In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:1
I recall that after I started going to church, I bought a Bible and thought I should go read the Bible. I was not really told how to or why I should do so. The Bible felt like a deep and alien book to me. I started at the book of Genesis and did not get very far, and probably stumbled by the Book of Numbers. Then I was told that I should start with reading the Gospels in the New Testament. I read John 1:1 and that was such a strange sentence to me. Until someone told me, replace “Word” with “Jesus” and re-reading the verse made slightly more sense! Jesus is the Word of God!
God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son,
whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; who being the
brightness of His glory and the express image of His person,
and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high
Hebrews 1:1-3
Why Study the Word?
Jesus Christ is the revelation of God and Jesus is the Word.
And this is eternal life, that they know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. – John 17:3
To have relationship with God, we need to know Him. Not just know about Him, but to really know Him in a personal way. Know His love for us, know His character, know His promises, know our authority in Christ, and so much more because whom we know, we can trust. Jesus is the express image of God, and knowing Jesus is knowing God. The most important thing in our life and the greatest need in our life is knowing God through His Word.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. – Hosea 4:6a
Before we began to spend time knowing God through His word, we were saved, but stuck. There was so much we did not know about Jesus, much less knowing Him. Chancing upon Andrew Wommack’s teachings was like flipping a switch in us, that allowed light to stream into our lives. At first, all we did was listen night and day and day and night to Andrew Wommack’s audio teachings but as the Word took root in us, we started to desire to read the Bible, and desire to know whether what the Bible says aligned with what Andrew Wommack was saying.
How to go about studying the Word?
First, we make time to study God’s Word. Every Netflix movie, Korean drama, YouTube shorts, Facebook post or tik tok video foregone is one more hour, one more minute and one more second available to study God’s word. Without making time for God, there is only so much we can know Him. Our children hear us remind them that “Everything in moderation, except God’s Word!” Consider the time you fell in love and started dating. Did you wish to spend time with that person and did you get to know him/her better after spending (prolonged) periods of time with him/her? So it is with knowing God. God is a gentleman. He is not going to force us to know Him but He promises that if we seek Him with all our heart, we will find Him (Jeremiah 29:12). God is a loving Father. He is like the father in the parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32), who waits and pines for us and sees us when we are still a great way off and runs towards us.
How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! – Psalms 119:103
Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good; Blessed is the man who trusts in Him! – Psalms 34:8
Do you feel that sense of emptiness at the end of a long running drama series and the urge to chase after another post, another scroll or serial hoping to find some sense of fulfilment, yet finding none? There is nothing that satisfies like God’s word. There is no one who satisfies that God-shaped vacuum in our hearts like Jesus.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled. – Matthew 5:6
There are four principles we need to maintain:
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First, read the Word of God.
Second, consume the Word of God until it consumes you.
Third, believe the word of God.
Fourth, act on the Word.
Knowing God through His Word is not about information, but revelation. We can read the Bible like any other novel and it will not profit us. That is why the baptism of the Holy Spirit is so important. Jesus said the Holy Spirit will teach us all things (John 14:26). Paul exhorts that the communion of the Holy Spirit be with us (2 Corinthians 13:15). God promises that as His children, we are led by the Spirit (Romans 8:14). After we received the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues, God caused the scales on our eyes to drop off and reading the Bible was no longer a duty but a desire. There was a new love for the Word and the Holy Spirit began to speak to us through the Word and we started to hear God! We started to understand what the Bible was saying with the Holy Spirit bearing witness and we experienced the tangible love of God through meditating on His Word. Words in the Bible started to be quickened in our spirit and those are such priceless, precious encounter with the living Word.
Before we move on to list some of the resources that have been helpful in our study of the Word, we just want to emphasize that ultimately everything points back to relationship with God. While knowledge of the Word is great, we need to realise that we need not try to figure out how to understand everything but to come to a place in our heart that we would believe everything and then act on the Word. When you drive your car, you do not need to understand all the mechanics that power the car and make it run. You simply press a button or turn the key to start the car. If it breaks down, you send it back to the manufacturer to fix it. We should be hearer and doer of the Word. We should not just try to learn what the Word says but believe it and also practise and act out the Word. So when we read in Mark 16:18 that “they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover”, we will hear it, believe it and act it out. If anything does not align with what the Word says, we go back to God and ask where we are missing God on this matter? God is good and He is Love and loves us and Love never fails. Any failure in life in this fallen world, is not because of God, but because of our inability to believe the Word. God will show us through His Word what we need, to be aligned with His Word if we will keep looking at Jesus.
