God intimately knows your ways and your thoughts, so why do you hide from His presence and flee from His appearings? It is because your carnal mind is unable to believe or understand God's absolute, total acceptance of you even in your state of unrighteousness. If you can see that the Lord accepts you and that He will never reject you, then you will stand in His presence and be changed.
The basis of all judgment at the threshold of the Kingdom is: do you minister to the Christ in your brother? Impart to him, then submit to the ministry that is created in him. Authority cannot serve itself. Authority must serve the Christ it imparts to others.
What was that great faith that exceeded anything our Lord had seen in Israel? What was the faith so great that at an instant a miracle appeared in a distant place? It took a Gentile soldier to understand that submission to Christ was the key to miracle faith.
For us to truly understand God's acceptance of us, we must be able to recognize the difference between acceptance and perfection. God has accepted us in our imperfection, and that is the open door for us to be perfected in Him as we receive the truth.
Joshua was unique in his devotion to the Word. He was continually meditating on it. Ultimately God gave the next book of the Bible through him. Now the remnant who continually focuses on His Word and presence will also become God's living epistles in this hour—the Kingdom edition of God's Word.
Pressing Into Resurrection Life
We are close to the breakthrough of the ages. He is bringing many sons to glory. This message stirs the travail of our spirits to enter into the resurrection life for the physical body. This travail is what it's all about.
CD includes both of the above messages by John Robert Stevens (2009-0509-1R)
The effective prayers of faith are not based upon our desperation so much as on our joyful awareness of His complete and perfect provision for us. This faith makes a happening of His promises. His victory is not a mere philosophy or doctrine; His victory must be expressed through us.
There are many levels people can live on, but the Lord prepares an abode for us with the Father. The Holy Spirit reveals the way to the Father—Christ and His fullness. The Advocate "stands alongside" His Father on our behalf. The Holy Spirit "stands alongside" us to bring all into one.
In ten minutes this message identified the true basis of divine order. The false order of the Roman church and the disorder of the Protestant churches must give way to scriptural churches who continue in the apostles' revelation teaching of the Scriptures. This is a short but basic essential revelation of divine order.
"...And The Word Was God"
The Living Word, when heard with faith, will reveal the Lord to the listener, like Jesus said of the Scriptures, "They testify of Me." The Living Word should not open up a conflict of doctrine. It should open up a walk with God. This tape includes a definition of The Living Word.
CD includes both of the above messages by John Robert Stevens (2009-0509-2R)
For generations God's people have had mingled desires to know the Lord and a compulsion to flee from that awesome knowledge. The cry of our hearts must be, "That I may know Thee and the power of Thy resurrection." "Then shall we know if we follow on to know the Lord. He shall come to us..."
All our service will not please Him if we have broken the greatest commandment of all. We love Him with all our heart and all our works are a love-activity.
The story of the Scriptures is basically a revelation of God as a separate entity from His people to the ultimate, when His fullness indwells His sons. This is the thread from Genesis to Revelation. God grant us wisdom to understand that each successive step necessitates changes in our forms of worship, prayer, and service.
If the Kingdom of God is relationships, then it becomes important for us to recognize not only our need and desire for a relationship with God, but to recognize His need and desire for a relationship with us.
God's Determined Love
God has created us as a people for His own possession. We must know and be open to receive His depth of love for us; for our lives will either be spent in His dealings to give ourselves to Him or we will live as recipients of His sweet spices because we have come to know and accept that love. Our greatest ability to become and change will be our simple acceptance of what His love has in store for us.
CD includes both of the above messages by Gary Hargrave (2008-1113-2R)
What deception! What unbelief! To have such a complete and perfect provision and to accept such an inferior experiencing of it. To be unconcerned about our failure to believe what God has set before us is unbelief. Let us bow down before Him in repentant worship.
This message studies deeply the flesh and how we relate to it. A real revelation of this Word will free us from condemnation.
A Revelation Of The Grace Of God
This message will open the door for you to get a revelation of the grace of God and why you need it. If you don't do your homework after you hear this, it will just be another Word.
