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“Walking in the Joy of the Lord”

Posted by mcoxbmi on November 5, 2025
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Download This Message – -> 231117 Walking in the Ways of the Lord Pt. 20 – Walking in the Joy of the Lord

A person walking in the ways of the Lord is a person who is walking in the Joy of the Lord. This person exercises the Fruit of Joy in every area of their life. The Joy of the Lord is their strength.

Nehemiah 8: 10b … Do not sorrow, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.” (NKJV)

Proverbs 17: 22 A merry heart does good, like medicine, But a broken spirit dries the bones. (NKJV)

If we are truly Born-Again, joy is already present in us by the presence of the Holy Spirit. Joy is one of the Fruit of The Spirit listed in Galatians 5: 22 – 23.

Galatians 5: 22 – 23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, (23) gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. (NKJV)

(Amplified Classic) But the fruit of the [Holy] Spirit [the work which His presence within accomplishes]

Joy is a major Spiritual force.

We must choose Joy and activate it, otherwise it will remain present but in-active.

Joy, like all the Fruit of the Spirit, must be activated by our Faith and exercised regularly in order for the fruits to develop. We must always be Fruit of the Spirit minded.

When we, by Faith in the Living Word, walk the Love Walk it activates and develops the fruit of Joy and all the related fruit of the Spirit.

When we apply our faith to the promises in God’s Living Word, rejoicing in the Lord will bring us to a place of rest in our Faith.

Real Faith is at rest in the Word.

Romans 15: 13  May the God of your hope so fill you with all joy and peace in believing [through the experience of your faith] that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound and be overflowing (bubbling over) with hope. (Amp. C)

Hebrews 4: 1 – 3 Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. (2) For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. (3) For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: “SO I SWORE IN MY WRATH, ‘THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST,’ ” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. (NKJV)

We must Rejoice always in every circumstance of life.

I did not say that it would be comfortable or easy, but we can do it. The more we exercise the fruit of Joy by Rejoicing in the Lord the easier it becomes. It will become a lifestyle.

 

“Absolute Truth”

Posted by mcoxbmi on November 3, 2025
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Download This Message – -> 231110 Walking in the Ways of the Lord Pt. 19 – Absolute Truth

God’s Living Word Is Absolute Truth!

When we read, study, confess, and meditate on the Living Word we must do it believing that it is The Absolute Truth.

What does absolute mean?

Dictionary: Absolute:

1. complete; perfect 2. free from limitations, restrictions, or exceptions; unqualified.

3. having unlimited authority.4. undoubted; certain: the absolute truth.

5. not dependent on, conditioned by, or relative to anything else; independent

6. pure; unmixed.

God Himself Is Love – Absolute Love,

God Is Absolute Life,

God Is Absolute Light,

God Is Absolute Truth,

God Is Absolute Integrity,

God Is Absolutely Steadfast.

God and His Living Word are Absolute Truth! God and His Word are One.

John 1: 1 IN THE beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself. (Amp. C)

God IS Love! The Being Love. Absolute Love.

1st John 4: 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. (NKJV)

1st John 4: 16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. (NKJV)

Because God IS Love, The Being, and God and His Word are One, then God’s Word IS Love.

Because God Is Absolute Life and God and His Word are One then God’s Word Is Alive, absolute Life.

John 1: 4 – 5 In Him was Life, and the Life was the Light of men. (5) And the Light shines on in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it [put it out or absorbed it or appropriated it, and is unreceptive to it]. (Amp. C)

Hebrews 4: 12 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (NKJV)

Because God and His Living Word are One and God cannot lie God’s Living Word Is Absolute Truth.

Titus 1: 2 in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began, (NKJV)

John 17: 17  Sanctify them [purify, consecrate, separate them for Yourself, make them holy] by the Truth; Your Word is Truth. (Amp. C)

God’s Living Word Is Absolute Truth. His Word is His bond.

God’s Word is Absolute Integrity and Absolutely Steadfast.

Just as God never changes God’s Nature or His Ways do not change; neither does His Word.

Hebrews 13: 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. (NKJV)

“Walking a Holy Life, Separated unto God.”

Posted by mcoxbmi on October 25, 2025
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Download This Message – -> 231103 Walking in the Ways of the Lord Part 18 -Walking a Holy Life Separated Unto God

God IS Holy. Absolutely Holy.

