PASTOR DARRYL BAKER

John 17:23
I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.

Do you think God the Father loves His Son? How much do you think God loves His Son? No one would probably question the love God has for His own Son, but many question God’s love for them. Yet Jesus reveals to us in this verse that the Father loves us the same as He loves His Son Jesus. Some would question if that were true, but if you believe the words of Jesus that is exactly what He said.

Some would say they do not feel like God loves them but that is where they make the mistake of walking by sight (feelings) and not by faith (His Word). The greatest proof God loves you is seen in the picture of Jesus on the cross, for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him would not perish but have everlasting life.

The reason it is so important for us to know and believe the love God has for us is because perfect love casts out fear (1 John 4:18). If the devil can keep you in fear your faith will not work. Settle it in your heart once and for all, God loves you with an everlasting love just as He loves Jesus. God proved His love for us through Jesus taking our sin and the punishment our sin deserved. Walk in the reality of that love and it will cast out fear.

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Luke 11:28 – But he said, “Far more blessed are those who hear the word of God and obey it!”

One thing that has and never will change, if you want to live a blessed life you need to hear what God’s Word has to say and then obey His Word. Sadly, when you talk about obedience to the Word of God today, many say that this is putting people in bondage. But Jesus nor the Word of God ever tells us that obedience brings bondage, just the opposite, it brings liberty.

James tells us that if you are a hearer of God’s Word but not a doer, you deceive yourself. But for those who hear and do God’s Word, they will be blessed in what they do. We are not earning what God has for us but learning how to live in this new life of our new nature within. For example, God’s Word teaches that you must believe you receive when you pray. If you do not learn from God’s Word how to walk by faith biblically, you could not receive from God without believing. This is God’s way for receiving.

In Isaiah 55:9 God tells us that His ways are not our ways, they are much higher. If we want to live a higher life in the blessings of God, we must learn to listen and obey. If we want to live a stress-free life, we must listen to what scripture teaches about dealing with our thought life and obey. If we want to raise blessed children, we must listen to God’s Word on how to raise them and obey. Remember, we are not earning but learning how to walk in what He has already provided for us.

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John 14:12
“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.”

Jesus said it was not Him but the Father in Him that did the works. In Acts 10:38 we are told that God anointed Jesus with the Holy Spirit and power who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil. Jesus did not do the miracles He did because He was God, for if that were true then we would not be able to do the works He did for we are not God.

Jesus most certainly is the Son of God who came in the flesh to the earth, but He did the works by the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Upon putting our faith in Jesus Christ, we can do the same works Jesus did, because it is the same Holy Spirit living in us that was with Him. He has given us a Helper to do the work. Now all we have to do is to have faith in Jesus, faith in what He has said we can do, and then allow the Holy Spirit to work through us.

He is the Head; we are the body. We are His hands and feet, and His Word spoken in this earth. Step out in faith and know that you have the same Holy Spirit in your life to do the work. As Jesus said in Matthew 10:8, freely we have received, freely give. When we use His name in faith when ministering to others, we release the same power that Jesus used to set people free, the power of the Holy Spirit.

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John 10:10
The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).

We know God is not a thief, so anything that involves stealing, killing, or destroying is not from God but from the thief himself, satan. It is interesting to note this verse in its context. If you read the previous nine verses you find out Jesus begins by teaching us that any shepherd who did not come through the gate, which Jesus tells us He is that gate, is a thief. Jesus, according to Ephesians 4:11 is the One who gives us the five-fold ministry gifts, which includes the pastor or shepherd. What Jesus is teaching us is that any pastor not gifted (ordained) by Him is a thief.

In 2 Corinthians 11:15 we find out that satan has his own ministers who appear as ministers of righteousness, but they are under his control. This is the primary way satan steals, kills, and destroys through false and deceptive teaching mixed with some truth. Throughout the New Testament we are warned of such ministers, those who speak false doctrine, and those who water down the Word of God. Jesus never gifted them to be a shepherd, or they are no longer doing what Jesus called them to do, teaching sound doctrine.

So, if you do not want to be taken advantage of and you want to experience the life God has for you, an abundant life, you need a shepherd who will teach you as Paul said, the whole counsel of God. Beware of having your ears tickled and only hearing what you want to hear but not receiving all of what scripture teaches. In knowing the Truth through the shepherd Jesus has for you, you will be set free from the destructive works of the thief, and can experience life more abundantly.

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Psalms 107:9
For He satisfies the longing soul,
And fills the hungry soul with goodness.

I was in a service years ago in my church that I was a member of at the time and I will never forget this encounter I had with the presence of God. It was during our worship service. I was lifting my hands and just loving on God with all my heart. Suddenly, I was unaware of anyone or anything else around me. God’s presence was so real, and it was an experience of love I cannot describe. This went on for several minutes and I lost track of time.

Since that encounter I have had several times as a pastor in the pulpit where God’s presence was more real to me than anything around me. Do you desire to have such encounters with God? To be so full of His presence that nothing else can compare to Him? He desires this more than we do. The lacking element is a sincere heart hunger for God. A hunger that cannot be satisfied by anything else. God longs to fill the hungry soul with goodness. What is that goodness? God Himself. Why do we seem to be lacking in a hunger for God?

It’s really simple. The primary reason someone is hungry is because they are not full. To many are filling their lives with other things, and this keeps us from having a hunger for Him. God wants to move in and through His people. He desires for us to have times of refreshing in His presence, but until we have the same desire and longing for Him, we will miss out on what He has for us. Make a change. Don’t fill up on other things. God is waiting on us to draw near to Him, and when we do, He will draw near to us!

