A Child...

Well today was the last day of "A Better Way To Worship" Conference at CBC and AWMI. 

The thing is, I've been singing in the choir for the whole thing, and loving it. Found that I actually have a good voice, even accidentally sang the alto part for a song in practice Thursday night. I can say this, my life will never be the same, I'll never forget those people that have changed my life by speaking to my heart. 

A Much longer story short, is this. 

Today after the normal morning session and the breakout sessions, they had one just for the "worship leaders" now I didn't know it was just for them, and once I found out I was already into it and figured that since I was part of the choir... no one would mind, and they didn't. During this session a man named Kent Henry played and ministered. That alone changed my life and blessed me more than I can truly express. But after the worship and speaking he ministered with, he and several other leaders prayed for people. I didn't feel that I had anything that I Needed prayer for, but I really wanted to go up! So once most everyone else had been prayed for I went up and just let them flow in what they were doing. 

First I was called faithful, then they went over one thing after another that whether or not I felt I needed prayer for that, it still blessed me, after that, they ended by encouraging me to find a place that I could "Bow down and talk to God." Now I'm not one to bow down literally to much, but I understand the attitude of putting yourself in that open defenceless place. So I went and talked to God, first I asked, (Because I wasn't sure, though I know I will go into ministry, and likely a pastor, but I'm not sure...) 

Lord what do you want me to do?

And He replied, 

Nothing.

I didn't quite get it, God always has something for us to do right? So I said, really???

 really???

And He said, 

Yes.

I still didn't get it, so He said,

Well who are you?

Right about then I started to put pieces together and said,

I'm a son of God.

And He said,

So what do sons do?

Right there it really clicked for me! And I got it! I said,

They don't do anything!

A son, to be a son, doesn't have to do anything, they just are, they just enjoy the Fathers love and relationship. 

He also made sure to get it into my head that, 

I don't WANT anything from you!

I don't expect you to live a rough life so that you can take guitar lessons and learn to worship Me. 

I just want you, your heart, your love, your relationship with ME.

A son is not made a son by doing things, but by birth right. You are RE-born a son of God. 

So a son does not receive his status, his value, his place, or anything else by doing, but only by being a son. 

We have to understand that if we are to expect a paycheck each week, we have to work each week. But I am pleasing God by being His son, not by singing in the choir, not by juggling and using it to tell people about Him, not by working hard and making everyone happy at Chick-Fil-A, not by being a nice guy and helping people. 

You see, if you are born again, you have been born OUT of Adam's race of sin, and INTO God's family of life. 

You are now a child of God, you have been MADE righteous, not worked into righteousness, but created into righteousness. There is nothing you DO that makes you a child now, you simply are. 

My identity is no longer, "Ben Heath", "The Juggler", "A Charis Bible College Student", "A Chick-Fil-A Employee", "A Choir Member", or even a person of his own right. My Identity is my Father. I am a child of my Father. No more no less. 

I do all of those things, but what I do is not who I am, I do not do so that I can be, I am therefore I love to do. Who are you to tell me that I can't do something? I am a child of God! He has created me with every gift talent and ability I will ever need! He gave me a mind that can create! He gave me a voice that can hit notes I never thought possible!

I am a CHILD of the Living GOD, He in me I in Him. 

I have no other identity, it is who I am, my Father is greater than anything or anyone who would come against me!

So, here I am, no longer this, "Ben Heath", "Former Bible Quizzer", figure that people may or may not look up to, I am no longer any of that, I am simply, a son of God who does nothing to earn it, nothing to earn his keep, nothing to make himself anything. One that does not do to be, but simply is who God made him. 

A Child.

Let Freedom Reign! say what?

This class, yet another by Arthur Meintjes, is really eye opening!


Arthur Meintjes-Let Freedom Reign Lesson 7

Living Life Guilt Free II

John 8, “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.”
Its all about being set free from a law mentality and a law basis on which you live your Christian life. Guilt has been a part of Mans make-up, mans Psyche, since the first man. We have been under the “do to be tree” as in, do this so that you can be this, rather than, you are this, so doing this comes naturally. Aka, the difference between law and grace.
Romans 8:3, “For God has done what the law could not do, (its power) being weakened by the flesh. Sending His own Son in the guise of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, condemned sin in the flesh (Subdued, overcame, deprived of its power over all who accept that sacrifice).
Now guilt is a very powerful motivator! But guilt is not God’s form of motivation!
But a healthy guilt is a sense of knowing that your behavior has been wrong or unacceptable in dealing with your relationships and a healthy society.
Now, when we say we should live free from guilt, we are not saying that we should not have at least this healthy “guilt” so that we can know how to live in society! If you don’t have at least some understanding of how to live correctly, you are a psychopath!
Without Jesus we are all condemned! But you know, we are not without Jesus! Jesus took all of God’s wrath on Himself, we are not to feel guilty toward God anymore! We are not to be motivated to do good by guilt, that is not of God.
Guilt is the most destructive emotion you can ever have as a believer toward God. It should not be a part of your relationship with God! A guilty conscience towards God has the wrong focus! If you notice that you feel condemned before God, having shame, and a fearful expectation of God not coming through for you, or whatever it is in your life because of it, this should be an Alarm Bell telling you that at some point, you are trying to serve God based on the law.
A guilty conscience means that your focus is wrong, it is not on the finished work of Jesus Christ, but instead it is on ourselves, on our own efforts and our own failures. It causes us to believe something that is opposed to, or opposite to,  the Gospel! Do not live in fear, do not live with the expectation that the worst will happen!

