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Pastors Dennis & Dr. Jennifer Clark

Full Stature Ministries Headquarters
1021 Maxwell Mill Rd - Unit C
Fort Mill, SC

 

Kingdom Life Church
Sunday Service
10:30 am
 

7:00pm Tuesday
"Building a Habitation of God in the Spirit"
Eph. 2:22


 

MANDATE

   To create an Upper Room
  To Birth a Church
  To build a Habitation of God in the Spirit 
 
To Express the Kingdom of God as a Bride, a Family, and an Army
 


EXPLANATION OF THE BLUEPRINT
This is a blueprint for building the individual, the local church, a network, and connecting networks reflecting the Great Commandment (Mark 12:29-31) and the Great Commission (Mat. 28:18-20), Christ Himself being the Chief Cornerstone (1 Cor. 3:11).


THE DOME AND PILLARS
 

 

THE DOME
The "DOME" represents the glory of God, His presence coming from the
hearts of His people and creating an atmosphere of "LOVE,"
"ACCEPTANCE," and "FORGIVENESS" which is conducive to
the healing and equipping of the saints for the work of the ministry;
A LOVE MODEL.

THE PILLARS
THE PILLARS REPRESENT THE FORCE OF THE MINISTRY:
COUNSEL....EVANGELISM....DISCIPLESHIP

THE PILLAR OF COUNSEL: Represents God's government, His
delegated authority in the church committed to PRIORITY ONE:
WORSHIP, PRAYER, AND THE WORD.

THE PILLAR OF DISCIPLESHIP: Represents healing the wounded
Body of Christ (a hospital in type) and the equipping of the saints
(an army type) committed to PRIORITY TWO: DISCIPLESHIP .

THE PILLAR OF EVANGELISM: Represents releasing and sending
forth equipped saints to do the work of the ministry committed to PRIORITY THREE: EVANGELISM.


THE FOUNDATION
 

 
THE FOUNDATION: (Alpha and Omega)
4  ASPECTS OF THE FOUNDATION ARE:
1.   CHRIST IS THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE (Intimacy)
     
(1 Cor. 3:11) "The person of Christ"
2.  FOUNDATIONAL DOCTRINES FOR
     THE  PRIESTHOOD OF THE BELIEVER  
(Heb. 6:1-3)
3.  THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST:
     
Sermon on the Mount (Mat. 4, 6, 7);  Kingdom laws,
        Beatitudes, Parables of the Gospels.
4.  HE DELEGATED THE 5-FOLD MINISTRY
     GIFTS TO EQUIP THE SAINTS
(Eph. 2 & 4)

     
Local and extra-local church.
        Then this ministry flowing out represents an
        atmosphere of  Love,  Acceptance, and Forgiveness
        in which anyone from  any  walk of life would feel
        welcome. In that atmosphere, there is an
        impartation of wholeness of life which then will
        flow from the temple to bring restoration to the
        needy world.

LEVELS OF THE VISION:
1.  THAT CHRIST BE FORMED IN YOU
     INDIVIDUALLY   
(general purpose)
2.  THAT YOU FULFILL THE SPECIFIC  PURPOSE 
      FOR WHICH GOD HAS CALLED YOU
   
 (Acts 26:15-19)
3.  THAT CHRIST BE FORMED IN THE VISION
      OF  THE HOUSE
(Corporate vision)
       (Gal. 4:19) This is the
 Corporate ONE MAN.
4.  THAT THE CORPORATE GIFTS AND  TALENTS 
     BE  A WITNESS.
This can include   a network with
        other churches in the Body of Christ and the networking
        of  these networks to fulfill  the Great Commandment
        and the  Great Commission.
        (Specific purpose)  (Ezra 3; Eph. 3:17; John 17)

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Directions
to Kingdom Life Church
1021 Maxwell Mill Rd. Unit C
 Fort Mill, SC 29708

DETAILED DIRECTIONS

From the North: Take I-77  to Exit 90. Turn west onto Carowinds Blvd. At the first traffic light after the entrance to Carowinds amusement park turn left onto Pleasant Rd.  Drive approximately 1.8 mile. Turn left onto Maxwell Mill Rd. Building is on the right.
From the South: Take I-77  to Exit 88. Turn west onto Gold Hill Rd. Turn right onto Pleasant Rd.  Drive approximately 1.1 mile. Turn right onto Maxwell Mill Rd. Building is on the right.

