Faith and Affirmations

Kathy Brocks, Owner
May 23, 2020
13 min read

“Faith and Affirmations”

Believing in Jesus is an act of faith. You can not see him. You can not touch him.

Yet, you are asked to receive forgiveness for the things your ancestors did centuries prior to you being a thought in your parents’ loins. Whether you are a product of sincere love, momentary lust or unwanted advances, you are here.

Everyone that has breath has the ability to hear Jesus, but hearing the voice of the LORD is not always an everyday occurrence for all though it can be if we persist in prayer. Believers feel Jesus’ presence or the Holy Bible becomes audible in their mind or believers feel the presence of Jesus in their body. It’s a spiritual connection.

Marriage is a spiritual connection. This, marriage, is the basis of a relationship with Jesus, the Father, called Jehovah or I AM, a Spirit being with no bones or flesh, the SON, Jesus who died on the cross and rose again defeating death, hell and the grave; and the Holy Spirit, the mind of Christ, which make up three persons in one being, Jesus. This is how the bible explains it as for the naked eyes and understanding of man. *(John 14:16-17)

So, the marriage part, for your understanding is when you repent of your sins and receive the forgiveness that was purchased by Jesus on the cross. You become one with Jesus. This is like a woman taking on the name of her husband. Upon marriage a woman is identified as Mrs. *(Matthew 22:2) Believers are called Christians.

Why did Jesus purchase your forgiveness? God, the Father expressed that His anger from Adam and Eve’s sin of unfaith was far too great for man to receive and come through smelling like roses. *(John 3:16-17). So, the SON, Jesus volunteered in heaven prior to even creating what we call earth and the human race. Jesus stepped up like a big brother and said when man messes up, ‘I will take the punishment’,( *Note: ‘I will’ means to consent to do). It was not a matter of if man would drop the ball, faith. It was only a matter when man would decide to not trust GOD, the father.

Whoops there it came. When you read the *story of Adam and Eve, the ancestors of all men, you will see Eve gave Adam fruit from a forbidden tree. Pastors will say that Eve, a woman is ever sinful and seduced Adam. This is true. Eve was influenced by evil, the Devil, Satan, pronounced Saw-tawn, an opponent, an arch-enemy of good, withstand, as defined in Strong’s Expanded Dictionary of Bible Words, p. 844 #7854, Hebrew. Satan is a spirit and came to Eve in the body of a snake.

However, Adam received the fruit. Both Adam and Eve had free will. Adam and Eve both actively chose to not call out to GOD for help at the first hint of something wrong. Anything GOD created asking another to do what the LORD said not to do, eat of the ‘Tree of Life’ and the ‘Tree of Knowledge’, is defined as something awry,(*Galatians 5:26). Since GOD told Adam about the trees, then you know the same information was told to the animals in the Garden of Eden. Did you ever notice animals do not live forever? Also note, the snake was punished along with Adam and Eve. Their comforts, blessing and their conveniences were striped away by GOD. *(Genesis 3:14-19)

Adam, the defense line, could have said no to Satan and walked away. Adam was the authority in the earth. Adam was the government, the CIA, the FBI, Texas Rangers, LA SWAT, Chicago Police and every law enforcement giant all rolled into one.

Adam was the head honcho that did not use wisdom. Adam did not resist. Walk away from every temptation. This is also what GOD, the Father wants from believers. There is power in the name Jesus when you speak it. Resist the devil and he will flea from you. Rebuke him, his thoughts and acts by his demonic angels. Use the words of Jesus, the Holy Bible. *(Matthew 6:13)

Receiving Jesus into our hearts is a marriage proposal to have and hold dear and keep GOD before your eyes, in your ears; to have His heart and mind eternally. God wants to know you will still stand strong in faith to Jesus even when it looks like Jesus is not anywhere around. This part sucks because man believes what he sees. Please know this, Jesus will never leave you nor forsake (forget) you as long as the earth exists. Faith is invisible and it seems like God is asking for a mountain of trust. Some days, faith is a mustard seed that moves mountains and other days it is a city that moves nations.

What do you do? Not believing leads to a permanent dark pit and lake of fire with Satan. Believing is a straight chill party with Jesus seeing all your tormentors punished. This is an easy peasy choice right? That’s faith, the erection of life. Believe in what you can not see to get forgiveness for being born like this, born into sin, or not believe and get a permanent skin peel.