Reading back over this now, it is rather scatter brained... but I was trying to write it in more, my writing style rather than just notes, I'm not sure if it worked or not!

Let me know!

Till next time,

God doesn't see you as guilty!

-Ben Heath

The Fruits of Righteousness

This may be one of my new favorite classes, Barry Bennett just out-does himself each time!


Barry Bennett-Discipleship Evangelism-the Fruits of righteousness

2 Corinthians 5:21 “He has made Him to be sin for us who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.”
We are to be Righteousness Conscious.
What takes place…
1 Peter 1:22-23 “Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth in the spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, Having been born again not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever.”
2 Peter 1:5 “But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self control, to self control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ.”
Romans 6:18 “And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness. For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.”
Matthew 13:23 “But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.”
Righteousness is the key to prosperity in Every level of your life, it begins in your spirit, transforms your soul, your mind, and will end up transforming your body and your physical life.
James 3:13 “Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter envy and self seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. For where envy and self seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.”
In the fruit there is more seed, keep sowing the seed.
2 Corinthians 9:8-10 “And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work. As it is written: ‘He has dispersed abroad, He has given to the poor; His righteousness endures forever.’ Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness.”
The seed comes from previous harvests, comes from past fruit, grace abounds to you, and there is more seed to sow from what you have been sowing and reaping. Your righteousness should be bearing fruit! INCREASE THE FRUITS of your RIGHTEOUSNESS.
“Being enriched in everything for all liberality, which causes thanksgiving through us to God.”
Luke 6:27 “But I say to you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you and pray for those who spitefully use you.” etc, these are things of righteousness, going the extra mile, the fruit of righteousness in action. And your reward shall be great and children of the highest.
The Nature of God tends toward prosperity in every area of life, Righteousness has to do with it all. We have been made the righteousness of God in Christ.
The Righteous man is like a tree planted by steams of living water, bearing fruit in season.
1 Timothy 6:6 “But Godliness with contentment is great gain”
Matthew 6:33 “But seek first the kingdom of God and His Righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” (Context of the passage is, don’t worry about anything! Clothing, eat, drink, all of those things, they don’t come from effort and worry and self promotion!) All good things come from righteousness! Holiness and staying away from sin by focusing on having been made righteous, provides everything we need.
Philippians 1:11 “Being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ…”
Proverbs 11:30 “The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life.” How many people are eating from your tree?
Proverbs 10:3 “The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish” you will not be in depression
Proverbs 10:16, 24, 11:8, 23, 13:25, 15:6, 29.
Psalm 112:7-9 His righteousness endures forever, his heart is established.
John 15:4-5 “Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, bears MUCH fruit; for without me you can do nothing.” 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”
If we would focus on the righteousness that is in God, be excited about the nature of God that is in us, let the fruit come forth and keep sowing the fruit, keep the attitude of love and blessing in your life, keep integrity, character, and live in that righteous fruitful life, full of the abundance of God, your roots will go down deep like that tree next to the rivers of water.

If you have questions, just ask me, I realize this is in more of a note form that might not be as easy to read and understand as it could be! (This isn't creative writing, this is note taking.)

God bless all you fruits! haha

-Ben Heath

NO MORE Sin Consciousness!

