Evening Routine before I sleep

 Before I sleep, I confess these verses over my being . This is my evening routine.

My identity in Christ 

I am accepted: I am God’s child. I am Christ’s friend. I have been justified. I am united with the Lord, and I am one spirit with Him. I have been bought with a price. I belong to God. I am a member of Christ’s body. I am a saint. I have been adopted as God’s child. I have direct access to God through the Holy Spirit. I have been redeemed and forgiven of all my sins. I am complete in Christ.

 I am secure: I am free forever from condemnation. I am assured that all things work together for good. I am free from any condemning charges against me.  I cannot be separated from the love of God. I have been established, anointed and sealed by God. I am hidden with Christ in God. I am confident that the good work that God has begun in me will be perfected. I am a citizen of heaven. I have not been given a spirit of fear but of power, love and a sound mind.  I can find grace and mercy to help in time of need. I am born of God and the evil one cannot touch me.

 I am significant:  I am the salt and light of the earth. I am a branch of the true vine, a channel of His life. I am a personal witness of Christ. I am God’s temple. I am a minister of reconciliation for God. I am God’s coworker. I am seated with Christ in the heavenly realm. I am God’s workmanship. I may approach God with freedom and confidence. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. 

LONGSUFFERING, fruit of the spirit

 LONGSUFFERING 

This fruit of the spirit in the heart of a believer is really love's nursery. The Believer is now suffering with the selfish ones, perhaps loved ones. You see, we are living in a world dominated by selfishness. 

We are the Jesus folk, and we are to love those selfish ones as He loved them. We are taking His place, acting in His stead. He came to destroy the works of the Adversary. 

The longsuffering believers are partners of the Master in this great work. 

You will never be free from selfish men and women; they are the burdens that you have to bear. They are always crying for their share. They want, they demand, and they will fight to gratify their senses. The longsuffering ones must bear with them. We must suffer for a long time with the babies. 

This is love's miniştry, suffering with the babes in Christ. 

Apostle Paul tells about them in 1 Corinthians 3:1-3, "And I, brethren, could not speak to you as unto spiritual, but as unto babes in Christ I fed vou with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able to bear it; nay, not even now are ye able: for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife,are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk after the manner of men?" 

This is an unhappy picture; but it is true,and the deeply spiritual men and women must bear the burdens of these babies 

Hebrews 5:12 gives you another picture. "For when by reason of time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need again that someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food." 

Notice, "when by reason of time ye ought tọ be teachers." They should be grown up in the Word and helping others, but they are still babies. 

You who are strong must bear the infirmities of the weak. You must take the Master's place. 

They will be selfish. They will criticize you. They may lie about you. They are often the scandal-mongers of the church They see evil instead of good. Their ears are open to the senses. But you, you have grown to the full stature of a man or woman in Christ, and must bear with them and be patient and kind.

PEACE

                     PEACE 

My heart looks upon this fruit of the New Creation as one of the most valuable. 

You remember that Jesus Christ said, "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful." 

John 16:33 "These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." 

What is peace? Why, it is the child of love. 

When one comes to know his Father and know his place in Christ, and to know that Jesus Christ is what the Word declares Him to be, he can repeat, "Jesus is my Shepherd Lord. I shall not fear what man may attempt to do unto me. 

In the quietness of his heart he whispers, "My Father is greater than all. He loves me as He loved Jesus in His earth walk." 

Then he whispers that marvelous scriptıre. John 14:23, "If a man love me he will keep my word and the Father and I will love him and we will come and make our home with him." Can anything equal that promise? None. 

When the heart knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Father and Jesus Christ are making their home in your home, you have a feeling of safety that no earthly or demonical power can destroy. 

You have the "peace of God which passeth all understanding." 

You're anchored in the spirit realm of love now. 

Philippians 4:6 - 7, becomes a reality. "In nothing be anxious, but in everything by praver and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God." 

I have been invited to come boldly to the throne of Grace, the throne of love gifts. I know that whatsoever I ask of the Father in Jesus' Name I will receive. Because of this I have no anxiety. 

I have entered into His rest. Why? The next verse tells us. "And the peace of God which passeth all understanding shall guard your hearts and thoughts in Christ Jesus." 

Your heart is safe-guarded. Your thoughts are safe guarded. 

