In John 16:16-24, Jesus assures us although He left us and ascended back to the Father, He did not leave us helplessly alone, knowing we would face extreme problems and persecutions (verse 33), yet instead of now coming to Him, take all our problems directly to the Father in His name, and the Father will do it for us, to fill us full of His joy (Nehemiah 8:10), and I experienced it.
Earlier this morning before church began (10-31-2021 when this was written), I was walking in the back of the church praying, when suddenly excruciating pain hit my right ankle and I was helpless, but these words came out of my mouth: “Father, in the name of the Lord Jesus (Colossians 3:17), I prohibit this pain from coming into this body, so I ask You to remove it, for I cannot walk”, and immediately the pain left, and I had a time of private hallelujah worship, because God had done for me what His dear Son, Jesus, the resurrected Christ, said would happen if I asked the Father in His name. God loves us all the same, and if it worked for me, it works for you also.
In Jeremiah 1:9-12, the Lord God told Jeremiah, what I experienced this morning (10-31-2021), 9 Then the Lord put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me: “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth. 10 See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to throw down, to build and to plant. 11 Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” And I said, “I see a branch of an almond tree.” 12 Then the Lord said to me, “You have seen well, for I am ready to perform My word.”
In 1 John 5:14-15, we are assured if we ask Father God anything “in agreement with” (‘according to”) His will, we know God hears us, and when we know God hears us, we also know God gives us that for which we ask, so ask the Father in Jesus’ name, expecting to receive.
Psalm 109:30-31 reveals God provides for the poor, when we joyously praise, thank, and worship our precious LORD GOD, for then He stands at our right to save us from all who condemn or try to take our God-given provisions.
Psalm 104:27-30 assures us when one dies another is born to replace that one, for God provides for us as it is needed, and takes us when the time is right, and then the Holy Spirit sends another.
Isaiah 14:24 is an astonishing promise: “The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so it shall come to pass, and as I have purposed, so it shall stand”.
When God stood alone in His tomorrow, He only thought of the vast universe that has existed since God thought it and then spoke it into existence, and throughout eternity those thoughts and words will stand exactly as He “saw, thought, and spoke”, for God always keeps His word.
In agreement with Psalm 139:13-16 and Revelation 20:11-15, God thought every detail of every life, and wrote it in each person’s book, and God thought who would believe, obey, and serve Him, and wrote each name into the Book of Life; thus, when each of our personal books are opened alongside the Book of life, every detail will be revealed—no additions or erasures—and each person will be judged in agreement with every detail of our life God prewrote in our personal book, and only those whose names were prewritten in the Book of Life will enter into eternal life with the Father, Son, Holy Spirit, and the redeemed children of God (See Ephesians 1:3-14).
Will I see you there among the redeemed?
Jim and Tim Nabors
