Living Hope Fellowship Church

CAPTIVITY CAPTIVE

Training Material

by Pastor Kevin Badgley

CAPTIVITY CAPTIVE

Preface

(Holy Ghost prayer, Jesus - the door, translation)

          Jesus wants us to walk, talk, and live in the Spirit.  He wants us to perform the works of God every day.  We are natural beings, but by the supernatural power of the Holy Ghost we are changed.

Jesus said in John 10:7, “. . . I am the door of the sheep.”  We have to turn the door knob down here by prayer, and it will open up there.  Through the door you will go in and out for the needs of the people. 

          Let the church rejoice in what she has in Christ Jesus.  The things the world and the devil have brought against us are nothing compared to the provision heaven has for miracles to overcome, deliver, heal and save. 

          Pray believing and ye shall receive!

CAPTIVITY CAPTIVE

by Pastor Kevin Badgley

          I believe I am getting a better understanding, personally, about the working out of my own salvation with fear and trembling, spoken about in Philippians 2:12.  We need to understand every scripture in the Word of God and overcome the pitfalls that stand in our way from getting on into the deep things of God.

James 5: 16 says, “. . . The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”  This is only for a righteous person, someone who is saved and believes God.  When you have the Holy Ghost this scripture takes on deeper meaning, because something in you desires to manifest the power and glory of God. 

There is an effectual working in us by the Spirit of God that desires to manifest us as the sons of God in His fullness.  Christ is in us, and there is a hope of glory.  There is a place we have to get, but our biggest problem is US, not the devil.  We rebuke the devil regularly, but sometimes we are hindered by weights that easily beset us, and even sins that hold us back that are not of the devil’s operation.  The child of God is free from the power of the devil.  However, the devil can influence, lie, and steal, and if you yield to him, you give him place, and he can operate. 

Romans 13:14 says, “But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.”

We have someone in us who does not desire to glorify the flesh.  The Holy Ghost desires to glorify Jesus.  That is his drive, and he is not the least bit interested in our personal reputation, what we think about a situation, our doubt, fear, worry, or weaknesses.  The Holy Ghost is sent to us to pray for us in our infirmities. 

Romans 8:26 says, “Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.”  Verse 27 says, “And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.”

We have a power in us greater than us, the world, and all the power of the enemy, but we must yield to that power of God more often than we yield to our own ways.  As that takes place, God will move mightily, because the Spirit will rule in our household.  Jesus wants us to walk, talk, and live in the Spirit.  He wants us to perform the works of God every day.  We are natural beings with the supernatural power of God that changes us.  It is an ongoing and ever flowing process to change and edify us. 

There is a most holy faith in us that is greater than any unbelief, fear, or worry.  Many times when we pray for someone else, we find that they have more faith in our prayer than we do ourselves.  In ourselves, our own building of God, we doubt because we know our own shortcomings and faults.  God knows our heart, because He is living in it!  He sees face to face exactly what you hold in there, and He knows what you need to let in, and what you need to let out! 

Proverbs 3:5 says, “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.”  The way we manifest that trust is by prayer.  The more we pray in the Spirit, the more we trust the Lord.  The Holy Ghost can get more done in a split second than we can if we prayed all of our lives.  Prayer is made in the understanding, but there is so much more to be done in the Spirit.

Jude 1:20 says, “But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,”  That most holy faith can actually overcome us.  In Revelation, you will find many promises to the overcomer!  Revelation 2:7 says, “. . . To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.”  Revelation 2:26 says, “And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:”

Revelation 3:21 says, “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.”  The problem is that the children of God are still carnally minded!  We are trying to overcome and to get into that place with the Lord - without His help.  We get discouraged and frustrated.  Hebrews 4:10 says, “For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.”  We need to yield over to the Spirit of the Lord, and cease from our own works, and let God do the work.  That is why God sent the Holy Ghost to dwell in you and to change you.  We are built up supernaturally. 

An overcomer is one who will not do it himself, but will let the Holy Ghost in him do it.  However, it is activated as we yield to God.  We have power to lay our lives down or to take them up again.  We have the power to pray in the spirit, and we have the power to cease from prayer.  We must pray more than ever before.  We are going in the strength of the Lord, not our own strength. 

1 John 5:4 says, “For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.”  As we pray, and let the rivers of living water flow out of us, it cleanses us, and it goes to the four corners of the world. 

Some people only get down to pray when they think nothing else is going to work.  There IS only one thing that changes things, and that is the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man (see James 5: 16 again). 