More Out there
Sharing resources that were God Positioning Steps (GPS) in our journey there
Andrew Wommack Ministries
Lives Transformed by the Word of God
God called Andrew Wommack to teach the truth of the gospel to the body of Christ with special emphasis on His unconditional love and the balance between grace and faith.
We stumbled upon the Ministry’s free resources in 2012 and soaked ourselves in the teachings day and night, night and day until our lives are transformed. There are so many free audio teachings on this site that if you would just make time to listen, you would surely get immersed in the Word and know God.
Andrew Wommack goes very deep into each topical teaching, often spending four to five hourly teachings per topic. This was very helpful in appreciating the context of the passages or topic he was teaching on. What we love was that the we could play and return to the video / audio where we last stopped. We often listen on way to and from work, during lunch, doing housework, waiting in queues. Basically, day and night, and whenever we have pockets of time, we would just be listening non-stop. We were so blessed to be walking in this transformation as a couple, where we could discuss everything we heard and encourage each other. We often listen at our own separate pace but we go like “wow, have you heard how this verse was unpacked”, and “what was said about this teaching?” Both of us received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit through Andrew Wommack’s teachings and we never looked back since. The Holy Spirit became our teacher leading, guiding and revealing truths in the Word to us. We are so thankful that we got religion out of lives and started to know God and who we are in Christ!
2. Select either “Audio Teachings” or “Browse Teachings”.
3. Select “Learn More” for the teaching you would like to learn more about. At the next page, click on the video/audio that you would like to access.
Gospel Truth TV
Endless hours of life changing teachings streaming for free on Gospel Truth TV
We are so thankful that this is made available for free to all who desire to spend time under teaching of solid teachers of the Word. We have been so blessed by anointed teachings of so many different teachers, each illuminating an area in our lives that we need, whether it be on grace, faith, love of God, finances, and so much more.
Before this was available, we recall tuning in daily to Charis Daily Live Bible Studies and they were such a blessing. It was engaging to hear the questions that other believers ask and listening to scriptural sound answers to the questions. The archive playlists for 2023 and 2024 are still available on Youtube. From 2025, live bible studies are accessible via Gospel Truth TV Show, Charis Daily, or on Youtube as a playlist.
Way before Gospel Truth TV was available, we used to watch conference sessions by Andrew Wommack Ministry (e.g. Healing is Here, Gospel Truth Seminar, Summer Family Conference, Healing School), listen to Andrew Wommack’s audio teachings from his site, watch healing testimonies and spend hours and hours renewing our mind. These free teachings radically transformed our lives.
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. – John 6:63
Being in the Word (whether listening to teachings, or doing word study, or just spending time in prayer and fellowship with the Father gives life. We know how much these free materials are a blessing for anyone who desires to know God more. Let your life be transformed too by the renewing of your mind!
BlueLetterBible.org
A wonderful word study resource
Sometimes when you read the Bible, you may wonder what the word n the original language meant. The Old Testament was written in Hebrew and Aramaic and the New Testament in Greek. The blueletterbible.org desktop site (also can be viewed on mobile and tablet) is a wonderful resource to do word search. Below are some simple steps to access the basic resources. Feel free to explore the site for more!
2. Go to the search bar to type the verse number of the word you are thinking of. For eg. type in “Matthew 11:12”.
7. Shows the other verse in the Bible that this same word appears. In this case, this word only appears once in the Bible. If there are more than one verse, clicking on the verse highlighted will bring you to to direct explanation in Step 6.
8. Shows all the times and verses that this word appears in the Bible.
While access to the site is free, do support the ministry if you have been blessed so that it can continue to be free and available to bless others! #Stewardship
Number in Scripture by E.W. Bullinger
Book on the Supernatural Design and Spiritual Significance of Numbers
There is no insignificant detail in the Bible. When I first read this book, I was captivated by the presentation of the order in creation and the significance of numbers as they relate both to the works of God in the natural world around us and in the Bible.
This site has links to the explanation of each biblically mentioned number from one to six hundred and sixty-six.
Renner Ministries
Teachings by Rick Renner from https://renner.org
We first listened to Rick Renner teach at one of Andrew Wommack’s conference archive videos. It was amazing listening to him unpack the scriptures in such depth and with such clarity, especially revealing the Greek meanings and interpretation behind the New Testament verses. Later, we also heard him share his testimony of how he was called to go Russia to preach and over the years, Rick and Denise pioneered three churches, a Bible school, and a ministerial association that serves thousands of Russian-speaking pastors throughout the former USSR as well as parts of the Middle East.
