"Salvation Creates Joyful Identity"

(Core Value from Bethel.com) "Jesus has won the absolute victory! We are forgiven and freed from the enemy's power of sin, sickness, lies, and torment. Now we live in the power of righteousness, healing, truth, and joy! ‍Romans 8:1-4; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Romans 6:4; Galatians 2:

Daily Worship, Spirit and Word

SJF - Daily Worship, Spirit and Word - Apr. 12, 2024

We encounter God on three levels -  Spirit, Soul and Body. To encounter God in Spirit, we must engage our hearts in faith. To encounter God in our Soul, we must engage our minds, wills and emotions. We yield our thinking. God’s thoughts and words get highest priority. We

Daily Worship, Spirit and Word

SJF - Daily Worship, Spirit and Word - Apr. 11, 2024

When does someone have experiential knowledge of an idea? When does a concept become real to an individual? There are two kinds of tests. The first checks for memorization of the principles. The second requires the application of the principles in real life. One of the largest complaints about Algebra

Daily Worship, Spirit and Word

SJF - Daily Worship, Spirit and Word - Apr. 10, 2024

Love is amazing. Unselfish love. Unconditional love. Unchanging love. Unfailing love. Love is the key to God’s heart. We are made in His image, so love is the key to our hearts. Christ Jesus changed everything. He made knowing God all about love. “And now abide faith, hope, love,

Daily Worship, Spirit and Word

Apr. 8-9, 2024 SJF - Daily Worship, Spirit and Word

Does God fight our battles for us? Does God fight our battles with us? Has God already fought our battles on our behalf? I believe The Bible makes it clear that Christ Jesus has already fought the ultimate battle and won and that His victory is our victory. Colossians 2:

Daily Worship, Spirit and Word

SJF - Daily Worship, Spirit and Word - Apr. 3, 2024

In order to fight spiritual battles, we must do what we need to do in order to hear God rightly. What do you need to do to hear God rightly? It really depends on your relationship with God. That being said, we must give our attention to hearing God. Does

Daily Worship, Spirit and Word

SJF - Daily Worship, Spirit and Word - Apr. 2, 2024

Practice makes permanent. Perfect practice makes perfect permanent. I believe we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. I believe The LORD is our strength. I believe we are strengthened with all might by His spirit which dwells in us. I believe that God gave us His Holy

Daily Worship, Spirit and Word

SJF - Daily Worship, Spirit and Word - Apr. 1, 2024

It has been said that, “Practice Makes Perfect”. However, only perfect practice makes perfect. Practice merely makes permanent. The thing that you do repeatedly becomes permanent. If you wish to remove something that has become permanent, you must purposely practice something different in its place. Something permanent has to be

Daily Worship, Spirit and Word

SJF - Daily Worship, Spirit and Word - Mar. 29, 2024

Christ Jesus foretold of his capture, scourging, and crucifixion. He also foretold of his own resurrection on the third day. “Now Jesus, going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples aside on the road and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man

Daily Worship, Spirit and Word

SJF - Daily Worship, Spirit and Word - Mar. 28, 2024

“These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”” (John 16:33, NKJV) Christ is our peace. Christ is our comfort and joy. Christ is our victory. “To

Daily Worship, Spirit and Word

SJF - Daily Worship, Spirit and Word - Mar. 27, 2024

Do we remember that wages of living outside of faith is death? Whatever is not of faith is sin. The wages of sin is death. So the reward for living by faith is life and life more abundantly. Without faith, it is impossible to please God. Whoever comes to God

Daily Worship, Spirit and Word

SJF - Daily Worship, Spirit and Word - Mar. 26, 2024

POV - My old nature was crucified with Christ. My new nature has been given to me by God. I am a partaker of His divine nature. “For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His

Daily Worship, Spirit and Word

SJF - Daily Worship, Spirit and Word - Mar. 25, 2024

Shall we continue in unbelief? Shall we continue to live our lives without freely receiving and freely giving the love of God? Shall we continue to follow after the death producing works of the flesh just because God has shown us grace through Christ Jesus? Of course not. “What shall

Daily Worship, Spirit and Word

SJF - Daily Worship, Spirit and Word - Mar. 21, 2024

New and Better Covenant - New Law of Love - Better Promises The Sacrifice and Blood of Christ Jesus gives us The New and Better Covenant. Christ Jesus, The New Covenant Lawgiver, gave us The Law of The New Covenant, “Love One Another as I have loved you.” All of

Daily Worship, Spirit and Word

SJF - Daily Worship, Spirit and Word - Mar. 20, 2024

Jesus said, “If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you will ask what you will and it shall be done.” Words are important. Words have the power to curse or to bless. “The power of life and death is in the tongue, those who love it

Daily Worship, Spirit and Word

SJF - Daily Worship, Spirit and Word - Mar. 19, 2024

When God loosed the consequences of man’s actions on humanity and on the earth, He gave an expiration date to the “curse” of sin. God declared that while the serpent would only bruise the heel of humans, a human would crush the serpent’s head. When God speaks a

SJF - Daily Worship, Spirit and Word - Mar. 18, 2024

Let’s talk about words - adopting the language of faith, hope and love. How many times was the phrase, “And God said”, used in the first chapter of The Bible? Ten times. Everything we believe as Christians finds its roots in, “And God said.” When God wanted light, He

Daily Worship, Spirit and Word

SJF - Daily Worship, Spirit and Word - Mar. 14, 2024

If all of the promises of God are in Christ Jesus, Yes and Amen, what must we do to inherit them? Why must we do anything to inherit them? Why don’t they just happen? I mean, they are GOD’s PROMISES. He is THE ONE who promised to watch

Daily Worship, Spirit and Word

SJF - Daily Worship, Spirit and Word - Mar. 14, 2024

What does faith look like? Jesus told a parable in Luke 18, “that men always ought to pray and not lose heart.” “There was in a certain city a judge who did not fear God nor regard man. Now there was a widow in that city; and she came to

SJF - Daily Worship, Spirit and Word - Mar. 13, 2024

One of the surest signs of faith is obedience. Christians believe that Jesus is Christ and God. Christians believe that The Bible was given to us by God’s Spirit speaking through people. Christians believe that Christ Jesus made for us a new and better covenant with God that is

Daily Worship, Spirit and Word

SJF - Daily Worship, Spirit and Word - Mar. 12, 2024

By faith, we enter into the completed work of Christ. By faith, we enter into the resting position that Christ has made for us. By faith, we enter into the righteous works of Christ which He empowers us to do through His Spirit and through yoking Himself to us. What

Daily Worship, Spirit and Word

SJF - Daily Worship, Spirit and Word - Mar. 11, 2024

One essential work of faith is to labor to enter into the rest that God has prepared for us in Christ Jesus. “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I

Daily Worship, Spirit and Word

SJF - Daily Worship, Spirit and Word - Mar. 8, 2024

Possessing Your Inheritance through Faith in God’s Promises. As we discussed yesterday, your God-ordained inheritance begins with receiving the righteousness of God which is given to us because we believe in Christ Jesus. The gift of righteousness allows us to stand without shame or condemnation in God’s presence

Daily Worship, Spirit and Word

SJF - Daily Worship, Spirit and Word - Mar. 7, 2024

Merely acknowledging the promises of God is not the same as possessing them. The promises of God are your inheritance, just as God promised the children of Israel the land of Canaan for their inheritance. Their inheritance was inhabited by those whom God had disinherited. Possessing the land meant dispossessing

Daily Worship, Spirit and Word

SJF - Daily Worship, Spirit and Word - Mar. 6, 2024

God has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness and it all starts when you respond with faith. “as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by