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Please read my “I Predict 2015 & Beyond” on page 7 and available on my Web site at marktbarclay.com.
I am a totally delivered man—no more booze, no more smoking any- thing, no more tantrums of rage, no more violence against others, no more profanity, and the list goes on. I truly know how to get some- one delivered because I have been delivered. You can preach as hard against my old lifestyle as you want to and even tell me I used to live that way, and I will not be condemned by it. Why? Because I do not do any of it any longer. I am free.
ACTS 20:24
PROVERBS 22:3 NLT
“But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received
“A prudent person foresees the danger and takes precautions. The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences.”
of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.”
HEBREWS 5:14
Move me? Move me from what to what? Move from where to where? Move us away from our spiritual leaders and our church family? Move us away from the Scriptures? Move us away from the altars of God?
“But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.”
JAMES 4:7
“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
JOHN 8:36
I don’t ask the Lord to show me things about the future, but He has chosen to show me many things— many things I wish, to a degree, He wouldn’t. A true prophet of the Lord does not just speak the smooth, shiny, sweet things but speaks all that God tells him to speak. Many New Testament prophetic statements and declara- tions are warnings for God’s people
to do something about them now. Most utterances are not like those of the Old Testament prophets, who prophesied mandates, and that was that. We can receive the warnings and go to prayer and prevent many of the evil things from ever happening.
I live by the Bible—the whole Bible. It is all profitable. It is all God’s Word to us. I always have a theme verse for the year, and a monthly theme verse. This is my theme verse for 2015:
“If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.”
In 2015, I see great victories for those who “walk” in the light and are truly pressing in closer and closer to God. They will clear out all the clutter, and they will hear His voice much more clearly. Therefore, they will be safer and stronger and avoid many damaging blows from their enemies because they will follow the way of the Lord and the Word of the Lord. It seems so simple when you say it this way.
The beauty of humility before God at the altar is part of its saving grace. It stops the devil in his tracks and reconnects us to God. Oh, it’s never the Lord who pulls away from us—we pull away from Him. But God permits us to approach Him, even when we have rebelled and done anti-Bible and anti-Christ things. We can find help in the time of trouble—not help to sin but help from sin, not a psychological sooth- ing of our guilt but deliverance from what has caused that guilt. There is always a way out, and there is always a way in Christ to adjust and repair. If we confess our sins to Him, He is faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us from all wickedness (1 John 1:9). It’s like divine healing. Divine health is better, but when the body comes under the influence of sickness or disease, healing can take place. What a beautiful thing!
Thank God for Jesus Christ, who is the grace of God! His great grace is the way out of sin. His grace paid the price for the penalty for our sin. His great grace helps us get free from sin, not just free from feeling bad about sin. That same saving grace teaches us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, even in this present age. Enjoy it!
None of these things move me, none of them—not people, not demons, not struggles. In fact, through spiritual discernment, we will see these things coming and take precautions. Here are a couple verses for you:
ROMANS 8:1
HEBREWS 13:8-9 NLT
That’s me, and that is supposed to be you. There is a reason that good Bible preaching and teaching make you feel uncomfortable or even convicted. This is not condem- nation, and it is not condemning you—it’s your own heart that condemns you.
“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. So do not be attracted by strange, new ideas. Your strength comes from
TITUS 2:11-14
God’s grace . . . ”
“For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all
men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.”
“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”
So how are you walking?
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