“Man shall not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.” Matthew 4:4
The word from God today is understanding how vulnerable you are to adversity and destruction without Christ.
All the promises of God in Christ are yes and amen!
God is irate over our despicable actions. He has created a season of pandemic, turmoil, and uncertainty. He has done this for one simple purpose. Christ wants you to see the vulnerabilities of life without Him.
God also spoke to me about those with a mistaken identity. Most people including believers identify with money, success, popularity, and the luxuries of life. Or, they find their identity in religion while dismissing the power of the Holy Spirit.
God wants you to find your identity in Him alone. You can do this by repenting from worldly living or hiding in religion and coming to Christ with an open heart. God wants all of you without compromise.
God wants to live in your thoughts, words, and actions. Worship Christ in Spirit and Truth and reject the darkness of the world and an aphrodisiac lifestyle.
Be open to the conviction of the Holy Spirit. Live in the blood of Christ.
Christ is taking away all of the security in the world so you have to make a decision to live for Him or suffocate under the judgments of God.
There is no middle ground. Come to Christ by faith living in His promises. Make Him the centerpiece of your life!
“Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.” Psalm 19:14
Take a few moments to think about your private thoughts because they reflect the character of God within you.
Take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ Jesus!
Are your thoughts mostly about money, food or drink, sex, seeking enjoyment? Or, are you serious about seeking the will of God and living under the authority of the Holy Spirit?
There is nothing wrong with enjoying the pleasures in the world. In fact, God wants you to be fulfilled and meet your every need.
You have an internal switch embedded inside you. The switch has two options either living for self or living under the authority of the Holy Spirit. The challenge is keeping the switch in the right position.
Pray your thoughts are grounded in Christ and seek His priorities for your life.
God creates a beautiful symmetry in life when you commit your works each day to Him and ask for the mind of Christ to establish your thoughts and guide your decision making.
“That I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith” Philippians 3:8-9
The only way you will come to know Christ is to walk by faith living in the promises of God. It is impossible to find God in the laws of religion. He does not live there.
The entitlements of Christ come to you by faith in My words.
I sacrificed My life to abolish all forms of religion.
Make your priority to gain the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus who died to give you an abundant life filled with His resurrected power.
We are living in a whirlwind of anxiety and despair. There is no place to hide or find security. And, it’s going to get worse. Your only hope for life is in Christ.
All the promises of God in Christ are yes and amen!
Reach out to Jesus by faith.
Make a decision to live for Him.
Pray to Him for wisdom, protection, and strength.
Seek forgiveness through the blood of Christ.
Commit your works each day to Christ and live grounded in the Holy Spirit.
This will cause you to know Christ Jesus and experience His resurrected power in your life.
I alone am God. There is no one like Me. I live so you can live.
He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid. And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?” Genesis 3:10-11
Adam knew he had violated the command of God. He heard God walking in the garden and was afraid so he hid from Him.
Most people are aware of right from wrong. If you are living for self with an aphrodisiac lifestyle you will run away from God. And, if you avoid God you can temporarily get away with your actions. There is no accountability.
God confronted Adam and asked him why he was naked. God is omniscient and knew the answer to his question before Adam responded.
Adam sinned because he chose to listen to Satan and the advice of Eve.
Adam made a decision out of his weak inner natur.
You and I have a distinct personality formed by many influences. This includes your parental upbringing, education, emotional development, genetic disposition for sin, religion, and your inherent nature to live for self.
We do not have the ability to see into the depth of our personality and make choices pleasing to God.
God sees all of your character defects. He knows you better than you know yourself.
Sin is unavoidable for a human being. The concern with God is to make you aware of your sin and help you understand what causes these behaviors and how you can avoid them.
The compassion of Christ is reflected in the words “Where sin abounds grace abounds more”. Christ died to forgive you for all your sins and He promises to heal and restore you from the wreckage of sin.
It is impossible to live a life pleasing to God unless you are open to the conviction of the Holy Spirit. He examines all of your thoughts, words, and actions looking at your motives and values.
You will find the good, acceptable, and perfect will of God by living under the authority of the Holy Spirit.
The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus will set you free from the law of sin and death. You won’t be perfect but you will be acceptable to God.
The words of Jesus:
You cannot hide your sin from Me. I see everything. The Christ follower recognizes he is sold under sin and has no hope for life without Me. Confess your sins to Me and live under the authority of the Holy Spirit. He will engrave the laws of God in your heart and you will not stumble. My ways are perfect.
“Today, if you hear his voice do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness, where your ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they saw what I did. That is why I was angry with that generation” Hebrews 3:8-10
Your origins started with Christ. He chose you before you were born. You have been predestined to live with God. This awesome work of God cannot be explained by the human mind. It is a wonder of our majestic God.
At some point of time in life, you hear the gospel and accept Christ by faith. The quality of your commitment to Christ will effect the development of the life of Christ within you.
If you abandon yourself to God without any limitations you will meet the Living Christ and live in oneness with Him filled with the Holy Spirit. He will become your best friend.
Most people lack the courage to make a commitment to lay down their life for Christ. They make a sincere but lukewarm decision for Christ.
