When people think of being in one mind, they usually identify that mind as the human mind, all too often giving no consideration at all to the mind of Christ. Many have come into the oneness of human minds for a season, but it wasn’t a blessing. Why?—because the greatness of God doesn’t move through the human mind, but through the mind of Christ.

Wonderful things had happened when Jesus sent the seventy forth. And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name (Luke 10:17). The disciples sat at the feet of Jesus. They looked into His eyes, heard His voice; and yet with all that reality of hearing, seeing and feeling Him, they could not stay in His mind. Within self they didn’t have the ability, the knowledge, the power to live in the mind of Christ.

Why couldn’t they keep this power; why couldn’t they hold to it? One must be in the mind of Christ to use the power of Christ. Man cannot keep that power within self. Only as you yield to the Holy Spirit can He take you into the mind of Christ. If self could perform miracles, it would have been done before Pentecost.

The Turnaround at Pentecost

In laying out the rules and regulations the disciples would need, Jesus presented a plan that was not put into action until Pentecost. It would take the Holy Spirit to bring the Early Church into the mind of Jesus and to keep them in that wonderful mind.

The disciples had been taught so much—and knew so little. The life that Christ brought was beyond them, the life of unity in the mind of Christ. Never had there been a mind on planet Earth like this mind. The disciples were totally puzzled, dumfounded, amazed. Never man spake like this man, the officers said of Him (John 7:46). Jesus had shared His mind with the disciples from the very first. He tried to lead them into His thinking. He did His best to reach out for them, but they couldn’t stay in that realm. He would bring them in for the moment, and then they would wander off.

Many are like that today, unable to stay in the mind of Jesus. To continue on in the mind of Jesus takes love in perfection, the love the Bible teaches. The Sermon on the Mount brings forth that kind of love: But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you (Matthew 5:44). The mind of Christ is revealed in the Sermon on the Mount. If you live up to everything in the Sermon on the Mount, the devil will never be able to stop you, to defeat you; and you will be free to do the whole will of God.

The Acts of the Apostles is the mind of Christ in the minds of human beings—in action. When Christ was here on Earth for thirty-some years, His mind was mostly a mind alone. People then as today would get into that mind just a little at a time and then out. But when the Early Church at last came into the mind of Jesus on the day of Pentecost, suddenly things happened.

And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place (Acts 2:1). In one accord, one mind, the Early Church awaited the descent of the Holy Spirit. They had come into the mind of Jesus, not the mind of Simon, John or any of the others there. Philippians 2:5 tells us to let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.

Simon, who once had been so weak it seemed he would fall by the wayside, now was standing up, no fear at all. Missing from his side was the sword he had used to cut off a man’s ear at the arrest of Jesus, but in his very being the Sword of the Word of God cut through all the weakness of the flesh. The Word went forth double edged, piercing into the hearts of the people as Simon cried, “You crucified Him, you crucified Him!” Three thousand souls were swept into the Kingdom.

What a mind he had taken on! No longer was it the weak flesh mind of Simon, a mind the Lord had to rebuke. Simon was changed through the Holy Spirit.

Many of you are plagued with the same humanness of mind that confused Simon before Pentecost. Temper takes over, destroys. You growl like a foul-tempered dog, act in a way Jesus would never act. If you really want to be like Jesus, you must take on His mind. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his (Romans 8:5-9).

Can self, the carnal mind, be conquered? Yes, certainly. Self was conquered for the Early Church through the power of the Holy Ghost, and they were brought into the mind of Christ. Through the Holy Spirit we can be brought into that same mind. Through the Holy Spirit we can use the mind of Christ daily as He flows the greatness of God to us. His greatness sweeps us into that one incredible mind. When the Holy Spirit is flowing with you, and you are flowing with the Holy Spirit, you surge into the love of God, the peace, longsuffering, goodness, gentleness of God; you have self-control to stay in the flow of the Holy Spirit.

Liars Stricken Dead

The mind of Christ in operation on the day of Pentecost and after Pentecost is described in the Acts of the Apostles. Whenever the unity of the Spirit was threatened, God rose up to protect it. Ananias and his wife conspired to lie to the Holy Ghost; Peter confronted them with the lie, and they fell over dead. God wanted His people clean, and He moved in this drastic way to cull out deceit.