We’ll share videos here that we heard and please feel free to head on to their site or Youtube and search for more teachings by Rick Renner. Be Blessed!
Barry Bennett
Senior Instructor at Charis Bible College (https:www.barrybennett.org)
Barry Bennett is an amazing teacher of the word. He teaches with such clarity and is very systematic. He has written several good books on He Healed Them All and Did God do this to me? We enjoyed his Q&A during Charis Daily Live Bible Studies and there is an archive of his teachings on Gospel Truth TV Show called Free Indeed and also on Youtube. He does daily posts on his Facebook Page with very good summaries on bible truth.
As we had already been following his teachings for several years before his diagnosis with Stage 4 cancer, it was very encouraging and emotional for us following his testimony of recovery from it and it is such an awesome blessing seeing how healthy he now is and still going about preaching and sharing the goodness of God in his teachings.
Gary Hamrick
Sermons by Gary Hamrick, (Senior Pastor of Cornerstone Chapel, Leesburg VA) (https://cornerstonechapel.net)
We first stumbled on Gary Hamrick’s sermons on Youtube during Covid. One of the good things that came out of Covid was that many churches were streaming their services live and we used to tune in to different online services. Being in different time zones meant that we could attend their livestream services and it was a real blessing that their recorded sermons are also available on demand. We first heard Pastor Gary’s amazing three part teaching on End Times, which I also shared in the End Times section. We love his ministry because he teaches the Bible from cover to cover during Sunday Services and Midweek Services, covering a myriad of topics as he goes systematically from Genesis to Revelation. So if you would ever like to do some Book study (For eg, search “Cornerstone Chapel Leesburg VA Book of James” and a playlist of sermons is shown), Pastor Gary’s sermons are a great resource. Plus, Pastor Gary has a good sense of humour. I remember this humorous fictitious analogy on good news and bad news that he once shared at the start of his sermon:
I heard the story about a man who was very curious about what life would be like in heaven so he kept praying to God about what would life be like in heaven and his one main prayer request was whether or not there would be baseball in heaven. This guy was a lifelong baseball fan and he just wanted to know whether there is going to be baseball in heaven.
Gary Hamrick
Finally, one day an angel appeared to this guy. The angel said to this guy “I’ve been sent in response to your prayer” and the guy said “You mean in response to prayer whether or not there is baseball in heaven? The angel said “Indeed and I’ve come to tell you.” and the guy said “Indeed tell me!”
The angel said “I’ve got some good news and I’ve got some bad news.
The good news is there is baseball in heaven. There is no evening in heaven and it’s day all the time because of the glory of God and there is no bad weather either and so everyday is a beautiful day, and so it means there is baseball 24/7 in heaven.”
And this guy’s like, wow this is amazing, it’s an answer to my lifelong prayer and I’m so excited to know there is baseball in heaven.”
And the guy asked the angel “What’s the bad news then?”
And the angel said “Well, you’re pitching on Thursday.”
A merry heart does good, like medicine, But a broken spirit dries the bones. – Proverbs 17:22
Duane Sheriff Ministries
Sermons by Duane Sheriff, (https://pastorduane.com)
Pastor Duane, like Andrew Wommack, gives away his messages for free and has been doing so since 1983. He is the Senior Founding Pastor of Victory Life Church. Back when we were listening to Andrew Wommack, who being a teacher, focussed a lot on topical truths but less on pastoral matters such as family life, raising children, Pastor Duane’s messages were a real blessing and ministered to us. So grateful that Pastor Duane’s messages are available for free to bless the body of Christ! We listened to a lot to his free teachings, particularly those on marriage, family life, raising children and on not taking offense etc. You can access over a thousand topical messages via the catalog on his site. We’ve included some below which really ministered to us:
Charles Capps
Messages by Charles Capps, (https://cappsministries.com)
We also stumbled on Charles Capps Teachings on Youtube, particularly those on confessions. His succinct explanations, illustrated with his own experiences and the clarity of his teachings based on the Word were a blessing. We were very ministered by the clarity of how he taught about the power of confessions that line up with the Word of God and how we can only have the Bible kind of faith for believing when we have God’s word for whatever we are believing for. Do head over to his website, which his daughter has carried on his ministry or search on Youtube.
