In this episode, we begin the journey of taking a deeper look at what Isaiah 55:6-9 is truly teaching.

Verse six begins with an instruction to “Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near.”

First, you can’t get more “near” to God than His presence within you. God has inherently placed Himself within the human mind, which is where He desires to be experienced in the most intimate way possible as your Creator, Father, Guide, and teaching Spirit.

In this revelatory verse, the word “call” is not an instruction to verbally call the Lord to get His attention. Instead, according to the Ancient Hebrew Lexicon of the Bible. The word “call” is defined as “to come together to meet.” In other words, it’s an invitation to meet with God within your mind through thought-filled conversations and personalized discipleship.

According to verses 7-9, these meetings with God within your mind have a dual purpose. First, it’s to express His mercy and pardon towards you. He does this by informing you what your “wicked ways” and “unrighteous thoughts” are so that you can “forsake” and replace them with His “righteous” thoughts and ways.

From its ancient Hebrew perspective, the word “thoughts” within these passages of Scripture is the Hebrew expression machăshâbâh machăshebeth. Machashebeth is described as “purposes, intention, and plans.” Machashabah is described as cunning or skillful works/assignments. The word “ways” from verse eight concerning “God’s ways” is the Hebrew word derek. It is defined as “the course or path of life.”

The second purpose of these meetings with God, is for Him to reveal and teach you His specific purposes, will, and plans (His ways) for every aspect of your life and the works/assignments required to fulfill them.

Now that we know that God speaks and teaches through “thoughts” concerning the topics of purpose, intention (His will), plans, and specific works. And since our minds are filled with numerous thought processes, how do we “discern” which of our thoughts are God’s, our own, or from another source?

Stay tuned to the next few episodes as we explore answers to this vital question…

Isaiah 55:6-9 6: “Seek the LORD while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. 7: Let the wicked forsake his way, And the unrighteous man his thoughts; Let him return to the LORD, And He will have mercy on him; And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon. 8: For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord.:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.”

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In Christendom, you often hear people quote, “there is no weapon formed against me that will prosper” (Isaiah 54:17). The most potent weapon formed against humanity is iniquity.

If a person doesn’t use their mind to hear God’s will for every aspect of their life or hasn’t been taught how to do so by their Bible teacher, then iniquity is definitely “prospering” without their awareness.

Exodus 20:5 and Deuteronomy 5:9 describes how God visits this type of iniquity of the fathers that influences the sons up to the third and fourth generation. Who are the sons, and why does God “visit” their iniquity? And what is the remedy to root out this type of iniquity from our lives?

In this episode, we answer these questions and more as we explore the result of this type of iniquity transference from two father types. The first father type is our biological father. And the second type is what many today in Christendom refer to as their “spiritual father/mother.”

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Shortly after Jesus’ 40-day teaching during the Great Commission concerning the Kingdom of God (Acts 1: 1-3; Matthew 28: 16-20). In Acts 2:46, Luke writes that these new Christians “… continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine.” There are four questions here. First, what does it mean “to continue steadfastly?” Secondly, what is meant by the term “the apostles’ doctrine?” Thirdly, what was that doctrine? And fourth, why did Jesus choose only apostles during this momentous event and not the other four gifts mentioned in Ephesians 4:11?

In this episode, we explore answers to these critical questions and more.

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In this episode, we explore keywords from the seven purposes of Ephesians 4: 12-13 listed below from their definitive root word perspectives that clarify the original purpose and function of the human version of the fivefold ministry and the fivefold ministry of Christ within our minds.

1. For the perfecting of the saints

2. For the work of the ministry

3. For the edifying of the body of Christ

4. The unity of the faith

5. The knowledge of the Son of God

6. To a perfect man or woman

7. To the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ

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In this episode, we explore the traditional usage of putting religious titles in front of a minister’s name that violates what Jesus taught in Matthew 23 and the limiting spiritual and psychological effect that its practice has on the minister and congregant. Also, how one person has the potential to function in all five gifts of an apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, and teacher, just like Jesus experienced as a human being. And I also share how I function in all five gifts and how I experience the fivefold ministry of Christ within my mind, and how you can experience the same.

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This is the first part of a series that I am sharing concerning the biblical concept and application of the fivefold ministry.

In this episode, I share another perspective and far more effective application of the fivefold ministry mentioned in Ephesians 4:11. I share this perspective and application by defining four keywords found in Ephesians 4:1 and verse 12 from definitive root word definitions. What these definitions reveal is that Ephesians 4:1 is an open invitation to meet with the Spirit of God within your mind to experience the fivefold ministry of the Spirit of God, just like Jesus experienced it as a human being. When experienced, what you will discover is that God teaches you what your life ministries (purposes) are and how to fulfill them according to His will for your life versus learning how to do ministry solely from the human version of fivefold ministers.

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The Bible describes faith in five different ways. In this episode, I share what they are and how to experience its most important and effective form, and its connection to “the unity of faith” and “full-grown man (perfect), to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ” of Ephesians 4: 13-15.

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“Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him”.

In this episode, I share knowledge concerning how understanding the depth of 1John 5:14-15 changed my prayer style, and how I now get ALL of my prayers answered because of it through hearing and learning God’s will for every aspect of my life through meditation.

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We have all heard it in a sermon, read it in a theological book, or perhaps said it ourselves: “the Bible is the Word of God.” Interestingly, the Bible doesn’t make this claim about itself. Instead, it makes this claim about the Spirit of God that was in Jesus according to John 1:1.

Even if the Bible had dropped down out of the sky, or if God had emailed us the PDF directly, even if no humans were involved in writing, editing, compiling, and deciding on which documents to include (OT, NT). The Bible would only be a document but not the Word of God.

Paul tells us that all Scripture is “God-breathed,” but we almost always fail to experience the “the breath” of His speaking. It seems that we make a leap from Scripture being inspired, “God-breathed” as it states in 2 Timothy 3:16 to Scripture being this inerrant, perfect document, given to us from the very hand of God, without the possibility of humans altering its original content.

Though studying the Bible from definitive root word perspectives is immensely rewarding. The most important form of study that we can do in life is not Bible study. But more importantly, mind-study to locate God within it to experience the breath of His speaking and teaching.

When trying to locate God, search your mind first. This is the reason that Jesus plainly encourages us to “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness for the kingdom of God is within you. I present to you a kingdom, just as My Father presented one upon Me” (Matthew 6:33; Luke 17:21, 22:29).

It’s important to remember that “the Word of God” is a Spirit that speaks and teaches. All humanity possesses “the Word of God.” Yet some experience it, and some don’t for different reasons.

So I am not saying the Bible is unimportant or to be marginalized. Quite the contrary.

I am saying that it is so important, so critical to the life of the church, the body of Christ, that we can only trust Jesus (the Spoken Word) to interpret it correctly for us. Any interpretation that does not begin and end with Jesus (the Spoken Word) is bound to go wrong. You can only understand the Word of God through the person named “The Word of God.”

The blog post which much more content regarding this topic: https://www.julioalvaradojr.com/2021/03/23/the-limiting-mindset-and-experience-when-believing-and-referring-to-the-bible-as-the-word-of-god-and-the-difference-between-logos-and-rhema/

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In this episode, I share knowledge concerning why the wisdom of God is personified as “she” and “her” in the Bible and its connection to acquiring faith directly from God within your mind.

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