The Early Church had the mind of Jesus; they were in the unity of the Holy Spirit. Had they not been in the unity of the Spirit, two people being killed by God would have destroyed many of the saints through confusion and resentment, scattered them in all directions. But the judgment of God made them stronger. With the mind of Christ they knew it was sinful to lie, to sow discord. Just how did this incident affect them, then? And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things. And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon’s porch. And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them. And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.) Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them. There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one (Acts 5:11-16). The Early Church thought like Jesus, believed as He did, accepted everything He accepted. They possessed the same love, the same compassion for the lost. Willing to live or die for the sake of Christ, to bring in the lost, the Early Church proved their faith again and again.

The Early Church was imprisoned. Did it stop them? No. Triumphantly they marched on, one goal: to conquer and win souls for Christ. God was with them—one mind, one accord. They said, We will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word (Acts 6:4). They did not draw up in fear, hide away afraid to stand the test; they placed their lives on the line.

The Early Church not only had a beautiful relationship with God but with one another. And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers (Acts 2:42). What was the apostles’ doctrine?—the teachings of Jesus; it’s all they had, all they craved or desired. Showing love, love, they shared great communion through the mind of Christ.

And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles (verse 43). Why the signs and wonders?—because the mind of Jesus was there. Christ through people living in the mind of Christ brings signs, wonders, miracles and healings. Wherever we see Jesus after He began His ministry here on Earth, we find signs, wonders, miracles and healings. People today who come into the real unity of the Spirit, come into the mind of Christ with all its benefits.

In the fourth chapter of Acts we read that about five thousand men were swept into the Kingdom. Love, unity in the mind of Christ carried them in. At this time, just about every bit of strife, discord, hatred was still outside the Church. The body of Jesus Christ, the real Church, was purified with God’s love, grace and righteousness.

What kind of people made up the body of Christ?—people who had yielded to saving grace, sanctifying power, yielded 100 percent to the Holy Spirit. They were totally possessed by the Holy Spirit.

As long as the Early Church was in the mind of Christ they didn’t have the discord, the envy, the resentment, strife or any of the works of the flesh. Their minds were at peace, that one mind in the love of God; and they loved one another.

Yielding to Divinity

In the mind of Christ, with all elements that compromise His mind, you have everything you need. But my God shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19). God will supply all your need, but He will do it through the mind of Christ.

Like those in the Early Church, many of God’s people today have learned how to give their vocal organs over to the Holy Spirit for the Holy Spirit to use, for the Holy Spirit to speak and sing through them without involving the human spirit at all. This is yielding to divinity. When the Holy Spirit is speaking, the human spirit is not in control. It is divinity. The Holy Spirit has taken over: you have given Him control of your vocal organs; He is using your tongue to speak, to sing. It isn’t your spirit at all. If your spirit is speaking or singing, then it is not the Holy Spirit.

Many have been able to give their voices over to the Holy Spirit but not their minds so that He could sweep them into the mind of Christ and keep them there.

What keeps you out?—self, your own knowledge that you depend upon. Trusting your own wisdom keeps you out of the mind of Christ, blocks you from using it.

Many have been disappointed, thinking they have done all they know to do; and yet they have not taken on the mind of Christ. Living mostly in self, they overlook the fact that self cannot utilize the divine power of God. They have no control over self; self controls them and their thinking. When troubles, problems arise, they fail to use the mind of Christ to help them.

How often have you let your temper take over a situation instead of the mind of Christ? In those times you functioned without the wisdom and knowledge of God, disregarding all compliance to His mind. You injured, hurt someone, perhaps even destroyed a soul, turning that one away from Calvary.

The Discipline of Yielding

The mind of Jesus tells you how to pray instead of just “beating the air.” Those Christians who have the mind of Christ only once in a while are always seeking, seeking. They never yield, never find—always looking but never beholding. The Lord made answered prayer so simple: just look and live. You know what it is to yield to the human spirit. Why not yield to the divine Spirit, the Holy Spirit, as easily? We take on the mind of Christ as we yield to the Holy Spirit. Study the works of the Holy Spirit in the Word of God and find how simple it is for the Holy Spirit to take you into the mind of Jesus.

Yielding to the spirit of the devil is common to many because the devil and the flesh favor one another. The flesh is weak, embracing the sensation of giving in to the devil. The seventeen works of the flesh that will damn your soul in hell are the very things the devil is urging you to indulge in and enjoy. “They’re perfectly all right,” he soothes.