CD includes both of the above messages by Gary Hargrave (2008-1204-1R)
Divine love is not manufactured by human discipline or diligence. The love we need is appropriated. We "put on" love. We appropriate it and draw it like sunshine. "Keep yourselves in the love of God."
You could know the exact day, the hour, and the place of His appearing and you could even recognize Him. But the issue is: Will you receive Him? It is impossible for you to receive Him unless you have broken away from your dependency, your confidence, and your sense of security in the things of this age. The Lord's return is as certain as the dawn. Instead of searching for the day, the hour, and the place, humble and prepare your heart to receive Him.
The Lord has revealed a way to build the spiritual structure of the Church in a way that does not create a legal corporate structure hostile to the spiritual purposes of the Church. The Head of the Church has never quit. He has never needed anyone to act in His stead, as His voice. He is still capable of revealing His mind and choice concerning His Church.
God’s Blueprint For The Church
The Church is likened unto a building. From these passages in I Corinthians, we learn that there is a correct foundation and blueprint for the New Testament Church. It is God’s Word unfolded through apostolic ministries.
CD includes both of the above messages by John Robert Stevens (2008-1113-1R)
How profound is this Word, yet how simple. The key is our relationship to the Lord as His worshipers. Our problems and our relations to one another in the Body of Christ—a thousand problems—are solved by our relation to the Lord.
Although the Apostle Paul had experiences in which he saw the Lord and heard His voice, he lived with a drive to know the Lord. We must not be lulled into settling for experiences with the Lord yet never come into a full knowledge of Him. In this age when people are looking for signs and wonders, God is looking for people who know Him.
The Appearance Of His Appearings
We are in the time of the Lord's appearings, but He often appears in ways that not everyone can recognize. Will you perceive His appearings as judgment or as blessing and fulfillment? The difference in how you perceive His appearings will depend upon what is in your heart toward the Lord.
CD includes both of the above messages by Gary Hargrave (2009-0821-8R)
The victory of Christ must not remain a dormant potential, but it must find through us a creative manifestation. Our intercession is based upon His victory and His provision. We intercede because His perfect provision remains only a potential without our persistent faith.
A very important and unique meeting with the Lord opening the door to Brother Stevens to a revelation of the Kingdom in both the Old and New Testaments. This Word contains much fresh revelation and will position us for a greater understanding of the Kingdom.
Do you ever feel that you are two different people, each in conflict with the other?... That your spirit and your flesh struggle for control? Are you tired of the ups and downs? Here is one big step to take into the spirit-level living in the Kingdom.
Our living active faith creates from the substance of God’s vast provision for us. Active faith cashes the check on the resources of God. This provokes and creates faith.
Conscience: Dead Or Alive?
Did you realize that the religious conscience we have is a degenerate, depraved thing in the Adamic nature, the atrophied capacity for worship that existed before the fall? How Satan would inspire, in the name of religion, works that are dead and contributions to produce those works. "The Lord purge your conscience from dead works."
CD includes both of the above messages by John Robert Stevens (2009-0821-5R)
God wants us to be His temple. However, He cannot live with the flesh nature. Under your initiative, the Holy Spirit can begin the perfection process within you. Your relationship with the Holy Spirit is not a one-time experience, but it is a way of life. This leads to resurrection life.
All that God is comes packaged in the living Word we receive. The Word is His presence. When we receive a Word, we receive Him. As we hold onto that Word and it grows within us, we literally become everything that He wants to do and to be in the earth.
Jesus Christ is the Lord and Head of His Church. Through the gifts and
ministries of the Holy Spirit He can directly convey His will and purpose for
His Church.
Both Lord And Christ
In Acts 2 Peter emphasized the Lordship of Christ as well as His
redeeming work as Savior. Now the Kingdom dawns and He is Lord of lords
and King of kings, "both Lord and Christ."
CD includes both of the above messages by John Robert Stevens (2008-1212-3R)
The Gospel of the Kingdom was preached with a power-Word. The promise of the Spirit was to be the power in their expanding witnessing. The key to this force and flow in our ministry is our waiting on the Lord. This Word gives the key of walking fully in all we believe.
