It is only by God

A person who seeks to change himself spiritually is a person who believes that if he can just do more good deeds, learn more about God, or accomplish more for God's kingdom, he will be a “better” person. This approach inevitably results in anxiety, frustration, discouragement, feelings of failure, and perhaps even depression.

The encouraging news of the Bible is that you cannot change yourself spiritually, but God is in the process of changing you! The Bible tells us that we are being transformed in two ways:

1. We are being transformed by the renewal of our minds.

2. We are being conformed into the image of Christ.

In each case, the Holy Spirit is the “agent of the change” that occurs within us. We have a part to play, but the Holy Spirit is the One who causes the change to take place within us.

You will not be the person in the future that you are today if you submit yourself to God's transformation process. You are going to be more like Jesus. And that's good news!

The Changing of your mind is a Change from the way the world thinks to the way God thinks.

The two points of view—God's and man's—are nearly always opposite.

Let me give you just a few examples:

1. The world tells you to get even with your enemies. God says to leave vengeance up to him and to love your enemies, do good to them, and pray for them (Matt. 5:43–44, Rom. 12:19–21).

2. The world tells you to fight for your rights and defend yourself at all costs. God says to turn the other cheek (Matt. 5:38–39).

3. The world tells you that hard work and education will result in success. God says that faith and learning to listen to His voice and obey Him are what bring a person to success (Heb. 11).

As Christians, we are called to think like God thinks, and then, with of our renewed minds, to act as Jesus would act if He walked in our shoes on the earth today. A difference in thinking results in a difference in living.

B. The Word Renews Our Thinking

1. We get a renewed mind through a habit of reading God's Word frequently and regularly. Ephesians 5:26 refers to a cleansing by the “washing of water by the word.” The more we read God's Word and trust the Holy Spirit to quicken what we read to our spirits, the more the Word acts to cleanse our thoughts so that we think the pure thoughts of Christ.

2. The more we read God's Word, the more we are confronted with God's truth. The Word of God convicts us of error and points out to us the need for change. It presents to us the truth and compels us to act on the truth.

3. The more we read God's Word, the more we become familiar with “God's opinion” and the more the Holy Spirit makes His opinion our opinion. The Word of God becomes the way we think. And when that happens, we experience a genuine change. We begin to speak differently, act differently, make wiser choices, and adopt new priorities. Our lives take on a new nature that flows from our new mind.

You are a new creation if you are in Christ. A new Species in fact! We might still live in the old body but our Spiritual man is brand new!

Jesus crucified the old man he doesn’t exist any more, So why do we spend so much time on self improvement programs for the Old man?

We need to establish right now that the old man is dead and therefore can’t change!

When was the last time you went down to the cemetery and saw a whole lot of reformed dead people!

It just doesn’t happen

Last year I can remember the fuss in the scientific world about the discovery of some new species in the highland jungles of New Guinea. The thing about new species is that they are NEW and different from the old!

So we are a new creation! But in an old body!

In other words we now bridge the gap between that which is natural and that which is Spiritual

Our old bodies now have the ability to see and partake of the Spiritual realm.

Seeing and Living in the Spirit should now be a normal part of our new life!

And our hearts cry should be to see the inheritance that God has for us in Christ. That our eyes would be enlightened!

Absorbing Knowledge

God doesn’t cast His pearls before swine. Instead, the Bible says He’s hidden that wisdom for you, not from you. 

That’s why Jesus said that nothing is hidden but what it shall be revealed.

Don’t think, however, that God is just going to drop great revelations in your lap while you’re watching TV. Jesus said, “If any man have ears to hear, let him hear” (Mark 4:23). God has given you inner ears to hear His Spirit with. But you’re responsible for the hearing. You’re responsible for seeking out this revelation knowledge.

God isn’t dishing out revelations one at a time. Instead, He sent the Holy Ghost, and He has all the revelations in Him. When we get ourselves in a position to receive by 

meditating the Word, praying and fellowshiping with the Lord, we begin to receive those revelations from Him. So it’s on our end that the responsibility lies now.

Peter tells us that grace and peace are multiplied to us through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord (2 Peter 1:2).

That Greek word knowledge doesn’t mean 

something you learn through your senses. It means “exact knowledge, revealed in such a way that it’s not hindered by the physical senses or by someone’s ability 

to communicate.”

Notice too that Peter says, “Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus....” Did you realize you need more than a revelation 

of Jesus?