Dan Mohler
Teachings by Dan Mohler
Dan Mohler is another pastor that we stumbled upon on Youtube in 2018. “How to Pray” was the first teaching we heard Dan Mohler and it was really interesting hearing him share. Then we tried to search more of his teachings on Youtube (Type “Dan Mohler”) and we realise over the years listening to him, that he does not have a webpage and the recordings on Youtube were shared by many others who have been impacted by his teachings. There is a webpage that tries to categorize his messages. Another online contributor also follows his ministry and tries to categorize his messages and even fixed the audio on a 51-day course of which 39 days were taught by Dan Mohler. Accompanying notes of the course is also available.
He is very clear in his messages on our identity in Christ, on healing, on intimacy with God, on walking with Jesus, on parenting, on sexuality and so much more. Having followed his teachings for so many years, it is humbling to hear how authentic this man is in his teachings and testimonies – a life so transformed by God’s Love and anchored in his identity in Christ. For those of you who know Todd White of Lifestyle Christianity, Dan Mohler was instrumental in his conversion from a life of drugs.
I used to sit listening to Dan Mohler’s messages and cry because I was so impacted by many things that Dan Mohler reveals through his life, his testimony and the truth in God’s word and the practical applications. I used to scribe out some of the Youtube video messages (verbatim!) to re-read and remind myself and am putting them below to share. (That was before I realised that many others have also freely shared notes to his messages and I’ve included the links.)
Dan Mohler on Daniel in the fire and God not putting the fire out
It’s not about what you’re going through, it’s about how you’re going through it.
dan mohler
Keep your eyes on Jesus and don’t bow to anything that’s not Jesus, don’t bow to fear, don’t bow to the fire, don’t bow to Nebuchadnezzar, don’t love your own life, don’t make it about dying because it’s always about living and when you end up in the fire, Jesus is right with you.
You ain’t going to be bound in there, and it won’t have an effect on you and when you come out, you ain’t look like you were even in there except that you will have increased zeal and passion and confidence and you’re going to know more of what you believe before you went in there.
Dan Mohler on Salvation
You didn’t pray a prayer to go to heaven. That’s what we always say. No. heaven comes into you. Youtube Link to Message on “Live Out Love“.
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You didn’t pray a prayer to go to heaven. That’s what we always say. No, heaven comes into you. We said Jesus died on the cross because we’re sinners and then it leaves us as forgiven sinners and then we’re not really clear. No preacher in my life understood the truth enough to share it with me. They just told me I am a sinner, I have bad things in my heart, I better ask for forgiveness so that the blood can be applied to my sin and boy you make sure you show up in church because if he comes, and you ain’t in church…. Then it was all about shunning hell and gaining heaven and getting blessing. Instead of becoming a new young man. Nobody ever told me in my life. It’s the Holy Spirit who told me in my bedroom and wrecked my world forever. Nobody ever told me He died on the cross to restore my purpose, my destiny, my potential. Nobody’s ever said that He saw value in my life and that’s why He paid a high price. They all said He paid a high price because I sinned. No! I read my bible and realised He had to die because I sinned, but He didn’t die because I am a sinner. He died because the truth was lost and He wanted to restore it upon my life. Nobody ever told me that. So then I couldn’t see the love of God. I was confused – Why would He die for me? Why would He care? Why does He want me in heaven? Why would He want to forgive me? And when you got questions, you don’t have answers. And the gospel that I heard my whole life created questions and never let my heart see. Not until I was alone in the bedroom, then the Holy Spirit said, He did this because of your value. He knew you from the beginning. In your darkest day, He didn’t lose sight of who you were created to be and He knows what you’ll look like when He’s in you when you are surrendered. And that’s what He’s paying for.
Dan Mohler on “Why People are Discouraged?”
You don’t let going to church, worship leading, church service, Christian t-shirt, ringtones, screensaver, bumper sticker etc take the place of knowing Him.. Youtube Link to Message on “Why people are discouraged“.
And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. John 17:3
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How do you know you know Him? It’s being betrayed and not living like you were betrayed. If Jesus lived like He was betrayed, He would need some serious counsel. On the night that Jesus was betrayed, He didn’t tremble on His bottom lip, and cry and say ‘how can you do this to me? I came down from heaven and became a man to save you and you did this to me….???’ This is how you know if you know Him. Not believe He died on the cross, not do church, not lead worship, not do daily devotion. This is how you know if you know Him. On the night you are betrayed, you do not go round calling people crying and tell them all about it, because you’ve already laid down your life. I’m not talking about serving in the ministry, feeding the hungry etc, that’s all good. But you only know that you know Him by your love, that’s the Bible. It says he who loves is born of God and knows God. He who loves not just doesn’t know God. God doesn’t say you don’t lead worship, doesn’t say you don’t go a mission. But it does say if you don’t love, you don’t know Him like you could. If you don’t love, it means you don’t know Him. Not saying you don’t see your need for a Saviour and weren’t sincere and didn’t get your sins forgiven and that your name’s not in the book of life. But is our goal getting our name in the book of life or becoming what he created us to be and becoming what He paid for? So how’s the world going to benefit if you have eternal life and you’re still angry at your boss and you still shut down your spouse? Somehow we got tricked into preaching the gospel that benefits me without transforming me?
