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Volume 6 The Keeping Power for the Mind

by Ernest Angley

Jesus came to bridge the gulf between God and mankind, and the
Holy Ghost came to bridge the gulf between the soul and mind.
From the soul to the mind, the Holy Ghost sheds abroad the love
of God. The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by
the Holy Ghost which is given unto us (Romans 5:5). How
wonderful to have the Holy Spirit take the greatness of God in our
souls and shine it into the mind daily, feeding the mind! True June 1992
peace of mind is obtained this way. And the peace of God,
which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts
and minds through Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:7). The peace Topics: Word of God, Your
of God will keep your soul and mind. Mind

Many Children of God are without peace of mind. This doesn't

mean they will die lost, but their minds are tormented. God didn't plan minds to be without peace.
He brought everything you need for the whole person—mind, soul and body. The Lord has a
keeping power for the mind, power His obedient carry in their souls.

Your life depends on the meat of the Word. (Hebrews 5:13,14), For every one that useth milk
is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. 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. You are a babe in the Lord, unskillful in handling
the Word of righteousness if you are using only the milk of the Word.

Babies do not have much understanding, and babes in Christ don't either. The Lord, however,
wants His Children to be able to handle the Word of God and to teach others from His Word.

Strong meat belongs to the mature, to those who have grown up in the Lord. They have come in
the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man,

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unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ (Ephesians 4:13). Finding no
trouble in separating good from evil, the mature Christians have come into the knowledge of God.
There is no way to really live spiritually without the meat of the Word.

Many Christians merely exist, not demonstrating the fullness of Christ in their lives. Some will
always be babes. Because they won't take anything but the milk of the Word, they lack strength to
trample devils underfoot. They aren't strong enough to have the Jesus overcoming power, the
Jesus victory. They can't be real witnesses for the Lord or wear the whole armor of God, for they
don't go on to receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit and use His power for service. The meat of the
Word to make them overcomers is lacking in their lives.

One must accept the strength and the power of the Word in all its fullness. Many read the Word of
God, and immediately forget what they just read. They read from a sense of obligation in order to
ease their consciences. The precious Word of God isn't permitted to penetrate and do its mighty
work.

The Bible is your food, your daily bread, heaven's strength and power for you. You need the meat
of the Word, not just the letter. Accept the Word in your heart as well as your mind.

Anyone can take the letter of the Word; you need not be saved to accept it. Unless you walk with
God, you will bypass the Spirit of the Word in favor of the letter, for you cannot accept the Spirit of
the Word if you are unsaved. The Spirit of the Word is what will change your life.

Think of the Word as a delicious meal set before you. Do you dine enthusiastically or do you sleep
at the table? Of course, just as there are times you are too tired to eat, there are also times you are
so tired your mind won't work, won't comprehend what you are reading. When you reach that
place, it's best to take a nap and then start in again. Rest yourself so you can digest the meat of the
Word. If you can wake up for a meal, you can wake up for the spiritual meat so essential to you.
The food you eat is for your physical well-being, but the Word of God is food for your well-being
while you are here on planet Earth and for all eternity. Accept it all. What glorious meat it is!

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (John 1:14). Have you ever thought
what it would have been like had the disciples accepted all the meat of the Word, accepted Jesus
from the very beginning for all that He was? The Word had come down from heaven, but before
the resurrection the disciples were in and out with the Lord. Not until later did they believe all the
Lord told them. Like babes, the disciples gave Jesus their attention only from time to time. How
can this be? How can that be? Who will sit in this seat? When will you set up your Kingdom?
They were without understanding of what Jesus was doing and seeking to do and of what was going
to happen. Once in a while they would grow up enough to understand what Jesus was teaching.

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They heard the Word, but all the Lord could really feed them was the milk of the Word. They
didn't have strength for either the crucifixion or the resurrection. Had they possessed the meat of
the Word, they would have stood by Jesus when He was being tried; they would have been right
there at the foot of the cross encouraging Him with their love, their presence. Fear would not have
taken them over and scattered them in all directions.