 


 

 

 

 

 

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PROPHETIC WORDS

Prophetic Word 8/22/08
To: Dennis & Jennifer Clark

James Goll  
www.encountersnetwork.com  

8/22 /08
Nashville, TN

●  God is prompting me to release impartation of anointing to you for writing and publishing. Many have asked for this but I feel led to give it to you.
●  God is going to give you key words and phrases that will make the concepts easy to grasp. There will be a series of how-to books like God’s Remedy for Rejection.
●  God is giving you an anointing for cities and regions, and it will be like the turning of magnets to attract what God wants to come together but also to repel the wrong things that God wants repelled.
●  God will release mantles to you that have been dropped by people in the past.
●  I see you have an anointing on the two of you like a mixture of Leanne Payne and Thomas Merton.
●  You will be used to further release the Father’s Blessing, the Father’s love.
●  You will release the spirit of adoption, and healing of the orphan spirit.
●  Others were pioneers but you have an accelerated version to take it farther and faster. It is time for an apostolic blessing by those who have pioneered.
●  There will be a ministry model shift. In the past your ministry has been like a sturdy truck, similar to the Ford F-150, but God is going to streamline you to be more like a Lamborghini.
●  God is also going to give you an anointing to heal dyslexia, so the pieces will come together in the right way, and people will be able to read without a struggle.


Prophetic Word 6/9/07
To: Dennis & Jennifer Clark
Chuck Pierce  www.glory-of-zion.org
Apostolic Prophetic Alignment Conference 
Gateway Christian Fellowship, West Haven, CT

That couple that’s leaving, let me just prophesy to them...

The Lord would say to you, I have found you and I have drawn you back into the place that I have for you. I have caused that which tried to overtake you and produce darkness, discouragement,  in you, now it’s becoming light again, says the Lord.

And I’m going to use you to begin to communicate in new ways. And I am going to send you forth to change things in a new way. The Lord says, it’s as if you have just started. And I have re-made you and you have a new look. And now I say the next chapter will begin with you and I will begin to write that chapter and many will run to see it.

I say, as a matter of fact, when you get back to wherever it is that you are going, sit down and write the chapter and vision of now how you’re going to move forward, and I will multiply it 100 fold.
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Prophetic Word 11/07/07
To: Dennis and Jennifer Clark
Dennis Cramer  www.denniscramer.net
Gateway Christian Fellowship 7:00 PM
West Haven, CT

The Lord says, the seasons are changing, the seasons are changing, the seasons are changing. Lord, we’ve had discussions for years and then Denny came along (Ha-ha!) and he prophesied our discussion. The Lord says, son and daughter, you two have been waiting for the seasons to change. You’ve been faithful, you’ve done everything that I’ve brought your way to do. You’ve done it with a spirit of excellence, you’ve done it to the point of exhaustion and just recently you two looked at one another and said, man, we’ve got to do something different, we’ve got to retool, reshape, re-hone our ministry. God says, that’s exactly what you and you are going to do.

You’re going to start working smarter, not harder and so the Lord would say the shift is on. A greater grace, a greater anointing. It is time for you to teach and impart and train the younger generation. I’m going to give you young men and young women even foreign ministries that are going to come to this nation and you will go to theirs and you will train and raise up a whole new generation of men and women that will operate in the same unction, the same anointing, the same calling and same gifts as you and you.

Now the Lord would say, son and daughter, I’m going to increase the supernatural in regard to healings and miracles. You two have operated in one realm of understanding, one level of anointing, but God says the power , the power, the power is going to increase, increase, increase drastically, drastically, drastically and there’s now going to begin to be a release of signs and wonders. Now there’s going to begin to be a release of healings and miracles and God says just as you have operated in one level of anointing with great clarity and understanding and an ability to communicate those truths, I’m now going to transfer that same wisdom and experience into the new realm of ministry where the power is going to show up at an increased level like never before.