You need a revelation of God the Father. You need to know that the Almighty One is your very own Father. 

You need more than a mental understanding of it. You need to know it on the inside, and that kind of knowing comes only by revelation.

If you need healing, what you need is a revelation of the Healer. I remember I used to get upset over people I’d lay hands on who wouldn’t get well. I was praying one day 

and seeking God about this when He spoke to my spirit and said, Healing always comes.

I remember I said, “What do You mean? Not everyone gets healed.”

He said, I didn’t say they all received it. I do My part. Then He spoke very sternly to me. I said they would recover!

Those words hit me like a ton of bricks. He said they would recover. If He said they would recover, then that means healing always comes. It’s not God who’s holding 

back. It’s the receivers who aren’t receiving.

Since that revelation, I’ve never had any trouble laying hands on people and believing for their healing. Whether they walk away well or not, I just keep standing with God 

about their healing.

In fact, I know that if that fellow who went away still sick ever agrees with God and me

(I don’t care if it’s five years from now) he’ll wind up healed.

How can you maintain a walk of faith like that? The only way is to stay in the Word of God until you can see it so clearly on the inside of you, you don’t need to see it 

on the outside to know what’s going on.

Now and then I’ve had a revelation of something good that was coming. Later, when it happened, people asked why I didn’t go wild over such a great thing. I didn’t 

because I wasn’t a bit surprised.

Why do you think the Spirit of Truth would show me something to come? It’s so I could walk by faith in that situation. So I could plow in hope instead of quitting in the heat and saying, “Oh well, the ground’s too hard for 

anything to come of this anyhow.”

Listen, if God is calling you out into the field, there’s only one way you’re going to make it. You have to pray and meditate on the promises of God until He reveals what He’s called you to do and how to do it.

There are specific things in your life that need to be settled and made solid by revelation because the devil is going to fight you over them. He’s going to do everything he can to steal them from you, and it’s going to take a revelation from God for you to hang on to what you’ve got.

When you start walking in revelation knowledge, it’s no longer a matter of whether 

you’re going to win or lose. It’s only a matter of how long you have to hang in there until 

you win! It’s when you walk in revelation knowledge that the power of God flows in your life. That’s why Satan goes to great lengths to get the Word out of your life before it can take root.

In fact, Jesus said that’s the reason behind persecution and affliction. It comes for the 

Word’s sake (Mark 4:17), for the sake of the revelation. Satan puts the pressure on because he’s after that revelation.

The devil works hard against you because he has to get the revelation of what God has told you out before it has time to grow. If he lets it grow up, he knows you’ll beat his brains out with it. Satan will literally fight us one at a time to keep us from all coming together and 

getting the same revelation, because when that happens, he’s in big trouble.

Once you begin to see Jesus and His authority, you’ll put the devil under your heel and he knows it. But if he can keep you away from revelation knowledge, if he can keep you operating in the realm of the physical 

senses instead of the realm of the spirit, he can keep that from happening.

I’ll tell you this: If there’s any way the devil can get your eyes away from the promises of God, he’ll do it.

When Peter jumped out of the boat that day in response to Jesus’ call, what happened? He walked right along across that water without a problem. His whole being was fastened on that word Jesus spoke to 

him, “COME!”

But when he took his eyes off that word, he started looking at the storm. He started looking at the impossible thing he was doing. Fear was the result. As soon as fear gripped him, he began to sink.

Can you see it was Peter’s revelation of who Jesus was that kept him on top of that water? It kept his faith operating, and faith is the supernatural force in revelation 

that causes it to come to pass. 

But then Peter turned his eyes away from the revelation and began looking at the natural. After all, he was a fisherman. All his training and experience told him when the 

waves were that high, you were going under. He started to focus on what he knew in the natural instead of what Jesus said; and when he did that, his faith slipped out of 

gear and he started to sink.

That’s exactly how it works. Once you get a revelation from the Word of God, you must hang on to it. The devil will do everything he can to take it away from you. He’ll stir up things around you. He’ll try to get you into fear. 

He’ll push every button he can from the past to get you back into your old way of thinking.

But don’t let go. Keep your eye on the promise of God until it’s more real inside you than anything else.

When you do that, you’ll know that you know that you know. It won’t be a bit like the ABCs or the multiplication tables. It won’t be a theory or doctrine or theology.