Deny yourself, pick up your cross
What does it mean to pick up the cross? You never let sin towards you become sin in you. You never overcome evil with evil. You overcome evil with good. You tone down a harsh word with a kind word. Because you’ve already laid down your life. That’s called carry your cross. Can you imagine Jesus living like we’ve been taught to think and having the feelings we’ve been tricked into having through the motives we live by? Do you understand that your emotions were not given by God? The ones you grew up with were not from the Lord. Stop giving him credit for the chaos we grew up with? God didn’t make you to be angry, frustrated, jealous, and in unforgiveness, antagonized, ticked off. We became that when Adam got separated from God and we were all born into Adam. So what was created to love, became in need of love because it was cut off from the source of love. So we were all born into the need of love. From the time you can remember, you needed support, value, attention and people get crushed in that arena. They either become broken and introverted and insecure or hard and a fighter. By a very young age, you are nothing more than what you became through how you responded to what you’ve through and your story becomes your identity, not the truth of why you’re here. That’s why people cling to their past so tight, because it’s the only place they ever found any sense of identity, whether good or bad, it’s all they know about them. And in the gospel, you got to call that dead, you got to come out from that, you got to put that off and you got to put Him on. Old things are passed away. Behold, all things become new. I’m a born- again Spirit filled man without issues. I have the kingdom of God on the inside of me and I finally understand why mercy woke me up this morning, because it gave me one more day to shine, to walk in love and live by the Spirit and be more like Him. And if I love Him, I’ll live what He says. The God of the universe made sacrifice and reduced Himself to a foetus in a womb of a woman, hung out there for 9 months, to become a man to fulfil what man failed, to redeem my life, and you think I’m going to get hurt by you and get my feelings offended? Why do we give ourselves excuses to stay the same, to drink, to stay hurt, to smoke pot when we’re made for more? Why do we blame it on generational curses when it is just a willful decision? You can’t say that’s all I know. You can’t say that because He’s knocking on the door of your heart. He wants to introduce something new to you. As soon as you open it, He’ll come in and commune with you. It’s not about the day you prayed a prayer, it’s about giving your life and He took over and you’ll never the same since.
Can you imagine Jesus being offended?
Jesus can’t be offended because He is Love. It’s not because He is Jesus. He is Love. If it’s because He’s Jesus, then I couldn’t follow Him. But it it’s because He is Love, I could. Jesus doesn’t seek His own and He can’t be hurt by men, because He loves men. Can you picture Jesus getting analytical? Can you picture Him second guessing? I heard preachers preaching how you can tell how much God loves us because He could have come off that cross and he chose not to. Where do you find that He could have come off that cross?? Love never fails. He is not changing His mind. Listen to how men think: The Pharisees said ‘saved others but can’t even save himself’. Jesus is not here to save Himself! He is here to save the Pharisees and us! I read the bible and it showed me the way it really is and it trumped the way that seems right to a man. So those feelings that want to come up and tempt you to be hurt and offended, they get crushed by the higher truth in the word.
The goal of our instruction is Love, not the sinner’s prayer. Every person in the world can pray the sinner’s prayer and the world won’t change. But if we become Love, it has to. If your being okay depends on someone else treating you okay, it’s idolatry. Jesus isn’t even Lord. And now you’re only as strong as men’s weakness and you’re only as good as you’re being treated, rather than as good as He is in you and all of a sudden, life is speaking louder than truth and what matters most aint even considered because you’re letting all these matter more. This is reachable if we live surrendered lives and in communion with God. The only way to live this life is to let the Holy Spirit live through us and throw away our rights. How can we deny ourselves and still have so many rights when we seek ye first the kingdom? Why is it always he said she said? How about you wake up everyday in your marriage and you actually believed in your heart that your spouse didn’t owe you nothing? What if your spouse also grew into that revelation and actually believe the same thing? Heaven would probably be in your home. You wouldn’t have theology and plaques quoted on your walls and tables, He would be there. Your children would probably grow up to know that God is, instead of know about Him. If you take your children to church, and you don’t pursue Christ likeness and be Christ likeness, then when you leave, all you’re teaching your children is that Christianity is attending a church. But you have this great privilege, making Him known. You have this great privilege of becoming something that cannot be denied, not serving something. That’s how you teach your children the way to go and when they grow old, they will not depart from it because they had it right in front of them and deep in their heart. But you have to know Him to make Him known. Otherwise how can who He is become relevant to your life and to everyone around you. God doesn’t see you for where you’ve been or who you are, He sees you for what His son is and where His son’s been and who you can become in Christ. Your life lived reveals who and what you believe, not your church attendance or mission trips but the way you conduct your life. If what you’re living isn’t producing the fruit of who He is, then you’re living deceived. And God desires that we bear much fruit. God made it simple for us to understand because He loves us.