Many are asleep spiritually because they don't have the meat of the Word. The tiny bit of life they
have is not enough to influence them to do any work for the Lord, not enough to put the desire for
understanding in their minds. They have a smattering of knowledge, but too little to be of help to
others. They are like the disciples before the crucifixion.

After the resurrection, a drastic change took place in the disciples. Suddenly it was milk no more;
they were ready for meat. A mighty appetite consumed them; they climbed to the Upper Room
and were baptized in the Holy Ghost. Jesus had told them about the Holy Ghost: But the
Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall
teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have
said unto you (John 14:26).

On the day of Pentecost, Peter stood up to face the crowd that had so recently crucified Jesus. Now
the meat of the Word was working in his soul, and the Holy Ghost could feed his mind. He reached
back into the Scripture and pulled out the prophecies of Joel: But this is that which was
spoken by the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will
pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on
my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit (Acts
2:16-18).

Few have been victoriously happy in the Lord; few have even graduated from milk to meat. The
Early Church is a grand exception. The meat of the Word was living reality to them, more
important than food for their physical bodies. They placed greater value on the Word than on
anything else. Wherever they went they talked the Word; they fed people the Word. Through
living the Word they were able to do much for the Lord.

Are you a Word-feeder? Do you feed people the Word or do you feed them your opinions? Do you
let your opinions stand between you and God?

In the anointing and power of the Holy Ghost, the Early Church fed others the Word of God.
Through the Holy Spirit, this power was shed abroad in their hearts daily, touching all who
recognized the greatness of God in vessels made of clay. They had more peace than the richest of
people even though they never knew from day to day whether they would be arrested and put to
death. They hid away in caves, in secret places. Many were martyred, but in death they glorified
God, singing as long as they had breath. The meat of the Word, heaven's strength, gave them this

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miraculous overcoming power. When you have the meat of the Word, you don't rely on Earth's
strength, but on heaven's. Through heaven's strength—the meat of the Word—believers can defeat
the enemy, cast out devils and trample them underfoot.

The meat of the Word is the Christian's defense against the world and the powers of the devil.

If you want to know what the Word will really do, trace and retrace the steps of Jesus. He was the
very meat of the Word in action in a vessel of clay. After Jesus ascended back into heaven, the
Word walked planet Earth in many vessels of clay who carried on His work. The body of Christ
dined on the meat of the Word daily. In one mind, one accord the Early Church stood in awe of the
way God moved for them, the way angels came down from heaven to minister. Great miracles were
seen: the few mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles barely scratch the surface. Thousands of
miracles and healings must have taken place in the beginning of the Early Church Age, in the first
thirty-three years. They lived on the meat of the Word.

When a soul walks in all the strength of the meat of God, that soul helps God make miracles. Many
of God's Children today do not help Him make miracles because they do not walk in all of the
Lord's strength. They remain babes, easily deceived and led astray into false doctrine, believing in
a god of their own making or of the invention of someone else. Many disgrace the true and living
God by not believing in miracles. God is miraculous. Everything about Him is miraculous. To not
believe in miracles is to not believe in the God of the Bible, to not believe in the great God of this
universe. I believe in miracles because I believe in God.

Before the apostle Paul's conversion, he hated the Word made flesh so intensely that he sought to
put everyone to death who confessed Jesus to be the Son of God, the Living Word. But on his way
to arrest Christians, the power of God knocked Paul to the ground. Instantly Paul accepted Jesus;
he didn't rebel. Paul had been given the wrong information; his parents hadn't trained him right in
the Lord. The greatest teachers of that day had been Paul's, but they didn't know Jesus. Paul held
a high seat in the courts of his people. One day Paul was important in the eyes of the world, and
the next, men in power sought to kill him.