1 Peter 5.7 "Casting all your anxiety upon HIM, because he careth for you." 

Where there is anxiety there is no peace, and where there is no peace, there is no rest. Now we have entered into His protective care, it is the realm of His rest. This belongs to every believer. 

When one fails to have peace, quietness, and rest of spirit he has either broken fellowship with the Father, or he does not enjoy the riches of his relationship with Him. 

He has not taken advantage of the Holy Spirit's ministry. That ministry is to build the Word into your spirit consciousness until you lose all sin consciousness. He will build into you a Father consciousness and a child consciousness. You will become aware of His protective care and love. 

Now you can understand what the prophet meant when he said," Great pence have they who love thy law, and nothing shall offend them. "

Isaiah 26:31 is a beautiful prophecy of this strange thing called peace. "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is staved on thee, because he trusteth in thee."

JOY, fruit of the recreated spirit in humankind

       JOY 

Perhaps one of the richest fruits of the recreated spirit is joy. Joy is the evangel (the Christian gospel) to a selfish world.

Joyful Christians have always been a challenge to a broken hearted world. 

Selfishness never gives joy, it gives only limited happiness.  Happiness is the product of our surroundings. It is the satisfying of our five-senses. The material things that bring a man happiness may be taken from him in a moment and he is left desolate. 

Joy belongs to the spiritual realm just as happiness belongs to the sense realm. 

In John 15:11 Jesus Christ said, "These things have I spoken unto you that my joy may be in you and your joy may be made full." 

Jesus Christ could have had but little happiness. His joy in people must have all been by faith. 

He believed that He could meet the claims of Justice and conquer Satan. He believed that He could make the New Creation a possibility and that He could restore this lost, broken man to the heart of the Father. Thus He could say,"that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full." 

I linger over that sentence. I wondered what it would mean if a man could have his joy made full. It would be necessary that he become Jesus like, so that he could say, "For I do always the things that are pleasing to Him." 

He could say as the Master said, "My meat is to do the will of Him who sent me." 

Joy would be in knowing the Father's will and doing it. 

John 16:22 and 24, "And ye therefore now have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one taketh away from you." That was a promise and a prophecy. 

The disciples had no joy. They could not have it until their spirits were recreated. 

In the 24th verse He says, "Hitherto have ve asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be made full." 

This is the secret, then. He speaks of a fulness of joy. The first was that it might be made full. The means to make it full had not yet come into being. Here again He uses the strange expression, "that your joy may be made full." 

He has given you the right to use His Name. It is really the Power of Attorney . We are to receive things from the Father.

He is going to do things for us as sons because we are using the Name of Jesus Christ.

In the 23rd verse (marginal rendering) we read, "In that day ye shall ask me nothing, Verily, verily, I say unto you, if ye shall ask anything of the Father he will give it you in my name." 

It practically forbids you to pray to Him, but we are to address our prayers to the Father in His Name, then our joys will be made full. How? By the answers that the Father gives. 

John 17:13 "But now I come to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves." 

Once more He uses this strange term of our having a fulness of joy. This time He is asking the Father that it might become a reality in us, and we know that His prayer was heard. We have a right to expect joy. It is something that the world cannot take from us. 

Neither persecution nor torture could rob the disciples of their joy. Every martyr that we know anything about met death with a joy filled heart. 

1 Peter 1:8 "Whom not having seen ye love; on whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing ye rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory." 

This must ever remain as the masterpiece of descriptive truth of the New Creation who has "joy unspeakable and full of glory." It is a joy that is beyond words. 

This joy belonged to those early Saints. It was because of this joy, so apparent in the lives of the Christians, that the Prince of Madagascar accepted Christ. His mother, the Queen, had ordered all those confessing Christ to be flung to their death off a high precipice. The Crown Prince stepped forward, bowed low, and made his confession of faith in Christ. It was the unmistakable joy of the Christians that had touched the heart of the young Prince. He could not resist it. He accepted Christ and offered himself as a martyr. 

Nehemiah 8:10 "... for the joy of Jehovah is your strength." 

Isaiah 35:10 is another picture of joy. "And the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come with singing into Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away."

Psalms 16:11 is a picture of the Master Himself after His Resurrection."Thou wilt show me the path of life: In thy presence is fulness of joy; In thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore." 

