October 07, 2012
Issue No. 41

 Crosswinds Today  

"A Ministry of Crosswinds International" 

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To clearly understand the essential truths of Christianity

To sort out common questions and misconceptions About Christianity To cultivate an appetite for the Christian life.

 

 

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Dr. Ronald K. & Sheila Powell

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This Week's Message  

How to Get Answers to Your Prayers

The Bible tells us that God is Love. And in page after page, we see the countless demonstrations of His great love. We read of His compassion and promises, and we see His willingness to use awesome power on behalf of His people. God is faithful-to His people, and to His Word.

There are times, however, when we as the very chosen of God tend to rely on our five physical senses to decide whether He is really "out there" and whether He is hearing-and answering-our prayers. Once we pray our prayers, all too often it's easy to look around for physical evidence and then believe for what we prayed.

In effect, when we do that, it's like trying to see with our ears or hear with our noses. We must determine even before we pray that any physical evidence contrary to what we pray will not sway us into doubt and unbelief. We need to realize that the evidence-or the Word-upon which our faith rests is far more reliable than what we can see. Regardless of physical evidence, the Word is perfect!

That's the truth of the matter, but sometimes it does help to have some practical guidelines to keep us within the bounds of truth. So, the following seven steps are suggested as guidelines to help you in your determined walk of faith when it comes to your prayers-and waiting for them to be answered.

Week 1 -The Word

  • I John 3:22, 5:14-15; John 15:7; Romans 12:2
    Prayer that brings results must be based on God's Word. We should start with the answers to our prayers-the Word. Jesus said, "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you" (
    John 15:7). The Bible contains over 7,000 promises-promises which include wealth and wisdom, health and success. Finding the specific promises that apply to your situation may take some time, but it will be well worth the effort. We've listed several at the end of this article.

Week 2- The Application of Faith

  • James 2:14-24, 3:11-17; Romans 3:4; Hebrews 4:11-16
     
    Start your confession of faith before you see the manifestation of answers to your prayers. Believe you receive when you pray. Hold fast to your confession by acting as though it were already done. To be afraid to confess or act before you have it is to doubt God's Word. 

Week 3 Refuse Doubt and Fear

  • II Corinthians 10:5
    Refuse to allow doubt and fear to enter your consciousness. Satan will tell you that your answers are not coming. But take those whispers of doubt captive. You have the right and power to demolish every argument that comes against the knowledge of God's Word.

So control your mind with the Word and dwell on the answer instead of the problem.

     Week 4 Success, Not Failure

  • Proverbs 4:20-24; Matthew 6:22-12, 13:15-16; Romans 13:14
     
    See yourself through the Word-as a success, not a failure.

Week 5 Testify

  • Revelation 12:11
    Testify of what you believe. Testify of the Word. Add your testimony to what you have received by the blood-your redemption. You have the rights to all that Jesus did.

Week 6 Faith Works by Love

  • Galatians 5:6; I John 4:12
    Faith works when we operate in the love of God. Get involved in helping someone. As you adhere to the message of God's love, His love will flow from you to others.

Week 7 Be a Giver

  • Luke 6:38; James 5:16; Mark 4:14-29; Acts 20:35
    Get on the giving end. If you need healing, then give the message of healing to someone else. If you need money, give money. It's God's law-you will reap what you sow. The way you measure out is the way it will be measured back to you.

 

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It Is Done (Part 2)

 

It is done, spoken by the sinless pure Son of God, when He fulfilled His Father's WILL on earth. And, what was the command: obey Me, and show the whole world my Majesty, I have sent you to the world, so whoever believes in you, My Son, through the belief in the Cross, love sacrifice for the lost, they will be saved from this sinful and corrupted self-seeking world, He continues. And, then, as I have sent you to the world, I will send my disciples, believers in you my Son, those who abide in you, the ones who believe in you  through the Cross-your Cross sacrifice- that we planned and offered  to the world as salvation; I will send them to the world too. And, they will live through you, my Son and whatever they ask in belief, it will be done for them. It is done even before they ask, just because they believe and because of what happened at the Cross of Jesus Christ. It is My Promise. Whatever they ask in My Name-in the name of Jesus Christ, I will do, He says.

 

And, remember, belief obeys, just as Jesus showed the obedience to God, the Father, by fulfilling His Father's Will perfectly on earth, He is expecting the same from us: to listen to His Son and obey Him.

 

IT IS DONE; the door to God's Kingdom has been unlocked for a time. JUST FOR A TIME, until God the Father decides when the time is up, then it will be locked up for good, and only the ones who have been united in Christ through His Cross in belief will be allowed to live in paradise inside God's Kingdom. That is the fact and the real truth. Everyone else is left outside. Think about it. The salvation God has given us through the Cross of Jesus Christ is only for a time and then the door will be locked up.

 

Isn't it time now for ourselves to start thinking about and ensuring our destiny for eternity? Seeking God? We concentrate so much on really insignificant things that do not really matter in big scale-in God's eyes; and, we forget the most important one...our destiny after this life on earth.  We could die tomorrow, next week or 20 years from now. Are we prepared to face God afterwards?  Are we united to Jesus Christ in belief through His Cross? Have we received salvation? Or, have we ignored His salvation to us?