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Luke 10:19
Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

The body of Christ should not be trampled upon by the works of darkness but should be trampling upon and triumphing over all the power of the enemy because of the authority Jesus has given to us. You have been seated with Christ, far above all the powers and works of darkness. Jesus has delegated to us the same authority He has through the use of His name. Authority means delegated power. The name of Jesus is our badge of authority that gives us the right to use God’s power.

Believers often pray and ask God to do something with the devil and his attacks on their life, but that is why they do not get results. In the New Testament, our covenant with God, we are told that we must resist the devil, and he will flee from us. It does not say to ask God to do this for you. When Christ cleansed us of our sin, He put us in right standing with God and therefore gave us the right to use His name, which is how we use this authority He has given to us over all the power of the enemy.

We must develop through knowledge of the New Testament an understanding in our hearts of the power that is in that name, and of our rightful place in Christ Jesus to use that name. Walk in the light of who you are as a child of God, and in the power that is in the name of Jesus; and as you declare that name over the powers of darkness and their destructive works, you will trample them under your feet, no longer fearful of any work of evil.

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Mark 11:23
“Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is going to happen, it will be granted him.”

In Christ Jesus you have the ability to move mountains. Jesus did not say to ask God to move the mountain, you command it to move. A mountain represents any obstacle that stands between you and that which God has promised is yours in Christ, or that which tries to stop you from carrying out His will for your life. Jesus gave an example before He spoke this to His disciples.

He had spoken to a fig tree that was producing no fruit, and He declared that no one would eat fruit from that tree again. At that moment it did not look like anything had changed. But the next day when they passed by that tree, Peter noticed that it was now dead. It had died from the roots up. When you speak to any mountain in faith using the authority we have been given through the name of Jesus, you know the work has begun from the roots up.

We have been given authority, God’s delegated power through the name of Jesus to use in this earth, and we must use that authority against whatever may stand in our way that is trying to keep us from seeing God’s will being done. When that delegated power is released in faith, know that it is working, just like the fig tree that died from the roots up. Learn to use the name of Jesus and command that mountain to move.

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2 Corinthians 5:21
For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

It is important as a believer in Christ to fully understand and have revelation in your heart of what the blood of Jesus accomplished for you if you want to be a partaker of what Jesus purchased for us. But something that is just as important and even more so is understanding what the blood of Jesus accomplished in you as well. This is an area where many fall short. Let me explain from the above verse of scripture.

Jesus was made to be sin by shedding His blood on the cross so that everyone who is born again would be made the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. That simple truth means that one who has made Jesus the Lord of their life now has right standing with God. Another word we see in scripture for this is the word justified, which means to be declared righteous. His shed blood cleansed us from the old spirit man within and made us brand new. When this happens, you are now right with God because you have become a son or daughter of God.

When you are made right with God you now have rights as a child of God. You become an heir of God and a joint heir with Jesus. As His child if you understand who you now are, you begin to realize what now belongs to you. When God looks at you, He sees this new person within who is in right standing with Him. We need to wake up to this reality and begin to see ourselves as God sees us. This will not only change how we live, but how we look at the promises of God. Every promise is now available to us because of who we have become, a child of God who is in right standing with Him.

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Mark 9:23
Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”

There is nothing impossible for those who walk in Bible faith. As 2 Corinthians 4:18 says bible faith does not consider, does not focus on, nor talk about these things in the natural, but instead focuses on the Word of God. So, faith does not look at what is seen, it does not become occupied with what you are facing, but it looks at and becomes occupied with what is not seen, the promise of God’s Word that is not yet manifested.

Faith believes in the heart not the head what God has promised to us. Once you have faith in your heart, faith then speaks in line with what one believes, and then faith acts upon the Word of God. Begin by finding scripture that gives you the promise of what you are believing for. Meditate on those verses until they become real to your inner man (your spirit man). One does this by declaring those truths to yourself continually, proclaiming them as scripture revels as already yours.

Keep declaring God’s Word until you believe it in your heart, and then when you believe it keep declaring it. Faith also acts upon the Word of God, for faith without corresponding action is dead. We must act upon what God’s Word says. Begin taking steps of faith in line with His promises. What man says is impossible, God says is possible to them that believe. Just believe!

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John 14:6
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.

Jesus in this verse gives three references about Himself. Let’s take a look at them. The first thing Jesus reveals is that He is the way. The word used here refers to a means of access. Jesus is the only means of access to the Father. It is by faith in His finished work alone that we can return to the Father, and we therefore become a new creature in Christ. In coming back to the Father we can learn about who we now are as a new creation for we have found the way to receive a new spirit man within, united with God.

He is also the Truth. This word is defined as ultimate reality. In John 1:14 Jesus is described as the Word that became flesh. In John 17:17 Jesus declared that the Word is Truth. He did not say the Word is true but Truth. When we accept what the Truth says about any given situation we face in our life, what we are facing may be true, but the Truth has the ability to change what is true in the natural. When we take the Truth of God’s Word and begin to declare them over the circumstances we face, His Truth will set us free.

Finally He is the life. This refers to the divine life we can now live, doing the very things Jesus Himself did, which is living out divine life, not just a mere biological means of existence. Jesus Himself said in John 14:12, if you believe in Him, the works He did we can do also. That is living in divine life. So, through Jesus we can come to know who we are in Christ as He has provided the way for us to be born again, we can also know what we now have in Him by learning the Truth, and we can live a completely new way of life through our faith in Him. He is the way, the Truth, and the life that has made this available to all who come to Him.

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