Dr. George Watkins, With over six decades in active ministry, brings you Prophetic insight, Spiritual relevance, Revelation of simple truths that bring understanding to the plans God has made for you
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Monday Oct 03, 2022
Monday Oct 03, 2022
HOW DEEP IS YOUR RIVER
It's a sad tale that is told when someone dives into shallow water, thinking that the water is deep enough. How deep is the River that you're in today? Well, of course, we're talking about the River of God in Ezekiel 47 that flows out of the temple.
It's my opinion that the modern church is splashing around in the shallow end of the River. I'm speaking in general terms, not specifics because God always has his "7000" still pressing into him. Your quest and mine certainly would be that we are in that group of people seeking the Lord for the deep part of the River.
To me, this visionary tale that Ezekiel tells speaks of our spiritual journey of maturity and growth. Each time the man with the line in his hand measured another thousand Cubix, the River got deeper. To me, the term 1000 represents a complete season.
If we can observe our spiritual journey, we would see that we go through seasons where battles are encountered, trials are endured, and victories are celebrated. There seems to be a measure that fills the cup, and when the cup is complete, we get to cross the River again.
I remember my first experience at a public pool in Yakima, Washington, when I was 12. I never learned to swim well because I was afraid of the rivers and lakes we were allowed to swim in. But I could do pretty well if I put swimming fins on, so I did. Then one day, feeling pretty proud of myself, I took my fins off and jumped into the pool's deep end. I'm sure the angels were there helping because it was a close call as a sank like a rock.
We've all tended to do that in our young days; jump into the deep end and almost drown. The Holy Spirit is faithful and takes us across one layer at a time.
If you're still splashing around in the shallow end of the River, ask God to bring you onto that next level, you'll never regret it.
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Sunday Oct 02, 2022
Sunday Oct 02, 2022
THE JOESPH PRINCIPLE - PREPARING FOR THE STORM IS NOT A LACK OF FAITH
I come from a long line of Pioneer Pentecostal groundbreakers. My father left high school 30 days before graduation to travel to Texas with an evangelist and preach the gospel before Jesus came. The early Pentecostal world was fueled with a passion for taking the message of the cross and the Holy Spirit into the highways and byways of this nation. That was the family of mentors that God dropped me in the middle of.
Oddly enough, amid that fire and the passion, we picked up some bad habits, and our teaching on faith needed to be upgraded. We had been trained to trust God for our finances, and because of this, we learned to step out in faith and go as God provided.
So far, so good.
However, subliminally it was teaching us that if we had something set aside, as they say, for a rainy day, it was a lack of faith. It seemed that we trained ourselves that faith only operated when we had no money. We often wore the badge of poverty with pride, thinking we were sacrificing for Jesus.
On the flip side, let me be quick to tell you that God's always faithful, and it was because of these early Pentecostal soldiers the message of the baptism of the Holy Spirit was spread around the world. And I would again make a note with very little money.
When the so-called "faith movement" flooded into our world, it began to teach us that God was not afraid of prosperity matter of fact, he loved it. And according to our human nature, some of those that heard the message we're prone to go to the excess to the point their faith began to be in what they had in their pocket.
The spirit of God spoke something to me today. He reminded me of the "Joseph principle." Then he said preparing for the storm is not a lack of faith.
Then my attention was taken to our current situation with the recession and the hurricanes that are ravishing our East Coast. We are seeing multitudes of people with no provision for a storm trying to catch up when it is too late.
Is there a spiritual principle here? Yes, there is.
Why do the scriptures tell us to seek the Lord early? Early in the day and early on the journey. Why?
The same reason that Jesus prayed all night before he went on the journey is that just like saving money up, you have a spiritual bank account that you can deposit in. And when the storm comes, you'll have plenty of supply to get through to Victory.
Our spirit is like a battery; it needs to stay charged up. It's also like a bank account; you need to deposit something in there so you can have something to withdraw.
Also, your spirit is like ground; that's where the good seed is planted so that a great harvest will come to you.
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Thursday Sep 29, 2022
Thursday Sep 29, 2022
PREPARING TO IMPORT
With our cell phones, computers, and hard drive capabilities in this modern age of technology, we know what it means to prepare for import. If we find interesting data that we want to bring into our system, we first have to determine the size of the data and the capacity of our system to receive it.
Next, we must consider the connection between the system that has what we want and our own. The connection determines many things, such as the speed of delivery which determines the time it takes to deliver.
Fortunes have been made because of discovering new integrative ways to deliver the data to you.
