Posted by: Pure Glory | 05/14/2019

Father, You Never Let Me Down

by Apostle Gabriel Cross

Holy Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, I run to you because you will never let me down. I come to you because you cannot fail. I trust you, Father because you disarm and teach me how to disarm my enemies with love.

Deliver me speedily, for you are my rock of defense and fortress of trust. Pull me out of the net they have laid privily for me, for you are my strength and safety zone. Into your hands I commit my spirit, for You have redeemed me, God of truth. I hate all this silly religion and playing of games, but you, O God, I trust.

You disarmed my tormentors and didn’t leave me in their clutches but gave me room to breathe. Be favorable to me and smile on me with favor today. To all my enemies I have become a reproach, but especially to my neighbors, and a dread to my acquaintances, who flee from me on the street. I am forgotten like a dead person, and out of mind; like a broken vessel. For I have heard the snake talk and slander of many; terror is on every side! While they schemed together against me, they plotted to take my life. But I trusted in, relied on, and was confident in You, O Lord; I said, You are my God. My times are in Your hands; deliver me from the hands of my enemies and those who pursue me and persecute me.

Let the Glory of your face, shine on Your servant; save me for Your mercy’s sake and in Your loving-kindness. Let me not be put to shame, O Lord, or disappointed, for I am calling upon You; I desperately throw myself on you. Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol (the place of the dead). Let the lying lips be silenced, which speak insolently against the [consistently] righteous with pride and contempt.

What a stack of blessings you have piled up for those who worship you, ready and waiting for all who run to you, to escape an unkind world. You hide me safely away from the opposition. Oh, how great is Your goodness, which You have laid up for me, goodness which You have wrought for those who trust and take refuge in You before the sons of men! In the secret place of Your presence, You hide me from the plots of men; You keep me secretly in Your pavilion, from the strife of tongues.

Blessed be the Lord! For He has shown me His marvelous loving favor when I was beset as in a besieged city. As for me, I said in my haste and alarm, (I’m out of sight, out of mind), I am cut off from before Your eyes. But You heard the voice of my supplications, when I cried to You for aid. Oh, love the Lord, all you His saints! The Lord preserves the faithful, and plentifully pays back him who deals haughtily. In you I am strong and my heart takes courage, I wait in expectation of you Lord! (Psalm 31)

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Posted by: Pure Glory | 05/13/2019

Surrender Your Anxiety And Rest In God!

by Hazel Straub

Be still, surrender, let go, die to your desires of the flesh, and know that I am Lord. Rest and relax in me. I care for you. I desire your good and will not harm you. I am here for you. Keep your focus on me, the author and finisher of your faith.

Today is a new day. Listen to me and do not lean on your own understanding. Cease from your striving. Know my love and rest.

Surrender your anxiety!
Be silent and stop your striving and you will see that I am God.
I am the God above all the nations,
and I will be exalted throughout the whole earth.

Here he stands!
The Commander!
The mighty Lord of Angel Armies is on our side!
The God of Jacob fights for us!

Pause in his presence
(Psalm 46:10-11 TPT)

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Posted by: Pure Glory | 05/12/2019

Father, Raise My Love Level!

by Apostle Gabriel Cross

There are many facets to the love of God according to 1 Corinthians 13 (The Message):

“1 If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. 2 If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.

3-7 If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.
Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.

8-10 Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.

11 When I was an infant at my mother’s breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.

12 We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!

13 But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.”

But there’s one thing that love will not do and that is to intentionally, hurt the one hurting you. Love always heals and perfects; it never hurts and destroys.

Father, raise my love level!

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Posted by: Pure Glory | 05/11/2019

Love People!

by Apostle Gabriel Cross

Sometimes we are tempted to LOVE things and USE people, when we have been called to LOVE people and USE things.

Father, forgive us for our complicity, in these things, as we forgive others. Consume us, with the fire of your LOVE.

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Posted by: Pure Glory | 05/09/2019

Transformation To A Butterfly!

by Hazel Straub

How many of you have admired the beauty of butterflies and identified with their transformation from a caterpillar? There, however, is a process that it must go through before becoming a butterfly. First, the caterpillar emerges from a tiny egg and eats the leaves on which it arises. Extreme hunger causes it to shed its skin and grow to 100 times its original size. Second, it forms a chrysalis, which hangs from a twig or the underside of a leaf and hardens.

Inside, the pupa begins to digest its whole body. Soon, only a nutrient rich liquid remains, instead of the caterpillar. The wings and the entire butterfly form, in this restrictive protective environment. Finally, the butterfly fights its way out of the chrysalis, after under going a metamorphosis. Cutting the cocoon open to help, will result in underdeveloped wings that will never fly. The struggle to emerge, makes the butterfly strong. The butterfly rests for hours before flying. Then butterfly soars, in testimony of its Creator.

The ugly caterpillar’s transformation into a beautiful butterfly is a picture of what God does with our lives. When we hunger for God, we consume the Word of God, growing in fellowship with the Lord, praising, worshipping, listening and obeying. We desire nothing more than to become more like him. Then we undergo a process of transformation, in the dark restrictive protection of the chrysalis, dying to our flesh and feeding our spirit, dissolving into a liquid. We cry out to God, due to the painful process. Our metamorphosis from caterpillar to beautiful butterfly, shows the beauty created from difficulty.

It is important not to resist the process but to submit fully to the Master’s hand on our lives. Do not complain about the restrictions, on your life because they are your protection, during the process. At the set time, we struggle to cast off the last remnants of the old season. This struggle causes us to become God dependent, we need him. Then others will marvel at the beauty of Jesus, seen in the redeemed completely transformed life, as we soar in the light of God’s love. It will cost you everything but you will gain so much more!

Stop imitating the ideals and opinions of the culture around you, but be inwardly transformed by the Holy Spirit through a total reformation of how you think. This will empower you to discern God’s will as you live a beautiful life, satisfying and perfect in his eyes. (Romans 12:2 TPT)

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Posted by: Pure Glory | 05/08/2019

God Is Working On Your Behalf

by Apostle Gabriel Cross

Whatever God has destined for YOU TO ACCOMPLISH and set to be YOUR TIME, no man and no demon can unschedule or nullify. THEREFORE, NO ONE CAN STOP THE PLANS THAT YAHWEH HAS FOR YOU. NO ONE CAN STOP HIM FROM MOVING ON YOUR BEHALF.

NO ONE…NO NEED TO WORRY TODAY, WHEN God has already DESTINED YOU, TO WIN…Selah

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Posted by: Pure Glory | 05/07/2019

Focus On The Faithfulness Of God!

by Apostle Gabriel Cross

Have you ever felt like God had forgotten you, or God wasn’t going to do what he said? Have you ever felt like you didn’t want to hear another prophetic word, another sermon, or any godly advice? Then you need to drink a jug of his faithfulness and meditate on this…

God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. (1 Corinthians 1:9 KJV)

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. (1 Corinthians 10:13 KJV)

Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it. (1 Thessalonians 5:24 KJV)

But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil. (2 Thessalonians 3:3 KJV)

If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself. (2 Timothy 2:13 KJV)

Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised.) (Hebrews 10:23 KJV)

Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. (Hebrews 11:11 KJV)

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9 KJV)

And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood. (Revelation 1:5 KJV)

Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. (Philippians 1:6 KJV)

Are you ingenerated, inebriated, or intoxicated on His faithfulness yet?

Therefore, we need not focus on what is promised but Who promised it. We need not center on what has been prophesied, rather on the One who will fulfill it. We need not concentrate on how long we’ve waited but on whom we are waiting. Faithful. Judge Him faithful today and always. God is faithful to finish what he started in you. So “Focus not on the process, rather Focus on His Faithfulness!”

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Posted by: Pure Glory | 05/06/2019

Jesus-Our Amazing Grace!

by Hazel Straub

God’s grace is shown to us through his only begotten Son, Jesus the Christ. Jesus gave his life for us, so we would not live in condemnation but instead enjoy a close relationship with Father God. Grace was given to us through the blood of Jesus that washes our sins away and gives us a new loving nature.

The love of Jesus changes us from the inside out. There is nothing like grace shown us by Jesus. It is truly amazing.

When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners. Now, most people would not be willing to die for an upright person, though someone might perhaps be willing to die for a person who is especially good. But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. And since we have been made right in God’s sight by the blood of Christ, he will certainly save us from God’s condemnation. For since our friendship with God was restored by the death of his Son while we were still his enemies, we will certainly be saved through the life of his Son. So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God because our Lord Jesus Christ has made us friends of God. (Romans 5:6-11 NLT)

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Posted by: Pure Glory | 05/05/2019

Healed!

by Apostle Gabriel Cross

From the past,
Be Healed.
From the world,
Be Healed.

From the church, Be Healed.
From yourself,
Be Healed and reconciled to Me.
Be Healed…

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