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The spirit realm is a reality where both evil and Godly forces exist. Evil forces monitor our habits seeking for opening in our lives where they can influence us and lead us away from God's will and God's protection. They work in our heart (minds) to draw us away from God and to remove God's power and blessing from our lives. On thing that they do is cause us to keep unforgiveness in our heart against other, unforgiveness separates us from God. One of God's spiritual laws is that we can only reap from him what we sow in the lives of others. Most Christian seek to be a channel for God to work through but that is only possible is we walk in forgiveness. The enemy has no legal access to our lives but is given permission to enter if we open the door. 1 Pet 5:8 tells us that Satan is like a roaring lion seeking who he may or who allows himself to be devoured. Access can be granted through the things we allow in our live, the things we watch, worship and entertain in our minds. As Christians God gave us power to interfere with what the enemy is attempting to do through prayer, prayer we make for us and for those we stand in the gap for. This is why we are told to pray without ceasing , to always be ready come against the forces of evil when they try to take over areas of our lives and those we watch over. Jesus in John 14:14 says that if we ask anything in his name he will do it, he will step in and push back the forces of evil who are interfering with us. Though his death on the cross Jesus gave those who chooses to accept him as lord the power that is in his shed blood to overcome their spiritual enemies. As a Christian Satan has no legal access to our lives but he is given authority to come in if we leave the door open.

Love is not only shown in blessing but in discipline also and just like our parents disciplined us as children so does God as his children in order to bring us to an expected end. God's goal is to bring us back to what he called us to be when he first created mankind. Gen 1:26-27 tells us that God created us to be in his image and likeness but sadly everyone of us have drifted from this expectation. So because he loves us and wants to be one with us for eternity he not only blesses us but he discipline us also. Paul tells us in Heb 12:8 that if we refuse his correction then we are saying to him that we don't want to be his child. God's goal is to bring us back to holiness to his very nature. Heb 12:14 clearly tells us that without holiness no man will see meaning be able to interact and be intimate with God. Not because he rejects us and doesn't love us but because he is light and in him there can't be no darkness as all (1 John 1:5). God uses discipline to sanctify us unto holiness to help us bear the same fruits (behaviors) as him. Jesus refers to this as being pruned (John 15:2) in order to insure that we bear the same fruits as God transforming us in his likeness just like he intended us to be in the first place. The way to evade discipline from God is to trust him and to walk in his ways, we are to also concentrate on growing the fruits of the Holy Spirit in order to be a true reflection of God. The more we change into God's likeness the more we will become a light in this world for him to draw other unto himself.

God created mankind both male and female to be in his image, to live by his standards, to bear the same fruits as him referring to our behaviors in order to be a true reflection of him. God also created us with free will giving us the power of choice enabling us to walk away from him if we chose to do so. But even at this point God love for us will not changed even if sin separates us from him. His love will still reach out to us calling us to return to him. God's love for us is so great that made a way through Jesus for us to be reconciled with him, for our sins to be forgiven and for intimacy to be restored. The bible tells us that God love for us begins at conception in our mothers womb and from that moment he is invested in everything we do watching over us. He has a plan for everyone of us and a path for us to follow but we must chose to walk in his way, chose to be a true reelection of him. Those who refuse to walk in his ways also choose to be separated from him for eternity by holding on to their sins. Not because he stops loving us but because sin can't cohabit with God for he is a holy God just like light can't cohabit with darkness. there is no one that will ever love us more then God but we must also show our love to him choosing to walk in his ways, to bear the same fruits as he does and by choosing to become a true reelection of him.

