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Wall To Wall Holy Ghost

The inner man is one. Not three. Not a spirit penthouse, a soul apartment, and a body garage with three different landlords. Andrew Wommack has helped a lot of people, and I like him on some things about faith, healing, and miracles, and “you already in God.” However, he also teaches as a core doctrine that our identity in Christ is the three-part man. Part of why that teaching works is obvious. It tells sin-conscious Christians to stop staring at their failures the way the law trained Israel to. Hebrews 10 says the old sacrifices were repeated year after year and never cleaned the worshiper. If they could have, the guilt-feelings would have vanished. They did not. Those sacrifices actually reminded them of their sins. The New Contract does the opposite. God says He will never again remember their sins and lawless deeds. When sins have been forgiven, there is no more sacrifice. East from west. You cannot see them because they are gone. You already have the mind of Christ. You are already a new creation, already seated, already given every spiritual blessing, already a saint. Sin-consciousness after that is unbelief wearing a church name tag.

So yes, telling a beaten-down believer that one-third of you, the spirit part (not soul or mind), which is the real new you, is wall-to-wall Holy Ghost can yank them out of that old reminder-system. The problem is the slice. Wommack takes “spirit and soul and body” and turns completeness language into a spare-parts diagram. Spirit got saved. Soul is the mental-emotional leftover still waiting. Body is the old tent. One part of you is wall-to-wall Holy Ghost. Two-thirds still in the fryer. Andrew is correct in his reminders not to limit God. Unfortunately, this teaching is doing just that. One-third is too small for what God did.

The Bible says a man understood with his heart and felt with his mind. He considers with his heart. He reasons in his spirit. Either Scripture is contradicting itself, which it cannot do, or heart, mind, soul, and spirit name one inner man with more than one job. Jesus used the law of contradiction on the Pharisees about David’s Lord. Hebrews already told you there is not even a tiny whiff of contradiction allowed. If you treat interchangeable words as three separate inner persons, you manufacture one.

Vincent Cheung does a good analogy with the stomach. A stomach secretes acid and a stomach moves. Still one stomach. Digestion is not a second organ hiding behind the first. Love the Lord with all your heart and soul and mind and strength is completeness talk, the way you tell a child to clean the whole room. It is not an autopsy report that your soul lives in the closet and your mind lives in the attic. The Bible is not running a Kentucky Fried franchise on your inner man. It is not three extra-crispy pieces sitting in separate boxes.

First Thessalonians 5:23 is the verse they wave like a franchise license. “May your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless.” Whole. Complete. The same completeness grammar Jesus used when He said love the Lord with heart, soul, mind, and strength. Paul is not inventorying spare parts. He is praying the whole package arrives blameless, not that two rooms stay condemned while the spirit suite gets housekeeping. If that verse carves you into three landlords, Mark 12 carves you into four, and now you need a fifth apartment for the will. Scripture is not running a franchise. It is telling the whole man to show up. Hebrews 4:12 does not rescue the diagram. The Word divides soul and spirit the way a sword divides joints and marrow. Joints and marrow are not two animals. They are one body opened so nothing hides. The Word pierces. It does not install drywall and hand out three birth certificates.

The one who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. Not one-third of you subletting a closet while the rest pays rent to the old man. The union is the inner man. The mind of Christ is not a guest room with a do-not-disturb sign on the soul. Peter’s incorruptible seed is the whole book rebound, not a pamphlet stapled into one chapter while two chapters sit on the counter and spoil. Romans 8:11 is the punch the diagram dodges. The Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, and He will give life to your mortal body. Not “give life to the spirit room and leave the body on the curb until the rapture.” The same Spirit holding the rebuilt propositions is already leaning on the tent. That is why healing is not a future coupon you redeem if the leftover two-thirds behave. The inner man is wall-to-wall, so the overflow hits the nerves.

Wommack’s diagram is a car with the engine saved and the transmission still in the flood. God did not buy a third of a vehicle and leave the tires in Adam. A partial renovation is zombie theology with better lighting. The corpse gets a room in the house and a name tag that says “soul, still processing.” God’s thoughts create. He considered the old man dead and the new man His righteousness, and that consideration is the ontology. He does not do partial ontology. The Holy Ghost does not babysit leftovers.

Start with God. He is Spirit. He is intellectual. Those are not two floors of the Godhead. God is not material. He is an invisible Spirit. This invisible Spirit is a system of propositions, not material stuff or up-and-down emotions. God does not have mutable emotions like a man with nerves and blood sugar. If He did, He would change. Emotions hitch more to the body, to the outer tent. The inner man images God as a system of propositions, spiritual and intellectual as the same reality. That is the soul. That is what the invisible inner man is. That is you.

Man sinned and the fall shredded the book. Subjects got taped to the wrong predicates. Darkness. Delusion. New birth is God putting the book back together in the knowledge of Christ, and then the Spirit shrink-wrapping it so it cannot rot again. Peter calls that the incorruptible seed. That seed is not a third of you vacuum-packed in a spirit-safe while two-thirds sit on the counter. That seed is you. Colossians says the new self is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its Creator. Ephesians says be renewed in the spirit of your minds and put on the new self created to be like God. Paul does not say a third of you was created in righteousness. He says the new man was. The Spirit did not renovate one room of a subdivided soul and leave two condemned. He recreated the whole inner man and then stood there as the power that keeps the whole system of propositions from ever being shredded again. Romans 12:2 renews the mind. The one inner man. Not a leftover soul waiting on a spirit roommate to finish the paperwork.

You can be lazy. You can let feelings run the house like a toddler with the car keys. The devil can yell at your nerves and you can stupidly listen and let it affect you. None of that un-creates the mind of Christ. The system of propositions has been rebuilt and the Holy Ghost is holding it. It is not held together by your willpower. You can leave the door open to allow Satan to harass you. But the new recreated system of propositions, which is the real you, the inner man, is protected by the Spirit and is incorruptible.

Peter says we partake of the divine nature through the knowledge of God. Your inner man was already created in that knowledge. When you refuse to think it, you are not being humble. You are sleeping on the porch of a house that already has your name on the deed. Romans 6 does not say feel dead to sin. It says reckon yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Consider it. Intellectually agree. That is faith. The reckoning is the inner man agreeing with God’s verdict, not a spirit whispering past a stubborn soul that never got the memo. You are not schizophrenic; your inner man is one. The flesh will scream that sin is still in charge, and if you stay on this fleshly focus, you will become delusional and it might “feel” like there is a second distinct part of your inner man; that is a lie from the pits of hell, and Satan thinks you are dumb enough to fall for it. But you will not. You are strong. God has given you a sound mind and an incorruptible mind. The verse still says that Grace has dominion and control over you, not something else.

The more you renew your mind on the Word, the more the Spirit keeps saying yes inside you — yes, you are a child, yes, these promises are yours, yes, this is who you are.

The inner man is one, and that one is already new, already held, already incorruptible, already wall-to-wall Holy Ghost.

Not All gods Are Under God?

Denying the Inference is Denying the Scripture.

I saw a post today calling Vincent Cheung and Gordon Clark “hyper” on God’s sovereignty, as if they had cleared the Reformed fence and run off with the livestock. The picture in that post was already more honest than the accusation. A. W. Pink barely fits inside the fence. He is scraping the rail. Jonathan Edwards is halfway in and halfway out, because occasionalism will not stay seated where the confession wants it. Then Clark, and particularly Vincent, are the ones said to have jumped. Jumped what? Jumped the fence of Reformed tradition and Reformed orthodoxy. That is the whole charge. The word “hyper” is doing the dishonest work. It is not hyper relative to Scripture. It is hyper relative to a confession, a century, a mood in the study. Scripture never got the memo that there was an upper bound short of “all.”

Here is the flip they will not make. They say Vincent jumped the fence of Reformed tradition. What they have done, by denying the inference, is jump and leave the fence of Scripture. You cannot deny the inference without denying the major premise the text affirms. Tradition is the pen they are defending. Scripture is the fence they left. We do not grade doctrine by how nervous Westminster got. We grade it by what the text says, and then we let the inference land where the text already put it.

Rhetoric is an add-on. It comes after the statement is clear. Most of the time you find people holding a handful of rhetoric with no clear statement underneath it. Strip the rhetoric and you are back in grammar school. Start with the category. All, some, or none. The Bible’s category is all.

Ephesians 1:11: God works all things according to the counsel of His will. Not some things, with a polite exemption for the awkward ones. All. Isaiah 45 does not clear its throat and say, “I form the light and then carefully distance myself from the darkness by means of a secondary cause and a mystery box.” It says, “I form light and I create darkness; I make peace and I create evil; I am Yahweh; I do all these things” (Isaiah 45:7). And He does not say it once, as a stray line. Isaiah 46 picks it up again: “I am God and there is none besides me, God and there is none like me, who from the beginning declares the end… My plan shall stand, and I will accomplish all my wishes,” and then He calls a bird of prey from the east and the man of His plan from a far country. “I have spoken; I will bring it to being. I have formed it; I will do it” (Isaiah 46:9–11). That is the motif. “None besides me” is not a slogan about monotheism in the abstract. In the context, it is His own definition of what it means that He is God. He created. He is now grasping and pushing the creation. He knows the future because there is no other real cause that can stop the plan. Control over humans, human choices, good, evil, and material things. To say there is no dualism in Christian ontology is only a philosophy way of saying the Scriptural line, “There is none besides me.”

It is not only the prophet and the king. Psalm 104 is not a throne-room vision. It is the night. “You make darkness, and it is night, when all the beasts of the forest creep about. The young lions roar for their prey, seeking their food from God” (Psalm 104:20–21). The lion does not forage from a system God wound up and walked away from. He seeks his food from God. That is the cleanest line in the Book for the ordinary meal. The same hand that forms light and creates darkness puts the prey in the mouth of the predator.

The same is true in the realm of knowledge. God first put knowledge in the man, and He continues to put it there. It is not observation climbing up into a blank mind. Isaiah 28 walks through the farmer. He does not plow all day. He levels the surface. He scatters dill, sows cumin, puts wheat in rows, barley in its place, and emmer as the border. “He is rightly instructed; his God teaches him… For he is rightly instructed; his God teaches him. Dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge… This also comes from the LORD of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom” (Isaiah 28:26–29). Practical knowledge, the kind a man uses with his hands, is God teaching him. Spiritual knowledge is the same causality with the lights turned up. “For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ” (2 Corinthians 4:6). The god of this age blinds. God shines. The knowledge is put in. It is not scraped off the surface of things. And God withholds it the same way He gives it. “The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the pinions and plumage of love? … For God has made her forget wisdom and given her no share in understanding” (Job 39:13–17). The ostrich is not uninformed because she skipped class. God did not give her the share.

Whether it is invisible knowledge, or a random eagle that no man sees leaving the cliff, God says He does it. “Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars and spreads his wings toward the south? Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes his nest on high? On the rock he dwells and makes his home, on the rocky crag and stronghold. From there he spies out the prey; his eyes behold it from far away” (Job 39:26–29). Not by your understanding. At His command. The text’s other picture is the bird of prey He calls, and the man of His plan He summons (Isaiah 46:11). Even rain is not a natural leak from a cloud that God then permits. Jeremiah asks the question and answers it. “Are there any among the idols of the nations who cause rain to pour? Or can the heavens give showers? Is it not you, O Yahweh our God? Therefore we hope in you, for you do all these things” (Jeremiah 14:22). The sky, the wind, the water, and the cloud are put on the same shelf as the wooden idol. They have no inherent power to cause the shower. Yahweh does all these things. And in all these things, the lion’s meal, the farmer’s rows, the light shone in the heart, the wisdom withheld from the ostrich, the eagle leaving a cliff no man is watching, there is none besides God.

Scripture shows Him directly and absolutely controlling, creating, and causing reality at every basic level. I say basic because there are potentially infinite aspects of reality, and the Bible would be infinitely long if it had to narrate every one. In light of who God is, it only has to show Him controlling the basic aspects to conclude that He controls all. Some verses simply say the all. “In him we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28). “He sustains all things by the word of His power” (Hebrews 1:3). That includes the inside of the thoughts, the subject and the predicate and the desire. “The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the LORD; he turns it wherever he will” (Proverbs 21:1). If He turns the height of man, He turns the rest. It includes the random act, the card and the dice. “The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD” (Proverbs 16:33). It includes the destiny before the man is born. “Though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad… not because of works but because of him who calls” (Romans 9:11). Paul took a few verses from the Old Testament in Romans 3 and said, “all have sinned.” When God, at every basic part of spiritual and material reality, says “I control this,” and then says there is none besides Him who does it, the doctrine is that He controls all things. The clay does not get a vote, and the clay does not get to call the potter hyper for using both hands. Isaiah 45 already asked the question. “Does the clay say to the one who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ and ‘Your work has no hands’?” (Isaiah 45:9). Romans 9 starts the lump neutral, before they had done good or evil, and the Potter makes one vessel for mercy and one for destruction. Paul’s opponent understood the position perfectly: who has resisted His will? Paul does not walk it back. He tells the object to stop answering back to the One who molded it.

So the category statement is this:

All things are things directly controlled by God.

Sin is a thing. Evil is a thing. Adam’s fall is a thing that happened. David’s census is a thing that happened. The lying spirit in Ahab’s prophets is a thing that happened, and the text does not say the LORD allowed it to wander in. It says the LORD put it there. Job’s friends comforted him for all the evil the LORD had brought on him, and that line is not one of the bad counselors. It is the narrator, under inspiration, closing the book. If all things are things God controls, then these things are things God controls. The “all” already contained them.

And the inference is not a commentary on the Bible. It is what the Bible asserts. A logical deduction adds no new information. It points at what the premise already swallowed. So the Bible asserts that Oshea sinned, through the major premise that all have sinned, and that assertion is just as binding as if the text said, “Oshea has sinned.” They are equally statements given by Scripture. One is not less Scripture than the other. Oshea’s sin is not less Scripture than “all have sinned,” because Oshea is already contained in the major premise. Same grammar, same authority, on the decree. “God caused this sin” is not less Scripture than “God works all things.” Denying the particular is denying the verse. You did not protect the text. You left it.

This is where the classic move shows its hand. They want the major premise. They will print “God is sovereign over all” on the wall. Then they see where the inference goes, and they suddenly discover a zone where logic is asked to clock out and sit in the hallway. If God controls all things, then God controls sin and evil. That is the definition of metaphysical authorship. They like the poster. They hate the homework. So they affirm the universal and deny the particular, and they call the man who refused to do that the one who jumped the fence. He did not. They did. They jumped the fence of Scripture the moment the particular was exempted.

Watch the same trick somewhere they cannot hide. Paul says all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Category form: all humans are those who have sinned. Therefore Oshea has sinned, and that “therefore” is Scripture, not an optional garnish. Now suppose I keep the major premise, because it sounds orthodox, and then I announce that John Wesley never sinned, John Calvin never sinned, Billy Graham never sinned, Andrew Wommack never sinned. I have not protected the text. I have denied it. Denying the consequent denies the antecedent. A categorical syllogism and a propositional one are the same coin. Flip one face and the other face is gone. Paul already ran this play in 1 Corinthians 15. Deny the resurrection of the dead and you have already denied that Christ was raised. You do not get a participation trophy for affirming the opening line while strangling every particular that makes the opening line true.

If the inference can be denied, then the Bible can say God is God of gods and Lord of lords, and there can still be some gods He is not God over and some lords He is not Lord over. Deuteronomy 10, Psalm 136, 1 Timothy 6, and Revelation 17 all become posters on a wall. The moment you exempt one lord, “Lord of lords” was a hymn, not a doctrine. If the inference can be denied, then Jesus is the Savior of all who believe, and John Wesley is saved, Billy Graham is saved, Andrew Wommack is saved, and Jesus is not their Savior. You kept the slogan and fired the Person. If the inference can be denied, then all the saints will be with Christ, and Wesley is a saint, and Wesley is in hell. The marriage supper still has a place card with his name on it, and the place card is a lie. If the inference can be denied, then by His stripes you were healed, the “you” of Isaiah 53 and 1 Peter 2:24, and the stripes were not for Billy Graham, and the stripes were not for Andrew Wommack, and Matthew 8:17 carried sickness for a category that somehow does not contain the people in the category. If the inference can be denied, then the Ten Commandments address all human beings, the law speaks so that every mouth is stopped, and there is a province in Asia full of human beings the commandments never reached. If the inference can be denied, then there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, and Wesley is in Christ, and Wesley is condemned. If the inference can be denied, then whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved, and Graham called, and Graham is not saved. On and on. There is no exit. Every universal in the Book dies the same death the moment one particular is handed a hall pass.

If inference is not always binding, then it is not always true that every human has sinned, and Wesley gets his exemption, and a village in Asia gets a vacation from the Ten Commandments, and the God of gods has a few lords He does not lord. If that is not allowed, then inference is always binding. You do not get to suspend it when the particular is sin and the universal is God’s control. The Bible uses this grammar on purpose. Jesus appeals to the law of non-contradiction. Grace is not law. Law is not grace. A thing is not its contradictory. If you say the inference does not always matter, you have already said the major premise does not always matter. You just said it with a hymnbook in your hand. If God is not the author of sin, then the laws of identity and contradiction are not always binding and so grace really is works, and works is also grace.

Some try to slip out by saying the major premise only needs a qualification. Nothing wrong with the premise, they say. It just needs clarity. An exception to the rule. Here is the problem. If you say all humans are those who have sinned, and then you say there is a group in East Africa who have never sinned, even though they are humans, you did not qualify the premise. You contradicted it. “All humans are those who have sinned” and “some humans have not sinned” cannot both be true of the same subject in the same respect. Calling the second sentence clarity, a qualification, or a nuance does not change the relation. It still denies what the first affirmed. It still violates identity and non-contradiction.

A real qualification changes the subject or the predicate before the universal is asserted. “All morally accountable humans have sinned” is a different claim from “all humans have sinned.” The class was narrowed first. By saying “All morally accountable humans have sinned,” one leaves room in the major premise for some humans who are not morally accountable, such as a particular village in Asia. With that being the case, it would not be a contradiction to say some humans are not accountable.

However, what the objector does is different. He affirms the universal, then adds a member of the same class that lacks the predicate. The same holds for sovereignty. “God is absolutely sovereign” and “all things are things controlled by God” already fix the predicate. Absolute means without remainder. All means every member of the class. To follow that with “some things are not controlled by God,” or “human choices fall outside His control,” or “evil is an exception,” is not to refine the claim. It is to assert that the same subject both has and lacks the same predicate. Partial control is a coherent idea. It is simply a different idea. It is the claim that God controls some things and not others. Anyone is free to defend that claim. What he is not free to do is defend it under the name of absolute sovereignty, as if the exception were a footnote rather than a replacement of the predicate. The word “absolute” does not survive the exception. Once the exception is admitted, the proposition on the table is no longer the one that was stated.

So here is the tell. If Reformed theology affirms that all things are things controlled by God, and then refuses the inference that sin and evil are included in the all, it never affirmed the major premise. It affirmed a slogan, and then left the fence of Scripture while accusing the consistent reader of leaving the fence of tradition. Pink is already on the rail. Edwards already has a foot out, because occasionalism is just the premise being allowed to mean what it says. Vincent did not jump Scripture. The bounds of Scripture are “all.” The man who stops the syllogism where the confession gets sweaty is the one who left.

And the panic underneath the denial is a category smash. “If God authors sin, then God is a sinner.” Sin is lawlessness, 1 John 3:4. Lawlessness is a man breaking a command addressed to man. No law was ever addressed to God. There is no authority over Him to hold Him to one. Accusing the Author of being the sinner is the same move as calling the novelist a lion because he wrote a lion, or calling God a river because He caused a river. God is not what He authors. God is not what He causes. If that sentence feels hard, it is because pantheism has been sitting in the chair where Scripture should be. How much slower is the color green than the number 7? That is the intellectual level of “God sinned by causing a man to sin.” Ex lex is already too small. The potential of a law over God does not exist. Holy, holy, holy is categorical separation, not a really impressive compliance record.

As Vincent Cheung as talk us, accountability does not rescue the denial either. Romans 9 is asked the question in plain speech. If God causes it, why does He still find fault? Paul’s answer is not freedom. The answer is the Potter. Responsibility assumes a sovereign over you, not a zone He is forbidden to touch. Pharaoh did not resist the causality. He was still judged. The elect do not resist the Spirit who sanctifies them. Same metaphysics, opposite vessel. Freedom was never the foundation. Authority was.

This is not a puzzle for the back of the book. If God causes all things, then He caused the fall, the census, the lying spirit, the hardening, the disaster, and the prosperity. If you will not say that, you do not believe Ephesians 1:11. You believe an edited version that keeps the religious reputation and hands the awkward verses to mystery. Mystery is what you say when you have already denied the premise and you need a religious word for the violation of identity and non-contradiction. You would not let a man do this to “all have sinned.” You would not let him say that “Oshea has sinned” is less Scripture than the verse that contains it. You would not let him do it to the stripes on Jesus’ back. You would not let him do it to the God of gods. Do not let him do it to the decree, or to God’s control of every aspect of reality.

Affirm the inference or stop claiming the premise. There is no third category. All, or you have already slipped into some, and some is dualism with a Reformed accent. The God of Scripture is not embarrassed by His own decrees. He forms the light and creates the darkness, and He does not ask the clay to proofread the work. Believe Him as He has spoken. Then take the pen He put in your hand, the promises already yes in Jesus, and command the mountain. The same sovereignty that authored the story is the sovereignty that backed the stripes, the resurrection, and the authority He gave you. So, open your mouth and command the mountain to get out of your way. Tell sickness to leave and be healed and happy.

