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“Love Never Fails”

Posted by mcoxbmi on January 26, 2020
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Click Here To Download This Message – 151011 – Love Never Fails

What would you do if you had the Master Key to Life, your life and lives of others? What would you do with it? Better yet; what are you doing with it?

What is a Master Key? A Master Key will open every lock

There are several keys to Life in God’s Word. The Bible itself is a key to life. It spells out in details the keys to life and death.

Love is the Master Key of Master Keys. Love is the Master Key to all life. The Master Key to Marriage, family, all of your relationships, business, health, freedom from fear, worry, depression, and everything that can come against man.

Mark 12: 28 – 31 …The first and principal one of all commands is: … And you shall love the Lord your God out of and with your whole heart and out of and with all your soul (your life) and out of and with all your mind (with your faculty of thought and your moral understanding) and out of and with all your strength…The second is like it and is this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.

Matthew 22: 40 (Amplified Bible) These two commandments sum up and upon them depend all the Law and the Prophets.

When we love God with all our hearts, all of our souls, and all of our minds we become divinely connected with God Himself. The more we love God the more we become connected to God and experience His love for us and through us in ever increasing ways. This is God’s greatest desire.

1st Corinthians 13: 4 – 8a (Amplified Bible) Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily. (5) It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly. Love (God’s love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong]. (6) It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail. (7) Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening]. (8a) Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end].

The power flow in our lives and in the Church flows from our Love for God.

Agape Love is unlimited, Agape Love can never be overcome, Agape Love never fails, Agape Love is Eternal without ceasing, Agape Love transcends Time and Eternity, Agape Love is the most powerful force that exist in both Time and Eternity. God’s Agape Love is the reason for creation of both Time and Eternity, Heaven, Earth, and Hell and all that is or ever will be.

The only limit that God’s Love has where we are concerned is the limit that we Love God.
This is also our limit.

“We Hold the Key of Choice”

Posted by mcoxbmi on January 24, 2020
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Click Here To Download This Message – 150712 Choice – The Determining Factor

Deuteronomy 30: 19 – 20 (Amplified Bible) I call heaven and earth to witness this day against you that I have set before you, life and death, the blessings and the curses; therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live (20) And may love the Lord your God, obey His voice, and cling to Him. For He is your life and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

We are the one that decides which law is operating. One of the Master Keys to Life is our choice. We hold the key of choice.

The only weapon that Satan has is deception. Everything he does has its root in deception. In order for him to operate in your life he has to deceive you into agreeing with him. You actually give him a key or doorway in. The key that Satan uses to bind and lock you up is deception or lie. He has always operated by deception. He cannot operate any other way.

John 8:44 You are of your father the devil… for he is a lair himself and the father of lies and all that is false.

Satan is Hate itself and the father of lies

A deception does not work unless the person being deceived does not know that it is a deception.
It is not a deception if you know that you are being deceived.

If you are not in the Word and the Word is not abiding in you will not know that you are being deceived. If you do not know the Word and the Ways of The Lord you will not recognize the deception.

So what is our weapon against him? What is the Key that unlocks deception? How do we recognize a deception? – Truth

John 8: 31 – 32 (Amplified Bible) So Jesus said to those Jews who had believed in Him, If you abide in My word [hold fast to My teachings and live in accordance with them], you are truly My disciples. (32) And you will know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free.

“Overcoming Weariness”

Posted by mcoxbmi on January 6, 2020
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Click Here To Download This Message – 190804 Overcoming Weariness

One of the issues that we all face from time to time is weariness.

Weariness can be a major hindrance in our lives.

The Word of God has a lot to say about becoming weary and fainting and how to overcome and prevent it

Weariness effects our prayer life, our faith, our strength, our peace, our rest, our relationships, and even our health.

Most of us focus so much on the problems and issues of life that it causes us to stress, worry, and fear. We can then become depressed and lose heart. We are focusing on the wrong things.

What we focus and meditate on is what we will become. We have the right and power to choose and change what we focus and meditate on.

We must govern what we focus on.

Philippians 4: 6 – 7 (Amplified) Bible) Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything, but in every circumstance and in everything, by prayer and petition (definite requests), with thanksgiving, continue to make your wants known to God. (7) And God’s peace [shall be yours,

Galatians 6: 9 (Amplified Bible) And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint.

