Growing in Grace

by

Dr. George Moss

Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

Growing in Grace

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Dr. George Moss

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Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 My Transition from the Flesh to the Spirit

Chapter 2 Understanding God’s Grace

Chapter 3 The Light of the Gospel Drives Out Darkness

Chapter 4 Transition to a Spirit Being

Chapter 5 Growing Up Spiritually

Chapter 6 Walking and Living as an Overcomer

Chapter 7 Living by the Spoken (Rhema) Word of God

Chapter 8 The Great Exchange

Chapter 9 Living and Loving Like Jesus

Chapter 10 Exercising Your Faith

Chapter 11 Adopted into God’s Family

Chapter 12 The Test of Righteousness

Chapter 13 Getting a Grip on Agape, the God-kind of Love

Conclusion: This Is Your Time!

Prayer

Dedication

To my loving late wife.

My three sons Michael, Andrew, and Joel.

My 102-year-old brother-in-law who has always been a support for me.

Introduction

In this book, Growing in Grace, I want to teach you how to step into the Spirit of God, and walk and live in the fullness of His Spirit every day of your life.

God’s grace will enhance your life tremendously, to the point you will declare, “He [Jesus] must increase, but I must decrease” (John 3:30). This involves developing your fellowship with the Lord and with others; putting your faith in God and in His Word, allowing the Word to be your Instruction Manual (the Bible) for all of life; allowing God’s grace to literally clothe you; and teaching you to walk in the God-kind of love (agape).

Four key definitions of “grace,” which I have used in this book, are:

- God divinely moving upon your heart, giving you the ability to do what you could not do in and of yourself and receiving what you could not receive, again, in and of yourself.

- Unmerited favor.

- God’s riches at Christ’s expense.

- A relationship of favor, which gives one access to another’s wisdom and power.

These can be your best days as you awaken to righteousness and leave the old life of the flesh behind, and pursue God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit. This will begin by getting up, getting down, and then praising the Lord at the start of each day. You get up out of bed. You get down on your knees to pray. Then, you lift your heart and hands to the Lord. You give praise, honor, and glory to Him for who He is; for all that He has done; and will yet do in your life!

Chapter 1

My Transition from the Flesh to the Spirit

I was a Major in the military, with a four-bedroom house, a wife, and no children when my life was turned “right side up”!

During this time, people started talking to me about the Holy Spirit. At this same time, the Charismatic Movement was going on and my in-laws came from California. We were all rattling around the house, but then they went back to the bedroom with my wife. I didn’t know what they were doing, so I went back to the bedroom and I asked, “What are you guys up to?”

I was curious, because when they came in the house, they all had these big smiles on their faces.

Like me, they had been Baptist. They said, “We know the Lord.” I said, “I know the Lord, too. You know I am a Baptist.” My brother-in-law said, “That has nothing to do with anything. What is important is a relationship with the living God.”

I responded, “I don’t have anything to lose. Pray for me.” I got down on my knees, and they laid hands on me. When I got up, they were crying and hugging one another.

I got up, went out to the living room, and sat down. These words came to me: “I want to be able to love people in spite of all their shortcomings.” On the heels of that came: “I want to be able to love people in spite of all my shortcomings.” At that moment, it became a reality and that motivation has never changed. I don’t care what people look like or what they smell like, I love them. That’s the very nature of God that became a part of my life.

This change in my heart was the beginning of being led by the Spirit of God. I began learning how to love, live, move, and have my being in the Lord.

A man in his forties said to me, “My mother and I usually make all of your meetings in Tulsa. We have been in settings where people say ugly things to you and it seemingly doesn’t affect you at all. How are you able to do that?”

I said, “If you want to know, I’ll tell you. This morning I got up and I got down. I got up out of bed, then I got down on my knees. I raised my hands and I praised God.” When you praise God, He inhabits your praises (He manifests Himself where you are).

(When I was a Baptist and in Vietnam, I got on my knees every night. Every night I prayed the Lord’s prayer. That’s all I knew. God took me through Vietnam and brought me back. That’s all I was responsible for.)

Now, I am still on my knees praising the Lord. Then I said, “Lord, I choose to die,” as Paul said in 1 Corinthians 15:31, “I die daily.” Then he said in Galatians 2:20, “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.” With this confession, I moved from the natural to the Spirit realm. I moved from the third dimension (where everything is subject to change) to the fourth dimension (the realm of the Spirit, which dominates this dimension) — this is where we live.

So how do you get saved? You do what God says to do. You believe that Jesus died for you. You receive Him as your Lord and Savior. Then you are delivered from the kingdom of darkness and translated into the Kingdom of His dear Son. That’s a spiritual Kingdom (Colossians 1:13). You were living in the flesh up until then.

How do you know that you were saved? Because you do what the Word of God said to do.

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Romans 10:9-10

Everything in this natural dimension (the third dimension) – everything you can see, feel, touch, taste, and smell – is subject to change. You moved into this other realm, which is the realm of the Spirit (the fourth dimension). You are still walking around looking like everyone else, but you are not like everyone else. You are now walking and living in the Spirit. This transition to the Spirit realm will change your life (day by day) forever.

Chapter 2

Understanding God’s Grace

But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.

2 Peter 3:18

I am going to give you several definitions of “grace,” and then I will tell you about faith and love.

The first definition of “grace” I will give you is: God divinely moving upon your heart, giving you the ability to do what you could not do and receive what you could not receive.

Obviously, you couldn’t save yourself. Ephesians 2:8-9 explains “saving grace”:

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

Not of works, lest any man should boast.

