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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Sunday Feb 25, 2024
Sunday Feb 25, 2024
IN THE STORM HOLD TIGHT TO THE PROMISES
I love the sunshine and hate the rain. Whoa, what am I saying I live in the north west where we have four seasons in the year. We have two days of spring four days of summer and attempt at a decent fall in a long, dark winter.
Well, of course I'm exaggerating but not much. We used to tell everyone it rained all the time and Northwest just to keep them away. Put the secret got out that the storm clouds that rolled in brought rain, and the rain brought luscious green hills and rushing rivers.
So you see without the storm clouds, we would live in a barren land. Show me years ago our church here was visited by some brothers from Arizona. The thing they complained about was, they couldn't see the hills. Our hills are green, and filled with trees. Their hills are brown, and filled with dead grass and such..
Jesus told us storms would come. He referred to them as trouble.. However, he was clear about the fact that he would never leave us in the trouble, but he would take us through to victory.
Those are the promises we hold onto and times win the storm clouds role in on us we know that they also bring to us the ability to grow in patience and trust in the lord.
We can quote scriptures in the Sunday morning sanctuary with great boldness, but often lose your confidence when alone in the storm. That's the time that we must stand firm upon the promises of God, because they will never fail us.
Sunday Feb 25, 2024
Sunday Feb 25, 2024
SEALED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT UNTIL WE EXPERIENCE COMPLETE FREEDOM
How much of the word of God do we, as believers, really believe? I'm speaking about the general body, including myself, at times, as I have learned to walk by faith and not by sight. Most of what we know comes from our mentors, those who raised us in the gospel. Like a natural family, the spiritual family passes on its excellent and bad traits.
We learned how to pray by watching our elders pray around the altar, especially in the early days when we did the same. We have learned to worship and sing the songs of praise because we watched others do it and followed after them.
So I ask you again, how much of the word of God do you believe? You can tell how much we believe. By the way, we pray and the way we worship.
If you're still begging or asking God to do something for you, you may need to dig a little deeper into the revelation that God gave to Paul in the book of Ephesians. If you're still worshiping in your public services, hoping God shows up to give a blessing, you may need to review who you are in Christ and where God and you are actually seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
When we believe what the word of God says about us, we speak differently and worship differently. Because God has made us in his image, we are in the divine family, called sons of God.
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
OPEN DOORS, OPEN HEAVENS
The 10th chapter of John is an amazing revelation of Jesus as the door to eternity and heaven's glory. The Passion Bible says it this way in the ninth verse. (Jesus said) I am the gateway; to enter through me is to experience life, freedom, and satisfaction.
Nicodemus came to Jesus in the dark of night because of his reputation as a spiritual leader. When he asked Jesus how he did the miracles, Jesus told him that to understand, you have to have a new spirit and be born from above. Being a religious man, steeped in the traditions of the elders, Nicodemus could not catch the depth of what Jesus was teaching him that night.
Jesus was talking about entering another world, a doorway that you can enter by faith through his name. When that takes place, you are reborn from above. Because of that, you can understand spiritual mysteries and walk in the lord's ways.
As believers in Jesus Christ, we face many doors on our journey, all of which will open by the same action of faith that the first one begins with believing in Jesus and the redemptive power he gave us because of the cross of the Resurrection.
Matthew 7:7 Jesus said to ask in the gift is yours seek, and you will discover knock, and the door will be open for you.
For every persistent, one will get what he asked for. Every persistent seeker will discover what he longs for.
And everyone who knocks persistently will one day find an open door. P/B
Press into Jesus, my friends, be persistent, and keep knocking; the door will open, and you will experience the kingdom of God beyond your imagination.
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Monday Jan 08, 2024
Monday Jan 08, 2024
KEEP GOD ON THE THRONE AND JESUS AS THE DOOR
How far can we go with the revelation and insight that we get from dreams or prophetic words that we receive from the Lord? What is the rule of thumb, as they say, to judge whether we are hearing from God or having a vain imagination?
Most often, someone will answer that question with this statement. If it's not in the Bible, it's not true, so we must throw that revelation away. As we have this thought today, let's keep in mind that most of what we do in life is not in the Bible, at least in the detail that some say we need.
For instance, there is no chapter and verse for who you will marry or what job you should take next. When I was pastorimg with my Father in Sacramento as a teenage preacher I was challenged by a Hyper spiritual teenager that I shouldn't drive a car because Jesus didn't drive a car.
OK, you've got the point. Some things have the principles in the Bible but not the exact details.
Concerning dreams and prophecies, let's also keep in mind that Jesus said there was much more that he wanted to teach us and that the Holy Spirit would bring the things he had taught to our minds and spirits.
Without a doubt, the Bible is the blueprint, the pattern, and the roadmap that takes us to our destiny. It's my experience and my opinion that you can only read that roadmap with the Holy Ghost interpreting it. That's where dreams, prophecies, and angel messengers come into play.
All of these things that I've just mentioned and found through the Scriptures are various actions of men and women, just like you and me, who seek to please the Father.
So, I am trying to figure out what to do. I've prayed all night, and when I go to sleep, I get a dream.
