Well, 2022 is behind us, and 2023 is straight ahead. 2022 was a year of great victories. In my opinion, the greatest of them all was on June 24, 2022, when the Supreme Court of the United States overturned ROE v. WADE! Remember now, the curse of the Law is outlined in Deuteronomy 27:9-13 and Chapter 28:14, 61:
And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel, saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the people of The LORD thy God. Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of The LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day. And Moses charged the people the same day, saying, These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to BLESS the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin: And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them…. Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will The LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
THE BLESSING is summed up in Deuteronomy 28:1-2: “And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of The LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that The LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: And all these BLESSINGS shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of The LORD thy God.”
Turn with me to Deuteronomy 30:19-20: “I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, BLESSING and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: that thou mayest love The LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which The LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac,
and to Jacob, to give them.”
There it is: “Choose life!” The understood subject of the sentence is you! That’s on a personal level. It is, however, HUGE, when the Supreme Court makes the decision to choose life!
Another wonderful report is, thanks to Jesus and you, our Partners, KCM and EMIC had another record-breaking year financially! KCM had a total of seven meetings. Wow!–Branson, Sacramento, Knoxville, Fargo, Southwest Believers’ Convention in Fort Worth, Omaha and Washington, D.C. That’s a lot of preaching, especially at SWBC! The total number of nations reached was 123, as well as all 50 states and District of Columbia.
With an average of 40,000 households viewing per session, who knows how many hundreds of thousands of people were reached in 2022! Only heaven knows the exact number. What does this mean to you as a Partner? Heaven has it recorded that you preached to all those people yourself. There is no possible way we could have done it alone!
Let’s look forward to 2023. The word of The LORD came to me several days ago saying, Make sure that My WORD is Final Authority in your life in 2023. Then as I prayed, I was directed to share this with you. The reason the Bible is called THE WORD of GOD is because it is His bond. It is backed by blood-sworn promises. Let’s look at Numbers 23:19: “God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?”
The Prophet Samuel said the same thing in 1 Samuel 15:29: “And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.”
Now let’s go back to Deuteronomy 7:9: “Know therefore that The LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations.”
Now go to Chapter 8:3, New King James Version: “So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every WORD that proceeds from the mouth of The LORD.”
Does that sound familiar? Let’s read Matthew 4:1-4:
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every WORD that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
What did the MASTER say? We live by every WORD! He finally explained it during the final Passover meal just a few precious, holy moments before He went to the Cross. John 14:10 says: “Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.”
Now look at 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 in The Passion Translation:
Now, if anyone is enfolded into Christ, he has become an entirely new person. All that is related to the old order has vanished. Behold, everything is fresh and new. And God has made all things new, and reconciled us to himself, and given us the ministry of reconciling others to God. In other words, it was through the Anointed One that God was shepherding the world, not even keeping records of their transgressions, and he has entrusted to us the ministry of opening the door of reconciliation to God. We are ambassadors of the Anointed One who carry the message of Christ to the world, as though God were tenderly pleading with them directly through our lips. So we tenderly plead with you on Christ’s behalf, “Turn back to God and be reconciled to him.” For God made the only one who did not know sin to become sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God through our union with him.
WE ARE IN HIM, AND HE IS IN US! That is a covenant fact! Philippians 4:19 is the truth for all of 2023! “But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”
And Jesus said in John 8:31-32: “Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my WORD, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
He said you shall know THE TRUTH! Turn with me now to Matthew 1:24-25: “Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of The LORD had bidden him, and took unto him his wife: and knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.”
The same Greek word translated know in John 8:32, is also the same in Matthew 1:25. It is ginosko. Now let’s look at the Master’s words beginning with John 8:28-32:
Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him. As he spake these words, many believed on him. Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my WORD, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
You, then, will have an intimate relationship with My WORD! Now let’s turn to John 1:1: “In the beginning was The WORD, and The WORD was with God, and The WORD was God.”
There you have it! This, then, is a very special place with the Father and His Son! He’s our very own Father, and His Son, Jesus, is our LORD and Savior. God is not a man that He should lie! Jesus, however is a man, and He came and stood the test! He could have lied but refused! Let’s go back to Matthew 4:1 and read this entire account through verse 11:
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every WORD that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, and saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt The LORD thy God. Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; and saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship The LORD thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.
The devil waited until Jesus had fasted 40 days and nights. Starvation had begun. The LORD quoted Deuteronomy 8:3. Then in verse 7, Jesus quoted Deuteronomy 6:16. In verse 10, Jesus hit him again with The WORD of His Father in Deuteronomy 10:20. His weapons were first, “It is written;” second, “It is written;” and third, “It is also written”! You and I can, and must, do the same thing. All this year, stay in The WORD. Read it, get the CDs and DVDs, and then read some more. Immerse yourself in it until you “know” Jesus Himself! Jesus said it this way in Hebrews 10:7 in the Amplified Bible, Classic Edition: “Then I said, Behold, here I am, coming to do Your will, O God–[to fulfill] what is written of Me in the volume of the Book.”
Well, He is still “in the volume of THE Book”!
As you sow your BLESSING SEED for the first time this year, sow it believing for a wonderful and marvelous year of faith in God! Stand on Mark 11:22-23: “And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.”
Then Hebrews 11:1, in the AMPC says: “Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses].”
Gloria and I pray for you every day, at every meal. Our prayer staff, and the entire staff of KCM and EMIC, pray for you every day, also. Therefore, the bottom line is this: God Loves You! We Love You! And: Jesus is LORD!
See you in the meetings all year!
Love,