You Feel The Power

I was in Luke today and I hit the woman with the flow of blood. Twelve years of that curse, no cure from the physicians, and she comes up behind Jesus in the press of the crowd and touches the fringe of His robe. The bleeding stops on contact. Jesus stops the whole parade and asks who touched Him. Peter, doing what Peter does when he is looking at what his eyes can verify, tells Him the obvious thing. Master, this whole crowd is pressed up against You. Everybody touched You. That is what a crowd is. Jesus does not take the correction. Someone deliberately touched Me, He says, because I felt power leave Me. The Greek is dunamis. The English is power. They are reporting the same event. He is not describing a word of knowledge that the Spirit slipped Him like a note under the door, although a word of knowledge was available to Him, since He was anointed by the Spirit the same way we are anointed by the Spirit after we receive what the Father promised. He said He cast out demons by the Spirit of God, and that this was the kingdom of God arriving on top of people. He operated as a man born under the law, empowered by the Spirit, standing in the same category we stand in. That is why the story is usable and not a stained-glass souvenir. The thing He bothers to say out loud is that He felt it. Power went out of Him, and He knew it by the feeling of it leaving.

Vincent Cheung calls this spiritual physics, and that is the right name. God, by His own sovereign design, created us in such a way that a Spirit-filled man can sometimes feel the power. Think of electricity. You can feel the energy. You can feel the charge. The spiritual side has that too. Both the woman and Jesus felt it on that street. She felt the surge when the curse broke off her body, like spiritual electricity finding a live wire, and He felt the spiritual power of the Spirit leave when her faith drew on what was already in Him. There is such a thing as spiritual force, and the Bible is not embarrassed to say the people involved felt it. For ministry this matters more than the faithless want it to. Feeling the power is normal. It is not proof you have slipped into emotionalism, and it is not proof you are ahead of the brother who felt nothing that morning. Jesus felt it. Luke keeps recording that Paul was filled with the Spirit in ways that were tangible, something moved and something felt, and then a judgment miracle came out of his mouth and a governor got saved. The warning, is that you do not decide whether power is with you by what you feel. Faith is the real issue, and it is only a mental assent and agreement with God. The anointing presence is a real mode of the Spirit, and we seek it on purpose, but if you only move when the goosebumps have already filed their paperwork, you have handed the devil a veto he was never issued. As odd as it sounds, if you rely on the feeling of spiritual power or God’s anointing presence to act, or to feel confident something happened or a prayer was answered, you are being unspiritual and limiting the Spirit of power. We eagerly seek it, but the foundation is faith. Think about this for two seconds. It is by faith you first received the baptism of the Spirit of power. It is by faith you are saved; it is by faith you command a mountain to move. When you use faith to receive the Spirit, you don’t wait on a feeling. If you do get a feeling of spiritual power, it is because you received the Spirit by faith first. You continue to grow in the operation of spiritual power by faith, not by something else. Faith is the foundational issue. Feelings of power are nice, and they can confirm that the circuit opened and connected for a moment. However, feeling does not authorize the mouth. The mouth was already authorized, because you are a royal priesthood in Christ. It is who you are. It is not something you merely do; this authority is you.

Last night a dream woke me. It was vivid, and it was not the kind of dream you shrug off before your eyes are open. A small bear was trying to come through the side door. In the dream I took the .22 I keep by the bed and I was shooting, trying to put it down. I thought that was the end of it. Then a giant bear came through the front door, and I was running for my mom’s bedroom, yelling for her to get the shotgun. I woke up after that. When a dream lands like that I do not pretend I have a perfect method for sorting a bad meal from a real warning. Sometimes it is something you ate. Sometimes it is more than that. I do not need a finished taxonomy before I am allowed to use the authority I already carry. Waiting until you are 100% sure is how your sword gets rusty from underuse.

On the drive home today, a good hour, I had worship on and I was praying in tongues. I was glad to be doing it. I was not running on emotion. I was tired from a long day at work. I was numb. I was not feeling the presence of God in any way I could point at and call a surge, which is the relevant part of the testimony, because of what happened the moment I decided to take authority. I decided, just in case it was more than a dream, to take authority over the thing I had seen. Isaiah 54 was already sitting there, the way it always is. If anyone attacks, it is not from Me; whoever attacks you shall fall because of you. Every weapon formed against you shall not succeed, and you shall declare guilty every tongue that rises against you for judgment. That is the inheritance. That is the legal right. Not God. You. The older rendering that has lived in my mouth says you will condemn, and the doctrine is the same either way. Jesus did not say God will speak to the mountain while you watch from the boat and call the silence humility. He said you will say to the mountain, be lifted up and thrown into the sea, and it will obey you. If you sit there waiting for God to condemn the weapon He already assigned to your mouth, and the weapon formed against you smacks you in the face, that is on you. He told you whose job it was.

So I opened my mouth. No bear. No jaws of a bear formed against me, against this house, against my mom. The moment the first words left, every hair on my body stood up. The whole car charged. I am talking about that skin-tight goosebump surge, except it was not a mood and it was not the worship track doing emotional work on a tired man. I felt power released, and I felt resistance on the other side of it, the way you feel a fence wire you did not know was hot the second your hand closes. I had been numb five seconds earlier. I kept the confession going. I condemned that situation in the name of Jesus Christ and said it will not succeed. Then I prayed in tongues some more, and I had the sense from the Spirit that what I had said was good and that I was not done. So I spoke again. Not only will the jaws not enter this house. They will not touch this house. They will not come near this house. I will see the defeat of my enemy from afar. The power came over me a second time, on me and around me, hair up again, resistance again, and I had to press through it. The .22 in the dream had been cute. The Name was the shotgun. After the second pass I felt a release, the particular kind where you know the words that needed to be said have been said, and then peace. I was still the same tired man in the same car driving home. The difference was that the weapon forming against me had been answered by a mouth that carried more power.

That is the usefulness of the feeling, once you have refused to make the feeling your priest. I was not sure the dream was spiritual. I was numb, not sensitive, not worked up, not “led” by an anointing presence of the Spirit. I only decided to act on faith, just in case, and open my mouth. Then the words left and the power reported in. Suddenly the question answered itself. There was something to it, and it was a good thing I did not wait to first see the jaws before I realized I needed to do something. Jesus felt the power leave because the woman had already touched with faith. Faith released the power. Spiritual physics does not ask your emotional permission. It waits on faith to be released. Spiritual power moved by faith, while the crowd was still arguing about who had done it.

Jesus told them to pray that their flight would not happen in winter or on a Sabbath. People hear that and turn it into a horror trailer, as if God were the weatherman of doom. He told them the hard thing so they could pray and have the hard thing altered. Information was ammunition. The same pattern sits on the spies. God named the fortified cities and the sons of Anak, and some of those names carry fear in them, and the faithless heard a scare. Joshua and Caleb heard a menu. When God warns you about something, it is not to make you afraid; it is to make the thing He warned you about afraid, as the inhabitants of Jericho were afraid of the Israelites. They are our bread. Their protection is gone. Do not fear them. God was not introducing Israel to a new species of anxiety. He was plating their food and handing them the sword. When you have no faith, a fortified city becomes a reason to die in the wilderness. When you have faith, the same report is lunch, and the spoils come home with you.

A dream like the one I had is the same kitchen. It is not there to scare you, and it is not there so you can clutch the pillow and call the clutching discernment. God is setting a plate down. Here is some food. Take the sword of the Spirit, condemn the weapon, kill the thing, and be blessed on the other side of it. You do not only divert the hidden danger. You overcome it, you watch the defeat from the porch, and you eat the spoils of the war, because a conquered enemy nourishes the man who refused to let it land. Numb is not an empty battery. Numb is a charged car sitting there with the radio on. Worship and tongues had the alternator spinning. The faith confession was the key. You do not wait to feel the engine before you turn it. The key is what makes the engine announce itself.

Open your mouth. The power is already designed to move when faith touches the promise, and sometimes, like it did for Jesus and like it did in that car, you will feel it leave and you will feel it land. Condemn the weapon. Take the bread.

Donuts & Coffee Vol. 3

Vol. 3

Oshea Davis
2026

1. The God Level, Not Human Level

2. Praying in Tongues Is the Way of Love

3. Royal Priests: Your Royal Mouth Is Always On

4. Suffering Porn

5. Last Days Agenda?

6. Triage in the Camp, An Old War Tactic

7. Pseudo Logical Empiricism

8. The More You Wish, the Better Jesus’ Kingdom Gets

9. Context Over Circumstance

10. The Clay Talks Back

11. Forgiveness Is An Addition To The Original Gospel

12. All Humans Are Dogs?

13. Tongues Edify The Inner Man

14. Clint Eastwood OR Moses

15. Tomorrow Becomes Your Servant

16. The Song of All Songs Is Praise to Sex and Passion

17. The Power of Good Imaginations

18. The Bible Doesn’t Care What Inductionists Say

19. Better To Receive Than to Give

20. It Is Attainable

21. Biblical Humbleness

22. James Applies God’s Sovereignty

23. Poverty Commands You What To Do

24. Beth Moore and the “God Told Me” Circus

25. Acknowledge All The Good Stuff In You

26. A Dividing Line

27. Who Hurt You!

28. Not some independent Son-of-God override switch

29. Love with Power

30. Power is Greater Than Motives

31. Triumphing Over Some Type

32. Born a fool - Died a fool

33. Meaningless Definitions

34. I Question Everything

35. Received by the same faith

*1 The God Level, Not Human Level

Listen up. The original category for what it means to be human was never Adam and Eve scraping by in the dirt. God’s first thought, the very top of the logical order of His decrees, was you and me—elect in Christ, grafted straight into His body, one spirit with the Son, co-heirs loaded with every last ounce of His glory and power. That’s the blueprint. Adam was just the first step on the road to get us there. Work the supralapsarian order backward and you see it clear: the goal was always union with Jesus, not some half-baked “only human” existence. Everything else was scaffolding to land us smack in the middle of that reality.

That’s why when you catch yourself muttering “I’m only human” or “dreams like that are too big for me” or “I guess I’ll just go to the doctor and hope my body can heal itself,” you’re not being humble. You’re stabbing your own soul with a dull knife. You’re trying to ram a full-size basketball through a golf-hole-sized opening. Force it hard enough and you’ll shred the ball and wreck the green underneath. That lowball dream for your life—or, more correctly, that nightmare—wasn’t God’s good design. It never was. The promises God gave Abraham—fame, riches, increase, favor exploding in every direction—had zero mention of sin or forgiveness; they were painting the positive picture of God’s love for His children. Then Jesus stepped in, took the curse and sin, and handed every last one of those blessings to us who are Abraham’s seed by faith. The old man is dead. The new man is already here. Why keep living like the old corpse is alive?

Romans 8:29-30 spells it out: those He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son. Ephesians 1:4 says He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world. That’s not some future pie-in-the-sky; that’s the starting line right now—and that starting line begins with the stars, not your front yard. The Spirit who raised Christ from the dead lives in you and will give life to your mortal body right here in this age (Romans 8:11). Christ is your healer, your breadwinner, the One who meets the desires of your heart and makes your family and influence explode. Healing, prosperity, power, tongues, authority over demons—these aren’t bonus levels you unlock if you’re good enough. They’re the default operating system for anyone who is elect in Christ.

So quit aiming at the floor and start aiming at the stars. The stars aren’t even the ceiling; they’re the launch pad. Stop letting sensory thinking and “I’m only human” trash talk define you. That’s the voice of the dead man trying to crawl back into the driver’s seat. The new man speaks the language of the promises: “It is written, and therefore it is mine.”

Aim high today. Speak the Word over your body, your finances, your family, your future. Command the mountains to move because the God who decreed your election before time began has already supplied the faith to do it. The same love the Father has for Jesus is on you right now. Walk in it. Live like the superior species you are in Christ. The world was never meant to see you small. It was meant to see the glory of the One who chose you shining through every healed body, every restored marriage, every impossible breakthrough.

Get after it.

*2 Praying in Tongues Is the Way of Love

Don’t line up with the mockers. Line up with love.

Jude 1:18-21 drops it plain: “In the end time there will be scoffers…” These are the ones not having the Spirit. But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith, by praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God.

See the razor-sharp distinction Jude is making. When you’re born again, the Spirit works on you to receive Jesus—you either have Jesus or you don’t. But in the baptism of the Holy Spirit, Jesus works on you to receive the Spirit—you either have the Spirit in power or you don’t. (See Vincent Cheung, Theology 2023, who helped me see this.) The mockers and false teachers? They’re the ones missing this baptism. They don’t have the Spirit. Jude calls them out cold.

That’s why he turns to the saints and says, build yourselves up in your most holy faith by praying in the Holy Spirit. We’re talking tongues, family. This isn’t some optional charismatic add-on for extra-spiritual folks. It’s the biblical command for staying white-hot in the love of God. Praying in that heavenly language floods your soul with supernatural encouragement and power straight from the throne. You speak mysteries to God that build your inner man, and you are encouraged by God Himself. Think about that. God personally edifies your inner man with supernatural encouragement. Wow! Why do I need a human when God is my personal edifier through praying in tongues? In this light, it makes sense why Jude says praying in tongues keeps you in God’s love: because praying in tongues is God personally edifying your inner man with His love.

Here’s the gut-punch: refuse to pray in tongues and you’re not just missing a cool experience. You’re actively keeping yourself out of the love of God. You’re exposing yourself as one of the mockers and false teachers Jude warned about. Why on earth would you want that?

Prayer in tongues is easy. It’s free. It is not based on works; it is not based on feelings; it is received by faith. It’s available every single moment of the day. You can be filled with God’s supernatural encouragement and power nonstop if you’ll just yield and do it. No striving, no special formula—just open your mouth, have faith, and let the Spirit do what He does best.

Saints, let’s not play games with this. Get baptized in power if you haven’t already, and start praying in tongues like your faith life depends on it—because according to Jude, it does. Keep yourself in the love of God the easy way. It’s the best way, because it’s God’s way. It’s the way of love. By obeying God and praying in the Spirit you love God, and the act itself floods God’s love into your inner man.

*3 Royal Priests: Your Royal Mouth Is Always On

“For you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession.” 1 Peter 2:9 NLT

This isn’t a part-time gig you clock in for when you’re feeling extra holy. You are royal priests. Full stop. That means you carry prophetic authority 24/7—even if right now it’s mostly aimed at the ground in whimpers rather than bold, faith-filled confessions. This isn’t something you flip on like a light switch when the mood hits. It’s your brand-new, permanent definition and reality through faith in Jesus. It is you. God Himself rewired your identity at the cross, and the switch stays on forever. You are already in the reality of a new creation. It is you. It is always you.

That’s exactly why faith confessions matter so much. As a royal priest, when you open your mouth and declare God’s promises—or speak a word from the Spirit by faith—your identity hands you the power, the authority, and the official position to prophesy that reality into existence over yourself. Your words aren’t just cute positive vibes; they’re priestly decrees backed by the Power who seated you with Jesus Christ.

This same authority is why speaking unbelief is straight-up dangerous. When you grumble, “I can’t do this,” or “This is too much for me,” your priestly mouth is prophesying defeat right back onto your own head. You’re cursing the very future God already paid for—with the royal-priest authority Jesus gave you. Ouch.

Your words will dictate your life. You will not rise higher in life than your faith and confession. If you confess small, you get small. That’s how it works, because you have royal authority, whether you want it or not.

But don’t freak out and turn superstitious. If you slip into unbelief (and we all have), repent, confess the promise in faith, and flip the script. The contract covers it. Grace is bigger than your dumb moments. The New Contract has better, more powerful promises that bulldoze over all troubles and poorly spoken whimpers.

This whole thing reminds us that our new identity in Jesus isn’t fluffy metaphor—it’s raw power that dictates the course of your life. We already are kings and priests with authority to cast out demons, heal the sick, move mountains, and speak life over every storm. Because God, not us, created us this way, it’s always on. No off days.

So stop talking like a broke beggar and start speaking like the royal priest you are. Your mouth was made for miracles. Declare the promise out loud. Your Father is watching you, and He’s smiling.

*4 Suffering Porn

“We Are of Good Courage,” 2 Corinthians 4:16–5:10. This is Bob Kauflin’s video sermon from Sovereign Grace Church of Louisville.

Source: https://youtu.be/UQEEVCC4gx8?si=lbKRoZrDqmCOe6JC

Vincent Cheung (vincentcheung.com) already wrote the definitive take on this exact passage. In “We Walk by Faith, Not by Sight” (2011) he unpacks the body-soul distinction and the command to look to the unseen, and in “The Edge of Glory” (2016) he shows that genuine faith always gives the good report, activates Abrahamic miracles today, and refuses to glorify unbelief disguised as endurance.

Drawing directly from him, let’s look at this sermon.

Bob Kauflin correctly reads the words of 2 Corinthians 4:16–5:10. Outer tent decaying? Check. Inner man renewed day by day? Check. Light momentary affliction producing eternal weight of glory? Check. “We are always of good courage… we walk by faith, not by sight”? Check. Prefer to be absent from the body and at home with the Lord? Check. Aim to please Christ at the judgment seat? Check.

But then — like so many Reformed teachers — he stops the deduction at stoic endurance + future hope + community casseroles and heartfelt thanks to doctors and deacons. He shares genuinely moving stories of his own ruptured quadriceps tendon and his wife’s recurring cancer, and calls that “good courage.”

That is unbelief.

Paul is not describing brave resignation while we limp through life. He is describing triumphant rational certainty that activates the Abrahamic promises today. Faith does not merely endure the wilderness; Joshua and Caleb entered the land while the rest died in unbelief (Num 14; Heb 3–4). The same faith that looks to the unseen eternal glory also heals the lame, casts out demons, and raises the dead — because the Spirit who guarantees the resurrection body is the same Spirit who works miracles now (Gal 3:5; 2 Cor 5:5; Acts 2:17-18). Jesus commanded us with His extreme faith doctrine: ask, and get anything you ask for. Or is Jesus not God-centered enough for you?

Kauflin’s application is the classic cessationist sleight-of-hand: “Yes, the glory is coming… just not for you, and certainly not through faith in this age.” That is not walking by faith — that is walking by MRI results and sympathy cards.

God’s help is a help that heals in the land of the living. Paul wasn’t just groaning in a Roman prison—he was healing the sick on Malta after a shipwreck (Acts 28). Remember: Paul healed “all,” that’s right, “all” the sick on the island. That is the Paul of the Bible. The same apostle who wrote “light affliction” was also raising Eutychus from the dead and expecting churches to do greater works (John 14:12)—by commanding more gifts of the Spirit and showing examples of healing all the sick. That’s the illustration we’re missing.

True good courage says with the Canaanite woman, “Even the dogs eat the crumbs” (Matt 15:27) and receives the miracle immediately. It says with Paul, “This light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory (in the category of suffering for the gospel, not normal everyday troubles like sickness)” — and then believes the production starts now through the power of the age to come. Jesus commanded that we get power and flow with power all the time. Anything less insults the cross and calls the Spirit a liar.

And don’t get me started on Jesus’ extreme faith doctrine that leaves no room for any sick to remain sick. None.

We will skip a longer argument about the nature of God. When Jesus healed all, over and over, His word still rings out: “If you have seen Me, you have seen the Father.”

If your “courage” consists of groaning louder while refusing the healing covenant sealed in Abraham’s blood, you have not understood the passage. You have sentimentalized it. Repent, believe the full gospel, and start walking by faith—not by sight, not by suffering porn, and not by Reformed or traditional porn.

I mean, seriously? People get off and flock to suffering like a porn addict to the newest sensation. If you are going to sin, at least do it for pleasure, and at least we all know why. But when you look at suffering porn and poverty striptease, all you get is pain and more pain. You will be standing on judgment day watching God come down on a porn addict, thinking he is getting what he deserves. But when God turns to you, then Heaven replays your videos and there you are — hunched over, basking in the glow of your screen, whacking off in your heart while pastors tell you how sinful you are, how much pain God is going to give you, and how much He is taking away from you. Then you teach others to do the same. You are the worst type of scum.

The same Lord who prepared the heavenly building also prepared healing and deliverance for His elect today. Anything else is a different God, a different Jesus, and a different gospel.

I owe the Reformers no loyalty where they truncated the gospel into this little, perverted thing. Let’s recover the entire good news of Jesus.

God is good, because God is Healer.

*5 Last Days Agenda?

Peter Just Dropped the Mic on Your Charts!

People get lost scrolling end-time timelines and charts like it’s some cosmic puzzle only the smart guys solve. “When’s the rapture? What’s the mark? Who’s the antichrist this week?” Bro, chill. They want to know what happens in the “last days,” but Peter already quoted and interpreted the Scripture under the power of the Spirit and settled it once and for all.

He stands up on Pentecost, fire still dancing on their heads, and blasts Joel’s prophecy: “In the last days, God says, I will pour out My Spirit on all people.” Then he explains exactly what that looks like—right there in Acts 2. It’s the baptism of the Holy Spirit that Jesus promised as power from on high. The context? They’re all praying in tongues, prophesying, and the whole city is shaken. Peter doesn’t pivot to secret codes or newspaper headlines. He points straight at the tongues of fire and says, “This is that!”