Then we must determine if our system is big enough to hold what were asking for. Size does matter when your ability to ask is greater than your ability to receive.
By now, you realize I'm talking about the world of the spirit and our ability to receive what God has to download into us. I have been a receiver of the good things of God most of my life and have discovered specific ways that I must prepare before I import from Heaven's glory.
Revelation, the first chapter, tells us that John was in the spirit on the Lord's day.
Now note that he had a particular method of preparing to import. I'm sure we have taken much of our pattern of entering God's presence from our great biblical heroes.
In my personal life and ministry, I have long ago set up a pattern for receiving the download that God wants to send from Heaven. That secret place that David talked about is of primary importance. Be quiet before the Lord and listen to the spirit speak to your spirit.
We call it prayer like it's only one thing, but there are many facets of that time in our prayer closet. Just like Jesus did before he went out into public ministry, we also spend time face-to-face with the father before we step into that place of authority on earth.
Clear a space for God to land on you today. Clear away the clutter of negative thoughts and unforgiveness, and let fear be gone in Jesus' name. When you do that, you will be amazed at how quickly God will download into your wisdom and revelation.
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Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
MORE INFORMATION REQUIRED
Would you be surprised if I told you that we don't get saved by faith? Oh, but you say we can't come to God unless we believe. Yes, that's true, but why do we believe; that's what I'm asking you.
Often the general response is that all the preachers I know tell us that we get saved by faith and not by works. Yes, I know we must believe in our heart and confess with our mouth that Jesus is Lord, thereby being converted.
But where did that belief come from?
We know by scripture that we have no faith on our own; it's God's faith that we use when we come to Jesus. So if I have no Faith, how then do I get saved?
The scriptures plainly tell us in Ephesians 2:8 that we get saved by grace through faith. So something must happen in our life that introduces us to the grace of God, thereby giving us faith to believe.
You will hear some teaching that we must have blind faith with no proof; believe God; that's all you can do. I don't even think God expects that.
Why?
When Jesus came out of the tomb and spent 40 days among his disciples, the Scriptures tell us in Acts 1:13 that Jesus showed himself to his disciples with many infallible proofs, and somehow he could convince them of who he was by evidence of what he had done.
Look at how he presented himself to Thomas by showing the scars on his hands and side. Thomas believed because he had evidence of a face-to-face experience with God himself.
Acts 15:11 declares through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ; we shall be saved. It's no wonder many Christians struggle with their faith in God because they have never had a personal experience with him. I guarantee you that when you do, your faith will never waiver.
So how do we have that personal experience?
Ask, and you shall receive seek, and you shall find knock and that she'll be open for you.
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Tuesday Sep 27, 2022
Tuesday Sep 27, 2022
HOW TO HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT TOO
That statement has always seemed pretty confusing to me. What it says to me is that you have only one choice; you get to hold the cake and look at it, or you can eat it. Of course, once you eat the cake, you no longer have it. Crazy huh?
Well enough of that.
What I really want to talk about is Jesus and how we can partake of him daily and still walk with him in the cool of the day every day.
Think about it for a moment. So many of God's wonderful children believe you don't get to eat the cake after you get the cake. They receive Jesus as Savior, then sit and wait for the end of their life or the coming of the lord.
That's like having a great big birthday cake in front of you with a fork in hand but never touch it.
Think about the opportunities to know God beyond salvation; they are an ending.
Some of us who have stepped into the gifts of the spirit suffer from that hesitation to go on into other portals and doorways.
Behind each door is something greater and more blessed than we have experienced yet. Why do we wait?
It could be that we've listened to our founding fathers theologically, and they told us this is all there is now; just wait.
Well, I don't know about you. I'm not waiting around for the rapture bus; I'm digging into this cake and finding out just how much God has for us in this generation.
Who's with me?
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Sunday Sep 25, 2022
Sunday Sep 25, 2022
FINDING NEW WAYS TO WIN
The gun goes off, the horses are launched out of their gates, and all that can be heard is the thunder of hoofs. As the steeds round the first corner, the crowded grandstand is on their feet, cheering their favorite horse and rider to the finish line. Then the celebration begins with ribbons and pictures and congratulations all around.
It seems that every contest in life has a winner and a lot of losers, or at least people who didn't win. Well, you say, not everybody can win. Yes, I understand that, but the loser can someday be a winner if they adjust themselves toward that mark.
I'm convinced the most important thing to do in life to be a winner is to understand that God made us to succeed in so many different ways.
Romans the eighth chapter and 37 verse tell us that we are more than conquerors through Jesus Christ that loved us.