A second definition of “grace” is God’s unmerited favor, such as explained in John 3:16-17 and Romans 5:8:

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

John 3:16-17

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 5:8

A third definition of “grace” is God’s riches at Christ’s expense.

In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace.

Ephesians 1:7

Another definition of “grace” is a relationship of favor, which gives one access to another’s wisdom and power. In other words, whatever Jesus has you have access to it.

“Grace” is like having a billion dollars in the bank and not knowing how to get it out. In this teaching, we will learn how to withdraw it!

But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;

But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God . . .

But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.

1 Corinthians 1:23-24, 30

Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

1 Corinthians 2:6-8

For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.

Colossians 1:9

For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell.

Colossians 1:19

For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

Colossians 2:9, 10

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

John 14:12

Because of grace, you have access to all that Jesus is and all that He has.

And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Galatians 3:29

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

1 John 4:9

Chapter 3

The Light of the Gospel Drives Out Darkness

But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:

In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

2 Corinthians 4:3-4

Some people say, “I am an agnostic,” or “I am an atheist. I have to get some things right, and then I will come to know the Lord.”

I was in Bismarck, North Dakota, with a pastor. He, his wife, and I went out to lunch. This pastor kept trying to witness to the waiter and tell him about the Lord.

When the waiter came to take our order, I asked him, “What did you say you were?” He said, “I’m an agnostic.” I said, “You don’t even know what an agnostic is.” He said, “How did you know?” The waiter then admitted that he was a Christian, but he was out of fellowship with the Lord. He didn’t want anyone to know he was a Christian, because he was selling drinks and doing all these other things.

People must realize that the mind can be blinded. Although you are the one making decisions, your momma, your daddy, or someone else gave you those thoughts. They strongly help to form your character. There is no one with an original thought. You got it from somewhere, and you have been influenced by someone or something. The enemy puts thoughts in your mind, and you are blinded until the light of the gospel comes and the covers are pulled back. Then you can make the right decisions.

Even when I was a Baptist, I knew that I had come into the light. Jesus made the difference. Then the enlightenment kept coming, like an onion being peeled layer by layer.

It is not a work of the flesh. It is a matter of revelation knowledge at the new birth. It continues throughout our Christian walk. It is not legalism and law, but a growing knowledge of the grace of God.

Some people think it is a big deal to get themselves acceptable or ready for God. Romans 5:8 says, “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” I will say again, “He loved us while we were sinners.” He did not love the sin, but He did love us.

For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 4:5-6

Chapter 4

Transition to a Spirit Being

Once you are born again, you accept Jesus as your Savior. In 2 Corinthians 5:17 says this: “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”

You made a transition. Your body didn’t change, but you are now a spirit being. You have a soul, which includes your mind, emotions, and will; and you live in a body. Most people think their body is the real person, but you have to learn who you really are through the Word of God. The real you is your spirit.

I have heard people say that once you are born again you don’t sin anymore. Second Corinthians 5:21 says, “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” Jesus made us righteous because of what He did on the cross. This is positional righteousness.

First Corinthians 15:34 says, “Awake to righteousness, and sin not. . . .”

Now, let me give you an example of this. I went to my hometown and I was speaking. A lot of kids were running around. When I said, “Someone needs to get these kids,” the anointing went out the door.

The pastor got up and he took them into a room. I heard this voice say, “You just lost the people, messing with their children. You sure can’t get anything across to them now.” Another voice came, saying, “You were right, and I am right here with you.”

The pastor came back, after he had taken the children into a room. He had someone take care of them. I told the people what the devil said, and then I told them what God said. When I repeated what the Lord said, “You were right and I am right here with you,” the anointing showed up again, stronger than it was before.

Scripture says to awake to the Spirit who is right there with you. Wake yourself up. Shake yourself. Scripture says the Lord is never going to leave you nor forsake you. He is saying, “I am right here with you.” If you are aware that the Lord is right there with you, you will not be sinning.

God does not come into the presence of sin. That’s why Jesus cried out while on the cross, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46). It was because Jesus was taking all of your sin and mine.

This is practical righteousness — (Jesus being right here with you). This is not some philosophy of mere man. It is reality and the truth of God’s Word.

Chapter 5

Growing Up Spiritually

Once we are born again, we need to start growing up. First Peter 2:2 says, “As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby.”

The word “sincere” (in the Greek it means undeceitful or unadulterated) gives the picture of a mother with a newborn. When that newborn is brought to her breast for the first feeding, it produces a clear liquid. It cleans the baby out. When the new believer begins to feed on the Word of God, it starts cleaning out tradition and religion.

When babies are in the infant stages, they put their feet in their mouth. They walk on their hands and knees. Eventually, they begin to walk upright as they engage in life’s journey.

As you start taking in the Word of God, it will dig into your religion and tradition. The Word of God will clean you up. It will change you and help you to grow up spiritually.

When you are saved, the fruit of the Spirit is deposited in you (Galatians 5:22-23). Then you can be filled [baptized] with the Holy Spirit. This opens the door to the gifts of the Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:7-11). Many people don’t even know what the Holy Spirit is all about, but you are in a continual growing state. Even when you get filled with the Holy Spirit, He will teach you.

Oral Roberts (a well-known man of God) would bring his partners to town for a Partner Seminar. I remember the first time I went. Brother Roberts taught his partners on the benefits of speaking in other tongues. The anointing was so strong, it came back behind the curtain where I was.