Great discipline comes through the Holy Spirit. Like naughty children, some rebel at the discipline of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit doesn’t agree with what the flesh desires, with the path of flesh. Flesh resents discipline and refuses to follow the Holy Spirit. Consequently, the Holy Spirit cannot bring the carnal-minded into the mind of Christ. The Holy Spirit can bring only those who yield to Him into that mind, that divine knowledge and love.

Human love and contentment are different from the divine love and divine peace in the mind of Christ that the Lord brought down for us to use.

The human mind is gullible, fickle, ready to double-cross self at any time. Without discipline, the human mind is wild, unlimited by time or space. Something so unruly certainly needs to be in the care of God. You can control your hands, but that mind needs a different control. Those hands and feet cannot travel at the speed of a mind, a billion miles in the blink of an eye. Anything with that kind of power should be handled with great discipline, under guard twenty-four hours around the clock and given over to the Holy Spirit so the Holy Spirit can take it in and keep it in the mind of Christ.

The human spirit, that human mind working in the Master’s mind has everything available that it needs; the mistakes most make are not its downfall. That life whose mind is in Christ at all times is a great blessing, fruitful for the Kingdom of God, a life well lived, one that God is proud of.

The Unity of Disharmony

Do you want the mind of Jesus, want to come into His mind; or would you rather continue to live in the mind of the flesh? Are you in one mind with just those around you? That may be a unity of disharmony, a unity of chaos with everyone agreeing to scream at each other.

The mind of strength, grace, power and love is the mind of Jesus, a mind that manifests overcoming victory. Yield to His love, faith, mercy, gentleness and kindness if you desire to go into and use His mind. As you yield to all of that, the Holy Spirit can sweep you right into His greatness.

Free from the Carnal Mind

Only a few people we read of in the Bible were free from the carnal mind, only a few had this liberty and freedom, the incredible mind of God. Abraham, offering his son Isaac on Mount Moriah, was moving, working, thinking with the mind of God; or he would never have gone to that mount with the intention of offering his son of promise. By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac; and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure (Hebrews 11:17-19). In thinking with the mind of God, Abraham knew that God had made him a promise; and he knew if he killed that son, God would raise him up from the dead. God would have to do it because God could not fail to keep one of His promises. That’s the faith in the mind of God.

Moses possessed the mind of God in a great way when he stood before the Red Sea. Picture him standing there, the Red Sea stretched out before him and Pharaoh’s army raging behind. Moses knew the Lord would separate those waters, pile them up like mountains to the left and to the right; and that a dry land passage would open up though the waters in front of him. Moses used the mind of God. The human mind does not function in the miraculous realm.

God took over the mind of Moses in such a great way that Moses, a man, had the mind of God when he wrote the first five books of the Bible. Those books were divinely spoken and written.

Ezekiel, Daniel, Isaiah, Jeremiah—all God’s prophets, major and minor—were just men whom God took over and prophesied through. They went into the mind of God and wrote down what God wanted. It was divinity speaking, divine talk. God didn’t allow His words to be contaminated. He didn’t allow falsehoods, untruths or even half-truths in those men who went into the great mind of God.

Carried into Babylon, a slave among his people because of their disobedience, Daniel could have soured on God. But he didn’t. Although he was told by wicked men not to pray, pray he did. He yielded to God, going into the den of lions with that mind, knowing that his God was able to deliver him.

When you’re in the mind of God, His mind tells you He is able to deliver, that with God all things are possible. But when you live in the flesh, walk in the flesh and use your fleshy mind, you are in trouble. If you do not yield to the Holy Spirit for your help, your grace, your needs to be supplied from Heaven daily, God cannot move for you. God’s people as a whole are in distress today in this final hour.

With the mind of God, the three Hebrew boys facing the fiery furnace were not discouraged, even though that furnace was heated seven times hotter than it had ever been. Entering the furnace with no compromise, they came out unscathed. Their using the mind of God gave Him complete freedom to deliver them. There is no compromise in the mind of God, just in the minds of men.

Queen Esther took on the mind of God, fasting until she had it. Then she was able to say, If I perish, I perish (Esther 4:16). She went in before the king, requested the lives of her people, and God moved. She and her people were spared.

Apart from God, Man Is Weak

Jonah lived as some live today, running from God, disappointed in God, puffed up. What God had done displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry…Then said the Lord, Doest thou well to be angry (Jonah 4:1,4)?