I prayed fervently as a sinner, believing God would change things.  Sinners can pray “fervently”, but it is NOT effectual.  John 9:31 says, “Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.”  The only reason a sinner can get through to God is because somebody somewhere is praying that they will get real with God.  Make sure your heart is free of sin, and that it is upright before God, without hypocrisy in your soul. 

If you are backslid, don’t use it as an excuse for staying where you are.  Ask God to forgive you of sin.  Say, Lord, have mercy on me.  Help me, God, to get in the place you have called me.  Help me get up and go again.  Head toward the things of God. 

When the church prays for the sick, the afflicted, and the bound, it does not avail much UNLESS those prayers are made by righteous people who pray fervently!

Acts 14: 22 says, “Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.”  We know we are going to fight our own flesh and the devil.  The scripture makes it very clear that WE MUST enter into the kingdom of God.  I believe that means to pray into a certain place.  I believe that is the key to getting the supernatural miracle working power of God for every believer and the church. 

We must receive the Holy Ghost baptism.  We must enter into the kingdom of God.  Why is this necessary?  The Holy Ghost within you has power beyond imagination; it is part of the Godhead (Godhead – see Romans 1:20 and Colossians 2:9). 

God has given us the Holy Ghost so we can pray out of our natural, fallen state (position).  It puts us into the supernatural state that Jesus walked in on the earth.  It is the state Peter, James, and John and others walked in also.  God wants to put us in that state.  We have a free will to get there or to stay where we are.  If we pray and believe and don’t listen to our own lusts, we will lay our lives down. 

The Bible speaks of devil possessed people.  Why do we believe in the power of the devil to manifest himself in this realm, yet we won’t believe God will work much more in the supernatural?  He is the Creator!  He made the devil and evil!  Where sin abounded, we should do more in God than we ever did in the devil.  Some devil possessed people can read sinner’s minds and perform feats of witchcraft. 

How much more should the child of God be able to do miracles and know things by the Spirit of God, according to the Word!  (See 1 Corinthians 12:1-11).  They can bind the forces of the devil, and even deliver people from devil possession (See Matthew 16:19 and Mark 16:17). 

Philippians 2:13 says, “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.”  The Lord is in us, and He wants to do things in us.  When God takes over, you won’t be thinking with you own mind.  This excites me.  Have you ever prayed for somebody and some stupid thought comes right through and interrupts you?  You don’t have control of it.  Sometimes it is a restless spirit, or an undisciplined spirit, or a rebellious spirit, or just some devil sent trash!  Sometimes it is just you, and foolishness may cross your mind. 

God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and love and a sound mind.  However, we better start relying on the mind of Christ that functions perfectly.  We praise the Lord also that He quickens the mortal body.  He delivers us and moves us so that we can operate in the Spirit of God. 

You are not going to take a carnal mind into the Spirit. You may have something come to you of the Spirit, but you aren’t going to go and stay in the Spirit with a carnal mind.  If you stood in the presence of God and one of those stupid thoughts crossed your mind, you’d be dead.  Sin can’t stand in God’s presence. 

Have you ever been talking to someone, and a thought comes out of nowhere, Why don’t you bust them in the face?  You may not even be mad at them.  It wasn’t even in your heart.  There was absolutely no reason for it.  It was from the devil!  It just crossed your mind as you were talking to them.  Why don’t you spit in their face?  Why don’t you tell them about so and so.  It is something wicked, something evil.  This can happen to anybody.  Instead of holding those thoughts, rebuke them in the name of Jesus. 

Those thoughts cannot be in operation in you if you are going to walk in the Spirit.  You are anointed of God, and if you have a dirty thought, it would be an anointed dirty thought, and God won’t have it.  You are supposed to renew your mind.  It starts in the heart, where man believes.  As man believes, he is renewed.  As you come to God in faith, you know you are going to that “place” in God.  I know I am going there.

We have to enter into the kingdom of God.  There is someone in us who is captive in this body until we overcome.  Unless we yield over to the Spirit of the Lord, we will stay where we are.  The more we pray, the more altered the fashion of our countenance will become. 

Sometimes my clothes need altering if they are going to fit me.  Jesus has an anointing and a mantle that doesn’t fit me in the natural, but if I will pray, the fashion of my countenance will be altered.  He won’t alter the mantle, but He will alter me. 