 

It is done, Jesus Christ cries out on His Cross. Every Word in the Bible testified on the Cross of Jesus Christ to be God's Word!  The prophesies about the coming of the Son of God, the King of kings, the Messiah, the Saviour, all of them were fulfilled while Christ was on earth and last through His death on the Cross (it is done) and on the resurrection from death and appearing to the believers.  Wow!!! The Messiah had come and fulfilled the prophesies about His coming. The whole path of history changed. Never on earth has anything so incredible happened, yet, there is more to come, when Jesus comes back again with His believers with power and reveals the world their unbelief and wickedness that they have been hiding in their hearts.

 

 IT IS DONE, Powerful words! The unbelief and disobedience to God, the sinfulness of the world revealed big time to the whole universe through the perfect sacrifice of sinless Lamb, through the One without fault, through Jesus Christ. And He, God Himself, was condemned by the world through it by crucifying His Only Son, even though He came to save the world from sin. The sinfulness of the world and its unbelief was revealed on the Cross of Christ through God's sacrifice so that no one in this world, not a single human being, NOT A SINGLE PERSON, can hide their sin before God. It is done. The sin has been revealed, and yet a salvation, forgiveness has been offered through the Cross of Jesus Christ. The world is so blind that it does not see the sin, it denies the sin, it hides it in their hearts where they think no one will see it, yet it will be exposed to the whole world through God revealing their wrong motivations, the true condition of their hearts at the end, when the time is up. Now, it is revealed to the seekers, to the believers, so they can receive forgiveness and began a new life that is Christ focused and leads to eternal life through the salvation they have received from Jesus Christ.

 

It is done; God has given a chance, a new beginning, but it only comes through His Plan; through the Cross of Jesus Christ. No other way.

 

I will give a free pass to eternal paradise where God lives, He continues, where I have been preparing my Mansion - God's Kingdom - that surpasses any wealthy and powerful kingdoms on earth by trillion x trillion times. And, it is prepared for those who believe. They are part of His Royal family and will be revealed to the world when God the Father decides. He is preparing this for us humans. It is hard to believe and truly grasp how much He loves us human beings, yet know this, the paradise and heavenly City being prepared is not for every human on earth; No, it is not. The choice is yours-how you live your life on earth; He is only preparing this for the ones who are united to Jesus Christ in belief and received salvation and been born again through God's Holy Spirit.

 

A sacrifice was needed, and only pure sinless Son of God could fill the task to rectify the relationship between a human with sin and sinless God Himself. Jesus Christ while on earth showed complete obedience to His Father-God. He showed us the way to God the Father and showed us how a normal human being should behave like-in complete obedience to God and in complete reliance to God, the Father. Our bodies were created to be God's Holy temples, where we worship Him continually and pray non-stop, yet we have turned our bodies into something really horrible, where God has been put aside and replaced by human religion, human knowledge and self. We are by nature, because of the sin inheritance in us and through disobedience, enemies of God. Yet, He sent us salvation if we are willing to listen to Him, salvation through Jesus Christ: IT IS DONE.

 

There are only two men, in God's eyes,  in this world; Adam-the first human being-, who brought sin to this world through disobedience, and Jesus Christ-the second man- who is sinless, and through His  cross sacrifice gave us salvation. We need to choose who we are following-Adam or Jesus Christ? The whole humanity with sin is following Adam regardless of religious beliefs, unless one turns to follow sinless Jesus Christ. Either you follow sin or you follow sinless God-Jesus Christ. Did you know that? We all follow something-and as sin is in us (and its power in us can only be broken by God's own Power-Holy Spirit), we follow the sin in us until we turn to God-His Salvation-Jesus Christ- and ask for His Power and His Salvation not to follow the sin in us. Know this, that God, the Father has given all the Power to the Son, Jesus Christ, because of His sacrifice on the Cross. All the Power!-IT IS DONE-He chooses to whom the door to God's Kingdom will be kept open. Jesus Christ and His Cross should be the focus of us humans. He has the keys to God's Kingdom.

 

IT IS DONE, Jesus Christ cries out loud on the Cross. He overcame the eternal death that the sin in us was taking us and it happened through the sacrifice on the cross, through Holy Spirit power and by following the orders and the will of Father God. Now you have a possibility to choose to follow Him, and receive His Power and through belief in Him and through His Power overcome the sin power in you  or you can choose to follow the world, Adam, and continue to sin against God and continue to ignore His Salvation and continue to be enemy of God.  

 

 There is no other way to God, no other way. That is why Jesus cries out loud on the Cross: It is done. The relationship between God and a human has been rectified by complete obedience from the Son and through sacrificing of the flesh through death. It is done. Think about it. And, why did He do it? Because of His Love for us. And, how do we treat Him for His Love? How do we thank Him? No good works will do, only accepting His Love gift for us-Jesus Christ-as our Saviour and Lord and through obedience to Him-allowing Him to rule in us. He created us for Himself; He did not create ourselves for ourselves.

 

Are you ready? Have you been knocking at the door and asking to be let in? You need to come to the door-and the door is the Cross of Jesus Christ. The Wisdom is found there. He has done His part-He has unlocked the door to God's Kingdom, --It is done--, yet, you need to seek and find that door and it is found in Jesus Christ and His Cross. He is the way, the only way.  Come to Me, He calls and receive salvation. Look up and be saved from the wicked generation that is self -seeking. Seek Me, He continues and you will find Life and inheritance in My Kingdom that is been prepared for those who believe and love Me.

 
 
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