Archbishop Gregory Holley

The Diseased Mind of Faith (5)

While the mind of faith is simply taught through the simple analogy of the farmer the diseased mind of faith rejects. If it were acts to perform or mountains to climb the whole world would rush to participate. Should God open a well in the desert where no city is and healing water flowed, this desert would become a major habitation.  So is the diseased mind of faith.

Men will crawl on glass, cutting flesh and tearing the body while blindly unbelieving in their heart. Those that are healed in a geographical area of these man observed things are not healed by moving waters but rather by the compassion of the heart of God upon a seed of faith seen in their heart. Who will simply hear the voice of God and turn from sin and be healed?

Awareness of the salvational source and directional teachings have dulled the mind of faith. The more faith is taught, the more the disease spreads. In our needs the Lord call to each of us to call upon Him . To not seek to fill the mind and voice with the thoughts and sounds of religious rulers. It is time to seek His voice through simple faith!

This mindset of faith purifies the disease that is so rampant in our world. We speak daily of the diseases, social ills and pestilences while ignoring the beast of unbelief.  Are we at war with this beast in our lives and minds?

Great studies are made to correct social wrongs and to feed the naturally hungry while the mind of faith is stuffed full with gangrene and rotting, putrid unbelief. The confession of the mouth lends great notoriety to these problems which could all be solved by a simple phrase, " Jesus will help us work it out!"

Who has really sought God's help?   Have we brought the starving foreigner to Him?  Cannot He, Lord of Lords and King of Kings cause the suffering human's garden to grow again to overflowing? 

The diseased mind of faith says, " We must have social reform." The mind of faith says, "Let us turn the world into a prayer room and Jesus of Nazareth, who died for the whole world and loves each one will hear and answer prayer by His shed blood!" Disease speaks back and calls this voice wild and incoherent. Their advisors have showed them the way of the most deadly disease to mankind, unbelief. Who can do a work in unbelief?

Joy in sorrow robs your enemy of his strength. Strength to bring upon the feeble mind undesirable attitudes. Fear of all measures seek to blow in sorrows of abundant measure. God stands ready to blow in an over abundant supply of joy to the mind of faith!

Singing praises will lift you from your place of torment. This valuable lesson is to be taught in this hour to strengthen the mind in lonely hours. Just like the airwaves or flooded with songs of the mind God can give your mind of faith a song to lift you and bring satisfaction.

Do the birds of the air look unhappy? What about the singing parakeet? Do they seem to be burdened by the lack of food in their cage? No, they simply trust and receive when their master brings the supply.

Early in the morning you will hear the birds singing. What are Christian people doing early in the morning? Is it an impossible task for the Lord to wake you with a song on your heart? How many mornings do you awake with a song on your heart?

This heart song can roll through your spirit the whole day long. Excitement of spirit can bring forth good work habits and undying faith for the task at hand. God has simple faith and trust in his children to return to Him in a place of prayer frequently.  Do you return?

Should you return the faith you have is the stepping stone to real faith, God given faith! He did not call us to death but to life. The mind of faith has become diseased in our world and can be healed! Seeking God through the day brings about healing of our faith and that brings about the desires we are hoping for! Be healed. Be blessed in your mind of faith!

The Diseased Mind of Faith (4)

Is it to hard to conceive that a seed the size of a mustard seed would be all that was needed to create great faith?  Is this parable such a stumbling block that men and women excuse themselves on their way to trust in the flesh? The great tree that results from this tiny seed is poof to all that God can take the smallest, released particle of faith and make it shade the person's life!

Is this hard? The mind of the sinner finds healing easily for he believes what is told to him. The diseased mind of faith has to adjust every thought to what it has been taught. The filtering systems of semi-successful idols of their religious life spring into their thinking. Who can say how God will answer the prayer of an individual?

Victory does come in measures. God sees each need and when asked will meet it accordingly. Did you ever stop to think that He might be like the farmer?

The ground in a person's mind always needs plowing or breaking. This may take time. The seed planting must be done with proper choice and fertilization. The growing time is a harvest of faith in itself.

When sickness and troubles are placed before God, He looks at their faith. It is not to see how much faith there is or how good the person might be. God looks at the condition of the faith within.

Is this faith diseased by unfruitful teaching? Is this faith bound by traditional thinking? Will this faith accept being anointed with oil? Overcome by the Holy Spirit? Will this faith receive the Holy Spirit? Will this faith spring forth into righteousness? Will this faith enjoy the staircase to abundant life? Will this faith return to sin and degradation?