And the Lord says you and you said to me, Lord, we don’t mind going where You want us to go, we even like those little places that no one ever heard of. Good, because I’m going to send you to some places that nobody ever heard of. And God says, you’re going to go in and you’re going to cause revival to break out.

Listen, I told you two that you would go in and dig out ancient wells. I told you two that you would go in, you would discern, discern, discern where the old wells were, where the ancient wells were which speaks of anointing which speaks of previous moves of God that were not allowed to be completed because man got in the way. I’m going to use you and you. I told you all along you were building generationally, now I’m going to send you and you back into physical geographical places where ancient anointings are going to be released. You two will go in. You will dig out the wells, you will clean out the debris and the original plan and purpose for that region will be fulfilled. You two will be the key, you two will be the well-digger-outers and the Lord says that your reward shall be that you will move in a number of anointings.

And God says I’m going to use you to connect the old with the new. I’m going to use you [Jennifer] to speak well about the history of the Holy Spirit on the earth. In fact, God says, I’m going to begin to bring the history of revivals your way in the form of books and literature and articles and you’re going to begin to read up on former moves of God and I’m going to use you to revisit some of those things even in your own meetings. And so, the Lord says, that which is new is that which is old, I’m putting the old anointing, that latter rain anointing on you and on you and all kinds of stuff is going to start breaking out in your life in regard to latter rain signs and wonders, says the Lord.

Now also, my son and daughter, you need to start talking to me about a relocation. I need to plug you in and put you in a different pipeline because I need to change your environment, I need to change your level of exposure and the Lord says I’m going to begin to do just that, but a reconnection of some old relationships will be good but it’s still not going to be where I’m taking you. So, reconnect with some of the old relationships but look for the new ones to develop and God says begin to pray about a relocation. Begin to pray about getting in a different pipeline that I might be able to direct your gifts to many nations, many peoples, says the Lord.

Also, son and daughter, there are significant political contacts that are coming, key men and women, mostly men, in the political arena, where they’re going to say would you pray for us and you’re going to pray for them and you’re going to bless them and you’re going to put my favor upon them, says the Lord.

Last but not least, dreams are going to dramatically increase in you [Jennifer]. Get a piece of paper and a pen and a tape recorder and begin to record, record, record, record, the dream season that I am bringing you into says the Lord.

Oh, listen to this. Investments, investments, investments, that you had, are going to dramatically increase but brand new investments, brand new investments, a new direction, a new financial direction, with more wisdom; what you lost you’re going to make up and gain and get even more back says the Lord. Amen. God bless you guys. Amen.
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ORDINATION PROPHECIES - Dennis and Jennifer
September 2, 2002
Bishop Bill Hamon, Christian International
(Bishop Bill and Mom Hamon, Dr. Jim and Jeannie Davis, and Dr. Jerry and Martha Hester)
Dominion Community Church, Greer, SC

BISHOP BILL HAMON - Agree with us right now as we give them [Dennis and Jennifer] a charge and release the anointing upon them. Father, in the authority and in the Christ-stead with your mantle of apostle-prophet, Lord, and standing in Your stead and You standing in our stead, we stand together and minister with Your hand extended and Your mouth speaking. And, Lord, we decree and declare and set in order that which you’ve ordained from the foundation of the world. This is not a man-made thing or man-ordained thing but it’s a God-ordained thing. And so, Lord, you’ve called this man. You’ve confirmed it by many prophetic utterances and witness in his own spirit, and we charge the man of God to take on a full mantle and anointing of Christ the Apostle, Christ the One who establishes, Christ the One who works signs and wonders, Christ the One who builds His church. Lord, we charge him right now, in Jesus name.

