Level Up!

Happy Sunday!

Dr. Bill Winston continued the series, "Receiving Your Inheritance" with the subtitle, "Living Large".  This is the 29th installment in this series.  Perhaps, you are wondering why it is necessary to teach or preach on the same subject for so long!  That's understandable!  Think about it like this...any thing that is important to you or to your career you invest time and and energy into it!  Think about playing your favorite video game.  You don't stop on level one!  You work and work to reach the highest level available.  The Apostle Paul described it like this, "Now all of us, with our faces unveiled, reflect the glory of the Lord as if we are mirrors; and so we are being transformed, metamorphosed, into His same image from one radiance of glory to another, just as the Spirit of the Lord accomplishes it."(Voice).  Isn't that awesome?  From one radiance or glory to another we are meant to move through this life.  Dr. Winston said today, "Each time you overcome an obstacle or win a battle against the enemy you are rewarded with another level".  It may not seem as if anything is happening in the natural, but in the spirit you are going from glory to glory!  This is so encouraging to me, I hope it encourages you as well!  Don't let the enemy fool you!  When you refused to be offended at those mean words they spoke against you, you leveled up!  When you refused to retaliate when you were attacked, you leveled up!  When you refused to give up when it seemed all was lost, you leveled up!  Keep up the good work!

Dr. Winston watched a movie while on vacation.  He wasn't promoting the movie, but he did like a fight scene in the movie.  The star made quick work of his enemy.  It wasn't a long drawn out fight where everything in the area gets destroyed.  The star dodged a few hits from a giant, then ran toward the giant, ran up his chest and slit his throat!  That's what we have to do to our enemy!  We have suffered and waited long enough!  It's time to cut the head off of our enemy!  He was already defeated thousands of years ago, but he continues to deceive weak and sinful humans into doing his dirty work.  Jesus gave us power, authority, and his Blood to overcome Satan!  The star in this particular movie said, "If you don't fight and win against the giants, no one will ever know your name!"  We have to win this Faith fight.  1 Timothy 6:12 says, "Pursue a righteous life—a life of wonder, faith, love, steadiness, courtesy. Run hard and fast in the faith. Seize the eternal life, the life you were called to, the life you so fervently embraced in the presence of so many witnesses."(Message).  It's the fight that makes your name great!  God told Abraham that his name would be great!  We are the children of Abraham!  Galatians 3:29 says, "You belong to Christ, so you are Abraham’s descendants. You get ALL of God’s blessings because of the promise that God made to Abraham."(Easy-to-Read Version).

Dr. Winston encouraged us to get our information from God and only from God!  The Word of God is our inventory!  If you are ignorant about what legally belongs to you, you may live and die without it!  Don't be ignorant of the Word of God and stay away from negative people!  1 Corinthians 15:33 says, "But don’t fool yourselves. Don’t let yourselves be poisoned by this anti-resurrection loose talk. “Bad company ruins good manners.”(Message).

Moving to the next level!  Love and prayers, Cynthia