Paul, taught by the Holy Spirit in the desert for three-and-a-half years, was served the meat of the
Word. There he grew up in the Lord, learned the reality of God. Instantly when God saved him, he
received the milk of the Word; but when he went into the desert, he dined on the meat. Paul
learned so much about the meat of the Word that Peter said, Our beloved brother Paul also
according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; As also in all his
epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be
understood (II Peter 3:15,16).

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Paul, the greatest apostle of them all, did not see Jesus in the flesh, but he was more like Jesus than
any of the others. He became that way through the Word; God was able to feed him the meat of the
Word.

Paul, no doubt born into wealth, learned to have no confidence in that wealth, no confidence in the
flesh. He wrote, What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea
doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ
Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but
dung, that I may win Christ, And be found in him (Philippians 3:7-9). What comforted
Paul, what gave him peace and happiness when his riches, prestige, family and friends were gone?
The meat of the Word.

The Word became a part of Paul. The more he ate the Word, the greater his appetite. The Word
still affects people that way today. The more of the Word you take in, the more you want. The
Word is necessary food for the spiritual man, the very best served from heaven to you.

Many are running scared because they do not have the meat of the Word that conquers fear. Faith
conquers fear; the faith of God is a vital part of the meat of the Word. In fact, faith is so much a
part of the Word that the Bible declares, The just shall live by faith (Romans 1:17). Without
faith, people don't believe Jesus is about to come. Every endtime sign recorded in the Bible of
Jesus' second coming is meat for you today, giving you understanding of this hour you live in.

The faith of God is real meat, the true faith of God. Many try to live by human faith and yet
proclaim that Christ is their Redeemer and God their Father. But their human faith wavers; it
doesn't grasp the reality of what they insist they believe. Lacking strength to defeat the enemy, to
kill the giants, they are babes.

Proclaim the meat of the Holy Spirit to the people today. It strengthens all who will partake,
drowns out fear.

The meat of the Word gave David strength to kill Goliath. He dined on it. The meat opened a
free-flowing channel between God and David while he cared for the sheep in wild, isolated
pastures. As David glorified the Lord, psalms of praise poured through him. King Saul, however,
wasn't too interested in the Word. He wanted his way, not God's; and his way followed the pattern
of a coward. The lad, David, with the meat of the Word was victorious. It wasn't the young boy
who killed a giant, it was the meat of the Word giving strength, power and ability to bring the

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enemy down.

The meat of the Word gave Daniel strength to stand against the whole kingdom of Babylon. In the
den of lions, he received courage from the meat of the Word. The meat of the Word caused Daniel
to put his life on the line; and it will be the meat of the Word, saith the Lord, that will cause us to
put our lives on the line for Jesus in this our last hour. It will be the meat of the Word flowing
freely. From the Word we will get our strength.

Three Hebrew boys had strength to not bow to an idol god even though it meant their lives. The
furnace was heated seven times hotter than it had ever been heated, but what did it matter? They
had the Word, the strength to say No, we will not bow! We will not bend a knee to an idol god!
The meat of the Word declares there is but one God.

Down through the years, those who have worked for God in any measure at all have had the meat
of the Word. Biblical prophets used the meat of the Word. Again and again, we read that Ezekiel
cried, Thus saith the Lord! Carried by the Spirit of the Lord into a valley of dry bones, he heard the
Lord ask, Son of man, can these bones live? The bones—they were very dry—represented the
whole house of Israel. Because of their disobedience to God, the Israelites lost hope and were
scattered into every nation. But God told Ezekiel He would restore them, bring them back.
Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O my
people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and
bring you into the land of Israel. And [I] shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live,
and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken
it, and performed it, saith the Lord (Ezekiel 37:3,12,14). God told Ezekiel to prophesy, to give
those bones the meat of the Word. When you receive the meat of the Word, you receive the life of
God, of heaven. As Ezekiel prophesied the meat of the Word, he saw dry bones coming together in
the vision, standing up and living.