In 1 Corinthians 14:18, Paul says, “I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all.” In verse 19 he says, “Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.”

When reading these verses, some people believe it is saying that you don’t need to speak in other tongues. Paul didn’t say that at all.

The word here to be emphasized is “also.” It means that through speaking in other tongues, he has come into some revelation knowledge. Through this knowledge, he has learned some life lessons. In the church he desired to teach others also what he had learned. However, he would teach them through his natural voice rather than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue (which would profit them nothing without an interpretation). This is not an indictment against speaking in tongues, rather, it is an endorsement.

Second Corinthians 4:7-11 states:

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

You have a treasure inside of you. This is what makes everything different for you and for everyone else. As a Christian, you have God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit inside of you. This is the gospel in a nutshell: “Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27). God wants to live through you, so you can function in the little things and in the big things of life (1 John 4:7-9).

Anything that concerns you concerns Him. And Psalm 138:8 says, “The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me. . .” If you can believe that, you can receive it and it will work in your life.

Chapter 6

Walking and Living as an Overcomer

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

Revelation 12:11

Here are the healing testimonies of two young women that I believe will encourage you to hear and obey the Spirit of God.

A TESTIMONY OF VICTORY OVER BARRENNESS

(These testimonies were shared over Easter weekend, April 2012.)

Twenty years ago, a young lady, Dana, was having difficulty getting pregnant. She had endometriosis, fibroid tumors, and her uterus was tilted. She said, “My biggest desire was to have a baby, and it seemed like everyone around me was getting pregnant and having babies.”

Dana had four miscarriages. When she did get pregnant, she couldn’t carry the baby to full term. It was a rough time for her. She was angry, discouraged, and sad.

Dana said, “I remembered that Rev. George Moss was coming. I prayed, ‘God, please, just give me a word through Rev. Moss.’”

Before Dana left home to come to the meeting, she was praying and it was like, “You know what, God? I know what Your Word says. It says that if I delight myself in You, You will give me the desires of my heart. Your Word says that I am healed by Jesus’ stripes. Your Word says that I am redeemed from the curse of the law. I am going to believe Your Word. You don’t need to speak to me through George Moss.”

“We went to the meeting, and George was walking around. He came to us and I knew he was going to speak to Larry, my husband. He put his hands on Larry and spoke a word over him. I was so happy. I was like, ‘Thank You, Lord.’ Rev. Moss walked away, and then he stopped and said, ‘And you will have a child.’”

Two months later Dana was pregnant. Thank You, Jesus!

A TESTIMONY OF VICTORY OVER CANCER

Every time I went to Newfoundland, a Canadian island off of the east coast of the American mainland, a man named Dave Hammond was there, playing the piano or ushering, doing whatever he needed to do. His wife Sue, a nurse, came to me with a very bad report. She had been diagnosed with uterine cancer.

During surgery to remove the uterus, it broke open and they had a major spill of the cells. That was immediately Stage 4. Sue says, “They decided to give me three loads of chemo. I lost my hair. Then, they gave me twenty-five rounds of radiation. My hair grew back. Then they started another three rounds of chemo, and I lost my hair again. On the third round, the chemo just about did me in.

“The first time I went to Rev. Moss for prayer, everything was good. I didn’t lose the wig! The second time I went for prayer, Pastor George didn’t even touch me. Down I went under the anointing of the Holy Spirit and off came the wig! Behind me stood Scott Nary from West Virginia who often hunted squirrels. This thing that looked like a squirrel – my wig – was being kicked around. I thought, Give the boy a gun and he will probably shoot it!

“Pastor Nancy tried to restore some civil demeanor to the whole situation. In the meantime, Pastor George was yelling, ‘Put her hair back on!’

“Pastor Nancy got the wig. A wig is like a pair of trousers. The label goes at the back. She put the wig on me sideways and everyone is laughing. My husband did not dare to laugh until I did. He had full view from the piano. All of a sudden I began praising Jesus and I laughed and laughed.

“When I finally got up, my biggest concern was that we had interrupted the Holy Spirit. I do not like interrupting the move of the Holy Spirit. I went back to my seat, and said, ‘Holy Spirit, I am really sorry. I didn’t want all this.’ Suddenly the cloak and the comfort of the Holy Spirit were around me.

“In looking back to when we first got my diagnosis, my husband was in a band practice. I rang my pastor and said, ‘Would you come and please bring Dave?’ I did not want to tell him this news over the phone. I wanted to tell him face-to-face.

“So the pastor hopped in his car and brought Dave with him, literally abandoning the music practice. Dave walked in and swished the curtain back. He said, ‘In the name of Jesus, you shall live and not die!’

“I truthfully learned what the scripture means that says, ‘But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you’ (Romans 8:11).

“Later, doctors told me to go home and tell my kids and write my will. I was supposed to be dead. In our family, we have a predisposition (in the natural) for mothers dying early, and children not being raised by their mother. The devil’s plan was to remove me so I would not be able to raise my own children.

“Now, some eighteen years later, I testify to the resurrection power of the Lord Jesus Christ. That same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwells in me, and He has and will continue to quicken my mortal body – AND YOURS!”

CONFESSION

Repeat this confession aloud: I have the life of God in me. I have the love of God in me. I have God’s nature and His ability. Therefore, I am more than a conqueror through Him who loves me. Now, Lord, speak to my heart. Change my life. Manifest Yourself in me. Hallelujah!

Chapter 7

Living by the Spoken (Rhema) Word of God

I was born again when I asked Jesus to come into my life. How did I know I was saved? It wasn’t because I felt like it. It was because I did what the Word of God says to do.