Jesus wants a constant declaration of HIS love reciprocated. For example the bible says in 2 Timothy 1:7, For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. If we are free with power to love and make choices through wisdom, then wisdom says we will repay what was given to us. So the birth of this free will power of wisdom will demonstrate the fruits of GOD’s Spirit birthed from HIS Heart which are: love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance. (Galatians 5:22-23)

Satan wants you to close your eyes, ears and mouth to the truth; receive fear, show him proof you are with him and against Jesus.

Satan will ask you to commit lewd acts, hurt others, lead you into self destructive acts which are promoted through spirits of sin called “Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like:” (Galatians 5:19-21)

Satan will try to get you to switch your allegiance from Jesus to him. Satan will affirm lies about Jesus or he will use your hurt emotions to blame GOD, Jesus, for whatever is going wrong in your life. Satan will use the authority (you) in the earth to accuse Jesus when things go wrong and celebrate Satan when things seem to go right. Satan is a deceiver and lies about everything that falls out of his mind.

Satan is always a rickety floor on thin ice. Satan can only promise to give you what is yours already because he can not make anything. The same way Satan tempted Jesus is the same way Satan will tempt you. (Matthew 4:3-4) Satan will ask you to do things you are already able to do. (Matthew 4:5-7) Satan will try to use your exhaustion against you. Satan will try to trick you into worshipping him. (Matthew 4:8-10) Resist like Jesus did, say no and speak the word of the Holy Bible.(Matthew 4:11)

Jesus is life and truth. Salvation is of Jesus for all men, John 3:16-17 says, “ 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.”

Declarations good and bad are still affirmations and will come to pass when a descendent of Adam speaks it out. You are an offspring of Adam. Whatever you say will come to pass.

Affirmations, is a consistent repeating of unseen things in the hope that the thing being repeated will become true. Many of the media, analysts and politically savvy folks developed many ideas on how Donald Trump was identified as the winner of the 2016 presidential election. I believe it is one of the many things most folks shy away from because its hoakie, religious and not readily quantifiable until it is seen. Donald Trump managed to get others to affirm him in the position, of President of the United States, he desired.

Trump called for the release of information, surrounded himself with particular Christians that believed in the power of affirmations and then confirmed what was said and what he wanted. Trump then began speaking to all walks of life good and bad. *(Matthew 22) Trump spoke the common denominator, money. In the streets of America and anywhere in the world when you tell a group of folks, “everybody eats” when they align themselves with you, they stop, listen and believe. It only takes a mustard seed of faith when it comes to the promise of making money.

America does it everyday. When you clock in and out of work for two or three weeks with the assurance of payment at the end of two weeks you are living by the faith of a mustard seed affirmed by the words of your manager, boss, owner or the human resource department who said you will get paid.

When, the female news anchor first called Donald Trump, President, so America could hear how ridiculous it sounded and then other media anchors followed suite. They all, I assume, without realizing it, affirmed and assured Donald Trump as the 45th President of America in the 2016 election cycle. This is the spiritual connection that Donald Trump required and what the faith world spoke about prior to the election. The prophets spoke of declarations, shock, awe and the phrase “What” as in disbelief, would roll off the tongues of media and the nation.

You may have heard me say I believe there was some cheating going on in this 2016 Presidential race. I still believe it. I got a feeling early 2016. The morning after the election I saw something that was not of GOD. That affirmed it for me. No physical, proof but all the truth lay in the spirit. Since, I am just a spectator and not a politician, lawyer or police. It just seemed like politics, anything to win, with a side of wo, wo, wo.

However, Donald Trump did one thing right. Donald Trump used affirmations and declarative statements to reach the hearts of voters and power brokers. This is not an endorsement for anyone. President Donald Trump for the 2020 election is asking Americans, Powerbrokers and Investors to forget the bad things and give a new slate of belief to the unseen. So far only the elite garnered additional dividends, (got to eat), worth mentioning. The middle class is shouting and the lower financial class is a bit ticked off wanting opportunities to afford to live. It seems affirmations work.

The cry of “why believe the new chicken flavor is better when you already had the undercooked chicken” is like asking Americans to call President Donald Trump LORD of all. This is an offense to Jesus, Jehovah GOD, the Father of course. But President Trump assumes people understand his faith steps. But with no bibles in schools and Christians being told it’s an offense to others to pray, mention the name Jesus publically, at work, on the streets, what can President Donald Trump expect?