Just as the body must have meat to develop and grow, the soul must have the meat of heaven. Any
solid food is considered meat for the physical person. The Word of God is solid food; it will make
your spirit grow, believe for all the promises of God. Jesus said unto him, If thou canst
believe, all things are possible to him that believeth (Mark 9:23). The meat of the Word
will bring you to the place you can believe. From the Word you receive the meat of wisdom, the
meat of knowledge, faith; but the greatest meat is love.

You cannot afford to contaminate God's love in your heart for others. That meat of love must work,
must be shed abroad daily by the Holy Ghost. The meat of faith works through love: Faith which
worketh by love (Galatians 5:6). Live by the meat of love and faith.

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A baby is happy as long as things go its way, but when they don't, a loud scream can be heard.
Some Christians are like that. They're content as long as they get their way, but bedlam breaks out
when they don't. Milk is still their main course. It's the meat of the Word that will give you joy
when things go wrong. For the joy of the Lord is your strength (Nehemiah 8:10).

The storm outside cannot shake the soul that contains the peace and joy of God—and remember,
there is no limit to the capacity of the soul, no limit on the things of God it can contain. One soul
can hold all of heaven; it can hold God the Son, God the Father, and God the Holy Ghost. The soul
came from the breath of God; it was made to accommodate God, for God to dwell in. All the peace
and greatness of God—the meat of the Word—was forever to be man's meat. Man was never meant
to be without it, never meant to exist only on milk.

We criticize the heathen for making idol gods in the form of animals, monsters or man; but many
so-called Christians have made gods in their own minds that take precedence over the great God of
the universe. Stripping God of all His power in their lives, robbing Him of His strength toward
them, they do not worship the true and living God. It takes the meat of the Word to know that God
answered prayers yesterday, He answers them today and will forever. The great and wonderful
things God did yesterday He will do today. The meat of the Word is in every promise of God.

A diet consisting of milk uses very few of God's promises. If you are not using many promises of
God, you are either on the milk of the Word or unsaved. The meat of the Word looks on the
promises of God as shining lights to help others to the path of God's righteousness and salvation.
Without the meat of the Word, you are like a baby who reaches but is unable to grasp, who can't
walk where it wants to go.

The first Adam lost the meat and was driven out of Eden, helpless, starving, hopeless in the hands
of the devil. What sorrow must have gone through heaven; surely God cried when that first man
and woman turned their backs on Him. God had made the soul special, designed for the meat of
heaven, the things of God and for God Himself. Now demons had moved into the souls of
mankind. There is no room for God in the soul that contains demons. When people die without
God, their souls continue to exist in living death in hell.

The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening
spirit (I Corinthians 15:45). Jesus came—the second Adam, the Lord from heaven—to bring life
back to mankind, to bridge the gulf between man and his God. For since by man came death,
by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in

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Christ shall all be made alive (I Corinthians 15:21,22). Jesus brought meat to serve mankind, to
make them strong so they could stand against and overcome all the tricks and vices of the devil.
Men and women can live and be like Jesus—the meat of the Word will do it.

The meat from heaven, the meat of Jesus' patience is offered you. The same spiritual meat you
dine on, Jesus carried. The meat of humility, of self-control—Jesus brought it all from heaven for
the Bride of Christ. The second Adam came to restore that which was lost when the first Adam fell.

Jesus met trials and temptations of all kinds, showing us how to be overcomers. For in that he
himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted
(Hebrews 2:18). Jesus was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin (Hebrews
4:15).

After His resurrection, Jesus invited the disciples to Come and dine (John 21:12). Recognizing
Jesus to be the miraculous one, the disciples obeyed. They now had the meat of the Word of the
resurrection.