This is how God, Jesus, and Scripture define the last days. Not a calendar countdown. Not passive waiting. God’s “last days” agenda and testament is this: the outpouring of the Spirit for power—tongues, prophecy, healing the sick, raising the dead, and casting out demons like it’s Tuesday-morning breakfast. Jesus called it “power.” Peter called it the promise for you, your kids, and everyone the Lord calls. The throne-sitter poured it out so His church would walk around with dangerous shadows and handkerchiefs that make devils file for unemployment.

If you’re not pursuing and operating in the baptism of the Holy Spirit for that exact power, then yeah—you’re existing in the last days like a spectator at your own victory parade. You’re breathing the air, but you’re not living the testament. You’re in the timeline without the fire. The same substitution that took your sin and sickness gave you the Spirit so you could enforce the victory. Jesus is seated, the Spirit is poured, and the command still stands: be baptized in power and do the works.

Stop chasing shadows on a chart and get filled until your own shadow starts healing folks. Pray in tongues like the Book shows. Lay hands. Command sickness out. Live the last days the way Peter and the early church did—full of the Spirit, full of power, full of results.

This is the gospel’s final act playing right now. Don’t just mark the days on a calendar. Live in them like the Spirit-baptized son you are—and if you are not, then use your faith and get baptized in power. The fire is still falling. Get in it.

*6 Triage in the Camp, An Old War Tactic

Listen up, family—it is flat-out wrong to stay sick when the gospel shouts healing as loud as forgiveness. James 5:15 doesn’t whisper a suggestion; it commands, “the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up.” NLT hits like a hammer: that faith prayer gets it done, sins forgiven too. The same blood atonement that made you righteous carried your diseases off Jesus’ back like the scapegoat. You can’t cherry-pick the gospel package—reject healing and you’re trampling the whole substitution.

Satan loves wounding soldiers so the healthy ones get pulled off the front line to play nurse. While you’re bedridden or popping pills as “normal,” kingdom expansion stalls.

And it is not just sickness. Sickness, poverty, defeat, and a life overwhelmed with trouble are not God’s love story. They are Satan’s war strategy—not only to kill and hurt you, but to stall and wound the kingdom of God as a whole. When you are under Satan’s thumb of sickness, poverty, and trouble, the kingdom slows down. You belong to the kingdom of God, and your defeat slows that kingdom down. We need to stop Satan’s wartime strategy of keeping Christians injured, sick, and lacking. We need to focus on growing—healed, prosperous, and filled with the Spirit in faith for miracles—and then encouraging others to do the same. So the Christian front line isn’t hindered by a pile of sick people and triage, but healed, strengthened, and weaponized with the armor of God to tear down the gates of hell.

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy—that’s his whole game, hitting the body of Christ with enough wounds to turn the army into one giant field hospital while hell keeps its defenses intact. But Jesus didn’t come to barely rescue us and leave us limping. He came that we would have life and have it abundantly. He appeared to destroy the works of the devil. He went about healing all who were oppressed by the devil. He was anointed to preach good news to the poor and set the oppressed free. The gates of hell shall not prevail against His church—and that church is supposed to be advancing full strength, not slowed down by wounded soldiers stuck in triage.

When the front line is filled with healed, prosperous, Spirit-filled believers walking in miracle faith, the advance doesn’t stall. We become the ones charging forward, laying hands, casting out, proclaiming liberty, and ripping down every gate the enemy tries to hide behind. No more letting the devil bench us with one more symptom, one more bill, one more overwhelming wave. We receive the victory in every area—body whole, needs met, mind at peace, faith exploding with miracles—then we turn around and encourage the brother next to us, the sister struggling, the church around us to rise the same way. That’s how the kingdom surges forward instead of crawling.

We stop Satan’s strategy by refusing to stay under his thumb and by helping the whole body get free. We focus relentlessly on the finished work until we are growing stronger every day—healed, supplied, full of the Holy Spirit and power, operating in faith that moves real mountains. Then we call others up to the same reality. The front line becomes unstoppable: warriors in the full armor of God, not limping casualties, but equipped, bold, and dangerous to darkness.

No more triage church. No more slowed advance. We receive the victory, we help others receive it, and together we tear down the gates of hell like the superior species we are in Christ.

*7 Pseudo Logical Empiricism

This one still cracks me up from a few years ago.

Someone dropped this gem a while back:

“Cheung’s adherents ‘strive’ tirelessly to reconcile Clark’s writings with continuism. Scripturalism is Gordon Clark’s philosophy. Cheung created his own ‘pseudo logical empiricism’ philosophy. This vision of expansionism is absurd…”

Bro. That’s not a critique—that’s a comedy special.

Here’s the refresh: Scriptural Deductionism isn’t anyone’s trademark. It’s simply taking the whole Bible as the first principle (our axiom) and making valid logical deductions from it — exactly what Scripture itself models and commands. No man owns it. Paul already did it (1 Cor 2:4). If you have to slap a human name on the method, at least pick an apostle instead of treating Clark like the owner of a franchise.

Vincent has been clear for years: he didn’t learn his system from Clark. He agrees on some points the way you might agree with a friend on a math problem, but he’s self-taught from the text. He quotes Clark sometimes just to be relatable to folks already in that lane. Critics keep gluing the “Clark student” label on him anyway because overlap is easier than reading the actual distinctions. Cheung himself pushes back hard in Captive to Reason: agreement ≠ influence, and his system isn’t identical.

Now the funniest part — calling Vincent’s view “pseudo logical empiricism”? That’s like calling a strict keto chef a “pseudo carb addict” because he once described what bread looks like. Vincent’s whole thing is anti-empiricism on steroids. Senses don’t give knowledge; they’re unreliable (just read 2 Kings 3 or John 12). Real knowledge comes directly from the sovereign God (the Logos who is logic — John 1:1) to the mind. Sensations are at most occasions where God acts. Everything is deduced from the Bible as axiom. No induction, no “let’s observe and build up.” Pure deduction from revelation.

That’s why the label collapses under its own weight — it violates the law of identity and doesn’t even touch the actual deductions. True biblical thinking keeps your eyes locked on God, not dead theologians. God saved me, healed me, adopted me, empowers me, and makes me wise. Vincent helped clarify it, but he didn’t do any of it. No man did.

Expansionism? (Expanding miracles, faith, and spiritual power.) It’s not some weird add-on—it’s straight deduction from Scripture and a command for all of us.

So yeah… I’m not wasting time debating reprobates when I could be proclaiming the promises. Eyes on the King, deductions from His Word, zero idols named after men. Simple.

Who else is tired of the man-centered theological fan clubs?

*8 The More You Wish, the Better Jesus’ Kingdom Gets

Remember that scene in The Neverending Story where the kid finally asks how many wishes the hero actually gets? The princess looks at him like he’s been living under a rock and says, “As many as you like… and the more you make, the better Fantasia gets.”

Jesus doesn’t just nod along with that princess. He one-ups her and then commands us to live like it’s true. He asks us to pray so much in this section that He almost sounds like He’s begging us. Four or five times in the same conversation He says it—ask whatever you wish in My name. Not “ask for one reasonable thing and don’t get greedy.” Not “ask if you’ve been extra good this week.” Ask whatever you wish. And He doesn’t stop there. He tells us to ask so our joy will be completely full. If asking whatever you want so you can be full of joy isn’t the actual definition of a wish, then I don’t know what is.

The princess said more wishes make Fantasia better because it shows how valuable that whole world is. Jesus says the exact same thing about His Father. When you ask big and receive big, it glorifies the Father. It puts His generosity on display. It expands the kingdom the same way faith and miracles exploded the kingdom in Acts — sick people jumping out of beds, demons screaming on their way out, people getting saved left and right. The more wishes get granted, the more the kingdom grows. You literally cannot wish too much or too large, because the value of what the Father rules is worth a trillion wishes the size of the sky.

In the movie, people stopped dreaming and wishing because the darkness was winning. The servant of the Nothing didn’t have to destroy Fantasia with fire and brimstone—he just had to talk everybody out of dreaming anything better. Same script today. Satan and his crew don’t need you to curse God. They just need you to stop dreaming and stop asking. Silent lips. Tiny prayers. “I’ll just be realistic.” That’s their whole strategy. They high-five every time a Christian treats the throne room like a customer-service line with a long wait and a strict return policy.

But the Holy Spirit was sent to do the opposite. He wants you to grasp how wide and long and high and deep the Father’s love actually is so you finally start asking like a kid who just found out the candy store has no limit and Dad owns the building. That’s why Jesus fed five thousand and still had twelve baskets left over. He wasn’t running a tight inventory. He was showing what happens when faith takes the little bit in your hand, gives thanks, and expects overflow. More asking, more kingdom. More receiving, more joy exploding in His disciples—and Jesus thinks that joy matters. The more answered wishes hit the ground, the more unbelievers see it and cry out for salvation, and the more demons shrink back because their kingdom is getting smaller by the minute.

Jesus also said these fulfilled wishes make us bear fruit that lasts forever. Not little temporary blessings that fade when the feeling wears off. Fruit that proves something eternal is happening. And He went one step further: if you’re not getting your wishes answered, it actually proves you’re not really living like one of His. Only a true child has this kind of access. Only a real son or daughter can march up to the Father and ask for the big stuff and watch Him delight in giving it.

So here’s the deal. Stop treating your prayer life like you’re on a budget plan. The Father isn’t tired. The blood isn’t running low. The kingdom isn’t on backorder. Pick the biggest, wildest, most “that’s too much” thing on your list and ask for it like the princess told the kid — as many as you like, and the more you make, the better everything gets. Your joy. His glory. Demons retreating. People getting saved. Baskets left over everywhere.

The throne room is open. The command is clear. The only thing left is whether you’re going to keep living like the wishes ran out… or start asking like a child whose Father owns the store.

*9 Context Over Circumstance

Today we’re doing a quick but powerful lesson on handling the everyday troubles of life straight through the promises of God. And we’re gonna use a little tool from good old deductive logic called Euler circles to nail it down crystal clear – because once you see the diagram, the clown show stops.

Picture this: little circle labeled “A” – that’s your circumstance, the sickness staring you down, the relationship strain that won’t quit, the besetting sin that keeps knocking, the poverty trying to choke your provision. Then there’s the massive circle “B” that doesn’t just touch A or sit beside it – it completely swallows A up without breaking a sweat. Circle B is the finished work of Jesus Christ, the gospel in all its glory, your new creation in Him, the living context of your identity seated with Christ, your constant communion with Him, the nonstop flow of His goodness pouring into you right now today. Your circumstance isn’t the boss trying to boss God around. The context that defines everything – the actual reality you stand in – is the promises of God swallowing that little dot whole.

But here’s the wild part most people get flipped upside down, and Satan’s laughing all the way to the bank. They stare at their symptoms, their feelings, their bank account, their history, and suddenly treat the circumstance like it’s the “context.” “This pain defines my day.” “This lack is my reality now.” “This sin sets the whole tone of my life.” Pure sensory thinking trying to Photoshop the speck until it looks like the whole picture – hilarious until you realize they’re living it. Deductively? From the Word? No way. The gospel doesn’t negotiate with your circumstance; it redefines the entire context around it. The mix-up happens the second you let the trouble become the frame instead of the tiny thing floating inside the massive frame of who you are in Christ.

The centurion got this right and Jesus marveled at his faith – he saw authority over reality itself and upgraded the miracle on the spot. Peter preached election straight into baptism of power for those God calls to Himself. James, knowing you don’t control tomorrow because of sovereignty, still commanded the prayer of faith to produce healing and results exactly like Elijah flipping the rain on and off like a shower knob. Jesus tied being chosen to asking and receiving whatever in His name because that’s the fruit you’re appointed to bear. They didn’t theorize about sovereignty – they applied it and got tangible power, healing, provision, victory flowing right now in their communion with the Father.

You are already the righteousness of God in Christ. You are healed by those stripes (Isaiah 53:4-5). You are made rich because He became poor (2 Corinthians 8:9). That little “A” circumstance? It’s floating inside the ocean of “B” – God’s “I am your exceedingly great reward,” the contract where He supplies and you receive, your new creation walking in constant communion with Jesus, drinking the goodness of God today. Stop fixating on the circumstance like it’s the main event, because it’s not. The promises are the main event, the main context. Relentlessly set your mind day and night on the true context that defines you. Speak it out loud: “This circumstance bows right now to me in the name of Jesus. Get out.” The promises aren’t waiting on your perfection, because in God's mind you are perfect and amazing. And so, the promises are the context surrounding your situation and pouring life into you this very moment.

Satan loves selling the reversed diagram like a bad real-estate scam – “Let your circumstance become the context.” Don’t buy the lie. The cross already dropped the gavel in your favor and the party has already started.

So right now, lock in the right context. Boldly march up to the throne as the beloved child you are, declare the promises that define everything, and watch the circumstance bow to the reality of your new creation in Christ.

*10 The Clay Talks Back

You might say, “Why does God hold people accountable for not responding? Haven’t they simply done what he makes them do?”

Paul saw that objection coming before you finished typing it.

“Who are you, a mere human being, to argue with God? Should the thing that was created say to the one who created it, ‘Why have you made me like this?’ When a potter makes jars out of clay, doesn’t he have a right to use the same lump of clay to make one jar for decoration and another to throw garbage into?” (Romans 9:20-21 NLT)

There it is. The Potter doesn’t owe the clay a debate.

The whole complaint rests on a backwards assumption: that real accountability requires libertarian free will—some ultimate independence from God’s control. But if you were truly that “free,” you wouldn’t be accountable to anyone. You’d be your own little autonomous god, answering to no higher authority. That’s not responsibility. That’s just chaos with better PR.

Accountability presupposes authority, not autonomy. You answer because Someone bigger made you, owns you, rules you, and holds you to a standard, whether you want it or not.

God didn’t wait to see what Jacob and Esau would do. Before either twin took a breath or racked up one good or bad deed, He said, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.” Same neutral lump of clay—not good or bad yet. That’s the whole point. One vessel formed for mercy, one for wrath. Not because of their future résumés. Because the Potter decided.

The clay doesn’t get to schedule a meeting with HR. The mug doesn’t get to declare, “I identify as fine china today.” The Potter has the right—and the raw power—to shape everything, including hearts and choices. And because He controls the outcome, His commands actually stick. He can hold you to them without contradiction.

This same sovereignty that offends the proud is what locks every promise in place for the elect. The God who hardens whom He wills is the same God who swore Abraham’s gospel—health, wealth, favor, answered prayer, and miracles—over His kids. He has the juice to make it happen. No ifs. No maybes. No cosmic shrug.

So the next time someone waves Romans 9 like a Get Out of Faith Free card or uses sovereignty as an excuse for fatalism, just smile and say, “Wrong contract, bro. The Potter already decided—and He decided the promises belong to the elect right now.”

The clay can talk back if it wants. But the Potter always has the last word. And for those in Christ, that word is ridiculously good, right now, right here, for a miracle.

*11 Forgiveness Is An Addition To The Original Gospel

Abraham was declared righteous in God’s sight for believing God would make him famous and rich and give him supernatural health, military victories, and favor. We are declared righteous when we believe God will give us all the good things He promised in exactly the same way. God found a baby struggling in its blood and abandoned. He went to this man and promised him the world itself as an inheritance. Abraham believed God would give him the world and a future city, just like God said. We too are Abraham’s children if we follow in the same faith.

There was the issue of sin, Romans 3:25. The blessing came first, not the forgiveness of sins, because God’s decrees and plans are logically ordered, not reactionary. This logical order shows up in how God dealt with Abraham—it was all blessing, nothing to do with forgiveness of sins. The blessing was first and original. Sin, because it was there, had to be dealt with eventually. God delivered us from this insurmountable problem by sending His one and only Son to be a propitiation for our sins. Jesus underwent our punishment in our place. This is mercy without end. It is good because God promised it and did it.

The truths we are assenting to in the gospel have more to do with the many blessings and promised favors than the single issue of the forgiveness of sins. Forgiveness is the doorway of the gospel. The good news includes all the blessings of Abraham and more that Jesus bled and died to secure for us. The good news is a package deal. Sitting at the table with God, with all the blessings of healing, favors, increase, wisdom, miracles, and spiritual powers laid out on the table, is just as much the gospel as forgiveness is—if not more. Sitting at the table of God’s blessing is the original decree of God, the original good news preached to Abraham. Forgiveness of our sins is an addition to the good news to remove any obstacles preventing God’s children from taking possession of His original promised good news.

Just like the law was an addition and not the promised good itself, so too forgiveness is an addition to the original good news. In Christ’s atonement they are both completed together as one package deal.

Hebrews 10 says if worshipers of God are truly forgiven, then they are not mindful of their sins anymore, because they are truly gone. In Colossians 3 it says our minds should be in heaven with Christ, because our lives are hidden with Him. We are sons of God, and if you truly know this, your thoughts will remain on this correct definition of yourself. This is why forgiveness is the doorway of the gospel. Would you walk into the King’s house and just stay at the doorway and admire the wood? If you did this while the rest of the guests were sitting with the King at the table, then it would be a horrific insult. Jesus called bread at the table a blessing that is necessary for children of Abraham to partake of. The gospel has many wonderful blessings laid out on the table. This table is the original gospel and blessing.

Only a true insider or child can sit down and partake. Some stay at the door because they are in fact reprobates and know they do not belong at the King’s table. They know their identity is an outsider to God, and so they behave like one.

Our identity is not only the righteousness of God, but also children and co-heirs with Jesus. We are indeed little gods in the truest sense. The Trinity has attributes that by definition can only belong to God—for example, to be immutable or eternal cannot belong to any created thing by definition. However, we have the mind of Christ; not the immutable and infinite propositions, but we have been given a huge amount of God’s propositions and can assent to these propositions with the application that we are adopted sons of God who are co-heirs with Jesus Christ. The intellectual power to think about so many propositions that God thinks is by the power of God’s Spirit within us. In fact, the SAME Spirit that counsels God is the SAME Spirit in us and helps us so powerfully that Paul says we have the mind of Christ. We are not told how much power of God and how many propositions from God are needed in order to qualify us to be identified as having the same mind of Christ, but whatever that super huge measure is, we have it.

We are not just sub-heirs with Jesus as adopted children of God, but co-heirs. God judges angels, and so do we. No created thing can judge God, and so no created thing can judge us. Creation belongs to God, and the whole creation belongs to us (1 Corinthians 3:21-23). The new creation will be liberated into God’s freedom, and so it will be liberated into our freedom (Romans 8:21). Jesus has constant and bold access to God, and so do we.

Apart from the attributes of God that can only by definition belong to Him, He has held nothing back in making us partake of His divine nature. We are gods in the truest sense. God gave us His one and only Son, and so He will also freely give us all other things.

This is our new creation. This is our new identity.

Some folks treat the gospel like they won the ultimate inheritance lottery but then decide the only ticket worth cashing is the “debt paid” coupon. They sit in the parking lot eating stale crackers while the King has the table groaning under healing, favor, increase, and miracles, and they wonder why life still feels like a bad rerun of Job without the happy ending. Newsflash from the throne room: the devil didn’t sign a truce just because you got forgiven. He still tries to pickpocket your health and wallet, but you have the authority to make him give it back with interest. Jesus already finished the job. Your work is to rest in what He already worked and receive it by faith.

If you reject health and wealth, you reject the original gospel. That is the definition of faithless to a ‘T’.

*12 All Humans Are Dogs?

Ruff ruff ruff! “All humans are dogs. I am a human. Therefore I am a dog.” Deductive? Spot on. Insane? Absolutely barking mad. Or how about this beauty: “All humans are sinners. Monkeys are animals. Therefore clouds float.” The premises might be true in their little isolated bubbles, but the conclusion floats off into nowhere, completely irrelevant to the real fight. That’s the clown car you ride when you start with human speculation and sensory feelings—no revelation, no sure foundation, just endless loops of skepticism dressed up as deep thinking or straight-up delusion that never fixes a thing.

Flip it the other way and you still crash: dump God’s Word on somebody but refuse to deduce the applications with razor-sharp logic, and you end up with superstition wearing a Bible costume—lots of delusion, zero demonstration of power. But real Christian intelligence? That’s exactly the demonstration Paul talked about. “My speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.”

You take the self-authenticating revelation of Scripture as your unbreakable major premise—every promise, every command, the full Good News of what Jesus accomplished—and you deductively hammer out what it means for right now. That’s how the centurion rolled. He didn’t speculate on his servant’s pain; he deduced from authority: “I say go and they go. Speak the word, Lord, and my servant will be healed.” Jesus didn’t correct him; He praised him—“Great faith!”—and upgraded that miracle on the spot. Reality obeyed like a servant. Peter took election and predestination and immediately deduced baptism of power for everyone God calls to Himself. James grabbed God’s sovereignty over tomorrow—you don’t know what will happen?—and commanded, “Pray the prayer of faith and the Lord WILL raise the sick person up.” Same sovereignty that guarantees forgiveness guarantees healing. No maybes. Elijah turned the rain off and on like twisting a shower knob, and James says that’s the example for us to moralize for our present wants.

This is why the Good News is such explosive good news. Jesus became sin so we become the righteousness of God. He became poor so we become rich by His poverty. He bore our sicknesses and carried our diseases so we don’t carry them. Don’t chop the atonement into pieces. Deduce the whole package, believe it relentlessly day and night, and speak it like the promises are already yes in Christ. Stop the ruff-ruff theology and the irrelevant cloud conclusions. Human starting points and induction are anti-logic; they produce nothing but delusion and powerless religion.

You have the mind of Christ. The same Spirit that raised Jesus is in you. Deduce this today: your healing is purchased, your provision is purchased, your authority to command mountains is purchased.

