Where are We now Spiritually and Where Should we be Now?

We should be allowing the Spirit of Faith to advance us further, and further into the victories against evil, and satanic spirits.  This revelation is still made available to us who are called into the Five-Fold ministry.  Each office, by title and call, still has that access into another’s office, or call to profit the whole body of Christ.  1 Thessalonians 2:1 says that it’s obvious that our coming here was no waste of time.  We have been given a lot of rough treatment over the years, as you know, but that hasn’t slowed us down or stopped us to this day.  We are sure of ourselves in God, and are going right ahead presenting God’s message to you in defiant opposition to evil and biblical error. 

God is constantly training us thoroughly to make sure we are qualified to be trusted with this message.  Be assured that when we speak to you we are not after crowd approval but God’s approval.  Since we’ve been put through the battery of instruction, you are guaranteed that both we and the message are free of opinions, mixed motive or hidden agendas.  We would never use words as a smoke screen to take advantage of you. 

As I read Ephesians 3:1 regarding the mystery of the Word of God being revealed.  I affirm and believe this to be my life’s work in helping people to understand and respond to the message.  It has come as a sheer gift to me, a real surprise, with God handling the details.  When it came to presenting the message to people who had only their denominational background in God’s way of life, I was the least qualified of any of the available Christians to pass this on to the hardcore denominations.  God saw to it that I was equipped so you can be sure that it had nothing to do with my natural abilities.  So here I am, teaching and writing about things that are way over my head, the inexhaustible riches and generosity of Christ.  When teaching, this is difficult to communicate to some who have a habit of not listening or receiving. 

To further accentuate the point about our spiritual direction, I draw you to Hebrews 6:1-6 which instructs us to leave the preschool fingerprinting exercises in Christ and to get on with the grand work of art.  It is time for many of us to grow up in Christ.  The basic foundational truths are in place.  It is time saints progress.  Once saints have seen the light and gotten a taste of Heaven in themselves, they will move to becoming a greater part of the work of the Holy Spirit.  Once they have personally experienced the sheer goodness of God’s word and the powers breaking in on us and how we can stand against them, then how can they wash their hands of it all and seek to start over?  How can they go on as if nothing happened?  This is impossible to do because they have re-crucified Jesus! 

This re-crucifying is a repudiation of Christ publicly.  The tendency to retreat and rest on foundational principles endangers us spiritually.  This  may lend itself to further reliance on the soul rather the spirit.  By making the soul, which is emotion the sign of being spiritual, then it is if one produces a counterfeit currency which is of no gain in the spirit world.  This can expose the Church to witchcraft and every evil work of the uncontrolled demonic spirits, music, gifts, sexual lusts, legal ministries and satanic preaching.   

My final thought on this subject is reflective of Revelations 22:11-14 which speaks regarding spiritual filth.  We, as believers, have a choice to be either filthy or righteous.  We have a choice to be dirty, unrighteous and soiled.  Remaining in this state of unrighteousness means no second chance to improve the life and character and we are lost in all eternity.  We are free moral agents with a choice to be righteous spiritually with God.  Since God is not responsible for all sin, then the effects of sin, rebellion, sickness, and the damnation of men rests upon our willingness to progress spiritually in Him.  The progressing Church is one in constant need of Holy Spirit transfusion.  

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Long Beach, Ca

In His service,

Pastor James P. Norman Jr.