Barry Bennett-Discipleship Evangelism-No More Consciousness of sin

How do you know if your are still living in the realm of guilt?
Genesis 3:9-10 “And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said to them, “where are you?” And he said, I heard your voice in the garden and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.”
If there is fear, the root of that fear is sin consciousness, you are not feeling right with God, so you have fear.
Acts 17:22-23 “Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said “Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious;”
To be superstitious, highly religious, is a manifestation of not knowing God and still having a root of sin consciousness.
Titus 1:15, “Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.”
Those who are under sin consciousness still will always be critical, they will always be the ones saying, “touch not, taste not, look not”
2 Corinthians 3:5-6 “our sufficiency is of God not of ourselves, God made us able ministers.” if you are dealing with “oh I’m not good enough” then you are still dealing with the sin consciousness! If you see yourself as ill-equipped, then you need to understand Gods love for you.
Ephesians 1:6 “he has made us accepted in the beloved.” there is not reason to count things as impure, you are worthy, you are accepted by God!
Identifying with weakness is dealing with sin consciousness! The person that is walking in the full revelation of the righteousness, love and peace of God, is walking in happiness, peace, joy, and are well rounded people! But those walking in fear, weakness, and unworthiness are still under a sin consciousness.
You can do ALL things through Christ who strengthens you!
Titus 3:5 “Not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to His mercy He has saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.”
Galatians 2:16 “Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no man be justified.”
1 Corinthians 8:6-7 fear of other pretend or supposed Gods, or superstitions, the number 666, walking under a ladder, all those superstitions, the fear of them is a show of the root of sin consciousness in your life.
1 Timothy 4:1-2 “Now the spirit speaks expressly that in the end times some shall depart from the faith… speaking lies in hypocrisy having their own conscience seared with a hot iron.”
The grace of God sets you free from sin, not free to sin.

Love this teaching...
Be FREE!
-Ben Heath

Healing, its about time!

And here is the class we have all been waiting for all year!
And yes, we all love is so far!

Barry Bennett-Healing Lesson 1

Luke 4:18-19
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed; To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
Luke 9:11 “But when the multitudes knew it, they followed Him; and He received them and spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and healed those who had need of healing.”
Acts 8:5 “Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ to them. And the Multitudes with one accord heeded the things spoken by Philip, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. For Unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice came out of many who were possessed; and many who were paralyzed and lame were healed.”
Jesus and those at the beginning did not preach healing, they preached the kingdom of God, they preached the resurrection of Jesus Christ and people got healed!
2 Corinthians “For the kingdom of God is not in word but in power”
If you are talking about the kingdom of God, then where is the power of it, the power in your ministry?
Romans 2:4 “Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not know that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?”
God does not use sickness to draw you to Him, you might use it, but He does not need it, He has the Cross, and all sickness was put on that cross.
Genesis 1:31 “Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.”
It was VERY good! There was no sickness, no sin, and no death, if there had never been any sin, then Adam and Eve still would be here! (I wouldn’t be going into the ministry, there wouldn’t be the need)
Acts 10:38 “how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing ALL who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.” If God is somewhere then who He is will be there, God is our healing, so if God is there, then healing is there. God is with us. He healed all who came to Him without exception, he never made anyone sick nor left anyone sick that came to Him! He came to do the will of God, and He healed ALL who were oppressed of the devil, that is the will of God.
Revelation 22:1-2 “And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month, The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.”
God is in healing, He is always making provision for healing, you see, what you have been dealing with has been robbing you of God’s will, and you don’t have to deal with that any longer, His will for your life is healing, 100% no returns, no fees, no trade backs.
Mark 1:39 “And He was preaching in their synagogues throughout all Galilee, and casting out demons. Now a leper came to Him, imploring Him, kneeling down to Him and saying to Him, “if you are willing, you can make me clean.” The Jesus, moved with compassion, stretched out His hand and touched him, and said to Him, “I am willing; be clean”” He is willing, He is no respecter of persons, He does not show favoritism, He did not go around looking for lepers either, they came to Him, don’t just “wait” on your healing, go to Him, ask, and receive. If it was good enough for that leper, it is good enough for you!
Mark 5:22- “And behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue came, Jairus by name. And when he saw Him, he fell at His feet and begged Him earnestly, saying, ‘my little daughter lies at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, that she may be healed, and she will live’ (WHAT FAITH! He said exactly what would happen, he didn’t doubt in the way he spoke. He set the criteria for his daughter’s healing) So Jesus went with Him…” then the woman with the blood issue came and touched Him, saying to herself, ‘if only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made well.’ and immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of the affliction. So Jesus knew that power had gone out of him, and asked who touched my clothes? He didn’t know, there were a lot of people-his disciples said to Him, “You see the multitude thronging You, and you say, ‘who touched me?’ then when he saw her, he said to her, ‘daughter, (her faith not his) your faith has made you well.’ But then, when someone came and said, don’t bother the teacher, your daughter is dead. AS SOON AS Jesus heard the word that was spoken, He said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not be afraid; only believe.” stand on that, don’t speak out your fears. And the man’s daughter ended up being raised up, alive and well.

And lastly, I do plan on taking good notes on all of this class, that way you will get all you need to get, and I wont forget what I don't want to forget!
-Ben Heath

First Day after spring break!

Yes, first day of classes, yesterday was picture day!

Anyways, I'm back, again, currently catching up on my Bible reading, again.
And these are today's notes!