*13 Tongues Edify The Inner Man

Listen up, while you grind on strong faith, show real compassion on yourself and the hurting around you by firing up those prayer tongues and yanking the raw power of God right down into the mess. Vincent nailed it in “Cure for Psychological Trauma”: power is what finally delivers you. Not more analysis. Not another seminar. Power. Straight-up, unfiltered, miracle-working power of the living God. Correct theology and promises lay the track, but it’s the power that hauls the freight out of every valley. Mature faith always produces this, and praying in tongues? Brother, it’s the cheat-code button—push it and watch heaven crash the party in your soul, your body, and your whole bloodline.

The Good News isn’t a half-measure. Jesus didn’t bleed and rise so we could limp along quoting verses while reality laughs at us. He became our everything—righteousness, sanctification, redemption, and yes, the power that makes the Kingdom show up with signs. “The Kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power.” That’s not suggestion; that’s the package deal sealed in His blood. Sickness bows, trauma flees, lack turns to overflow because the same Spirit that raised Christ is poured out on us for exactly this. Why settle for whispers when the Father already signed the check for dynamite?

James looks at tomorrow’s uncertainty under sovereign control (don’t boast about tomorrow) and says, “Pray the prayer of faith—Elijah style—and watch rain stop or healing hit like lightning.” Jesus Himself ties predestination to fruit that lasts and whatever you ask in My name the Father gives. Same sovereignty, same atonement, same command: ask believing, receive. No qualifiers. No “if it be Thy will” cop-out. The will is already spoken.

We don’t focus on the trauma screaming at our nerves or the bills mocking our account. We lock eyes on the finished work and pray in the Spirit until the unseen becomes seen. Tongues edify the inner man, build us up on most holy faith, and release rivers that no devil can dam. It’s effortless because God supplies the flow; we just open the valve. One hour in tongues can shift what one hundred hours of striving never touched. Less striving, more heavenly power—straight from the throne.

So here’s the move today: grab your hurting friend, grab yourself, and pray in tongues like the house is on fire—because the power of God is the extinguisher and the builder at the same time. Watch deliverance hit. Watch families healed. Watch your church explode with signs and the Kingdom advance like wildfire. You were chosen for this exact display. The same love the Father has for Jesus is dumped on you. Stop limiting the Unlimited by your unbelief.

Get aggressive with compassion. Pray in tongues until power answers back. The world is waiting to see what a believer who refuses to stay powerless looks like.

*14 Clint Eastwood OR Moses

Saw this today. A Faithless dropped a picture of Clint Eastwood deep in his 90s, looking every year of it. Frail frame, that famous squint softened by time. The caption says even our strongest heroes get old and weak. Man, even Dirty Harry is negotiating with the years now.

It’s a perfect snapshot of how the faithless build their expectations for old age. They watch men. They study the natural. They see icons fade and then they write that story onto their own bodies. Observation becomes their theology. The groan of aging flesh sets the ceiling they accept.

But that’s not our worldview.

We have Abraham’s blessing—healing, good health, satisfying long life—and it belongs to us and all his descendants. Psalm 91 says it straight: “With long life will I satisfy him.” Moses at 120 still had clear eyes and undiminished strength. Joshua and Caleb in their eighties felt like men in their forties, ready to take the land. They refused to let what they saw in the mirror of fallen men dictate what God could do in their bodies. They looked to the Spirit.

The faithless say, “Our flesh is failing, so we should just look to heaven.” That’s not what the Bible teaches. Think about that for three seconds. The Bible never says that. Rather, the already-not-yet points to now. Romans 8:11 says the Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies right here, right now. The Spirit gives life to my mortal flesh, not the curse. Not someday in glory—these very bodies today.

The faithless measure everything by what men can do and how men decline. They hear the body groan and decide that’s their limit. We hear a different groan—the Holy Spirit inside us shouting yes to every promise. That’s how we measure our limitless ability today. As we age, so does our faith. This means as we age, if we are faithful to age our faith, then our physical bodies can get stronger, not weaker, as it was with Moses. We walk by faith, not by sight. If we indeed walk by faith and not by sight, then as we age, our faith in God’s promises will cause us to get stronger, even if we see grey hairs. That is the promise of God’s word.

We find again that those whose theology claims to be God-centered are the opposite. They observe men and apply that to how reality works rather than what God says. They are men focused on men.

They focus on human weakness and apply it to themselves and each other. We look to how strong the Spirit can flex in us and refuse to measure ourselves by how much our bicep can flex on a bad day. Our strength in old age is measured by God’s promises and our faith in them, not doctors or observations. Our strength is not measured by the curse of decay that Jesus already swapped for the blessing of Abraham and the Spirit. Our strength is measured by the Spirit animating our mortal flesh.

Two completely different worlds. One built on watching fallen creation and calling it wisdom. The other built on the finished work of Christ and the indwelling Spirit who refuses to be limited by what men see.

So let the next frailty post be fuel. Renew your mind with the Word. Agree with the groan of the Spirit. Walk in the blessing that’s already yours—vigor that doesn’t fade, health that laughs at the calendar, strength that flexes by the Spirit, not by observation. Abraham’s promise is our inheritance. Moses-level strength in old age is normal. Joshua-and-Caleb fire at eighty is the standard. The Spirit is quickening these mortal bodies right now.

As Vincent Cheung reminds us in The Borders Collection, Volume 1, what you believe God will do for you is what God will do for you. If you believe that you will grow old and get feeble, then that's what will happen to you. You will become feeble. However, if you believe God's promises for strength and health and long life and vigor, then that's what God will give to you. Either way, you'll become a prophet, either for your own death or for life. Choose life. Choose health. It's available to you as a Christian, purchased by Christ. It's yours for the taking.

*15 Tomorrow Becomes Your Servant

Hey family, grab your coffee and let’s talk straight about how James, the Lord’s own little brother, actually applies God’s sovereignty. He doesn’t use it to keep us small or passive. He uses it to launch us into the kind of faith that makes reality line up with what God has already spoken.

James looks right at tomorrow’s fog and says, “You don’t even know what will happen tomorrow. Your life is a mist.” (James 4) That’s raw sovereignty staring us down. We plan, we boast, we act like we own the calendar—until God reminds us every breath is in His hand. But James doesn’t stop there like some people do and turn it into an excuse. He immediately flips the page and shows us exactly what to do with that truth.

In James 5 he says call the elders, anoint with oil, and pray the prayer of faith. That prayer will make the sick person well. The Lord will raise them up. Then he drops Elijah on us—the man just like us—who prayed earnestly and shut off the rain for three and a half years, then prayed again and opened the heavens. Lightning healing. Sudden rain. Circumstances obeying a word of faith. Same sovereign God, same human vessel, same result.

Jesus, James’ big brother, ties it together perfectly. He says the Father chose us and appointed us to bear fruit that lasts so that whatever we ask in His name the Father will give. No qualifiers slipped in. No “if it be Thy will” safety net. The will has already been spoken in the atonement, in the promises, in the command to ask believing.

So here’s how James applies sovereignty like a true son of the throne room: He bows to God’s absolute control, then steps into the authority that Jesus purchased for us, and then makes tomorrow bow to faith. Wisdom for tomorrow? Declare it and tomorrow will bow to you and give you wisdom. Healing tomorrow, if you need it? Command it in Jesus’ name and tomorrow becomes your servant. The faithless take James’ statement and make you bow to tomorrow as if it is your fatalist dictator. But scripture teaches divine determinism, not fatalism. Determinism teaches that with faith, the circumstances of tomorrow have begun to bow their knee to you. If tomorrow submits to faith-filled words, how much more will today?

That’s not presumption. That’s family resemblance—little brother doing exactly what Big Brother taught. Let’s live it. Ask believing, receive, and watch every mist-filled day surrender to the word of the King who lives in us.

Who’s ready to apply sovereignty the James way today?

*16 The Song of All Songs Is Praise to Sex and Passion

Saints, the Holy Spirit just dropped the ultimate spicy banger in Scripture and crowned it The Song of Songs — the greatest of all songs in the whole Bible! Think about it for two seconds. The Spirit titled the Song of Songs as praise and worship to marriage passion and sex, not a praise song to God. Does your marriage passion and sex live up to this?

The Holy Spirit didn’t give that supreme title to some lofty praise song for God Himself. He revealed it as belonging to the passion and sex of a married couple. That’s normal and good when you think about it, because God’s ways are always good.

“I aroused you under the apple tree” — that’s not some vague metaphor, saints, that’s Solomon openly talking about a position that today we’d straight-up call oral sex. And he’s saying it in public, unashamed, happy as a kid in a candy store, bragging to everyone around. You need to do this. Yes. Christian couples need to brag about how good their passion and sex is to the world, to their kids and to the church. Not in a vulgar or overly TMI way, but nonetheless, publicly praise and tell how wonderful the passion and sex is with their spouse.

Listen to this fire: “Place me like a seal over your heart… love is as strong as death… flashes like fire, the brightest kind of flame. Many waters cannot quench love…” And then the bedroom scene hits hard: “I slept but my heart was awake… My beloved is knocking… I’ve taken off my robe… thrust his hand through the latch… my heart pounded… hands dripped with myrrh on the bolt!”

If that ain’t straight-up toe-curling, heart-pounding, myrrh-dripping, robe-dropping married sex and pleasure slammed into glorious overdrive, somebody show me what is.

The faithless turned the marriage bed into a cold chore done in the dark and handed the sexual fire over to the world. That never should’ve happened. It makes marriages easy prey for Satan. The way to fight it is to have the same blazing fire seen in the Song of Songs — loud, joyful, often, free-use bodies, no shame, no excuses, full faith edition enjoyment. Christian orgasms and that hot, sweaty, toe-curling good time ought to be the envy of the whole world.

The gospel makes all things new — including the bedroom. No shame on carnal delight the way God wired it. Picture a man holding his double bacon cheeseburger, saliva running down his chin, stomach grumbling, muttering to himself, “I’m not here to gratify my carnal appetites—I only need this for nutrition.” Lol! That guy’s an idiot. Instead, he should thank God and look forward to gratifying those carnal appetites in the right way, without gluttony.

Sex in marriage works the same way. If you’re not looking at your spouse like you look at that burger—with eager anticipation to enjoy and satisfy your carnal desires—you’re both an idiot and disobeying God’s command.

Let that apple tree keep blooming wild in your house. Let the knock still make hearts race and hands drip. Seal that love on your heart and arm, answer it with pounding passion, heal anything that tries to slow you down, and watch your married sex preach louder than any sermon while you enjoy the feast the Lord prepared.

The world is starving for the real thing. Give them something to talk about while you’re living the Song out loud. Who’s turning up the heat tonight? Heaven’s cheering, demons are mad. Go make it legendary.

*17 The Power of Good Imaginations

In Hebrew, the word for “meditate” is the same word used for “imagination.” Scripture commands us to meditate on God and His Word; it also warns against the imagination of the wicked. The wicked dream and picture themselves doing bad things before they do them. We do the opposite: we picture and play videos in our minds with us doing good things. The point is simple: you are always imagining something. The question is whether you are imagining, dreaming or picturing yourself in negative, sick, limited or sinful replays, or picturing yourself with the gospel of righteousness, healing and prosperity applied to you.

The New Testament picks up the same idea with “worry” and “hope.” Jesus tells us not to worry—which means stop replaying the bad scenario in your head like your favorite song on repeat. The opposite command is to hope and meditate on God and His goodness. Since this directly counters the mental loop of negative imaginations, it means we are commanded to run the opposite loop: repeat good imaginations of ourselves in God’s love, seeing the promises already applied to us. This meditation is twofold. First is meditation on God Himself, as in His love and His actions, as in Jesus’ resurrection to the right hand of the Power. The second is how this is applied to us. This is where we imagine and picture the gospel applied to us as we live our lives and how it reshapes our dreams for the future, with bigger and better things.

We all know Romans 10:17—“faith comes by hearing the word of God.” Hebrews 11:1 adds the missing piece: faith is the substance of things hoped for. Hearing the Word stops you from seeing yourself sick, broke, or alone and starts you imagining yourself walking pain-free out your front door, stepping into your car, or walking into the store completely whole. That mental picture is hope. It causes you to meditate on the promise applied to your life. Faith then grabs that good imagination—anchored in the Word and promise of God—and makes it substance. It makes it reality.

It is hard for dreams to come true when they are all emotionalism or mere human effort. But there is a deeper problem: if you have no good dreams for yourself, there is nothing for faith to seize and turn into reality. The Word must saturate your mind until you are constantly seeing yourself in those good imaginations and dreams. Then faith can take hold and make them real.

When you see yourself getting into your car pain-free, that is hope. When you sense the Spirit whisper “yes” in that still small voice while you hold the good image, that is faith.

Put off the old man. Put on the new. Do more than stop replaying negative imaginations of yourself sick, broke, or lonely. Actively run the new playlist: healed, prosperous, surrounded by good people, walking in the promises, and when you do, you will start to hear the Spirit say “yes” in your heart. This is not positive thinking. This is obedience to the command to meditate, to hope, and to let faith substantiate what God has already spoken and what Jesus has already given to you.

*18 The Bible Doesn’t Care What Inductionists Say

And neither do I.

Some Historicists, Empiricists, and Inductionists strut around claiming Mark’s longer ending isn’t “legit.” Why on earth would I care? Before I waste a single second on their chatter, they must first prove that their sacred induction and empiricism—the very bedrock of their so-called “history”—can produce even one speck of actual knowledge. Until they do, every claim they make gets the same treatment: mocked, laughed at, and dismissed with zero apology.

Our biblical worldview stands in flat contradiction to theirs. I will only entertain their nonsense the day they prove my starting point—the laws of logic themselves—is wrong. Grant them that history via empiricism and induction yields knowledge, and I’ve already surrendered the entire Christian system. Any use of these tools is a triple fallacy: no knowledge is produced. Their whole position is an anti-logic clown show and deserves nothing but contempt.

Positively, Christian Metaphysics is crystal clear: God sovereignly caused the exact text and canon we possess—no accidents, no incompleteness, no human slip-ups sneaking through. He causes ALL things, including every good, every evil, and every thought in every mind (Isaiah 45:7; Ephesians 1:11; Proverbs 21:1; Hebrews 1:3). The words of Mark 16 stand precisely as He decreed them.

Christian Epistemology—our public starting point for all knowledge—declares we know this deductively from the self-authenticating text of Scripture alone. No need to “verify” it through the anti-logical toys of induction, empiricism, or historicism. Questioning the longer ending with historical methods isn’t merely weak evidence; it’s starting from a false metaphysics (autonomous reality) and a false epistemology (induction works). Both collapse without the biblical God.

Zoom in on the text itself, no outside history needed.

Why would Peter—the guy who loved Jesus so fiercely he walked on water (Matthew 14), cut off a man’s ear in defense (John 18:10), and then, Spirit-baptized at Pentecost, became a bold preaching powerhouse doing signs and wonders in Acts—let the Gospel end on such an anti-climactic whimper at 16:8? Women fleeing scared, saying nothing to anyone?

The resurrection is the ultimate victory: Jesus crushed death, Satan, and sin under His feet (1 Corinthians 15:54-57; Colossians 2:15). The entire Gospel builds relentlessly to this triumph and the commission to tell the world.

A short ending leaves us hanging on raw fear and silence. That deductively clashes with the power of the risen Lord and the New Testament’s explosion of bold preaching and signs.

The longer ending flows with perfect logical coherence: post-resurrection appearances, the Great Commission to preach, and “these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover” (Mark 16:17-18).

This displays the victory empowering believers—exactly as Peter transformed from fearful denier to Spirit-filled apostle casting out demons, healing the sick, and boldly proclaiming the same Jesus (Acts 2–5). No loose ends. No unresolved tension.

Deductively, from the axiom of Scripture’s internal coherence: the text demands a triumphant, empowered conclusion that matches Jesus’ victory and the Spirit’s outpouring. Ending merely on terror would violate the law of non-contradiction. You cannot have the victorious risen Lord and a Gospel that fizzles out in unresolved fear. The longer ending resolves it perfectly: victory, to commission, to signs following believers.

Peter’s later life in Acts is the living commentary on that text. It fits the narrative arc like a glove from the hand of the Sovereign Author.

Scripture or bust. Inductionists can keep their fallacies and their kitchen-scale skepticism. We stand on deduction from the God-breathed Word (2 Timothy 3:16-17). The Bible doesn’t bow to their nonsense—it stands in judgment over them, just like our risen King, and just as we who are (present tense) seated in the heavenly places with Christ.

*19 Better To Receive Than to Give

Mary sat at Jesus’ feet receiving. Martha was busy giving her service, distracted and a little critical that her sister wasn’t helping. Jesus said Mary chose the better thing, and it will not be taken from her.

With people it is more blessed to give than to receive. With God the order flips completely. Receiving is the better portion. Jesus did not come to be served but to serve and to give His life as a ransom for many. He multiplied the bread until the crowds were stuffed and baskets of leftovers remained. God serves man. Not because man is the master, but because God is in absolute control and does exactly what He wants. He is love overflowing with unmerited favor. He delights to help us, so He serves.

When you keep sitting there asking and receiving, you are not being lazy or selfish. You are glorifying God as your great Supply and Benefactor. That is how we love Him. We love because He first loved us and keeps pouring Himself out. Mature wisdom is not measured by how hard you work for God, but by how freely you receive the free goodies of the gospel. Paul prayed that we would grasp how wide and long and high and deep the love of Christ is, and be filled with all the fullness of God. How does that happen? By experiencing Him doing immeasurably more than we ask or imagine. When you ask for healing and walk away stronger than before, when provision multiplies past what you needed, when the desires of your household get answered with leftovers, your inner man is strengthened and Christ dwells richer in your heart.

Jesus is happy to keep giving. He still publicly praises the ones who choose the better part and refuse to get distracted serving when they could be receiving. Keep asking. Keep receiving. The Host is still glad to pile the plate high for those who sit at His feet. He likes it.

*20 It Is Attainable

Isaiah 45:19 (NLT)

“I publicly proclaim bold promises.

I do not whisper obscurities in some dark corner.

I would not have told the people of Israel to seek me

if I could not be found.

I, the Lord, speak only what is true

and declare only what is right.”

We begin this section with a presupposition that the Father and Jesus consistently operate from when they engage human beings:

If God talks about something good — no matter how large, how supernatural, or how wonderful — it is attainable by anyone who believes.

God is no respecter of persons. Small or great, educated or uneducated, young or old, it does not matter. When He promised to make Abraham’s name great, to give him supernatural fruitfulness, and to establish a covenant of blessing that would touch the nations, those things were not poetic exaggerations. They were real. And they were reachable by faith.

Think of it the way God designed a plant. He does not tell a plant, “If you gather sunlight and water, you will have food,” as some cruel joke. In the plant’s design, that process is more than doable. It is how the plant is built to function. In the same way, God’s precious promises and definitions for man sit inside a design that assumes we are more than able to walk in them.

The New Testament takes this even further. It does not merely say the promises are available. It says they are already ours in Christ.

“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.” (Ephesians 1:3)

“For all the promises of God find their Yes in him.” (2 Corinthians 1:20). You want healing. It’s a yes. You need a money miracle. It’s a yes. You need help. It’s a yes.

The seed already contains the tree. The inheritance has already been written into your name. Faith is not the desperate attempt to convince God to give you something He is reluctant to release. Faith is the simple, stubborn decision to stop acting like the package has not already been delivered.

You already got it.

Not because your performance is perfect.

Not because your faith is flawless.

But because the One who speaks only what is true and declares only what is right has already spoken over you in Christ.

Walk like it is true. Speak like it is true. Refuse to dig the seed up every other day to check whether it is still there. It is.

*21 Biblical Humbleness

If you are looking for God to exalt you by submitting your faith and confidence to God’s mighty promises, you are the pinnacle of humbleness. Do not let anyone steal this from you. Do not let Satan or those sided with him steal God’s definition from you. Be humble and seek God’s mighty hand to faithfully do all the things He promised. Be a Christian.

Here’s the gut-check that flips the whole conversation on its head: If you find it humble to ask God for forgiveness, knowing that if you ask in faith God will absolutely exalt you with forgiveness and adoption, but you suddenly decide it’s not humble to do the same with God healing you or prospering you, then you are the very definition of arrogance and pride. You have sided against God. You are a legacy of pride.

Why? Because real humility doesn’t play favorites with the finished work of Christ. It doesn’t treat forgiveness like the only safe request while quietly labeling healing and abundance as “too much to ask.” That double standard isn’t modesty—it’s a sneaky form of unbelief dressed up in religious robes. God doesn’t hand out partial victories. The same bold trust that receives pardon receives wholeness and supply too. Anything less is like showing up to the King’s table, thanking Him for the bread, then politely refusing the feast He prepared.

Satan loves that trick. He whispers that expecting the full package makes you presumptuous, when the truth is the opposite: refusing the full package keeps you small and robs God of the glory He wants to display through your life. True humbleness submits everything—your doubts, your experiences, your ideas of “enough”—and simply says, “Lord, do what You said You would do.” No negotiations. No selective menu.

So shake off the lies today. Storm the throne with the same childlike confidence for every promise. Let God exalt you across the board, because that’s exactly what humble faith looks like. Over coffee and a donut, this is the sweet spot of the Christian life—trusting big, receiving big, and walking tall in what Jesus already purchased for you.

Be humble. Believe Him for miracles.

*22 James Applies God’s Sovereignty

Let’s talk straight about how James, the Lord’s own little brother, actually applies God’s sovereignty. He doesn’t use it to keep us small or passive. He uses it to launch us into the kind of faith that makes reality line up with what God has already spoken.