“Love The Power Source”

Posted by mcoxbmi on December 7, 2015
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Click Here To Download This Message – 151011 – Love The Power Source – The Master Key Of Master Keys

Love is THE MASTER KEY TO LIFE. LOVE IS THE MASTER KEY OF MASTER KEYS.

All of the Master Keys To Life have one root, one power source, one point of origin, LOVE.

LOVE IS The Master Key to Marriage, family, all of your relationships, business, health, freedom from fear, worry, depression, and everything that can come against man.

Love is the source and power because GOD IS LOVE and AS HE IS SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD 1st John 4: 15 -17    

If we have been Born Again we already have the Keys to Life.

1st Corinthians 13: 7 – 8a (Amplified Bible) Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening]. (8a) Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end].

Mark 12: 28 – 31 (Amplified Bible) …The first and principal one of all commands is: … And you shall love the Lord your God out of and with your whole heart and out of and with all your soul (your life) and out of and with all your mind (with your faculty of thought and your moral understanding) and out of and with all your strength…The second is like it and is this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.

Matthew 22: 40 (Amplified Bible) These two commandments sum up and upon them depend all the Law and the Prophets.

The kind of Love being detailed in Mark 12: 28 -31 is God’s kind of Love or Agape

Agape Love is unlimited,

Agape Love can never be overcome,

Agape Love never fails,

Agape Love is Eternal without ceasing,

Agape Love transcends Time and Eternity,

Agape Love is the most powerful force that exist in both Time and Eternity.

God’s Agape Love is the reason for creation of both Time and Eternity, Heaven, Earth, and Hell and all that is or ever will be.

The only limit that God’s Love has where we are concerned is the limit that we Love God.

This is also our own limit

“Focusing On God’s Word as Your Life Anchor Brings Forth Peace”

Posted by mcoxbmi on July 12, 2015
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Click Here To Download This Message – 041024 – Focusing On Gods Word As Your Life Anchor Brings Forth Peace

Ephesians 6:10 – 11 (Amplified Bible)  In conclusion, be strong in the Lord [be empowered through your union with Him]; draw your strength from Him [that strength which His boundless might provides]. (11) Put on God’s whole armor [the armor of a heavy-armed soldier which God supplies], that you may be able successfully to stand up against [all] the strategies and the deceits of the devil.

Ephesians 6:15 (Amplified Bible)   And having shod your feet in preparation [to face the enemy with the firm-footed stability, the promptness, and the readiness produced by the good news] of the Gospel of peace.

Romans 8:1 -2   (Amplified Bible)  THEREFORE, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live [and] walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. (2) For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has freed me from the law of sin and of death.

Matthew 12:36 – 37  (Amplified Bible)  But I tell you, on the day of judgment men will have to give account for every idle (inoperative, nonworking) word they speak. (37) For by your words you will be justified and acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned and sentenced.

“Being Spiritually Minded Brings Forth Kingdom Fruit”

Posted by mcoxbmi on June 6, 2015
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Click Here To Download This Message – 150125 – Being Spiritually Minded Brings Forth Kingdom Fruit

Galatians 6: 7 – 9   (Amplified Bible) Do not be deceived and deluded and misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at (scorned, disdained, or mocked by mere pretensions or professions, or by His precepts being set aside.) [He inevitably deludes himself who attempts to delude God.] For whatever a man sows, that and that only is what he will reap. (8) For he who sows to his own flesh (lower nature, sensuality) will from the flesh reap decay and ruin and destruction, but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. (9) And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint.

Doing the Do’s in the Bible or walking the Love Walk (1st Corinthians 13: 4 – 8 Amplified Bible) obeying God’s Word submitting our life to the Lordship of Jesus Christ in every area of life produces Kingdom fruit by the Law of the Spirit of Life.

By doing this as a way of life the troubles and problems in our life will position us to bear Kingdom fruit right in the midst of the biggest and most intense storms of life.  

Romans 8:1 – 2 (Amplified Bible)  THEREFORE, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live [and] walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. (2) For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has freed me from the law of sin and of death.