Paul said, That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship
of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death (Philippians 3:10). During the
terrible ordeals he endured, Paul did not complain. No one but Jesus suffered more than Paul.
The meat of the Word of Jesus' sufferings was in Paul's heart, for he remembered the time he was
one who caused suffering. Once Paul hated everything about Jesus. Now out in the desert, Paul
knew an innocent Christ had been falsely accused and killed. Jesus, his Lord and Master, had
borne it all.

Without the meat of the Word, people are unwilling to suffer for the sake of Christ. You don't
really have life until you learn to meet through Christ the sufferings and trials of this Earth and
overcome them. Until you learn how to face life, you will not have the Jesus life. Until you learn to
handle discouragement, persecution, suffering, you will not be able to really use the Jesus life.

Paul prayed that he might know Jesus, that he might have the strength to bear up like Jesus did.
Through the Lord, Paul was able to face despair, discouragement, persecution, humiliation. Paul
knew Jesus in the fellowship of sufferings that came his way. He had great insight into the strength
he could receive from God. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that
we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need (Hebrews 4:16). Paul was
able to overcome his trials, temptations, his times of need by coming boldly before the throne of
grace.

You have not really lived on the meat of heaven with the strength that God has made possible for
you to have through Jesus Christ until you can face sufferings for the sake of Christ and bear up
under them without murmuring and complaining. Paul learned the fellowship of His sufferings.

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Paul at one time sought the Lord for deliverance from a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of
Satan to buffet me…For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart
from me. And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is
made perfect in weakness…for when I am weak, then am I strong (II Corinthians
12:7-10). A devil followed Paul everywhere he went, stirring up people against him. Three times
Paul sought God to deliver him from that demon spirit. The Lord didn't deliver him, but gave him
meat, God's grace, the strength and power of heaven to endure. It was sufficient. Never again did
Paul ask the Lord to deliver him from that thorn. Gratefully accepting the Lord's strength, he
praised God for it.

The Lord wants us to respond like Paul, to look up and declare that God's grace is sufficient.

You needn't fear this hour, sicknesses, diseases, man or the devil. Walk in the light of God without
fear. Not dwelling in the night, not stumbling, you have strength, light and the power of Christ's
resurrection.

What do you get from the Word? Do you get only the letter and not the meat? Do you read the
Word and go away defeated as before? When you pick up the Word of God for a problem, the meat
is there for you. Not one problem do you have to face without a solution through Christ Jesus. He
proved His power of deliverance through the lives of the apostles as they prayed for people in the
name of Jesus.

Have you ever studied the significance of the resurrection? Its benefits are for you. There's no
reason for you to be a weakling in the Lord when the power, the meat of the resurrection promises:
Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world (Matthew 28:20). The meat of the
Word declares, Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid (John 14:27).

All the power of the Word is for you to use. The strength and nourishment of the Word are mighty
in your behalf, but you must learn to reverence the Word and trust it completely. Read the Word
realizing that it is your meat, your very life. Never pick it up without accepting the Spirit of the
Word. Any time you feel your spirit receiving the letter of the Word only, that no strength is
flowing to you, ask God for His help. Your thinking is not right. You need the Holy Spirit to dip
from your soul that which God has given you in your salvation, and to flood it into your mind so
your mind can take in the Spirit of the Word, the meat.

The soul, remember, is the reservoir for your spiritual life, unlimited in what it can store from
heaven. Use the power in the Word that salvation has placed there. Many Children of God look
only to heaven for what they need when they already have much of heaven in the reservoir of the
soul. The Holy Spirit brings the promises and greatness of God from the soul to the mind when He

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is given liberty. He lives on the inside; He is your teacher, your helper and guide.

The mind is very deceiving. It can tell you that you have lost your salvation simply because you
can't feel it. But the meat of the Word in your soul—faith—tells you that salvation is still alive.
Instead of being tormented in your mind over your salvation, yield to the power in the meat of the
Word through the Holy Spirit and find the truth of the matter.