Ephesians 1: 3 – 5 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, (4) just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, (5) having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, (NKJV)

Colossians 1: 21 – 22 And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled (22) in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight— (NKJV)

1st Thessalonians 3: 12 – 13  And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all, just as we do to you, (13) so that He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints. (NKJV) 

A person walking in the ways of the Lord will be a person walking a Holy Life having an established heart or being Spiritually Minded.

The person who is walking in the Ways of the Lord has a life joined to the Heart of God and is pleasing to Him. That person will be Spiritually Minded not Carnally Minded.

Walking a Holy life is walking the Love Walk.

Walking the Love Walk will develop and perfect a Holy Life

Walking a Holy Life or Holiness can only be done in a now moment as we walk the Love Walk.

The Love Walk will separate us from a sinful life.

Ephesians 4: 22 – 24 Strip yourselves of your former nature [put off and discard your old unrenewed self] which characterized your previous manner of life and becomes corrupt through lusts and desires that spring from delusion; (23) And be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind [having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude], (24) And put on the new nature (the regenerate self) created in God’s image, [Godlike] in true righteousness and holiness. (Amp. C)

God’s Living Word is Absolute Truth. As we walk the Love Walk in obedience to God’s Living Word the Truth of His Word abiding in us will Sanctify us causing us to walk a Holy life unto The Lord.

John 17: 17  Sanctify them [purify, consecrate, separate them for Yourself, make them holy] by the Truth; Your Word is Truth. (Amp. C)

 

“All of the Ways of the Lord are Love”

Posted by mcoxbmi on July 24, 2025
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Download This Message -> 230915 Walking in the Ways of the Lord Part 12 – All of the Ways of the Lord are Love

GOD IS LOVE! WHEN YOU KNOW GOD, YOU KNOW LOVE HIMSELF THE PERSON.

LOVE IS NOT ONLY AN ACTION WORD REQUIRING ACTION BUT IT IS A PERSON.

ALL GENUINE LOVE IN ACTION FLOWS FROM THE PERSON LOVE GOD HIMSELF.

1st John 4: 7 – 8 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is (springs) from God; and he who loves [his fellowmen] is begotten (born) of God and is coming [progressively] to know and understand God [to perceive and recognize and get a better and clearer knowledge of Him]. (8) He who does not love has not become acquainted with God [does not and never did know Him], for God is love. (Amp. C)

When we know God IS LOVE we know His ways. To Know His Ways is to Love Him.

All of God’s Ways are Love.

Matthew 22: 35 – 40 And one of their number, a lawyer, asked Him a question to test Him. (36) Teacher, which kind of commandment is great and important (the principal kind) in the Law? [Some commandments are light–which are heavy?] (37) And He replied to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind (intellect). (38) This is the great (most important, principal) and first commandment. (39) And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as [you do] yourself. (40) These two commandments sum up and upon them depend all the Law and the Prophets. (Amp. C)

Romans 13: 8 – 10 Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. (9) For the commandments, “YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY,” “YOU SHALL NOT MURDER,” “YOU SHALL NOT STEAL,” “YOU SHALL NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS,” “YOU SHALL NOT COVET,” and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.” (10) Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. (NKJV)

A person walking in the Ways of the Lord will be a person guided by the Holy Spirit.

This person being guided by the Holy Spirit will be a person who habitually exercises and develops the Fruit of the Spirit.

All of the Fruit of the Spirit flows from and are founded in Love.

Galatians 5: 22 – 23   But the fruit of the [Holy] Spirit [the work which His presence within accomplishes] is love, joy (gladness), peace, patience (an even temper, forbearance), kindness, goodness (benevolence), faithfulness, (23) Gentleness (meekness, humility), self-control (self-restraint, continence). Against such things there is no law [that can bring a charge].  (Amp. C)

Because of the presence of the Holy Spirit within every Born-Again person they already have the ability to walk in the Ways of the Lord present within them. Even though the Fruit of the Spirit is already present in the Born-Again person that fruit must be developed.

The Holy Spirit will always guide this person in the way of Love, The Love Walk.

1st Corinthians 13: 4 – 8a (Amplified Classic)

A person walking in the ways of the Lord:

Will Endure Long

Will Be Patient and Kind

Will not be envious or boil over with jealousy.

Will not be boastful or vain glorious.

Will not display themselves haughtily.

Will not be conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride

Will not be rude (unmannerly) and will not act unbecomingly.

Will not insist on their own rights or their own way for it is not self-seeking.

Will not be touchy or fretful or resentful.