Why believe in the unseen when President Trump supports killing Americans for protesting against hate? Why believe when President Trump is setting America up for a civil war? The problem is not white against black or man against woman or homosexual against heterosexual. The battle is between Jesus and Satan. Both are spiritual beings. Jesus is trusting man to depend on Him. Satan is trusting man to depend on what man can see, lusting after the tangible and what sounds good to the ears.

Donald Trump wants a marriage like Jesus has with the 2.35 billions plus Christians world wide. The only problem is hate is not a promotion Jesus backs. Hate and Jesus is like putting a stove in the bathroom it’s out of place.*This is not a dig against President Trump or Jesus. Hate is a constant pre-emptive to revolution and resolution. Either lives will line the cemetery for unjust idioms or they stand erect in truth, justice and peace.

When we believe GOD, pray for something, we are instructed to put a time limit on it. This is to get our angels to moving on our behalf and so Jesus can see we believe Him to get it done by that time. The truth is Jesus is not bound by time. He is hampered in the earth by unbelief of man, Satan and demonic activity of Satan’s fallen angels.

How is Jesus problems, your problems? They are not really. Your job is to just believe. Speak down the activities of Satan that are present in your life or atmosphere. When you see activity of the demonic in your life kick it out. Tell it to go, in the name of Jesus.

It’s like stubbing your toe on the table and you feel the pain. The normal thought is to rub it and say I think I broke it. Instead say all is well. No plague shall come nigh my dwelling. Affirm the positive rather than the negative. There are pain demons that seek out people who affirm sickness out of fear or who need a monthly government check. Life, destruction and death are in the power of your tongue. Speak life about you, to you and for you. As you love yourself into blessings so you will love others into blessings. *(Mark 12:29-31)

Most people on disability are truly injured. Many want to be healed but do not get healed caused they fear how they will take care of their household. There goes that faith thing again. Money is supposed to be the easiest thing to believe GOD to receive. Yet, money blessings are scarce and money is used like a weapon to hurt rather than to bless. This comes from the love of money and the love of asserting unjust power over others. This is a lack of love of GOD and self. The solution is trust GOD. The same problem from the time of Adam and Eve still persists. The only difference is the answer was already given through the blood of Jesus. So whether you are a business man, politician, preacher, entrepreneur or person seeking work or love the answer remains Jesus is yesterday, today and ever more.

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Notes Source:

1. * ‘I will’ Matthew 6:10, King James Version (KJV)

10 Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

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Hebrew Abah (aw-bah), to breathe after, to be acquiescent, consent, rest content. Page 297 #14), 04/27/2019, The New Strong’s Expanded Dictionary of Bible Words

2.* John 14:16-17, NIV, www.Bible.com

16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever—

17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.

https://www.biblestudytools.com/john/passage/?q=john+14:16-17 , 04/27/2019, 6:27pm ct

3.* Genesis 2-3, The story of Adam and Eve, (NIV) https://www.biblestudytools.com/passage/?q=genesis+2;+genesis+3 , 04/27/2019, 6:41pm ct

4. *Matthew 6:13, King James Version (KJV)

13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

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5. 1 Corinthians 10:13 [Full Chapter]

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=temptation&qs_version=KJV , 04/27/2019, 6:56pm ct

*6. Matthew 22:2, 1-46, Marriage is like heaven

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+22%3A1-100&version=KJV

*7. Galatians 5:26,

Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

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https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=galatians+5%3A26&version=KJV, 04/27/2019, 8:15 pm ct

*8. Genesis 3:14-19, Adam, Eve, Snake punished

14 And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

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*9. Genesis 3:14-19 King James Version (KJV)

15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

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https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+3%3A14-19&version=KJV, 04/27/2019 8:30 pm ct

*10. Matthew 4:1-11 King James Version (KJV)

4 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.

4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,

6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;

9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.

10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

11 Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.

King James Version (KJV)

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+4%3A1-11&version=KJV , 04/27/2019, 8:45pm ct

*11, See note #6

*12. It’s a stove in a bathroom out of place, loose quote from MixTape Vol.1, Track 9, by Tae Spears, Minister and Christian Rapper, https://www.taespears.com/music

*13. Mark 12:29-31,

29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:

30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

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https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mark+12%3A29-31&version=KJV

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