A Horse Called Hope

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Covenant and Fire 12-13-19 Video

A Powerful and Intense Friday night at Hosanna Victory Church in Richmond, Va.  A time of teaching on the Covenant and Fire and prophetic impartation of the Fire of God. 
I pray that you will receive the impartation of the Fire of God as you watch this video:
Covenant and Fire 12-13-19

Selah for Today 10-31-2019 - Manifest

Manifest means: 1) clear or obvious to the eye or mind.  2) display or show by one's acts or appearance, demonstrate. 

Galatians 4:6-7(NIV)  Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba,^[b] Father.” ⁷ So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.

We are to manifest (demonstrate) who we are the sons and daughters of God. We do this by manifesting God's love, forgiveness, and power to everyone.  

Selah for Today 10-30-2019 - Radical

Radical has different meanings, the most commonly used is associated with political views of extreme change just as the racial left or the radical right. It also means proceeding from the root. Another meaning is: designed to remove the root of a disease or all disease and potentially disease tissue.

  Jesus and the believers of the early church were radicals. They called mankind back to a relationship with God and to remove the disease of sin from their lives. They moved in the name of Jesus and the power in the power of the Holy Spirit to bring about change.

  When confronted and told to stop in Acts 4:12-22  and Acts 5:28-30 they continued to speak of God's love and salvation. They changed the world with God's love and power.

 It is time for us as believers to return to our roots, to become radical. We stand up to those who are yelling at us, "to sit down and shut up or else." It's time for us to say, " We will obey God rather than man." Then go out into the world and change it with God's Love and Power.

 Let's get RADICAL!

Selah for Today 10-28-2019 - Really

Really can mean, an actual fact, as opposed to what is said or imagined to be true or possible or can be used to expressed interest, surprise or doubt. 
  I heard this word used a lot lately used to express surprise or doubt. So it REALLY is a fact that God loves you. In the Bible, God states this plain and clear in
 John 3:16 (NIV) For God so loved YOU* that he gave his one and only Son, that WHEN YOU* believe in him YOU *shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the YOU*, but to save the YOU* through him. (*changes were done for emphasis)  and God wants the best for you 

Jeremiah 29:11(NIV)  For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Yes, REALLY!!!

Selah for Today 10-24-2019- Freedom

Freedom according to Webster's Dictionary is the quality or state of being free such as the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action. Liberation from slavery.
  Freedom is wonderful, but freedom without responsibility always leads back to slavery. When we don't take personal responsibility for our freedoms, someone else will do it for us and that leads to tyranny and slavery. True freedom begins with Christ.

Galatians 5:1(NIV) It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.  1 Corinthians 10:23 (NIV) “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but not everything is constructive

Selah for Today 10-22-219 - Adventure

 Many people, including believers, live boring and dull lives. They need adventure.

Adventure is defined by Webster's Dictionary as 1) an undertaking usually involving danger and unknown risks 2) an exciting or remarkable experience. To have days full of adventure, it takes walking by faith. Faith equals adventure. When you walk with God and listen to Him you will have exciting and remarkable experiences every day. So, step out in faith and step into adventure.

  

Psalm 32:8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.

Selah for Today 10-17-2019- Choose Life

Deuteronomy 30:19-20(NIV) ¹⁹ This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life,* so that you and your children may live ²⁰ and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

God gives us a choice and then gives us the answer, "Choose Life". God wants us to choose life in everything we do, say and think. We need in every area of our lives to choose Life. In other words, choose God for He is Life and gives life. 

*Boldness added for emphasis. 

Selah for Today 10-16-2019 -Stand

One of the definitions of stand: is to agree to be in accord

 

In Ephesians 6: 10-18, there is stand against the devil's schemes, stand your ground, after doing everything stand and finally stand firm. All of these point to agreeing with and being in accord with God. 

    I choose to Stand with, Agree with and be in accord with God. Where do You Stand?

Selah for Today 08-29-2019- Think!

It’s not what happens TO YOU, but IN YOU that shapes You. 
Proverbs 23:7 (NKJV) “ For as he thinks in his heart, so is he... and Romans 12:2

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Selah for Today 08-27-2019- Searching

We search and God reveals
Proverbs 25:2(NKJV) It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, But the glory of kings is to search out a matter. 
John 14:26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.

Selah for Today 08-26-2019-Forgive

“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” (1) –Lewis B. Smedes
When you forgive, the very chemical structure of the brain changes from the negative to the positive affecting the entire thinking/memory building process (2) –Dr. Caroline Leaf

Matthew 6:14 (NKJV) “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.  Romans 12:2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Selah for Today 08-23-2019-Life

“Life is a marathon, not a sprint. The race doesn’t go to the swiftest, but to those who don’t give up.” O. Hillman
Hebrews 12:1-2 (NKJV) Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, ² looking unto Jesus, the ^[a]author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God

Selah for Today- 08-16-2019 - Move

God is Moving in This Moment. He said, "I am with you always"(Matthew 28:19-20) and He has given you power (Acts 1:8, 2:38).  So, choose to move with God, Today!