King Saul didn’t stay in the mind of God, either. God wanted him there, but Saul didn’t like the mind of God; it didn’t suit his personality. Once in a while he called up Heaven, but then the time came when Saul wanted an answer from God and the heavens were brass to his cry. Many, like Saul, do not have enough grace to carry out the will of God, even after they get it; and they wonder why God does not answer prayers.

Samson didn’t keep the mind of God that had been freely given to him. He was to be a Nazarite all his life, consecrated, dedicated to God so that he would have Heaven’s power and no enemies could defeat him; but he went outside that mind to satisfy the lust of the flesh. The great, powerful Samson became a weakling and was destroyed.

King David at one time possessed the mind of God in a great way. It was in operation when the Psalms were being poured through him, when he killed the lion and the bear. David had the mind of God, but he allowed man’s thinking to influence him. Ego and lust took him over. “I am a king,” he thought, forgetting that God is God and sees everything.

The Self-Pity Swamp

What kind of heart do you have? Your heart is where you live; be careful what you allow in it. The wrong things will destroy you, a pouting spirit, for instance. Do you pout, do you puff up? Do you want everyone to know when your feelings are hurt? Why would they want to know something like that? Why not stand above your hurt? Why insist on making everyone sorry for you? It’s part of that pouting spirit: “They’ll be sorry when I die.”

It’s easy to pity yourself; self-pity has swamped many, and self-pity is not satisfied until everyone is suffering in sympathy. God may use a person like that, but only at times, only when He can break through the self-preoccupation. To give over to your feelings is great weakness, a torturous thorn in the flesh to the children of God. They do not recognize the Holy Spirit and consequently are concerned about the spirit they feel—and the enemy makes them feel the wrong spirit. It turns them away from God. Going forth with a God made up in their own minds, they fail to see God as He wants them to see Him. Because they don’t know the way of the Lord, people say what they feel like saying, do what they feel like doing; and it creates great disorder and hurt. Families are destroyed because of this, lives ruined, and the cause of Christ damaged.

When people first come into the Kingdom of God, when they first taste the love and faith in the mind of Christ, they don’t act with self-pity and undisciplined feelings. But if they fail to stay with the mind of Christ, if they neglect to go deeper, they will revert to the mind of the flesh.

In this final hour, for what God is wanting to do, you will have to come clean with yourself and clean with God. Get rid of all those destructive, selfish feelings, the need to have your way all the time. Stay in the Spirit and walk in the Spirit. Jesus said, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me (Luke 9:23).

Why pamper yourself? Why give in to your feelings? Maybe sometimes you come to church and other times you don’t feel like it; or perhaps you have hurt feelings and you allow them to be more important to you than God—you certainly think about them more. Because your feelings are hurt, you may imagine you are justified in wanting the person who hurt you to suffer. You punish that one with silence or slander or, at best, with badly-masked resentment.

What did the mind of Jesus do when Jesus was hurt? Did Christ withhold His love and saving grace from people who hurt Him? Of course not. He gave love, love, love and forgiveness.

If something on your mind constantly grinds round and round, you’re letting the devil rob you of God’s peace. More caught up with your problems than with God, you must realize that God can’t move for you unless you’re first willing to move. God just leaves you alone. He can’t give you laughter if you don’t want it, if you’d rather be hurt. God is prevented from giving you His peace if you reject it, and He isn’t able to give you His love. Drowning in self, you rob yourself of the things God wants to give you. You will never be a blessing to God and His work until you come out of your fits of hurt, temper of whatever.

How Would the Holy Ghost Describe You?

How sad to refuse to be where God wants you all the time! You’re refusing to stay in the divine will of God, to become that lovable person the Lord wants you to be so that He can have communion with you, so that He can walk with you the way He walked with Enoch in the Old Testament and with the first man, the first woman before the fall. In this final hour, God is going to walk with those He will catch away with Him in the Rapture. If you don’t walk with Him and He doesn’t walk with you, you’re going to be left, saith the Lord, when the Rapture takes place.

It’s time for us to be crucified and then resurrected; in other words, we need to bury our carnal self so the spiritual self can come to life in Christ. Oh, we say we’re dead to self, but how often do we become defensive, belligerent of even fly into a rage when someone disagrees with us? How much do we show the wrong spirit, one that destroys?