Our goal as Christians should be righteousness, being save doesn't mean you keep on living a sinful life but that you embark on the road to righteousness referred by Paul as the road to perfection (Heb 6:1). Jesus himself tells us that we should be perfect as our Father in heaven is perfect (Mat 5:48). Our goal should be to live a life that reflects the one we called savior, calling ourselves a Christian is to tell those around us that we are a Christ-like a reflection of Jesus. Sadly many Christian confess Jesus as lord but choose to live a life that denies they even know him. They believe that a simple confession of Jesus a savior is all that is needed to spend eternity with him and God and it isn't so. Jesus on the other hand tells us that those who seek to follow him must first be willing to deny themselves, to stop living for self and secondly are to also to pick up their cross meaning take on God agenda, to do his will which is for us to become a true reflections of him and Jesus. In John 17:3 Jesus describes eternal life not as going to heaven but as becoming one with him and with God the Father. Heb 12:14 tells us without holiness, without perfection no man will see God. The only way to spend eternity with God is but putting on his nature, by being a true reflection of his nature, to be in his image and likeness just like he intended us to be when he created us (Gen 1:26-27). To be righteous doesn't mean that we never fall but it does mean that we don't fall on purpose because it's what we want to do. When we do fall we are required to come to God with a sincere heart and repent in turn God promises to forgive us and to cleans us form our unrighteousness. Let's not forget that the day is coming when you will have to stand before Jesus to be judge by him and he will determined who truly lived a life that reelects his and who live life as a hypocrite, those who by choice fail to live in sin will find themselves separated from him for eternity and will share Satan fate in the Lake of Fire.

In Phil 4:17 Paul tells us that he didn't preach about giving to the work of God because he seek a gift for himself but because he understood the law of sowing and reaping. We can only reap from God what we have first sown, this is why Jesus said we can expect to be forgiven unless we first forgive. The same is true when it come to provisions, God promises to bless those who bless others. We can't expect for God to take care of our need when we refuse to help others with their needs. We are not to foolishly give to other but are called to follow Gods direction to give and bless others when he lead us to do so. Greed is a big problem, the bible teaches us that the greedy will not inherit the Kingdom of God (1 Cor 6:10). This is why Jesus tells us to not lay for ourselves treasures here on earth but to store then in heaven by being obedient unto God leading to bless those he seek to bless though us. We should always remember that on Judgement Day we will all have to give an account of ourselves, did we live for us to for him, did we do our will or his. The more you are obedient to God leading to bless other the more he will bless you not so you can have more but so he can use you to bless more. Your faithfulness to God leading to bless other will also cause God to bless you so that your needs and the needs of your family will be taken care of. We must always remember that when we die all of our earthly possession will stay behind so lets no lay treasures here on earth but in heaven.

1 Cor 13:13 tells us that as a Christian we need incorporate faith, hope and love in our lives but it end by telling us that the greatest of these three is love. We are not talking about earthly carnal love but about the God kind of love referred to as agape as described in 1 Cor 13:4-8. Jesus commands us in John 13:34 that we are to love one another with the same love he has shown us and add in John 14:21 that we are to show our love for him and God the father by keeping this command. Jesus also tells us in John 15:14 that keeping his commandment to love one another with agape love elevates us to the level of intimacy of a friend with God and himself. Our job as Christians is to bring healing to a world filled with darkness and hurt. Gal 5:22 tells us that the fruit of the Spirit is agape love and John adds that the world will know that we are Christians by the love we show to each other. In order to walk in agape love we must put on the nature of God and change are carnal behaviors to his, we must not only love others as we would want them to love us but we must love them as Jesus has loved us.

Most people see tiding as a touchy subject believing that only money hungry pastors teach tiding when in reality giving not only to the church but to those God lead us to is a Kingdom principle. Just like we can't expect to be forgiven unless we forgive others Luke 6:38 tells us that we are to give in order to receive because another Kingdom Principle is that we can only reap what we sow. Those who sow sparingly will only reap sparingly (2 Cor 9:6). In Malachi 3:10-11 God tells us to bring our tithes or offering into his storehouse referring to you local church in order that there would be provision for the need of the church and to help others who are in need. He goes on to tells us to put him to the test adding that our giving from a genuine heart will cause him to open a window of blessing in our lives not only to bless us but so that we can also be a blessing to many more. God adds that our giving will also cause him to rebuke the devour from interacting with us from destroying what is in our storehouse referring to our provision for our needs and the needs of our family. Our giving to God must be an act of love, honor and obedience toward him and are we are not to give fearing loss when we give we must give by faith knowing that will always take care of his children. In Mat 6:19-24 Jesus tells us to lay our treasures in heaven and not in the earth it can be stolen and taken away from us, our giving to God should not be determined by our fear of going without or buy our lust to accumulate money because we can't love or serve two masters. Your heart can only belong to God if you truly trust in him and chose to put him before anything else.