The farmer breaks the field, placing the seed deep within. Turning the ground back into place he steps back and waits. Into nature and the course of time he puts his trust. There is not the understanding of the feeling that it might not come up for he has done the work! Now it must grow!

Tomorrow part 5~

The Diseased Mind of Faith (3)

Part 3:

The lukewarm mind of faith is indeed puzzled. In one corner of the mind the tree of life beckons for one to come beneath it's shade. The beckoning love of the Savior and His Bride call for its attention. In the other corner is a jungle of confusion and this confused mind  makes one bitter, hateful and resentful with the tongue blaming everything under the sun for the problem.

This confused state of mind produces no good thing. Most of God's people life in this confused state. So you trust the Lord God? Is He the answer?

The Christians says that He is the I Am.  The Christian says He is the only one to turn to.  What is the confusion of the lukewarm mind of faith?

What are the thoughts of this mind shaded by? There is an umbrella over each mind. This cloud will urge the mind to follow it for it offers shade and comfort from the situation. Shielded by prepared thought processes, actions are carried out. This action of the mind produces results of the shade.

The mind of faith will shield the mind with the possibilities of a life in the Name of Jesus. This family name is given to the Christian to strengthen their walk. It's power will resurrect many a dead situation , speaking new life at the soul's all. As the problems of life are presented to the mind of faith and a spring board of activity is in place.

Through singing, words of wisdom, a word of knowledge or a single scripture can raise the need into the mind of faith. Cool areas of the mind of faith, comforted by this shade the believer goes on with his work with no confusion. The assurance of the master's mind is within him.

This unbelieving  mind will be shaded by all thoughts of man's wisdom. Broken by the plow of hard times and experiences of life he is shaded by his own ability. This is called positive thinking. The unbelieving mind sets his carnal faith in his own ability to perform, circumvent or avoid situations. He feels it all in his mind.

The Word of God speaks to mankind long and hard about this subject of faith in self. Is the Christian mind of faith diseased? While Christianity proclaims grace to all it accepts the fact that the mind of faith is sickly. Yet, this faith is diseased.

Diseased by improper hearing and choice of learning. Does a child learn to eat well at it's mother's table eating as he wishes? No, he will become a foolish eater and his health will suffer. God's people choose what they eat and wonder why their mind of faith is diseased.

Deficiency sets into the Christian thinking and faith begins to deteriorate. Trust begins to build in the flesh and acceptance of doubting forms of thought enter in. This once well trained mind of faith becomes a rotting bed of mulch, awaiting removal. In this the troubled life of a diseased mind of faith continues.

Part 4: Keep tuned.  We will return to this subject next week!

The Diseased Mind of Faith (2)

Part 2:

Unique possibilities and joyous living come as a result of the mind of faith. When trouble befalls the lukewarm mind of faith, immediate steps are taken in the natural to staunch the flow of trouble in life. Like well meaning nurses and aides we bind our own wounds and make our own paths of escape.

Then when fully nutured with ones's own breath one brings this hideous, bandaged problem to the Lord God for Him to work out. After one has really muddled up their lives, then these come to Him and ask for help. He will help. We will be the recipients of His love.

These word are being written in this hour because of the diseased mind of faith. The lukewarm mind is the house of disease. This chamber of death will cheat one out of life's fullest meanings. Yet, when the Lord God could be of help He is left to the last resort. The mind of faith will bring the problem to Him first.

Who will turn their mind to Him to build faith within? Seeking to learn faith will allow situations to come into place that teach the meaning of faith. These informal classroom experiences give you opportunity to respond correctly to the questions posed. Faith building requires a lonely road of seeing, conquering and giving Heaven praise for the overcoming victory. He has said, " I am that I am." These are the healing words of the mind of faith.

The unbelieving mind of faith will not be stopped and through the determination of bull like strength will stubbornly pursue its own victory. Pushing, shoving, and abusing many others, the troubled soul seeks to find solace for its problems have shaded its own ability. At an early age children are taught to lean on the " I think I can, I think I can train" until they think they can.

Man is limited knowing not that the Lord God desires to lead them. Why should one struggle with the unbelieving mind of faith? Humanity must become hot or cold leaving lukewarmness. The believing mind of faith produces great spiritual resultst that bring forth personal blessing and honor. The unbelieving mind of faith only reaps the reward of sin. This reward of seasonal joy reaps only death benefits.

Part 3: Tomorrow

The Diseased Mind of Faith (1)

Truth lies broken on the doorsteps of men's mind. They brought it in, but it did not fit in their molds and traditions. Our world has slid so far from truth, that truth itself cannot be recognized and held close. This act of denial brought on by the careless lives of humanity will cost millions their everlasting covenant with God.

