Archive for October, 2009

“Take Possession Of Your Land!” By Cindy Trimm

Cindy Trimm quotes James Allen saying he,” wrote in his timeless classic As a Man Thinketh, “All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.”

When Christians cannot tell the difference between the Human signature and Covenant Faith, they mix the activity of the soul and its aspirations with the promises of God and take the Name of God in vain.
Solomon said in Ecc.3:10,” I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. He hath made everything beautiful in his time: also he hath set THE WORLD in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.”

The “SIGNATURE” of the soul is the pre-set activity for their common and natural lives which they will follow in something like an old phonograph record where the needle follows the grooves. So also the soul follows the inclinations for success in the world and labours for completion and increase.

Paul said, in 1 Cor.2:11” For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the SPIRIT OF MAN WHICH IS IN HIM? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.”
When you are crucified with Christ, then it is the Spirit of God that we glory in and not the boast of man. We put-on the new man by the covenant priesthood looking at those things which are above where Christ sits at the right hand of God.
Paul said in 1 Cor.1:31, “ That according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him GLORY IN THE LORD.”
We are not to covet after the things of this world man, but the power of God in your Christian priesthood.

2 Cor.4:18” While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen.”

Apostolic government guides the saints into Christ’s fullness so that at the coming of the Lord we rejoice with Him for those gifts which are eternal.
These measureless tokens work for us a far more and eternal weight of glory.
2 Cor. 4:17 “ For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and ETERNAL WEIGHT of glory.”
Those of faith take on the true Abrahamic perspective of the heavenly inheritance and not the earthly dominion.
Heb.11:10 “ For he looked for a CITY which hath foundations whose BUILDER and MAKER is God.”
This is the true Christian perspective so that we do not covet after earthly tokens which will drown the soul in perdition.
Be blessed in Him
In His grace
Apostle Eric
Ss: Those that covet after the Spirit will increase in His grace and die to the boasting aspirations of sinners.

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The KEY word is REGENERATION; TITUS 3:5
The suffering of the saint is in connection with regeneration.
Apart from this divine work those that suffer will only endure the pain with no benefits of salvation.
The suffering of the world works death because there is no divine reciprocation taking place in the soul.

The CHASTENING of the Lord is not His wrath. The WICKED suffer His wrath for their idolatry, molding the soul with the aspirations of the world. The righteous suffer the chastening of circumcision for renewing of the mind as a result of regeneration.

Sinners desire God to reward their suffering while God only rewards faith in covenant.

HEBREWS 12:5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the CHASTENING of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

Regeneration is in the work of the saints priesthood where God circumcises the heart by His baptism. Peter said to ADD to your faith, VIRTUE which is the result of His Spiritual baptism.

1 PETER 3:21 The like figure whereunto even BAPTISM doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

 
2 PETER 1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, ADD TO YOUR FAITH virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

And Paul said; circumcision and baptism.

COLOSSIANS 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the CIRCUMCISION made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the CIRCUMCISION of Christ:

COLOSSIANS 2:12 Buried with him in BAPTISM, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

This is the protocol of the priesthood of the believer.

Now Jesus suffered the CONTRADICTION of sinners. When we put-on Christ we endure the longsuffering of the pull of the aspirations of the world and the power of our principle is put to death.

COLOSSIANS 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the RUDIMENTS of the world, and not after Christ.
20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the RUDIMENTS of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,

By the power of Christ;
We replace our aspirations of life with FAITH;
We replace our principles of life with TRUTH;
We replace our coveteousness with MODERATION of Fruit.

This is the DIVINE POWER (resurrection of Christ) which we put-on through the covenant priesthood not of man but of God.

HEBREWS 12:3 For consider him that endured such CONTRADICTION of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

By the effectual working of the Spirit our perception of life changes so we won’t faint in our minds or lose the SEAL of Christ. For the PEACE of God assists us through the transition from darkness to His Light. This is the true term for salvation.

Be blessed in Him

In His grace

Apostle Eric

ss: The fountains of life pour through the lips of the righteous springing up from the soul filled of His Word 

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Every epistle is written from the position of the calling and grace of the apostles stewardship which God gave them for the Church.
When the epistle is studied outside of that oversight then the understanding will rest in the prejudice of the reader.

Discernment is given to the Church through the sanctified stewardship, which the Spirit of the Lord will confirm.
Discernment is not left up to the prudence of each individual or group as each determines right from wrong by their own studies.

Notice that those whom Paul was addressing were under his present stewardship, as also the Apostle John mentioned.

The “ANOINTING” is not suspicion nor is it found in ambiguity.

Paul said in 1 CORINTHIANS 14:7 And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is PIPED OR HARPED?

This shows that the apostles stewardship defines  the doctrine and the priesthood of the believer confirms the sound.

The ANOINTING is through living apostles for the saints to measure truth by. Jesus said the same thing when He identified Himself as the TRUTH and not the letter of the law. For the apostles measured His words by the grace of His calling, but the Pharisees used the precept of the law. They plundered the hearts of the people by the letter, while Jesus built His kingdom by the Spirit.

The Spirit was given to each for the profit of all to build the House of God by the Spirit. Now this comes through the callings and priesthood.