Anybody who tries to alter the mantle of God is in big trouble.  They try to change the Word of God to fit their desire and way of thinking.  God won’t change the Word to fit me.  I don’t want Him to hand me over and cut me off.  He can hand you over to what you want.  Even if it is something I don’t want, I want it if He wants it.  There is a war going on, and we are captive in this body of death.

Paul cried out in Romans 7:24, “O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?”  When you see an explanation point in the Bible, it is something!  He wanted to be delivered from that body of death.  Who could deliver him?  He said in Verse 25, “I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. . . .”  If we get IN CHRIST, we will be delivered.  That is entering into the kingdom of God.

Hebrews 12:6-7 says, “For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.  If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?”

He purges and purifies us.  John 15:1-2 says, “I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.  Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.”

If you are going good in God, He says that is not good enough.  He wants more of us; He wants ALL of us.  The Lord receives us, but He chastens us as sons and teaches us.  We can’t go into that “place” with God with the mind operating like it does, subject to failure, faults, and wicked thoughts occasionally.  He will chasten you and purge that weakness.  He will give you the full power of God working in your mind.

Psalm 118:18-20 says, “The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.”  What death?  It is the body of this death, the self life that Paul talked about in Romans 7:24.  He chastened me to where I won’t live carnally anymore. 

Romans 8:10 says, “And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.” 

When we pray and seek the Lord, we are moving out of the natural, and we are going into the Spirit.  The more we pray, the more we overcome the natural, this body of death.  He is moving us out into the supernatural.  The very first thing that goes is our words.  Philippians 3:20 says, “For our conversation is in heaven. . . .”  Our words of prayer in the Holy Ghost are heard in heaven.  As we pray we are supposed to be getting in that river of living water and going to God eventually.  This is being sanctified and translated.   First we are conformed to the image of God’s son and then transformed, and renewed, and brought into the place in Christ Jesus where God wants us to be.  In that place, all things are possible. 

David was rejoicing that God had not given him over to death.  In other words, God did not allow David to remain in the natural.  He chastened him so that he would understand that nothing he did in the natural would do any good in the Spirit.  Christians fail when they try to do supernatural acts by natural means.  It is impossible.  I have seen people try to cast out devils with just the unction of their own soul. You will beat your brains out.  You can’t win.  Satan cannot cast out Satan, and neither can flesh cast out Satan.  We have to get in the Spirit. 

When you are in Christ it is no longer you living, but Him living in you, so when you cast out the devil, it will be Christ in you casting out the devil.  Christ has never failed!  (See Galatians 2:20.)

When you kick against the pricks long enough, God will turn you over to death, and hand you over to your own devices and will.  David praised the Lord that He didn’t hand him over to death.  It didn’t mean killing him.  If we are natural in our ways, that is “death”.  We are helpless without the power of God, the Holy Ghost, in our lives.  We must yield to God and obey Him.

Psalm 118:19-20 says, “Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:  This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.”

James 5:16 says, “. . . The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”  As you pray, this is the MUCH that is beginning to avail, because of the gate in which the righteous shall enter.  There is a gate, a place.  John 8:36 says, “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.”  The truth has made us free.  We received the truth, and it converted the soul (see Psalm 19:7).  We have received freedom, but only a small portion.  God wants us to continue to build up ourselves on our most holy faith.  As that faith engulfs and overcomes us, it will transform us.  That is called working out your salvation. 

You can feel the power of God come on you just from praying.  Jeremiah 23:9 says, “Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.”

This is the beginning of a move.  Job 37:1 says, “At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of his place.”  The body started trembling, and then the heart started trembling.  When your heart is moved out of its place, there is going to be a transplant with the heart of God.  Out of that heart are issues of life that all the devils of hell cannot stop.  Out of the abundance of that heart the mouth will speak.  1 Peter 4:11 says, “If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God. . . .”

2 Timothy 2:3 says, “Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.”  Do you feel like you are being scourged?  You will go in soon, and you will enter His courts on a regular basis.  Psalm 100:4 says, “Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.”

Ephesians 3:4 says, “Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)”  Verse 7 says, “Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.”  This is the baptism of the Holy Ghost.  You see the word effectual here again.  Many have not realized the wonderful gift that God has given us in the baptism of the Holy Ghost. 

God gave this gift and made us ministers.  Psalm 100:3 says, “Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves. . . .”  He made us and He will transform us, not we ourselves.  As we yield to Him, His power transforms us, transfigures us, and places us in His kingdom. 

Ephesians 3:9 says, “And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:”  This thing was hid in God. 