Eph 1:4-5 tells us that before the foundation of the world God had already decided that he would redeem mankind though his only Son Jesus. He made that decision because he knew that eventually mankind would fall into sin and would need to be redeemed. John 3:16 tells us that he also made this choice because of his great love for mankind and also tells us that redemption is available to everyone who seek for it by accepting the great gift he gave us. Jesus was sent by God to become the mediator between us and God in order to establish a new covenant between mankind and himself, a new covenant built on better promises. One of these promises is the indwelling of God's Holy Spirit as a guide to wholeness, to intimacy with God. Jesus referred to the Holy Spirit as a river of living water that will refresh us and as a guide who will guide us in the path of righteousness. Those who receive Jesus as saviour are transferred from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light and are reunited with God. Sadly many refuse God gift because the love darkness more then light, the embrace evil over righteousness thinking that God seek to control us but the truth is that seeks intimacy with us and this is only possible if we seek holiness. Heb 14:12 tells us that without holiness no man can see meaning interact or have intimacy with God not because he refuses but because he is light and in him there is no darkness at all. God gives us the power of choice or free will he offers us life, intimacy with him here on earth and eternal life with him through Jesus but you have the power to refuse and chose to spend eternity separated from him, it is your choice not his. His love and gift of salvation is always available while we are alive, once we die then comes the judgement where our eternity will be decided base on the choices we have made while we were alive.

There are benefits to living a godly life, the bible speaks of five different crowns that are available to anyone who devote their lives to Jesus and God. These crowns are given base on the work you do but on who you did the work for. Many do works in order to elevate self to be in the limelight but the works that will be rewarded are the works that were done to exalt Jesus and God, works that put them in the limelight and not us. There is a crown for faithfulness for those who endure trails and temptation who don't give up and return to the world when times are hard. Secondly there is a crown of righteousness given for those who has prepared themselves for his return doing their best to be perfect, to live a holy life to the best of their ability and repented when they failed asking God to cleansed them from their unrighteousness. The third crown is called the crown of glory that will be given to those were called to Shepperd or minister to God peoples and have done everything the can to lead their sheep's down the right path. The next crown referred to as the imperishable crown will be given to those who have run their race or live their life with discipline according to the word of God doing their best to be a true reelection of Jesus they can be, those who truly deserve the name or title of being Christ like or a Christian. The fifth and final crown is the crown of rejoicing given to all who will be taken at the rapture, some refers to this crown as the soul winning crown given to those who have continued the work that Jesus had started and were found worthy to part of the rapture.

To remember something or someone is to recall events that took place in our lives but we also use remembrance to recall the goodness of God, his faithfulness and what is expected of us by God, the standards we are called to live by. We must also remember the promises God gave us through in his word knowing that he is not a lair and that all his promises are yes and amen. God has called his people to remember key event in order that we never forget his great love for us. In the Old Testament God told his people to remember the Passover when he brought salvation to them from the Pharoah of Egypt, under the New Covenant we are called to remember the cross where Jesus became the last Passover lamb. Through Jesus death God brought salvation to the whole world giving us opportunity to be reunited with him forever. To help us remember cost of our salvation Jesus instituted the communion and to help us remember what his expectation is for us and his promises toward us he left us his word.

God the Father seeks intimacy with us for us to know him on a personal level and he sent he only Son Jesus to become the way we can be reconciled with him. He did so because he loves us, John 3:16 and 1 John 4:7-10 tells us that the reason God sent Jesus is because he love all of humanity so much. The type of relationship we have with God through Jesus is a Father son relationship where he seeks to guide us, interact with us and protect us. James 1 :17 tells us that every good and perfect gift comes from the father above for nobody knows us like he doe. One of the greatest gift he will give you is his Holy Spirit living in you a direct connection between us and him. God love for us is so great that the bible tells us that he becomes jealous when are heart is divided when our heart doesn't belong to him only. We can't allow sin to separate us from God but are called to devote ourselves totally to him just as he is devoted to us. The more we devote ourselves to him the more we will experience the incredible love, mercy and grace of God. Psalm 139:1-18 tells us that God get to know us so intimately that he knows everything about us he even knows us better then we know ourselves. Once we open our heart to him God promises to never leave us or forsake us, we may walk away from him but he will never walk away.