That tells me there are many ways to win if we allow the Holy Spirit to give us a mind that is not cluttered with doubt, fear, and losing that we might have the mind of Christ, which is full of so many possibilities to win.
The scriptures tell us that Jesus came so that we might have life and that more abundantly. To me, abundant life means that if it doesn't work one way, God will give us the wisdom to make it work another way, but in the end, we will hit the target.
The great American inventor Thomas Edison tried 1000 times to make the lightbulb work. One thousand failures before he struck gold. You and I have spent many hours late into the night reading our favorite books because Thomas Edison didn't give up.
Don't give up, my friends; your miracle is just around the corner.
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Thursday Sep 22, 2022
Thursday Sep 22, 2022
NO GLOOM IN THIS ROOM
Living in his front room. After all, the scriptures tell us, "in the presence of the Lord, there is fullness of joy." God is a happy God. Would you be surprised if I told you that a large percentage of evangelical Christians don't believe that God is a happy God?
I'm afraid we have been dubbed by our theologians of past centuries that have formed a picture of God out of the Old Testament instead of out of the new covenant. Of course, I get a fair amount of pushback from modern theologians when I suggest a different god dealing with us in the old covenant compared to the new covenant.
Just for a moment, take a snapshot of gods dealings with humanity under the old covenant. It's there we could fall into the hands of an angry god, or if we missed a step or two, we could be swallowed up into the earth family and all.
It's in the old covenant that sins were not forgiven; the blood of animals just covered them. Here we see God bringing judgment, penalties, sickness, and death upon those who opposed him.
Now take a snapshot of the new covenant through the filter of John 3:16 & 17.
"For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life,
For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved.
Now take a quick peek at Romans eight. There is a long list of things that could come your way, and none of them would change the love God has given you through Jesus Christ.
There's no gloom in this room because this is the father's front room, where we abide forever.
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Wednesday Sep 21, 2022
Wednesday Sep 21, 2022
SOME THINGS TO THINK ABOUT
Is God into mind control, or does he know something about our journey in this life that we haven't learned yet? I would vote for the latter, knowing that our heavenly father certainly has a plan, and that plan for us is good.
So what's all of this about telling us what to think about? Isn't that a heavy hand of control? Take a moment to consider the things that go through our minds in a single day, then let us match them up to the list that God gives us.
The apostle Paul in Philippians 4:8 gives us a list of eight subjects for consideration that we should train our minds to dwell on.
Remember now that "as a man thinks in his heart, so is he."
That gives me a heads-up concerning my future and what I think I will become. Oh, don't be silly now. I'm not going to turn into an ice cream cone if I think about ice cream. We're talking about the character of the Soul and strength of spirit.
The things that we meditate on and put our minds toward shape every level of our personality. The person who has focused themselves on evil performs evil deeds. Likewise, those who focus on pure things become pure in their actions.
So in a great respect, we are architects of our future, aren't we?
Unfortunately, if we let our mind drifts through the society around us, we will be hard-pressed to find those eight things that Paul told us to meditate upon.
So do we remove ourselves from the society we live in a mountain cabin somewhere. ? No, Jesus already prayed that we wouldn't be taken out of the world, but we would impact the world with the gospel.
So I encourage you today to focus on these things that Paul teaches us in Philippians 4:8:
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That will keep you busy for a while.
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Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
Monday Sep 19, 2022
Monday Sep 19, 2022
HAVE YOU RECEIVED SINCE YOU BELIEVED?
In the 19th chapter of acts apostle, Paul asks Apoiios if he had received the Holy Spirit baptism since he believed in Jesus Christ as the Messiah.
Apollos was a fervent believer in Jesus Christ and convinced many Jewish people that Jesus was their Messiah.
Yes, something was missing.
With this question, Paul was bringing to the attention of this new convert that he had not yet acquired all of the tools that he needed to complete his development and purpose.
To be baptized in the Holy Spirit is the beginning of a lifetime of being submitted to the will of God in what you say and do.
The experience of speaking in tongues at the outset signifies that your language is submitted to the Holy Spirit's influence over your life. James tells us that the tongue is a small member yet controls the whole body.
So when we as baptized people speak in other tongues, we submit that small controlling agent to the language of our spirit, which is that heavenly language.
If you have not received the baptism in the Holy Spirit with the experience of releasing your heavenly language, ask the father, and he will give it to you.
Why do you need it?
Stated it completes you in ways that are unimaginable at this time. You will enter into a relationship with the father that no one can describe until you experience it.
Yes, it's my faith, but more than that, it's by obedience.
It's called receiving.
Have you received since you believed?
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