Will not take account of the evil done to them [they pay no attention to a suffered wrong

Will not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth

prevail.

Will bear up under anything and everything that comes.

Will be ever ready to believe the best of every person.

Their hopes are fadeless under all circumstances.

They endure everything without weakening.

Their Love will never fail, never fade out, or becomes obsolete, or comes to an end.

“The Established Steadfast Heart Part 2”

Posted by mcoxbmi on June 7, 2025
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Psalm 37 is a chapter which details the way of the person who is walking in the Ways of the Lord having an established heart being Spiritually Minded vs the person who is carnally minded and not walking in the ways of the Lord.

Psalm 37: 1 – 40 FRET NOT yourself because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness (that which is not upright or in right standing with God). 

(2) For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. 

(3) Trust (lean on, rely on, and be confident) in the Lord and do good; so shall you dwell in the land and feed surely on His faithfulness, and truly you shall be fed. 

(4) Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart. 

(5) Commit your way to the Lord [roll and repose each care of your load on Him]; trust (lean on, rely on, and be confident) also in Him and He will bring it to pass. 

(6) And He will make your uprightness and right standing with God go forth as the light, and your justice and right as [the shining sun of] the noonday. 

(7) Be still and rest in the Lord; wait for Him and patiently lean yourself upon Him; fret not yourself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked devices to pass. 

(8) Cease from anger and forsake wrath; fret not yourself–it tends only to evildoing. 

(9) For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait and hope and look for the Lord [in the end] shall inherit the earth.  

(10) For yet a little while, and the evildoers will be no more; though you look with care where they used to be, they will not be found.

(11) But the meek [in the end] shall inherit the earth and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace…. (Amp. C)

“The Established Steadfast Heart”

Posted by mcoxbmi on May 21, 2025
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Download This Message -> 230825 Walking in the Ways of the Lord Part 9 – The Established Steadfast Heart

Psalm 112: 1 – 10 Praise the LORD! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, Who delights greatly in His commandments.  (Amp. Classic *fears – reveres and worships) (2) His descendants will be mighty on earth; The generation of the upright will be blessed. (3) Wealth and riches will be in his house, And his righteousness endures forever. (4) Unto the upright there arises light in the darkness; He is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous. (5) A good man deals graciously and lends; He will guide his affairs with discretion.(6) Surely he will never be shaken; The righteous will be in everlasting remembrance. (7) He will not be afraid of evil tidings; His heart is steadfast, trusting in the LORD. (8) His heart is established; He will not be afraid, Until he sees his desire upon his enemies. (9) He has dispersed abroad, He has given to the poor; His righteousness endures forever; His horn will be exalted with honor. (10) The wicked will see it and be grieved; He will gnash his teeth and melt away; The desire of the wicked shall perish. (NKJV)

Psalm 1: 1 – 5 BLESSED (HAPPY, fortunate, prosperous, and enviable) is the man who walks and lives not in the counsel of the ungodly [following their advice, their plans and purposes], nor stands [submissive and inactive] in the path where sinners walk, nor sits down [to relax and rest] where the scornful [and the mockers] gather. (2) But his delight and desire are in the law of the Lord, and on His law (the precepts, the instructions, the teachings of God) he habitually meditates (ponders and studies) by day and by night. (3) And he shall be like a tree firmly planted [and tended] by the streams of water, ready to bring forth its fruit in its season; its leaf also shall not fade or wither; and everything he does shall prosper [and come to maturity]. (4) Not so the wicked [those disobedient and living without God are not so]. But they are like the chaff [worthless, dead, without substance] which the wind drives away. (5) Therefore the wicked [those disobedient and living without God] shall not stand [justified] in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous [those who are upright and in right standing with God]. (6) For the Lord knows and is fully acquainted with the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly [those living outside God’s will] shall perish (end in ruin and come to nought). (Amp. C)

A person walking in the ways of the Lord having an established heart or who is Spiritually minded is a person who will love his enemies.