Doing the Do not’s in the Bible produces the Law of Sin and Death

Romans 8:5  For those who are according to the flesh and are controlled by its unholy desires set their minds on and pursue those things which gratify the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit and are controlled by the desires of the Spirit set their minds on and seek those things which gratify the [Holy] Spirit.

 

“Keys To Refreshing and Revival”

Posted by mcoxbmi on May 23, 2015
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Click Here To Download This Message – 150426 – Keys To Refreshing And Revival

Are you in need of a refreshing? Are you weary in your body, mind, and spirit?  Are you being beat up by the circumstances of life?  Do you need a change?  Do you know that God Himself has already prepared the place of rest, refreshing, and revival for us?  He has already given us the keys to enter that place. It is God’s desire for us to be in a continuous state of refreshing before and even during the storms of life that come our way.

Act 3:19  (Amplified Bible) – So repent (change your mind and purpose); turn around and return [to God], that your sins may be erased (blotted out, wiped clean), that times of refreshing (of recovering from the effects of heat, of reviving with fresh air) may come from the presence of the Lord;

Jeremiah 6:16  (Amplified Bible) – Thus says the Lord: Stand by the roads and look; and ask for the eternal paths, where the good, old way is; then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk in it!

Ephesians 6:10 (Amplified Bible) – In conclusion, be strong in the Lord [be empowered through your union with Him]; draw your strength from Him [that strength which His boundless might provides].

John 14:26 – 27 (Amplified Bible) – But the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, Standby), the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My name [in My place, to represent Me and act on My behalf], He will teach you all things. And He will cause you to recall (will remind you of, bring to your remembrance) everything I have told you. (27) Peace I leave with you; My [own] peace I now give and bequeath to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. [Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and disturbed; and do not permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and cowardly and unsettled.]

 

 

 

Tips For Bible Study

Posted by mcoxbmi on January 5, 2014
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Every Christian should have a regular daily Bible Study time.  Over the years I have observed that many Christians do not study the Bible.  They may read the Bible occasionally but never study it.  As Christians we must have a good knowledge of God’s Word in order to know who we are in Christ.  We must know our true identity and our inheritance through Christ Jesus.  We cannot be a good witness or be victorious in our Christian walk without knowledge of God’s Word.  The following are some tips that will help with your study of God’s Living Word.

1)  Pray and ask the Holy Spirit to enlighten your understanding of the Word before and after you study the Word.

2)  Make a habit of studying and thinking about the Word and how it applies in your daily life.

3)  Study the New Testament first especially the book of Romans all the way through to the book of Revelations.  These books of the Bible teach us who we are in Christ after the Cross.  Also study the 4 Gospels and Acts.   Reference the Old Testament as you study but concentrate your study on the New Testament.

4)  As you study pay close attention to the Promises and the Commandments.

5)  Pay close attention to the little words and phrases such as: If, but, put, let, I am, therefore, shall, is, in him, in us, will etc.   —- These key words and phrases represent conditions and commandments.  Overlooking will change the meaning of the verse.

6)  The Bible will confirm itself.

7)  Study the surrounding verses.

8)  Study related verses.

9)  As you read the bible take time to study and meditate on each parable, promise, or section.

10)  Apply the Word to yourself personally.

11)  Allow the Holy Spirit to make the Word a reality in your heart.

12)  Carefully ponder how the Word applies to your everyday life.

13)  Dwell on how the Word changes your situation.

14)  See yourself as God sees you.

15)  Realize the integrity of God’s Word.

16)  Filter everything through the Word, God’s character and ways.

17)  Confess what the Word says, not your problem.

18)  Pray the Word (especially the promises) not the problem.

The following are some bible study resources that may help you.

 Young’s Analytical Concordance and Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance

Vine’s Expository Dictionary of the Bible

Amplified Bible:  A paper back can be purchased for approximately $6.00 in the I-tunes store.

Bible tapes and CD’s

E-Sword for PC:  Free download at www.e-sword.net/downloads or do a search for e-sword.

It is also available for I-Phone and I-Pad.

Bible Gateway (Online resource)

Devotional – Limitless Love available at www.kcm.org This is a very excellent daily devotional.

Get into a good bible believing church where you can be taught the Word.

Get into a good faith bible believing bible study.

There are many other good resources available.  The important thing to do is to study the bible.