!st Tim 4:1 Seducing spirits

hello out there I hope all is well with you today. The last time we left off, we were talking about the doctrine of devils, and that devil know how to teach. they teach people how to fail, cheat ,lie, steal, slap the wife, etc. if you didn't read that blog, i would encourage you to do so. today we continue with that teaching, In 1st Timothy 4:1 it talks about giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrine of devils. Look at the order for which it was written. 1] Seducing spirits 2] doctrine of devils. They can't teach you until they first seduce you. A seducing spirit is any spirit or influence that makes you do something against your will without you know it. I'm not talk about submission, where you yield your will to do the will of Jesus, i'm talking about You wanting to stop smoking but there is something talking in your ear[subconscious] that tells you that you want another one. These spirits will continue to say it until you either 1st rebuke them or submit to them. So let's began Jesus said in John 8:32, you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. In order to know the truth, we must first establish what is a lie. from here i will go to finish this blog in word document, because this particular blog site, will not allow me to break up the paragraphs so it will be easier to read. You may contact me for the rest of this teaching at Chuckvlewis@yahoo.com

1st Tim 4:1Doctrine of Devils

hello out there. I hope you are doing well today. I want to remind all of you that you have the power over these weather systems that are producing these tornadoes, damaging homes, business and taking lives. This is not from God, This is the devils' work. let's begin. In 1st Tim 4:1 it talks about seducing spirits and doctrine of devils. To put plainly, a seducing spirit is any spirit that makes you do something against your will, without you knowing it. It is subtil[Gen 3:1]. If you break that word "SUBTIL" into 2 parts, you get "SUB" which means "under" and " Til or Till" which has to do with sowing seed, hence the term "till the land". So the enemy is planting lies underneath a place where you can't see it. the underlying place is called the mind. Have you ever been to a park and seen some bird droppings on the park bench? what about your car? You know the bird was there, because the droppings is the evidence. This is how demons work, they leave their "droppings on your minds" and go and mess with someone else, you are left there to clean up the droppings. This is why our worship of the Lord brings a sweet smelling savour to Him, because the rest of this planet if full of droppings! The doctrine of devils means that these demons, know how to teach. The word "doctrine" means "teaching". So demons are going to teach you how to fail, how to stay in poverty, and how to slap your wife etc. In the old testament the word "DEVILS" is used 4 times[Lev 17:7,Duet 32:17, 2chron 11:15 and Psalms 106:37; however it is used many times in the new testament. The word "demons" is not in the King James Version of the Bible. the word "Satan" is used a few times in the book of Job. Other than that it is listed in 1 Chron 21:1,Psalms 109:6, Zech 3: 1-2]. the new testament mentions "Satan" many more times. Here is my point: in the old Testament, there was no open revelation of who was causing all this trouble. With Samson and Delilah, Satan was manipulating both of them, in one form or another. Especially in the book of Job. if you will look in the first 2 chapters alone, you will see that God did'nt put any of those things on Job. For satan to do anything in your life, he has to get you to confess something. when Job admitted fear[job 3:25], this gave satan permission to take everything He had. Let's look a bit closer at this and you'll see that the "Doctrine of Devils" try to make it seem like God is doing something to harm you, when it is actually them. In Job 1:19 there came a whirlwind[tornado] and smote the house where Jobs' "SONS" and "Daughters" were. It said that the whirlwind killed all of the "SONS". If the daughters were there also, why didn't the Whirlwind kill them? because it was a lie. The only