This is a photograph of the Master on that first Easter morning. 

When a Believer is not joyful it is either because of broken fellowship or a lack of knowledge of what he is in Christ and what Christ is in him. He does not know what he is to the Father and what the Father can be to him. He has nerer entered into his inheritance in Christ. 

It is vastly important that we know about our inheritance. That is, our present tense inheritance. 

It is this unspeakable joy which makes you triumphant over the petty trials of life, and a victor over the trials that may come up.

FRUIT-BEARING BRANCHES

    FRUIT-BEARING BRANCHES 

Now we come to one of the most remarkable features of the New Creation's life. It is the fruit bearing of the recreated spirit. The fruits he is to bear are the fruitage of the Vine. 

Now you can understand John 15:5,"I am the vine, and ye are the branches." We are the fruit bearing part of the Vine. Jesus Christ does not bear fruit. The Holy Spirit does not bear fruit. The branches bear the fruit, enabled by the Holy Spirit. 

Now we come to Galatians 5:22, "But the fruit of the Spirit is love." I always thought that to mean the fruit of the Holy Spirit; the translators evidently thought the same thing, but that is not true. The word spirit should not have been capitalized, for it is the recreated spirit that is the fruit bearer. It is the branch of the vine that bears the fruit.

Romans 5:5 tells us the nature of these first fruits."For the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit." That means that the love of God comes with the New Birth to the human spirit (which is called the heart). 

The first fruitage of the recreated spirit is love. 

The strange new word that Jesus evidently coined is used, agapa. You remember in 1 John 4:8 that God is called agapa, "God is love." 

Now the recreated spirit is bearing the fruits of love. "We know that we have passed from death into life because we love the brethren." Agapa is used here also. In this same chapter he says, "Let us not agapa in words only, but in deed and in truth." 

You rernember that the law of the New Covenant, which takes the place of (or replaced) the Old Covenant and its law is, "A new commandment I give unto you, that ye agapa one another even as I have agapaed you." 

The law of the frst Covenant was summed up by Jesus Christ. The law was that a man should "love God with all his heart, and love his neighbour as himself." 

Natural man could not love God. He might love some idea he had of God, as some of our modern preachers do today. The natural man cannot love or know God. He was to love his neighbour as himself. This too was an impossibility 

The New Covenant law says that we are to love "even as" Jesus Christ loved us. Jesus Christ loved my neighbour enough to suffer the torments of the damned for him. I am to love him the same way. 

Jesus Christ loved the world enough to go to hell for it. Paul said, speaking of his relations, "For I could wish that I myself were anathema from Christ." In other words, he said, "I love my brethren enough to go to hell for them. I would willingly be lost eternally if I could only lead them into the joy of this union with Christ." 

You see, apostle Paul had received this revelation truth of love, and it had taken possession of him. His heart was captured by it. Agape.

This revelation of the Father's nature being imparted to man is the genius of Redemption.

'This new kind of lorve is the solution of every problem. 

You understand that there was no love before Christ came. Women were bought and sold among all peoples. A woman had no standing until Christ gave her one. Up until 1840 men questioned whether or not a woman should have an education. 

Slavery could not be abolished until love gained the supremacy in a man's heart. 

The great forces in the world today are spiritual. They are greater than the Atom Bomb or the Ixdrogen Bomb. They are greater than any of man's organizations. These two forces are the New Kind of Love and the Old Kind of Selfishness. 

The labour and capital problems can only be settled by the law of the New Covenant. You see, this new law of love is the nature of God in practice. It is Eternal Life dominating the reasoning faculties. That is the reason it is so difficult to put it over in our land. 

Selfishness has arisen to its supreme heights in both the economical and political worlds. The church has lost its dominion. No one cares much for its voice any more. 

Our broken homes proclaim aloud that selfishness is the goddess of the divorce court. Many parents look upon children as a hindrance to their selfish happiness 

Few have ever recognized the Lordship of Jesus Christ. His Lordship is our ticket into God's family. That Lordship really means the Lordship of Love. It is love gaining the ascendancy over the recreated spirit. 

When a man receives Eternal Life, love becomes supreme in his life. 

The recreated spirit is a product of love. It is born of God, and God is love. When it came forth, fresh from the womb of the Spirit, it was filled with the love nature of the Father. 