God will probably accept you into His kingdom but you will lack the power of Christ in your life and will struggle with fear and doubt. God will never be alive in you. He will live in a storybook.
The growth curve in a believer is determined by only one factor. God judges you by the consistency of your faith in His promises. Jesus examines your thoughts, words, and actions to see if you are living by faith.
God wants you to live by His words and not by what you see with your eyes. Never judge God by the conditions in your life. Judge God by His Word. He never changes. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
If you are serious about God, He will take you on an unpredictable journey that will make little or no sense to you.
God wants your loyalty to be built on Him not on the outcomes in your life.
The moment of truth with God is determined by how you fulfill your earthly needs.
Do you reach out to God by faith for help to meet your every need?
Or, do you employ worldly tactics to achieve your needs disregarding the values of Christ?
The scriptures in Hebrews epitomize the heart of God about a believer.
The Israelites personally witnessed the powerful signs and wonders of God and were delivered out of slavery but they fell into unbelief. They complained bitterly and even worshipped false gods.
God became extremely angry with the Israelites over their lack of faith.
He punished the Israelites by taking them on a journey lasting forty years and then left them to die in the wilderness.
We test God by complaining about our circumstances and falling into unbelief. Are you believing in God during the pandemic or living in panic or depression?
Your purpose in Christ is to walk by faith praising Him for His greatness and glory. Cease from your striving and rest in the work of Christ crucified. This is where you will find hope, strength and a resourceful life.
“Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the word of God.” Romans 10:17
Why do so many people hear the truth of God and reject Christ? They hear with their ears but they have a hardened heart towards God. Or, they have selective hearing and accept only what is comfortable to their lifestyle.
Most Christians don’t have a clue to what it means to walk by faith. They are enamored with keeping laws and doing works. You will never understand God unless you live by faith and reach out to Him for your every need.
The Word of God is alive and powerful to those who have an open heart to God. It is life changing.
The simplicity of Christ is to walk by faith believing in His promises.
You have to hear and accept the Word of God by faith. There is no compromise with God. He wants your absolute devotion to Him.
The Word of God is life changing to those who walk by the Spirit and reject the laws of religion.
The Spirit of Christ convicts you of the need for God. You see the futility of living for self.
The invitation from religion to accept Christ is burdened with laws and works. It turns most people away from God.
Christ died to abolish all the laws of religion and set you free to worship Him in Spirit and Truth.
The call from Christ is to live by faith trusting in the promises of God. You abandon yourself to God without any limitations. Your purpose is to know Christ and seek out His will for your life.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” John 14:6
Most people can’t resonate to the importance of salvation because death is not near and there is always time to get right with God. And, many think God is someone who lives distant from humanity and can never be approached. Nothing can be further from the truth!
You can experience the reality of Christ today!
Salvation is a living relationship with Christ which culminates in eternal life.
Salvation is allowing God to live in every moment of your life.
Salvation is understanding God wants to be your best friend and confidant. He wants to have conversations with you and live in oneness with you.
Salvation is the desire of God to favor you with your family, your work, and relationship with others.
Salvation is drawing on the resources of Christ to enhance the quality of your life. God wants to fill you with strength, wisdom, joy, and protection. This life is yours for the asking.
Salvation is understanding God knows you better than yourself and is omniscient. It is living under the canopy of Christ.
Salvation is becoming a new creature in Christ Jesus. Your old self dies and you take on a new identity.
Salvation is seeking God out for physical or emotional healing. He brings wholeness and restoration to your life.
Salvation is escaping from the bondage of sin through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Salvation overcomes fear and doubt. You live by faith in the promises of Christ.
Salvation is accepting that God wants to bless the desires of your heart and give you an abundant life.
Salvation is living in the blood of Christ for forgiveness and restoration to God.
Salvation is understanding you will never match up to the standards of God and the righteousness of God comes to you by faith in Christ.
Salvation comes by faith and seeking first the kingdom of God above all else.
You will find the kingdom of God through prayer, nourishing yourself in the Word of God, and living by faith anchored to the Holy Spirit. There are no other caveats.
Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “An enemy will overrun your land, pull down your strongholds and plunder your fortresses.” Amos 3:11
Good Morning,
God spoke this verse to me off and on last night. This is the judgment of God coming on the Body of Christ.
We have been called by God to be a set apart people filled with the renown, praise, and glory of Christ. We have failed God and will suffer for our sins.
No one is immune from the retribution of God.
The leaders in the church will face severe consequences and many churches will crumble in the days ahead. This adversity is coming for these reasons:
We have chosen religion over Christ.
We attempt to appease God through works and faith is merely a symbol.
We have whitewashed the truths of God.
We have acted with impropriety.
We have dismissed the retribution of God.
We have rejected the importance of the Holy Spirit and have minimized the influence of the Spirit in the life of believers.
God wants you and I to repent from our sins and seek out the blood of Christ for cleansing and restoration to God.
There has to be a genuine desire in your heart to change your ways and walk with God by faith anchored to the Holy Spirit.
Hal Hollister Ministry 