THE FOUNDATION FOR MIRACLES - God is no comparison to your earthly father. Your own father may have rejected you, but your heavenly Father accepts and loves you perfectly. The Son of God, who loves you, gave Himself for you as if you were the only person who ever lived. God does not love you for what you do. God does not love you for your service. God loves you because that is what He does; He is a God of love. When you live from the foundation of how much you are loved and accepted, and that God is your loving Father, you will find yourself loving God back with all your heart, soul, and mind. The beginnings of the foundations will be set correctly where miracles will flow because of your identity of Him in you and you in Him. - ”In this is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us.... We love Him because He first loved us.” In the late ‘90s I went to my senior pastor one day and declared to him that I was going to commence a lifetime fast until I saw breakthrough. I was really hoping that he would talk me out of it, but his only words of comfort were to be careful. So now that I had committed to this, I had to carry it through. The first day was easy and the second day I was getting hungry, but by the third day I really thought I was going to die. I came home from work one night and fell on the couch and called my wife and said, “I feel so hungry and so sick that I really feel like I could die.” My wife gave me two options: break the fast and eat, or die, but if I chose the latter option, then to do it quietly. She left the room laughing, and I had to make a decision, as I was miserable. No matter how much we do in works, I have found that it is never enough.

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The Foundation for Miracles

God does not love you for what you do. God does not love you for your service. God loves you because that is what He does; He is a God of love. 

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God is no comparison to your earthly father. Your own father may have rejected you, but your heavenly Father accepts and loves you perfectly. The Son of God, who loves you, gave Himself for you as if you were the only person who ever lived. 

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When you live from the foundation of how much you are loved and accepted, and that God is your loving Father, you will find yourself loving God back with all your heart, soul, and mind. The beginnings of the foundations will be set correctly where miracles will flow because of your identity of Him in you and you in Him.

Written By Destiny Image

 

”In this is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us.... We love Him because He first loved us” (1 John 4:10,19).

 

In the late ‘90s I went to my senior pastor one day and declared to him that I was going to commence a lifetime fast until I saw breakthrough.

I was really hoping that he would talk me out of it, but his only words of comfort were to be careful.

So now that I had committed to this, I had to carry it through.

The first day was easy and the second day I was getting hungry, but by the third day I really thought I was going to die.

I came home from work one night and fell on the couch and called my wife and said, “I feel so hungry and so sick that I really feel like I could die.”

My wife gave me two options: break the fast and eat, or die, but if I chose the latter option, then to do it quietly.

She left the room laughing, and I had to make a decision, as I was miserable.

I chose to break the fast and went to the fridge and ate an entire packet of sausages and a whole loaf of bread.

I really thought I was going to die after that; I felt so much worse.

No matter how much we do in works, I have found that it is never enough.

You read three chapters of the Bible and the enemy comes along and says, “If you had read six chapters, you would have gotten a breakthrough.”

You pray for 60 minutes and that same voice says, “Maybe you should have prayed for two hours and you might have had your breakthrough.”

You fast for 21 days, and that condemning voice of the accuser whispers in your ear, “Maybe a back-to-back, 21-day fast would have gotten you what you need.”

Often we do works-oriented things out of a place of desperation to see God move or to please Him.

We believe that the things that we do will cause God to love us more, and the supernatural will flow.

This mentality leaves us in a position of working for God’s love as opposed to working from God’s love.

I spent many years working hard for His love because of the lack of revelation on just how much He already loved me and liked me.

Many Christians may know that God loves them, but when you question them, they really have no revelation on just how much God also likes them.

Though they know in their heads that God loves them, they may also believe the lie that God just tolerates them.

God likes to hang out with us and to do the things that we like to do.

When we have the revelation of His love, grace, and goodness, then we really begin to understand that He can’t love us any more than He already does.

The apostles Peter and John are two of my favorite people in the Bible. It appears that they were wired totally differently.

Now there was leaning on Jesus’ bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved (John 13:23).

The Bible calls John in this passage “the disciple whom Jesus loved,” so we could take from that that Jesus loved John the most.

It’s interesting that this phrase only appears in the Gospel of John, of which John is the author.

So what exactly was John doing?

We know without question that Jesus loved all the disciples intensely, but I believe that John had a revelation that maybe the other disciples did not have.

John knew that he was loved. Could it be that John was the disciple who most knew how to practice enjoying the presence of Jesus and His love?

On the night of the Last Supper, Jesus made a statement that must have been hard for the disciples to take.

He told them they would all fail Him and they would all fall away from Him.

I am sure they were all shocked because without question, they all loved Jesus so much.