Luke 6: 27 – 36 But I say to you who are listening now to Me: [in order to heed, make it a practice to] love your enemies, treat well (do good to, act nobly toward) those who detest you and pursue you with hatred, (28) Invoke blessings upon and pray for the happiness of those who curse you, implore God’s blessing (favor) upon those who abuse you [who revile, reproach, disparage, and high-handedly misuse you]. (29) To the one who strikes you on the jaw or cheek, offer the other jaw or cheek also; and from him who takes away your outer garment, do not withhold your undergarment as well. (30) Give away to everyone who begs of you [who is in want of necessities], and of him who takes away from you your goods, do not demand or require them back again. (31) And as you would like and desire that men would do to you, do exactly so to them. (32) If you [merely] love those who love you, what quality of credit and thanks is that to you? For even the [very] sinners love their lovers (those who love them). (33) And if you are kind and good and do favors to and benefit those who are kind and good and do favors to and benefit you, what quality of credit and thanks is that to you? For even the preeminently sinful do the same. (34) And if you lend money at interest to those from whom you hope to receive, what quality of credit and thanks is that to you? Even notorious sinners lend money at interest to sinners, so as to recover as much again. (35) But love your enemies and be kind and do good [doing favors so that someone derives benefit from them] and lend, expecting and hoping for nothing in return but considering nothing as lost and despairing of no one; and then your recompense (your reward) will be great (rich, strong, intense, and abundant), and you will be sons of the Most High, for He is kind and charitable and good to the ungrateful and the selfish and wicked. (36) So be merciful (sympathetic, tender, responsive, and compassionate) even as your Father is [all these]. (Amp. C)

“Being Spiritually Minded”

Posted by mcoxbmi on May 5, 2025
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Download This Message -> 230818 Walking in the Ways of the Lord Part 8 – Being Spiritually Minded

There are only two mindsets. Everything that we do is either Carnally minded or Spiritually minded. One or the other. There is no middle ground.

A person walking in the ways of the Lord having an established heart is Spiritually minded, and God’s Word ruled. God and His Living Word is first place in this person’s life. They are not ruled by their senses, emotions, or feelings.

Romans 8: 1 – 2 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. (2) For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. (NKJV)

Romans 8: 5 – 6 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. (6) For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. (NKJV)

A person walking in the ways of the Lord having an established heart or being Spiritually Minded is a person who has put themselves in a place to know His Ways and what our ways are supposed to be.

1st John 4: 15 – 16 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. (16) And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. (17) Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. (NKJV)

A person walking in the ways of the Lord having an established heart or being Spiritually Minded has put themselves in a place where they can be led by the Holy Spirit in every area of their lives.

Psalm 25: 1 – 2a UNTO YOU, O Lord, do I bring my life.  (2a) O my God, I trust, lean on, rely on, and am confident in You… (Amp. C)

Psalm 25: 4 – 5a  Show me Your ways, O Lord; teach me Your paths. (5a)Guide me in Your truth and faithfulness and teach me,… (Amp. C)

God Himself has an eye on our path of life and He Himself will teach us how to choose.

Psalm 32: 7 – 8 You are my hiding place; You shall preserve me from trouble; You shall surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah (8) I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye. (NKJV)

Verse 7 = what David said to God.

Verse 8 = what God said in response to what David said.

 

“The Law of Love vs The Law of Selfishness Part 2”

Posted by mcoxbmi on March 11, 2023
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There are two laws govern life, the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, which is Love, and the law of sin and death, which is selfishness – the foundation of all sin.

Romans 8: 1 – 2 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. (2) For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. (NKJV)

Romans 8: 5 – 6 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. (6) For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. (NKJV)

In the way that God is Love, Satan is Fear and selfishness.

When selfishness is the foundation of your life, what you were once protected from when you walked in love, can then happen to you.

1st John 5: 18 We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him. (NKJV)

We must choose to live in the Law of Life in Christ Jesus.  If we do not choose The Law of Life in Christ Jesus, then the Law of Sin and Death is in operation.  One or the other.

Deuteronomy 30: 19 I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; (NKJV)

 

“A Renewed Mind”

Posted by mcoxbmi on April 19, 2020
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“A Renewed Mind” or “Becoming Spiritually Minded”

In order to become Spiritually minded and have a renewed mind we must be Born Again.  Once Born Again if we are to grow and develop our Spiritual man, we must become Spiritually minded. If we do not develop our Spiritual man, becoming Spiritually minded, we will still be carnally minded and walk in the flesh as the rest of the world even though we are Born Again.

Romans 12: 2 (NKJV) And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Romans 8:5 – 6 (NKJV) For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. (6) For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

We, not God, determine whether we are Spiritually minded or Carnally minded.

Deuteronomy 30: 19 (Amplified Bible Classic) 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

Our Loving Heavenly Father has already set life before us but He will not make us choose life. He paid the entire price for all mankind but He will not make us choose life. It is totally up to the individual as to what he will choose, spiritually minded and life or carnally minded and death.