reason why God said" All the job has in in thy power[job 1:12], is because when Adam was kicked out of the garden, the earth was turned over to satan, by default, that is all, nothing more. Job 1:14: The oxen were plowing and the Asses was feeding beside them. Common sense tells any farmer that if you couple a horse, and an alligator together, they will be unequally yoked. So Why are the "asses" feeding, while the oxen were working? because it was a lie. You have people like that in ministry, one does all the work while the other just eats and eats, without working. Job 1:17 uses the word ""chaldeans". If you study out the book of Daniel, Chapter 1-3,you'll see that the Chaldeans have a reputation of being liars. Even Nebuchadnezzer was a native Chaldean" [Ezra 5:12] If you will look at this Job account, you will see that the messengers were lying too. The 1st messenger came and said something, then the next said something, while the 1st messenger was still talking, then the 3rd came, while the 1st and 2nd messenger was STILL TALKING", then the last messenger came and said something, whil the 1st ,2nd and 3rd messengers was "STILL TALKING". So now you have 4 demons, saying 4 different things. This is to bring confusion into Jobs life, so he can't see what's really going on . None of these events happened until Job believed it. You find no where in the scripture where Job when to see or check out if what the messengers said was true, job believed a bold face, out right LIE. and look what happened to him. This is a perfect example of the doctrine of devils. Job 1:21, he said "the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord. this is also a lie. Roman 11:29 says that the gifts and callings of God are without repentance, so Once He give you something, it is not in His nature to take it back. People need to take time to search the bible for these truths, and stop guessing at everything. I want to go back a little bit to what I said earlier. In the old testament, When God wanted His people to occupy a certain territory, they would have to go in and wipe out all the people that are living there 1st. The reason why He did it that way is because He had not instituted a way to cast out devils, at that time. So the only way to get rid of the devils, it to kill the house that they dwell in, in this case it was people. Once you get into the new testament, Jesus comes along and shows us that we can cast out the devils, and still save the person. What have those devils taught you lately? Have they taught you how to sabotage your finances? What about your releationships? Have those devils taught you how to fail? Are those devils teaching you how to eat, so that years of bad eating will bring you to a premature death? Are they teaching you how to speed in your car so that it will cost you more at the pump, while you are breaking the law? Are they teaching you how to cheat on the income tax, steal office supplies, illegally dump your christmas wrappings and trash in someone elses dumpster, how to flirt with the opposite sex, when you know you are married?, How to gossip?, how to burn Cds' that you didn't pay for[ I will talk about that one sometime later] How to sexually satisfy your self without your mate? I know some of these issues are hitting you right where it hurts! if it will provoke change, you are better off. I could go on and on but I think you get the point . Make sure that what you hear in the spirit,measures up to the word of God. know the difference between the voice of Jesus and the voice of the serpent[devil,satan]. I'll give yuo this little nugget in info: in 1st Chron 21:1 it says that Satan stood up against David; when you call him "satan", you cause him to stand up and walk just like a man. Up until this verse, he was supposed to be crawling[serpent], not walking. his name is the serpent, but in order for him to walk around verses crawl around, you have to call him " satan". This is why revelations 12 called him "THAT OLD SERPENT", it is to say that this was his name from the beginning, after he fell to earth. the next blog, I will deal a little more with suducing spirits, and how it afftected Adam. I welcome your response