Barry Bennett-Discipleship Evangelism Level 3 Lesson 5

Persecution

Why does persecution happen?
John 15:20-21 For HIS name sake, they will persecute if we look like Christ. They will persecute in the name of Christ-for Christ, because they do not know Him-who sent you!
Religious persecution from within, anti-Christ persecution against the church.
Some people bring it on themselves out of “dumbness” they are not being a witness for Him, they are being an embarrassment to Him. It is not running around screaming “JESUS!!!” at the top of your lungs, that is not witnessing, you are just making it harder on the rest of us!
Some persecution is right-in the sense that stupidity(foolishness) asked for it over and over and over again!


Andrew Wommack-Healing 3

Ways to receive from God for healing,

Divine healing-instant, simply gone, relatively rare but awesome! This is what most people seek.
Health- believing that you are already healed, living a life of health, the blessing not the miracle. A step above, because you take your authority and make it happen!

There was much more to this class here, but I did not have much power left on the computer! And, you can find most of it in other lessons by Andrew, he repeats himself quite a bit!

Blessings to you all!

Ben Heath

It is always God's will to heal

First... not what the Title is about, that is next! But this is the power of Godly Relationships! Great class!


Barry Bennett-Discipleship Evangelism Level 3 Lesson 4

The Power of Godly Relationships

How important are our relationships? What value or importance do they hold in our lives?
Proverbs 13:20 “He that walks with wise men shall be wise, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.”
2 Corinthians 6:14 “Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers, for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion has light with darkness?”
You can say what you want, “oh I wont be affected by them” but the more you are around them without moving them toward the light, the more they will pull you back into that world.
How can you classify your relationships?
Long term and Seasonal,
Long term, people you spend life with (Family), and seasonal is simply through a certain season for a certain purpose in life. (Friends)
Fellowship relationships, church or school, more casual, not really “yoked” together, but fellowship, you see them at church or school.
Family Colossians 3:18 “Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands as in the lord, husbands love your wives and do not be bitter toward them. Children obey your parents in all things for this is well pleasing to the Lord. Fathers do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.” This is the way to treat your long term relationships, family.
Amos 3:3 “Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?” if you spend time with someone, you are agreed with them in one sense or another.
Proverbs 17:17 “A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity”
Fellowship Acts 2:42 “And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.” Who do you want to spend time around?
A Godly Relationship is one in which you and the other are walking with God and inspiring and pushing each other forward in the things of God.
Hebrews 10:24-25 “And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: (This is a Godly relationship! To provoke each other to love and good works!) Not forsaking the assembly of ourselves together, as the manner of some, but exhorting one another…”
2 Timothy 2:22 “Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.” Those are the people you should be with and who you should be for those who are with you.
What is an ungodly relationship?
1 Corinthians 15:33 “Be not deceived, evil communications(Fellowship) corrupt good manners”

This is all so true, you have to understand that those you are with will make you who you become, they will eventually change your way of thinking and acting, for better or worse.

Now, it is always God's will to heal, Fact.
no this is not a very thorough amount of note taking, but you can listen to the whole teaching on the website, www.awmi.net and go to audio teachings.


Andrew Wommack-It is Always God’s Will to Heal

Jesus never put sickness on a single person, and Jesus never refused to heal a single person!
God anointed Jesus of Nazareth who went about doing good and healing ALL who were oppressed of the devil. Sickness is of the devil-it is a curse in the old testament even! And healing is of God, it is a blessing in even in the old testament!
He is the express image of the Father, and he went about doing good, and healing ALL who were oppressed OF the DEVIL, not of God!

So why isn’t everyone healed?
Healing is governed by laws.
Where is boasting then? It is excluded, by what law? Of works, no! But of faith!
Faith is a law, if it is a law, it is universal, and constant, like Gravity, when something falls, you don’t say that gravity just spiked by about 10 times! All of the laws that govern electricity have always been around, we simply didn’t always know them, or know how to use them! So with faith, we have to know how to use it! We have to know the laws of faith and know how they work.
Laws are not based on how sincere or noble you are, it is not based on you trying to be worthy, Jesus made you worthy and you can’t change that. If you don’t make the right connections then the power of God cannot flow to heal. The electric company generates the electricity and once it gets to your house it is then under your control, you can turn the lights on and off! Our power is on! It is in our authority to use it by following the laws that control things!

God doesn't control everything! He has put laws in place and cannot go against His own word that is upholding the world! If He did, then everything would fall apart! Simple as that!

Now, this is who you should be in Christ, and who I am in Christ--though it is in the process of working its way into my physical life right now--and always becoming more and more evident in that.


Lawson Perdue-In Christ Realities Lesson 1

Proverbs 23, “As he thinks in his heart so is he”
“The man who thinks he can, and the man who thinks he can’t, are both right.”
You are new and complete in Christ.
Your new man is not weak.
Not lacking.
Not needy.
You have everything in Christ to be everything God wants you to be.
You can begin to approach life as a victor rather than a victim now!
When God made us new in Christ He completely changed us!

And that is it for now, Be Blessed, Live loved, And rest well!

-Ben Heath