If one allowed love to dominate him, we would see Jesus men and women facing selfishness, hatred and jealousy as the Master faced it during His earth walk. 

OUR UNION WITH DEITY

    OUR UNION WITH DEITY 

It is thrilling to know that man is in the same class of being with God, and that he may become a partaker of His Divine Nature. He may actually become a child of the Creator of the Universe. 

The Father's Nature imparted to a man brings him into vital union with Deity. 

Man is a spirit being, he has a soul, and he lives in a physical body. God calls this body His temple. It is His Holy of Holies now on earth. 

We have never majored the fact of a man becoming a partaker of the Divine Nature. There has been no serious attempt to cultivate this recreated spirit. 

We know that the part of man that is recreated and receives the nature of God is his spirit. You remember that Jesus said, "I am the vine and ye are the branches." That statement goes with Ephesians 2:10, "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus." We grow out of Christ. We are branches of Jesus Christ. 

1 John 4:4 "Ye are of God my little children." 

1 John 3:2 "Beloved, now are we children of God." 

These scriptures prove one fact, that we came out of the womb of Omnipotence, and that our spirit, the real man, is born of God. God imparts to this man His own Nature. 

I believe that this is the genius of Christianity. 

You see, when one's spirit is recreated it does not mean that his mind is changed. His reasoning faculties may be governed by the same forces as before. 

You understand that all the sense-knowledge that the brain receives comes through the five senses. If a man is governed by his five senses, then his spirit is held captive. 

The New Creation should be ruled by the spirit, making it possible for him to have fellowship with the Father. His recreated spirit should rule his reasoning faculties. His recreated spirit which received the revelation-knowledge would lead his five senses. 

Here are some facts: it is our spirit that is redeemed; the redemption of our bodies comes at the Return of our Lord; Satan's dominion was broken over the spirit of man. Man has been freed from Satan's thrall. The five senses are to be dominated by the recreated spirit. 

When the five senses are brought into subjection it means that the body is brought into subjection. 

The term flesh, as used in apostle Paul's Epistles, should almost invariably be translated senses. If this were done it would clear up much that we have failed to understand, 

The combat mentioned in Galatians 5:16-26 would be a combat between the recreated spirit and the senses. He says,"Walk by the spirit," that means the recreated spirit, "and you will not fulfll the desires of the senses." 

You see, the recreated spirit and the senses are constantly warring· "But if you are led by the spirit," that is not the Holy Spirit, that is the recreated spirit, "ye are not under the law." The men under the law were led entirely by their senses. 

In the New Çreation the spirit is made righteous, it fnds a new freedom in the presence of God and the Word. The Word no longer condemns, but it comforts. The Holy Spirit no longer convicts, but He leads the recreated spirit into the realities of His Redemption in Christ. 

This recreated spirit now finds joy in the Word, and in fellow-ship with the Holy Spirit and the Father. It begins to feed on the Word. Before it was recreated it could not do this. The Word becomes spiritual miłk for the New Creation.

Worship

 Father God is seeking for soul  and spirit to worship HIM in spirit and truth .

God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."

 If Christianity is the transformation of rebels into worshipers of God, then it is imperative for the Christian to know and understand what constitutes biblical worship. One may learn the precise meaning of worship (adore, idolize, esteem worthy, reverence, homage, etc.). Yet truly defining worship proves more difficult because it is both an attitude and an act.

This following list of Scripture will remind you how great God is and how He is worthy of our praise.

 Focus your mind and heart on God with these Bible verses about worship and let your praise go up.

 Jesus Christ said we are to worship in Spirit and truth, and these verses will help you access the power of the Holy Spirit and the truth of Scripture in order to experience true worship.

1 Chronicles 16:23-31

23 Sing to the LORD, all the earth; proclaim His salvation day after day.

24 Declare His glory among the nations, His marvelous deeds among all peoples.

25 For great is the LORD and most worthy of praise; he is to be feared above all gods.

26 For all the gods of the nations are idols, but the LORD made the heavens.

27 Splendor and majesty are before HIM; strength and joy are in His dwelling place.

28 Ascribe to the LORD, all you families of nations, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.

29 Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His name; bring an offering and come before HIM. Worship the LORD in the splendor of His holiness.