The presence Verses His voice

Hello out there. I hope all of you are doing well today. I was at a concert a few days ago. All the music was good and there was a move of God in that place. The next day while I was at work, The Lord asked me a question; " in the midst of all of all the noise, music, and screaming, did you hear me?" I had to think about that for a while. I said" well , one of the artist there spoke something to me that pertained to me, I thought that maybe it was You. His response was" that person was encouraging you, but that was not prophetic. I asked Him" what is the difference between the prophetic and encouragment, His response was " DETAILS". I want you to think about this; there is a lot of talk in the worship and amongst christians today about chasing after God. I will Chase after Him with all my heart. Jesus said in Mat 28:19 he's said" I will never leave you or forsake you". Why are we chasing after the one who is always with us? if Jesus is inside of us, Why am I searching for God? I know where He is! He is inside of me. I am His House[I cor 3:9]. If we get caught up with searching for Him, it creates in our minds that He is somewhere afar off, I assure you He is not. So lets begin: in Genesis Chapter 1, The spirit of God moved across the face of the waters; nothing happened, the situation didn't change until He spoke" let there be light". It is not enough to just want His presence, You want Him to say something. have you heard this in the scripture, " in the presence of the Lord there is fullness of joy[Psalms 16:11]. The presence of the Lord is designed to bring joy, to the full until it overflows, but it is not enough to deliver a person. Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Faith doesn't come by joy, it comes by hearing the word of God. Mat 4:4 says this" man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth[ present tense] out of the mouth of God. We don't live by joy, We live by the word of God. lets look at this a little deeper shall we? John 5:2-8: Jesus goes to the pool of Bethesda, and all of these people are laying around waiting for an angel to trouble the water. Question: If Jesus was there and all of those people were there, then why wasn't His presence enough to heal everybody? Notice that the one that got healed was the one He was talking to. His words is what brought the healing to that man, not His presence. John 20:11-16: mary runs to the sepulchre where the body of Jesus was supposed to be laid. she stoops down and look in and see these 2 angels in there. The angels[ both of them] said unto her, " Why R you Weeping"? There is something interesting in this story that I want to point out. In the first few verses of this chapter, Jesus rose from the dead. He told her that He was coming back from the dead, in 3 days. Why is she weeping? because she is walking by sight, not by faith, if she was walking by faith, she would have remembered what Jesus said, looked into the tomb, and rejoiced, not weeped. Even in the story of Lazurus, When Jesus raised him from the dead, John 10:30[ Jesus wept]not [Jesus is weeping]. Jesus got all of His weeping out of the way, and then said Lazurus, come forth. Jesus wasn't weeping while He was speaking to Lazurus. You see emotions can deminish your faith. Get all of your emotions out of the way first, then speak! Mary was with Jesus and did'nt know it. His presence alone was not enough to give her revelation that he was there. Jesus had to say something to her. When He spoke to her, that's when her faith was re-ignited, her response was "RABBONI", or master. The revelation of the master came, after He spoke, so Him just being there, is not enough, you want Him to speak Gen 3:8 the "Voice of the Lord" came walking: You see, If the Lord came walking, without saying anything, they wouldn't have known He was there. This is why the scripture uses the word "VOICE". If you'll notice, the His voice has the ability to walk. If His voice walks, and you can't hear is voice, it is because you have stop walking. Now you can undesrstand the term" For we WALK by faith and not by sight!"2cor 5:17. If you are anywhere where you can't hear His voice, get out of there because you don't belong there! If you are living by His presence alone, and not by His voice, you are still walking by sight, not faith. I listened for His voice in the middle of all that noise, and couln't hear Him. I should have never been there, and it was a gospel concert. Turn off the radio, tv, put the kids to bed, get alone with Him and listen. This will build your faith. remember, It is not enough to have His presence with you, You need a word form God, Always!

Lose it and let it go[ mat 21:2]

hello out there. I hope you are doing well today. Let's get right in to this teaching. Jesus is about to enter into Jerusalem, but before He does. He sends 2 of his disciples. they are to go into the city get an Ass and the colt that are tied up and bring it back to Him.

Straightway you will find an ass and a colt tied up: This Ass was a female and the colt was her baby, so notice wheat Jesus does, He has loosed both of them from a generational curse. She was tied up and now her baby is tied up. Jesus will use what no one else wants. He told the disciples something" when they ask you what you are doing, say " the master hath need of them". The word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path[ Psalms 119:105] So what are the disciples going to use, in order to find this ass and the colt? they are going to use what Jesus said, the word. So they go into the city and someone asks " How are you doing today" the only response the disciples should have is " the master hath need of them." Someone comes up to them and asks them " what time is it? their response should be "the master that need of them"
Someone comes up to them and ask them for 20.00 to put gas in their camel [car], what is going to be the disciples response? The master hath need of them. that Is all they are supposed to say, What God says.

when you have a ministry or you go to a church where all the people are bound up or have issues on top of issues, year after year, the same people, it is because the pastor, or leaders are not saying what God said about that situation. Disciples only speak the word, not their opinion

What is happening in this when they just say What God says? Jesus gave the answer. The word used was " STRAIGHTWAY". This means immediately. When you are believing God for something and he gives you are word, just speak the word until you see manifestation. This is where a lot of Christians miss it: they speak The word until a situation comes up to challenge that word[ Mark 4:15]. Then all of a sudden, they let go of the word, and grab a hold on what they can naturally see. this is not walking by faith, this is walking by sight. STAY WITH THE WORD, NOT MATTER WHAT.