So here’s how James applies sovereignty like a true son of the throne room: He bows to God’s absolute control, then steps into the authority that control purchased and makes tomorrow bow to faith. Wisdom for tomorrow? Declare it. Healing tomorrow? Command it in Jesus’ name. If tomorrow submits to faith-filled words, how much more will today?

Who’s ready to apply sovereignty the James way today?

*23 Poverty Commands You What To Do

When Christians talk money they usually only swing at one side of the equation and act like the other side does not exist. They point at the rich guy and yell that he has made money his god, that riches whisper every greedy “yes” he wants to hear and he chases it like a dog after a steak. Fair enough. A person who does that is not walking as a Christian. But that is only half the picture. Vincent Cheung nailed it when he showed that poverty installs money as a god just as cleanly as the greed of abundance does. When you fear poverty, it is a god to you. When you overly want wealth, it is a god to you. Let me say that again. To fear something is to enthrone it as a god and serve it. To fear the lack of money is to serve it as a master over you. Even the middle-class guy sitting right in the average can make money his god simply by boasting that he is “neither rich nor poor, just right.” Every position on the money spectrum can turn the stuff into a master.

Look hard at the poverty side. When the pockets are empty, that lack itself becomes the boss. It starts barking orders. Want a house? Poverty walks up, slaps you across the face, and says no. Want a new car so you can actually get to work without praying the engine does not die? Same master, same slap, harder this time. Want to put real money in the offering so the church can move? It hits the other cheek for free. Want to bless the neighbor whose fridge is empty? Gut-punch. Want to wire support to a missionary planting churches on the other side of the planet? Poverty winds up like a prizefighter and drives the fist straight into your stomach while snarling, “You can’t do that.” In that moment the lack is not just an inconvenience. It is a god telling you what is possible and what is off-limits. Fear and the bondage of being broke rule a person. The master is the same whether he sits on a pile of gold or stands on the empty floor of need.

So how do you fire that master? You install a better one. When God becomes the actual Breadwinner, when His promise becomes the real supply line, then God is the one who gets to say what you can and cannot do. Money loses its veto power.

Jesus and Peter walked up to the temple one day and the collectors asked if the Teacher paid the tax. If they had been operating under the poverty-god, the answer would have been simple: no cash, no entry. Lack and the fear of lack would have slammed the door. Instead Jesus sent Peter fishing—recreation, not grind—and the first fish that hit the line had the exact coin they needed in its mouth. God turned an afternoon of possible trouble into fun on the water and provision that laughed in the face of the lack-master. Faith in God’s promise, and the Father’s supply, not the empty purse, decided what they could do.

Same story when Israel walked out of Egypt. They needed resources to build a new life, fund a tabernacle, and settle a land. Poverty would have screamed that an entire nation of former slaves could never pull it off. God answered with a wealth transfer so blunt it still makes economists nervous: the Egyptians handed over gold, silver, and goods on the way out the door. Then in Canaan the people moved into houses they did not build and ate from vineyards they did not plant. The lack-god never got a vote. God supplied, so God set the limits—and the limits were enormous.

The gospel itself is the permanent version of that transfer. “For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.” The context is money. Jesus took the poverty curse—literally penniless, stripped, and buried in a borrowed tomb—so that the riches side of the exchange lands on us. He does not only give a new heart that finally treats money correctly; He also supplies the finances that flow from the finished work. Poverty is a curse. Christ became that curse. The promise that remains is not “maybe someday if you are spiritual enough.” It is present-tense supply that answers to faith.

When that gospel is your Master, the conversation changes. Want to fund a hundred houses for a hundred missionaries? The promise looks at the request, the Holy Spirit bears witness in your heart with a clear yes, and nothing in the universe has the authority to overrule it except your own unbelief. If God is your true God, then God—not the empty bank account—gets the honor to command and tell you what you should do. God tells you what you should do by the finished gospel and the promises of blessing. Jesus’ ethic for prayer is the will and want of man, not the want of God. If you want it, then it’s God’s will. That is Jesus’ ethic. The slap-happy tyrant called Poverty loses its job. Money becomes a tool again instead of a deity. And the limitless possibilities that were always sitting inside the finished work of Christ suddenly look normal, because you are believing and submitting to the real God. This is the God who took your poverty and gave you His riches. He is the God who gives a fish for a fish, or a gold ounce in a fish’s mouth for a gold ounce in a fish’s mouth.

*24 Beth Moore and the “God Told Me” Circus

Beth Moore is back in the headlines claiming God whispered a fresh revelation: “My Bride is paralyzed by unbelief.” She was told to write it down and keep saying it whenever the utterance comes. Critics immediately reached for Jeremiah 23.

The Bride of Christ is not paralyzed.

She is a new creation.

She is the righteousness of God in Christ.

She is seated with Him in the heavenly places.

She has been given every promise that is Yes and Amen.

She has the Spirit of power, love, and a sound mind.

She is commanded to move mountains, heal the sick, cast out demons, and ask whatever she wills in Jesus’ name.

If the Church looks paralyzed, it is because large sections of her have spent decades nursing unbelief, calling it humility, and treating the finished work like a polite suggestion instead of a blood-bought contract. That is not a fresh revelation, in the general sense, but it could be a directed fresh revelation for a specific group who are faithless.

Some act like any claim of “God told me” is automatically suspect. That is the strange and faithless position. The New Testament is packed with prophecy, and it issues direct commands to earnestly desire spiritual gifts—especially that we may prophesy. The Spirit still speaks. He still gives words of knowledge, prophecy, and specific direction. If you never hear Him, you are the odd one out, not the one who does.

Some get nervous about the wording “thus says the Lord.” That is stupid. It is the same as saying “God told me.” The Corinthians were prophesying regularly, and all those “thus says the Lord” words were not written down as Scripture. Not every prophetic utterance becomes canon. This should be obvious to adults.

Consider the importance. There are situations in life where general Bible knowledge is not enough. You will be defeated by certain troubles unless God speaks specifically. David did not automatically know why the famine was on the land; he had to inquire of the Lord and receive revelation that it was Saul’s bloodguilt against the Gibeonites. Without that word he would have kept guessing while the people kept dying. You need to hear God speak, and you should want it. You are commanded to be baptized in the power of the Spirit. That baptism not only confirms God has called you to Himself—it enables you to expand His kingdom.

Jesus said His sheep hear His voice. The Spirit still speaks. But He never speaks against what He has already spoken. He never invents a new identity for the Bride that contradicts the one purchased at the cross. And He never needs a celebrity teacher to announce that unbelief is bad. We already knew that, at least us who have faith in God.

If God is saying anything to the Church right now, it is the same thing He has been saying since the empty tomb:

Stop limiting Me.

Stop calling unbelief wisdom.

Stop treating My promises like optional upgrades.

You are not paralyzed. You are armed. You have the Staff of God in your hand. Use it.

The real paralysis is the one that treats “God told me” as a trump card while the actual Word of God sits unopened, unapplied, and un-obeyed—or the opposite paralysis that pretends God stopped speaking the moment the canon closed. Faith is not waiting for a new download. Faith is mental assent to the propositions already given. Faith is looking at the finished work and saying, “That healing is mine. That is who I am. That is what I walk in.”

*25 Acknowledge All The Good Stuff In You

Philemon 1:6 is not a suggestion to quietly think nice thoughts. “And I pray that the fellowship of your faith may become effective through the full knowledge of every good thing which is in you for the sake of Christ.” Paul is praying that the shared faith they already walk in together would explode into effectiveness the moment Philemon stops staring at his belly button and starts acknowledging—out loud—the mountain of good already living inside him.

The fellowship of faith is simple. Paul, Philemon, and every other friend of the truth are locked into the same Christ, the same doctrine, the same Spirit. That partnership only becomes lethal—effective—when the partners acknowledge every good thing already deposited in them for Christ’s sake. Not partial knowledge. Full knowledge. And knowledge that stays silent is incomplete. Paul wants the acknowledging. Speak it. Confess it. Hear yourself say it.

Paul prays the same way in Ephesians 3. He wants the inner man strengthened with power through the Spirit. How? By knowing the height, depth, length, and width of God’s love for you. Notice the direction. It is never “know how hard you love God.” It is always “know how hard God loves you.” The result is the same in both places: the inner man gets strong, the prayers get answered exceedingly, abundantly, beyond all you ask or think, according to the power already at work in you. Same logic. Same result. But in Philemon he gets even more specific. The strengthening happens when you acknowledge the good things that are in you.

The faithless invert the whole thing and call it humility. They train people to confess how sinful they are, how nothing they are, how weak they are, how God is everything and they are the dust under His feet. That is not Paul’s prayer. That is Satan’s strategy. Sin-consciousness is a spiritual sedative. It keeps the fellowship of faith anemic, the inner man soft, and the demons laughing. Paul does the opposite. He wants you to look inside and acknowledge—out loud—how righteous you are, how holy you are, how powerful you are, how healed you already are by the stripes of Jesus, how rich you are, how seated in the heavenly places you already are, how every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places has already been given to you, how you are a royal priesthood right now, how the name of Jesus is already yours to use, and how the same Spirit who raised Christ from the dead lives in you with resurrection force.

You are not auditioning for the role of “broken vessel.” You already got the part of co-heir. 2 Corinthians 5:21 says God made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. Not “might one day become if we try hard enough.” Become. The promises are not floating out there in God somewhere. The promises are you. You are the righteousness of God. You are the healed. You are the powerful. You are the one seated with Christ. Paul is not telling you to acknowledge how good God is in Himself while you stay a worm. He is telling you to acknowledge every good thing which is in you. It is in you. It is you.

So open your mouth. Confess it. Hear yourself say, “I am the righteousness of God in Christ.” Hear yourself say, “By His stripes I was healed—I am healed.” Hear yourself say, “I am powerful. The same Spirit that raised Jesus lives in me. Mountains move when I speak.” Hear yourself say, “Every spiritual blessing is already mine. I am a co-heir. I am seated in heavenly places. I can ask anything in Jesus’ name and He will do it.” That is the acknowledging Paul is after. Silent knowledge is not full knowledge. Faith that never opens its mouth stays ineffective.

When you acknowledge those things out loud—when you speak them, hear yourself say them, refuse the evil report of “I’m nothing”—the fellowship of your faith stops being a polite Sunday social club and starts being an effective force that refreshes the saints, frees the captives, and makes demons scream. Power flows out of you the way it flowed out of Jesus when someone touched Him in faith. Not because you worked up enough emotion. Because you finally agreed with your mouth what God already put in you.

The faithless keep trying to sell you a different gospel. They want you conscious of sin so you stay weak. Jesus and Paul want you conscious of the good things that are in you so you stay dangerous. One makes the fellowship of faith effective. The other makes it a waste of time. Choose the one that matches the blood, the Spirit, and the open tomb.

Stop the worm theology. Open your mouth. Acknowledge every good thing that is in you for the sake of Christ. Confess how righteous, how powerful, how healed, how rich, how awesome you already are. Hear yourself say it. The promises are you. Do that and watch the fellowship of your faith become effective, the inner man get strong, and heaven start answering like it has been waiting for you to finally say out loud what was already yours the whole time.

*26 A Dividing Line

Miracle ministry is the dividing line. It separates those who actually believe Jesus from the religiously faithless who only pretend.

Look at Matthew 11. John’s disciples show up asking if Jesus is really the One. He does not give them a theological lecture on sin. He points straight at the evidence the Spirit produced: “Go and tell John what you hear and see: the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them. And blessed is the one who is not offended by me.” That is the anointed ministry Isaiah promised and Luke records Jesus claiming for Himself. The Spirit is on Him to heal the broken and announce good news. Then He turns and rebukes the cities that watched the same miracles and still refused to repent. Capernaum, Chorazin, Bethsaida—He says it will be more tolerable for Sodom on judgment day than for them. Why? Because Sodom would have repented if they had seen the lame walking and the dead rising. Israel saw it and stayed hard. Faithless perverts mock it by saying “name it and claim it” and “only if it’s God’s will.” They make Sodom look like angels. When miracle power does not produce faith, the unbelief is ten times more wicked than the sexual perversion of Sodom. That is Jesus’ own measurement.

Then chapter 12. Jesus declares Himself Lord of the Sabbath and quotes the prophet: “I desire mercy, not sacrifice.” The disciples are hungry, so they eat. A man with a withered hand is in the synagogue, so Jesus heals him on the spot. The religious leaders are furious. They would pull their own sheep out of a pit on the Sabbath, yet they treat a suffering human as less valuable than livestock. That is what faithless religion always does—it downgrades people while protecting its rules. Jesus exposes it by healing ministry. The divide happens when God's compassion comes through miracle ministry.

When they later demand a spectacular sign, He refuses. He is already giving the sign the prophets said the Spirit-anointed Servant would give: healing the sick, raising the dead, preaching good news to the poor. Most of those miracles were not authentication fireworks; they were the fulfillment of the old promise to Abraham. The children’s bread. The blessing that includes health and the Spirit’s power. The same blessing now belongs to everyone who belongs to Christ. Galatians is clear: Christ became a curse so that the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith. The majority of Jesus’ miracles were simply God keeping His word to Abraham. A few were specific signs given to authenticate He was God (that you may know the Son of man had authority to forgive...), but the bulk were the daily bread of the covenant.

So miracle ministry does two things at once. It leads normal people to have faith in God, and it exposes the faithless who would rather keep their religious control than see a victim of Satan’s torment released and freed. God’s compassion through miracles separates Christians from the faithless. The ones who rejoice when the blind see and the lame walk are the ones who actually believe. The ones who get offended, demand bigger signs, or treat healing as optional are the ones Jesus ranks worse than Sodom. Think about that. Sodom would repent at seeing healing miracles. But the faithless not only disbelieve but actively resist, mock, and attack ministries of faith, miracles, and the baptism of the Spirit. They are worse than worthless.

Do not be among them. The same Spirit who anointed Jesus anoints you. The same Abraham blessing is yours. Stretch out the withered hand. Command the mountain to move. Expect the dead to rise. Miracle power is not a side show; it is the gospel in action, and it will keep dividing the believers from the pretenders until Jesus returns.

*27 Who Hurt You!

The heavenly lineup.

The faithless keep showing up at the spiritual police station like they just got a free ticket to the world’s most confused lineup. God stands there looking like the Father who actually loves you. Satan stands there doing the “who, me?” shrug while still holding the stolen goods. And the faithless point straight at God. “That’s the guy who hurt me, stole from me, and tried to destroy me.” Imagine being so spiritually tone-deaf you can’t tell the difference between the One who gives life and the one who only shows up to steal, kill, and destroy. Yet these same people still climb into pulpits and open teaching apps like they just discovered the secret of the universe. If you still can’t figure out who is handing out the sickness and the pain, sit all the way down. You have no business teaching anyone anything. When God and Satan start looking interchangeable in your theology, we don’t have a small misunderstanding—we have a full-blown identity crisis wearing a clerical collar.

Jesus already settled the definition in John 15, and He didn’t stutter. “You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.” The Father’s pruning is not some cosmic hazing ritual where He loads you up with cancer, lack, and emotional wreckage so you can “learn humility.” That is a faithless bait-and-switch so ridiculous it should come with a laugh track. The words of Jesus are the actual pruning shears. They cut out the rotten human thinking—the unbelief, the self-pity, the quiet agreement with the enemy—and install faith in the promises instead. When those words stay in you, the contract fires on all cylinders: ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you. The same Father who prunes gets the glory when you ask for the healthy body, the open door, the supply, and actually receive it. How is He supposed to be the one giving you the sickness while simultaneously commanding you to ask Him to remove it and promising He will? That’s not sovereignty. That’s theological gaslighting.

Jesus does not pile on troubles. He clears them out like a man with a pressure washer and zero patience for dirt. There is a spiritual entity who specializes in the free-candy distribution of sickness, oppression, and misery, and his name is still Satan. Acts 10:38 didn’t get rewritten. Jesus went around healing everyone who was being oppressed by the devil. Satan hands out the pain. Jesus hands out the healing. Mixing those two up is like confusing the fire department with the arsonist and then writing a worship song about it.

If the Father is truly pruning you, the results are measurable. He drives you deeper into Jesus’ words. Your faith in the promises gets louder, not quieter. You start asking bigger, receiving more healing, money, big miracles, and glorifying Him like someone who actually believes the contract is real. That is the fruit. That is the proof you are on the right side of the glass.

If the “pruning” in your life only produces more blame toward God, more quiet resignation to pain, and less bold asking, then stop pretending you’re wearing the family jersey. Double-check whose side you’re actually on. The faithless cover for their faithless god because they already share the same locker room. They are not your friends. Stick with the words of Jesus. Abide in them like your life depends on it—because it does. Ask. Receive. Glorify Him big time. The contract is still open. Use it.

*28 Not some independent Son-of-God override switch

Jesus did ministry as a man born under the law. After the wilderness temptation He got filled with the Spirit—and then the real show started. So did He walk around casting out demons with some private “Jesus battery pack”? Absolutely not. He cast them out by the Spirit of God. When it came to miracles, Jesus flat-out said the Father is the one doing the heavy lifting. The Passion Translation hits John 14:10-12 clean: “Don’t you believe that the Father is living in me and that I am living in the Father? Even my words are not my own but come from my Father, for he lives in me and performs his miracles of power through me.”

Let’s lock this down. Every time Jesus told a demon to pack its bags, it was Spirit power. Every time He healed the sick, shut down a storm mid-tantrum, or turned a lunchbox into a feast, the power that made reality obey was the Father’s—running *through* Him—not some independent Son-of-God override switch. Jesus operated as a man under authority. The Father handed Him the badge to heal and command creation, but the actual voltage came from the Spirit and the Father.

And here’s the part that should make you grin: we get the exact same deal. Same authority. Same command. When Jesus told us to speak to mountains and make them move, when He told us to heal the sick and throw demons out, He didn’t hand us a participation trophy. He gave us *His* authority and parked God’s power inside us. That power is still God’s—but it lives in you. So when you command a mountain, it has to listen to you… while the power that flattens it is still the Almighty’s.

Jesus is now sitting at the right hand of the Power and He uses His own juice freely. But while He was on the dirt? Different story. And how successful was that miracle ministry when the power wasn’t even His? One hundred percent. The only time it slowed down was when unbelief clogged the pipes in His hometown. Some folks still try the soft excuse: “Well… it’s not my power, so maybe it won’t work.” That is high-level nonsense. Jesus never once failed to deliver a miracle even though the power wasn’t His personal stockpile. He trusted God, walked in the authority He’d been given, and reality folded. We are in the same ministry. Same authority. Same position. The only upgrade? Jesus said if you believe in Him you’ll do even greater works.

So stop nursing that timid theology. Rejoice. Your success rate is already locked in. Open your mouth and command something.

*29 Love with Power

The Bible defines love right in the middle of Paul defining different types of power and the correct use of Christian power when it is applied by selfishness and not love. Paul’s answer is that Christian love uses supernatural power to help others. With great power, great love should be used. As Vincent Cheung once said—I’m paraphrasing from memory—when people read 1 Corinthians 13 at their wedding, they should not do this without having a healing service right after, for this is the context for how to use love. Love is meant as a guide in the context of power.

Biblical love cannot be love without miracle power. Biblical love cannot be divorced from supernatural power, any more than Jesus can be removed from the Trinity.

God intends for us to love with supernatural power. When someone is sick, God wants you to love them not merely by sacrificing your time to “be there for them” and fix them a meal, but to make the sickness and pain go away by commanding it to leave. Fixing a meal is love. Let’s not overlook that. However, this alone would be an incomplete love if no power is produced when the context needs power to finalize the help. This is how Scripture defines love. Love that does not command the sickness to leave is not Christian love, or at best it can be described as a defective form of Christian love. The same for lack of insight. Christian love will bring a prophecy to help their family member or friends so that they have more understanding and wisdom for their jobs, ministry, relationships and godliness. If your neighbor needs a specific type of knowledge for their life, you cannot give them true Christian love without spiritual prophecy, insight and visions. Anything less than this is not Christian love.

If they need a spouse, then giving good advice is a start to love, but love's completion is seen in power. It is seen in a prayer of faith to bring Rebekah to the well and give you and your camels water.

Your church family will have all sorts of troubles thrown at them and the Bible’s answer is to overcome these troubles by miracles. You do not qualify as giving biblical love without helping them by providing miracles to help. Human love is merely human power; however, Christian love is distinguished by God’s supernatural power. Christian love cannot be Christian love without this miracle-working power. Worldly love can be defined without God’s supernatural power, but not Christian love. (1 Corinthians 12-14)

*30 Power is Greater Than Motives

Heard a clip from Andrew Wommack the other day claiming motives are more important than actions. Didn’t catch the whole thing, but that line is false as stated. Motives matter. Thank God they do. In some contexts they matter a lot. Paul tells us to give cheerfully. A heart that only gives under compulsion is missing the mark. Sometimes you give anyway until your heart catches up—cheerfulness is the target, not the prerequisite that freezes all obedience.

When we talk ultimate standing before God, a life of pure wrong motives can expose that the faith never took root. Fair enough. But most of life is not that black-and-white courtroom scene Andrew seems to paint. Look at Samson. The man was not walking around meditating on the full redemptive-historical plan of Christ every time he swung a jawbone. His motives were often messy, personal, and incomplete. Yet at the end he learned to speak to God with more reverence. And Hebrews still puts him in the hall of faith next to Abraham and David. The world was not worthy of him. Scripture remembers the faith, not the polished motives.