1 Corinthians 2:11 says, “For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.”  Only the Spirit of God knows what is in God.  When God sent forth His spirit into us, and as we pray and yield our mind over to God, we start knowing what is in God.  I want to know what God is thinking.  As I discern and have understanding what my failures are, He can boost me up and edify me in Him, so I can do what He asks me to do! 

Then if somebody has a problem, God will heal them.  Arms and legs will grow out where there were none.  People will be healed of cancer, aids, and every other disease or problem.  God wants in you.  The hard part is going to God, because we trust in the flesh. 

Proverbs 3:5 says, “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.”  If you trust in the Lord with only part of your heart, you will be broken hearted and frustrated.

Jesus said in Luke 24:49, “And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you. . . .”  The Holy Ghost edifies Christ in us. 

Ephesians 4:7-8 says, “But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.  Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.”

Before He went to heaven He told them they were going to be sad, but He would send a comforter and then they would rejoice.  John 14:17 says, “Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.”

This body of death is captivated, but Jesus overcame it under the anointing.   In Luke 24:39 Jesus told the disciples, “. . . a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.”  Jesus is now sitting at the right hand of God the Father in heaven.  Provision was made for holy flesh to enter into the presence of God.  Paul said this mystery has been revealed.  Paul did it, and there will be others.  It could be you, if you will believe God. 

When he ascended, He also gave gifts unto men.  Ephesians 4:13 says, “Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:”

I told God for years that I don’t know very much with what little bit I have studied.  Isaiah 40:28 tells us that, “. . . there is no searching of his understanding.”  However, if God gives it to you, you will know it immediately.  The Lord told me that I know how to pray in tongues, and that He can fill my mind with knowledge.  If He can fill you with a language to speak, He can fill up your mind. 

Jonah 1:6 says, “. . . What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God. . . .”  The men in the ship said this to Jonah when he was fleeing from the presence of the Lord.

There is a spirit of slumber on people, but God wants us to arise and get in that “place”.  He led captivity captive and gave gifts to men so that we can lead this captivity captive.  We’ve got the body, this old self nature setting here, and we are trying to make the thing do right according to the Word of God.  We can’t do it by ourselves.  God has given us power so that we can bind up that old man and command him to do what God would have us to do - AS we yield to the Spirit and AS we pray.  Your old nature is not going to change until you yield over yourself more and more to the new man by prayer.  (See Ephesians 4:22-24.)

Jesus continued sometimes all night in prayer to God the Father.  He ministered all the next day from the break of dawn till late into the night.  Finally, the disciples were so exhausted that He told them to get into a boat, and get out on the water, and He would meet them later.  That prayer all night to God anointed Him with great power as a man filled with the Holy Ghost to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.  He cast out devils, and He walked on the water.  He commanded the storm to be still.  All of this was after one night of prayer. 

What can we expect?  I believe God for this.  If you believe God for it, YOU can have it.  Matthew 21:22 says, “And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.”  

Jesus led captivity captive, and He gave us gifts to help US lead this bondage and body of death captive.  This body is supposed to be captive to our will, but right now it is not.  It drags us around.  God tells us to fast, and we start moaning ooohhhhhhh!  Sometimes our belly is a bigger god to us than God Almighty is!  That is being captive to your belly!  Some days our eyes are captive.  That is a NICE car.  Maybe I will go ahead and see how much it costs.  I wonder how much the payments are?   Your flesh just leads you around.  Our money leads us. 

We don’t realize how crazy we are when we get down and pray.  “Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.”  We won’t receive from God if it is not according to His will.  A lot of times I pray for somebody to be healed, but they are not healed because God does not want them healed until they do something they are supposed to do.  They know to do it, but they have not yielded over to the Lord enough to hear that themselves. 

2 Peter 3:9 says, “The Lord is . . . not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”  If you pray ahead of time, and get in that “place” with God, He will tell you the reason somebody is sick and why they are not healed.   There won’t be any more just hoping God heals somebody.  In the day you are fully yielded to God, it will be impossible for failure in ministry. 

You will operate in the fullness of life.  Think about the JOY.  The devil won’t be able to bring anything big enough to stop what God has got.  Bring it to the Lord, and He will perform miracles on dead bodies, arms and legs gone, no eyes, no ears, blobs of individuals, deformities.  Matthew 19:26 says, “. . . With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.”