The Holy Spirit has come to abide with you as long as you live on Earth, and He will be with you to
change you in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye when the Rapture takes place—but you must yield
to Him completely. Receive the Holy Spirit baptism and let Him make you what He wants you to
be. You will be changed according to the power that worketh in you. Unto him that is able to
do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that
worketh in us (Ephesians 3:20). That power of the Holy Ghost is too great to be held in the mind
alone. Power to change you at the Rapture is in your soul if, I say again, you are saved, baptized in
the Holy Spirit and obedient to the Lord.

Many doubt the Rapture, doubt being changed and taken up into the clouds with Jesus. If the
promise of the Rapture is in the mind, not the soul, it will not be enough to bring faith for the
change. The meat of the Word says: Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep,
but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump:
for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall
be changed (I Corinthians 15:51,52). For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven
with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead
in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up
together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be
with the Lord (I Thessalonians 4:16,17).

Don't dine on the opinions of others, but on the infallible Word of the Living God. When He serves
you, He dips from the soul that which will gird up your mind. The mind needs to be strengthened
daily with the meat of the Word stored in the soul of each Child of God.

The Holy Spirit works to encourage you to eat the meat of the Word so it can be stored in your soul
for Him to use. He teaches you, deals with you from the Word. When He tries to get you to use
more faith or love for lost souls, He uses the meat of the Word, the love of the Word. He that
loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love (I John 4:8). For God so loved the world,
that he gave his only begotten Son (John 3:16). How marvelous to have heaven's strength
here on Earth stored in the soul to be used by the Holy Spirit! It excites me!

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The Bride in this hour, her soul filled with the meat of the Word, is strong. All the types and
shadows of the Bride in the Old Testament are strong, powerful. Everyone the Lord used for a type
and shadow of the Bride had the greatness of the meat of the Word stored in the soul. Think of it!

Dine with the Word; the Lord is calling you to His promises. We are people of promise; we live by
promise, not feelings, but by faith in the promises of God. Never rely on feelings to direct you to
what God wants done. He waits for you to emerge from your feelings so the Holy Spirit can bring
to you enough of the Word to clear your mind from misconceptions. Then the Lord is able to serve
you as you reach out to accept the promises He is offering.

When you fill up on good food, no one can convince you that you're still hungry. You know you
have just eaten. You're sure. But when it comes to the soul, the devil can shake your confidence
very quickly if you're not rooted and grounded in the promises of God. The Word is the soil that
establishes you. It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that
proceedeth out of the mouth of God (Matthew 4:4). Every promise out of the mouth of God
belongs to you, food for the soul. Every promise of God contains meat for the Children of God.
Treasure God's Word above life, for without it you have no life; with it you have everlasting life in
the Lord. What joy, what happiness, what peace!

Why look to your surroundings for happiness, to people around you? Why keep searching for
heaven down here? The Lord never promised you heaven on Earth. However, you can have a
heavenly Eden in your soul to feed your mind, bringing a deep settled peace the world does not
understand. The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts
and minds through Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:7). Don't claim to understand God's peace;
just accept it.

Depend on the promises of the Word in your soul and you will know the overcoming power the
Lord has for you. The meat of the Word tells you these words of Jesus: In my Father's house
are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for
you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto
myself; that where I am, there ye may be also (John 14:2,3). Jesus will come for His Bride.
He promised.

Unbelievers thought Peter and John were unlearned, ignorant men, and used their disdain as an
excuse to reject what the men of God were saying. Then Paul came with his fine education—his
critics said much learning had made him mad. The world will never understand the things of God;
don't court its favor. The meat of the Word says, Wherefore come out from among them,
and be ye separate, saith the Lord…and I will receive you (II Corinthians 6:17). But as he
which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is

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written, Be ye holy; for I am holy (I Peter 1:15,16). Love not the world, neither the things
that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him (I
John 2:15).

