by Apostle Gabriel Cross
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by Apostle Gabriel Cross
I asked Yahweh, “Why do we have so many unresolved issues in marriages and relationships?”
He responded, “Quit rehashing the problems or you will become one with the problem. When you constantly rehearse the issues, you become married to the issues, instead of the person. You become one with their issues, instead of becoming one with the person. In lieu of the person being on your mind, passionately and perpetually, the person’s flaws or issues are always on your mind.”
“My remedy is forgiveness. Forgiveness is abandoning the offense and embracing in love, ‘The person.’ Meaning let it go, no longer carrying it or keeping it as a pet. Forgiveness causes reviving and healing in the relationship. If you don’t forgive, unforgiveness results in you becoming loyal to the problem and not to the person, which progresses to playing the ‘blame game.’”
“The blame game is laced in the spirit of condemnation. (Matthew 12:37; Luke 6:37; Romans 8:1; 1 John 3:20-23) One usually condemns another person, because one is condemned already in their heart concerning something else. Therefore, when you play the blame game, no one ever wins because no one is fighting to LOVE, only fighting to BLAME, or fighting to be RIGHT. If you prize being right in your relationship, more than the person you are in relationship with, then LOVE will be estranged in your relationship.”
“No one wants to submit to LOVE. You have to submit to LOVE first, before you can submit to each other. Learn to embrace and celebrate your differences. Stop seeing and being bitter towards one another, start seeing and being better for each other. Seek Me for wisdom in how to be a blessing to the one you’re in covenant with. Remember, you cannot change anyone, that is my occupation,” says the Lord.
“Therefore, regardless to the person’s flaws, vice, or issue you have with them, refuse to be in the place where only ‘I, Jehovah,’ am supposed to be in their life. Divorce the past, so you can marry a better future with the person you’re in covenant with. FIGHT TO LOVE, don’t fight to be right”…Selah
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by Hazel Straub
Overwhelmed by the storm? Keep your focus firmly fixed on the Lord. He leads and guides you successfully, through the most narrow and dark places. Problems, however, arise when we take our eyes off him and worry about our circumstances. We begin to think about the “what ifs” and magnify the challenges.
The problem becomes our meditation and consumes our hearts, becoming our idol. It takes first place in our lives, instead of trusting and having faith in God. Anything that takes the focus off God is an idol.
Change your focus and praise and worship God! Look up! Stop worrying and striving, instead rest in his strength and listen to what he is speaking to you. Then you will successfully come through the challenging season.
Lord, I passionately love you and I’m bonded to you,
for now you’ve become my power!
You’re as real to me as bedrock beneath my feet,
like a castle on a cliff, my forever firm fortress,
my mountain of hiding, my pathway of escape,
my tower of rescue where none can reach me.
My secret strength and shield around me,
you are salvation’s ray of brightness shining on the hillside,
always the champion of my cause.
All I need to do is to call to you,
singing to you, the praiseworthy God.
When I do, I’m safe and sound in you. (Psalm 18:1-3 TPT)
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by Apostle Gabriel Cross
Turn your face from the past. Quit dwelling on negative things or negative energies of your past. This is a trick of the enemy.
Have a new outlook on old things and current situations. Don’t be afraid to be vulnerable, weak, or contrite in my presence. Be Vulnerable allowing Me, your Father, as your protection; Weak so My strength can be perfected in you.
“And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. ” (2 Corinthians 12:9 KJV)
Contrite-: feeling or showing sorrow and remorse for a sin or shortcoming
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.” (Psalm 51:16, 17 KJV)
“He mocks proud mockers but shows favor to the humble and oppressed.” (Proverbs 3:34 NIV)
As the Lion of Judah has aggressive ferocious love for you, so become aggressive in your love with others…
by Hazel Straub
Desire a life transformation? God gives himself to those who receive him, as a gift. Jesus, his one and only Son is the doorway to his Father, our Abba in Heaven. The Spirit of Jesus, Holy Spirit resides in believers in Jesus, as the Son of God.
Our belief and faith in him, transforms our life, by the power of the Holy Spirit. Our whole life and outlook radiates with hope, expectant joy, peace, and trust. Hope joins with faith and the love of God, to see your your life, fulfilled and overflowing with super abundance! True life transformation happens in the lives of believers.
Now may God, the inspiration and fountain of hope, fill you to overflowing with uncontainable joy and perfect peace as you trust in him. And may the power of the Holy Spirit continually surround your life with his super-abundance until you radiate with hope! (Romans 15:13 TPT)
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by Apostle Gabriel Cross
There are numerous scriptures that support and instruct us on how to think, what to meditate on, and why we should renew our mind. Positively, your mind needs nourishment and encouragement daily. If your mind doesn’t receive the right spiritual food, it will gravitate towards the negative. What you hear, determines how you feel. How you feel effects how you live.
Regardless, what happens today, prophesy life, provision, prosperity, and providence over yourself. Speak only what the WORD says about you. What you THINK ABOUT, YOU BRING ABOUT. As a man THINKS in his heart, so is he! (Proverbs 23:7)
We decree the thoughts of God (thoughts to prosper), sanctified thoughts (thoughts that are pure), creative thoughts (thoughts to affect and bring change), freeing thoughts (thoughts that relieve stress), wholesome thoughts (thoughts that heal), wise thoughts (thoughts that produce wealth), and joyful thoughts (thoughts that fill you with encouragement). Today, THINK LIKE GOD, and the things of God, will happen.
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by Hazel Straub
It important to guard what we allow into our eye gates and ear gates. If we input fear, doom, and gloom through our eyes and ears, we will think about these things. The negative thoughts lodge in our hearts (our mind, will, and resulting emotions), to birth anxiety, fear, doubt, and toxic emotions that will flow heedlessly, from our mouths and cause regret and much harm. Guard your mouth gate, so your life will go well.
Our lives go much better when we guard the input that comes into our hearts. Choose to think on the good and not the negative. Have another thought and focus on God’s goodness and blessings. Take a Bible verse and think on it.
So keep your thoughts continually fixed on all that is authentic and real, honorable and admirable, beautiful and respectful, pure and holy, merciful and kind. And fasten your thoughts on every glorious work of God, praising him always. (Philippians 4:8 TPT)
Guard your heart more than anything else, because the source of your life flows from it. (Proverbs 4:23 GWT)
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by Hazel Straub
Whatever we spend our time thinking about, grows bigger in our life. If we worry about the problems, they become magnified. However, if we focus on the promises of Yahweh, our covenant keeping God of the present, we will not yield to fear because he is always near and gives us strength.
What problems have become giants in your eyes? Does sickness, crisis, debt, fear, bad reports, mockery, pain, inadequacy, lies, shadows, intimidation, isolation, covid-19, or relationships, rob you of joy? These giants want to silence your voice and have you quit before you really get started. They desire to steal your dreams and your strength, to receive all that belongs to you. They do not want you to know that with Yahweh, you are unstoppable.
Without a vision of victory, you perish. Take courage and fear not, for the Great I AM is with you. He will never leave you or desert you. Speak to the giants in the name of Yahweh, your God, and watch them topple. The bigger the giant, the greater their fall and defeat. Keep your focus on Yahweh, who holds you, and gives you victory. Fear Not!
I drew you to myself from the ends of the earth
and called you from its farthest corner.
I say to you:
‘You are my servant; I have chosen you.
I have not rejected you!
Do not yield to fear, for I am always near.
Never turn your gaze from me, for I am your faithful God.
I will infuse you with my strength
and help you in every situation.
I will hold you firmly with my victorious right hand.’
“All who rage against you will be ashamed and disgraced.
All who contend with you will perish and disappear. (Isaiah 41:9-11 TPT)
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by Apostle Gabriel Cross
I believe one of the reasons it took the children of Israel 40 years, to complete an 11 day trip is because Yahweh was trying to get some people, out of their spirit. You can’t take everyone with you. Focusing on the wrong people can hold you back, but the right people will push you forward.
Don’t focus on the negative or the negatives in your life, when you can focus on all that’s good and the Christ in your life. Don’t waste your energy, your time, or your anointing on a negative mind. When people are negative, they see the lightest areas or things, as the darkest areas or worse.
When people are faith-filled, they see the brightest and your values, as Yahweh sees you. You might want everyone to be with you, but everyone can’t go with you, because Yahweh didn’t choose everyone, he chose you.
Note this: SHIFT YOUR FOCUS, from the negatives in your life, they can’t see the whole picture anyway. Hit the shift key today!
For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey. (Joshua 5:6 KJV)
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