In the dream, God tells me what I couldn't hear while awake.
It's evident to me that the Bible is an expanding book of revelations, depending on how we hear and see with our spiritual eyes and ears. Some read the Bible and go to sleep, while others read it and see far beyond what the page in front of them says.
Here is the key to keeping myself safely anchored in truth, as God speaks to me about things others may not agree with but believe are from the Holy Spirit.
I keep God on the throne and Jesus as the door in everything I do, everything I say, and everywhere I go in the spirit. My feet are on solid ground as long as those two unshakable truths are in place.
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Sunday Jan 07, 2024
Sunday Jan 07, 2024
IDENTIFY THE THIEF AND GET IT ALL BACK
Among the many lessons I've learned while walking with Christ is that this experience is multifaceted. Nothing in the spiritual world is built or works on a set of principles you can carry in your notebook and pull out when needed.
The Christian Life and the mysteries of this beautiful, supernatural world are like the computer. It's all there, ready to go, except you need a password to make it happen. The key or password is not simply faith or belief. If that were the case, anyone could manipulate their own Life by training themselves to believe.
The key to Christian Life is believing in Christ, his finished work on the cross, and his resurrection. When that happens, you step into his world and become joined with his Life, so when you identify a thief, you have the authority to get it all back.
We tend to want a formula of faith that we can use without a relationship with our Father in heaven. Remember, Jesus did nothing but what he saw his Father doing. This Christian experience is a training ground for an eternity of working with our heavenly Father in the cosmos he has created for us to develop and fill with his glory.
The things that steal from us in this temporal Life are just practices for our faith and our trust in our heavenly Father to grow and mature.
David was destined to be Israel's greatest king because he would establish the kingdom through God's direction. Before that happened, he had to go through his Ziklag experience in First, Samuel 30, where he and his men lost everything they had. So, The next item on the agenda was that they were going to kill him.
When David reconnected with the Lord through worship, God told him to pursue his enemy, and he would get it all back.
It's time to hear the Holy Spirit's direction on capturing our destiny and getting it all back.
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Thursday Jan 04, 2024
Thursday Jan 04, 2024
HAVING A HEAVENLY CONVERSATION WITH JESUS
Some years ago, while traveling through the East Coast in ministry, we visited Williamsburg, Virginia. Williamsburg is one of our history's essential places where our forefathers gathered and formed our early America.
They have replicated or restored the old town to look like it did in the 1700s.
All of the workers in town are dressed appropriately for the age they represent, so it turns out to be a fascinating and fun place to be.
At one point, our tour guide pointed to a second story on a building across the street. She said those who gathered would go there after dinner and have a good conversation.
I thought to myself, what would it be like to converse with the type of men with the wisdom and intelligence to form the first nation of freedom in history? Then, I added several other people I would like to have a good conversation with. People of renown, inventors, preachers, etc.
Then, I was brought to the meeting that Nicodemus and Jesus had in John three. Nicodemus missed a conversation with Jesus about heavenly things. Why did he miss such a life-changing opportunity to speak to the Son of God about spiritual mysteries?
According to Jesus's own words, Nicodemus could not understand natural things. Because of that, Jesus would not even take him into the realm of spiritual things because he would also miss the understanding of that.
Scriptures tell us that we can see God in all his creation so that no one would be without excuse. The heavens speak of him, indicating that the stars are set in a position and order so that they have a message that speaks of God's creation and his love for mankind.
So, where do we start if we desire to have a conversation with Jesus? You begin with "believing faith." Jesus said, if you believe in me, you'll have everlasting life.
That's the very reason God sent his only begotten son into a natural world so that we could start believing in what we could see in Jesus. When we do that, the heavenly things open up.
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Tuesday Jan 02, 2024
Tuesday Jan 02, 2024
DO YOU TRUST HOLY SPIRIT AS MUCH AS GPS?
Guidance is the main issue of life.
From our earliest memories, someone is trying to tell us where to go and what to do. Obviously, in a well-structured home that God placed you in, your mother and father are the first instructors. They tell me that young children learn what they will do 95% of the time in the first five years as they grow older. They also say that training happens at their mother's knee.
In the early Jewish tradition, the young sons were trained by their mother until they were seven, and then their father took over to teach them a trade they would do for life.
So guidance is a big deal in the life of the believer, you, and those who have given themselves to Jesus Christ. Yet, in all of the years I have pastored, the most repetitive question I got is," What do you think God has in store for me." Or a variation of the same question concerning life's journey.
Learning to hear the voice of Holy Spirit, and trusting to be obedient to what you hear is a muscle you exercise until it strengthens. It's similar to the young child who is learning to walk. Getting up and running would be very unusual for that young child.
So it is in learning to listen to Holy Spirit's direction with the same confidence you have in your GPS on your precious iPhone.
To be clear, I have been led astray several times by GPS but never by the Holy Spirit. There have been times when my hearing could have been better when he spoke, but he never led me down a dead-end pathway.
Sometime today, take time to meditate upon Psalms, the 23rd chapter, and let God reassure you that he will lead you beside still Waters and pathways that are good for you.