Some look to the world for security. When they seem to have less material goods than others, they
think God has let them down, that God doesn't love them. If their carpeting wears out, they decide
God's love must be wearing out, too. The Lord doesn't show His love, His greatness for mankind
with the material things. Jesus, the very Son of God said, Foxes have holes, and birds of the
air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head (Luke 9:58).

Don't check your bank account to see how much God loves you, look into your soul. For God so
loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have everlasting life (John 3:16). Everlasting life is far greater than
the fleeting material wealth of this world.

You came into the world with nothing and you will leave the same way. What awaits you in eternity
is the important thing. Seek the meat of the Word, the meat of His love, the meat of His faith,
patience, longsuffering toward you and the meat of your salvation, of eternal life bubbling in your
soul. All the money in the world couldn't buy any of that. When you are filled with the Holy Ghost
and yielded to Him, the Spirit flows through you like mighty gushing rivers of living water. God's
greatness dwells on the inside. He shows His great love by doing the impossible. Because you
accept all of Him, He looks out for you.

Jesus told the disciples to not worry about their food, about what they were going to wear: Take
no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your
body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than
raiment? Therefore take no thought saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we
drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed (Matthew 6:25,31)?

Consider the lilies of the valley that neither toil or spin. Solomon with all his glorious possessions
was not arrayed like one of these. The birds don't slave; they don't worry, yet the Lord feeds them.
Birds weren't made in the likeness of God; they don't have souls, but the Lord cares for them.
Think how much more He loves and cares for you! You were made in God's likeness; your soul
came from His very breath. Don't discourage yourself by looking at the material things. But seek
ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added
unto you (Matthew 6:33).

Are you worried about your old car? Daniel didn't even have a car, and yet the Lord told him he
was greatly loved. Look into your soul and find the incredible love that God has given to you. You
have something money can't buy, something a billionaire on his death bed would give all his money
for. A mansion in heaven is waiting for you, a structure that would make Earth's grandest palace
look like a pile of trash. Why set your heart on Earth's possessions and become discouraged when

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you fail to attain them? Seek first the kingdom of God.

Jesus tells the story of the beggar Lazarus and the rich man. Every day the rich man ate sumptuous
meals; but Lazarus, full of sores, lay at the gate begging for crumbs. They both died. Angels carried
Lazarus into Abraham's bosom, but the rich man was not so fortunate. And in hell he lift up his
eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom (Luke
16:23). The rich man cried to Abraham for Lazarus to dip his finger in water and cool his tongue,
for he was tormented in the flame. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy
lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is
comforted, and thou art tormented (verse 25). The rich man had a life of ease that was
briefer than a blink of the eye in eternity, but Lazarus had eternity in heaven.

Wake up, Children of God: You are loved by your Maker! God doesn't put on a display of the
material things like man does to show love. Some of those material displays are not sincere,
anyway. People, for instance, have been deceived into marriage by suitors putting on a show of
possessions, claiming it proved their love. After the wedding, the bitter truth came out.
Possessions were valued more than the new spouse. God's love isn't like that.

Learn the meat of the Word concerning God's love. As you learn the meat of God's love, you learn
who and what He is, how great and wonderful. His love assures you that all His plans for you are
good and wonderful, that the way of the Lord is perfect.

Dine with the Lord; live in His Word. It's exciting to discover all that the Bible contains! The Word
of God is leaping up in this final hour into the hearts and minds of everyone who desires the meat,
not the milk. You need meat that will give you strength, clothe you in the greatness of heaven.
With this meat you believe all the Lord has said; you believe in the coming of the Lord, the
judgments of the Lord, in Armageddon. The meat of the Word gives you knowledge, wisdom and
strength to be ready for the Rapture.

Child of God, get off that milk; it's for babes! Learn to eat and serve the meat of the Word. Become
strong in Him, strong in the ways of the Lord, in His wisdom, knowledge, love, faith, patience,
longsuffering, joy and humility. Daily, by the Holy Spirit, the meat is served to your mind if you
have the meat of joy in your soul. There is no reason for lack; the Lord is serving all things needed
in this last hour, and the need is great.

