Our Divine Possessions
V1 Forgiveness V5 Assurance V7 Protection V7 Deliverance
V8 Guidance V9 Warning V11 Joy
V1 : Forgiveness
When we fest up to God that you.ve messed up, no matter how bad God will forgive you, just don’t lie! When I was a kid there were times when I sought my earthly father’s forgiveness, these would have been better if I had not lied. The thing is when you lie, there will come a time when you are found out. So as to divert the wrath you need to tell another lie to cover up the original lie.
Now because I answer to my Heavenly Father, so when I ask for forgiveness of my lie/sin He forgives...
Mathew 9:2 “. .Son be of good cheer, your sins are forgiven. .”
Luke 7:45/9 “. . You gave Me no kiss, but this woman has not ceased to kiss My feet since the time I came in. You did not anoint My head with oil, but this woman has anointed My feet with fragrant oil. Therefore I say to you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little. ”Then He said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.” And those who sat at the table with Him began to say to themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?. . “
The one thing that can forgive all our sins is God’s love. He’ll forgive us because God’s love is how He truly forgives us . .with love. If you’re wondering about sin’s that were committed ‘before’ became a Christian, well they were forgiven and taken away. God dealt with them when you gave your heart to the Lord. That is also what you were baptised in the water. This signifies being washed clean, cleansed, made a new. When you have been out in the garden, you wash – why? Because you were sweaty and covered in mud. You would not sit down and have lunch covered in mud and smelling bad. You would have a shower and make yourself clean, then out on clean fresh clothes. This is what it means to be born again, cleansed of all sin!
When we have that shower, we are in the belief that it will make us clean, spotless. This is faith, why because it makes us clean. We use soap with a fragrance, to show others, we come into contact with, we are clean without having to tell people that we have washed today. Just like having a shower we should outwardly show others that ‘ALL’ our sins have been forgiven for all eternity. Too many Christians have given their lives to Christ, become washed clean, then go back to their old lives and ways.
V5 : Assurance
If Your working on a large and awkward job, we like to have that what we are doing is correct. Assurance could be from that the boat we are crossing on will NOT sink. This means we don’t have any fear in using it The same way that faith needs to be shown.
Colossians 2:2 “..that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and[a] of Christ..”
Our Lord is telling us that, don’t be discouraged. That we are be ‘knit-together ‘, so we can have all the riches of full, not part or a little bit, but full assurance of understanding from God. Life could not possibly get any better than this.
Hebrews 10:22 “..let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water..“
The Lord has given us faith, that we can have no fears, as we have a living God. Because of this we can stand assured in faith that it is not for yesterday, but in full knowledge that our faith is for Eternity. With our Lords forgiveness and blessed Assurance we stand tall knowing that we are under His protection. Being under our Lords protection we have assurance that
With our Lords forgiveness and blessed assurance we can stand tall in the knowledge we are under His ‘Protection’. Being under our Lords protection, we have assurance that. .
Psalm 23:4 “..Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me..”
Having this ‘protection’ we all should have more confidence in our daily lives. The best way we can have ‘full protection’ for God is to put on the full amour . .
Ephesians 6:13/18 “..Therefore take up the whole armour of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil..”
Verse -14 "..having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness..”
Verse -15 “..shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace..”
Verse – 16 “..above all, taking the shield of faith..”
Verse – 17 “..take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God..”
Verse – 18 “..praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance..”
Verse -14 "..having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness..”
Verse -15 “..shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace..”
Verse – 16 “..above all, taking the shield of faith..”
Verse – 17 “..take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God..”
Verse – 18 “..praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance..”
We should always remember that that if we discard just ‘one’ of these items, it render the rest ‘Void’. You would not go to war without your body armour, or, helmet, this would be just madness. You might as well paint a massive ‘bulls-eye’ on yourself.
Have you had to ever make a snap judgement about a situation? Many would call this a ‘gut reaction/feeling that you should not go to a place, or, have a feeling about someone. At this moment we ask to be ‘Delivered’ from . .
V7 Deliverance
What does it mean to have Deliverance? Well, the best way is to let Daniel describe just what it means . .
To have ‘Deliverance’ also means to be freed from your old sinful life. We have the most precious gift of all, we wont to tarnish it all? John tells it on a little more serious note, in a warning to the unbeliever of the consequence of NOT taking His deliverance . .
John 3:18 “..he who believes in Him is not condemned but he who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten son of God..“
Deliverance is truly the greatest gift of all, we have been pulled out of darkness into a light that is pure and has no shadows. Mathew here really spells out the dangers of IT NO receiving ‘deliverance’, and yet tells of the Security/Safety we have, how wondrous. Whilst we are being Delivered we God’s compos to safely guide us through life.