I moved from the third dimension to the fourth dimension — the realm of the Spirit that dominates this dimension that we are in. Nothing about you physically will change. You are walking around looking like everyone else, but you are not like everyone else.

How can you make a dead man angry? You can’t. How can you hurt their feelings? You just can’t do it.

I was in Saint Catharines, Ontario, Canada, talking about this, and one guy said to me, “I will probably have to die a couple of times during the day.” Do it until you get it down. Do it by faith. It will take you out of the flesh. Then, you don’t respond in the flesh and act as if you must take matters into your own hands.

There are a couple of things that I need to make sure that you understand. “Faith” is an unquestionable reliance, belief, and trust in God and His Word. It’s not just the Word. It is God and His Word. Once you are born again, you need to learn how to talk and listen to God, and money is the medium of exchange in this natural world. Faith is the medium of exchange in the spiritual world.

I was in Salzburg, Austria, when a pastor gave me a book that was out of print. It was written by a well-known American man of God. One of the first statements made in this book was, “Fellowship is the mother of faith.” I said, “That’s good.” So I started looking up scriptures to back that up. There were none in the book. Romans 10:17 says, “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word [rhema, the spoken Word] of God.”

First Corinthians 1:9 says, “God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.”

To have fellowship with God is our first and highest calling. Fellowship is the mother of faith. Often, there is confusion about relationship and fellowship. From the time you are born again, you are rightly related to God. Fellowship is what you do with your husband, wife, or what you do with God. You talk to God and He talks to you. Sometimes people wonder, “Will God talk to me?” Yes, God will talk to you. What father would not talk to his own child?

First Corinthians 3:9 says, “For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.”

In fellowship with God, we are talking back and forth; however, many times we are doing all the talking. That’s the way it generally is. I have my list and I tell God all these things that I want. Then I get up and walk away.

You ask, “Did you get an answer to prayer?” No, I didn’t get an answer to prayer. I told God everything, and He can take care of it if I leave it with Him. It is in God’s hands now. No, we should be looking for an answer. God speaks in a still small voice, and when God speaks, faith comes. Romans 10:17 says, “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” This refers to the spoken Word of God or what we call a rhema Word. Paraphrased: “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the spoken Word of God.”

John 10:27 says, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.” The Greek word for “voice” as used here is phonia. It is where we get our English word “phone.”

Today, many people have a phone up to their ear. You could interpret this verse as God saying, “My sheep are on the phone with Me.” Everyone should be able to hear from God. If you don’t hear anything right away, eventually you will, but you must purpose to do so. There should be expectation. The word “expectation” is key in prayer and fellowship.

KEYS TO THE KINGDOM

In Matthew 16:13-19, we are given the keys to the Kingdom:

When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?

And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.

He [Jesus] saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?

And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Jesus said, “I am giving you the keys to the Kingdom.” If you don’t know what the keys are, you can’t even start doing anything in the Kingdom. The keys of the Kingdom are words of God.

Second Corinthians 4:6-7 says:

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

What treasure are we talking about in earthen vessels? I am determined that every Christian understand that they are walking around with the Holy Spirit inside of them.

Acts 10:38 says:

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

Jesus was on the scene, anointed of the Holy Ghost, and God was with Him. He was never alone. The only time He was ever alone was when He went to the cross, taking our sin.

When you receive Jesus, what comes inside of you? The Holy Spirit and everything that Jesus provided comes inside of you. That means God too. You have the Trinity inside. You don’t just get a little bit of this inheritance as a child of God. You have access to all of it.

John 3:34 says:

For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.

We know that this is speaking of Jesus.

In John 17:17-18, Jesus says,

Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

God sent Jesus the same way He [Jesus] sent the disciples. John 17:20-21 includes us also:

Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;

That they all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

STAY IN SUBMISSION TO THE HOLY SPIRIT

I was in a church in San Diego and the pastor told me, “There is a man who says he is going to disrupt the meeting. Should I have the usher stop him at the door or let him come into the meeting?” I responded, “Let him come into the church.”

The man who planned to disrupt the meeting was sitting in the next row to the back as the service started. I said, “There is someone here with heart problems.” The people who had heart problems came forward, and I prayed for them. Afterwards, I turned my back to the congregation.

The man in the back said loudly, “What kind of heart problems?” I acted as if I didn’t hear him.

Then I said, “Okay, Lord, what are we going to do?” I didn’t say, “What am I going to do?” I don’t take any pressure. I am not built for pressure. It is an altogether different situation when you put it in the context, “What are we going to do?”

While I was standing there, an extra coat came on my shoulders (a tangible anointing). I am already standing under the anointing, and here comes that extra coat. I turned around. My voice changed too.

I said, “It doesn’t make any difference what kind of heart it is. God has sent His very best in His Son Jesus.” I am walking down the aisle about this time, and I am going after the man now.

I got to the second row and here is a man who had not walked in nineteen years. He jumped up and did a jig. I didn’t even stop. I kept going. I got all the way back to where the man was (who planned to disturb the meeting). He had his head between his legs repenting before God.

You must realize that we are representing heaven. When we choose to step over to the other side, we get our flesh out of the way. Flesh will do something crazy. In fact, you can get into the flesh and you could get beat down. You have to stay in an attitude of humility and submission to the Lord all day!