When you lean on the arm of opinion, instead of the Word, it takes longer for you to find what you are looking for, now you have turned yourselves over to trial and error. The Word is alive
and is accompanied by angels. If you'll notice that Jesus sent 2 disciples, not 1. Why? in the mouth of 2 or 3 witnesses let every word be established[ 2 cor 13:1]. when you are believing Jesus for something, tell at least one other person, so you'll have a witness that God did it. It puts His name on the line to perform it.

lets go to one more place: 2 kings 9, Elisha called on of the children of the prophets to go send a message unto Jehu, and they are to take a box of oil and pour it over Jehu head. This is what the the prophet that was sent is supposed to day" The Lord hath anointed thee King over Israel". This is all the prophet that was sent was supposed to say. Now here is my point; Elisha didn't tell him where exactly Jehu was , he just told him to go to Romoth-Gilead. How was this messenger going to know where Jehu is, once he entered the city? He is going to say what the prophet Elisha told him to say" The Lord hath anointed thee king over Israel". So notice that the messenger had to keep saying what the prophet said, but it wasn't the prophets word, it was the Word of God spoken though the mouth of the Prophet[ Amos 3:7]. This became a lamp and a light for the messenger to Find Jehu.

Once He finds Jehu, Jehu is not alone, he is with the captains of the host. unless the messenger know Jehu before, how is he going to distinguish Jehu from the others? He had to keep saying the word, and the word directed him to Jehu.

you may be dealing with an issue that needs an answer,NOW. So you go to the word of God, and wait for him to tell you where that word is. You take the word and put it in your mouth and in your heart until you see manifestation. You may need money, here are some scriptures that cover that one[ Romans 8:32] [2ND Cor 2:12] it says that he[Jesus] has FREELY given us all things. That means we don't have to pay for it, it's paid for. Now Luke 6:38 come into play here,
" SHALL MEN GIVE UNTO YOUR BOSOM. God is not going to give you money, He is going to speak to someone and they are going to give it to you. remember also that the first purpose of money is to advance the Kingdom of God.

You have to turn off the TV, radio, and everybody else to hear from Jesus. he is not going to scream it out for you, you must listen. I've used the word in this way for healing, cars, home,wife, health, how to fix things, etc. my friend this stuff really works. God bless you

P.s Blessed means empowered to prosper, it doesn't mean : to prosper.

Why do we study the bible?

Hello out there. It's been a while since i've done a teaching blog. Ive gotten some responses back saying that people were reading the blogs and growing from it. So tonight we will talk about the reason why we study the bible. What good will it do for us? Who benefits from studying the bible, so let's begin.

In 2Timothy 2:15 it says, study to show yourselves approved, a workman need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. First, think about this; I have an apple pie, as a whole it can just feed me, but if I take it and divide it into 8 pieces, then i'm able to share it. So, what is the purpose of dividing the word of truth? So that you can share it. Many Christians read the bible but don't study it. I can read a quick verse and say" I've read my verse for today". Understand that this is an intellectual exercise, the art of reading. An Athiest can read the bible and get the same understanding as anyone who just reads it; however the revelational truths found in it' pages, are reserved only for the believer who studies the bible.

