, if it is something to one's detriment, hurtful, destructive, sickness, disease, or lack of money, then it's God's fault. You claim innocence. If it is bad, God did it or is doing it for a reason, but if it's good, can't be or it won't work. In other words, our sovereign God, will not back up what he said when He said, "You shall have whatsoever you say" if you believe. When are we going to wake up and accept responsibility for our human condition. It was/is/will be done by our words, when we believe in our hearts, either good or evil.

Yes God has made us these powerful beings who exercise a great power each and every moment of the day... the power of choice. We choose to be victims or victors! We choose to take charge of our thoughts or let the adversary think through us. We choose to believe Jesus or something else, for there is no in between. There is no middle ground!! God said very clearly, you are either with me or against. We set the course of nature or create a "circuit of physical effects" in our own bodies by the words we speak.

This message has been brought to you by the Holy Spirit, through one who believes God. One who endeavors to realizing who I am in Christ so that I can take the message to all who will listen, as God has directed me.

What better gift to give to you than a message of hope and encouragement. That you are most wonderfully made in the image of God, with a Spirit, Soul, and Body, able to create good and beautiful things throughout your life; able to perform miracles!! It is not too late to begin defending your spirit and soul. Take charge of your thoughts make sure that what your spirit receives will produce good and holy fruit.

And the God of Peace Will be With You

Philippians 4:8 - 9 NKJV

        "Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there  is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy, meditate on these things. (9) The things which you have learned and received and heard and saw in me, [do these things], and the God of peace will be with you."

A quote from one of many "self help" authors:

"What you see around you, those aspects that make up your life and the quality of your life are merely a reflection of your own thoughts, beliefs, feelings and energy. Your reality or your life as you see it is a mirror of who you are and what you believe. If you are having difficulty in any area - simply examine your thoughts and beliefs about that area and you will see that your reality reflects your beliefs. Researchers have proved, what we believe has a direct impact on our reality."

"Science has proven that your subconscious mind {the human spirit} picks up on your beliefs and then acts as your driver - taking you to the situations, events and people that correspond with your thoughts and beliefs. If you have negative beliefs and negative thoughts, your subconscious will take you to negative people, negative situations and negative events. You will simply end up creating a negative lifestyle. "

I Say:
If you have positive beliefs and positive thoughts, your subconscious will take you to positive people, positive situations and positive events.  You will simply end up creating a positive lifestyle. If you have Godly beliefs and faith thoughts, your spirit will take you to Godly people, Godly situations and Godly events. You will simply end up creating a Godly lifestyle.

Mankind, in search for truth, outside of God, seems to bring its findings right back to the Word of God. So, in worldly fashion, this author agrees with the truth of God, spoken through Paul and the Holy Spirit.

If one thinks and meditates on all that is pure, lovely, just, true, noble, and of good report, then those things of purity, of the lovely, and the just, and the truth, and of good report will be drawn to us. No wonder His Peace will be with us.

Folks, I believe it is a day of Praise! The God of Peace is with you, every second of every minute of every hour of every day!!!!

Father God. Let us seek your thoughts always, as we allow our “reborn” spirit to grow by your power and direction. As we trust you, our strength increases; as we seek you, our desire for your presence intensifies; as we receive your love, our ability to share it unfolds; as we look to you for direction, your light shines on our pathways. Darkness flees as your light brightens our life; as we meditate on all that is good, we know that all that is good will be ours for eternity. We thank you, and give you all the praise and glory, IN JESUS NAME!!!!!  Amen.