When Jesus said this, Peter took Jesus aside and essentially agreed with Jesus that the rest of the disciples would probably fail Him, but “not me,” he said to Jesus.

Peter said to Him, “Even if all are made to stumble, yet I will not be.”

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly, I say to you that today, even this night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times.”

But he spoke more vehemently, “If I have to die with You, I will not deny You!” And they all said likewise (Mark 14:29-31).

The setting in John 13:23 was during the Last Supper.

We see the disciples at the table with the Lord, including the two I have mentioned, Peter and John.

At the table we could say that there were two kinds of Christians represented.

One was represented by Peter, whose name means “stone” or “rock,” and if we break that down further, means “law.”

Peter represents the believers who declare their love for the Lord, just as we all do.

John’s name means “beloved,” “loved one,” or broken down further, means “grace.”

Now John leaning on the breast of Jesus is a picture of depending on the Lord’s love for him; he represents every believer who declares the Lord’s love for them.

We could say that one represents Christians under the law, and the other represents Christians under grace.

But the one who was always declaring how much he loved Jesus, before the night was out, was found denying Him three times, while the one who was dependent on the Lord’s love for him was there to minister to Jesus at the time of His greatest need.

Jesus knew that each of the disciples would fail Him.

But Peter’s dependence on his love for Jesus instead of a solid foundation of Jesus’ love for him actually caused him to fail Jesus in His time of need.

Jesus said that each of them would fail Him. John also failed Jesus that night, but because his foundation of their relationship was first on how much Jesus loved him, even when he failed Him in the garden, he was able to step over the failure to be at the feet of Jesus at the time of His need.

John was the only disciple of the twelve who was at the cross with Jesus. The others were alone, feeling bad, and probably drowning in condemnation.

While Peter was feeling unworthy and drowning in condemnation, John was at the foot of the cross because he clearly understood that his relationship with Jesus was not based on how much he loved Jesus but how much Jesus loved him.In my years of ministry, I have met many people who have asked me, “Chris, I love God so much, yet why do I fail to see the power of God displayed through my life?”

I love to look into their eyes and ask if they know how much they are loved.

Very few look me back in my eyes and tell me how much they are loved. Many look away or look down or divert the subject.

We need a greater revelation of the Father’s love toward us.

I so believe in loving God with all my heart, soul, and mind, but I can’t help but fall in love when I see just how much I am first loved.

My love is the byproduct of knowing how much I am loved.

”In this is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us.... We love Him because He first loved us” (1 John 4:10,19).

God is no comparison to your earthly father.

Your own father may have rejected you, but your heavenly Father accepts and loves you perfectly.

The Son of God, who loves you, gave Himself for you as if you were the only person who ever lived.

God does not love you for what you do. God does not love you for your service.

God loves you because that is what He does; He is a God of love.

When you live from the foundation of how much you are loved and accepted, and that God is your loving Father, you will find yourself loving God back with all your heart, soul, and mind.

The beginnings of the foundations will be set correctly where miracles will flow because of your identity of Him in you and you in Him.

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THE COVENANT OF THE LAST SUPPER - Jesus was fulfilling this part of the ritual that had been observed for centuries. All the symbolism of the Passover meal was being fully satisfied forever by Christ. Jesus was initiating a new covenant! Christians in the first century began to “break bread” or have communion on a daily basis. Communion is a way to commune with God while at the same time be in fellowship with each other. After the Passover meal that night, they sang a song. Then, they went out to the Mount of Olives, one of Jesus’ favorite places to pray. He warned them that they would all stumble that very night because of what He was about to face. The disciples were clueless as to what “raised from the dead” meant. They were still struggling with the statement regarding them being made to stumble. Peter, along with the other disciples, assured Jesus that they would never stumble or deny Him. But, Jesus knew. He said that Peter would deny Him three times before the rooster crowed by morning. Maybe the disciples are sensing that something is going awry in their estimation – maybe Jesus isn’t going to deliver them from Rome … and why does He talk about His death? Jesus was not fearful of dying, but He was associating His death with the weight and the price of mankind’s sin. He was sensing His imminent separation from the Father.

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The Covenant of the Last Supper

Communion is a way to commune with God while at the same time be in fellowship with each other

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Jesus was fulfilling this part of the ritual that had been observed for centuries. All the symbolism of the Passover meal was being fully satisfied forever by Christ. Jesus was initiating a new covenant!

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After the Passover meal that night, they sang a song. Then, they went out to the Mount of Olives, one of Jesus’ favorite places to pray. He warned them that they would all stumble that very night because of what He was about to face. The disciples were clueless as to what “raised from the dead” meant. 