Selah for Today -08-08-2019- DNA

DNA provides a unique set of instructions that build you, however: “All humans are 99.9 percent identical. So to hate someone, a group or race is to hate yourself. Matthew 22:37-40 (NIV) ³⁷ Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’^[38 This is the first and greatest commandment. ³⁹ And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ⁴⁰ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Selah for Today .8-04-2019

The Evil One loads the mind with hate and the heart pulls the trigger.

                         God comes to Love and Comfort. 
 2 Corinthians 1:3-5 (NIV) Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, ⁴ who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. ⁵ For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.
             Praying for El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio

Selah for Today 8-02-2019

The Universe (both physical and Spiritual) is Just One Room in God's House!

Who Are You? Part 4

    

    We are God’s children.  Ephesians 2:6 (AMP) ⁶And He raised us up together with Him and made us sit down together [giving us joint seating with Him] in the heavenly sphere [by virtue of our being] in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One).
     Romans 8:14-16 Amplified Bible (AMP) ¹⁴For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.¹⁵For [the Spirit which] you have now received [is] not a spirit of slavery to put you once more in bondage to fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption [the Spirit producing sonship] in [the bliss of] which we cry, Abba (Father)! Father! ¹⁶The Spirit Himself [thus] testifies together with our own spirit, [assuring us] that we are children of God.
    Galatians 4:5-7Amplified Bible (AMP) ⁵To purchase the freedom of (to ransom, to redeem, to atone for) those who were subject to the Law, that we might be adopted and have sonship conferred upon us [and be recognized as God's sons].⁶And because you [really] are [His] sons, God has sent the [Holy] Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, Abba (Father)! Father! ⁷Therefore, you are no longer a slave (bond servant) but a son; and if a son, then [it follows that you are] an heir by the aid of God, through Christ.
   These verses plus many more show us that we are God’s Family. We are His sons and daughters. This is who we are. We have full and unrestricted access to the Father. This is a powerful relationship. We can enter God’s presence any time we want and just the Throne Room (a place of petitions) but we have the run of the house. We can go into all the rooms of the house. The great thing is there will always be more and more rooms to explore, for our Father has a big house, bigger than we can imagine. We can roam the gardens; play in the Pools of Life created by the River of Life.
We roam the various mountain ranges of the kingdom and eat of the never-ending supply of food, which is there for us to enjoy.
   Best of all is spending time with the Father. God desires us to spend time with him and He smiles when we come through the door and ask to be with Him. This was the purpose of creation, that God would have a family and that we, by our own free will would choose to love him and to spend time with him. This above all else is why mankind was created. He created us in his image for this purpose so we could enjoy each other forever. One of the great and wonderful mysteries of this is, it is always one on one, just you and the Father and it can be the same for every person in the universe at the same time if they desire it.
  We must also remember that our Father, is the LORD GOD, THE CREATOR, THE ALL-POWERFUL KING OF ALL, who is from everlasting to everlasting. We must honor and worship Him as such.
  As we realize this relationship of being a child of God, everything we do, being a servant, a king, a priest, and friend all flow out of this relationship. We operate in various positions in the kingdom with the proper attitude of love. We don’t do things because we have to; we do them because we want to, out of our love for our Father. This loving relationship between us, as children with God our Father, opens the door for revelations and experiences beyond what we can ever imagine.
  So, begin to think of yourself and see yourself as God our Father sees you, as His child whom He loves and wants to spend time with. Father God wants to share with all that has with you. He wants to reveal himself to you. Then you will have a life full and overflowing and you can answer the question, “Who are You?”

                        ©COPYRIGHT 2012 RICHARD L SPANGLER

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Who Are You Part 3

 In part 1 of Who Are You, we looked at the servant. In part 2 we looked at the kings and priest. All of these have varying degrees of relationship with God.

 The next level of relationship is that of a friend.  A friend as defined by Webster’s Dictionary is: 1a: one attached to another by affection or esteem b: acquaintance  2 a: one that is not hostile b: one that is of the same nation, party, or group 3: one that favors or promotes something (as a charity) 4: a favored companion

Enoch was one such person in Genesis 5:22-24Amplified Bible (AMP) ²²Enoch walked [in habitual fellowship] with God after the birth of Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters.²³So all the days of Enoch were 365 years.²⁴And Enoch walked [in habitual fellowship] with God; and he was not, for God took him [home with Him]. This is an amazing friendship with God. This same type of relationship is mentioned of Noah in Genesis 6:8-9.

   In Genesis 18:3 Abraham refers to himself as a servant, but God calls Abraham his friend in Genesis 18:17. This shown by the discussion that follows a friend is allowed debate a decision and servant is not.

 Jesus speaks of friendship and the difference between friends and servants in John 15:15 I do not call you servants (slaves) any longer, for the servant does not know what his master is doing (working out). But I have called you My friends because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from My Father. [I have revealed to you everything that I have learned from Him.]

A friend has a closer relationship than a servant, a priest or king, but a friend can be any of these as well. But there are limits in the relationship of a friend and access to the house. There are parts of a house that is for the family and for the family only. The good news is we are in the family of God.

 We will look at Family of God in the 4^th and final part of this series coming soon.

 ©COPYRIGHT 2012 RICHARD L SPANGLER

Please support this ministry, by purchasing my book,

“Adventures in the Spirit A Series of Prophetic Visions"  

From Amazon.com