I went to Fort Meyers, Florida, to do a meeting. I was picked up in the afternoon. The young man and wife who picked me up from the airport said, “There will be someone here at 6 o’clock to pick you up and take you out for a meal.” Well, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, and 9:00 came and went and no one came to pick me up. So I called the young man and said, “Can you take me to the church tomorrow?” He said, “Okay.”

The pastor was standing at the back of the church where a couple thousand people had already gathered. The pastor shook my hand and said, “When the first service starts, I want you to come up and take five minutes to tell the people what you are going to do tonight. Then, when the second service starts, I want you to stand up for five minutes and tell the people what you are going to do tonight.” I said, “Okay.”

The pastor also said, “At lunchtime, the associate pastor will take you to lunch.”

I did my five-minute deal before each service, and then we went to lunch. The associate pastor said to me, “The evening service starts at 6 o’clock. You will take the service at 6:40 and you will have to be finished by 7:20. You will have to be finished with the altar call, praying for the people, and everything else.” I said, “That’s fine.”

When I got there for the evening service, I sat on the back row until I was called to come forward. Then, the glory hit the place. All kinds of miracles happened when the power of God hit.

At 7:15 I went over to the pastor. He and his wife were lying on the floor. He said, “You continue until the Holy Ghost is finished.” I finished up after 10 o’clock.

Afterwards, we went out to eat. The pastor said to me, “Florida is a very prejudiced state. That man that was hugging you with the platinum blond hair is the biggest racist in my church.” I said, “No, not so.” He may have been, but his grandson had a creative miracle that night, so this man’s attitude was changed. The pastor didn’t know that.

I don’t live in the past. I don’t live in what someone says about this, that, or the other. I don’t have time for that. The love of God can cut through that mess.

After we ate, I went to my hotel room and I was praying. I said, “Lord, why were there so many creative miracles tonight?” He said, “Because you chose to walk past all of those offenses. If you had taken any one of those offenses, none of those people would have been touched with My power.”

God gives the awesome responsibility to each one of us in ministry to take up the mantle. I could say, “Don’t they know who I am? I am Dr. Moss.” That doesn’t mean anything to the devil. We had better have our shield up, step over into the Spirit realm, and be ready to deal with anything.

Second Corinthians 4:12-13 says:

So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak.

I can feel when people are pulling on me and not on the Spirit of God. I have to stop everything and get everything back right. It is my responsibility to keep the focus on Him, not me. He has said, “I will have no other gods before Me.” I take that literally. There is no desire in me to have lightning strike and cause me to be a greasy spot on the floor!

I can’t give you anything. The anointing and the power and presence of God can do all things. God loves every one of us. He knows how to meet our needs. My trust is in God. I will follow Him and follow men as they follow Jesus.

Chapter 8

The Great Exchange

It is not a difficult thing, especially when you get up in the morning, to get down on your knees and to throw up your hands and praise the Lord. Then, make the decision that you want to live in His love and in His grace throughout the day, and choose to die to your flesh and step aside. This doesn’t mean that you are going to die and someone is going to put some dirt on you! As an act of your faith, you choose to prefer Jesus before yourself.

When you asked Jesus to come into your life, there was a great exchange made. The great exchange was that you gave Him your life, and He gave you His.

What are you going to do with His life? We know all the things that are impossible with men are possible with God. Now you are carrying Him with you all the time. Even the rank sinner and the guy who says there is no God, when he gets into deep trouble, he cries out, “Oh God!!!”

Let’s look at Romans 8:1-4,6-11:

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after 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.

And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Now, let’s read 1 Corinthians 11:1 and Ephesians 5:1. Then we will come back to Romans.

Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.

1 Corinthians 11:1

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children.

Ephesians 5:1

In Ephesians 5:1, the word “followers” means to be imitators of God.

Little children will imitate their parents. My youngest son often did exactly what I did. When you least expect it, they are watching you and they do exactly what you are doing.

Now I want us to go to Romans 12:1-3:

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

In the Old Testament, do you know what happened to sacrifices? Fire came down and they were consumed. They were not living sacrifices, but dead ones consumed by God. Paul is talking about living sacrifices consumed by God.

What happened when Elijah faced the priests of Baal and he built his own altar? The priests of Baal had been trying to bring fire down from heaven. They were beating, cutting, and slicing on themselves, so Elijah laughed at them, and said, “Where is your god? Has he gone hunting?”

Finally, Elijah said, “Move the junk out of the way, and let me get myself together here.” After he put the sacrifice on the altar, he said a few words to God. Lightning came down and consumed the sacrifice.

We can choose to walk in the flesh, but scripture says it will result in death. When you walk according to the flesh, it separates you from God. When you walk after the Spirit of God, scripture says it results in life and peace.

I am urging you, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies as a living sacrifice. God doesn’t want a dead sacrifice. He wants a living one, and there are a few things He wants you to do:

- Walk in love and forgiveness.

- Avoid strife.

- Renew your mind to the Word of God.

- Pull yourself out of religion and tradition.

- Respect and honor the Word of God by:

1. Listening to it...

2. Learning from it...

3. Doing it (practicing it in every day life).

Chapter 9

Living and Loving Like Jesus

It is real simple to make the choice to love God. It is not some great duty that you are going to perform to love Him. It is amazing the kind of things you can do when you are in love with someone. People don’t have to be pulling at you, saying, “Tell me you love me. You never told me this week that you love me!” It is so amazing when your love is voluntarily expressed. Your thoughts and actions are an expression of your love connection.

When you say, “I love You, Lord, and I need about $600,” this is an expression of love to the Lord, but with a completely different motive.