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Peter, along with the other disciples, assured Jesus that they would never stumble or deny Him. But, Jesus knew. He said that Peter would deny Him three times before the rooster crowed by morning. Jesus was not fearful of dying, but He was associating His death with the weight and the price of mankind’s sin. He was sensing His imminent separation from the Father.

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He was experiencing extreme anguish and intense grief as His sweat (on a cold night) fell like drops of blood – so much so that an angel was sent to strengthen Him. When Jesus finished praying, He woke up His sleeping disciples and said that it was time to go. His betrayer was present. While He was still speaking, Judas approached Jesus and kissed Him.

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Can you imagine being betrayed with a kiss? That is just what the wiles of the devil and his evil are like. He will approach you at your weakest moment. But, Jesus was in control of the situation even though it looked like the end. He submitted Himself to the mob that came out to arrest Him; it was all a part of God’s plan to redeem mankind.

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Sometimes when it seems darkest, we
need to remember that God has everything under control. When you face a dark time, look unto Jesus. Look up! In the daytime, we can only see a few yards – or, at best, a few miles. But in the nighttime, we can see for hundreds or even thousands of miles. Just look up at the stars and remember that He knows each one by name!

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How much more does God know your name and your condition? If you are in covenant with Him, He will take care of you. Be assured that when you pray, even if you don’t know what the outcome will be, God entered the situation as soon as you prayed! That, my friend, is a promise!

EQUIPPING FOR POWER

Judy Jacobs

 

Let’s walk with Jesus in the moments leading up to the Last Supper!

In Matthew, Jesus says, “You know that after two days is the Passover, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified” (Matthew 26:2).

For the preceding months, Jesus had been announcing His impending death. Now, He gives the exact date.

We generally recognize this date on Maundy Thursday, which is the Christian holy day falling on the Thursday before Easter.

At this point, Jesus had ended His public ministry and began to spend time with His disciples in a more intimate setting.

During this time, we see the foot-washing and last supper of Jesus with His disciples, as described in the canonical gospels.

Scholars (such as Finis Dake) pinpoint the actual date of the Last Supper as being sometime after sunset on Wednesday of Holy Week.

However, before the Last Supper even happened, Judas had already gone to the chief priests and made a deal to hand over Jesus for the price of thirty pieces of silver.

Can you imagine one of your hand-picked associates betraying you?

Jesus already knew who would betray Him when He announced, “Assuredly, I say to you, one of you will betray Me.”

Then He pronounced a “woe” on Judas saying, “Woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born.”

That’s a serious indictment.

Yes, God is love; but, He also expects our love and devotion.

We all have choices to make in life. I choose to follow Jesus as Lord of my life.

Jesus and his disciples ate the Passover meal together that night.

We call it the Last Supper because it was the last time Jesus and His disciples would eat together before His death.

The original Passover meal is recorded in Exodus 12. God told the Jewish people to take a male lamb without blemish, put its blood on the doorposts and lintel of their homes.

God’s last plague against the Egyptians was the death of all firstborn males, both humans and animals.

The Lord spoke this saying, “For I will pass through the land of Egypt and will strike all the firstborn in the land … against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment … and when I see the blood, I will PASS OVER you” (Exodus 12:12-13, emphasis mine).

The Passover meal was always in an intimate setting in homes, not in public places or even the synagogue.

Jews throughout all generations celebrated this feast commemorating the original Passover event of their freedom from Egypt. The actual meal, or Seder, included:

·      A time of reading;

·      Reminiscing;

·      Telling stories;

·      Eating special and symbolic foods;

·      Drinking four ceremonial cups of wine; and

·      Singing.

The menu consisted of bitter herbs (like veggies), dipped in salt and served with horseradish, which reminded them of the afflictions in Egypt.

Originally, the meat served was roasted lamb.

They also served Matzah bread (cracker-like bread without yeast), which had a special meaning. 

The Matzah bread was broken in half–one half broken again and served, while the other half was hidden.

The cups of wine were also symbolic as “toasts” to the miracles of God.

The third cup of wine was called the cup of redemption. It was this cup that Jesus shared with His disciples after He had broken the bread with them.

The disciples had eaten this meal many times in their lifetime. But they had never heard anyone say, “Take, eat; this is My body.”

I wonder if they looked at each other in amazement.

What Jesus was indicating by this was that in just a few short hours, His body would be broken and marred by beating with many stripes.

Later, the disciples would remember Isaiah writing that “He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed” (Isaiah 53:5).

Then Jesus took the cup, gave thanks, and distributed it to the disciples saying, “Drink from it, all of you” (Matthew 26:28).

