We must learn, that as a Christian, we are to prepare our hearts to take the yoke of the Lord. This means we are to be joined to Him, through the Holy Spirit's revelation of God's word, the Holy Bible. All who are weary and burdened, by the trials and temptations of life, are to come to Him. We find God's advice to us from Matthew chapter 11 verses 28 to 30. Forget the litany of religious practices and rituals for the Lord will refresh all who come to Him with His salvation and peace. The yoke of the flesh, the world and the devil is hard to bear. Learn about Christ's yoke and follow in His ways, for His yoke is gentleness and humility in your heart and your soul and your body. For His yoke is easy to bear and light and you will find renewal and rest in His yoke.

In this world we must have faith if we are going to succeed. Human beings have often had amazing faith in their own natural abilities. However, real Bible faith comes from confessing and applying God's word to any of the situations that you experience in life. God's word must become part of your inner voice or spiritual being. This is in order for you to be able to confess your faith, with true conviction of the knowledge that it will happen, because what you say is wholly founded on God's word, the Holy Bible. Always confess positive words. Positive words bring about positive results. People who confess negative words will receive negative results. Faith calls things into being that previously did not exist. Negative words are often only based on your mind and the opinions of other people. They will never produce positive results. This procedure works effectively, in both the spiritual and natural worlds, of life.

Divine prayer help, for God's children, is so important. We truly need divine help from God's throne, through the wonderful guidance and assistance, of the Holy Spirit. This we learn from Romans 8 verses 26,27 and 34. The Holy Spirit comes to help us in our weaknesses. We do not often know how to pray for a given situation and even for the way we should pray for that situation. The Holy Spirit knows, very specifically, what to pray for, in every moment of our life. He intercedes, on our behalf, with sighs and groanings beyond the knowledge of our spirit's understanding. The Holy Spirit searches our spirits and then intercedes, before God's throne, in accordance with God's will and purposes and not just our own understanding. The Lord Jesus Christ, who has given His children, their eternal life, also intercedes for us, standing at the right hand of our Father, in heaven.

When we pray we are communicating with our Father in heaven. We are having fellowship, with the Lord in prayer or worship as well as petitions and intercession. Often it can be in our home or our workplace or even when we are travelling, from one place to another. The important thing about prayer is that we need to constantly, keep praying and listening. We must always obey what the Holy Spirit tells us to think, say or do. To pray to our Father, in heaven, is a great privilege as well as a daily necessity. As we do so we are always in fellowship, with the Lord and not straying off to do our own or someone else's own thing. After all, we are righteous children, of our everlasting Father!

It is so very important that God's covenant, born again children, consistently call upon the Lord. This we learn when we read Psalm 145 verse 18. As we call upon the Lord He will answer us, from the righteousness and truth of God's throne, where the Father and Son, reign. Sometimes it may take longer than we would hope for but our Lord is faithful and true and always answers our petitions. Hold fast to the word, the Holy Bible and believe that He is always faithful to His word and to those who obey His word. Remember, it took Abraham and Sarah, twenty five years before their promised son, Isaac, was born.

The Lord's Authority and Power

We read about the authority and power that was given to Jesus Christ, from Matthew chapter 28 verse 18. Who gave Jesus His complete power and authority? God the Father, gave His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, this immense power, over all of His creation. This occurred after Jesus rose again, from His death on the Cross, at Calvary. The Lord's power was given to Him over everything, on earth and in heaven, except for God the Father. Its chief purpose on earth, was revealed in verse 19. His children were to go and make disciples of people in all the nations of the world. They were to baptise all the believers, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Babylon, today, is mankind's attempts to govern by himself and ignore God's will and purposes. It is basically a monolith of financial, governmental, religious, philosophical, and Satan led system of confusion. This system began at the Tower of Babel and was then developed by the ancient Empire of Babylon. Later on, after Israel's Babylonian captivity, it began to contaminate the Jewish religion and economy and has continued on from before and after the time of Christ to the world wide juggernaut of disorder, Christian's see operating in the world around them. Satan has inspired man to be his own god and to make his own way, in defiance of our Creator God. Despite man being made in the likeness of God the whole world system of mankind is fraught with lies and deceit, warfare, corruption, sickness, plagues, climate catastrophes, government mismanagement and financial ruin. It is really quite hopeless because only doing things God's way can work, effectively.

No believer in God and His word, the Holy Bible and has allowed the Holy Spirit to take control of their life, should ever be deceived. Everyone, who is born again by the Spirit of God and cleansed by the precious blood of Jesus Christ and is a faithful reader and confessor of God's word and applies God's words to their life, should ever be consistently deceived. Lies and deception comes through the flesh, the world, and the devil. This also includes the devil's demonic counterparts both of the fallen angelic realm and those of unrepentant mankind. Always test whatever you read and meditate upon or hear from the pulpit with what the word of God, the Holy Bible, has to say on the subject. As well, the revelation knowledge, given by the Holy Spirit, to your own spirit.

Every born again believer can and should recognise, from the evidence found in God's word, the Holy Bible, that they have been endowed with God's resurrection power. They are well able to combat and destroy the works of the enemy, Satan. We are able to plainly read and learn about this evidence from Matthew 28:18-19. Jesus has been given all authority and power in both heaven and earth. This was the power that the Lord obtained from God the Father after He arose from the dead and conquered all the lies and deceits of the flesh, the world and the devil. When we surrendered our life to Jesus Christ this was the point at which His resurrection power was given to all who genuinely believe. He conferred His resurrection authority and power upon all His born again children. It is in and through Him, alone, that His resurrection power was bestowed on the church.