Jesus never got upset or worried when He was ministering.  He had already done His praying beforehand.  He didn’t beg God to help Him.  Wouldn’t it be wonderful to live in that kind of confidence toward God.  1 John 3:22 says, “And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.” 

When you pray, it is going to happen!  Think about it; the whole attitude changes.  That is the way God looks at things. 

Pray fervently and effectively.  God has an open place for us – “This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.”  They enter unto the Lord.  We are supposed to pray without ceasing (1 Thessalonians 5:17).  Colossians 4:2-3 says, “Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ. . . .”  We talked earlier in Ephesians about the mystery of Christ. 

Verse 4 says, “That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.”  He wants a door of utterance open so he can speak and make manifest the gospel and the door of utterance to others.  As you pray in the Spirit, a door of utterance will begin to take off and go on into the things of God. 

1 Corinthians 16:9 says, “For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.”  A door opens, and it closes.  Jesus said He stands at the door and knocks.  As you pray, it begins to open that door. 

What does it take for the fervent prayer of a righteous man to be effectual?  It takes the anointed faith that Christ gives.  There is a faith that will overshadow your doubt and literally consume you.  Your death and unbelief will be completely swallowed up in that victory.  It is already in us, but it must overcome us. 

1 John 5:4 says, “For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.”

Revelation 21:7 says, “He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.”

The great door and effectual was opened.  There was a door of utterance in Colossians.  In Acts it talks about the door of faith.

Acts 14:27 says, “And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.”

There is a door of utterance, a great door and effectual, and now it is called the door of faith.  God has to open this door.  He is waiting to see if we are going to be faithful in the least, so He can make us ruler over many things.  (See Matthew 25:23.) 

Man can’t move it, angels can’t find it, and devils don’t have a part in it.  The child of God, by the power of God, can attain to it.  The door of utterance, a great door and effectual, and the door of faith – something happens in the Spirit.

Jesus said in John 10:9, “I am the door. . . .”  Wait a minute.  Look at Verse 7.  “. . . I am the door of the sheep.”  He didn’t say to the sheep.  The door is IN the sheep, the door of faith, the most holy faith (see Jude 1:20 – praying in the Holy Ghost.)  We have to turn the door knob down here, and it will open up there.

By faith Enoch was translated.  Jesus is the door of the sheep; He is not the door of the sinner.  Look at Verse 9 again.  “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.”  If any man will enter into the Spirit, the mind and body will be literally all of the Lord God.  There will be no sin.  You will be perfect and in unity with Him in Spirit and knowledge of the Son of God (see Ephesians 4:13). 

Do you see how much below this the church is?   Do you see how quickly we can get there if we would?  A door of utterance has been given to us.  Jesus said He is the DOOR.  Jesus is the Word.  Romans 10:17 says, “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” 

He is the author and finisher of our faith (see Hebrews 12:2).  He is the door, and He is the door of faith.  If we pray, we build up ourselves on our most holy faith.  That is the door of utterance.  In other words, you turn the knob by prayer that opens the door up there.  He said by Him we can enter in, being saved and fully sanctified and go in and out of the Spirit at will and find pasture!  Enoch did this, and he did not have the Holy Ghost baptism.

What happened in Revelation 3:12, happened to Enoch, “Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out. . . .” 

Through the door you will go in and out for the needs of the people.  One day Enoch went and stayed, because God TOOK him.  Hebrews 11:5 says, “By faith Enoch was translated . . . for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.” 

In Matthew 3:17 God spoke from heaven about Jesus and said, “. . . This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”  If we get IN Jesus, God will be pleased with us.  This is where God wants every believer to be.  We get there by faith; we are changed and translated by faith. 

You may not know if you can believe for all of that, but there is someone in you who believes more than you do.  Allow him (the Holy Ghost) to speak the words to make that faith come into effect.

          Folks, see how desperately we need to pray!  Look at the glory and the power God has given to every believer.  Let the church rejoice in what she has in Christ Jesus.  The things the world and the devil have brought against us are nothing compared to the provision heaven has for miracles to overcome, deliver, heal and save.  Pray believing and ye shall receive!

CONTACT INFORMATION:

PASTOR KEVIN BADGLEY

LIVING HOPE FELLOWSHIP, P. O. BOX 111, GRAND CHAIN, IL  62941

CHURCH / FAX (618) 634-2541

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These condensed Bible studies have been published to help new Christians in their new walk with the Lord.  Kevin Badgley, the author, is the pastor of Living Hope Fellowship Church.

This is a Living Hope Fellowship publication.