I want to be a part of everything God is doing. I don’t want to wait until I come to church. I want to be able to touch and know that He is touching someone through me. I want this to be real.

I have a friend who worked at a gym. He asked me to come over, because he was going to make me a mango protein drink. This was in Tulsa and his mother was in Ohio. His mother told him that he needed to go to the doctor. He loved to play basketball, and in the process of playing basketball, all of the strength left his wrist.

I was sitting there waiting for him to make the mango drink. He said, “I can hardly lift things.” The center from a local football team was there also. I touched my friend on his arm as he walked by. He said, “My strength is back and you didn’t even pray!” This big guy had graduated from Bible school after two years. He said to me, “You didn’t pray, so how did that happen?” I said, “Did you get your healing?” He said, “Yeah, but how did I get it?”

I have gone to a lot of churches. There are times when I walk by and just touch someone. Afterwards, I hear them telling someone, “I had this in my body, and it left. I wonder why it left.” They didn’t know I touched them in the name of Jesus (under my breath).

For a long time, I walked in the flesh, but I didn’t know any other way. I know God is not holding that against me. I did what I knew to do as a Baptist. I knew God was pleased with me as a Baptist. One thing that I learned in the Baptist church was to hold on to the Word of God. If the Bible says it, I believe it and that settles it.

I went through Vietnam believing that I was the salt of the earth. God took me through. Salt preserves and protects and I was preserved and protected in Vietnam – not because I was speaking in tongues and crawling and jumping, but because I believed the Word of God.

When I came back from Vietnam, I knew I needed a little more than what I had.

Every day choices are being made. Romans 8:1 says, “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” There was a song we sang: “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus,” but they left out the most important part: “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”

I loved that song, but it was unscriptural, leaving out the criterion of not walking after the flesh, but walking after the Spirit. It is a normal, natural thing to live in the flesh. We have all done it.

I don’t get any excitement out of getting angry anymore. Today I don’t allow anger to take root in me. I don’t allow myself to judge others. These are choices we make. You can choose not to walk around angry. You can choose not to be gossiping and saying negative things about other people. Or, “I’m not going to let you in my group, because you don’t believe like I do.” I am not hanging out in anyone’s group if I have to do what they do. Our focus cannot be on sin. It should be on Him and His love. If, by chance, you make a mistake, repent (1 John 1:9).

When I got ready to graduate from high school, I was told, “You are a little guy and you are only sixteen years old. Everyone is at least two years older than you.”

I told the counselor, “Well, they all want to look at my papers.” The counselor said, “I guess that makes it all right, so you don’t feel bad, do you?” I said, “No, I don’t feel bad. Why would I feel bad? I am going off to college at age sixteen.”

Throughout life there are challenges that come. When you overcome them, it is good to give credit to the goodness, mercy, and grace of God. There are those who will assume you are bragging on yourself or being prideful.

Another thing that I deal with is getting rid of pride, especially when I do things well. People say, “Oh, you did so well!” I’ve developed a term to take the attention away from myself. It is, “Glory to God!” James 4:6 says, “God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.”

Lord, help us to walk in humility, so Your grace is not limited in our lives!

Chapter 10

Exercising Your Faith

According to Romans 12:3, as I mentioned earlier, every person has been given a measure of faith:

For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

Everyone has been given a measure of faith. You have to have faith to sit down in a chair and believe that it will hold you. I went to faith school. People said, “Use your faith,” but I didn’t know what to do to use it.

My middle son had chicken pox. The pastor’s brother-in-law was a chiropractor, and his son was a friend of my son. The pastor’s brother-in-law came over and asked my wife and me, “What are you doing?” We said, “We are believing God.” He said, “What scriptures are you standing on?” We said, “We don’t have a scripture.” He said, “You can’t believe God without a scripture.” This was the first time we had ever heard this. We were saying everything other people were saying, but we didn’t know the keys for making faith work.

The pastor’s brother-in-law said, “Let me tell you what I want to do. Can I take Andrew with me? I’ve got a machine. I can scan him and take those blisters off. In the meantime, the two of you can get your faith working; so your son doesn’t have to suffer while you get your faith together.”

People have been gracious to me, to literally come to me, when they know I am walking in the wrong direction. They come and tell me, because I generally tell people when I think that they are not doing something right. If you sow it, this is what you are going to reap. They don’t try to be ugly, nasty, or mean to me. They just present the situation as they see it, so I can get it right.

Second Corinthians 4:10-11 says:

Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

These verses speak about a state of being, which gives Jesus access to our bodies and life.

God has made provision for us to walk and talk just like Jesus. He will do the same thing in your body. If you can believe it, you can receive it.

LISTEN, LEARN, AND DO!

But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.

2 Peter 3:18

We are still talking about growing in grace.

I was speaking in a Christian school where my son was a fifth grader. I was there to teach about submission. I said, “Let me ask you a question. What does it mean to submit?” One of my son’s friends lifted his hand. He said, “It means to listen, learn, and do.” I said, “Oh, my goodness. Give me a pen. I want to write this down.”

I asked him where did he get that answer. He said that God told him to say that and say no more.

The big challenge in submission, whether it is the husband submitting to the wife or the wife submitting to the husband, is listening. When you listen, you learn what the person is saying, and then you just do it. John 10:27 says, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.”

God is talking to everyone, but you have to be tuned in. When I was growing up, we had a radio with five knobs. Only one could be tuned in. If I wanted to hear some contemporary music, I had to wait until midnight to get through to Nashville, Tennessee. I was in the hills of West Virginia. They were broadcasting, but you had to be tuned in to the right frequency to hear it.

