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Topic: Faith Or The Counterfeit
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Yolanda Ballard
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Posted: 08/02/2011 at 5:37pm
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Word submitted for your discernment
by Yolanda Ballard (roarnworship@cfl.rr.com)
FAITH OR THE COUNTERFEIT
Examine your own heart!
This is the day when you must know, without a shadow of doubt, whether
you truly are in My kingdom, or if you have just had only a religious
experience based upon works. For if you don't have visible changes
within your heart, actions, motives, and desires to serve Me, and to
promote My kingdom alone, then you must examine your heart before it
is too late.
Many have begun a walk where it is all talk with their eyes mainly focused
upon the lives of others instead of examining their own walk, and this is
the fruit of having religion rather than having a true relationship with Me.
Many put more emphasis on the things that they have done after they
have confessed knowing Me rather than placing all the glory for their
salvation upon Me and My work upon the Cross for their redemption. For
if you think that your water baptism or whether you speak in unknown
tongues is your ticket to escape the wrath alone, without having an
ongoing love relationship with Me, then you are being deceived by a spirit
of religion.
I am not interested in formulas or actions alone, but in the heart attitude
behind what you are doing. For salvation is a free gift that I paid the
price for received only by acknowledging and expressing the fact that you
are truly a sinner who needs a Savior!
Ask yourself this day why you believe what you believe concerning
salvation, and see if you are placing more emphasis upon your own works
rather than Mine. For if you are, then you truly have missed the mark,
and do not have the genuine article. For religion is based upon doing
things that you feel give you the right to enter into My kingdom. And
salvation is from the result of receiving a free gift based upon My works,
which you can take no glory in any righteous act, and have nothing in
which you can boast.
Examine your heart whether your actions are based upon My love flowing
through you, or are there just ulterior motives behind what you are doing.
For these are serious times, and you must humble yourself, and examine
your heart to see if you are truly Mine. For My sheep know My voice and
follow only Me. They will not listen to the voice of the taskmaster, or will
not allow the noose of religion to be placed around their neck.
I love you, My people, for I died for you, but you must know the Truth in
order to be set free. My power will only flow through a vessel that is
yielded to Me, for religion only quenches My flow. Come out from under
that unclean thing. Be free. Be led of Me. Love and be loved! Be truly
yourself, the one I died for. Take off the mask, and let Me see the one that
I love, not the counterfeit. For in order to make it to the end, you must
know the Truth and walk in it!
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http://www.roarnworship.com
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Gayle Getz
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Posted: 08/02/2011 at 11:31pm
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TY Yolanda, this Word came up, bubbled up in song, "I have shown you, O man, what is good and what the Lord requires of you; but to act justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God."
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Shalom-nothing missing, nothing broken-Gayle
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Alexa T Heyns
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Posted: 08/03/2011 at 1:28am
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a very powerful word that goes right to the heart of the issue.
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Stacey Yerian
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Posted: 08/03/2011 at 6:04am
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Thank you Yolanda for declaring this call from the Lord to personal repentence and humility!
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Anastasia Lee
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Lyn McSweeney
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Posted: 08/03/2011 at 3:50pm
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Love and Blessings!
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Bill Evans
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Posted: 08/04/2011 at 5:05am
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AMEN
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Paula Jane
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Posted: 08/04/2011 at 7:06am
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Heart motivations examinations and purity from cleansing fire is consumated in the Fear of the Lord.
Father we cry out and say let the Fear of the Lord be our standard, let righteousness run down like a river to flood we ..your people with the Truth that sets us free from our lukewarm complacency
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