
God's Promise: Receiving What Christ Has Already Fulfilled
God Himself is the fulfillment of all His promises—not a future hope, but a present reality available now through Christ.
God operates through promises because He functions differently than human understanding. When God makes a promise, it is not a future-focused hope but a prophetic utterance—a declaration of present reality that believers must step into through faith and identification with Christ. This teaching reveals why believers struggle with God's promises and how to move from waiting into the completed work of Jesus.
Teaching Overview
- God makes prophetic utterances, not conditional promises—when He speaks, He declares what is already true in Him and available now.
- Believers delay God's promises by refusing to surrender to His formula and attempting to formulate their own solutions instead of resting in Christ.
- God Himself is the promise—every word God speaks is independent of circumstances because the Word of God is a Person, Jesus Christ.
- Jesus is the fulfillment of every prophetic utterance—the kingdom, healing, righteousness, and all promises are completed in His identity and available through identification with Him.
- Believers must stop seeking what they already possess in Christ and move forward in the identity and authority they have received through His completed work.
Key Distinctions
| Heaven | Kingdom | Promise | Fulfillment | Sin-Focused Preaching | Grace-Focused Preaching | Behavior | Salvation | Past | Forward Movement | |
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| Definition | Eternal dwelling place | God's rule and reign within believers | A prophetic utterance declaring present reality | The actualization of God's word in Christ | Emphasis on sin as the primary message | Emphasis on Christ as the remedy to sin | External actions and conduct | Union with Christ through faith | What was; lessons learned | What is becoming; transformation in progress |
| Connection to Christ | Destination after salvation | Received at new birth; Jesus is the King | Jesus Himself | Jesus is the complete fulfillment | Points away from the solution | Points toward Christ as solution | Can exist without Christ | Requires Christ alone | Cannot redeem itself | Accessed through Christ alone |
| How it's accessed | Through salvation in Christ | Belief in Jesus Christ | Faith in God's word spoken | Belief and agreement in Christ | Behavioral reform | Receiving grace through faith | Personal effort and discipline | Repentance and faith in Jesus | Cannot be changed; only learned from | Walking in the newness of Christ |
| Impact on believers | Eternal location | Internal transformation now | Present reality to step into | Freedom from waiting; action in faith | Produces fear and shame | Produces freedom and transformation | Produces self-reliance or self-condemnation | Produces peace and security | Produces guilt and stagnation | Produces growth and purpose |
| Result of neglect | Loss of eternity | Believers remain externally focused; miss internal kingdom reality | Continued waiting instead of stepping into what God has already declared | Living in the past instead of the present; missing the fullness available in Christ | Believers bound by sin-consciousness; defeated mentality | Believers empowered to overcome through Christ's work | Self-righteousness or self-condemnation; misses the gospel | Spiritual death; continued separation from God | Continued guilt; inability to grow or move forward | Stagnation; missing God's purposes |
God's Promises Are Not Contingent—They Are Fulfilled in Christ
- All promises of God in Christ are "yea" and "amen"—they are not yes or no, but completed and affirmed in Jesus.
- When God makes a promise, He is not making a future commitment but declaring a present reality that exists in Him.
- Every prophetic word spoken about Jesus required Him to live and fulfill it; God's promises function the same way—they are not independent of God but are manifestations of who He is.
"All the promises of God in Christ are yea, and in him, amen."
Surrender to God's Formula, Not Self-Formulation
- What delays God's promises is hearing the promise with one ear while attempting to formulate solutions with the other—believers have not surrendered to God's formula.
- God always comes when circumstances are impossible so that believers will be forced to depend fully on Him rather than on circumstances or personal ability.
- When believers commit to God instead of to fixing the situation, He works the promise out on their behalf—commitment itself is the condition for fulfillment.
"God will always come at the hour where you're stripped of everything, then it gives your solution that makes you fully commit to being in him."
God Himself Is the Promise—Not Independent of Circumstances
- God told Abraham, "Behold, I am your exceeding great reward"—the reward is God Himself, not what God gives.