Hebrews 11:6 is clear: without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. The motive God actually wants is the confidence that He rewards. Faith that expects God to move, to bless, to heal, to deliver. That is not secondary. That is the foundation.

Here is the real issue: when action is required, pure motives without power are completely useless. You can overflow with loving motives to help the sick, the oppressed, the demonized—and if you have no power like Jesus had, those motives accomplish nothing. Zero. The person stays sick. The demon stays. The mountain stays. Love without the ability to actually change the situation is just a warm feeling while someone suffers.

First Corinthians 13 is not “the love chapter.” Oshea is right on this: the topic is spiritual gifts. The power chapters surround it. Paul’s point is that the gifts—the prophecy, the faith that moves mountains, the healings, the miracles—must be exercised in love. He never says replace the power with nice motives. He says wield the power with love. A church full of Corinthian-style gifts and imperfect motives is still infinitely more useful than a church that has all the correct heart language and zero power to heal the sick, cast out demons, raise the dead, or give a word that actually cuts through. When people need deliverance, only power delivers. Motives cannot raise the dead. Faith and the Spirit’s power can.

Paul tells us to keep pressing into maturity—power and love together. That is the goal. But if you are forced to choose in a crisis, take the church that can actually help over the one that can only feel correctly about the problem. Power is what Jesus walked in. Power is what He promised the church through the Spirit. Power is what the early believers used until even their shadows and handkerchiefs carried healing.

Motives matter. Faith that God rewards is the right motive. Love is the right way to use the gifts. But never let anyone tell you that clean motives without the power of God are somehow superior. When the sick need healing and the bound need freedom, only faith and power get the job done. Everything else is just talk.

*31 Triumphing Over Some Type

Hannah prayed:

My heart rejoices in the Lord;

my horn is lifted up by the Lord.

My mouth boasts over my enemies,

because I rejoice in Your salvation.

1 Samuel 2:1 (HCSB)

Hannah is boasting over her enemies? Yes. And she is right to do it.

That barren womb that mocked her for years, the rival who needled her soul until she could not eat, the shame that sat on her like a wet blanket—every bit of it got crushed. She did not “accept her circumstances.” She asked. God gave the child. Then her mouth opened and rejoiced that the enemy had been defeated. That is not pride. That is salvation working out loud.

Christian, every time you receive a real victory in this world you are triumphing over some type of enemy. It is always there. The sickness that tried to keep a child from being born, the lack that tried to leave you empty-handed, the besetting sin that once owned you, the demon that needed to be cast out screaming, the people vexing your soul, the actual Egyptians at the Red Sea—every answered prayer is the defeat of an enemy. Satan, this world, and the kingdom of darkness lose ground every time God answers you. And it is good and right to triumph and rejoice that those enemies have been defeated. That rejoicing is not optional frosting on the cake. It is part of being delivered. Part of having the salvation of God is that enemies have to be destroyed for that salvation to happen.

You stand under a blood contract where every promise of God is Yes and Amen in Christ. The favor and good He promised covers both the spiritual and the material for every elect son. So when the answer comes, your horn is lifted and your mouth is supposed to boast. God already put the Staff of God in your hand. Stop the monologue about how the Lord will fight while you stand still. He already gave you the authority. You divide the sea. You command the mountain. You heal the sick. The finished work already paid for the victory. Receive it by faith that does not hedge. Then rejoice that the enemy is down.

Look at Psalm 118 after the answer came: “All the nations surrounded me; in the name of Yahweh I destroyed them… I will look in triumph on those who hate me… There are shouts of joy and victory in the tents of the righteous… You have answered me and have become my salvation… I will not die but live and proclaim what the Lord has done.”

Oh Christian, open that same psalm and say it with full confidence: “I will destroy my enemies in the Name of Yahweh.” Your heart rejoices because the enemies are defeated. Your horn is lifted. Your mouth boasts. That is what salvation looks like when it hits the ground. Now go use the authority already in your hand. Reclaim what was stolen. Expand the kingdom with tangible victories that leave the darkness looking foolish. The blood bought it. Faith receives it. Rejoice that the enemies are down. Do it.

*32 Born a fool - Died a fool

Born in Pain. Died in Health.

That is the entire cosmic scoreboard, and the universe is currently holding up the cards like a bored referee who has seen this match a million times.

Nabal was the walking definition of the first half. His name literally meant “fool,” and the man treated that label like a lifelong brand sponsorship. David’s men had spent months protecting his flocks from actual bandits, the kind that do not leave polite notes. When those same men asked for a little food, Nabal answered with the spiritual equivalent of a one-star Yelp review written while drunk on his own importance. Sensory arrogance at full volume. Ten days later his heart turned to stone and he exited stage left exactly as advertised. Born a fool. Died a fool. No plot twist. No redemption arc. Just the dull thud of a man who never once questioned the packaging.

Jabez got the opposite script and tore it up. His mother named him Pain because the birth had been pure misery. That label was supposed to be the whole biography. Pain. End of story. But Jabez looked at the birth certificate, looked at the God of Israel, and decided the name was a suggestion, not a sentence. He prayed the most beautifully aggressive prayer in the genealogies: bless me, enlarge my border, put Your hand on me, keep me from harm so the pain does not get to keep writing the story. And God granted it. The man born in Pain died healthy, prosperous, enlarged, and free.

Born in Pain. Died in Health. One prayer of faith flipped the entire narrative while the rest of the genealogy was still clearing its throat.

The spies tried the Nabal method with better optics. They walked into the land God had already deeded to them, measured the giants with their eyeballs, calculated the fortifications with their calculators of unbelief, and returned with an accurate sensory report. We are grasshoppers. The cities are fortified. We cannot. God, who apparently has zero patience for empiricism when it contradicts His promise, simply said, “As you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you.” Their evil report became their prison sentence. Joshua and Caleb looked at the exact same giants, the exact same walls, and defined reality by the Word instead of the data. They inherited. The difference was never the size of the problem. It was which report they chose to amplify.

You already hold the Staff of God. Stop the beggar monologue that keeps calling heaven like it is customer service for a car you already own and are sitting inside. Moses tried that speech once—standing still, watching the Lord fight, calm yourselves—and God interrupted with pure irritation: Why are you crying out to Me? You divide the sea. The authority is already in your hand. The finished work already purchased the reverse of every bad label. Blessing instead of curse. Enlargement instead of limitation. Health instead of pain. Protection instead of harm. Prosperity instead of lack. One prayer of faith, bold and without the hedging that dresses doubt up in a tuxedo, rewrites the whole story.

So what if the birth certificate said Pain? So what if the family nickname was Fool? So what if the current circumstance is screaming “this is too much”? The name does not get the last word unless you hand it the microphone and buy it dinner. Faith in the promise of God turns the entire thing around while the sensory report is still trying to clear security. Ask for the enlargement. Command the mountain. Receive the reverse. The battle is not over until you are healthy, prosperous, enlarged, and free from the very thing that tried to define you. Born a fool? Die in wisdom and power. Born in Pain? Die in Health. God already said yes to Jabez. He is not limited by the hand you were dealt. Ask big. Speak it. Take the land.

*33 Meaningless Definitions

Yeah, exactly. A three-year-old can look out the window, notice the leaves change color or the puppy get bigger, and say “things change.” That observation is completely neutral. It doesn’t enroll the kid in either camp.

If “evolution” is defined as just any change over time, then the toddler is already an evolutionist the moment he notices the seasons shift. That’s how empty the definition has become. The same basic fact is equally at home in a creationist account: designed kinds that can vary, grow, and even degrade. Noticing change doesn’t tip the scale either way.

Under pure logic, change simply means a thing is no longer identical in every respect to what it was. That’s all the child sees. Neither the claim of simple origins producing net complexity through undirected processes, nor the claim of information already present in kinds that later vary within limits, is contained in that bare observation. Both frameworks already expect change. The real dispute sits outside the observation—where the original information came from, what kinds of change are possible, and whether net complexification from a simple start is required.

Once the word is stretched to cover every instance of “things change,” it stops doing any distinguishing work in the debate. It becomes as empty as calling every existing thing “existence.” When you stretch “evolution” to mean basically any change over time, the word starts to look a lot like “existence.”

Everything that is, exists. Dreams exist, thoughts exist, rocks exist, imaginary unicorns exist in some mental sense. Without tighter boundaries the word stops doing useful work. It becomes a near-empty label that covers everything and therefore distinguishes nothing.

The interesting claims still have to be argued on their own terms.

*34 I Question Everything

People love to hide their skepticism behind clever word games so it doesn’t look like the self-owning mess it really is. “I’m not skeptical,” they say with a straight face. “I just question everything.” Or the softer version: “I’m just hard to convince.” Cute. But if questioning is your ultimate standard, then you have to question the idea of questioning itself until the whole thing melts into a puddle of “wait, what was I even doing?” The standard has already moved on. In order for it to be true, it has to be false at the same time. Same move with being hard to convince. It should be hard to convince you that being hard to convince is the right first principle in the first place. You don’t believe it because you’re hard to convince. Again: for the claim to hold, it has to refute itself.

This is the exact same intellectual yoga that shows up in the fluidness of fluidness. Make fluidity your sacred standard and the idea of fluidness itself has to keep flowing until it means the opposite of what you started with. Progressives do the identical cartwheel: progress so hard that the progressive idea progresses right off the cliff into whatever shiny new thing is next. The standard eats itself. These are all siblings of skepticism. Real skepticism is that black-hole move where you deny the law of non-contradiction through infinite regress or by claiming “I don’t know.” That last one is just a smug way of saying “I know that I don’t know.” Agnosticism tries the same soft-shoe shuffle: suspended judgment that pretends not to commit while fully committing to the suspension. Contradictions don’t exist. They’re ontological nothings. Affirm and deny the same thing long enough and you have said nothing at all.

And if that really wasn’t your standard, if some other first principle handed you the “just question” or “hard to convince” idea, what was it? Observation? The five senses? Empiricism? Congrats, you’ve just dropped into the anti-logic zone where the senses can’t even reliably tell water from blood, induction is pure guesswork with no necessary connection to knowledge, and the whole house collapses because the starting point is already a skeptical mess that has to be false in order to be true. People invent these unique little phrases to smuggle in self-refuting first principles. You don’t have to believe them. They’re as stupid as they sound.

*35 Received by the same faith

I have heard from more than one pastor engaged in preaching the gospel that people reject salvation because they do not know for sure if God will forgive them. The pastor asks, “You know God has forgiven you, right?” And the answer comes back soft and foggy: “I hope so.” Or “I’m not sure.” Or the classic spiritual shrug, “If God wants me saved then He will do it, if not, then not.”

Those responses are not faith. Faith is agreeing with God’s revelation. God’s revelation does not say you might be saved if you believe and confess. It says you will be saved. If you do not believe you are forgiven, then you do not believe what God has revealed. There is zero faith. To believe a maybe outcome is not fifty percent faith. It is zero percent faith. Faith is the assent of the mind that what God says is true. There is no other way to have faith.

Yes, the same tired excuses that people use for why they're not healed or prosperous are the same tired excuses that people use for receiving forgiveness of their sins to be born again. Some of you might not have done a lot of evangelism or seen that up front, but people use the same type of excuses. And when those excuses are in play, they don’t work for salvation and they don’t work for healing.

It is exactly the same for healing. There is zero faith if you think God might or might not grant the request. The Word says the prayer of faith will make the sick person whole. There is no faith unless you humble yourself and agree with God’s Word with absolute certainty. Treating the promise like a coin flip, or like a weather forecast that might produce rain if the atmospheric pressure feels generous that day, is not humility. It is unbelief wearing a church hat. God’s promises do not come with a “maybe” clause written in fine print. Either you assent to them as true, or you do not.

When the answer is “I hope so,” the heart has already decided that God’s revelation is not solid enough to stand on. That is not caution. That is treating the gospel like a spiritual lottery ticket you bought just in case the numbers come up. The one who receives does so by the same faith: full, certain agreement with what God has said. Anything less leaves the promise untouched. Agree with the Word, and it will do exactly what it says for the soul and for the body.

If I Can’t Take You to McDonald’s, We’re Not United

There is nothing wrong with hunting a heresy and putting a spear through it. Paul said rebuke them sharply. Warn the sheep. If God does not recognize a man, I do not recognize him. Who am I to disagree with God? You can even go on offense. Paul named Alexander the coppersmith, said he did him great harm, and handed the payback to the Lord — which is just the imprecatory psalms walking into the New Testament in work boots. Scripture has a particular hatred for false teachers. Peter, by the Spirit, dropped Ananias and Sapphira in the aisle. That is not a glitch in Acts.

The problem is a ministry whose main product is the hunt. Christianity is overwhelmingly positive. Promise. Blessing. Spirit. Healing. The throne. Ask and receive. If all you do is hunt, you paint a cartoon of the Book and call the cartoon “discernment.” I sympathize with charismatics getting hounded every week. Some of them really do flub things. Being chewed on nonstop still explains why they reach for “unity.” Feeling is not a premise.

I am not against coming down on bad doctrine. I am against a two-shelf slogan that tells you to recognize the man God has not recognized. First unity is with God. God is the truth. I am united to whoever is united to the truth. And that is not a bare sentence with the mouth. It is proved in faith.

You built the two-shelf machine. You prove it.

“In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty.” Cute sticker. 1617. Not Paul. The Bible ranks some things — weightier matters, “of first importance.” Ranking is not a laminated flyer that says unite here, shrug there. I am not the one drawing the detailed chart. You are. The burden is yours.

Here is the warrant rule, and it is not complicated. If you demand a positive moral — “you must unify on these and not mention those” — you have to define what the thing is and what it is not, deducted from Scripture. If you cannot identify the line, you have no justification to burden anyone with it. A demand without a definition is just a mood with a clipboard.

Even if we grant your hierarchy for a page, the Bible never licenses the next move: teach the opposite of a “lesser” command and still call yourself one body. Same God. Same mouth. Same authority. Logical priority is not optional authority. “A is more foundational than B” is not “B may be preached backwards and we are still united.” That is a four-term slide. Produce the verse that says you may propagate the opposite of a revealed command and remain one body. I’ll wait. Bring snacks.

1 Timothy 4 already wrecks the chart. Forbidding marriage. Forbidding foods. Looks small. Looks “secondary.” Paul calls it a doctrine of demons. If your “non-essential” can be demonic, your machine ate itself.

“Core gospel issues” is a trap they cannot survive

There is no inspired closeness-meter. Nobody handed you a ruler that says, “this is 87% gospel, you may deny the other 13%.” The moment you start measuring how close a doctrine sits to “the gospel,” *you* become pope of the list. That reduces to absurdity. Keep asking “how close?” and you never land. You just keep moving the furniture.

Fine. Grant the game for one paragraph. If “core” means what the substitution actually purchased and what the apostles called the gospel, then look at the page. Abraham’s blessing is the gospel — and Paul boiled it down to the Spirit and miracles by faith, not a ticket to later (Galatians 3:5, 8, 13–14). Healing is in the atonement (Isaiah 53; Matthew 8:17). Jesus became poor so you would become rich (2 Corinthians 8:9). Read the words. Extreme faith is not a later add-on: ask whatever you want in His name, and His name is yours through the atonement. Peter said the baptism of the Spirit is what happens when the finished gospel sits down on the throne and pours (Acts 2:33). Those are not “related issues.” On their own definition, they *are* the gospel.

How many unity-brokers survive that? Most of the people preaching “unite on core gospel issues” would be condemned by the core gospel itself. Let alone anything attached to it.

Do not blur the weak brother with the second pulpit. When you blur categories you do not become charitable. You become delusional.

Two different acts. Same English words. Different identity.

Act A: a younger brother, a weak conscience, a man still learning. He eats vegetables when he could eat meat. He esteems a day when all days are alike in Christ. He cannot cast out a demon yet. Jesus looks at the Twelve after they fail and calls them faithless. That is a real rebuke. It is not a rival denomination. They missed a miracle. He named the miss. They stayed disciples. Correction stayed in the house.

What they did not do is the whole point. They did not slip out behind Jesus’ back and start a campaign: you are allowed to pray for the sick and not get healed, and that is fine, and it is not unbelief, and you should stay united with the man teaching that. They failed a demon. They did not starta a movement that baptized the failure and sold it as maturity.

Act B is that campaign. Same topic — healing, demons, faith — different act. The man goes behind the pastor. Behind the Lord. He starts teaching. He builds momentum. He tells people they may only worship on this day, even though the church has already said all days are the Lord’s. Or he tells people it is acceptable to pray for the sick and watch them stay sick, and that this is not unbelief, and that anyone who says otherwise is the divisive one. He is no longer a weak eater. He is no longer a disciple who missed a demon. He is a second pulpit. Households get upset. That is a false teacher. The New Testament does not give that man Romans 14. It gives him Titus 1, Galatians, Colossians 2, and 1 Timothy 4.

Someone used Romans 14 on me about days. Receive the one weak in faith. Do not smash him over dinner. God welcomed him. Paul did not say God welcomed his campaign. Watch the slide: “days” as a scruple is not “days” as a binding rule. “Could not cast it out yet” is not “it is fine if nobody gets healed.” When days become bondage, Paul does not say receive him. He says, “You observe days and months and seasons and years. I am afraid I have labored over you in vain.” When food and days become a courtroom over the body, “let no one pass judgment on you.” When mouths will not stop, they must be silenced, and rebuked *sharply*, that they may be sound in the faith.

Patience with a man still learning is not recognition for a man teaching the opposite. The Twelve got called faithless and kept following. The man who publishes “unhealed is allowed, and it is not unbelief” is not the Twelve. Mash those files and the Bible looks bipolar. It is not bipolar. You mixed the categories. The “unity slogan” lives on that blur. Kill the category error, and the slogan has to fight the bible.

If God Doesn't Recognize You, I Don’t Recognize You

Look at what the New Testament slams. Not a museum. A sample.

Another gospel — anathema (Galatians 1). Another Jesus (2 Corinthians 11). Silence them. Rebuke sharply (Titus 1). Doctrines of demons on food and marriage (1 Timothy 4). Gangrene on the resurrection (2 Timothy 2). Do not receive him. Do not even greet him. If you greet him you share his wicked work (2 John 9–11). Leave them. Blind guides (Matthew 15:14). Twice dead. Wandering stars. Hidden reefs at your love feasts (Jude). Tolerate Jezebel, who teaches (Revelation 2). If a man will not recognize what Paul wrote about the gifts, Paul does not recognize him (1 Corinthians 14:37–38). Speech against the Spirit’s works — the line Jesus said will not be forgiven in this age or the next (Matthew 12; Mark 3).

If I cannot greet him, I cannot take him to McDonald’s. If I cannot take him to McDonald’s, we are not united. That is not me being mean. That is John writing in complete sentences.

And if Jesus says a man has committed what will not be forgiven in this age or the next, who am I to take those words out of His mouth and define “unity” with a man who cannot be forgiven? If God does not recognize him, I do not go behind God’s back and recognize him. First unity is with God. Who am I to run a side deal?

Notice the order on the page. Rebuke and silence first. Soundness after. Unity after they shut up. If they keep propagating, you do not have it. You have a photo op.

The list is all over the place. Trinity-looking items and “who cares about food” items sit in the same dumpster. That is not sloppy editing. It is like the gifts of the Spirit: a sample, not a closed essentials flyer. Try to extract a two-tier machine from the sample and you reduce it to absurdity. Treat it as a sample of inexcusable teaching and the page is consistent — because every doctrine comes from the same God, and you are not allowed to pick a shelf to deny.

Vincent Cheung does not play the two-shelf game. He mocks the “minimal agreement” version of unity. Agreement is agreement. Food rules and marriage bans are not “disputable matters” once they are *taught*. They are doctrines of demons. Faith that will not take God as Rewarder is not a secondary vibe. It is unbelief with a statement of faith stapled to it.

Faith Unites Us Together to God

Unity is not a stack of sentences. Creed-only talk treats God like He left the room. It talks about Christianity as if an atheist borrowed the vocabulary and kept the furniture.

“That which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ” (1 John 1:3). People-unity is derivative. God is first. Without that, the rest is a club.

You do not unite to the truth by moving your mouth. Demons can clear “God exists.” Hebrews 11:6 has two clauses: He *is*, and He is a *rewarder* of those who seek Him. Then the chapter does not blush about what the reward looks like. It is not a later cloud and a hymn. Sarah gets a baby past age. Abraham gets a son from a dead body and then gets him back from an altar. Walls fall. Seas split. A nation walks through on dry ground. Lions shut their mouths. Fire fails to eat men. Weak men become strong. Armies break. Women receive their dead back by resurrection. One man by faith knocks over a political machine. They obtained what was promised. Some looked past death to a better resurrection and a city God built. Both are in the chapter. Heaven later does not cancel miracles now. The writer says it would take too long to tell Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets — and then he summarizes the pile anyway: kingdoms overthrown, justice enforced, promises received, mouths of lions stopped, flames quenched, swords escaped, strength out of weakness, foreign armies put to flight.

That is the faith that pleases God. Not a laminated “He exists.” Faith that takes Him as Rewarder today — healing, protection, strength, children, victory, the dead back — and as the God who still has a city waiting.

I have unity with Samson. Read that again if your Sunday-school reflex just tripped. Samson is a moral wreck by the pamphlet. Hebrews 11 still puts him next to Moses and David. God did not spotlight Samson for a clean marriage bed. He spotlighted the man who believed God would use him when nobody else did — and who still believed God would use him after he sinned. Holiness matters. But ethics will not rip a city gate out of the wall. Power will. When the moment needs miracle-working faith, there is no substitute. Samson is honey on God’s lips. His name is gravel in the mouth of the faithless. I am united to Samson because we are united in the same thing God commended: faith that God rewards with power in this age, and life in the next. I am not waiting for Samson to pass a manners test before I stand with the man that God already stood with.