Many times people say, “These people are special, because they can hear from God.” Everyone lines up to hear from God. Then, sometimes when He talks to you, you respond, “That surely can’t be God.” When it is something we don’t want to hear, it becomes easy to dismiss as “not God”!

Often, people say, “The women are more sensitive than men to hear from God.” Not so. Men have said it so much they believe it, but all they have to do is stay tuned in. Stay tuned in to the Word. Talk the Word. Meditate the Word. You should be talking it because faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word. Tune yourself in. The more Word that you have in you, the easier it is for you to hear God. He will start talking to you because you are tuned in with Him.

As you learn to walk in the love of God and in forgiveness, there is absolutely nothing that can overcome you in this life. Nothing! Keep the Word coming and going and keep it moving. Keep exercising it. When I say to “exercise it,” I mean to put it in your life and do it. In this way, you become a doer of the Word and not a hearer only as James 1:22 says: “But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.” No one can deceive you, but you can deceive yourself by not doing the Word.

At times we have one person edify, exhort, and comfort, speaking to the whole church, but there are times when it is quiet and God is talking to people individually. It is wonderful when He does that. No one else but you knows what He is saying to you. He goes into the deep recesses of your mind, and then you talk back to Him.

My part in these last days is to connect people with God so they can be the best they can be for God. “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure” (Philippians 2:13). We need to know how to follow and to let Him do what He wants to do – moment by moment and day by day.

Chapter 11

Adopted into God’s Family

Romans 8:10-13 says:

And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

You use mortar to put bricks on a building project. If you let it sit for a season, those bricks aren’t going to move. Similarly, if you mortify the deeds of the flesh, it is not going to move anymore. When it tries to come alive, you mortify or deaden it!

In John, chapter 3, Nicodemus came to Jesus by night. He was giving Jesus all these compliments. He said:

Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.

John 3:2

Jesus answered Nicodemus and said something very strange:

Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

John 3:3

Jesus was talking covenant with Nicodemus.

We find a pregnant woman, she has a baby, and no one knows the daddy. This child is just like an orphan. No one wants him. The baby is adopted into a fine family that has a mansion, finances, and they already have a son. All the rights of the biological son also belong to the adopted child.

Now, let’s look at Romans, chapter 8, verses 14-15:

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

As born-again believers in Jesus Christ, we have been adopted into the Kingdom of God!

RESTORATION IN MY PERSONAL FAMILY

I had five sisters and four brothers. My oldest brother was jealous of me, and my older sister told me, “Beware of anything he says to you. He will do anything to get you off track.”

We called our dad “Pop.” This brother said to me, “Pop is not your dad.” I said, “I don’t care. I’m a member of another family now. I am a part of the family of God. I had no choice to come into this family, but I chose to be in God’s family.”

This brother, about fifteen years older than me, said, “When I saw you, I knew I had lost my place. I was the favorite until you showed up. Everything you did, Pop crooned about.”

Then he said, “When you went off to college and you got a Bachelor’s degree, that did it.”

Many years later, this brother asked me to forgive him. My dad gave me the right to be over the whole family, and I was the youngest. He said, “George will do the right thing. George will listen.” I though, You surely don’t know what you’re talking about. He gave me everything that he owned.

Forty years later, I went back to West Virginia, and I had all this in writing. I went to the same law office, but the man’s son was in charge of the law office now.

I said, “I want to make everything that my father willed to me accessible to all my brothers and sisters.” He said, “Give your document to my secretary,” which I did, and in thirty minutes she had it all finished.

I said, “Now how much is it going to cost me to do this?” The attorney said, “All you have to do is take it across the street to the courthouse.” He said, “My dad never charged your dad for anything that he did for him legally, and we will not start now.”

THE LOVE WALK DRAWS ON GOD’S GRACE

Last year I was sent on a round-trip economy airline (Delta) ticket from Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Buffalo, New York. When I got to the airport in Tulsa, they changed my ticket to first class both ways.

The pastor picked me up in Buffalo and drove me to St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. He took me to the Best Western hotel. When signing in, the lady manager asked if we both were staying. Of course not, the pastor stated that he lived in town.

Then she asked if I’d like to stay in the presidential suite. I looked at the pastor and the manager. I asked, “How much more would this cost?” The manager said, “It would not cost anything additional to what you are already paying.” My response, “Let’s do it.”

The pastor got up before his congregation, and he said, “I have never met this man before.” He shared about the first-class ticket and the favor at the hotel. It set the tone for good meetings.

From the time I was filled with the Holy Spirit, I have never seen anyone that I don’t love. I don’t care what they look like or what they smell like. It makes no difference. I see people like God sees them.

God knows I would never want to go back to being the person I was before I was filled with the Spirit. I could never go back to that. One of my nieces, just one year older than I am, said to me, “Every day you had people fighting. You caused more confusion than the devil himself. But God switched the tables on you. What God has done with you and in you has brought a change. You can now be thrown into the midst of chaos and confusion and peace will come.” God is no respecter of persons.

Titus 2, verse 11 says, “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men.” Everyone on the face of this earth has access to salvation. It has appeared to everyone.

Verse 12 says this grace that comes from God “teaches us.” “Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world.”

Verses 13-14 go on to say:

Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

We have been so accustomed to working for this and working for that and getting this thing together and that thing together. Catch your breath a minute and rejoice at what Jesus has done for you!

God is transforming us into a peculiar people, zealous of great exploits. We are to further His Kingdom here in the earth while we pass through.

