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The Spirit of Abba, The Spirit of Love!

February 22, 2023 • Michael Brennan • Psalm 91, John 7:37–38, 1 Peter 5:7

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“Casting your cares on Him for He cares for you.” (1 Pet.5:7) It is easy to twice misread what Peter is saying here.

First, it does not say casting our ‘problems’ but rather our ‘cares,’ the real problems in our lives. A financial crisis, for example, is not the real problem. The problem is what it’s saying about us, about who we are, failures, victims, etc.

Casting, actually, means to slap out of one’s hand or to let fall. So, Holy Spirit is commanding us to let go or slap away all the care from attaching itself to us.

The second misread is wrongly assuming that until you get rid of all your cares, He will never be able to give His Care to you. Actually, just the opposite is true.

The power to slap off all your cares is because His Care was there all along, just waiting for you and I to let go of all our hidden self-effort to handle, deal with, fix, or manage our cares. So, that His ever-present help in time of need, His Care, can “set us on high, be with us, deliver us, honor us, satisfy us and show us His salvation.” (Ps. 91) Wow, all that just hiding behind my cares.

“If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me”, as the Scripture said, “From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.” (John 7:37-38) “Out of your inner most being will flow rivers,” lots and lots and lots, in fact, floods of living Water, His Care.

We have not received a spirit of bondage to fear. So, if it’s not from Him, then, where did we get it? Life blesses and life bites. And, every time life bites us, we file that pain in our memory banks and then, it comes out as fear. The deeper and more intense those bites are, the more we unconsciously invite the spirit of bondage to become our motivator, the pain manager inside of us.

Bondage means it owns you. Self-effort will not remove it. We can work hard to handle it, but it only goes into hiding, waiting for the next bite to show you who is in charge.

But you have received (not in your brain) The Spirit of Abba, The Spirit of Love. This is not feelings of love but Love Himself! … This Love is not out there somewhere but in your innermost being. This Spirit of Love is way down deeper than any spirit of fear.

Perfect Love, His Love, not our love, expels and drives out all, yes, all fear. That Spirit of Love is already here, and He’s longing for His NOW Love to be activated. He is longing for us to hold fast to our confession now. With our ‘yes and amen,’ He, not fear, can be our Motivator, our Manager, our ABBA!!!

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“Do you not know?” There is difference between worry, anxiety or fear and the spirit of worry, anxiety, and fear. The former is just part of everyday life. But the spirit of worry, anxiety and fear is whole another, because they are illegal intruders. Their sound these days, this day right now, has become like the perpetual scraping of fingernails on a chalk board. Someone experienced this kind of intimidating, irritating sound 2000 years ago while He was very weak from 40 days of fasting. I can still hear His anything-but-weak answer way back then, “GET BEHIND ME SATAN!” And, if I can hear so can you. Maybe we should grab ahold of that sound and let the One inside of us speak it out of our mouths once again. Not some tired, old, religious quote, but His present, living command coming out of our inner most being. This day. All the time. Beginning right now. GET BEHIND ME spirit of worry, anxiety, and fear… It’s where you belong! “And he went forward full of the power of the (Holy) Spirit” And He left you know who muttering to himself back in the desert. It’s time for those illegal spirits to get behind us. It is time to go forward in the full power of the Spirit.

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April 5, 2023 • Michael Brennan • Romans 10:17, 1 John 4:15, John 7:37

Do you not know that faith, the Heaven to earth kind, is far more connected to a sound we make than a belief we carry around in our mind? Far too many people spend too much effort trying to conjure up an unshakable belief that will convince heaven to come to earth. But Romans 10:17 tells us, “Faith comes by hearing…” Let’s dissect this statement. First of all, faith ‘comes’ as something to be received, not something conjured up from within yourself. Second, it comes by ‘hearing.’ The beginnings of faith are in a particular sound, not just any sound. It is a NOW sound filled with His ETM (His Eternal, Supernatural, Miraculous Substance) When that ETM sound goes from our outer to our inner hearing, it explodes as an assured ‘knowing’. “The assurance of things not seen.” And, since we know He listens, we know with assurance He will grant our request. (1 Jn.4:15) My point is that ETM faith is only a sound away. It begins not with our great belief, but with just our sound, our voice, our declaration. It then becomes the highway for His ETM substance. Now pause and hear this. Our sound is not from earth TO heaven. Our sound BEGINS in heaven and flows out from heaven to earth. “Out of your inner most being (Heaven in you) will flow (out) rivers of living water” (John 7:37) It’s the sound that changed water to wine, opened blind eyes, calmed storms, and raised the dead. It’s right there, in our inner most being just waiting to come out!!

Patience

March 29, 2023 • Michael Brennan • Psalm 23

Things He will never say to you: · “Can’t you see I’m busy?” · “Yada, yada, yada, how many times do I have to listen to the same ol’, same ol’?” · “Don’t you know I have bigger fish to fry than your small problems?” · “Sometimes I just want to be left alone with my coffee?” · “I’m tired of your ungratefulness. When am I gonna hear a ’thank you’?” · “You think you’ve got problems ..how’d you like My job?” · “Ya think I’ve got nothin’ to do but to be at your beckon call twenty four seven?” · “How about you get a life and stop expecting Me to be your Answer?” · “I’m on vacation next week so don’t try to contact Me?” · “Everybody has past hurts, get over it” · “Stop quoting scripture to Me. I’m the One who wrote, ya know” · “I’m not lifting a finger for you till I see some effort on your part” · “If you do not open the door soon, I’m gonna stop knocking”. · “My patience has limits and your awfully close” · “You want another miracle? Haven’t I done enough already?” · “Hey get over yourself. You’re not that important” · “Heal your dog? Really? Do you have any idea who you are talking to?” · “Just think positive. You don’t need Me” THINGS HE IS ALWAYS SAYING · “I will NEVER leave you or forsake you.” · “You are my beloved son/daughter in whom I am well pleased” (as He is ,so are we) · “Yea, though you walk through the valley of the shadow of death, you will fear no evil because I am with you.” · “I’ve prepared a table for you in the presence of your enemies.” · “Surely, Goodness and Mercy will follow you all the days of your life and you will live in My house forever.” And so, so much more!!!