You who are unsaved: It's time to come to God. You don't have long to get your soul right with the

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Him. The Church Age is about to end. All the endtime signs that the Lord prophesied would be
surrounding us at His coming are here. He said, When ye shall see all these things, know
that it is near, even at the doors (Matthew 24:33). The coming of Jesus is right at the door.
The nations are getting ready for Armageddon but the Bride of Christ is preparing for the Rapture.
Oh, Sinner, get ready!

Pray this prayer with me now: Oh, God: Save my soul! I'm so sorry that I sinned against you, but I
have come home. I'm going to serve you, Lord, the rest of my life. I believe that Jesus died for me,
and I will live for Him. And I believe the blood of Jesus washes away all of my sins, all of my
sins. Come on in, Jesus. Come on in!

If you meant it, He has come. If you meant that prayer, you have Him. You have eternal life
bubbling up on the inside. Serve the Lord. Live for Him. Walk in the paths of righteousness. Take
the meat of the Word and become strong like your Lord. Be a Jesus overcomer.

You who are sick and afflicted, you who have loved ones who need deliverance—perhaps you have
a retarded child—let me pray for you now. You can have a miracle; you can be made whole, well.
You can be healed of any affliction, any disease—that's the meat of the Word. The meat of the word
proclaims Jesus to be the healing Christ. The meat promises: With God all things are possible
(Matthew 19:26). I am not the healer, Jesus is. The meat of the Word declares The prayer of
faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up (James 5:15). That's the meat, the
Spirit of the Word.

Lord, here they are. I bring the sick and afflicted to you. Lay your healing hands upon the sick
and afflicted, dear Jesus. Lord, make them all well. From your supernatural gift of miracles,
from your supernatural gifts of healing it comes through the power of the Holy Ghost in the name
of your Son Jesus. Heal! in the name of the Lord! Heal! in the holy name of Jesus. Heal! and
make them completely whole, I pray. Amen.

Let that power work to get you well. Miracles and healings are the meat of the Word. Thank God
for the meat of the Word, for the strength of heaven!

God is giving me His messages for you night and day. He is pouring it into my Spirit; I just deliver
that which He gives me.

Yea, saith the Spirit of the Lord: I am God, and I will reveal myself as God to a lost world one last
time. I will shake the Earth with my presence. I will send forth my Spirit of mercy and
forgiveness, and then I will bring judgment, saith the Lord.

I will give great, great knowledge and great, great faith and great, great love. I will serve all to

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my people that they may serve all to those who are in the night. The light of my Word will shine
forth to the ends of the Earth, and my gracious love and manifestations will turn the multitudes to
my Kingdom. I will light up paths that were at one time impossible to have light. I am preparing
the peoples, the heathen throughout the Earth for this my last visitation before destruction. I will
walk the Earth with my mercy. I will walk the Earth with my power of deliverance, and then the
end will come, saith the Lord.

Be not troubled my people. Be not afraid. I the Lord thy God will be with you, and I will make
you strong with my greatness. You will be glorious in my sight because of my greatness. You will
defeat the powers of the enemy and bring light to multitudes that are now in darkness.

Oh, my people, you are loved, you are loved! saith the Lord. I am with you all the time. I will
never, never be away from you. Trust in my love. Trust in my faith. Trust in my promises.
Victory is yours, it's yours. It belongs to my faithful people in this the last hour, saith the Lord.

Lift up your heart and know that the Lord is with you, even the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob, the God of all flesh. Blessed be the name of the Lord! God has much to say to you in this
last hour. Open your ears and hear what the Lord is saying to the Children of God. He has
prepared you for this hour. To be trusted by Him for this last hour is wondrous indeed, a grave
responsibility, but the Lord will give you the grace to shoulder it all. He is the Lord; He is with you
to instill within you the meat of the Word. Your life depends on it.

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