Israel works the same way. God did not un-unite Himself from that people over a long list of huge sins. Golden calf. Complaining. Graves of craving. He stayed. He judged. He kept the promise on the table. The break comes at Kadesh, at the edge of glory. Twelve spies. Same land. Same God. Same promise. Ten of them teach the sight-report: they are too big, we are too small, we cannot do this. Joshua and Caleb teach the promise-report: the land is ours, God is with us, do not fear them. God did not shrug and say, “Well, they still affirm I exist, so we are united.” He un-united that generation. Think about that for two seconds. God forsook them at this point. They would die in the wilderness. He would deal with their children. The line was not a denied flyer about God’s being. The line was unbelief dressed as realism. They spoke what they saw rather than what He said, and God un-united Himself from them.

If God un-unites Himself from people who will not have faith for the miracles He promised — faith to take the land, faith to heal the sick, faith that He is Rewarder now — how can I build a coalition God has already left? Who am I to stay united to the ten spies when God has already chosen Joshua and Caleb?

There is a dividing line. You have to pick a side. You cannot be united to both. God is united with Joshua and Caleb. I am united to anyone else on that team. I am not united to anyone who is not. Mouth-affirmation without the Rewarder clause is not that team. A clean creed with an evil report is still an evil report.

That is where unity is seen. Not in a laminated essentials list. In faith. In taking God at His word when the spies come back sweaty.

Three questions before anyone gets a clipboard.

1. Where is the deducted list — what it is and what it isn’t?

2. Where is the verse that says you may teach the opposite of a “lesser” command and remain one body?

3. If God does not recognize him — if I cannot greet him and share a hamburger with at McDonalds, if the sin is unforgivable, if God is not pleased with the report — who am I to recognize him anyway?

Hunting a heresy is obedience. Christianity is positive and so making the hunt the whole show is a distortion of Christianity. Recognizing the man God has not recognized is a different gospel. First unity is with God. Faith is how you can tell who is actually in it. Joshua and Caleb, or the ten spies. Pick a side. God already did. And so did I.

Faith Is Not a Spell – Its Personal

Vincent Cheung said it without blushing: it is popular to teach that you must always hunt an exact verse for the exact thing you want, and then pronounce the prayer with laboratory precision, or else heaven shrugs. That is false. It contradicts both the teaching and the examples of Scripture. “It does not require a specific promise from God to receive what we ask, and there is no need to state our prayer with exact precision to receive what we desire. Prayer is not a magical incantation. God knows all things. Jesus said that God knows what you want before you pray.” (Reach for a Miracle, Vincent Cheung)

Read that again. Slowly. Then put down the wand.

Faith is not a spell. It is not an incantation you have to get syllable-perfect so the magic will fire. Faith is personal. Faith’s context does not float in a soup of unthinking laws that God set loose and then wandered off to watch. No. The context of faith is divine determinism. And for the saints, that determinism is not a cold machine. It is a direct, intimate, personal relationship with God. It is you agreeing with a living God who already knows what you meant, who already wrote you into a Contract in blood that He Himself made, and who already decided to treat you as a beloved son and not as a lab rat.

The Old Testament saints were not technicians

The heroes of faith pulled down suns, seas, bread, fire, and dead children with a shockingly small pile of paperwork. They did not have the completed canon sitting in a search bar, and they did not have AI to super-search the Bible for every footnote and loophole. They had God. They had His nature. They had the broad, blunt knowledge that He is good, that He helps, and that He is the kind of God who does wonders for people who look at Him. Cheung is right: what is always true about God cannot be contradicted by the particular situation you woke up in this morning. If God is willing to help, He is willing to help this. If God heals, He heals your sickness and pain today. You do not need a notarized footnote for every nerve ending. If God forgives, then He has forgiven your sin today.

Joshua told the sun to stand still. Elijah told fire to fall. The four lepers in 2 Kings 7 did not workshop a confession for three hours, aligning their words and actions into some liturgical NASA launch sequence. They said, “Why sit we here until we die?” and they stumbled toward the camp. God turned their footsteps into thunder. That is not a formula. That is a Person backing a person.

The Promise Is Vague On Purpose

Jesus did not tighten the screws in the New Testament. He loosened them even more. “Whatever you ask for in prayer, believing, you shall receive.” “If you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move,’ and it will move.” “Your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.” Those are large, general, almost scandalously vague promises given to children. They are vague because He loves us. They are vague because He wants to grant and fulfill your wants and dreams. They are vague so that your dreams fit inside them.

Think about that for a few seconds. Even as I write this I am filled with joy and physically restraining myself from detonating five more essays on this one point. What is the point of making the promise so broad and vague? So that whatever you dream up and want fits. That is the entire point. They cover the mountain, the fever, the empty jar, the demon, the paycheck, the thing you cannot even name yet without crying, and that huge dream for your life you are scared to ask because it seems too big and too wonderful. The whole design of a broad promise is to make sure all of it fits inside.

Unfortunately, when I hear most people talk about these statements, they spend their whole ministry trying to make them less broad and more specific. They shrink the application until it is so narrow it is practically unusable. They take a banquet table and turn it into a toothpick.

As Paul says, grace is grace, and works are works, and grace is not works. That is the law of identity. Categories stay categories. Same here. Broad, vague promises are not specific promises. They have different identities. To take Jesus’ broad statements and force them into a tiny, qualified box is a contradiction. Yes, it is correct that you cannot ask God to grant you sin. But that is so obvious the Bible barely bothers to mention it—and when it does, it says that asking God to sponsor your sin makes Him your enemy. You cannot in faith ask God to help you murder your neighbor. That limitation is pre-baked into the definition. You do not need to staple a ten-page disclaimer onto Jesus’ sentence.

Despite what sin promises, sin is a limitation, not an expansion. Satan comes to steal, kill, and destroy. That is limits on steroids. Jesus came to give life, and life abundantly. The blessing of Abraham is so broad about every sort of blessing, increase, health, wealth joy, and victory because it was meant to be broad enough to include anything you want.

The reason “not asking for sin” is a silent presupposition, not worth plastering all over Jesus’ broad statements, is basic. The statements are designed this way so that when the Bible and when Jesus make broad promises, you are not supposed to qualify them or restrict them. It is a pure positive. When Jesus says all, and everything, it means just that. Everything.

Why would God make such broad statements and promises? He did not make them for reprobates or outsiders. He made them for His beloved children. He made them broad so that whatever you dream up, you get it. That is the point. You are the point, because He likes you. You are His point. Because you are His child, your answered dreams are His point. Yes. You heard that right. God did not make the promise so broad so that He could answer all His own dreams and will. He made it broad to make room to answer yours.

Specific is good. Superstitious is stupid.

Now, before somebody accuses me of baptizing sloppiness: there is nothing wrong with being specific. Jesus said speak to the mountain. That is a command, not a suggestion from a timid life-coach. You can look at the stinging in your arm and say, “Stinging in my arm, I command you to leave in Jesus’ name.” That is maturity. That is a mind that has learned to aim. James says the prayer of faith will save the sick. Mark 11 says believe you “have” received what you say, and you “will” have it. Romans 10 says the word of faith is in your mouth. Abraham called himself the father of many nations before the baby existed. Faith speaks, and it often speaks specifically.

As Vincent reminds us, more revelation should work for us, not against us. If you have the whole Bible and less miracle than Abraham with a tent and a promise, the problem is not insufficient verses. The problem is that you turned the Bible into a spellbook and then blamed God when the Latin was off.

But you can also say, “Arm, be healed,” and God is not sitting in heaven with a red pen circling your grammar or your vagueness. He already knows. Matthew 6:8 is not a cute devotional fridge-magnet. It is metaphysics. God is intellectual. God is personal. Divine determinism is not a fog machine, that belongs to pantheism. It means the God who decreed the prayer also knows the prayer before the sound leaves your teeth. You do not have to incant the thing until the magic works. You agree with Him. He performs what He said. It is just that simple.

The technical and psychological obsession is not holiness. It is anxiety wearing a Greek lexicon. People get locked in their own heads, measuring the sentence, measuring the feeling, measuring whether they “hit it right this time,” and they stop looking at the Father who finds no fault with them when they ask. James 1:5 is still in the Book. He gives generously. He does not scold you for asking. He rejoices and gives. The moment you treat the wording like a lock combination, you have already moved from covenant friendship to witchcraft. You have made the power sit in the syllables instead of in the God who hears His children and gives them what they ask.

Sovereignty is not pantheism in a nice shirt

This is where the wheels come off for two different crowds at once.

The doctrine the Bible teaches about God’s sovereignty is not bare sovereignty. It is not the pantheist or deist sludge where God is the water and the fever and the mountain, so when you pray you are talking to anything or nothing at the same time. It is not the fatalist shrug that says, “God controls all things, therefore sit there and call your unbelief trust.” It is divine determinism—absolute, direct, personal. God causes all things. God knows what you will pray before you pray it. This same God made a blood Contract with His only Son and said, “I will always relate to you in these good and pleasant ways. I will always relate to you as a loving Father. I will always give you a, fish for a fish; and I will always give you a, miracle for a miracle. Always.”

H2O does not “naturally” behave like water. Water behaves like water because God faithfully keeps making it behave that way. Every drop. Every moment. Occasionalism is just the grown-up way of saying there is no causality hiding behind God’s back. There is no outside machinery and no outside natural law running the shop when He is not looking. Reality is His Lego set, except He made the pieces from scratch and He is still holding every stud in place by direct and absolute control. Science can trace the regularity because God is regular. The regularity is not a rival god, a stack of natural laws, or a polite dualism. It is His faithfulness wearing physics.

Spiritual things work the same way. There are no impersonal “spiritual laws” floating out there like gravity with a pulpit. The faith-teachers get this almost right and then trip on the last stair. Yes, the spiritual realm acts with a law-like stubbornness. Healing comes to faith. Mountains move when you speak. The prayer of a righteous man has huge effects. That is not because some force independent of God got switched on at the resurrection and now runs on autopilot if you smash the buttons correctly. It is because God is so perfectly faithful to do what He said that it feels like a law. He is consistent. He is covenant-bound. He swore by Himself. He cut a Contract in blood. He always relates to His elect in the good ways He promised—forgiveness, righteousness, healing, supply, authority—without fail. The “law” is just His character refusing to become a liar.

Forget that, and prayer turns into a spell. Remember it, and prayer turns into conversation with the only real Cause in the universe, who already likes you and has made broad promises so that He can grant your dreams. And by granting your dreams, God naturally expands His glory and His kingdom.

Two levels. Stop mixing the oil and the water.

God is the only real cause. On the ultimate level, He decrees everything. The Arminians are wrong. God does directly and absolutely predestine all things.

But the Bible does not talk to you in that register most of the time. It talks to you on the relative level—the Blood Contract friendship level—the level where Jesus looks at a bent-over daughter of Abraham and says Satan bound her, not the Father. The level where He says, “Your faith has healed you.” The level where Isaiah 54:15 can say, “They will surely gather against you, but not by Me,” while God remains the only real cause in metaphysics. Mixing those categories is not deep. It is a law-of-identity violation with a choir robe on. You do not drag ultimate causality into the promise of healing in order to give unbelief a respectable accent. That is how you wreck the car. Water and motor oil. Congratulations. You are stranded, and you called it orthodoxy.

The New Contract is not vague. Jesus took the taking upon Himself in substitution. The Father took from Him so He would only give to you. That is the whole point of the substitution. By His stripes you were healed. That is already done in God’s mind. Faith is not twisting God’s arm. Faith is agreeing with what God already thinks. “God, You are correct. I agree with You.” That is the whole engine. Not a chant. An agreement.

So speak. Broad or sharp. Just believe it.

You want to get more specific as you mature? Good. Command the sting. Name the mountain. Tell the lack to get out with specifics. Do it.

But remember: with this much raw power and broad promises, you only need one word and God makes it work. “Calm.” “Be still.” Jesus did not whisper a long incantation at storms. He spoke simply and directly. He did not hold a seminar on whether the wording was sufficiently nuanced. He spoke. The centurion understood sovereignty better than most theologians: “Just say the word.” He did not offer a long-winded, overly humble slogan of, “If it be Thy sovereign will, then maybe You can have mercy on this poor sinful outsider.” Jesus marveled at his simple and broad faith. That is the model.

You want to say it broad because you are tired and the pain is loud and you cannot remember the perfect verse? Also good. “Arm, be healed.” “Father, help.” “In Jesus’ name.” God already knows. He is not a vending machine that jams if you press B7 instead of B8. He is a Father who knows what you want before you pray, and He has already bound Himself by oath to treat you according to the finished gospel.

The Faithless will tell you to be careful. They always do. Caution is their spiritual gift, granted by Satan their high priest. They will warn you that general promises are dangerous and need to be heavily qualified so they are not abused, that specificity is safer, that sovereignty means you should add a coward’s appendix to every request. Ignore them. They have confused piety with unbelief and called the result balance.

Here is a secret the faithless kept from you. Practically speaking, you cannot abuse the broad promises and statements of God. They are broad to include all things on purpose. The only abuse is when you ask too small and too little. That is the real abuse. Asking too big for yourself is not the abuse. Asking too little is.

As Vincent says, “faith is the beginning of action.” Reach. Lay the hand. Open the mouth. The four lepers did not wait for a complete systematic theology of Syrian military acoustics. They moved. God turned the move into a miracle. When you reach, God reaches. That is the relationship. That is the Contract friendship. That is why it is not a spell.

You are not trying to get the universe to behave. You are talking to the God who is the reason the universe behaves. He knows. You know He knows. Ask. Even if it is vague. He will perform what you asked. That is all you need to know.

God laid everything on the table and said it is available to you. Ask for whatever you want, as much as you want. Be specific or be vague. Just ask and reach for your miracle. God will do His part.

Is It Not With Your Senses?

This is a good example to go over. It shows how the other side often does not even understand what a worldview is, let alone how to argue for one.

Oshea (replying to a video): “Christians usually respond by attacking metaphysics, which isn’t wrong. However, it is better to attack their starting point for knowledge. Attack it hard. Using sensations to prove sensation is circular nonsense. Without knowing, there is no knowledge about any aspect of their worldview.”

Johnny Billy: “How do you come to belief in God? Is it not with your senses? Doesn’t everyone have the same epistemic limits? Presupposing God to prove God is also circular nonsense.”

“How do you come to belief in God? Is it not with your senses?”

No.

That sentence already assumes your starting point and then demands I live inside it. That is the very thing under dispute. If that is how debates are won, then I can just say, “Since you read the peer-reviewed article using God’s innate knowledge, I win.” I know that is what happened in the causality of the thing — knowledge comes from God — but that is not a public argument in the context of a debate. It is me describing reality on my worldview’s terms.

A blank slate cannot interpret a tree. Look at the bark all day. What leaves the eye is not “tree,” “oak,” “living,” “outside me,” or “this is not a dream.” Those are universals and judgments. Universals do not leak out of particular sensations. To understand any datum at all you already need logic, self, space, time, difference, identity, motion, meaning, language, and causation. The data does not give you those. You bring them, or you do not have “data.” You have a twitch.

It is logically impossible to start with sensation in the premise and arrive at “logic, self, space, time, difference, identity, motion, meaning, language, causation” without jumping categories and breaking identity. Sensation is not logic. A color-patch is not the law of contradiction. A sound is not “therefore.”

So no: I did not come to God by cataloging sensations and then inducting my way to the Trinity. The reason is simpler than a conversion story. If I start with sensation, I cannot know any term about anything in reality. Nothing. Not “God.” Not “no God.” Not “senses.” Not “Johnny.”

Vincent Cheung puts the wheel in the open in “Questions for Empiricists” (Sermonettes, Volume 1):

“What is a sensation? How did you learn the meaning of a sensation? How do you know when you are having a sensation? Do you sense the sensation to know that you have a sensation? If you sense a sensation, then how do you know that? Do you sense the sensation that senses the sensation? Then, do you sense the sensation that senses the sensation that senses the sensation? … If information comes from sensation, then how do you know when you are having a sensation?”

That is not a cute riddle. That is the start eating itself. If knowledge comes from sensation, then knowing that you are sensing is another sensation, and knowing that is another, and you never get the first justified term. You do not even get to name the method.

“Doesn’t everyone have the same epistemic limits?”

No. That is the whole fraud you bought.

Worldviews have different starting points. Different starting points do not have the same limits, because they are different. That is the law of identity, not a Bible tract. You assume an empiricist start, then act shocked that another start does not share your ceiling. The Christian start is God’s revelation. The causality of knowledge is defined by that same account of reality: God, not nerve endings. Very different start. Very different limits.

“Epistemic limits,”

is a polite way to say your starting point cannot justify knowledge and meaning. A start has one job: make knowledge possible. Empiricism fails that job and then calls the failure humility. What it actually yields is skepticism. Skepticism cannot even be stated without using the knowledge it denies. “I know that we cannot know” is a contradiction. So empiricism does not survive as a starting point. A start that makes knowledge impossible is not a limited start. It is a dead one.

Pretending we all begin with sensation is not humility. It is a failure to argue for a worldview. The whole point of a worldview debate is that the starts differ, and you are here to show yours can carry knowledge and the other cannot. Assuming we all begin as empiricists is like walking into a room of rival worldviews and saying, “Aliens gave us consciousness, so why do you believe the Qur’an?” That is not an argument. That is you treating your story as the weather. If aliens-gave-us-knowledge is your epistemology, it is your job to argue for it. It is not a human default.

And since Scripture contradicts empiricism, if I granted that I depend on sensation to know the Bible, I would be denying the worldview I claim to believe. I would be saying the start is sensation and the start is revelation. Those are not the same thing.

“Presupposing God to prove God is also circular.”

You are confusing empiricism with every other starting point. You are so used to empiricism’s circle that you think every axiom must be the same shape. That is sloppy on its face, because my start is not yours.

Every system has an undeduced starting point. That is what a first principle is. If you can deduce it, it is not first. Empiricism uses sensation to prove sensation. That is circular, it never terminates, and it dies as skepticism. Skepticism cannot be spoken without contradicting itself. You need knowledge to deny knowledge.

Scripture does not lean on premises outside itself. It is self-authenticating by the sufficiency of its own content — similar to the law of contradiction, rather than to a hamster wheel called empiricism. The law of contradiction is not “proved” by a second, backup law of contradiction. It is the standard: to use it, you use it; to deny it, you use it. Empiricism is not like that. To “prove” a sensation you need another sensation, and another, and another. That is infinite regress, not self-authentication. So yes: sensation, used as a start, is circular. Revelation, used as a start, is a first principle. Calling both “circular” is how you hide that only one of them can even speak.

You want to talk metaphysics? Fine. You still do not have knowledge. Using sensations to prove sensation leaves you with no start. Without a start, you have no knowledge about any aspect of your worldview — including the objection you just made. You borrowed logic, self, space, time, difference, identity, motion, meaning, language, and causation. You borrowed “circular.” You borrowed “limits.” You borrowed the demand for justification. Then you pretended those tools fell out of an empiricist start you also admit is defective and limited.

Empiricism does not yield any knowledge. That is the argument.

It was never “God exists because a sunset felt warm.” It was this: your method cannot know anything, including that sentence. You cannot even know to deny my stance on God, because on your start you have no knowledge.

God’s Nature Necessitates His Control of All Things

Oshea Davis, helped by Grok, xAI.

God is essentially intellectual and spiritual. A mind, after all, is precisely a system of propositions, and the laws of logic are simply the constant, faithful motions of that divine Mind. These are not higher standards to which He submits, nor lower tools He picks up when convenient—they are descriptions of His own intellectual nature. Jesus is the Logos, the living Logic and Reason of God. God’s Spirit knows Himself perfectly; His knowledge is not a sequential scramble of premises and conclusions the way ours is, but an eternal, all-at-once intuition of every true proposition and every relation between them. God is also unstoppable power. Jesus Himself calls His Father the “Power.” Jesus also said God has life in Himself, but the life God has is an infinite, immutable power of His own thoughts and joy. Isaiah says that the God who creates good and evil, as a potter creates pots, also declares there is none beside Him or with Him in this category. Creation itself was not hammered into existence by a physical arm; it was spoken into being by a spiritual, intellectual, infinite, and immutable Mind. There is nothing more foundational in all reality than this: God thinks so. What God thinks is reality, by the necessity of His nature.

Now, with that picture of God’s nature in place, consider a recent claim by Dinesh D’Souza that God is sovereign, yet “like all sovereigns” He can (and did) delegate some of His power to nature’s physical laws and to human moral agency—including the free choice to relate to Him or not. The idea is that God remains “mostly” sovereign while handing over a few control knobs so libertarian free will can have room to breathe. It sounds generous. It even sounds humble to the stupid. But once you hold it up against the nature of God we just described, the whole arrangement starts to look like trying to keep a perfect circle by sawing off a few degrees of circumference so the lines can wiggle more freely. The circle stops being a circle.

Immutability Takes the First Hit

Immutability means God does not change in what He is. His nature, power, and attributes are not subject to “before” and “after.”

“Has delegated” is a present-perfect statement. It implies a prior state in which the power was fully His and a subsequent state in which some of it is no longer His in the same way. Even if one tries to push the decision back into eternity, the content still introduces a real distinction: full sovereignty versus limited sovereignty. That is a change in the possession or exercise of what God is.