- Every prophetic utterance is not independent of God because the Word of God is a Person—when God speaks, that word takes flesh and becomes Christ in that situation.
- The word of God is a double-edged sword that cuts through anything in its way because the word is not information but a Person with power and authority.
"The word of God is a person. The word of God indeed is a person."
"God will not say something independent of himself."
Jesus Is the Fulfillment of Every Promised Hour
- When Jesus said, "The hour is coming and now is," He was declaring that He Himself is the fulfillment of that promise—not a future promise but a present reality.
- Jesus came to fulfill the law and the prophets, meaning He is the fulfillment of every prophetic utterance ever spoken.
- The hour of worship, the hour of healing, the hour of deliverance, the hour of restoration is not coming—it is now because Jesus is present.
"The hour coming and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth. Notice he didn't say the hour coming, the true worshippers know. He made sure you understand. The hour coming and now is I am the fulfillment of that hour."
Agreement with Prophecy Must Be Present-Tense, Not Future-Tense
- When a prophetic word is spoken, responding with "I can't wait" misses the reality—responding with "amen" means "I am in Him. It is done."
- The moment a prophecy is declared, if you are in Christ, the fulfillment is already complete because Jesus is the fulfillment.
- Many believers destroy the power of prophecy by agreeing in faith but living in future-focused hope instead of present-reality possession.
"If I prophesied to you, the Lord said, you are going high. If you say, amen, I can't wait to go high. You have already messed up. Because to say, amen is to say, I am in him. It is done."
Believers Must Release the Old Version to Receive the New
- Many hold onto a version of themselves that God visited in the past instead of surrendering to the upgrade God is offering now.
- God removes comfort slowly from the old identity so believers become uncomfortable enough to step into the new—like an eagle pushing its eaglets from the nest until they learn to fly.
- Refusing the upgrade means refusing to move forward in God's purposes; staying in the past version is choosing paralysis over transformation.
"Some of you are holding on to a version of you that God visited long ago."
Jesus Bore the Crown of Thorns to Remove All Mental and Emotional Suffering
- Jesus wore a crown of thorns so that no more thorns of mental suffering, emotional torment, or mental illness would have authority over believers' lives.
- By His stripes believers are healed—not will be healed, but are healed—because Jesus is the fulfillment of that promise.
- Mental illness is demonic in nature, and believers have authority over it because Jesus bore the crown and removed its legal claim.
"Jesus hung on a tree. But on that tree, on that tree, they put a crown of thones on him. The crown of thones was for all the suffering, mental suffering that you ever suffer."
When You Pray in Jesus' Name, You Invoke Fulfillment
- Praying in Jesus' name is not a formula to seal a prayer but an invocation of fulfillment—it means invoking Jesus as the complete answer.
- When believers ask the Father in Jesus' name, God sees them not as works in progress but as complete works because Jesus is perfect.
- God cannot deny a request made in Jesus' name because the person praying in His name is identified with Christ's perfection, not their own weakness.
"If you ask the Father in my name, I am the fulfillment of everything he has no choice but to give it to you."
Identification with Christ Means You Are Already Perfect in God's Sight
- God does not see who believers think they are; He sees who they have become in Christ—believers are hung up on who they used to be.
- When identified with Christ, the old self is crucified; it is Christ who lives—not a future transformation but a present reality.
- The world may judge believers as incomplete or imperfect, but God sees them as righteous in Christ because Jesus is their righteousness.
"When God is looking at you, he's not seeing who you are seeing. Because you are hung up on who you used to be."
True Change Is Marked by Refusing to Carry Yesterday's Guilt
- A true test of transformation is when believers make a mistake, repent before God, and leave feeling free—not continuing to carry guilt after God has released it.
- If God chooses not to remember what believers did minutes or hours ago, but believers still hold onto it, they have not truly received the grace of their change.
- God never wants believers to stay in the past; He always moves them forward because change is not in the past—only lessons are.