What kind of spirit do you have at all times—not just once in a while, not part time, but what kind of spirit do you actually have? How would the Holy Spirit describe you; how hard are you to deal with? How much trouble does God have with you?

The body of Christ, remember, includes the mind of Jesus. He is the head; His mind must do the thinking.

When we yield to Him, He makes our paths plain. He gives the answers, showing us the way because we will it to be. We flow into His mind for that help, into His greatness; for we have seen our inabilities and have come to the realization that He has the greatness, the miraculous ability that we need; and His marvelous abilities are available to us all who are totally obedient to Him. He can only work with the faith and obedience that He has given us. When we refuse that faith, He cannot work for us.

Doubt Blocks Out the Mind of Christ

The enemy has deceived many of God’s people, declaring that living in the mind of Christ is an impossibility, that the Holy Ghost of the book of Acts isn’t for us today. It is for us. God said it was. The promise of the gift of the Holy Ghost which will keep your mind in the mind of Christ is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call (Acts 2:39). The mind of Jesus incorporates all the Word of God. The mind of Jesus puts great stress on the Word, what the Word will do. There is no doubt in the mind of Christ about the Word of God, no doubt at all

Do you have any trouble with God’s Holy Bible; do you struggle and wrestle with it? Then you really don’t have the mind of Christ the way the Lord wills you to have. The Early Church had no trouble with the Word, only with those outside the Church. Today the trouble is inside the Church as well as outside. People doubt, doubt, doubt; they doubt the divinity of Christ, the greatness of God, the reality of miracles. When it comes to trusting in miracles, healings and the divine touch of God, it takes the divine mind of God operating for you. Working with the human five senses alone, you block the miracle flow of God. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit (Galatians 5:25). When we live and walk in the Spirit, we think in the Spirit; we’re in the mind of Christ and we use it.

Carnal Thinking Rots the Heart

What manner of person are you? Do people think of Jesus when they talk to you, or do you say and do things Jesus would never be a part of? What lives in your heart—not what you make people think is there, but what is in your heart? That heart is the real you, your core. Be careful what you put into it. Carnal thinking can cause the heart to rot until eternal life with God will be lost to you forever. Be careful. Don’t keep anything in that heart unlike God. Look unto the Lord as Jesus looked to the Father. Believe all as Jesus believed. After Jesus took on the form of very man, He still believed all of God’s Word, taught it all and lived it all.

Aligned in God’s Perspective

When you take on the mind of Jesus, you have the same Spirit, the same love, the same grace, the same thinking. Your thoughts align with God’s perspective. Not running in all directions, constantly changing your mind, you find the confusion is gone.

How much confusion was recorded about the lives of the Apostles in the Book of Acts? Very little. But after the flesh crept in, as recorded in the Pauline Epistles, there was much.

Every day seek to come into the mind of Christ so that God can do all He wants to do, so He can pour out His miracle power through you. In the mind of Christ you find the nine fruits of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance (Galatians 5:22,23). Not only the fruits of the Spirit are mentioned in the New Testament but also the nine gifts of the Spirit: For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of of healing by the same Spirit; To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will (I Corinthians 12:8-11).

The Impossible Is Possible with God

The mind of Christ brings a life without sin. Jesus came, took on human flesh; He was very man as well as very God, and no guile was found in His mouth. Jesus lived the sinless life; He’s your example, showing you it can be done and must be done. He lived the impossible life for the human mind, and he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God (Luke 18:27). As a man using the God-mind, Jesus used the power of God to defeat the devil, to overcome the flesh.

Jesus used the same power of God available to us, but many times we won’t use it. We give up, listening to people, looking to man rather than into the Word of God.

The mind of Jesus takes you to the Word, and the Word has answers. Using the Word of God you will not lose your way at any time no matter how people or the devil rise up against you. The Word created such a stir in Acts that the rulers commanded Peter and John not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard (Acts 4:18-20). There was no stopping them; they did not compromise. Later Paul joined in. Such a blasphemer—wicked, mean and ugly before his conversion—Paul was transformed into a mighty vessel of honor for God. There was no compromise in Paul. Paul said, I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me (Galatians 2:20). I live in Christ; Christ lives in me.