By the law of identity, the unchanging cannot be the changing. If sovereignty is altered by delegation, then the God who is pure, undivided power is no longer identical to the God who has handed pieces away. The claim forces a transition that immutability, by definition, forbids. The Mind whose system of propositions never shifts cannot suddenly operate with reduced control over that system and still be the same Mind.

Simplicity Collapses Next

Divine simplicity is the claim that God is not composed of parts. He does not have power, knowledge, or will as detachable properties. He is His power, is His will, is His sovereignty. There is no real distinction between the essence and the attributes, or among the attributes.

Treating sovereignty as something that can be portioned out and “delegated” treats it exactly like a detachable slice. You can only give away what is separable. Once power becomes a separable quantity, God is now a composite of the part He kept and the part He released. Composition means dependence: the whole depends on the parts existing and relating correctly. A dependent being is not the necessary, underived being that classical theism requires.

Here the identity of power and thoughts becomes decisive. Since God’s power and His thoughts are the same thing—God is one—giving up His power is giving up His thoughts. The system of propositions that is God cannot lose a portion of its own controlling force without losing a portion of itself. God is one thing. By necessity, He cannot give up His power without denying Himself in the process. That is as impossible as trying to deny the law of identity. You cannot subtract from the very system of propositions that constitutes the Mind and still have the same Mind left. The contradiction is immediate. Either sovereignty is identical with God (simple, cannot be given away without God partially ceasing to be God), or it is a detachable property (composite). The claim chooses the second while still wanting the first.

Eternality and Timelessness Follow the Same Road

A composite, changeable being is ordered by succession—this part, then that part; this state, then that state. Succession is time. A timeless being has no before and after, no successive states.

If God undergoes (or eternally contains) a real limitation of power, the distinction between the unlimited and the limited introduces succession or at least ordered parts. The simple, pure-act God of classical theism has neither. Once parts appear, the problem of an infinite series of successive states reappears: an actual infinite of ordered parts cannot be traversed to arrive at a completed “now.” The present would always be infinitely far away. The same difficulty that rules out an eternal composite universe now threatens the eternal composite God.

Even the practical question of communion follows. If God is made of parts that can be distributed or ordered, what guarantee is there that the whole is present? One “part” could be infinitely remote in the sequence while another is near. A simple, undivided being is wholly present or not present at all. Parts remove that guarantee. The Mind whose knowledge is one eternal intuition does not come in installments.

The Human-Sovereign Analogy Does Not Rescue It

The comparison to earthly kings or constitutions that legitimately delegate power is a category error. Human rulers are finite, temporal, composite beings who must delegate because they lack omnipotence, omnipresence, and underived existence. Their sovereignty is already limited by nature. Importing that model into God simply imports the creature’s limits into the Creator. It redefines “sovereign God” as “God who starts limited the way we are.” That is not an analogy; it is a redefinition that abandons the original terms. Advising the infinite, simple Mind to learn limitation from finite kings is like the ocean taking notes from a puddle on how to stay wet.

The Attempted Escape Hatch Also Fails

One can try to say God “delegates” yet still retains ultimate control. But then the free will and the laws of nature are not genuinely independent; they remain instruments under meticulous sovereignty. That is precisely the meticulous control the claim is trying to avoid. If the independence is real (so that human choices and natural processes can operate outside God’s determining will), then some outcomes are not under His sovereignty. Either the free-will defense works and absolute sovereignty is lost, or absolute sovereignty is kept and the free-will defense evaporates. Non-contradiction will not let both be true in the same sense.

In short, the claim tries to preserve libertarian freedom by having God hand over some of the remote control. The moment the hand-over is real, the classical attributes that made the hand-over meaningful begin to unravel. God becomes changeable, composite, and temporally ordered—the very things the classical picture said He is not. The logical cost of the rescue is the coherence of the God being rescued.

God’s nature is not merely a sufficient reason for Him to control all things; it is a necessary one. Just as the nature of a thing must be itself—otherwise it no longer has its identity—so God cannot be other than the infinite, eternal, immutable system of propositions that He is. Since His power and His thoughts are the same, He cannot surrender power without surrendering the thoughts that constitute Him. Just as you cannot deny the law of non-contradiction without rendering your own denial meaningless, God cannot deny Himself. This is not a limitation imposed from outside; it is the positive necessity of identity. The Mind that is pure coherence cannot incoherently surrender pieces of its own coherence and remain the same Mind. Absolute control of all things is therefore not an optional extra God might choose to keep or give away. It necessarily follows from the fact that God thinks.

Breaking All Confinement

The initial blast of the Spirit’s anointing power shatters the heavy yoke of Satan’s confinement—sickness, lack, oppression, bent-over vision—and lets you feel the weights fly off your shoulders. That relative freedom is real and glorious. But the hundredfold absolute freedom—the kind where every remaining strap snaps and you run unhindered into the full good dream God has written over your life—only comes when you get so fat on the daily, visible fulfillment of His promises that the old hindrances can’t hold you anymore. You are the righteousness of God in Christ. You are already seated with the enthroned King. Speak it, receive it, grow fat on it. Watch every scheme of the enemy shatter—then run like Elijah outpacing the horses.

Isaiah 10:27 is the classic line: the burden lifts from the shoulder, the yoke from the neck, and the yoke is destroyed because of the anointing—or, as the Hebrew also carries it, “the yoke will be broken because of fatness.” (LSB). The popular charismatic reading of the “anointing oil” as the Holy Spirit’s power is not wrong; it simply needs the rest of the picture.

So let’s talk about the anointing of the Holy Ghost. The Spirit comes in power to break bondages and give freedom. Jesus Himself launched His ministry by reading Isaiah 61 and declaring the Spirit of the Lord was upon Him to proclaim good news to the poor, freedom for the prisoners, recovery of sight for the blind, and to set the oppressed free (Luke 4:18-19). Acts 10:38 says God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and He went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil. That same Spirit is poured out on you. The baptism of power is not optional decoration. It is the explosive force that breaks yokes and bondages.

When that power hits, something breaks. It is unstoppable. A healing lands. A financial door flies open. A demonic oppression lifts. A relationship that felt dead suddenly has oxygen. Relative to the crushing weight you were under, it feels like total liberty. You start moving. You start breathing. You start smiling like a man who just had the wagon unhitched from his neck. That emotional and spiritual high from a miracle that just saved you is legitimate. Do not despise it. It feels good and it should. However, here’s the trap. Do not stop there and call it the finish line. The miracle is real and powerful, but it was the starting gun, not the trophy. The ox is free enough to walk, yet some straps and gear still cling. Thirtyfold. Sixtyfold. Not yet the hundredfold where the animal is so fat, so healthy, so bulked up with the very goodness of God that the remaining wood and leather simply explode off its neck and it is free to run.

Look at the woman Jesus healed in Luke 13. This story gives us a clean picture of what happens when the initial miracle hits—when the Spirit lands His first blow against the demonic oppression in your life. A common result of that first spiritual salvo is that your head is free to lift up and see a good future. In the story, the woman—bound by Satan for eighteen years, bent over—could only see her own feet. That is the posture of demonic confinement: eyes locked on the dirt, the symptoms, the lack, the failed reports, the small horizon. Stress, worry, and negative images rule your thoughts and vision. When Jesus called her free and laid hands on her, she straightened up by divine healing. Now she could finally lift her head. Suddenly the world opened. She could see distance. She could see possibility. That is what the initial anointing miracle does—it lifts the head. Now you can see the dream. You begin to visualize a good future. God wants to grant you the desires of your heart (Psalm 37:4). Not some truncated, “spiritualized only” version. The real desires. The ones that, when fulfilled, enlarge His kingdom by enlarging you. A mansion to spit in the face of the faithless, then a hundred houses for a hundred missionaries. Preaching with power that heals the sick on the spot. Family so whole the next generation inherits blessing instead of bondage. Old besetting sins loosen and fall off. A body so thoroughly healed that even the little things—bad eyesight, lingering fatigue, that one joint that always complained—are gone. Financial surplus that is not just debt-free but overflowing, so you can give and build your big dreams without the old god of lack whispering that you don’t have enough. And in your fatness, you realize you now have the strength to grab your family and friends and help them the way God helped you.

That full freedom is the fatness. You become fat with the promises of God already fulfilled in your experience. You are not waiting for some future day when you finally “arrive.” You are the promises of God. The gospel defines you that way. Jesus became sin so that you might become the righteousness of God in Him (2 Corinthians 5:21). He became poor so that by His poverty you might become rich (2 Corinthians 8:9). By His stripes you were healed (Isaiah 53:5; 1 Peter 2:24). The blessing of Abraham—Spirit, miracles, fame, military victories, favor, increase—is already yours by faith (Galatians 3:13-14). These are not distant hopes. They are your present ontology because you are fused to the enthroned Christ. You are seated with Him in the heavenly places (Ephesians 2:6). Seated means the work is finished, so you sit—and you sit in a place of authority. Scripture does not say only Jesus was seated in the heavenly places; it says God made us sit there with Him. That’s right: you are already seated. Your work is already done, because He already did it, and the Father already transferred His righteousness, grace, and blessings to your account. They are yours. You are a royal priesthood in a seated place of authority—not later. Now. Sickness, lack, and demonic schemes are under His feet, therefore under yours. They are under the throne of Jesus, and because you are already seated with Him there, they are under your authority.

So how do you get fat? You stop speaking the evil report of observations and start speaking the promise. Daily. Relentlessly. You cultivate a mind of righteousness. Get rid of the old sin-consciousness that only makes you more sinful. You are the righteousness of God now, and your inner thoughts should be non-stop righteous consciousness. You look at the doctor’s chart and say, “By His stripes I was healed—therefore I am healed.” You look at the bank account and say, “Jesus became poor so I am rich—therefore supply is mine.” You look at the mountain of impossibility and speak to it the way a man speaks who already owns the title deed: “Be removed and cast into the sea” (Mark 11:23). Faith is not a feeling you wait for. Faith is mental assent to what God has already declared. When you consistently agree with God’s definition of you, your vision and the imaginations of your heart clarify into a big, bright future. The promises start landing in the open. Healing multiplies. Answers to prayer become more regular. Relationships heal. The surplus appears. Every little lingering strap that the enemy still hoped to use snaps under the sheer bulk of fulfilled goodness.

Picture it. The ox that once strained under the yoke now stands thick-necked and powerful, muscle packed on from the rich pasture of faith in God’s promise. The old wood and leather creak, then crack, then explode off in pieces. No more tug. No more residual weight. Nothing left clinging. That is the hundredfold. You run. You fulfill the desires of your heart. And in the running, His kingdom expands through every desire of your heart that materializes. Best deal in the universe: He gets the glory of a son who actually lives free, and you get the life of God granting the dreams of your heart. You get to live with God as your exceedingly great reward, the way He was with Abraham His friend.

Do not settle for the initial high and call it enough. That is limiting God. The Spirit’s power is not a one-time blast followed by a lifetime of managing leftover chains. That’s the lie the faithless will try to sell you. They are the voice of Satan, and they populate many churches and pews. The true fatness of God’s power and blessing is designed for the hundredfold. It is the power that keeps making you fat with every promise you dare to believe and speak. Storm the throne. Confess who you are. Command the mountain. Grow so fat with the goodness of God that every remaining piece of the old yoke explodes off your neck.

Head up. Eyes on the horizon. Growing fat with the promises. That is the hundredfold. That is breaking all confinement. Let nothing stand in your way—not Satan, not your family and not even the church. Break all confinement.

Throne Identity – Throne Application

Vincent Cheung put some clean, heavy rounds into the target with his essay on “Theology of the Throne.” In fact, eschatology runs on one present-tense fact: Jesus is seated. Not “will be someday when everything is neat and tidy.” Not “spiritually in some vague, non-threatening sense that lets you stay sick and powerless.” Seated. Right now. At the right hand of Power.

The cross was the doorway. The empty tomb was the victory parade. The throne is the address.

And if you’re still camping at the doorway like a spiritual tourist taking selfies with a finished beam, you’ve missed the entire reason there was a cross.

Hebrews Does Not Open with a Pity Party

Vincent exposed how Hebrews does not begin with sentimental cross-gazing. It opens with the Son who, after making purification for sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high (Hebrews 1:3). The writer does not warm up with “behold the wounds.” He starts with completion and authority. Then he keeps swinging the same hammer. Vincent then shows the application is about the throne.

It is true that Hebrews talks much about the Contracts and High Priest theology, but these rabbit holes that the preacher chase to help his slow-thinking audience can confuse people into thinking those are the main points. The main point of the Contract, as chapter 8 makes clear, is that only the enthroned Jesus makes it a present reality ruling reality. This is why the thesis statement of Hebrews (1:3) is not primarily about a high priest, but about an enthroned Jesus ruling in authority.

By chapter 4 we are not told to crawl back to Calvary for another guilt session so we can feel properly broken. We are commanded to come boldly to the “throne” of grace that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need (Hebrews 4:16). The thesis is the enthroned high priest, not mainly about a high priest—though the high priest aspect gives us an important foundation. We are not told to go boldly to the high priest or to a cross, but to the throne of grace. Authority and power, not mere sympathy, grant your requests for help. The loving High Priest we draw near to is not hanging. He is seated.

Later the same book tells us to look to Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despised the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God (Hebrews 12:2). The author of your faith we are told to look to is specifically said to be on a throne and ruling with authority. Because Jesus is ruling, He has the power and authority to ensure your faith is grown and matured to perfection.

Hebrews is not mainly about the cross. It is a book about the throne and the authority of the enthroned King, who already made the new Contract active. We are told about the foundations that make the throne so approachable—such as a sympathetic high priest who finished our salvation once for all, with a the best of the best Contract. But the Hebrew point is about Jesus on the throne. Hebrews is pointing us to focus, not on the old tree, but on the place where the current Jesus lives. The One who perfects your faith is not the One still bleeding. He is the enthroned King who lives to intercede for you. You cannot run the race by staring at a finished beam like it’s still the main event. You run it by locking eyes with the One who already finished it and now rules from the throne of power and grace.

This is not mainly cross theology. This is throne theology. And once you see it, the applications detonate.

You Are Already Seated — Stop Acting Like You’re Not

Paul tells the Colossians they have already been raised with Christ. Therefore seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on things on the earth (Colossians 3:1-2). Why? Because that is already your location. Your identity. Your existence. You do not become seated later if you behave well enough. You are seated. So live like it. Think from the throne room, not from the dirt under your feet.

Ephesians doubles down with zero mercy for the timid. God raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:6). The same power that raised Christ from the dead and seated Him far above every rule and authority and power and dominion is now at work in us who believe (Ephesians 1:19-23). Everything is under His feet—and therefore under ours—because we are His body and His body is on the throne.

It is not merely that things are under your feet while you scramble around on earth trying to “get the victory.” Things are under your feet while you sit on the throne. Think about that for two seconds. All things are under your—that’s right, your—throne of authority. Paul says, past tense, you have been seated with Jesus. To sit is a symbol of completed work and authority. Jesus finished the work, which is why not only is Jesus seated, you are also resting and sitting. You are sitting with Jesus on a throne. This is why Peter says you are a “royal priesthood.” You are royal because you are seated with Jesus, who is seated on a throne. That is why you can heal the sick, cast out demons, and tell mountains to move. The authority is not a temporary loan that expires when you feel unworthy. It is the permanent position of a royal priesthood. You do not go in and out of it depending on your quiet time. You always have it. Since Jesus is always in His position of authority on His throne, you always have it. Do you see it now? If you refuse to use it, you are not being humble. You are being negligent and stupid.

The Only Witness Available to You Right Now

I cannot be an eyewitness of the cross. I have never seen it. I do not know where the empty tomb is. I cannot stand there and point for the camera. What I can be, right now, is a witness of the enthroned Jesus Christ, because I am already seated with Him. That is the only present-tense testimony available to us.

Look at Acts. Peter’s first sermon that launched the church age was not a long, tearful meditation on the nails. It was a declaration that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ—and that this same Jesus is currently exalted to the right hand of God, has received the promised Holy Spirit, and has poured out what you now see and hear (Acts 2:32-36). Tongues. Power. Prophecy. That is the enthroned Jesus flexing. The rest of the book is the church operating from that occupied throne.

When Stephen looked up, he did not see a cross or a tomb. He saw the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God (Acts 7:55-56). I am a witness of Jesus on Throne, by using my Throne authority, as I am seated with Jesus. That is the power that shook the world. The apostles were never the point. Stop and think about that for a moment. It was not about apostles or men. Making men the point is man-centeredness, and it always ends in celebrity culture and powerless religion. The point is the reigning Christ. The book of Acts is the Age of the enthroned Christ. Because He is on the throne, we are seated with Him and therefore carry authority. What you bind is bound. What you loose is loosed. You have the authority to cast out demons, heal the sick, and command reality because you are already on the throne with Him.

Permanent Authority, Not Mood-Based Permission

You are a royal priesthood. That is not a future promotion. That is present reality. You always have the authority. You do not need to “work yourself up into faith” or wait for a special anointing conference. The throne is already under you. Wiggle your butt—do you feel it? That is the throne beneath you. Wiggle your toes—that is the footstool of the throne, and it is beneath you. The Name of Jesus is already engraved on your tongue. The Spirit has already been poured out from that throne for power.

If you choose not to use it, that is on you. The power that took over the Roman world was not the power of gifted apostles. It was the power of ordinary believers who knew they were seated with the King and therefore acted like it. The book of Acts is not the age of the apostles. It is the age of the occupied throne.

Conquer Now or Don’t Expect a Throne Later

Revelation seals the logic with zero sentimentality. To the one who conquers, Jesus grants the right to sit with Him on His throne, just as He conquered and sat down with His Father on His throne (Revelation 3:21). Notice the condition. Not “to the one who was forgiven.” To the one who conquers. Why?

Let’s ask another question. How do you conquer? By knowing your present position in Christ, by binding and loosing, by healing the sick, by ruling in life now. That is the proof you actually believe you are forgiven and righteous. The people who still see themselves primarily as sinners never rule. They cannot. Sin-consciousness keeps them off the throne in their own minds. They keep dry-humping the empty cross while the King is throwing a victory party two rooms over. Yes, you heard that right. I’m not mocking the cross, I’m mocking your perverted, faithless behavior on the cross. It’s gross, and we can all see you doing it.

But the one who truly believes the blood has perfected him forever (Hebrews 10:14) sits down, opens his mouth, and exercises the authority that already belongs to him. That present conquering is the evidence of real faith. And the promise stands: those who live from the throne now will sit on thrones later.

How Kings Pray from the Throne

Here is the practical payoff. The book of Hebrews, which is about the throne of grace and the authority of the seated High Priest, gives us the application in chapters 4, 10, and 12: go to the throne. Chapter 4 says go boldly to the throne of grace to ask and to receive. That is not a suggestion for the extra-spiritual. That is the normal operating system for everyone who is already seated with Christ in the heavenly places.

So when you pray, how do you see yourself?

Paul says you need to see yourself in the heavenly places, already seated with Jesus—not just standing before Him as a nervous petitioner hoping the King notices you. You are already on the throne with Him. This is why Peter in Acts 3 can look at a crippled man and say, “What I have, I give. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.” Peter was not flexing apostle status. He was operating from the same position every believer already has. Because Jesus is on a throne, Peter is on a throne. Because Jesus is on a throne, you are on a throne. From that position he could say, “What I have (authority from the throne), I give.” Jesus gave him—and all of us—His name to use. Get up and walk.

This is why you can decree. This is why you can bind and loose. You are already on a throne. Not “you are going to be if you pray hard enough.” You are. Therefore when you pray, you do not beg like a peasant at the palace gate. Does a king beg? Does Jesus sit there and say, “Oh please, will someone help Me out here?” No. He is on a throne. He is a King. And here is the big idea: you are on the throne with Him.

That is why you do not beg and hedge. That is why you say, “What I have, I give. Walk. Get out of my way, mountain. Leave, Satan.” You already have the authority. That is why you can pray with such confidence. That is why the word-of-faith people are right when they pray without hedging by decreeing. Kings do not negotiate with reality. Kings decree. Kings command.

This is why you can (and should) imagine yourself visually in the throne room of heaven—on a throne or standing next to it, the way Stephen saw Jesus standing at the right hand of God. From that place you open your mouth as a king and say:

“Jesus, as You are before me and the Father, I make this declaration. I am prosperous. I stand on behalf of my brother—he is healed in Jesus’ name. I decree blessing on him.”

And it will happen, because you are in authority. You can actually do that. And if you have faith for it, God will honor your words as the king that you already are.

Stop the Zombie Theology

This is why cross-centered theology is so destructive and, frankly, demonic. It is not humility. It is a sophisticated way to remain an atheist while still using Christian vocabulary. Jesus is not on the cross. You cannot have a living relationship with Someone who is not there. You can remember the cross. You should thank Him for it. The Lord’s Supper commands us to remember. But remembrance assumes you are not stuck there like a spiritual zombie still trying to get blood out of a finished sacrifice.

To camp at the foot of the cross is a dead man’s religion and a zombie theology. The King is alive. You cannot talk to a corpse. You cannot get power from a corpse. Jesus is on the throne, and the table is already spread in His presence. You do not crawl to the doorway forever while the King is calling you to sit down and reign.

The cross was finished. The tomb is empty. The throne is occupied.

And you are seated there with Him right now. Conquer now. Rule now.

That is the proof you know you are righteous. And the promise of heaven is waiting for those who live the conquering life.

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