30 Tremble before HIM, all the earth! The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.

31 Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad; let them say among the nations, “The LORD reigns!”

34 Give thanks to the LORD , for he is good; His love endures forever. 

Daniel 2:20

20 and said: “Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever; wisdom and power are His.

Deuteronomy 10:21

21 He is the one you praise; he is your God, who performed for you those great and awesome wonders you saw with your own eyes.

Jeremiah 20:13

13 Sing to the LORD! Give praise to the LORD! He rescues the life of the needy from the hands of the wicked.

Psalm 75:1

1 We praise YOU, God, we praise YOU, for YOUR Name is near; people tell of YOUR wonderful deeds.

Exodus 20:2-6

2 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

3 “You shall have no other gods before me.

4 “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.

5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,

6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

John 4 : 21 - 24

21 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.

23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.

24 God is spirit, and His worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”

Psalm 99

1 The LORD reigns, let the nations tremble; he sits enthroned between the cherubim, let the earth shake.

2 Great is the LORD in Zion; he is exalted over all the nations.

3 Let them praise your great and awesome Name— he is HOLY.

4 The King is mighty, he loves justice— you have established equity; in Jacob YOU have done what is just and right.

5 Exalt the LORD our God and worship at His footstool; he is HOLY.

6 Moses and Aaron were among His priests, Samuel was among those who called on His Name; they called on the LORD and he answered them.

7 He spoke to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept His statutes and the decrees he gave them.

8 LORD our God, you answered them; you were to Israel a forgiving God, though you punished their misdeeds.

9 Exalt the LORD our God and worship at His holy mountain, for the LORD our God is HOLY.

Deuteronomy 29:18

18 Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations; make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison.

Romans 12:1 - 2

1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.

2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—His good, pleasing and perfect will.

1 Samuel 15:22

22 But Samuel replied: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the LORD? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.

Revelation 4: 8 - 11

8 Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under its wings. Day and night they never stop saying: “ ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty,’who was, and is, and is to come.”

9 Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne and who lives for ever and ever,

10 the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say:

11 “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.”

Isaiah 29:13

13 The Lord says: “These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.

Psalm 29 

1 Ascribe to the LORD, you heavenly beings, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.

2 Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His Name; worship the LORD in the splendor of His Holiness.

3 The voice of the LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the LORD thunders over the mighty waters.

4 The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is majestic.

5 The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.

6 He makes Lebanon leap like a calf, Sirion like a young wild ox.

7 The voice of the LORD strikes with flashes of lightning.

8 The voice of the LORD shakes the desert; the LORD shakes the Desert of Kadesh.

9 The voice of the LORD twists the oaks and strips the forests bare. And in His temple all cry, “Glory!”

10 The LORD sits enthroned over the flood; the LORD is enthroned as King forever.

11 The LORD gives strength to His people; the LORD blesses His people with peace.

Hebrews 12 : 28 - 29

28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe,

29 for our “God is a consuming fire.” 

Nehemiah 9:5-6

5 And the Levites—Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah and Pethahiah—said: “Stand up and praise the LORD your God, who is from everlasting to everlasting. ” “Blessed be YOUR Glorious Name, and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise.

6 YOU alone are the LORD. YOU made the heavens, even the highest heavens, and all their starry host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. YOU give life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven worship YOU.

Psalm 86:9-10

9 All the nations YOU have made will come and worship before YOU, Lord; they will bring glory to YOUR Name.

10 For YOU are great and do marvelous deeds; YOU alone are God. 

2 Kings 17 : 38 - 39

38 Do not forget the covenant I have made with you, and do not worship other gods.

39 Rather, worship the LORD your God; it is he who will deliver you from the hand of all your enemies.”

Psalm 100

1 Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth.

2 Worship the LORD with gladness; come before HIM with joyful songs.

3 Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are His ; we are His people, the sheep of His pasture.

4 Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to HIM and praise His Name.

5 For the LORD is good and His love endures forever; His faithfulness continues through all generations.

Daniel 3 : 16 - 18

16 Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego replied to him, “King Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter.

17 If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty’s hand.

18 But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.”

Revelation 14 : 7 He said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give HIM glory, because the hour of His judgment has come. Worship HIM who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water.”