HOW LONG?
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HOW LONG BEFORE YOU BECOME WHO GOD HAS CALLED YOU TO BE
During this Feast of Unleavened Bread, we need to find the leaven that is stopping us from entering His Rest
A LITTLE LEAVEN
1 Corinthians 5:6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
We can become a new person by letting go of false beliefs and filling our minds with the pure, honest truth of God's Word.
There are three sources from which leaven enters our lives: the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. The enemy tempted Eve with these three, and she fell short of who God had called her to be. The enemy tempted Jesus with the same three temptations, but Jesus overcame each one with “It is written.” You will also face the same three, so you too must respond with “It is written.”
Faith comes by hearing the word of God
We learned that Faith is not a noun but a verb. Faith is action
The Hebrew word for faith is Emunah or AMEN.
Now, Faith (amen) (action) is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
The substance and evidence of the promises of God manifest when we amen and act on the truth of God’s word – we let the word become life in our lives
The seven days of creation, the seven days of the week, and the seven feasts all serve as types and shadows of the process of entering His Rest.
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION:
What sources of leaven have prevented you from becoming who God has called you to be?
How has understanding that faith is a verb and not a noun changed your perspective?
How has the revelation that the seventh day has no evening and morning changed your timeline for Letting the Word Become Life in Your Life?
Looking forward to our discussion.
In His Service,
Bishop Bill
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What sources of leaven have prevented you from becoming who God has called you to be?
Being able to identify the leven is a gift, so thank you for the teaching, love, prayer and fellowship. Bishop and Rev Connie. The leven are lies, lies that hid inside my heart, body and mind. Leven is any lie that exalts above God word.
How has understanding that faith is a verb and not a noun changed your perspective?
Coming from a church where "faith without works is dead". With a "works" based mentality, I "thought" all the work I was doing was faith...when it actuality it was dead works, and one…
What sources of leaven have provented you from becoming who God has called you to be?
The source has been me getting caught up in my own Head emotions and by doing that it stop me from serving God but serving my lust flesh ways. . I like to put things off and I am very good at making excuses. So I need to change my thought making process and lurn to leave that lust of the flesh behind. By me doing that I can start to become the man of God he has called me to be by trusting my faith in God not my faith in myself and me putting hands on the sick and letting the word…
Wow! Bishop a lot of meat in that message! Well done!
What sources of leaven have prevented you from becoming who God has called you to be?
Must be the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. My flesh always has something I want to do that I think needs to be done, over the priority. My priority vs. God's priority!The lust of the eyes, again can cause me to be distracted with going after something that I want vs. something that is on the way to becoming who God has called me to be. Pride of life, well the insecurity, the place of being unsure has prevented me from becoming who Go…
1. What sources of leaven have prevented you from becoming who God has called you to be?
Pride and flesh certainly. The other side of the ditch with pride of insecurity. Not being secure in the Word and relationship with God, leads to just wanting to "feel good" from some other source that does not satisfy like entertainment. Lack of discipline leads to insecurity leads to looking to other sources of satisfaction.
Ok, get back on the road. Like driving, we end up where we're looking. I could make the list of all the ways I've fallen short, but man, that shoulder of the road is rutted and muddy and will pull me back in the ditch again. Focus on…
What sources of leaven have prevented you from becoming who God has called you to be?
The big three lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and the pride of life.
The old song goes oh be careful little eyes.... and that sometimes sets us off on the wrong foot because we're stuck in the focused on the sin and not sinning. So then were not focused on God, and the doing is the answer to sin. It’s the doing the word of God that keeps us away from the things that would cause us to stumble.
So resetting the perspective, oh I have to get out of sin so that God can use me or I just have…