Lost in their framework of daily living and habits of the flesh these scarcely feel the loss of pure light. Understanding is small of the hereafter and only a few trust to their blind leaders to take them there. They all have access to the written Word, none in this land (America) can say it was not available.

Confusion has closed the written Word's covers, and told those lost in sin, "It's no use, it does not make sense. It is better to trust in a man of flesh than the words of God who came in flesh.  Turn look to the flesh, look away from the Deity of Christ." This confusion breeds unanswered questions and is eventually cast aside in impatience with God. This all leads to trust in man and not trust in God.

Do you think that the Lord God came to give His life so that those lost would believe and trust in a pulpit ministry? Truth lies on the outside of man's heart awaiting to be seen again.  Where are the eyes and ears of understanding? Have they become blind by false doctrine?

All the strength that you will ever need, He is. All the healing you will ever need, He is. All the finances that you will ever need, He is. All of the education that you will ever need, He is. Who will simply trust that He is the Great I  AM of Moses?

Simple faith and trust will guide you through any struggle. He leads the way. Who knows the path of life better than He? Who knows the place of life better than He? He, the Lord God can  and will bring you through.

The mind of faith will bring faith to others. Resulting in faith potentials this individual springs forth into victory. The unbelieving and lukewarm mind of faith brings discouragement, unbelief, and only a thread to continue on in their search for freedom. The Lord God speaks clearly through the mouth of the faithful that all you need is simple faith and trust to carry on!

Your diseased mind of faith will be healed. The mind of faith will grow quickly. This released mind of faith will bring great results. Seek the faith of God for He rules His kingdom with responsibility and possibility.  Then, carry on with simple faith and trust.

Part 2: tomorrow

The Road to Spiritual Success (4)

This is the conclusion of the Road to Spiritual Success...

This careening path that mankind is on has sent him lurching toward hell at a speed which can only be stopped by your repentance. Do you believe that Jesus can forgive you of sins committed? Should you believe this repentance must come.

Ships built to sail must sail to reach their potential. Many believe that Jesus sacrificed His blood on Calvary's hill yet they turn not toward the office of repentance to cleanse daily transgressions. Who will cry out this day for the attributes of salvation?

Who will cry out for forgiveness of sin? Can man forgive sin? Do you know of who the forgiver of sin is? Faith and belief will strengthen you should you cry out and the Forgiver of sin will lead  you to the power of the Holy Spirit to guide you to the victory in your life. Taking all of your failures Jesus will mix forgiveness and love in and turn all of these into victory and success for you.

Where tears of failure reign tears of joy shall flow. Who can say they are sorrowful of sin without the washing of the soul? Who can say they have accepted forgiveness dry eyed and self willed? None can say for when Jesus brings change there is a remolding of the heart that brings forth the moving of your emotions.

What will flow at the acceptance of a great gift? Will you be caught up in the gift and not the giver? Can Jesus give unto you the gift of eternal life this day and you walk away unchanged from this encounter? No, none shall leave unchanged having truly sought repentance with tears of love and victory.

Will one walk from His glorious presence without worshiping his Lord for bringing salvation's love unto him? Who can truly go their way with a simple, pleasant look upon their face? Will not their joy be unspeakable when the Lord Jesus lifts the heavy load of sin from their backs?

Has not the pride of our generation reduced salvation to the joining of a church schedule rather the changing of the heart? Jesus desires for mankind to change and this change will entrance one into the love of the Bride and friends. Who can love except that they be truly changed?

Sin's onslaught against the church world has come because of weakened preachers leaving true repentance on the shelf of oddity. For it is uncharacteristic of man to openly confess his sin and wrong doing. Soft hearted ministries have weakened the sheep by only allowing them faith without repentance.

To teach faith without repentance leaves man dauntingly on his own. The tree of Calvary was purposed to bring about forgiveness on the road to a man's true success. This reaction is not begun by faith or acceptance only that Jesus died and rose again but that He died that blood might be shed for forgiveness of sin. Today, do not stop short. If we seek true repentance for shortcomings  and sin this very hour the precious Holy Spirit will fill you with the gift that none can purchase. It is He, that will lead you and guide you into all paths of righteousness. This brings about the road of spiritual success.

The Road to Spiritual Success (3)

Third in a series...

