Good morning people who are loved, valued and accepted by Almighty God.

Further to yesterday’s BIY from Hebrews 10:26-27, I want to clarify the truth from these next couple of verses.

Hebrews 10:28-29 NIV Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?

Again, this is not talking about Christians who love God yet struggle with temptation. I’m not excusing sin – God forbid – but we must understand the Word of God, otherwise we will live in condemnation as a result of the lies of the enemy.

It’s important to note the words rejected and trampled here. These are not momentary stumbles, struggles or falls. These are deliberate, definite and defiant rejections of God Himself; Who He is and all He has done.

I want to speak life, hope and freedom to the many of us who often live condemned, and even in fear of “Is this me? Have I gone too far?”

If you can and do respond to the Holy Spirit and ask Father to forgive you, this is not you!

For some of you, your heart continues to condemn you, (trust me, I know what this feels like), but the devil is a liar, an accuser and a deceiver, and today, I expose him for who he is!

If you love God and you ask Him to forgive you, PRAISE GOD, you are accepted by Almighty God! ALL GLORY BE TO THE FATHER!

Good morning people who live in the forgiveness and grace of our loving Heavenly Father.

Hebrews 10:26-27 NIV If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.

This is a very important and often misunderstood passage of scripture. Some people have read this and it results in fear because they still have moments of struggle where they give into temptation.

It’s important to understand the word deliberately that is used here. It means to sin willfully as opposed to sin committed inconsiderately, and from ignorance or weakness.

If we deliberately keep on sinning is talking about people who know the truth and yet willfully and fully reject it and reject God. This is not talking about people who love God and still have times of struggle and giving into temptation.

Don’t let the enemy lie to you.

If you feel the Holy Spirit prompting you when you sin and you ask Him to forgive you, this Scripture is not talking about you!

Falling is not fatal. There is still grace, mercy and forgiveness available to you in Christ Jesus!

Psalm 37:23-24 NIV The Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him; though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the Lord upholds him with his hand.

Together, let’s refuse to live in condemnation. God’s grace is greater!

Good morning people who meet together to encourage each other in the Lord.

Hebrews 10:24-25 NIV And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

Encouragement is an under-utilised, powerful shifter and shaper in people’s lives!

Your words can be the difference between life and death for someone else. Your words can release people into their destiny or shut it down. Your words can build up, edify and encourage. Your words are powerful!

So, how do you use your words?

And why do you go to church; why do you meet with other Christians?

According to the context here, it is to encourage each other and to spur each other on! WOW! We are told to not forsake meeting together so that we can encourage each other, and to do it more than ever!

Going to church to receive from God is good and right. But going to receive from God and going to give to people is even better! It is possible that someone needs your encouragement!

It’s time for the people of God to encourage each other more and more.

Watch some great teaching from my Dad: ‘Stepping out in the Prophetic’

Good morning people who add your YES to what God has said.

I’ve just seen something else in this incredible verse:

Hebrews 10:23 NIV Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.

I want to marry this verse to the following verse below and then share what I feel: 

2 Corinthians 1:20 NIV For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through Him the “Amen” is spoken by us to the glory of God.

Power comes and is released when we come into agreement with and confess the promises of God, regardless of what we see.

Something happens when our faithful God, not our devastating circumstances, gets our primary attention and our confession.

Something happens when we add our “Amen!” to what God has said.

I invite you to join me in keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus and declaring His promises no matter what.

Good morning people who don’t give up and who never let go of God.

Hebrews 10:23 NIV Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.

It is an excellent and right thing to say that we trust God. This is the profession of our faith.

But I realise that as we journey through life, there come times when the profession of our faith meets the testing of our faith. The truth is, we don’t like the testing of our faith, nobody does. But the purpose is not to test us and leave us wanting, but to refine our faith and to further develop our spiritual muscles.

It is also true that sometimes it’s not just about holding on, but about holding on unswervingly. It’s a tenacious, no-option kind of holding on. It is a Jacob wrestling with God and not letting Him go until He blesses him kind of holding on.

The fuel to holding on unswervingly is to know that God is faithful.

When circumstances don’t make sense, God is faithful. When hurt is our constant companion, God is faithful. When the bills are mounting up, the children are unwell and we just need a break, God is faithful.

God’s faithfulness is not reliant upon anything else, nor is it defeated or diminished by anything else. God’s faithfulness is in fact a statement about God, and therein lies its power! 

I’ve learning that I don’t need to, nor will I, often understand what’s happening or why. I’m trying to be ok with this – sometimes successfully, and sometimes, not so much. But even in my struggle to accept this, God is still faithful, yes even when I am not and even when evidence would try to say otherwise.

God is faithful!