You’ll know what you know because you received it from the Spirit of God. Then, one of these days when what was revealed to you on the inside comes to pass on the outside, you won’t even be surprised. You’ll just 

nod and grin and say, “Bless God, I knew it all along!” 

Revelation K

How do you know what you know? The answer to that question can mean 

the difference between standing and falling, between success and failure in the kingdom 

of God. 

Remember when you went to school and learned your ABCs and your multiplication tables? You know them because you learned them. Someone taught them to you.

That kind of knowing took you all the way 

through school. It’s called natural knowledge. You get it by using your five senses and your logical abilities to gather information and sort it out.

But in the kingdom of God, there’s another kind of knowing. One that works its way from the inside out, instead of from the outside in. It’s called revelation knowledge.

Jesus spoke about this kind of knowledge in 

Matthew 16. He’d just asked the disciples, “Who do you say that I am?” Peter answered Him by declaring, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

“Blessed are you, Simon,” Jesus responded, 

“for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven” (verses 15-17, New King James Version).

In other words, Jesus was saying, “Peter, you didn’t learn this information through your physical senses. You received it another way. You received it directly from God.

Actually, Peter did have to learn that truth later. He had to begin to grasp it with his mind. But he knew it in his spirit first. If you’ve never experienced this, it may seem hard to understand. But if you’ve ever had Jesus reveal something to you by the Holy Spirit, you know exactly what I mean.

First, you received it, you knew it in your spirit. Then you learned it with your mind. It can also work the other way.

You may have already learned some information about a subject. But when the revelation comes, you begin to see that information in another light entirely. Suddenly it has depth and dimension it never had for you before. It becomes such an unshakable reality in your life that, as Jesus said to Peter, “The gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”

I remember one time I was battling with a 

particular problem. I’d prayed with other 

people about it, but still, I was struggling with it.

As I studied and meditated about it, suddenly it seemed as if a ball of light exploded in my spirit concerning two people agreeing in prayer. Several scriptures popped into 

my mind.“One [can] chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight” (Deuteronomy 32:30). All at once, I understood that when believers agree, the power doesn’t just double, it grows 10 times!

Then the Spirit of God said on the inside of me, Don’t you see that two born-again people agreeing, bring Jesus on the scene?

I remembered Matthew 18:20, “Where two or [more] are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”

And why do you think I’m in the midst? Jesus asked me. It’s to carry out the agreement.

That revelation burned away the turmoil I’d been wrestling with. As far as I was concerned, the thing was done. It was settled in my spirit.  I went the next day and met with a fellow minister at my place of worship.

Now that revelation didn’t come to me instantly or easily. I had to meditate the Word and search the Spirit of God for it because it was “hidden” in Him.

You see, God has purposely arranged it so 

truths like that can only be understood by revelation. He hasn’t just left them in the sense realm where anyone can pick up a book and discover them. After all, the devil can read; and God doesn’t want him taking that information and using it to destroy you.

Bless Others

So, why does God want us wealthy? 

There are at least two reasons, one of which is found in the last part of Deuteronomy 

8:18, which says: “that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.” 

The Old Testament tells of the many covenant promises God made with Abraham and his descendents. These promises now belong to you and me, because we are numbered among those descendents. We are the seed of Abraham.

Genesis 12:1-2 says, “Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and 

from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will show thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing.”

God said to Abram in Genesis 17:2, “And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.” And in verse 6 He adds: “And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.”

These covenant promises of wealth, prosperity and abundance all came from God Himself. With each covenant agreement, God said, “And I will.” He was always the Provider (the Source). John 3:27 says, “A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.”

Just as God made provision for His people back then, He does the same for you and me today. His plans and methods never change.

Jeremiah 29:11 says, “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.” In the 

New International Version, which translates the word thoughts as “plans,” the verse reads: “‘For I know the plans I have for you’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’”

What that tells us is because God is the source of our power to get wealth, He has already mapped out a strategy to get us to the place of prosperity. Not only that, He has 

made sure as long as we follow His directions we won’t fail.

Look again at what the first part of Jeremiah 29:11 

(New International Version) says: “For I know the plans I have for you.” Notice God says “plans,” which is the plural form, and not the singular word “plan.” In other 

words, God is saying He has designed more than one plan to get us into our wealthy place. If we can’t get it one way, God says I’ve got another plan for you. And if that one doesn’t work, then He’s got another. He says, 

I am the Lord thy God. I am the One who brought Israel out of bondage, and I’ll do whatever it takes to get you out of 

your situation.