Into each the Father gives power to overcome the obstacles of our world.  Satan would seek to say it is impossible to serve an invisible God. Seeking to destroy faith he whispers in the night trusting words of self confidence which leads you to failure. The Father gave His flesh and blood for true sacrifice that all may be forgiven through His blood and name.

Who knows the name of God? For centuries men had sought for the precious name of commitment. Knowing that the revelation of the name of God would bring forth the Redeemer men of all walks of life looked and look for the coming of the Messiah. Power of life and power over Satan was to be given in that name.

Distinctly filled with intercession the prophets of old called out for true communion and the return of the garden experience. Leading men without the Messiah proved to be fruitless and failure crept in. Prophets of the most high were buried in disgrace  as their writings lived on proclaiming deliverance of mankind.

Calvary afforded you with this deliverance. Being drawn by the Holy Spirit this hour mankind must turn from the way of the world. This way of failure cannot be counted in riches or accomplishments for if you gain the whole world and lose your soul what have you profited?

Who is happy among you? Whose soul is at rest? Is it the fearful? Is it the drunken? Is it the adulterers and adulteresses? Is it the bitter? No, but the forgiven of the Lord who have established faith within and struggling to see the difference sin clouds your view.

Filled with animosity and trappings of sin you stumble on in the night of destiny. When will your life be over? When will you come to reckoning with eternity's books? Have you been granted a millennium of life? No, man's sin has shortened his life until none may live to the potential that God has created for him.

What are your plans for the future? Who can say they have planned for the future when they have not spoken with the architect of the future? Who among you plans for professions without education? Would those among you who desire specific jobs seek those who could not teach them?

Would a man seeking to work on automobiles seek the instruction of a restaurant cook? Both have tools. Both have human energy. Both have commitments to excellence. Permit this parallel el to bring you to grips with your eternity.

Satan has no knowledge of God's plans for your life. Why do men consult him? Satan only has destruction and failure ahead of him. Why pattern your life after him? Is not our world full of those who have failed following sin's rule?

Tomorrow... the final blog of this series...

The Road to Spiritual Success (2)

Faithful reader, this is continuation of a writing that continues... Scroll down to the end of this and you will find the first one, yesterday or go to Category, "Conversations with Father God."

Battling with self, in fear of another, will not lead you closer to His side. Battling with hatred, bitterness, unbelief and social reformation will not bring you close to Heaven's desire. Total surrender will bring you to Heaven's love in sweet solitude. Those things that none seem ever to understand are unfolded in His presence and it is He, the Lord God that will deliver you.

Fling fear of failure to the wind as God gives you confidence to reach the peace and joy of the Holy Spirit. The confidence that is afforded to you will be from Heaven's own. This is faith in it's purest form.

As man extends his hands of bewilderment, dissatisfaction and pain to the Lord Jesus, mercy and forgiveness are poured out. This chain reaction brings peace instead of turmoil, love instead of hatred, salvation's grip instead of wondering lifestyles. No one shall no Him in the suffering of unbelief.

Satan would snare you in your emotion by parading your failures and others before your faith. Seeking to weaken your reach for Father God sytematic evaluations go into place and the enemy charts your unbelief. Fear of failure will cost your soul's eternal happiness.

When weakened by the grip of sin upon your life you have resigned to a life of defeat. Jesus represents an overcoming life, do you? Who has said you must walk this road alone? Only Satan, for all of God's messengers and friends would tell you that Jesus will never leave you or forsake you.

God looks from Heaven upon weakened hearts to speak faith unto these weakened by the turmoil of sin. When faith is found and response is given to His love He begins to work out those things which would betray you. Forgiveness flows at repentance and love greeted by love, flows unconditionally to all.

Would not the world  seek you to be faithful to the creeds and ideas which have been set forth? Does not your employer seek to guide you in the pattern of his business? Has nto the home dictated what will provide a good family? All of these dictates become mandates of your life.

Are not the prisons full of those men and women who have violated standards public life would dictate? Are not the social centers full of those who crowd around the fire of failure. Do you think that your Father God would bring forth a creature of failure?

Continued tomorrow...Don't miss this powerful, faith building word of overcoming into your success!

The Road to Spiritual Success (1)

To my loyal and faithful readers the blog takes a turn this week. So many of us are desiring success; mentally, physically, financially and spiritually. While seeking God in prayer answers came for questions asked. Those answers will be shared over the next few days. It is our prayer for you that a close relationship with Jesus Christ is found in the depth of these "Conversations with Father God."