Now, many of you have applied for a car loan. there were certain criteria for you to meet the conditions, in order for you to qualify for that loan. It is the same with studying the bible. Look at the verse above "study to show yourself "APPROVED". So here is the $1,000.00 question;
how do I know when i've been approved to be a workman ? when you rightly divide the word of truth. How do I know if I've been disqualified from being a workman? when you incorrectly assume that something means this, when it really means that.

Let's use an example: Phillipians 4:19 ,but My God shall supply all of your need according to His reiches in glory by Christ Jesus. Many take this scripture and blow it out of proportion and really do not investigate the meaning of it. When they get into a financial bind, this is the
scripture that they quote. You don't quote the word, you quote scripture. Let's find out what this verse is talking about. The Phillipian Church was suppling the apostle Pauls necessity
while he was out preaching. They gave him clothes,food,provisions, whatever is needed for him to complete his mission. As a result of that He spoke that word[Phil 4:19]. So, the needs of the Philipian church was being met, because they were supplying someone elses need.

Now christians just quote that scripture, but they have no desire to aid a brother, put some gas in someones tank, pay someone elses rent for a month, sow a bag of groceries for someone, sow money into programs that feed the poor, and clothe the naked, take care of widows, strangers at the gate, and orphans. they think if they just do tithes and offerings at their local church, that is enough.

No that is not enough! The great commision was to "GO" not "STAY".

How about this; you are witnessing to someone, and they ask you about a scripture, and you say this" I don't know where that is in the bible, but it's in there"! Now wait a minute, if you know how much money is in your bank account, how much gas in your car, how many hours you worked this week, how much more should you know where these scriptures are, so when you need them you can go to them.

Let's go a step further; many pastors and church leaders can preach the verses and scripture,because they are coming out of their intelligence. They are preaching it based on head knowledge. There is no revelation in head knowledge. We are fighting a spiritual battle and intellect alone can not do the job, you need revelation knowledge. Studying the bible is the pathway to that knowledge.

let's take another scripture{2tim 3:16] all scripture is given by the inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine reproof correction and instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be PERFECT thoroughly funished unto all good works. So here we see that man, when he
studies and applies the scriputres[ I mean a saved man] In the eyes of God, he is perfect. This idea of "well nobodys perfect" is a tired flawed excuse to keep walking in your flesh. Stop saying that "nobodys perfect". When someone ask you if you are perfect, you say "YES"!

Lets dig a little deeper; the one thing that was missing out of 2tim 3:16, is the word "revelation".
The bible is a map for many business in the country, though they may not give Jesus the credit for it. the Idea of a company having a "STAFF", came right out of the bible. it was when Moses spread his staff over the red sea and God parted it[exodus 14:16] rod=staff. Now notice this,
when the staff was lifted, The power of God divided the waters. So notice what the job of the staff is: it is to divide out responsiblities. I could go on an on about the parallels between the business world and the teachings of the bible.

At what point does a scripture become the Word? Jesus was the word made flesh, not the scripture made flesh[John 1: 14] James 1:21 says that the "ENGRAFTED" word of God is able to save your soul. the word "ENGRAFTED" takes its meaning out of when somone is burned and they graft some skin off of one part of the body and places it on another part of the body. So until the word is "grafted" to you, IT WON'T DO YOU ANY GOOD!.

When you study, the scriptures will go into your mind[head] first. As you continue to remember
it and speak it, the scripture travels down from you mind[head] and when it reaches the heart, it becomes "THE WORD". David said in Psalms 119:11, that the word was hidden in his heart, not his head! So when you are in a situation, and you need divine help, go to the scriptures and wait for God to take you to a particular scripture, in that chapter or verse, there is a "WORD" waiting on you. You take that scripture and put it in your mouth and begin to confess it and meditate on it. Once it hits the heart, the thing you were dealing with and confessing will come to pass.

It is like when a cow eats grass and chews it up, then vomits it out and adds more grass and chews it again,vomits it back up, then adds more grass, until that grass is so refined, it becomes part of a cows being. That is what you do with word. So you see, none of these marvelous truths are available to a believer if you don't study. THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE.