God is Willing... By Nina Keegan

"IT IS WRITTEN!"Jesus said...

Every Word of the Bible is God breathed.. It is alive!

I believe sometimes that we over think and over analyze the truth of God's Word, when in reality the truths in the Bible are quite simple.. 

We simply need to trust God's Word and let it be plainly applicable to our lives today. 

As I was reading in Matthew chapter 8 this morning about Jesus healing a man with leprosy, the man stated that He knew Jesus could heal him but asked Jesus if He was WILLING to heal him and make him clean. 

It occurred to me that the man undoubtedly knew that Jesus could make him whole, heal him and make him clean, he just wasn't quite sure if Jesus wanted to.... this simple act of faith touched Jesus ..so Jesus in turn touched him and healed him...

If you have read anything about leprosy in those days, it was a very awful and extremely harsh disease. To see someone with this incurable, highly contagious, disease littered with sores and scabs is heart-wrenching. Yet Jesus unfazed, and without hesitation touched him..He was not afraid to reach out and touch the man's diseased skin and heal him.

Many times in the Bible, Jesus just spoke the Word and healed the sick, but this time he deliberately touched him.

I believe this man would see such an unconditional example of pure love. When he was asking "are you willing?" I believe he was asking from such a humble heart, would Jesus be willing to touch him..to heal him the way he looked? 

With this disease ravaging his body he was seeing himself as someone that might not be worthy of being healed, that's why he questioned Jesus and His willingness..

As Christians, we all should believe that God has the power to bless us heal us and make us whole in every way; but it's our questioning of the willingness that causes us to get it wrong ...

Many of us believe that God would not be willing to do things for us because we've done too many things wrong or we have deemed ourselves unworthy of blessings, favor and healing because of our own guilt and condemnation. This is absolutely false, this is not correct thinking at all.

Jesus didn't even flinch when he touched that man. This was probably the first human touch that man had felt since he contracted the disease and yet he was healed instantly.

Sin is also an incurable disease by our own standards that can cause us to disqualify ourselves from being blessed and healed by God. But God is the same yesterday today and tomorrow. He wants to set you free and make you whole. He is the One who is able to cure you of Sin..He forgives us when we turn to Him in repentance. 

He is always willing!

We should never doubt His love for us..don't disqualify yourself because God's grace is unmerited we don't have to earn it or deserve it, it is our right that was purchased for us and paid for through Jesus' blood shed for us on the cross.

We must be careful not to become enthralled in religious habits and legalistic views in terms of thinking we need to earn healing of our minds bodies and souls. We must instead trust God in prayer seeking Him first. Prayer is laying hold of God's willingness not overcoming God's reluctance.

We should not expect God to only work in certain ways or in specified circumstances based on merit and good works. We should never want to limit God through our own mindset and lack of complete faith in His Word.

Just like the man with leprosy we must realize we cannot cure ourselves, we are unable to do such a task but we should faithfully and humbly ask for Christ's redeeming help and know that He is willing! Yes, He is always willing. 

With one touch or one command ...it can be finished!

Your faith has made you whole.... It is never about what you can do for Him, it is solely about what Jesus has already done for you... He is worthy that you receive what He died for you to have.. in Jesus name I pray!

Amen!!

God is willing, are you? 

Isaiah 1:19

If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land

Luke 5:12

While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came along who was covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell with his face to the ground and begged him, "Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean."

GET RID OF YOUR PRIDE NOW..by Nina Keegan

GET RID OF YOUR PRIDE NOW!

Pride always comes before a fall!!

This is a Biblical truth ..many great falls, defeats in battles and spiritual deterioration featured in the Bible started with the sin of pride.. 

A haughtiness that has so obviously pryed it's way through a crack in the doorway.. through a wrongful thought, an unforgiving heart.. Or a "know it all" attitude...

The very first sin recorded in the Bible with Adam and Eve was not, murder, lust, or  larceny, it was Pride...

It was pride that showed up and reached for the prize (the forbidden fruit) that would declare them to be as knowledgeable as God, the Creator of the universe in it's utter greatness and totality ..

It was the coveting and prideful nature to have what couldn't be had..the pride of claiming your equality to God himself through a single bite of a forbidden fruit... The fruit was a mere metaphor..  This was a test from God.. Obedience was called into question..

How far are you willing to fall..? What are you willing to risk..? Is it worth it?  

It was a "why not"attitude.. that consequently caused the ripened fruit to be the elusive missing link.. The apparent capsule of all knowledge..

It was a peering over the fence so to speak at a glimpse of what the proverbial neighbors had and declaring you're deserving of the same..

Deception.. Yes they were greatly deceived..

 They were given directions.. they were living in an ultimate utopia of paradise.

They wanted for nothing.. And yet...

There was a pull, an attraction , a temptation that summoned them to step into the trough of staunch disobedience..

An entry of pride was downloaded and was logged in and etched in to the very consciousness of mind ... "Just do it.. "

What happens in the place between thinking about sin and actually committing the sin..? What causes us to choose the wrong fork in the path...?

We are all sinners by nature and it is the pride of such a nature that calls us to leave our pathways of victory and wander recklessly off into the fall from paradise... The dark side .. A fall from grace... Pride ... It always comes before the fall...!

Like a child repeatedly told not to touch something... Yet like a gravitational pull of the soul...they just cannot help themselves..

Is it not true that temptation is inevitable.. ? Are we set up for failure from the start..? 

The enemy prowls around looking for the unguarded heart.. The mind that's been letting in the wrong thinking.. The soul that's been hurt, the backslider, the prideful...and he 

Plays his fully stacked deck .. He displays his hand..

His cards of enticement are set before us ..whispering of the counterfeit blessings... One delicious bite.. That's all it takes...

Through weakness we fall victim to the illusion that we ourselves are capable of doing it all on our own.. 

We rationalize, over compensate  and we blur if not completely obliterate the line in the sand..

We lose our moral compass and begin our gradual decent into the pit, our detour that is aimed in the opposite direction of the narrow gate of God's purposeful path.

We tread clumsily and without reproach far away from the protection of God and live our free will and not His...

We must stay prayed up and seek a relationship with God..

Humble ourselves and listen to his voice.. Seek Him first in all we do.. Stay obedient and be a "doer of the Word.."

 

Live out exactness of obedience.. Be trustworthy to the core of your soul..

We must follow peace.. God is NOT the author of confusion..

When you do not have peace.. When you are being tempted.. Call on The name of Jesus and let all Godly wisdom rule in your heart.. 

 Let the fear of God override the advertisement banner of false truths displayed  

so enticingly across our paths...

 CHOOSE GOD..  CHOOSE OBEDIENCE...Give God all the glory and do not credit yourself with successes .. For we are nothing without God

Live a life of deliberate obedience through praise and thanksgiving.. 

Lean on, trust in and believe God.. 

Check your pride at the door ask The Lord for deliverance and  

Be humble.. Always! 

 

1Peter 5:6

Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God that He may exalt you in due time.

 

Proverbs 16:18

Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.

I will break down your stubborn pride. Leviticus 26:19

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks and make your home on the heights, you who say to yourself, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’ Obadiah 1:3

His pride led to his downfall. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God. 2 Chronicles 26:16

In his pride the wicked does not seek him; in all his thoughts there is no room for God. Psalm 10:4

For the sins of their mouths, for the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride. Psalm 59:12

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom. Proverbs 11:2

Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is found in those who take advice. Proverbs 13:10

Why Did lucifer Fall? .. By Nina Keegan

WHY DID LUCIFER FALL?

The answer to that ... Nobody knows exactly.. Was there an altercation? Did he start a fight he could never win? I guess we could all imagine for a moment.. 

lucifer was beautiful, anointed and had the keys to the enormity of all blessings and favor of Heaven at His fingertips...

How and why did something change so audaciously in Him.. How was his heart so hardened to the things of God.. The One he had long worshipped and praised..?

A desire for self recognition, perhaps a pride and arrogance won in the battle of his mind and he decided to become his own God.. He desired praise, he longed to be worshipped..

So with that.. And I imagine quite swiftly .. He was banished from Heaven.. Hurled out of the Kingdom and Firever banished from eternal blessings.. leaving all wisdom, peace, joy, favor, and love behind.

He tumbled( imagine the feeling of free falling at lightening speed into the deep abyss) and he took with him 1/3 of the angels..( Now demons) to wreak havoc on all man kind...

There was no do-over. No let's rethink this... 

He made his choice.. DONE!

Scary to think what choices we may want to rethink.. We never know the day in which we will be called home. Judgement day..when we will give an account for all of our decisions, and for our sins.

Now because of lucifer.. (satan's) choice... We too are left with choices and pathways of good or evil ... They seem to line up presenting themselves incessantly for our choosing.

We continually need Gods wisdom to decipher His voice, his plan, his purpose for us and our destinies in Him.

 There is evil in this world.. It's everywhere .. People are hurt, suffering, in despair.. living in all types of trauma and tragedy.. The heaviness of it all can most assuredly plague us, burden us and cover us in anxiety and fear..

The warfare we must fight and contend with will ultimately serve a purpose as to who we are in Christ .. We have authority over all evil through the blood of Jesus and His finished work on the cross..

we are ultimately so much greater with He who is in us than who has been unleashed to spread evil in the World...

God!! God.... He's so much bigger.. He's so capable and His Palms are are steadfastly carrying us.. Plucking us out of harms way and setting us so lovingly back on to His glorious path..

No matter what it looks like, 

What the enemy means for harm will only cause our promotion..

He has to repay us for all he has stolen.. even for days we have spent in sorrow will we reap a multitude of days steeped in unbridled Joy!!

Declare victory.. 

Remember who had the authority to kick who out of Heaven..

God won then . God wins now!!

Receive your victory in Him!!

Isaiah 14:12-17

12 “How you are fallen from heaven,

O Lucifer,[a] son of the morning!

How you are cut down to the ground,

You who weakened the nations!

13 For you have said in your heart:

‘I will ascend into heaven,

I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;

I will also sit on the mount of the congregation

On the farthest sides of the north;

14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,

I will be like the Most High.’

15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol,

To the lowest depths of the Pit.

16 “Those who see you will gaze at you,

And consider you, saying:

‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,

Who shook kingdoms,

17 Who made the world as a wilderness

And destroyed its cities,

Who did not open the house of his prisoners?’

Step By Step.... By Nina Keegan

LET GOD TAKE YOU THERE... 

ONE STEP AT A TIME...

When God does things, He does it in a very orderly and specific way, nothing is haphazard or thought about last-minute ..our God is very organized.  A creative genius, no stone has been left unturned but each thing in its own right has been brilliantly planned out with every detail spilling into existence in the perfect order..  Deliberate Exactness !

God used order in organizing, creating and maintaining life. 

Our world and our universe were created so purposefully as each step was birthed through the authoritative Word and spoken by God so deliberately and with assured direction. ..life pulsed into existence, all at the perfect time... All in the perfect order.

There was an order in the manner in which God created the universe it was a step-by-step process. Then as we see in Exodus 13:18 it says that The children of Israel were led out of Egypt in orderly ranks ...and that most assuredly was no easy feat since there were approximately 3 million people..  but God had an order about it, The Israelites steps were ordered of the Lord and he brought them out each step of the way...

 Had they known ahead of time all the hardships and trials and stories that would unfold on their journey it would've been way too much for them to handle ...God allows us to only see things step-by-step so that we must trust him, we must fully rely on Him. Stay close to God knowing and understanding that He is in our tomorrows, He's already there..and we can face those ordered steps with him.

Doing things step-by-step and God's way through steadfast obedience brings success because it's about  a relationship with our creator and trusting that God doesn't take us to far to fast or give us things we are not yet ready for.

Many times we want

 "Insta-God" we want Him to just show up and supernaturally change our circumstances and fix all of our problems. We want instant gratification ...we don't like being uncomfortable we don't like leaving our comfort zone, we want what we want and we want it now!

But there is a method to what God is doing in our lives, there is always a definitive order about it..our steps are ordered of the Lord the Scripture says..

In order to be in complete obedience to God we must be orderly and we must accept things the way God has ordained them...

We want to go from A- straight to Z with no stops, detours or pauses in between, but there's so many lessons to be learned in the valleys that cause us to grow, stretch in our faith and to become prepared for the blessings to come... 

In Deuteronomy chapter 7 verse 22 it says the Lord your God will drive out those nations ahead of you little by little He will not clear them away all at once...

It goes on to say that if they were to clear the way to quickly it would not be good for them...

God knows what he's doing "He's God"!

Yes Moses told the Israelites that God would destroy Israel's enemy but not all at once ..God had the power to destroy those nations instantly but He chose to do it in stages "little by little"  and in the same way and with the same power God can miraculously and instantly change our lives..

However, God often chooses to help us gradually...wisely teaching us one lesson at a time. Rather than expecting instant spiritual maturity, we grow through pain, it has a purpose..   we can't expect instant solutions to all of our problems ..God wants us to look to him ...step out in faith and work out things through faith and obedience.

Many times we must wrestle with ourselves in order to get to the place of complete surrender.

We need to slow down and work things out one step at a time trusting God so that we can stay exactly on the step we were meant to be on. ..

 We must trust that God's timing is perfect and that he's taking us through each stage as we are ready to receive it and when we're ready to grow through it ..

We will someday look back at a miraculous transformation that has occurred in our lives with gratitude knowing that we would certainly never change a thing.. That the character God has built up in us has strengthened us and readied us for the future! 

We will be so much stronger, wiser and blessed as a result of having done things orderly and in God's perfect timing!

A Spirit Without Limits.. By Nina Keegan

John the Baptist spoke of Jesus saying, "For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for He gives the Spirit without limits! John 3:34).  

Do you have any idea what it means, that through salvation we are promised the gift of the Holy Spirit...and it is without limits? 

 Jesus says "I will come to you I will not abandon you as orphans, soon the world will no longer see me, but you will see me since I live..you will also live. When I am raised to life again you will know that I am in my Father and you are in Me and I am in you.."

John 14:15-21

This means we have available to us, the most important gift the world has ever known,  it's greater than all riches, we have the Holy Spirit (the very presence of God) He is within us and available to all believers..helping us live, move and have our being as God as promised and intended.

We have divine authority and a spirit without limits... we come in Jesus name and all that that represents, we can enter with boldness the throne room of God Himself and make our requests known to Him...

We have V.I.P access as a child of the King ..there's nothing He won't do for his children.. He wants us to live with expectations and to have audacious prayers for the miraculous to manifest and for us to believe in revival again for us personally and for our families, our nation, our world. and we can believe for it now..

Does this not astonish you in every way? We must realize what we have available to us... we must try to grasp the magnitude of the amazing strength and fortitude we have as children of the most high God .. We have a title.. We are Royalty, we are heirs to the throne and we are the King's Children... We will not shrink back in fear!

 God wants us to live strong and fearless on this earth as Christ's ordained army! He wants us to GO GET what is ours.. He wants us to fight for it....!

 

 By faith we can appropriate the Holy Spirit's  power every day in our lives and simultaneously we through Christ can positively affect the lives around us!

We are Christ's ambassadors on a mission from Heaven to be the very image of Jesus on this planet! 

...And since Jesus is in us through the power of the Holy Spirit, we have all the help, access, blessings, abilities, qualifications, and provision we need! 

When we call on the name of Jesus, all of the heavens armies come to our rescue to help us, defend us, and protect us! The Holy Spirit gives us a whole new way to look at life.. What could we possibly ever fear?

We need not fear anything or anyone.. we have supernatural strength, we have divine direction, we have a birthright that is blood bought, sealed and etched into the scarred palms of the Creator of the entire Universe!

We must get into agreement with God about what the ending looks like... agree with God for what His glorious and manifested presence and His salvation promises say and how they line up with our situations...

The Scripture says that those who accept God's Commandments and OBEY them are the ones who love Him..and because we love Him, Our Father in Heaven will love us back and He will reveal himself to each of us..John 14:21

Through our obedience, God will give us revelation of what we need to do and what He wants to use us for and what our purpose is in him( to bring Him Glory) 

We have such supernatural strength available to us through the Holy Spirit... satan has NO power over us! If we obey Jesus and align ourselves closely with God's purposes we are more than conquerors in every way!

Jesus Christ is the only one true way to salvation and spending eternity with our creator, it's the one way to living a truly good, blessed, favored and anointed life..

  In order to receive these blessings , we must stay so close to Him like a branch attached to the vine because apart from Christ we can do nothing!

 Our efforts will be fruitless and only temporary. We need to receive the nourishment and life offered by Christ, the vine..receive your gift of the Holy Spirit do not miss out on what He has for you! Lasting Fruit! 

God wants to bless you to be a blessing.. you are the child of the King, the Most High God ..remain in Him, be fruitful and prosperous... this brings great glory to the Father in Heaven

Who loves you deeply and infinitely! 

Have you received the Spirit of God without limit? If not, then seek the baptism with the Holy Spirit. If you are a born again child of God through faith in Jesus Christ, then this gift can be yours .

Jesus said, "If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?" (Luke11:13) 

If you are a Spirit filled believer then it's time to ask for more..a fresh outpouring and a fresh anointing on your life ...

God bless!!

Faith Starts Where Logic Fails.. By Nina Keegan

FAITH STARTS WHERE LOGIC FAILS..

FAITH DEFINED....

noun

complete trust or confidence ...

FAITH.. it is the opposite of logic ..

all the great stories in the Bible where there was great faith, logic was disproved..

 There is no room for Logic where there is a need for great Faith.. Faith that can move mountains.....it takes over where logic can no longer tread..

There was no logic that caused a little boy's  lunch of five loaves of bread and two fish to feed thousands and thousands, it was the faith that would bring the basket to be bottomless.. It was faith that let everyone eat until they were full and it was faith that collected 12 baskets of leftovers... A tangible visual of having what they ended with be more than what they started with.. 