There is a second reason I believe God wants us wealthy. It has to do with His kingdom.

I began by saying everyone has millionaire status. Let me explain why that is. God has commissioned us, as the Body of Christ, to “Go ye into all the world, and 

preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15). That is part of our heavenly assignment. 

For us to do that, and to be effective in reaching the lost, we are going to need money and lots of it.

The good news is that we don’t have to try and figure out ways to get the money we need. We’ve already seen in the Word that God has done that for us, because He 

gives us power to get wealth.

But there is something else God does to get money into our hands. 

Second Corinthians 9:10 says, “Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness.” From this, it is clear that 

God doesn’t just see to it that we have money. He brings it to us Himself.

Notice that verse doesn’t say God “sends” us seed to sow. No. It says He ministers seed to the sower. That word ministers is another way of saying “serves.” So, in a 

sense God actually becomes our servant and personally brings us the seed He has for us.

Why would He do that? you wonder.

For one thing, I believe He becomes our servant to teach us about service. If He can get us to see how important it is to Him to serve, then we will understand 

the importance of rendering service back to Him. But I also believe He wants us to make sure we don’t misuse the seed. By that, I mean He wants to be sure we don’t use money intended for kingdom work for our own personal needs.

How does He do that?

Look at the verse again.

It says, “Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food.”

The same God who ministers seed to us to sow back into His kingdom will also minister bread to us so we have substance, so that our needs are met. He gives us seed to sow 

into His kingdom, but He also provides for our daily needs. 

God has a plan for His kingdom and your life, and the two are connected. The building and promotion of His kingdom depends a lot on your ability to give. 

And until you settle in your mind and heart that God has given you ample supply so you can give in abun￾dance, you will never connect your money with your heavenly assignment.

The reason some people can’t give like they want to is they have not recognized their source. They give out of their own ability, thinking they’re limited. 

If your finances are connected to the world’s resources, then you will always be limited in how much you can give. You’ll always be holding back, trying to keep something in reserve for a “rainy day.”

But when you acknowledge God as your source, when you recognize He is your Provider and make giving into His kingdom your top priority, then you never have to worry about money. In fact, you’ll find yourself getting hilarious in your giving because you know God’s blessings are headed your way. 

You have millionaire status on the inside of you. And God is doing everything possible to bring it out. Connect your money with heaven’s assignment and you’ll never be broke another day in your life.

Turnaround

If you are a born-again believer, then you already have millionaire status on the inside of you. Now, I know that may be a bit hard to accept, but pay close attention to what I said. I didn’t say you are destined to become a millionaire. What I said was you have 

millionaire status.

By that I mean God not only wants you to be wealthy, He has also done everything necessary for you to walk and live in financial prosperity, and how our being wealthy benefits His kingdom and His purpose.

Look at what Deuteronomy 8:18 says: “But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.”

First, we must understand what this verse means when it says God gives us “power.” The word “power” in this scripture has nothing to do with strength or authority. It’s talking about our ability. Or, in other words, it’s saying God has placed inside us certain skills, talents or abilities that, when properly applied, can be used to cause us to gain wealth.

But what I really want you to notice is what that verse says before power is even mentioned. It says we are to “remember the Lord thy God.”

Why? Because, according to the Bible, He is our Provider. He is the One who gives us the 

power. That’s the key to this verse, and it’s also the key to walking in prosperity.

You see, before we can ever begin to deal with the power God has given us to “get 

wealth,” we have to first settle the issue regarding the Provider. The power is already there. 

But we can’t just exercise power to get wealth, or anything else for that matter, without first acknowledging the power source. If we don’t, we are headed for trouble because we will mess things up.

Money exerts a great influence on our lives, because it takes us from one level of living 

to another. If we don’t have the proper connection with God, and a real understanding of wealth, then we won’t know how to handle what God has given us.

When we have achieved success (when we’re living in our dream houses or driving our 

nice cars, and have plenty of money in the bank) it’s easy to fall into the trap of pride. We look at all we have, and the next thing you know we’re bragging and boasting about what we did, or how we made things happen instead of giving God the glory.

Sure, our prosperity may have come as a result of exercising our gifts and talents, but that doesn’t mean we can take the credit. God gave us those gifts and talents. We simply put them to work the way He intended, and now we’re reaping the benefits.