We have the right to become God's sons, as well as the responsibility to be sons—participators in His deity. We predetermine that we will think and react as sons of God, and not on the human level.
Our hearts turn again to the Passover. The Passover is a journey that begins with a search of the heart. How can a righteous God not totally hate sin? How can a loving God give less than His only begotten Son to suffer for every man's sin? How can we serve such a God without hating sin as He hates it and seeking with our whole heart the righteousness He has provided? This Word was basic and moved every heart. This CD is one of the best.
Jesus is the source of revelation of the Father, and the Father is the revealer of His Son. If the Lord is real to us, blessed are we, "for flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto thee but the Father." Then we become the channels of revelation of the Lord. He is coming to be admired in all that believe.
In this Word, Gary transports us back to what it was like to live in the days of the early Church. For those early disciples, everything they had from the Lord was by virtue of experiences. After the Lord's death and resurrection, the disciples lived with His appearings, expecting His immediate return. This earnest expectation for His return dissipates because those who were added to the early Church did not expect or experience the Lord's continued appearings. For us, the renewing of our minds must include an earnest expectation of His return.
The prophet of the Kingdom is described in both what he does and what he is. The prophet's ear hears the Word of the Lord for the people and the cry of the people of the Lord. His motivations are refined and pure. His life is crucified with Christ. He is a speaker of the Word and a creator by the Word he speaks.
By the Holy Spirit, the days of Christ and those who related to Him are made alive. Out of this experience is brought the reality of Christ in our midst today and the need of a violent spirit to have a relationship with Him. Will you have a thirty-, sixty-, or one-hundredfold relationship? It is your choice.
Absolute Trust In God
"Trust in the Lord with all of your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding" (Proverbs 3:5). When we have an absolute and complete trust in the Lord, then we circumvent our carnal mind because we no longer depend on our own evaluations of what He is doing in our lives. If we do not trust Him, we will distance ourselves from Him.
CD includes both of the above messages by Gary Hargrave (2008-1119-6R)
In this School of the Spirit message, we studied the principle regarding the human will. Much of what happens in your life does not come about accidentally, but rather is created daily through the exercise of your will and desires.
Your Will And God's Will
We must recognize the heart of God that is behind the many Words we have received about doing His will. He is not looking for a performance on our part, but rather is desirous of a people who love Him so much that they delight in doing His will because He is their delight.
CD includes both of the above messages by Gary Hargrave (2008-1119-5R)
This is the Passover story of Christ our Lord at the age of twelve. It deals with our awareness of losing His presence and fellowship. This is a good message for young people.
With Great Boldness
In Christ we have access to come boldly to the throne of grace. "Boldness" in the Greek means "to come and speak freely." We speak freely to the Lord knowing how much He loves us. Out of our boldness to stand before Him comes the boldness to speak to others. Lord, we appreciate anew our privilege of access!
CD includes both of the above messages by John Robert Stevens (2008-1113-3R)
It is easy for us to be overwhelmed by all that is taking place in the universe around us. God, however, is relatively unimpressed by these things. His focus and attention is rather upon the people He is bringing forth to be His own possession.
A Compass For Your Heart
The Word that John Robert Stevens wrote entitled "To Be A Christian" is a compass for our hearts. Using that message as a centerpiece, we took this service as an opportunity to see that our hearts and minds are perfectly on course into His Kingdom.
CD includes both of the above messages by Gary Hargrave (2008-1113-5R)
The Holy Spirit woos us into abiding in the presence of the Lord. He stirs again our primal hunger after the Lord. We delight in the Lord as we come to know that He delights in us. This is the milestone of His presence. We view a new age relationship to the Lord and we seal it in our hearts forever. This is an experience with the Lord!
Living Word Publications is a ministry of The Living Word, the publishing house of The Living Word Fellowship. The Living Word was established in 1968 out of a vision to capture, preserve, and publish the teachings of John Robert Stevens. Many of Stevens' sermons have been edited and published in books, manuals, and a weekly periodical titled "This Week."
The Living Word continues in its ministry today—carefully recording, editing, and publishing teachings of Stevens' successor, Gary Hargrave, and others who teach and minister the Word.