And Lord, right now, we charge you, daughter, and we release Your anointing upon her to be the prophetess, God, of the mantle and of the character and the nature and the ability of Christ the prophet, that Jesus, You would put that mantle upon her now, and we commission her to her prophet calling, to be a prophetess in the Body of Christ, to speak with the authority of God, and to co-labor together, prophet and apostle, which is the team in the New Testament. And now, Lord, we join them together to accomplish the work of God, in Jesus’ name, and we call forth the signs and wonders and the revelation knowledge. And the Lord says, daughter, from this day forward there’s going to be a clarity in word of knowledge and wisdom. There’s going to be a flow of the prophetic, where before it was little struggle, where before you had to really muster your faith to be able to operate, now it’s going to be easier to prophesy than to be quiet. And the Lord says, daughter, I’m going to release that prophetic flow in you and you’re going to minister with word of knowledge and wisdom and the discerning of spirits is even going to be activated, even though it’s a heavy anointing, and even though it creates a lot of confusion to the flesh, yet I am going to use you in discerning of spirits, so develop this, sharpen this, and equip yourself in this.

And the Lord says, son, believe for the signs and wonders and the insight to establish. I’m going to give you Holy Ghost strategy like a military strategist, you’re going to get strategy for building the work and building the church and establishing the work. So, Lord, we charge them and challenge them right now and equip them to equip your saints for the work of the ministry and build your church, that you said "I will build My church". And, Lord, let them be co-laborers and builders with You, of Your church, and we charge them and anoint them and release Your prophetic word over them now through the prophets and apostles , in Jesus’ name now, Amen.

DR. JIM DAVIS - And the Lord says, son, I’ve put even a breaker anointing in the midst of you. I’ve given you that ability, says the Lord, to plow even the dry ground and to break it open, says the Lord, so that in that breaking there might be an opportunity for fruitfulness, even in those places where fruitfulness was not available, where fruitfulness lacked. So know, says the Lord, that I’ve put that ability within you and I’ve pushed you and I’ve pushed you and I’ve pushed you even in difficult times and difficult seasons to go into places where it was not inviting, go into situations that were not welcoming, says the Lord, but I‘ve put that anointing within you to go forth and to accomplish and to plow and to plow and to plow the ground until the opening comes. so know, says the Lord, that there is that steadfastness and that determination that I’ve put there so use it, call upon it, draw upon it, and even in those places, says the Lord, I will bring the increase. I will bring the breaking out and the breaking free and the breaking open. For I’ve put you in a place, says God, and I’ve given you opportunity so that even in the lives of those that you touch, says God, there is a breaking off of the old that you might introduce the fresh, that you might introduce the new. So use that that I have made available to you, release that that has been released to you, says the Lord, and the increase will come and even that which I have spoken to you time and time and time again, that you’ve not seen the increase of, that you’ve not seen the release of will come, says the Spirit of the Lord. So know even this day that there has come upon you a new anointing, a new release of anointing, says God, that will bring the fruitfulness and will bring the increase that I’ve spoken by My Spirit, says the Lord.

PROPHET MARTHA HESTER - And the Father would say, son and daughter, in this season I’m bringing you to that place of that knowing in your spirit. It’s time for release of those books, says the Lord, it’s time to put your hand to the paper and begin to write. And the Father says, I’ve called you to be a gift to the Body. This season, because you have reproduced that which is on the inside of you, I’m going to bring it [the level of discernment] up even higher and higher, the level of your discernment will begin to operate at a higher level and you will train those, says the Lord, you will train those. There are open doors for you, it’s a season of favor and fruitfulness, says the Father.

PROPHET JEANIE DAVIS - And the Spirit of the Lord says, even in those areas, Jennifer, that you’ve been hesitant to enter into, that there have been doors that you’ve started to put your hand to the door knob and open them, but fear has even been that which has gripped your heart and you’ve even stepped back a step. But the Lord said, this day I’m breaking off the fear of entering into that that I’ve called you to accomplish. And the Lord says, even today, I’m breaking that fear of making a mistake, in Jesus’ name, in Jesus’ name - we take authority over that spirit that would keep her from entering into that thing that you’ve called her to do, in Jesus’ name, we break it off. We say that it will no longer be a hindrance. There will no longer be that fear of making a mistake. For the spirit of the Lord says that you will make a mistake [laugh]. It’s part and parcel of the training that God’s bringing us to. And I have a sensing that God is bringing you into even a greater anointing in the prophetic. That there’s been even a fear of saying "thus saith the Lord" but the Lord says that I’m going to cause a confirmation to come in your spirit that even those things that you feel stirring inside you are things that I’m going to bring up from the midst of you. So, Father, we thank you for that prophetic anointing that is upon her and, Father, we even break it forth into her midst today.