Anything short of giving God the glory amounts to pride. And the Bible is strong in its stand against pride. Proverbs 16:18 warns, “Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.” 

God is the source of our power to get wealth. He is our Provider, and we should acknowledge that from the very beginning.

Evangelist Curtis Davidson

Send Me

If we don’t walk in love, we’ll mess up 

the whole process of what God has called each and every one of us to do. We’ll shut down THE BLESSING and end up stumbling around in darkness because: “He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is 

in darkness even until now. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stum￾bling in him. But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes” (1 John 2:9-11).

When we get into strife and bitterness, when we stop acting in love, it’s like we put on a coat of darkness. We’re still light on the inside, but because that light is covered 

up, we find ourselves in the dark. We don’t belong in the dark! We’re not designed to live 

there. We are light in the Lord. 

It’s time we started being aware of that fact and walking “as children of light” (Ephesians 5:8). It’s time we “cast off the works of darkness, and…put on the armour of light” 

(Romans 13:12).

That’s what our heavenly Father does. Psalm 104:2 says He covers Himself with light as with a garment. He is light inside and out; and He made us to be the same way. 

He has energized us and made us alive with the light of His creative glory. He has crowned us with that glory by giving us THE BLESSING. He has commissioned us and 

equipped us to be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth with the light force of His glory.

What a privilege! What an opportunity!

When we grasp the fullness of it, we won’t shrink back in fear when we think about God sending us into some dark, barren place. We’ll volunteer for the assignment. 

We’ll be eager for the chance to charge into it and set it ablaze with the light of God. We’ll be saying, “Send me there, Lord! I can bring THE BLESSING to that place. I 

can bring the glory into it. Here am I. Send me!”

For Such a Time

God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. At first glance, you might wonder why 

John considered that simple statement so vital. What’s so earthshaking about the light of God?

Go back to Genesis 1 and you’ll see.There, we find the greatest mass of darkness and con￾fusion ever recorded in Scripture. We read about a time when “the earth was without form, and void; and darkness 

was upon the face of the deep” (verse 2). If there had ever been a place too dark and barren for God to bless, this surely would have been it. If God were ever going to throw 

His hands up and say, “I just can’t change this miserable place,” He would have done it in Genesis.But He didn’t.

Instead, He said, “Let there be light: and there was light” (verse 3). Or, as the Hebrew text reads, “God said, Light be! And light was.” 

People often assume the light referred to in that verse was the sun. But the rest of the chapter reveals God didn’t create the sun until the fourth day. So what kind of light 

did God speak into existence on the first day? What kind of light carried the power to transform that dark, formless void?

It was the light of God’s glory, the luminous force of His creative power which is the source of all matter. It was the light that comes from God Himself. Until God 

released that glory light through His Word, it was on the inside of Him. But once He said, “Light be!” it shot forth from Him at a speed of 186,000 miles a second and began 

to bring into material manifestation the blueprint of the earth God had within Him.

Let this truth sink in for a moment: Every aspect of creation, every natural material substance that comprises this universe came from the glory light of God. In recent 

years, science has caught up with the Bible and declared light energy is the ultimate force and source of all material things. And according to John 1:9, that force is “the true 

Light, which lighteth every man.”

That’s right! When God said, “Let us make man in our image” and “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life” (Genesis 1:26, 2:7), He spoke into mankind the same crea￾tive, illuminating glory that brought the earth into mani￾festation. He energized the spirit of man with the glory light that came from within Him. Then He crowned mankind with that same glory (Psalm 8:5) by blessing them and saying to them: “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the 

sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth” (Genesis 1:28). 

The Hebrew phrase translated replenish the earth in that verse actually means fill it up. What did God expect man￾kind to fill the earth with? 

With God’s glory. With His light.

God’s blessing empowered Adam and Eve to take the glory light throughout the whole earth. It equipped them to bring everything on the planet under the influence of God’s glory and turn the whole place into a Garden 

of Eden. But they never fulfilled that commission. They messed things up and fell into sin. As a result, the earth is still waiting for the manifestation of THE BLESSING. It is 

still begging to be filled with the glory light 

that is within and upon the sons and daughters of God. 

That’s the reason God sends His born again children (people like you and me) into 

every dark corner of the world. Not so we 

can suffer in the darkness for Jesus, but so 

we can light up the darkness with His glory. 

He sends us there to bring THE BLESSING 

and change the most barren places on this 

planet into little Gardens of Eden.