Dan Mohler on “Healing the Right Way”
We fight in the Body of Christ over the will of God to heal because people haven’t been healed. And we use that as our evidence. And we use our experience to trump the validity of God’s word. Youtube Link to Message on “Healing the Right Way“.
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We fight in the Body of Christ over the will of God to heal because people haven’t been healed. And we use that as our evidence. And we use our experience to trump the validity of God’s word. We are missing something. Let’s not have anything stop the power of God. Let’s not have any reason why God doesn’t heal. Let’s settle into one reason why that’s possible and grow into that until it becomes a reality.
The problem (be it backache, flu, cancer) should not become our identity. Christians’ prayers are often driven by their problems. Faith doesn’t come because we have a problem. Faith comes because of Love. Faith comes because of the Word and the Promise. We’re not problem driven people, we’re promise driven people. We’re answer driven people. We have a victory in Christ we are contending for, and appropriating because His Word is true. It’s not just because we read our bible and have “christian rights”, it’s because we have a covenant and relationship with God. Some of us are discouraged and hurt because we’ve tried everything, prayed everything and we turn relationship with God into a method, a Christian method to get results, a method to get help in time of need and there’s discouragement there. It should be about relationship with God, and Faith working through Love, and Love never failing.
Often times, we try to find God through the experiences of life. We say because Bob died and Bill lived, God healed some and doesn’t healed all. Jesus didn’t declare that. Life declared that. John 1:18 says No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him and in the last days God has spoken through His Son. Jesus didn’t declare that God heals some and doesn’t heal all. Circumstances have declared that. So who is the voice of truth? Circumstances or Jesus? God has magnified his Word above his Name (Psalms 138:2) so we ought to magnify His word above our circumstances, how we feel and what we think. Let’s get humble and really die to our know-it-all. Knowledge puffs up and is putting a ceiling over the power of God that we desperately need.
Nobody was bold enough to declare this (God’s healing) was possible but only making excuses for the lack of power, explaining away the death of people and all of a sudden we become trapped in life being subdued when we are created to subdue.
I’m telling you, you don’t even have to agree with me but I’m cheering you on to agree. You can disagree all you want and people are still going to get healed and you are just going to get mad, come up with another reason why or why not. Jesus did not declare the Father as healed some and did not healed others. He healed all who came to Him, and everyone He touched was healed so He declared it is the will of God to heal. If God had said it one time to one person that it’s not your time or that it’s not God’s timing, just one time concerning healing, then we have reason to not believe because everybody you prayed for, you wonder if they are in that category. If God made just one exception, then we throw that person in front of us (we’re praying for) into that exception. Because when we let our experience be our doctrine, we’ve created that exception, because we created many exceptions.
2 Cor 6:2 2 For He says:
“In an acceptable time I have heard you,
And in the day of salvation I have helped you.”
Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation (deliverance, preservation, safety, sum of benefits and blessings which Christians redeemed from all earthly ills will enjoy).
It’s the prayer of faith that will heal the sick.