V8 Guidance
“..I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go, I will guide you with My eye..“
Once saved by God’s mercy and now Delivered, we need to be shown how to believe, and what is expected of us. God dose this through His Love & Mercy. . .
Psalms 48:14 “..for this God is our god forever and ever ,He will be our guide even to the end..“
. . God will be with us till the end being a guide unto our feet. When being guided by someone else we will be quite, otherwise we will miss important information. So, when asking God for direction we need to be still and quite. If not our walk with God will come of the rails.
From time to time there will one’s who feel they are the one to guide/lead. Some of these will be carful and a ‘hot-line’ to God. Hence these will guide us directly because they are being led by God. What we must be weary of is one’s who want to pretend to guide you only for personal gratification and NOT the Lords. These need to shown up before they do much harm.
The only way to know we are being led by Jesus, is to pray and ask for guidance, for Him to shine a lamp unto your feet. This will come from knowing Jesus in a personal level and thus know when He is leading. This will by many hours of prayer and building up an connection . .
Isaiah 29:29 “..who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in guidance..“
. . .we may well find the going tough at times as well as challenging. Always remember while these trials will test your faith, God only let the times come because He knew you could with stand these trials. Keep these words steadfast in your heart. . .
V8 “..I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go. I will guild you with my eye..”
God’s light is pure and darkness can’t with stand it. .
Luke 1 v79 “ . .to give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. .”
Come Come Come into the light let the Lord God be the lamp unto your feet. Once we are being guided by God, Having a close relationship we will know/hear God’s Warning.
V9 Warning
Warnings come in many guises. Whilst growing up we are told by our earthly parents not to this or that because we get hurt. Whilst grieving there are traffic lights which stop us with a red light, everyone who was taught to drive knows to stop a red light. Or, become badly hurt or even dead. The same applies to walking on the pavement, that when we need to cross the road we need to wait for the green man to be lit, then we know it is safe to cross the road.
All around us there are many ‘Warnings’ to many to list in their forms, examples like . .
. . these were but a few of them. A small observation, over the next 24hrs try and see how ‘various forms’ of Warnings you can find or come across in your normal day.
Ezekiel 33 v5 “..he heard the sound of the trumpet, but did not take warning, his blood shall be upon himself. But who takes warning save his life..“
The Message bible spells it so clear anyone can understands. .
Ezekiel 33 v1-6 “..God’s Message came to me: “Son of man, speak to your people. Tell them, ‘If I bring war on this land and the people take one of their citizens and make him their watchman, and if the watchman sees war coming and blows the trumpet, warning the people, then if anyone hears the sound of the trumpet and ignores it and war he ignored it—it’s his own fault. If he had listened, he would have saved his life. ‘But if the watchman sees war coming and doesn’t blow the trumpet, warning the people, and war comes and takes anyone off, I’ll hold the watchman responsible for the bloodshed of any unwarned sinner..“
God tells us clearly we need to be walking with Him. If we do this then we will not only hear/see God’s Warnings for our lives we will be able to correct the waywardness.
V11 Joy
With the way the world is hit hard by Counties going through times. The average Joe Bloggs is struggling with the price of everything, causing them to struggle. So where are they to find joy? When being able to do all the things in their spare time they used to once be able to do!
You may not have the disposable income you had. May you will stand outside the supermarket as I did and wonder ‘how am I going to afford to eat this month’? I hear you saying this is all we and good, waffling dose not feed my family for the following month let alone pay bills and put fuel in the car to get to work.
I hear you, it was the month of my Baptism, I had to drive my parents in a round trip of 500 miles, and feed them. That month I sat in the congregation down to my last pound. I prayed to God I will give Him my last pound and prayed for His provision. Well, God is good, I had fuel and food to bring my parents to my baptism as well as for work for next 3 months. I saw my bank manager, he cleared the 185.00 I owed the bank, and he also gave me a clean slate as well. This gave me time to sort out my finances. Who says God does not bring them JOY
Pslam 132:15/16
(The Message) “ . . I’ll shower blessings on the pilgrims who come here, and give supper to those who arrive hungry; I’ll dress my priests in salvation clothes; the holy people will sing their hearts out. . “
(The King James)” . .I will abundantly bless her provision; I will satisfy her poor with bread. I will also clothe her priests with salvation, And her saints shall shout aloud for joy. . “
It dose not matter how it is said the with faith that god will meet our need’s. This small 5 letter word, will bring JOY beyond measure . .
Gen 22:14 “ . .Abraham named that place God-Yireh (God-Sees-to-It). That’s where we get the saying, “On the mountain of God, he sees to it.”
. . so do we believe in the flesh or the spirit that will bring JOY beyond measure?