As stated above, most likely this was the third cup of the Passover meal which was the cup of redemption.

Right then and there, Jesus was fulfilling this part of the ritual that had been observed for centuries. All the symbolism of the Passover meal was being fully satisfied forever by Christ.

Jesus was initiating a new covenant!

Wow, what a night! What covenant relationship! What intimacy! A true prophetic occurrence!

Then Jesus said this, “I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father’s kingdom.”

In doing this, Jesus not only fulfilled the Jewish Seder observations, but He was also giving them hope for His return.

Christians in the first century began to “break bread” or have communion on a daily basis.

Remember, the first Christians were all Jewish until God opened the door to Gentiles (like Cornelius through Peter).

Luke recorded a beautiful picture of the church, alive and in action, saying;

“Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common, and sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as anyone had need. So, continuing daily, with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved” (Acts 2:44-47).

Communion is a way to commune with God while at the same time be in fellowship with each other.

Perry Stone calls communion “The Meal that Heals.” 

It heals our bodies, and it also allows us to join together with pure motives and a clean heart and conscience.

After the Passover meal that night, they sang a song. Then, they went out to the Mount of Olives, one of Jesus’ favorite places to pray.

He warned them that they would all stumble that very night because of what He was about to face.

Jesus quoted Zechariah, saying, “Strike the Shepherd” and the sheep would scatter.

Trying to give them hope, He then said, “But after I have been raised from the dead, I will go before you to Galilee” (Matthew 26:32).

The disciples were clueless as to what “raised from the dead” meant. 

They were still struggling with the statement regarding them being made to stumble. Peter, along with the other disciples, assured Jesus that they would never stumble or deny Him.

But, Jesus knew. He said that Peter would deny Him three times before the rooster crowed by morning.

I know we’ve all done this – making rash promises to God without the knowledge or the power to fulfill them.

Remember, the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Maybe the disciples are sensing that something is going awry in their estimation – maybe Jesus isn’t going to deliver them from Rome … and why does He talk about His death?

Matthew’s gospel changed the scene as Jesus began praying in Gethsemane. He prayed, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as Your will.”

Jesus was not fearful of dying, but He was associating His death with the weight and the price of mankind’s sin. He was sensing His imminent separation from the Father.

He was experiencing extreme anguish and intense grief as His sweat (on a cold night) fell like drops of blood–so much so that an angel was sent to strengthen Him (see Luke 22:43).

When Jesus finished praying, He woke up His sleeping disciples and said that it was time to go. His betrayer was present. While He was still speaking, Judas approached Jesus and kissed Him.

Can you imagine being betrayed with a kiss?

That is just what the wiles of the devil and his evil are like. He will approach you at your weakest moment.

But, Jesus was in control of the situation even though it looked like the end. He submitted Himself to the mob that came out to arrest Him; it was all a part of God’s plan to redeem mankind.

Sometimes when it seems darkest, we need to remember that God has everything under control.

When you face a dark time, look unto Jesus. Look up!

In the daytime, we can only see a few yards – or, at best, a few miles.

But in the nighttime, we can see for hundreds or even thousands of miles. Just look up at the stars and remember that He knows each one by name!

How much more does God know your name and your condition?

If you are in covenant with Him, He will take care of you. Be assured that when you pray, even if you don’t know what the outcome will be, God entered the situation as soon as you prayed!

That, my friend, is a promise!

My next post will be on the Crucifixion and the events leading up to it. So, keep watching! Redemption is about to come, even though all hell may break loose.

What are some situations in which you are believing for redemption to come forth?

Hi, I’m Judy Jacobs. Welcome to my blog!

I’m a worship leader, psalmist, writer, mentor, speaker, and a lover of Jesus. I’ll tell you some fun stuff about myself if you scroll down (or you can read my official bio here); but first, let me tell you how I want to serve you:

I believe you have gifts, anointing, and a calling from God, and I want to help you walk in them.

The Bible says that everybody has a gift, talent, anointing, and calling. Sometimes, however, it’s tricky trying to find out what your purpose on Earth is. But you know what can get you down the road a lot more quickly? A MENTOR!

Here on my blog, you will receive MENTORING. You’ll also receive lots of prophetic encouragement about your gifts–encouragement that will help you step into your ministry with POWER!

Also, I want to help you hear the right-now, prophetic word of the Lord!

Sometimes, I’ll share the prophetic words, prayer directives, and urgent war cries the Lord gives me for you! Other times, though, I’ll be teaching you how to hone your OWN ability to hear God. (Yes, YOU have ears to hear God too–and you can prophesy as well!)

I want to mentor you to go deeper in God.

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