Faith is the substance, tangibility, realisation of our hope. We can have the realisation of our hope when we are settled in the matter. Faith works through Love. Faith doesn’t work because I have a problem. Need works because I have a problem and need drives fear. Faith works through Love and Love casts out fear. We pray from fear a lot. We hear we have cancer and we’re going to die and we hear Sally has cancer and is going to die and the whole church goes into fasting and praying because they’re scared half to death she’s going to die. So they go into Christian performance to get a breakthrough when the stones are already rolled away. And then we say but then the whole church was praying, we all were praying, there was 150 praying, it couldn’t have been God’s will or she’d have been healed because we were all praying. I don’t know what we were doing, I’m not sure, because the bible says if a man has faith and says to the mountain, ‘move!’, it will move. So if the mountain doesn’t move, we’re missing something. We’re not seeing something. We’re good, sincere people and we don’t want Sally to die! But we’re letting our emotion and our empathy drive us in prayer and turn this into a method when it’s relationship and the power of God! You can’t take things personal, you take the Gospel personal. You can’t pray because it’s Sally and oh my, she is the sweetest thing and the flowers bloom when she walks by and how can she die? She can’t have cancer, not Sally! Well, not anybody! When that stuff gets into you emotionally, you start praying for all the wrong reasons. They seem right but they don’t have the power of God. And you can see that we are on the wrong track because then the results causes great animosity and division among us and now, we have camps and rivers and streams that God never built and dug, because we start justifying our own experiences and our own belief systems and a lot of our belief system came through our lives instead of through Jesus’ life. A lot of what we believe transpired through the way life’s been. There’re people that’s so discouraged with healing because they prayed and prayed and prayed for an uncle and he didn’t get healed and they said never again. But it’s all the more reason we should not behave this way because God’s word says it can happen. There has to be something. I need to see this, there has to be something that I can be enlightened and God forbid I get selfish, turn inward and quit in something I’m predestined for, God forbid I throw in the towel when it’s not even my privilege because I am not my own, I am bought with a price. Have your way in me God and give me a revelation. I’m going after this thing. We might have lost my uncle but God forbid we lose anymore because I promise you if you take a back seat, you take a bench, you’re gonna watch more and more die and your belief system will be justified by the more deaths and you will be a million miles from the power of God and truth and you will just settle into a doctrine that tries to protect your soul but you are not okay. These lies are costing us so much. We don’t need a reason why to give permission for more and more people to die when our hearts aren’t good with that. We come up with reasons but we’re still not ready for all these people to die.
Dan Mohler on “How to walk like Jesus”
One of my biggest concerns concerning healing or getting prayers answered is turning the promises of God into a method we apply to get results. Youtube Link to Message on “How to walk like Jesus (Part 4)“.
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One of my biggest concerns concerning healing or getting prayers answered is turning the promises of God into a method we apply to get results. It’s extremely impersonal and it has nothing to do with God loving you and in fact if all you do is read your bible for head knowledge and then quote those promises and then wait to see where God is based on what you pray, you’re gonna be highly discouraged and deceived because you’re gonna to think the gospel doesn’t work, which means you think it’s a method. A method works or doesn’t work. A relationship is different. We’re not applying principles to get results, we’re living in a faith that works through Love. To know Him is eternal life; not to confess Him and pray a prayer. To know Him is eternal life.
If there’s one thing that my heart cries to be strengthened in the body of Christ and in my own life is relationship with God, where we know Him, where we live from the place of knowing Him. Not knowing what He said through Jesus, not knowing what Jesus said through His life expression, not what He said through His word, which all sounds important, but I’m talking about knowing Him. I’m talking about sitting on your bed at night, and knowing that you are valuable to the heart of God. I’m talking about knowing that you’re loved by Him. Not because you read it in your bible but because you’ve spent time with Him expressing that faith to Him and letting that Grace touch that faith and mould you into that truth. Where come whatever, you know you have favour with God. You know you’re a child of God. This identity makes you so secure and so strong, it makes you very protected from the things we’re vulnerable to. It keeps you focussed. It causes things that used to pull you to not even have a voice, not even a pull. There’re things in my life that used to own me, now they don’t even have a voice! They seemed to me impossibilities. Now, if I let this relationship wane, and if I stepped out of understanding, if I allowed one of these adversities or strategies of the enemy to pull me off this rock of foundation, I might find myself susceptible in some ways of the former days, but I know one thing, when I know He loves me, when I know He’s for me, when I know He loves to live inside of me, it changes everything. I live from that foundation. I see everything through that eye. It’s a place where you’re immovable and unshakeable. It doesn’t mean everything’s going the way you like it, it doesn’t mean everybody’s doing things the way you wish they do, it doesn’t mean everything is in line (laterally among people), it means you know everything is in line (vertically with God) where it matters most because that’s where you live from, the Spirit of God.