"If God is choosing not to remember what you did yesterday, five minutes ago, two minutes ago, and you are still holding on to it, you are not changed."
"God never wants you to stay in something called the past. God always wants us to move forward because change is not in the past. Only lessons are in the past."
The Kingdom Is Within—Stop Seeking What You Already Possess
- Jesus did not say seek first heaven; He said seek first the kingdom—and the kingdom is not a place but a Person, Jesus Christ, dwelling within believers.
- When believers are born again, they have already found the kingdom; they no longer need to seek it because Jesus is in them.
- The kingdom of God is at hand, which means God has come to believers because they could not go to Him; believers already possess what many preach about seeking.
"Sick first the kingdom of God, meaning if you are born again, you have already found it. Stop looking for it."
"The kingdom of God is at hand. That's what it means. What does that mean? God has come to you because you couldn't go to him."
Theological Soundness Prevents Believers From Chasing Their Own Tails
- When preachers lack theological foundation, they send believers on a wild goose chase, telling them to seek what they already possess in Christ.
- Many believers remain externally focused on behavior and circumstances because they were never taught that the kingdom is an internal reality that has already been received.
- Knowing the difference between heaven and kingdom, between seeking and possessing, between promise and fulfillment transforms how believers live and pray.
"It is so annoying when you see preachers stand up and say, sick first the kingdom of God. What is it? You see the problem of not being theologically sound. You send people into a witch hand or goose chase."
Righteousness Is Right Standing in Christ, Not Self-Righteousness
- Righteousness means right standing, and in God's kingdom, no human righteousness can stand—only Jesus is the righteousness believers need.
- Believers do not become righteous through behavior or effort; they seek and find all righteousness in Christ because Jesus is their righteousness.
- When believers understand that Jesus is their complete righteousness, the pressure to earn standing through works falls away, and they can rest in His completed work.
"Jesus is my righteousness. So if Jesus is my righteousness, then I have found all righteousness."
Grace, Not Sin-Preaching, Is the Only Remedy to Sin
- Sin-focused preaching, which emphasizes what believers must stop doing, is ineffective because it does not point to the solution—it only illuminates the problem.
- Believers overcome sin not by preaching sin but by preaching grace, which is the only remedy to sin and the only power that transforms lives.
- Many preachers have become idolized to sin because they do not know the way out; they preach behavior modification instead of Christ as the power to transform.
"You don't overcome sin by preaching sin, you overcome sin by preaching grace. That is the only remedy to sin."
Salvation Has Nothing to Do with Behavior—It Is About Identity in Christ
- Believers can stop every sinful behavior, but if Jesus is not in them, they are still separated from God—salvation is not behavioral reform but union with Christ.
- A Christian who makes mistakes is still going to heaven because salvation is not contingent on perfection but on possession of Christ.
- The confusion that connects salvation to behavior keeps believers in fear and shame rather than freedom; the truth is that Jesus alone is the condition and completion of salvation.
"You can stop killing, stealing, destroying, you can stop all those things. But if Jesus is not in you, Jesus is not with you, filthy rags, you're still going to hell."
"If you need a savior, it means you can save yourself."
Key Definitions
Promise — A prophetic utterance from God declaring a present reality in Christ that believers must step into through faith and identification with Jesus, not a future-focused hope.
Fulfillment — The actualization of God's word that occurs when believers recognize and receive that Jesus Himself is the completion of every promise, already accomplished and available now.
Righteousness — Right standing in God's kingdom, which is not earned through behavior but received entirely through Christ, who is the righteousness of all who believe in Him.
The Kingdom — The reign of God within believers through the indwelling of Christ; not a location but an internal reality that begins at new birth and cannot be sought because it is already possessed.
Identification with Christ — The spiritual reality that believers are united with Christ in His death and resurrection, so that God sees them not as who they were but as who they are in Him—complete and perfect.
Grace — God's divine power and favor that transforms believers from sin-consciousness to Christ-consciousness; the only true remedy to sin and the foundation of all salvation and victory.