If a man like Paul could be changed so drastically, anyone can be changed. If you ever doubt that you can come into the greatness of God, that you can be like the disciples, then study the life of Paul. Most of you were never that vicious—Paul ordered Christians put to death—but when the truth was made known to him so forcefully on the road to Damascus, Paul gave himself body and soul for the cause of Christ. Grace had come, and all must accept grace or be damned.

Christ Came to Destroy Works of the Devil

We say we have the same mind as Christ, and yet we all too often are not willing to give of our time to the Lord, much less sacrifice our very lives. We feel that we deserve a life of our own.

When you go into the mind of Christ, you think on the work of God, the things of God, His righteousness, His holiness, purity and promises. Therefore, you find yourself able to use the promises of God. The reason so few people can use the promises of God today is because they do not have the mind of Christ. The mind of Christ accepts all the promises of God.

Christ brought that mind to planet Earth, a mind that believed everything God had said, everything. His mind was full of the plan of redemption, full of the greatness of God for all humanity. The mind of Christ had all power to trample devils underfoot, for His mind knew that sin and sickness came from the devil. The mind of Jesus purposed to destroy sin, sickness and disease. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil (I John 3:8). Jesus hated sin that destroyed lives; he despised sickness. He hated the devil that had crippled people, caused others to lose their sight, brought such great distress and suffering to multitudes. Jesus knew sin and disease were not the mark of God; and in the mind of Christ, you too, know these things.

Jesus Is Coming Again

God is not afar off, but nigh unto you. Move on into His greatness. Don’t stay on the outside, lingering on the threshold; the Lord hath need of you. He wants to use His people in this final hour. Are you looking for His coming, expecting it? Are you delighted in the fact that He is coming? The mind of Jesus tells you: Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh (Matthew 24:44). The mind of Jesus makes clear to you that one day soon it will happen; the end-time signs are everywhere now. The mind of Jesus lets you know that it won’t be long until you hear the cry, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him (Matthew 25:6).

Are you really ready to meet Jesus? Do you have the mind of Christ?—one mind, one accord. Are you in one mind, the one mind of Christ with God’s people? Are you in that great Master Mind or are you in the fleshly mind that forever clings to misgivings, doubts, fears and strife? Do you have power to overcome, power to defeat the devil? Where are you today? Many reject the salvation that the mind of Christ brought; they deny the baptism in the Holy Ghost. Will you doubt also?

It isn’t a matter of what people think; it’s a matter of what the Word of God tells us. It’s marvelous beyond words to be in the mind of Jesus, a member of the true body of Christ, having the patience the Lord desires us to have, the love, the understanding, the Jesus touch.

Hide in Me, Saith the Lord

Come, my people, and hide in me, saith the Lord. Come, my people, and hide in my love. Be with my understanding and have wisdom and knowledge and grace to defeat the powers of the enemy. Walk in my love and know my ways. Fret not about evil doers, but walk with me; and my righteousness will clothe you and you will be strong in the might of my power. Be all that I want you to be so that I can use you—not just at times, but all the time. Be in my Spirit. Be in my love. Do not be that person that I cannot use when I want to use you. Be all that I want you to be all the time.

I use people when I can just use them part time. I use people when they are available to me—and when they’re not, I cannot use them. Oh my people, I want to use my people all the time in this final hour. I want to plan for my people daily, and for them to be with me daily to do my will. I want my people to be in place daily. My people, so many of my people are not in place daily, and I can only use my people just part time.

But in this hour I need my people. I covet my people. I want my people. I desire my people. My love is upon you to draw you; and I seek daily to draw you closer to me, to draw you into my mind, into my greatness that you might be all that I want you to be to help bring in the lost in this your final hour, saith the Lord.

Be meek in my presence. Be holy in my presence, and be a vessel that I can use all the time, not part time, saith the Lord.

Be Ye Holy

As very man, Jesus lived just as holy as He did in Heaven before He became very man. He was holy, holy, holy, and the Bible tells us it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy…Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold…But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot (I Peter 1:16,18,19). Speak the things of God; think the things of God and be strong in the power of His might. Every day can be a victorious day, filled with the greatness of Him and power to trample devils underfoot, power to defeat even Lucifer himself.

Rise up, oh, Children of God, and be all that God wants you to be, used full-time by Him in a perfect way. In His mind is a refuge, a wealth o f knowledge; in His mind, all things needed are supplied. What a waste when we don’t use the mind of Jesus! What an incredible mind—and it’s ours for the taking! Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus (Philippians 2:5).