—Psalm 139:16

DISCUSSION:

Jesus revealed that each of us has a book written about us. Very few people ever accomplish what is written in their books. It answered many questions when reflecting on why Jesus preached such an uncompromising word. The message called the gospel comes from God, and it reveals that we’ve been living way below what God desires for us. The only ones who opposed Jesus were the religious leaders of the day. The majority of the people weren’t resistant because they needed the good news. They were in a struggle, even as a country at the time, and they needed provision, deliverance, healing, and intervention in their lives.

The personality of the Father is revealed in scripture, so saying, “It’s rigged in your favor,” is what Paul preached. Jesus preached it, and so did the Apostles. It was the message that your sins are forgiven. Jesus said, “If you go to a town and you forgive their sins, they are forgiven. If they don't accept you, He said, take your peace back and don't even take the dust with you to the next city to dust it off.” (Matthew 10:14). When you preach the good news, they can only come against the good news, but they wish to kill the messenger because they can't discredit the message. They can't discredit the good news.

Jeremiah 29:11: For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

I was shown all the things that were about to come on the earth and the warnings that didn't go as God planned, and one of the things the Lord told me was that “Very often my will is not done.” I heard all my life that “God is in control” and “Whatever He wants, He's going to get.” I think about how many babies were killed today. How many people went to court, and injustice was done?” God's will is revealed, but it's very seldom done, and it’s because people don't know the good news of the gospel. Paul said, “We're more than conquerors” (Romans 8:37). “We have everything we need for life and Godliness” (2 Peter 1:3). That means anything you need for life and godliness has been given to us. It's in Christ. It's already been written. Paul said that the good works that we're to do were already predetermined. It doesn’t mean certain people go to hell or go to Heaven. That's not what it's saying. Predestination has to do with God working everything out for His good as though everyone will love Him and obey Him. He orchestrates that perfect scenario for everyone, even those in hell right now. Their books written in Heaven were immaculate. They were supposed to do all these amazing works predetermined in Christ. All the good works were predetermined and written (Ephesians 2:10). That explains why “It’s rigged in your favor.”

It’s why Jesus said, “If you love me, you'll obey me, and my Father and I will come and live with you (John 14:15-17). How would your life change if you got a knock on the door and it was Jesus and the Father, and they had a truck with all their furniture, and they moved in? In the Greek language, this is what it says. If the Father and the Son are going to move in, and we already know we have the Holy Spirit, how can we say anything is impossible?

How is it that we limit the Godhead living inside of us? Remember, if He is there, there are no limits. How do we live where we don’t limit Him?

Around 500 BC Daniel read Jeremiah 29, which said, “A Day will come in your captivity where you will cry out to me, and you’ll repent, and I will hear you and answer you.” In other words, “The 70 years of captivity will end, and you will cry out to me, and I will rescue you and bring you back into the land that I promised you, for I have good plans for you. Plans to prosper you and an expected end.”

Daniel realized that what Jeremiah wrote was written for him and his time. Jeremiah’s words were for Daniel. They were the ones in captivity, and they were supposed to cry out. So, Daniel cried out to God and fasted. He encountered angel visitations, experienced deliverance, and was taken back to Jerusalem.

The point I want to make is that if God is in control, then why did Jesus say, “You didn't discern your day of visitation?” He said, “How I long to gather you as a hen gathers her chicks, but you would not have it. You did not discern your day of visitation.” He said this approximately the night before He was crucified. He was looking down over Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, and He said those words. It was God’s will, but the people did not discern, and they would not have it. Then, in 70 AD, Rome destroys Jerusalem. That is not what Jeremiah said. Jeremiah said, “I have plans for you to prosper, to have a good and expected end.” God had plans for them, but they didn’t discern their day of visitation. Jesus came and cried over Jerusalem and wept. After that, He was crucified, and Rome destroyed Jerusalem. In a way, it sounds like Jesus was prophesying against Jeremiah, saying, “Not one stone is going to be left.” God always speaks the truth and reveals His intentions.

Prophetic ministry is not foretelling; it’s telling the truth.

In the New Testament, the prophet is the one who speaks God's heart, His desire, and the direction we should go. It always comes with a message of repentance, humility, and obedience. Paul told Timothy the prophecies you received from me; take them and wage war with them (1 Timothy 1:8). If Paul is an Apostle prophesying over people, why would Timothy use those prophecies in warfare if they're in stone? The reason is that God is not in control of everything. Paul said that the powers of the air and the spirit of this world; satan, is the god of this world. He said, “You used to obey him until you believed, and you were translated or transferred over.” The small “g” god owns the lease of the earth through Adam and Eve’s disobedience. Being rigged in your favor comes because you obey the good news. You hear the good news, you obey, and believe it. That causes you to be in synchronization with Heaven.

One thing you can do right now that would cause you to be in synchronization with Heaven is repent and turn your gaze back to Jesus. Repentance is the fact that your gaze has been taken off of Jesus, and it's on something else, especially if you're worrying. Jesus told me that worrying is idolatry. Idolatry is the worship of idols. If you give power to something and you worry, what you're doing is giving power to an idol. You're giving power to something that is proclaiming to be stronger than God, and you're worshiping the thought of that, and it is an idol. That's what Jesus told me. Idolatry is when you fix your gaze on something else other than God Himself.

That’s why the Apostle Paul addressed spiritual warfare in

2 Corinthians 10:5 as being; every high thought or any thought that exalts itself above the knowledge of God is idolatry. Paul was preaching doctrine to the Church, and he said that if you have a false thought, you have to take it into captivity and bring it down so that it's not worshipped in your mind. Bring it into captivity, handcuff it, and take it out. It’s very aggressive. If things are rigged in your favor, you have to be this aggressive because if not, you'll go with every wave and every tide. You meet people like this all the time because you used to be one. You used to be the same way. You need to call the things that are not as though they are (Romans 4:17).

About tomorrow, you need to be calling it. You don't need to be waiting to see what the devil will do to you next. You need to call it from Heaven. That's what Daniel did. Daniel saw himself in the Bible, and he called it as it was because he saw it in the Bible as being truth. He said, “We're going to call out to God, and He's going to hear us, and He is going to rescue us and bring us back into the land.” That’s what Jeremiah 29 says, and he was a prophet from God.

DISCUSS:

1. What can you be doing right now? Repentance is one thing you can do.

List some others.

2. In what ways can you be fixed on what God is doing, and how do we live to the level God is calling us to live?

3. Pray for each other.

Father, I just thank You so much. All the warriors all over the world, we just thank God for every one of the family right now. We just ask for a special measure of grace by the power of the Spirit would be upon them right now. Father, that You would touch in every country, every city right now in the name of Jesus, that You would meet every need according to your riches and glory. Father, we speak prosperity, health, and healing. We speak deliverance right now in the name of Jesus, and we thank You. Father, the Word of God, is being delivered right now by the Spirit into each home, into each meeting place right now. Father, You have not left Your people, You are making them strong. You want to visit them right now in their house with the Angels and bring them the message of hope. Bring them the power of the resurrection right now in the name of Jesus. I speak healing into your bodies. I speak healing into your hearts and your minds in the name of Jesus, and I thank You for supernatural natural provision coming to all the warriors, Lord everywhere. In the name of Jesus. Amen.

Ephesians 1:4- 5: Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will.

Romans 8:28- 30: And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover, whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

John 15:16:

You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.