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Sunday Dec 31, 2023
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
YOU DON'T DRINK POND WATER
Jesus said, If you drink from Jacobs well, you'll be thirsty again, but if anyone drinks the living water I give them, they will never be thirsty again. For when you drink the water I give you, it becomes a gushing fountain of the Holy Spirit, flooding you with endless life! ( John 4:14) p/b
This may shock you when I say that reading the Bible without the Spirit of God, anointing the words you read, is like drinking stale pond water. This is the reason they can use the Bible as a textbook in the universities without the results you would expect.
In other words, scripture reading only can become vain repetition. Believing faith is what turns that stale pond water into a living river that will give you endless life. You cannot act on the scriptures to obey them without the Holy Spirit, inspiration, and drawing you to the Father.
This is the mystery of salvation and the grace of righteousness given to us freely. Unless the Holy Spirit speaks to you through those scriptures, you will never see past the ink upon the page.
John 6:63 Jesus said the words that I speak into you they are spirit and they are life. Many of you reading this have had this experience often as you meditated upon the scripture that you have read hundreds of times.
Suddenly, it's as if the paper changed, and you read something different because your spiritual eyes opened up, and you look past the page into the revelation Christ was bringing for that moment.
That's the difference between pond water, water, and river water.
You don't drink pond water because it's dead. There's no life in it.
River water cleanses itself as it flows along, producing something good for you.
So it is with the words printed in the Bible in front of you. It takes the Holy Spirit to turn that into living water for you as you take it into your spirit. Trust him to do the work in you.
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Sunday Dec 31, 2023
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
AND IT CAME TO PASS-THE SEASONS IN OUR LIVES
Happy New Year, everyone. Here we are in 2024, and we have no idea how we got here. It seems just like yesterday when much of the church was all concerned about Y2K and the end of things. The hotels were all sold out in and around Jerusalem, expecting Jesus to break through the Eastern gate.
The secular world was concerned about the computer crash because of the change in the century date. Satellites were going to fall out of the sky. Elevators wouldn't work in the giant towers, and the stock market would crash because of the Computer failures.
And yet here we are 24 years later, listening to the same rhetoric of doom and gloom and damnation, destruction, death, failure, and hopelessness.
Brother, that sounds like good news. Not!
The good news is that all of these have been seasons in your life to prepare you for the days ahead that God has promised and will fulfill. If you think the Holy Spirit will fail in doing what he has been commissioned from the Father, then you have some lessons to learn.
The Lessons are simple. God never fails and never gives up until the plan is fulfilled and complete.
This new year that he has given us to shape and conquer with our prayers and faith is a precious gift that he has entrusted to those who are faithful to stand in faith and prayer for his kingdom to be established on this earth.
I am not ignorant of what's happening in the natural world around me. However, I am more sensitive to the spiritual world that controls the natural world, and that's where you and I come in.
We are members of the body of Christ, and we sit in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. And from that position of authority, we have the ability and command to subdue, dominate, and rule this world.
This is a new season for us. It's the season of victory. Call it what you will: revival, renewal, or a divine reset.
2024 WILL BE AN AMAZING YEAR FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN CHRIST JESUS.
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Wednesday Dec 27, 2023
Wednesday Dec 27, 2023
THE ALTERNATE WORLD WHERE YOUR SPIRIT DWELLS?
Forty-five years ago, I brought my young family to a small farming community 60 miles north of Seattle to pastor a fledgling church. Our town is in a valley nourished for centuries by river water overflowing and depositing an excellent rich soil. 95% of our industry is farming. We grow a wide variety of vegetables, including fruit trees and various grains. However, we are known Worldwide for our tulips.
For centuries, the nation of the Netherlands dominated and controlled the tulip industry. At one point in their history, at the height of a "tulip bubble," one bulb sold for the price of a house. With worldwide migration, some tulip growers found their way to our small valley. For the last three decades, we have been competitors to the Netherlands, sometimes passing their output of tulips.
Every year in the month of Easter, 250,000 people drive our little country roads, taking pictures of tulips and buying sacks of bulbs to take home.
The point of this trip down memory lane is to bring your attention to what makes all of this possible. I drove out across the valley a few weeks ago, and I'm always amazed at how they can take a piece of ground that is so ugly and make it flat and smooth before they plant it with a new crop.
They go through the ground with several different types of plows. Once a year or so, they will take a deep plow that will go down several feet, bring up the soil, and turn it over so the hidden nutrients will be on top again.
Then, they take one special plow after another, breaking it down until it is ready to plant.
I have brought your attention to all of this for one purpose so that you would take your deep plow through Ephesians in the first, second, and third chapters.
If you do that, I'm convinced you will see something you've never seen before, even though you have read it many times.
The message the Holy Spirit wants to say today is how real your life in the heavenly realm is. According to Ephesians, your spirit dwells in another realm—some call this "bilocation" where we live in two places at once.
These are the mysteries that God wants us to search out and understand.
Let's plow through Ephesians in these next few days to see what God will reveal to us.
Today is a good time to start.
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