Psalm 23

• The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

• He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

• He restoreth my soul; he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

• Yea, though I walk through the valley of

Psalm 23

• Death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

• Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of my enemies; thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

• Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

The Deepest Revelation

Jesus Loves Me, this I know….For the Bible tells me so…Little ones to Him belong….

They are weak ……..but He is strong! Yes, Jesus Loves Me….Yes, Jesus Loves Me….Yes, Jesus Loves Me…The Bible tells me so.

The Greatest Proof

Romans 5:8• “But God commendeth His love toward us,

in that, while we were sinners, Christ died for us.” (KJV)

• “But God shows and clearly proves His (own) love for us by the fact that while we were yet sinners Christ, the Messiah, the Anointed One, died for us.” (AMP)

The Greatest Manifestation

• I John 4:9 “ In this the love of God was made manifest (displayed), where we are concerned, in that God sent His Son, the only begotten or unique (Son), into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His son to be the propitiation (the atoning sacrifice) for our sins…”

The Greatest Peace

• Romans 5:1 “Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

• Isaiah 26:3 – “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee.”

• I Corinthians 7:15 ..”But God has called us to peace.”

Peace Is A Person

• Ephesians 2:14 “For He is (Himself) our peace-our bond of unity and harmony. He has made us both (Jew and Gentile) one (body), and has broken down (destroyed, abolished) the hostile dividing wall between us.”

• I Thessalonians 5:13 “Be at peace among yourselves.”

• Hebrews 12:14 “Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord”

Peace is a Pursuit

• Seek Peace and Pursue It….• Colossians 3:15- “And let the peace(soul

harmony which comes from the Christ rule (act as umpire continually in your hearts, deciding and settling with finality all questions that arise in your minds (in that peaceful state to which as members of Christ’s) one body you were also called (to live).. …

The Greatest Power is Grace

• Ephesians 2:8 “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.”

• Through faith we have access to the grace in which we stand (Romans 5:2)

• Grace is a Person – Jesus – full of Grace and Truth (John 1:14)

• Grace can Grow – II Peter 3:18 -

Grace, Grace, God’s Grace..

• Grace can Grow – II Peter 3:18 – “But Grow in Grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ….”

• Strong’s Definition #5485 – “the divine influence upon the heart and its reflection in the life; including gratitude”

The Greatest Knowledge

• John 17:3 “And this is eternal life, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, who thou hast sent.” KJV

• “And this is eternal life: (it means) to know (to perceive, recognize, become acquainted with and understand) You, the only true and real God, and (likewise) to know Him, Jesus (as the) Christ, the Anointed One, the Messiah, whom You have sent.” (AMP)

The Greatest Passion• Phillippians 3:7-11 (AMP)

“But whatever former things I had that might have been gains to me, I come to consider as (one combined) loss for Christ’s sake.

Yes, furthermore, I count everything as loss compared to the possession of the priceless privilege – the overwhelming preciousness, the surpassing worth and supreme advantage – of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord,

To Know Him

and of progressively becoming more deeply

and intimately acquainted with Him, of per-

ceiving and recognizing and understanding

Him more fully and clearly.

For His sake I have lost everything and consider it all to be mere rubbish (refuse, dregs), in order that I may win (gain) Christ, the Anointed One.

To Be Known as in Him

• “And that I may (actually) be found and known as in Him, not having any (self-achieved) righteousness that can be called my own, based on my obedience to the Law’s demands… but possessing that (genuine righteousness) which comes through faith in Christ)

The Greatest Purpose

• (For my predetermined purpose is) that I may know Him – that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding (the wonders of His Person) more strongly and more clearly……

The Highest Calling

• There is a Heavenly summons, an upward drawing by the Holy Spirit to the top of Mount Zion articulated by Paul in Philippians. Like the Apostle John on the Isle of Patmos who heard a voice saying; “Come up hither” (Revelation 4:1) – John was in the Spirit and beheld the Throne of God…

The Highest Prize

• Phillippians 3:12-14 (AMP)• Not that I have now attained (this ideal) or am

already made perfect, but I press on to lay hold of (grasp) and make my own, that for which Christ Jesus, the Messiah, has laid hold of me and made me His own.

• I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my own (yet); but one thing I do – it is my one aspiration: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,

Pressing Towards Perfection

• I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my own (yet); but one thing I do – it is my one aspiration: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,

• I Press on toward the goal to win the (supreme and heavenly) prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward.

Run the Race to Obtain the Prize

• I Corinthians 9:24 “Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but (only) one receives the prize: So run (your race) that you may lay hold (of the prize) and make it yours.” (AMP)

• Prize “an award (of arbitration), specially a prize to a victor in the public games.” Strongs #1017 - brabeion

Higher Heights in Heavenly Places

• Proverbs 15:24 “The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.”

• Philippians 3:12-13 – “…but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which I was also apprehended of Christ Jesus”

• “Apprehend” – katalambano – Greek Word – to take eagerly, seize, possess; to lay hold of .”

The Mystery of Jesus Incarnation

• Incarnation – “the embodiment of a deity or spirit in an earthly or human form; the union of divine and human nature in Jesus Christ – (Webster’s Dictionary)

• “The Word became Flesh and made His dwelling among us.” (John 1:14)

• Jesus Descended & Apprehended us so that we could Ascend and Apprehend Him

Looking Through the Eyes of God

• “ We must arise into the Ascended Life to hear God talk… in that high place, there is no fear, all our enemies are beneath, defeated, under our feet”

• “If you never see your worth in Christ, you will rob the earth of your reason for breathing.”

*Quotes from (Dr Kelley Varner)

This One Thing Has Two Aspects (Philippians 3:12-14)

• Genesis 2:24 – “Therefore, shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”

• We cannot “cleave” (cling to, stick to, adhere) to our destiny until we “leave” behind (forsake, depart from) our past.

It’s Time to Cross the Jordan

• Isaiah 43:19 – “Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert….to give drink to my people, my chosen.”

• Joshua 1:2 – “Moses, my servant, is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, possess the land – apprehend it!

Embrace the New Thing• We cannot embrace this “new thing” until we

forsake our old paradigms and mindsets. Moses (the law) is dead or the old order.

• I Corinthians 7:35 – “Now I say this for your own welfare and profit, not to put (a halter of) restraint upon you, but to promote what is seemly and good order and to secure your undistracted & undivided devotion to the Lord.

The Greatest Hindrance

• Tradition – Matthew 15:9 – “But in vain they do worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.”

• “Making the Word of God of none effect (deprived of force; invalid) through your tradition, which ye have delivered”… (Mark 7:13)

• Strongs #3862 – Greek – “paradosis” “transmission, a handing down or on; giving up, a giving over which is done by word of mouth or in writing…

The Nature of the Prophetic

• Nehemiah – “Go Remove the Rubbish” before he could rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.

• Jeremiah 1:9-10 – “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth. See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build and to plant.”

Chosen In Him BeforeEphesians 1:3-7 (KJV) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: [4] According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: [5] Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

[5] Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, [6] To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. [7] In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

Chosen In Him Before