Pslam 16:11 “ . . in your _ulfil_e there is fullness of JOY . .”
Isaiah 12:3 “ . . Therefore with joy you will draw water From the wells of salvation. .”
I we just are willing to step out in faith our needs will be met with His fullness and JOY. I know it may be the hardest thing is believing that once again JOY will return.
Instead saying ‘woe-is-me’, say ‘how rich am I’. Yes we all go through times when we really can’t see all that we have because the devil the devil is stood right in front of our faces. It’s time not just to ‘claim’ our Divine Possessions, but to own them. The moments we open up our hearts and invite Jesus we have had all of those possessions. Some have not realised it and some have forgot. Not sure what is worse to forget or not to know? At least if you never realised you had had these wonderful gifts you might be forgiven. To have this wealth, and still decide to struggle, then that is just plain sad.
Daniel lays out so clearly our deliverance so why hesitate? In our bank you may only have a few pounds left, but, in our heavenly bank account it will always have a wealth beyond measure, it will never be ‘over-drawn’. Infact the more we tap into it the wealthier we become. These possessions are just sitting there waiting for us to tap into.
I’m almost unable to imagine what my life was like before I asked God into my life. So ask the mirror next time you see your reflection . . .
Can I live without God’s - Forgiveness
Can I live without God’s - Assurance
Have you had to ever make a snap judgement about a situation? Many would call this a ‘gut reaction/feeling that you should not go to a place, or, have a feeling about someone. At this moment we ask to be ‘Delivered’ from . .
V7 Deliverance
What does it mean to have Deliverance? Well, the best way is to let Daniel describe just what it means . .
- For your people and for your holy city,
- To finish the transgression,
- To make an end of sins,
- To make reconciliation for iniquity,
- To bring in everlasting righteousness,
- To seal up vision and prophecy,
- And to anoint the Most Holy.
To have ‘Deliverance’ also means to be freed from your old sinful life. We have the most precious gift of all, we wont to tarnish it all? John tells it on a little more serious note, in a warning to the unbeliever of the consequence of NOT taking His deliverance . .
John 3:18 “..he who believes in Him is not condemned but he who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten son of God..“
Deliverance is truly the greatest gift of all, we have been pulled out of darkness into a light that is pure and has no shadows. Mathew here really spells out the dangers of IT NO receiving ‘deliverance’, and yet tells of the Security/Safety we have, how wondrous. Whilst we are being Delivered we God’s compos to safely guide us through life.
V8 Guidance
“..I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go, I will guide you with My eye..“
Once saved by God’s mercy and now Delivered, we need to be shown how to believe, and what is expected of us. God dose this through His Love & Mercy. . .
Psalms 48:14 “..for this God is our god forever and ever ,He will be our guide even to the end..“
. . God will be with us till the end being a guide unto our feet. When being guided by someone else we will be quite, otherwise we will miss important information. So, when asking God for direction we need to be still and quite. If not our walk with God will come of the rails.
From time to time there will one’s who feel they are the one to guide/lead. Some of these will be carful and a ‘hot-line’ to God. Hence these will guide us directly because they are being led by God. What we must be weary of is one’s who want to pretend to guide you only for personal gratification and NOT the Lords. These need to shown up before they do much harm.
The only way to know we are being led by Jesus, is to pray and ask for guidance, for Him to shine a lamp unto your feet. This will come from knowing Jesus in a personal level and thus know when He is leading. This will by many hours of prayer and building up an connection . .
Isaiah 29:29 “..who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in guidance..“
. . .we may well find the going tough at times as well as challenging. Always remember while these trials will test your faith, God only let the times come because He knew you could with stand these trials. Keep these words steadfast in your heart. . .
V8 “..I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go. I will guild you with my eye..”
God’s light is pure and darkness can’t with stand it. .
Luke 1 v79 “ . .to give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. .”
Come Come Come into the light let the Lord God be the lamp unto your feet. Once we are being guided by God, Having a close relationship we will know/hear God’s Warning.
V9 Warning
Warnings come in many guises. Whilst growing up we are told by our earthly parents not to this or that because we get hurt. Whilst grieving there are traffic lights which stop us with a red light, everyone who was taught to drive knows to stop a red light. Or, become badly hurt or even dead. The same applies to walking on the pavement, that when we need to cross the road we need to wait for the green man to be lit, then we know it is safe to cross the road.
All around us there are many ‘Warnings’ to many to list in their forms, examples like . .
- Road signs
- The markings on the road,
- the warning the comes on the PC to tell us when we are being attacked by a virus
. . these were but a few of them. A small observation, over the next 24hrs try and see how ‘various forms’ of Warnings you can find or come across in your normal day.