God has given his church, true believers the authority to stand against the forces of darkness, the church is not called to speak about the problem but to speak to the problem in order to create change. Our fight is not against flesh and blood but against rulers of darkness who seek to devour those who will let themselves be devoured. Many don't believe in God or in hell but the reality is that once we die we will enter a spiritual world where we will either spend eternity with God or apart from him in hell. While we are on earth Jesus tells us that as true believer we are given power to come against the forces of darkness at work in this world. We fight these force with the authority God has given us through prayer as intercessors. Prov 18:21 tells us that death and life is in the power of the tongue, what we confess and what we pray will become part of our reality. Not only can we pray and confess blessing and cursing's in our live but in the live of others so we have to be carful paying attention to the things we confess. As children of God we are called to overcome evil with good and we do so with the authority God has given us to come against the forces of darkness. As believers we must see ourselves in a different light, 1 Pet 2:9 tells us that we are a chosen race, a holy nation, a royal priest hood called to represent Jesus and to continue the work he has started when he came to earth. We must realize the authority we have received in Christ and that we are called to use this power in order to continue Jesus work.

Jesus mission was to come to earth and become the mediator between mankind and God in order to reconcile us with God. By becoming one with Jesus through salvation and through obedience to the leading of the Holy Spirit we are reconciled with God as his children and are given the power and authority of the name of Jesus at our disposal. 1 Pet 9-10 tells us that becoming sons and daughters of God elevates us, we are a holy nation a royal priesthood called out of darkness to live in his marvelous light. Salvation provides grace empowerment to live a holy life that reflects the nature of God and equips us with the power, with authority to change our lives and the world around us. As true believers, as lights in this world we carry the authority of Jesus name in us and through prayer and faith we hold back the forces of darkness from taking over this world. Life and death, light and darkness is in the power of the tongue we have the power through prayer and confession we have been given the power to bind and loose to stop the power of darkness who are at work to hinder the work of God. We are called to be ambassadors for Jesus, call to continue the work he started and intersession through prayer is a big part of the work we are called to do. We are to come to God in prayer knowing the authority that has been given to us through salvation standing in the gap for those around us. We are called to speak to mountains to come against impossible problems through prayer and change situation not only in our lives but in the lives of others. This power and authority comes to us through the baptism of the Holy Spirit who equips us to accomplish the works God has called us to do in this world.

To walk in the fear of the Lord is to walk toward perfection, a walk toward becoming what God has called us to be a true reflection of himself. Jesus is coming back for a bride that is pure and holy without spots or wrinkles referring to visible and hidden sin of the heart. James 4:7-8 tells us that it is our job to make sure we are ready for him we are called to draw ourselves to God by washing our hands and by purifying our heart, to watch over our actions and our thoughts. In Mat 7:21-23 Jesus tells us that not everyone who calls him Lord will enter the kingdom of God but only those who do the will of the father, those he refers to as the vise virgins who live their lives in obedience to the leading of the Holy Spirit.

The big problem today is that most know about Jesus but not so many know Jesus and what he came to earth for. He came as a representative of God to show us who God really is and how much he loves us. John 1 tells us that Jesus is the creator of everything we see, and that he came to earth the restore unto us the life we lost to sin. The life in question is the intimacy we were created to have with God intimacy we lost because of the curse of the law of sin and death. Jesus came to step in as mediator between humanity and God to offer us salvation or reconciliation with God and to enrobe us with the white robe of righteousness, to give us the righteousness we need to have to be intimate with God. Jesus refers to this transformation, this reconciliation as being born again, being renewed, as rising from death and to being reconciled with God. Its a transformation that will take place within our heart transforming us into a new creation in the image of God. Ever one seeks for eternal life, Jesus in John 17:3 describes eternal life as being reconciled with God as becoming one with God through him.