Satan’s attacks and strategies are to poke you and to attack you and to keep you from ever being established, from ever being rooted, from ever being grounded. If you are not rooted and grounded in love, the gospel is forced into a method. Because faith works through love. Faith doesn’t work because you prayed, faith doesn’t work because you have a need, faith works because you know God. In fact, faith isn’t something you try to have. Faith is the spontaneous result, it is the outflowing of your relationship with Him. Those that know Him do great exploits. Because you know Him, you respond through Him. We’re not crying to have faith. That’s deception! We’re growing up into Him in all things and faith is an automatic response. Faith just flows out of that relationship because you know His heart, you know His will, you know what He accomplished through Jesus, you know the yes and amen towards your life, you are established in truth and nothing can change that, no matter how bad it seems! You know that! You know that! You know that!
[A christian reads an article and feels fear about suffering an illness and calls for prayer.] How can that be faith? Why do we think when we pray that’s faith? Because we pray there might just be a big problem that’s grown bigger than you’ve grown in God, that’s bigger than the God you’ve known. The whole thing about faith is when God becomes bigger than what you are facing or what’s facing you. The whole thing about relationship is the reality of God getting bigger than the natural reality you are going encountering. Till where you see it through truth and it is smaller than who He is in your heart.
Dan Mohler on divisions in church denominations
Youtube Link to Message “Is it God’s will to always heal?”.
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No one has seen God unless you’ve seen the Son. For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him. John 1:17-18
If what you say about God does not agree with the life Jesus lived and what He said by living that life then what are we saying? Because no one has seen God unless you’ve seen the Son. If you define an Old Testament God, you’re deceived because the OT was pointing to what was to come. Everything is pointing to Christ. The Old Testament is the New Testament concealed. It’s a type and shadow and allegories. If all you have is an Old Testament understanding of God you’ll be way deceived. If you go back and define God in the Old Testament and try to bring it into the new and don’t interpret it through Grace and Truth, you have a misunderstanding of who the Father is.
That’s how the church got legalistic. That’s where the shepherding thing people talk about that hurt a lot of folks come in the play and all that stuff. That’s where the hell and brimstone preaching came from.
If your definition of God does not line up to the life Jesus lived in the expression of God through Jesus’ life then why are we saying it, why are we preaching it, why are we thinking it and why are we believing in it? If we say stuff like well sometimes God just chooses to this and God chooses that, that’s the same voice heard in the garden and she was sure deceived. Where do you get that? You get that through life, not through the Son. You show me through the Son where God says that and does that. You get that through life. Well, God doesn’t always heal. Show me that through the Son. I need somebody to show me that through the Son because no one has ever seen God at any time but the Son has declared Him. Show me that through the Son that He doesn’t heal everytime but nobody can! Then why are we saying otherwise. Why are we so quick to speak and slow to listen?
It’s the same voice that Eve heard. It’s deception. And we are biting the bait and eating the fruit and taking the Fall again and again and again. God said lay hands on the sick and they will recover and we say ‘but not everyone’. God said don’t eat the tree, it’s the day you surely die and the voice says ‘oh, you’re not going to die. God didn’t mean what He said’.
He is the image of the invisible God (Col 1:15). It’s amazing we have thousands of church denominations, camps because we can’t agree on one thing – Jesus is the will of God revealed.
We’ve let life define the will of God instead of Jesus’ life and we’ve let our opinions and our experiences and some of us are protecting them so we’ll build a doctrine to protect our experience and start another river that God never dug the bed. Do you honestly think that all these denominations on the Earth are the will of God? There’s not one person that could possibly think that and be sincere because it’s gotten our eyes off the Son and honestly the Word says no one has ever seen God until they’ve seen the Son. But once you’ve seen the Son, you know the Father.
You cannot know God nor His will unless you humble yourself through the Son. and when you see Jesus, you know the Father.
If you can’t find your doctrine in Jesus’ life then why is it in your belief system?
“Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth.”
– 2 Timothy 2:15
“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God;
because many false prophets have gone out into the world.”
– I John 4:1
We have so many more resources to share and will add on. We are grateful for the many faithful evangelists, teachers, pastors that share their revelations to benefit and build up the body of Christ. We find that every one of them is anointed in one or more areas (eg healing, identity in Christ etc) and in listening widely, and then rightly dividing the word of truth, and allowing the Holy Spirit and the Bible to be our ultimate Teacher allows us to learn so much more. As Andrew Wommack says, we don’t have to learn through the school of hard knocks. We can learn through all the lessons others went through (1 Corinthians 10:11).
When you feel like you have exhausted the many resources, ask God to show you more! If you want to learn more in a systematic way and apply them, we highly encourage you to sign up at Charis Bible College, definitely a life transforming experience that gets you equipped for practical ministry too! Connect and find an extension school near you or enroll for the distance learning programme.
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