Now, I heard the Spirit of the Lord say that there’s a situation that you’ve been facing for a period of time, that you’ve been kind of - "do we do this or do we do that?" But the Spirit of the Lord would say that it’s a time for a decision to be made. That you’re in that decision making time, and that you’re to sit down and you’re to write the pros and the cons. But even writing the pros and cons won’t necessarily give you the answer for what you would do, but the spirit of the Lord says, I will be that One that pushes you over, and listen for that confirmation in your spirit, because I’m going to cause a settling to come about, and what you’re to do in this situation, but the Lord says, it’s time to make the decision and to go with it.

DR. JERRY HESTER - I hear the Father saying that you’re bridge builders, even as we’ve discussed how that people who prophesy should be able to flow in discernment, so people who flow in discernment should be able to prophesy. And the Father says, you’re called to activate the saints in discernment, to know people by the spirit and not by the flesh, and you’re even going to be bridge builders, says the Lord. I’m going to take you into camps that don’t receive the prophetic, that don’t understand the prophetic, but the Father says, as you flow in activating the saints in discernment, you’ll hear the voice of My Spirit, you’ll hear that prophetic unction begin to bubble up out you your spirit man and you’ll be able to flow with a new anointing, a new ease, and a new precision, say the Father.

MOM HAMON - I just want to welcome you to our family, but I felt in the spirit that the Lord has a special place in the family of God that you’re to show as a uniting of husband and wife in team ministry. We believe in that, we practice it, we preach it and everything, but you have a special - I don’t really know you so I don’t know how to explain - but I sensed in the spirit that God has put a special thing within you, in the ministry, that makes that. And you listen to her and she listens to you, and in that you need to teach and to flow that out to your people to learn how to be husband and wife as a "team in God". Not just a team in the physical, not just a team in the raising of the family, but a "team in God" in the Spirit, we’re one in the Spirit. And so that oneness - there’s something in you, it might be a book, it might be a building, it might be a teaching, I don’t know what it is, but there’s something in you that God wants - whether you thought of it before - the Lord wants to reveal to you there’s a special place in your lives that is going to bring forth something that will show the Body of Christ how a team of husband and wife work together.

BISHOP BILL HAMON - Before Mom Hamon started mentioning that, standing there, the Lord told me to perform a marriage ceremony in the Spirit for you, joining you together in the Spirit like you’ve been joined together in the natural. Were you joined by a minister when you were married? So you’ve been joined in the flesh. But I really felt like I needed to join you [in the Spirit]. Join hands. Let me have both of your hands. Father, right now, we join them as they were joined in the flesh as husband and wife, that they might be one flesh, as you say in Your Word, now we join them in the Spirit, that they may be one united spirit. And they’ll be of one heart, one mind, one spirit. And while one’s thinking it the other will be thinking it, one’s sensing it the other will be sensing it. And let them learn to communicate and learn to draw on each other’s anointing. And, Lord, I release in them the ability to pull upon each other’s anointing, draw upon that anointing and bring forth that anointing and join those two anointings together into one very effective unified husband and wife co-laboring ministry. I join them together now, I unite them in the Spirit, that they may be one spirit as "he who is joined to the Lord is One Spirit" - they are joined together in You in one Spirit ministry to flow and move in the anointing and grace of God, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

And, Sis, I heard the Lord saying that He’s going to give you a queenly anointing, and you and your husband are going to be dealing with senators, representatives, heads of corporations. You’re going to be dealing with people that normally would make you feel self-conscious and a little bit intimidated to go out with them to dinner or to bring them into your home. But the Lord says He’s going to give you even a bigger and better home where you can entertain and bring them. Not this year, not next year, but God’s going to give you a bigger and better home and then - this is all going to come to pass in His time and His purpose. And God’s taking away out of you all small town girl, southern "I’m just this little ole’ gal". You are a queen in the Kingdom, and you have a queenly anointing like Esther, and you’re going to stand before people of great renown and God’s going to give you a boldness to give them the word of the Lord. Your husband’s going to be shocked at the boldness you’re going to come forth with, to just say "you know, we were praying the other day, and the Lord spoke to me, by the way, sir or brother" and BANG you’re going to give them the word of the Lord, right to them. And they’re going to appreciate it and it’s going to be key, it’s going to be vital, and it’s going to be very effective. Amen. So you’re going to be bold in it. Amen.