Key Takeaways
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All of God's promises are already "yes" in Christ — Believers do not wait for God to fulfill promises in the future; they step into what is already complete in Jesus by faith and identification with Him.
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Surrender to God's formula, not self-formulation — When believers attempt to solve the promise through their own efforts instead of fully depending on God, they delay its manifestation in their lives.
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God Himself is the promise — Every word God speaks is not independent of circumstances but is a Person—Jesus Christ—who enters into the situation and becomes the answer.
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Jesus is the fulfillment of every prophetic utterance — The healing, the kingdom, the righteousness, the restoration, and every other promise are not coming—they are now, because Jesus is present and complete.
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Stop seeking what you already possess in Christ — Many believers waste years seeking the kingdom, healing, and righteousness when they already have all three through Christ; the shift is from seeking to possessing.
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Grace, not behavior, is the power that transforms — Believers overcome sin and transform their lives not through moral effort but through receiving and resting in the grace of Christ, which is the only true remedy.
Reflection Questions
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What promise from God have you been waiting on that you now recognize is already complete and available in Christ—and what would change if you started living as though you already possess it?
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In what area of your life are you still trying to formulate a solution instead of fully surrendering to God's method, and how is this delaying what God has already promised you?
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Which version of yourself from your past are you still holding onto, and what would it look like to release that old identity and step fully into the new creation God is calling you to be?
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How has sin-focused preaching kept you bound to guilt and shame instead of free in grace, and what specific truth about Christ do you need to embrace to walk in genuine freedom?
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If you truly believed that you already possess the kingdom, healing, righteousness, and every promise through Christ, how would your prayers, decisions, and daily life be different starting today?
Prayers and Declarations
Opening Prayer — Intercessory Prayer for the Sick
Begin to lift your voice and intercede under the anointing.
"Do you know somebody that is sick? Do you know somebody that is ill? Do you know somebody that needs the touch of God? As the grace is flowing in the sanctuary, I want to just take this moment. Begin to lift your voice and intercede under the anointing. Pray that the healing hand of God will reach them where they are. Pray that because of you. Because of you. Because of you. Let healing extend to them. Is it a father? Is it a mother? Is it your grandfather? Is it your grandmother? Is it your cousin? Is it your aunt? Come on, lift your voice. Is it a church family member? I'll lift them up to you now. But the healing virtue that is flowing in the house as I am standing in the service, as I am connected online, I can let them to the healing grace. For the unconnected to your healing power, for the letter flow to them, for the letter extended them, come on lift your voice. I want your feet to be released with servile healing up. I want your feet to be released with server guard that is able. Now when you leave this service that will call you and say I feel better, then when you leave this service you will hear a testimony. Father, I lift them up to you. Father, touch that child. Father, touch that mother. Father, touch that father. Let their minds be at peace. Every mental conflict, every mental frustration. Father, we speak a sound mind. We speak a sound mind. Every cancer that was to rob people of their purpose. Father, we are a rest of demon of cancer. Father, it will not take over their life. Come on somebody pray, let your faith be released at God of the South, as a race that day. How much more can it do if you are lonely believe Him? If you are lonely believe Him, Father does not struggle to walk, as we just heard in Lord, bring strength to their bones, bring strength to their bodies. Come on this Chavours, not content and a bear, Father the healing grace of this house. Tell them Lord, I am a point of contact for my family. I am a point of contact for my generation. I am the point of contact for my children. Any ailment in their lives. It sees this now because of me. Lord, distance is not a barrier. For the all the ever-lead it was the world. So, Baba, let that healing one go for us. Let them healing one go for us."
I want you to pray again. And I want us to live to the prophets of the South. That in a day and age, Ray looks like the Bible healing is just a story. There yet service that the Lord has raised to show that He is the same in yesterday. He is the same today. He is the same tomorrow.
Lift up your voice and make it to pray for prophet Loam. Lift up your voice and pray for prophet Maggie.