Lengthened by desire is the road that the Lord Jesus places in front of you. Man's destiny with God and His attributes are structured from his desire to sear the unsearchable riches of heavenly treasures. That sphere of travel that man seeks is bound by his own desires. Increasing demands upon the pathway of man make it difficult for the carnal mind to seek the heavens.

Who will gaze into the heavens and seek their maker, their God? Who will say unto the stars, give up my destiny of salvation instead of the cry for destiny of this life? Is it not appointed for a man to live once, die once and approach heaven's guard with his life history in his hands? The judgment that comes at that hour is reticent for judgment has went on ahead as the soul lived.

Is it not within the mind of man to live his life to the fullest of his expectations and seek eternal life with only a casting glance during his lifetime? Upon whose mind would this be foremost? Who would go to work with salvation on their mind? Who will go to their wife or husband with salvation on their mind? Who will cry out all the day, " I must be saved, I must be saved"?

The 'if only's' have graduated to celebrated position in our lives and we are reduced to suffering Satan's temptations.  Man has become a reactionary. Each time the flesh of man is sorely tempted he is set back by releasing possessed territory in his life to the enemy of the soul. Retreat becomes a spouse unto the soul and failure becomes evident.

Man was not sent into the world to cower before a fallen angel of the universe. While made a little lower than the angels, the Lord God Jehovah has put all things in this universe under the feet of man. This includes those fallen servants who seek to meddle in the affairs of man.

Why seek power over temporal things? Why seek power over each other? God has placed in man a spirit of dominion to be used against the enemy of the soul and create an atmosphere of fellowship with his God. Soul of man, hear the word of the Lord, in you lies the hope of creation, to talk and abide in and with your creator.

God does not speak to the fleshly appetites in this writing. He does not speak to the needs of mind or the body rather speaks to the needs of the soul. In seeking to hear for you soul He will fill  your life with unity of your spirit. This unity will bring forth the success that you so desire.

Continued tomorrow....

Divine Interruption

Disappearing dreams reappear at sunset. The mind fevered by the hot sun of the day becomes cool and the nighttime brings relaxation. As the regeneration of the mind retools and resurfaces the jagged edges of nerve endings dreams reappear and bring forth fruition. Fruition is not as is heralded in the world of manufacturing but as in the supernatural. For all things can and do happen in an instant.

One moment in despair is covered by one moment in success and Jesus is the author of success of the human mind. That which has despaired can and will be forgotten in the recesses of the cobwebs of the mind. And when the hot wind blows the curtain of memory aside they drift out to warn of future despair. It is for this reason that Jesus has said the Holy Spirit is the comforter.

No matter the time of day or sleep state of the mind the Holy Spirit comforts and directs. Spiritual ideas are melded into the idea of natural occurrences and herein you have the problem of mankind. How is it possible that one can be spiritual in a natural setting?

Jesus sat at Simon’s table listening to the natural talk of the concerns of the day which as in yours were political. The questions of Him were from a desperate national state as thought they were interviewing one who might be a natural king or in your case, a president. These thoughts were not of the Holy Spirit and could not have emanated from His Father. Wrestling the thoughts of man with the thoughts of a spiritual Kingdom was not easy but disparaging.

The leadership of the Holy Spirit brought a woman who had been healed and bettered by the ministry to interrupt. Yes, a divine interruption. This is the purpose of such. It changes the nature of the travel of the mind.

The refusal to be quietened. The intrusion into their supper schedule. The weeping. The show of love at my feet. And then the breaking of an expensive perfume with which to anoint the feet after the washing of dirt and dust from the road of travel.

Yes, it changed the atmosphere! The sights, the smells, the renewal of energy and the questions charged the thought processes. Never forget the questions for they turn the conversation from that which is despair into the miracle spirit of the leadership of the precious Holy Spirit.

Guiding the conversation away from the political and casual was this interruption. Into the focus of His purpose, into the revealing of men’s hearts and yes even those who traveled with Jesus. Remember, it was Judas who questioned the expensive and elaborate use of a perfumed divine interruption.

Are you open to His diversion? It seems that many are open to the diversion of the flesh. For it is this diversion comes as a floating thought and the capture thereof brings forth the fruit of its calling. It calls you away to another conversation that bears no fruit of blessing or encouragement.

Jesus will send the Holy Spirit to lead and guide you this day. Receive Him, receive the questions and yes receive even the criticisms that go with my involvement in the sequestering of despair. The Heavenly Host turns chaotic conversation and life’s challenges into sweet perfume and adoration of heaven’s goals. This day leads to its challenges but this day also has a mind of its own that has been planned for you. Walk in it. See the pattern and know the way of my Spirit that is planned for you!