Tapping Into the Blessings of God

Guest speaker: Apostle William Epps

• He has given us all things that pertain to life and Godliness
  • The Lord is not going to just give us the blessings – we have to be active participants in the relationship
  • He has given us authority, but we cannot operate in that authority without knowing and understanding the principles He has set forth.
• When Jesus came into our lives, He took our old nature out and put a new one in. He merged His spirit with ours, giving us supernatural spirits.
• The spirit allows us to connect to heaven. It’s the soul that connects to the earth.
  • Our problems are always soulish.
    • Our soul will often disagree with the Word of God and cause us not to do what we should do.
  • Our spirits are perfect, but our souls cause us problems.
    1. The spirit wants to please God.
    2. The soul wants to please itself.
  • We will have success & prosperity as our souls prosper.
  • Our bodies will follow our souls, not our spirits. When we are sick, we will get healed when our souls align with His Word.
• We are each responsible for our own souls
  • We chose how we respond to the situations and circumstances that come our way.
  • Anger, unforgiveness, etc. need to be brought into submission to the Word of God.
  • Keep your soul in the now
    • Deal with every challenge right now
    • Our experiences make us viable witnesses of the Kingdom
      • The Lord wants people to look at us and be able to see what He has done.
    • The problems must be dealt with until their conclusion and we therefore have a visible, viable witness.
    • Stay focused
      • Lack of focus is why we miss the breakthroughs
• Four challenges for aligning the soul with the spirit
  • Our reasoning
    • We rationalize why we should do things our way, not God’s way.
    • This is why the Lord doesn’t reveal everything to us ahead of time – our souls would rebel and never let us move forward.
  • Places of regret
    • This causes us to get stuck in the past
    • We need to let this all go in order to keep our souls in the now
    • We give more place to what we should have done in the past than what we should do now
  • Reluctance
    • Fear of standing up for what’s right, to take a leap of faith.
    • Fear of responsibility.
    • It will make us ashamed of the gospel.
    • Causes wavering, doubt and doublemindedness
    • When the Lord prompts us to do something, we need to be prompt to obey.
  • Rebellion
    • Wanting to have things our way not the Father’s way, when we know what His desire is
    • Our souls will lead us into rebellion when we don’t get the Word inside of them.
    • When we get into rebellion, we can influence others around us into rebellion as well.
• The Spirit will restore our souls – we just need to let Him lead
• We all have a witness inside of us for God; that witness can’t get out though if our soul is out of alignment
• We need to posess our souls in patience
  • We need to train our souls
• Do nothing sparingly
• We need to teach our souls to love God’s way of doing things
• Everything in our lives is an opportunity to advance the Kingdom. We need to see every situation and circumstance as such.

Key Scriptures: 2 Peter 1:3, 3 John 2, Psalm 23, Luke 21:19