Many are trying to weigh truth on their own scales of the moral code. Satan (a false imitator of God) then enters the results which is to oppose anything that is strange or different than previous religious instructions. Satan will always stay within the boundries of ones prejudice to avoid detection. But he will also set personal challenges to cancel the guilt in the conscience and to justify the journey of good will with promises.

1John2:26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.

The “THEM” are those outside of His government stewardship. Paul calls them ‘unconverted believers’.
ACTS 21:20 And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which BELIEVE; and they are all ZEALOUS OF THE LAW: 

This is what Jesus warned his apostles about, that the Pharisees were the religious eyes for the people, and used the KEY of office to aspire to the goals of their own religious aspirations. The blind are leading the blind.

1 JOHN 2:27 BUT THE ANOINTING which ye have received of him abideth in you, (those instructed by an apostle) and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie,(is not the record of man) and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. (by the priesthood of Jesus Christ)

Seduction comes from those not understanding what the will of the Lord is, and for not having the foundation of truth laid in the heart by God’s stewardship. We must accept Isaiah’s testimony. He was the steward in his time.

Isaiah had his own prophets school and spoke in defence of his calling and stewardship; saying we are those signs which God has sent to Israel to help her see God’s direction for them. He confirms the temple in Zion AND the covenant given by God to Moses. He was not acting as a “religious maverick“preaching his own interpretations of the Torah, as we see many of today are trying to imitate called ‘Event Theology’.

Read Isaiah’s testimony:

Isaiah 8:18
Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not ACCORDING TO THIS WORD, it is because there is no light in them.

The “WORD” is that which God revealed to him for the direction of Israel.
But those religious leaders of his time listened to only those prophets which prophecied words in regard to solving their personal issues and problems. Same today in the false prophetic movement.

They speaking by the spirit of the world seek to turn God’s people from the covenant to function in the failing system of their religion and receive the wrath of God.

Many false prophets say good things, as Balaam, Saul, and Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah. Notice that ‘discernment’ was not the vessel but the words. Even the Beast in Revelation 13 will quote from the Bible and confirm the temple (not the covenant of Christ).

NUMBERS 24
1Samuel 10
2 CHRONICLES 18
1 KINGS 13

DEUTERONOMY 13:1 If there arise among you a PROPHET, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that PROPHET, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. (in Covenant not outside of it)

Notice that  in 1 KINGS 13 an old prophet used certain knowledge to misquide a true prophet. Where was his discernment?
Was it the man, or the words? Neither!

Read his testimony
11 Now there dwelt an OLD PROPHET in Bethel; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father.
25 And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city where the OLD PROPHET dwelt.

29 And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the OLD PROPHET came to the city, to mourn and to bury him.

Look at the carnel minded discernment of the Pharisee named Gamaliel in Acts 5:34. Many christians will follow this pattern and will error in judgment. Because it is in the Bible they think it is a safe practice. Sounds Berean doesnt?

Without the true eyes of sanctified stewardship the Church is wandering into many snares of Satan. True discernment is what the Spirit speaks through His government and confirms. Not the floating revelations which carry the soul away with the currents of the prince of this world.

And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:
But if it BE OF GOD, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.

Only the Spirit of God can open the eyes of your understanding. When the temple was built in Solomon’s days there was great rejoicing.
 
So when the House of God is completed today, the saints will shout for joy.

Those under Satans spell will refuse the Light, Gal.3:1, for God is seperating the Tares from the Wheat at this ‘Hour of Temptation’.

Christian Pharisees, (those of tradition) desire the old wine skins to the Sweetness of His truth.
As the Jesus said, “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches.”

Be blessed  in His grace.
The face of Christ is seen in the stewardship of His grace and the manifold wisdom of God. Our Father’s visitation of His people confirming these things is also a manifestation of His grace witnessed by angels and men.

Prepare your heart to receive His grace.

In His grace

Apostle Eric

ss:
Sinners yoke themselves with carnal things and so quench the Spirit of God, but the righteous dine at the table of the Lord building His House

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Recently I read a rather disturbing article in Charisma magazine that focused again on the stuggle of women in the Church to find their identify in Christ. Here again the Church was reduced to a social club where women are called upon to act like politicians rather than elders of the Church.

I posted this comment in response:

Here is another example of gross error that is being introduced to the Church through Pastoral Governance. Not understanding the functions of the 2nd Covenant priesthood, the knowledge of faith is now used to find a “ministry” for ‘gender’. The Priesthood of the believer is neither male nor female, in Christ Jesus.

When the Church accepts Apostolic governance then God will restore understanding and virtue to His people.

In addition to this thought…

When a ministry is separated from the Godhead it takes on its own personality and temperament instead of the likeness of Christ. This is seen in the fashion of the delivery and style. A search is made in the scriptures for doctrines that address the issues. But the challenging goals will always fail in lasting results, and so is the loop of death unto death.

About every 10 to 20 years Satan re-introduces these topics for the Church to discuss and resolve and another round of books are then published addressing health, wealth and well-being.

Paul warned of these philosophies which become traditions of men, and then used as a fulcrum for discernment, which when challenged by truth will adamantly resist shielding their envy and bitterness behind slogans as ‘contending for the faith’.
These things are Satan’s wiles to keep the Church unproductive in eternal things.

Apostle Eric
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