Food unlimited.. Food multiplied... the food would not run out... It overflowed into possibility..( faith trusted Gods glorious power)...Not the logic of impossibility that there was no where near enough food in a boys basket to feed such a vast crowd.

Faith was in the obedience that  dared to believe and step out to feed the multitudes and in that simple act of saying "Yes" to what made no sense, God was able to work through them and do the miraculous..

God first needed the believer,  he needed the faith.. God needed to be "amened" He just needed that simple act of someone getting into agreement with God Almighty that He can do all things, He alone is sovereign and with Him nothing is impossible!

Through our obedience and faith in what we cannot see God will do more.. So much more..than just enough! He wants to do Exceedingly abundantly more..God will meet our needs and then give us leftovers, overflow, dry land in the middle of oceans, leveled mountains and torn down walls that are locking our victories out.. 

God can succeed where logic fails!

He will take that which seemed impossible and make it exceed our need.. Make it surpass understanding.. Believe..!! 

Get your faith out of your faith and be audacious for God.. you have not because you ask not! 

 Ask big, think huge, don't put God in a box, don't set limits on our omnipotent, omnipresent supernatural God....!

What's in your basket? 

John 6:5-13

New Living Translation (NLT)

5 Jesus soon saw a huge crowd of people coming to look for him. Turning to Philip, he asked, "Where can we buy bread to feed all these people?" 6 He was testing Philip, for he already knew what he was going to do.

7 Philip replied, "Even if we worked for months, we wouldn't have enough money to feed them!"

8 Then Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, spoke up. 9 "There's a young boy here with five barley loaves and two fish. But what good is that with this huge crowd?"

10 "Tell everyone to sit down," Jesus said. So they all sat down on the grassy slopes. (The men alone numbered about 5,000.) 11 Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks to God, and distributed them to the people. Afterward he did the same with the fish. And they all ate as much as they wanted. 12 After everyone was full, Jesus told his disciples, "Now gather the leftovers, so that nothing is wasted." 13 So they picked up the pieces and filled twelve baskets with scraps left by the people who had eaten from the five barley loaves.

We Will Not Lose A Thing..By Nina Keegan

Jesus said in John 18 :9-10

" I did not lose a single one of those you have given me."

Then the scripture goes on to say that Simon Peter drew a sword and slashed off the right ear of Malchus the high priest but Jesus said to Peter..

"Put your sword back into it's sheath  ..shall I not drink from the cup of the suffering the Father has given me?"

I love the part of the scripture where Jesus says, "I did not lose a single one of those you have given me.."

As Jesus is in the world so are we ...1John 5:14-15

So as Jesus ...we do not have to lose a single one that was given to us either..

We do not have to lose a single one of our children to the secular world , we do not have to lose loved ones to the plans of the enemy.  We do not have to lose peace, health,joy, finances..  or anything else The Lord had given us.

 

The enemy comes to steal kill and destroy...

But Jesus came that we might have abundance and have blessings favor and live life to the fullest in complete wholeness in every way.

We need to understand what we have available to us through the Word of God...

So we can claim that scripture  ( as Jesus is, so are we) along with how Jesus did not lose a single one of what was given to  Him.... Imagine this revelation..

Together this is an amazing combination of favor, of wisdom and the brilliant knowledge that we have available for us to speak over our lives and the lives of those we love...

The next thing that happens in this scripture is Peter leaping forward to (take matters into his own hands) by trying to defend Jesus.. 

How many times do we do that?

 How many times do we step out and try to do it ourselves and force the issue?

Many times that leads us straight into sin... We must get out of our own way and trust that God's plans for us are always the best plans no matter what it looks like, no matter how bleak the circumstance...

 We may have good intentions but sometimes we act so abruptly, we get into the flesh we lose our peace and our self-control and then it is "score one for the enemy..."

If Peter had had his way, Jesus would not have gone to the cross..God's plan for us of complete redemption would've been thwarted...

 I ask you, where would we all be if Peter's plan was successful..?  there would be 

 NO SALVATION 

No hopes of ever

living in eternity with God..

But Jesus took the cup ..that cup of suffering that is so hard for us to ever even fathom, the magnitude of what He went through for us is incomprehensible

It was ultimately God's plan that prevailed! 

So Father we thank you that your plan will prevail.. we thank you for the finished work your Son did on the cross and because of that,

We know what power and blessings we have available to us...

And we, being like Jesus in the world

 Will not ever lose a single one of what you have given to us because we are as Jesus is ...

We will not take matters into our own hands...

But, we will trust you with every second of our lives ..thank you Father!  we praise you..we worship you ...and we glorify your name! hallelujah! hallelujah! in Jesus name we pray

Amen!