That’s what THE BLESSING does. It 

releases the glory light of God that exploded 

within us when we were born again and puts 

that light to work in our circumstances and 

surroundings. It changes them from the curse that came on this world through sin, back to the original plan of God. It empowers us to be fruitful, multiply and fill up the earth with divine glory everywhere we go. 

That was, and always will be, the perfect 

will of God for His people. God isn’t about to change that.

Be the Light

No matter how dark the conditions around us, “The Light shines on in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it” (John 1:5, The Amplified Bible).

Living Like the Early Apostles

The first few chapters of Acts reveal just how true that is. There we find the apostles pouring out of the upper room on the day of Pentecost, ablaze with the fire of God and facing folks so hardhearted that just a few weeks ear￾lier they’d been in favor of crucifying Jesus. Talk about a tough mission field! The devil had been having great success with that bunch.

But when the light of God shined on them through that first group of Holy Spirit baptized believers, things changed. Thousands were born again in a single day. Right in the middle of that spiritual darkness, a fellowship of believers sprang up; believers so in love with one another and so excited about giving they wiped out lack from their 

midst almost overnight (Acts 4:34). God’s healing power flowed among them at such a flood tide, the citizens of the region dragged sick people out into the streets “and they were healed every one” (Acts 5:16).

Within days, those first apostles turned one of the roughest mission fields in history into a veritable Garden of Eden. They brought THE BLESSING of God to that place in such measure it brought forth a church full of 

people totally in love with Jesus and one another. A church where there was no strife, no lack and no sickness. 

“Yeah, but those first apostles had a special calling. They had walked and talked with Jesus.”

That’s true. But, according to 2 Peter 1:1, we can walk in the same measure of faith because we got our faith the same place they got theirs. We have “obtained like pre￾cious faith” with them through the righteousness of God and our Savior Jesus Christ.

We can also have the same kind of fellowship with Jesus those first apostles had. The Apostle John (a personal 

friend and disciple of Jesus) assured us of it. He wrote: “That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fel￾lowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full”

                                                  (1 John 1:3-4).

I realize it goes crosswise with reli￾gious thinking, but in simple terms what John said was this, “If you’ll pay attention to the message I’m about to give you, you can walk in the same place with Jesus that we, as apostles, do. You can live the faith life the same way we live it.”

I don’t know about you but that statement puts me on the edge of my seat. What message could possibly propel us into 

the kind of power and fellowship with Jesus the first apostles enjoyed?

The next verse gives us the answer: “This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all” (verse 5).

Change Your World

Have you ever been afraid of God’s will for your life? For most believers, the honest answer to that question is yes.

At one time or another, they’ve worried that God might ask them to spend their lives serving Him in some dark, barren place, as a missionary to a poverty-ridden village in Africa, for example, or preaching the gospel in some gang-infested inner city, or working in a sin-filled office surrounded by spiritual darkness.

I just don’t think I could take that kind of life! you might think. I love the Lord and desire to please Him, but I’m just not cut out to live in those kinds of conditions.

No, you’re not.

I’m not either.

Neither is any other born-again child of God.

“Oh, Brother Curtis, I just don’t know how you 

can say such a thing!” someone might argue. “God needs believers who are willing to go to places like that. He needs witnesses to take the light of the gospel into the darkest spots on earth.”

Sure He does. But when God sends a believer to such a place, He doesn’t expect him to live in those darkened conditions. He expects him to change them. He expects us to overcome the darkness with the light.

That’s what light is designed to do. It’s made to illu￾minate the area around it. That’s true of natural light and it’s true of the spiritual light of God. If we’ll walk in that light, it will fill the circumstances and conditions around 

us with the glory of God so we’re surrounded with blessing wherever we go.

No matter how dark the conditions around us, “The Light shines on in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it” (John 1:5, The Amplified Bible).

Not Impossible

Everything God asks us to believe is unbelievable. Everything He wants us to receive is impossible. In fact, from Genesis to Revelation, all the teachings, all the promises, all the revelation knowledge and even Christ’s birth, death, and resurrection all go beyond natural thinking. It’s ALL impossible…and that’s why it’s called having faith!