Ezekiel 33 v5 “..he heard the sound of the trumpet, but did not take warning, his blood shall be upon himself. But who takes warning save his life..“
The Message bible spells it so clear anyone can understands. .
Ezekiel 33 v1-6 “..God’s Message came to me: “Son of man, speak to your people. Tell them, ‘If I bring war on this land and the people take one of their citizens and make him their watchman, and if the watchman sees war coming and blows the trumpet, warning the people, then if anyone hears the sound of the trumpet and ignores it and war he ignored it—it’s his own fault. If he had listened, he would have saved his life. ‘But if the watchman sees war coming and doesn’t blow the trumpet, warning the people, and war comes and takes anyone off, I’ll hold the watchman responsible for the bloodshed of any unwarned sinner..“
God tells us clearly we need to be walking with Him. If we do this then we will not only hear/see God’s Warnings for our lives we will be able to correct the waywardness.
V11 Joy
With the way the world is hit hard by Counties going through times. The average Joe Bloggs is struggling with the price of everything, causing them to struggle. So where are they to find joy? When being able to do all the things in their spare time they used to once be able to do!
You may not have the disposable income you had. May you will stand outside the supermarket as I did and wonder ‘how am I going to afford to eat this month’? I hear you saying this is all we and good, waffling dose not feed my family for the following month let alone pay bills and put fuel in the car to get to work.
I hear you, it was the month of my Baptism, I had to drive my parents in a round trip of 500 miles, and feed them. That month I sat in the congregation down to my last pound. I prayed to God I will give Him my last pound and prayed for His provision. Well, God is good, I had fuel and food to bring my parents to my baptism as well as for work for next 3 months. I saw my bank manager, he cleared the 185.00 I owed the bank, and he also gave me a clean slate as well. This gave me time to sort out my finances. Who says God does not bring them JOY
Pslam 132:15/16
(The Message) “ . . I’ll shower blessings on the pilgrims who come here, and give supper to those who arrive hungry; I’ll dress my priests in salvation clothes; the holy people will sing their hearts out. . “
(The King James)” . .I will abundantly bless her provision; I will satisfy her poor with bread. I will also clothe her priests with salvation, And her saints shall shout aloud for joy. . “
It dose not matter how it is said the with faith that god will meet our need’s. This small 5 letter word, will bring JOY beyond measure . .
Gen 22:14 “ . .Abraham named that place God-Yireh (God-Sees-to-It). That’s where we get the saying, “On the mountain of God, he sees to it.”
. . so do we believe in the flesh or the spirit that will bring JOY beyond measure?
Pslam 16:11 “ . . in your _ulfil_e there is fullness of JOY . .”
Isaiah 12:3 “ . . Therefore with joy you will draw water From the wells of salvation. .”
I we just are willing to step out in faith our needs will be met with His fullness and JOY. I know it may be the hardest thing is believing that once again JOY will return.
Summary
Today All these gifts from God, we call this ‘hind site’, can it be? Or, should we call this God’s multifaceted ‘Grace’. Yet we still underestimate the influence it can have, if, we just open up. Instead saying ‘woe-is-me’, say ‘how rich am I’. Yes we all go through times when we really can’t see all that we have because the devil the devil is stood right in front of our faces. It’s time not just to ‘claim’ our Divine Possessions, but to own them. The moments we open up our hearts and invite Jesus we have had all of those possessions. Some have not realised it and some have forgot. Not sure what is worse to forget or not to know? At least if you never realised you had had these wonderful gifts you might be forgiven. To have this wealth, and still decide to struggle, then that is just plain sad.
Daniel lays out so clearly our deliverance so why hesitate? In our bank you may only have a few pounds left, but, in our heavenly bank account it will always have a wealth beyond measure, it will never be ‘over-drawn’. Infact the more we tap into it the wealthier we become. These possessions are just sitting there waiting for us to tap into.
I’m almost unable to imagine what my life was like before I asked God into my life. So ask the mirror next time you see your reflection . . .
Can I live without God’s - Forgiveness
Can I live without God’s - Assurance
Can I live without God’s - Protection
Can I live without God’s - Deliverance
Can I live without God’s - Guidance
Can I live without God’s - Warning
Can I live without God’s - Joy
. . . We can have all these things, as they are God’s blessings. I leave you with this last Question ; “Which Bank account would you like to have”?
Can I live without God’s - Deliverance
Can I live without God’s - Guidance
Can I live without God’s - Warning
Can I live without God’s - Joy
. . . We can have all these things, as they are God’s blessings. I leave you with this last Question ; “Which Bank account would you like to have”?
We thank the Lord our God for His living word, that guids us, for His Forgiveness, for His Assurance, for His Protection, for His Deliverance, Warning in times of trouble, and the Joy He brings to us with His graces. Amen