"Father, that's your healing power. Your delivery power. Your tangible grace will continue to blow through them. Pray for grace to about. Pray for grace to us all. Let's start the lab. We will travel from all over the world. We will start our lab. We will protect the Holy Spirit. This is because they know that God will encounter them through his servant. So I want you to pray for him. I want you to pray for her. Superbar the grace, Bar the grace, Bar the grace, Bar the more grace, Oh, more grace. Bar the lift of higher, for they use them even more. As the disciples say, God, do even more miracles. God, do even more wonder. You're the proof yourself even more! In the life of Propholomy, in the life of Prophorology, that just symphonies will never cease in the South. Anybody that ever such crowned outside, anybody that ever walked through the doors, they were in counter the guard of the South. I cannot hear you. Let your voice and pray for the lead. Make that tell your last time. Madness, Cartagre, and business, They are proceeding more grace, Lead more grace, more good, more strength, more capacity, They never marks the question of the glorious Lord. We will come to the march of the Messiah."
Closing Prayer of Thanksgiving
"Father, we thank you in the name of Jesus your only Son, your Holy Son. We thank you for your goodness and your kindness. We thank you that you never change, we thank you that you remain the same. We thank you, Father, that your hand is upon us, not only to heal us, not only to restore us, but also Father to take away our iniquity and sin. Father, we thank you that today is a day of restoration. We thank you Father that every prophetic word ever uttered to us today shall be fulfilled. We thank you that Lord, everybody has been lifted. We thank you that every tear will be wiped away today. We thank you that Father, we are walking out of this place in victory in the mighty name of Jesus."
Scripture References
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2 Corinthians 1:18-20 — "But as God is true, our word to you was not yea and nay. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea. For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us." (KJV)
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Psalm 119:130 — "The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple." (KJV)
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Genesis 18 — [Abraham and Sarah's promise]
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Genesis 15:1 — "After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward." (KJV)
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John 1:1-14 — "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." (KJV)
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John 4:23-32 — "But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things. Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he." (KJV)
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John 4 — [The Samaritan woman at the well]
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Genesis 3:17-19 — "And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." (KJV)
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Matthew 27:29 — "And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!" (KJV)
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Isaiah 53:5 — "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed." (KJV)
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John 14:13-14 — "And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it." (KJV)
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Joshua 2 — [Rahab and the spies]
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Hebrews 11:31 — "By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace." (KJV)
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Galatians 2:20 — "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." (KJV)
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Matthew 6:33 — "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." (KJV)
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Mark 1:15 — "And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel." (KJV)
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Luke 17:20-21 — "And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you." (KJV)
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Acts 1:4 — "And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me." (KJV)
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Colossians 1:13 — "Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son." (KJV)
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John 17:16 — "They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world." (KJV)
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Isaiah 64:6 — "But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away." (KJV)
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1 Corinthians 1:30 — "But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption." (KJV)
Golden Nuggets
"We serve a God that does miracles, the God that resurrects, the God of impossibilities, the God of revelation who hears and answers prayers."
"We have a father who hears, a God who answers."
"We praise with evidence. We have concrete tangible evidence on the power of our God."
"The entrance of the Word gives light, and then brings understanding. So when you read the Word of God audibly, what you are doing is you are shooting up light in your room where you are."
"God Himself is the promise. Every prophetic utterance is not independent of God."
"We wait for God's promises because we have not solidified ourselves in Him."
"The word of God is a person. The word of God indeed is a person."
"Everything that God says in him is yes."
"To say, amen is to say, I am in him. It is done."
"Jesus is my righteousness. So if Jesus is my righteousness, then I have found all righteousness."
"You don't overcome sin by preaching sin, you overcome sin by preaching grace. That is the only remedy to sin."
"God never wants you to stay in something called the past. God always wants us to move forward because change is not in the past. Only lessons are in the past."
"If you have Jesus, then you have the kingdom. You're no longer looking for it, you have it."
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