We don’t serve a religion. We serve Jesus Christ! We are not bound by natural, ordinary thinking because we have been changed and we are continually learning from an extraordinary God! He is bigger than we can imagine and His Word is more powerful than we may ever be able to grasp…He is an 

“unbelievable” and “impossible” working God. And, this year, like every year, I want to encourage you and your family to stretch beyond the boundaries of natural everyday thinking…to bust out of the “religious mind” 

and become more “God-minded” than you’ve ever been before. Then you will KNOW that nothing is impossible. I ask you to decide to “Believe the Unbelievable and Receive the Impossible.” 

Think of the impossible things you want to do. Think of the unbelievable things you’d like to have. Then, remind yourself that, “God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent: hath He said, and shall He not do it? Or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good?” (Numbers 23:19).

If the Word says you can have it, then it’s a 

done deal. Set your mind on Him and don’t be afraid to stretch your faith.

His Word says you can be out of debt. That’s unbelievable in this day and age. His Word says that you can be healed, too. That’s impossible in any age. His Word says that you can love your enemies. Now that’s both unbelievable and impossible! Do 

you see where I’m going with this in this crazy and unique Year of 2020? 

Get ready! God has more for you than you than you can imagine. Use your faith and let God make this life good for you! I really believe that this is going to be an exciting year. I believe I can hear shouts of joy in your future. I am shouting with you.

Evangelist Curtis Davidson

Good and Bad

Does Everything Good and Bad Come from God?

Traditional thinking says that everything good comes from God and everything Bad comes from God. But if that is true, what is the devil doing? Twiddling his thumbs in hell?

Many people have ignorantly blamed God for killing babies, sending sickness, and withholding healing from people instead of holding the true culprit responsible for stealing, killing, and destroying lives.

Even in the Old Testament , it is clear that most people were in the dark about God. They thought that God did everything good as well as everything bad. They really did not have a revelation of the devil and his works.

In the New Testament, Jesus came on the scene to let us know the truth about God and the devil. We needed somebody to come down here and wipe out our sin so we could see clearly and really know God on a personal level. That someone who did this for us was Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Jesus redeemed man from sin and everything tied to sin. He gave us victory over Satan. Jesus washed away the sin barrier between God and man with the sacrifice of His blood. (Matthew 26:28; 1 John 1:7; Hebrews 9:14; Ephesians 1:7, 2:13; and Colossians 1:20).

Yet, before Jesus ever went to the cross, He taught us some valuable lessons about life’s ups and downs. Jesus revealed more about the devil than was previously known through His teachings and the way He lived His life. He was revolutionary in every way.

Jesus was the first to shine a bright light on the devil’s work within the earth. He said, “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. I am the Good Shepherd: the Good Shepherd giveth His life for the sheep” (John 10:10-11).

Jesus exposed the devil. It was as if He was saying, ‘There is a devil roaming the earth. He is trying to steal from you, kill you, and destroy you. He is a bad dude and wants to take your life. But I am good, and I want to give you a good life. I want to guide you and nourish you like a Good Shepherd. In fact, I love you so much that I am going to die for you.”

God Always

God ᗩしᗯᗩᎩᔑ Keeps His Promises.

When bad things happen and people don't know what to say, there is a word that almost always comes up to explain the problem away ~ sovereignty.

Sovereignty is a theological term that refers to God's right and power to do whatever He wants to do. When healing doesn't manifest or when someone dies or a storm dies damage, Christians will often say, "It was God's sovereignty" as a reason for the tragedy.

"He is God, " they say. "He's sovereign and can do whatever He wants to do." That sounds good, doesn't it? But there is a real problem with this kind of thinking.

You see if you believe that God doesn't keep His Word and that He will break His promises, then sovereignty as a reason for tragedy makes real sense. But if you believe that God is righteous and just, that He will honor His Word and keep His promises to you, then this kind of reasoning falls to pieces with even the smallest amount of Scripture. The Bible itself is filled with promises and stories of how God honors His Word.

God is sovereign and has unlimited power, no doubt about it. Yet He has chosen to limit Himself to what He will and will not do concerning mankind, and He spelled it out in His Word. This makes Him sovereign outside of His Word.

Can God do anything? Yes. Will God do anything? No. God has already said what He will do in many situations in the Bible. God has chosen to bind Himself with His own Word, and that is what makes Him alone worthy of our trust.

God promises, "My covenant will I not break, not alter the thing that has gone out of My lips" (Psalm 89:34). We know that God can not lie (Numbers 23:19), and we also know the father of all lies is the devil (Titus 1:2; John 8:44), yet people talk as if He breaks promises on a whim.This is not true. God is a promise keeper, not a promise breaker!