A LIVING WORD YESTERDAY

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An Activation of Faith Leads To a Good Confession of Faith

October 22, 2001

These words came unto me,

Make a way for love in your heart by the issuing forth of thanksgiving. How can love abide in a heart that is not filled with thanksgiving?

Fill your heart with thanksgiving, and my love will make a permanent abode there. Not only give thanks unto me, but also be sincerely thankful in your heart. I am seeking the true worshippers in this hour. I am filling them with power to worship in spirit and in truth. Many worship in truth but are powerless to worship in the spirit. I have taught you to worship in spirit, and I have endued you with the grace to worship in spirit. This platform of worship must not be forsaken for the dead forms of worship in the earth today. I have not substituted powerless forms of praise and worship for living worship and praise. Refrain from dead works, for I am not pleased with them. I have given you life and that more abundantly. Allow life to flow in you, and then will you satisfy me, the Living God.

I am a spirit. They that worship me must worship me in spirit and in truth. You cannot please me unless you have faith. I have given to each of you the measure of faith. Faith without works is dead. Go and preach this. Go and preach that they must allow faith to live in them or they will not please me. A living faith will produce every miracle in my storehouse for you. It is the hour of miracles. These signs shall follow those who have faith. Without faith, you cannot please me. I have not given you a dead faith, but the faith that I have given is alive. Go and activate your faith with works, and behold the wonders of God.

Multitudes wait to behold my wonders. My people have held back the wonders because they have not allowed their faith to be expressed. Go and teach the people the power that is resident in the confession of faith. Many have allowed the seed of the word to be taken out of their hearts. Some have no place in their hearts for the word to take root, and temptations have come and led them away. Others have too many cares, riches, and pleasure of this life in their hearts; therefore, these thorns prevent them from bringing forth fruit unto perfection. Teach the people to be of an honest and good heart, so that they will hear the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

Everyone who has received me is given power to become the son of God even to them that believe on my name. They are born of God. To them, is given power to do truth, so that they may come to the light, and that their deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in me.

Take heed of the evil heart of unbelief, which is a step in departing from me. Examine yourselves to find out if there is an evil heart of unbelief in you. Many have become hardened through this deceitfulness of sin. They cannot hold the beginning of their confidence steadfast unto the end. This grieves me. I say, "They will not enter into my rest if they are filled with unbelief." Therefore, draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having your hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and your bodies washed with pure water. Hold fast your profession of faith without wavering. I am faithful. I promised, and I will perform. You are justified by faith in me. If you seek to be justified by me and are found a sinner, am I; therefore, the minister of sin?

God forbid. You are crucified with me, nevertheless, you live; yet not you, but Christ lives in you, and the life which you now live in the flesh you live by the faith of the Son of God who loved you and gave himself for you. Do not frustrate the grace of God, for if righteousness comes by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. Be found in Christ, not having your own righteousness, but that which is through faith of Christ, the righteousness that is of God by faith. Then you will know me and the power of Christ's resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings.

My word is nigh you. It is in your mouth and in your heart. Confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, and then you will be saved. With the heart, you believe unto righteousness, and with your mouth, you make confession unto salvation. If you shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells in you, and you are in God. Go and teach the people of the power that is in this confession, and behold the change in their lives.

6:04 AM; October 22, 2001