So, praise God - we welcome you as Rev. Jennifer, Prophet Jennifer B. Clark, ordained and fully established minister of the gospel and of Jesus Christ and representative of Him in the office of prophetess. Some say "prophet", some say "prophetess". We don’t care what you say as long as you do it. And, Dennis Lee Clark, ordained with Christian International Network of Ministries. And I want you to know that from this day forward all your enemies are our enemies and when they touch you they touch all of us. Now ordained as an Apostle, to stand in the authority and the calling in the ministry God’s given you. We welcome you and we stand with you to help you fulfill your destiny. Amen.

 

Praying for Those in Authority 

(Timothy 1:1, 2) “First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, for all kings and all who are in authority, in order that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.”  I

(Psa 91:1-4 NKJV) He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the LORD, "He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust." Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler And from the perilous pestilence. He shall cover you with His feathers, And under His wings you shall take refuge; His truth shall be your shield and buckler.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Power for Living

Jesus Christ is the present power for life and He is waiting to reveal Himself to you in a personal way by the Holy Spirit. God gives us  the only plan for Salvation in His Word, the Bible.  Salvation means being restored to a personal relationship with God. The plan is simple and you can be saved today. 

"Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved" Acts 4:12.

Jesus said unto him, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." John 14:6.

There is no chance to be saved unless you first come to realize you are a sinner, and as a sinner you need a Savior to save you from your sin. Because of sin all mankind has been separated from God. Salvation through faith in Jesus Christ is God's only plan for salvation. Through His death on the Cross, Jesus paid the full penalty for sin. Through His resurrection from the dead, we may also live. Jesus Christ is the only one who has ever been able to keep all of God's commandments and live a perfect life. Every one else who has ever lived has fallen short of His perfection.

"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved" Acts 16:31.

"There is none righteous, no, not one. For there  is no difference; for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" Romans 3:10, 22, 23.

But God loved you so much that He gave His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, as your substitute who bore your sin and died on the cross in your place so that you could have eternal life. 

"He made Him [Jesus] to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him" 2 Corinthians 5:21.

"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord" Romans 6:23.

When you accept Jesus as your Savior, you receive the gift of eternal life to live an abundant life on earth now and are given the right to spend eternity in heaven with God after death.

Jesus said..."I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live."

"I [Jesus] have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly" John 10:10.

Now we cannot understand how our sin was laid upon Jesus, but God says in His Word that Jesus, who knew no sin,  died for you so your sins could be forgiven and you could have the power to live an abundant life.

"But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God [part of the family of God]." John 1:12.

THIS IS POWER FOR LIVING! THIS IS LIFE AS IT WAS INTENDED TO BE LIVED, FULL AND ABUNDANT THROUGH A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST. INVITE HIM INTO YOUR HEART NOW. PRAY THIS PRAYER:

` THE SALVATION PRAYER


"Lord Jesus, I need You. I have sinned against You.
Forgive me of my sins. I ask you to come into my heart and to be my Lord and Savior. I will follow you and serve you all the days of my life. Make me the kind of person You want me to be. Thank You for giving me the gift of eternal life. Amen."

"For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Romans 10:13.

If you have just received Jesus Christ into your life, there are two things to practice daily for spiritual growth: pray and spend time in the presence of God and  read your Bible. Then be sure to begin attending a good Bible-believing church as soon as possible, be baptized,  and unite with fellow Christians.


 

The Selfer's Prayer.
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For Christians who are weary of trying to live the Christian life in their own strength."
   

When we are born again (saved) we exchange our ancestral history "in Adam" for a new history "in Christ" as members of a new "family tree". Romans 6:3 says that we are baptized into Christ (into His life) and also into His death. As partaker’s of Christ’s life we participate in His death, burial, resurrection, ascension, and seating in heavenly places.

(Rom 6:3-6) "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin."

(Gal 2:20) "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me."

(Eph 2:6) "And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus."

Until the time comes when we understand and allow Christ to live His life through us, we continue to live for Christ through the self-life. Living through the self-life guarantees a life of continual defeat until we come to the foot of the cross and begin to live in union with Christ’s death and resurrection. Then, we can "walk in newness of life".

(Rom 6:4) "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life."

(2 Cor 5:17) "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."

THE HEART NEEDS TO BE EVANGELIZED

When you were born again, you (your old man) was crucified in Christ and you became a new creation (new man) in your spirit. You were translated out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light and you have a new King, Jesus Christ. Immediately, many areas in your soul (mind, will, and emotions) were transformed, but not all areas were informed that there is a new boss (Lord). Unbelieving parts of the heart must also be evangelized (informed of the good news - gospel - that there is a new boss.)

In certain cases, a person who is drowning will actually fight against the person who is trying to rescue them. In such cases is necessary to allow the person to become so tired that they are exhausted and can no longer fight. In our Christian lives, we can insist on struggling in our own strength, and God waits until we give up so that He can take over and do what we couldn’t do anyway.

WALKING BEGINS WITH SITTING

The victorious Christian life begins when, by faith, we first rest in "Christ in me", then we see ourselves seated together with Christ in heavenly places for power in Christian service. We are saved by "resting in" the Lord Jesus Christ - trusting Him to live in and through us. God worked the first six days of creation and rested on the seventh day. The seventh day was Adam’s first. Adam began his life on the Sabbath. God works before He rests. Man must first enter into God’s rest, and only then can man work. When the work of redemption was accomplished, Jesus cried, "It is finished." Every new spiritual experience must begin through accepting by faith of what God has already done - with a new "sitting down". We must rest in what God has already accomplished.

Example: A Motorized Wheel Chair

Man must first enter into God’s rest and only then can he work. We trust Him to live in us and through us. A cripple in a motorized wheel chair keeps going because he keeps sitting. There is power only in the seated position. For the Christian, there is power when we begin from "sitting down" in faith and resting in what He has already accomplished.

CRISIS ENTERING IN

Appropriation by faith comes instantly as a crisis. When God gives us revelation of another level of life that we have not seen previously, we receive light and are able to appropriate the free gift that He extends. This is the time of crisis experience. However, there is an outworking in our lives that must take place as God takes the light of revelation and makes it life in us - living experience. Lifestyle expression takes time, and is accomplished as a process. We cannot experientially crucify ourselves in any given area. This is a work accomplished by the Holy Spirit as we rightly yield to the loving hand of God working in all the circumstances and people that He brings into our lives. Romans 6 presents steps of believing, knowing, and reckoning.

(Rom 6:8-11) "Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he lives, he lives unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord."

Resurrection is  that which has passed through death and yet lives. "Death to self" does not mean that self is annihilated. It means that "self" has given up control and has been brought under control of the Holy Spirit through the human spirit. When "self" yields control to Him, the resurrection life of Jesus gains ascendancy in area after area of life.

YIELDING CONTROL

Before the following prayer can be truly effective, you need to have a revelation of God’s provision in Christ, be under the conviction of the Holy Spirit, understand that you have been living the Christian life by your own self-effort, and be willing to give up control of your life so that He can take control.

` THE SELFER’S PRAYER

Dear Lord, I admit that I am a "selfer". I have been trying to get my needs met by my own inadequate efforts. I have been trying to live the Christian life in my own strength. I now give up all my rights and acknowledge You as my Lord. You have permission, as far as I am concerned, to do with me anything You choose. I now begin to see that when Christ died, I died with Him. When He was buried, I was buried with Him. When He arose, I arose with Him and was made new. I choose now to trust You, Lord Jesus, to live Your Life in and through me by Your power. I will not try to perform for You. I trust You to perform through me. I also trust You to teach me more each day of what it means to know You as my LIFE. Amen.

If you prayed either of these two prayers and would like more information, please contact us. God bless you.

Dennis and Dr. Jennifer Clark

Full Stature Ministries / Kingdom Life Church
Fort Mill, SC
 

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