Chapter 12

The Test of Righteousness

As a born-again believer, God calls you a “saint.” Being a saint doesn’t mean you go through life and you make no mistakes. Show me someone who claims they have never made a mistake and I will show you a liar.

In 1 John 1:5-10, we have what my Bible calls “the test of righteousness”:

This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

If this scripture were removed, where would Christians go with their sin? There is teaching going around that when you come into the Body of Christ, you know everything. Show me a baby who knows everything! That baby has a foot in the mouth. He is walking on his hands. He has to learn how to use each.

Forty years ago, my wife and I were in Germany. People kept telling us, “I don’t care what you have done. You have to be baptized again.” We got doused in the water and came up again, and we came up the same!

During that time, there was a chaplain who said, “Don’t be digging back into your life like you are not good enough and you can’t pray over your food in public.” He said, “Just stop. What you have learned is good enough. Stick with it.”

We have seen Calvinism (once saved, always saved) come and go. It comes in different titles. The devil comes in different kinds of clothes and with different kinds of words.

Don’t allow yourself to be deceived about man’s words. The Bible has been canonized. Don’t let anyone take what belongs in the Bible, throw it out, and say, “No, this belongs to someone else.” The Bible belongs to you and me; it is not written to unbelievers. It is written to believers. This is God’s inspired Word. If you allow someone to take the Bible away from you, you will end up blind, deceived, and messed up.

I was with a Colonel who was the chief of chaplains, Full Gospel chaplaincy. We were at a meeting in Killeen, Texas. He said to me, “George, we have a lot of people here who have killed people and they need forgiveness.” He said, “Why don’t you call it out?” I said, “No, you call it out, because the Lord gave that to you.”

He got up and mentioned it. As a result, groaning, weeping, and moaning came over the entire church. The majority of the seven hundred people at the meeting were military people. They had killed people and had not found any place for forgiveness. I said, “I will take care of this.”

There were women in the military who had had abortions. No forgiveness had taken place. God didn’t leave them there. He gave them an out. When I began to pray, the people made confessions and a wonderful spirit swept into that place. Anytime there is forgiveness, an awesome presence of God comes. I’m telling you, God came and His manifested presence showed up, the likes of which you could not deny.

Don’t think that you have committed the unpardonable sin. The unpardonable sin is when people deny Jesus.

First John 4:4-6 says this:

Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.

We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

Every person who has become a Christian is still growing. They can make mistakes. Your responsibility is to forgive and release them, just like you would do with anyone else.

Chapter 13

Getting a Grip on Agape, the God-kind of Love

First John 4:7-8 says:

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

Years ago, I was going to school to become an English teacher. That’s where I learned that “is” is an action word. God is love. If you have God, you have love. But sometimes it takes time for it to manifest itself in and through us.

When I was filled with the Holy Spirit, the love of God came in me. As I mentioned earlier, God has given me the ability to see people like He sees them. I don’t care what they smell like or what they look like. I know that I know that I love them, not because they do good things for me. God sent His Son to die for the sins of the whole world, and He loves each of us. While we were yet sinners, God loved us and sent Jesus to be the sacrifice for our sin.

First John 4:9 says:

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

We are supposed to be living through Jesus. Can you think of any better way to live? For so long, we have not known how to do this. The Spirit of God is trying to show us how to live through Jesus.

When we were born again, we became one with Jesus. We began to work together, to have fellowship, and to labor together.

Colossians 1:19 says, “For it pleased the Father that in him [in Jesus] should all fulness dwell.” What kind of fullness? In Jesus is the fullness of the Godhead bodily: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Acts 10:38 says:

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

All three – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit – were there. The same is true with us – we are not walking around by ourselves. When Jesus came into our lives, He brought God and the Holy Spirit.

My message for you and me as well is, as rotten as we have been, God loves us.

OVERCOMING FEAR

I know of situations where the Spirit of God just showed up on the scene. People say, “I am a child of the living God. This is not going to happen here.” Start talking the Word, and then the anointing of God will surround you. No one can touch you, because God has not given you the spirit of fear but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind (see 2 Timothy 1:7). Everything that I ever knew in life that would try to bring fear to me, I challenged it.

I grew up in West Virginia where I was in a town even higher than a mile high! I lived back up in the mountains, but I had a fear of heights. I went in the military and started jumping out of planes. Just because I trained to jump out of planes doesn’t mean that fear left me right away.

The first time up in the plane, you are shown an area where everyone has to jump out of the plane. I was the first one in the door. The only way the jump master got me through the door was to kick me out.

Then, I went sailing through the air. Wheeee! I made it to the ground safely. I kept going back up until fear left me.

The first day out, we had thousands of soldiers. A military police captain was leading us. After about ten minutes, he passed out and fell to the ground. The colonel, who was in charge, stopped everything, and he pulled all the officers in one room. He said, “This is a disgrace. Officers have to be in better shape. You cannot be passing out among enlisted people.”

I was hiding back in the corner, and he said, “There has to be an officer here who physically can do this. You!” he said, and he was pointing at me!

I had never done anything like this in my life. Up at 5 o’clock in the morning with a bullhorn leading everyone in physical exercise – running ten miles, up and down on ropes, and then jumping over this and that. I did it at 5 o’clock every morning. I did it laughing! When the supervisor saw me do that, he said, “Drop and give me twenty.” I still had a smile, so he said, “Drop and give me some more.” Eventually the smile left!

The statement is not common. It means to get in the push-up position and do twenty push-ups. It is military training language.

ALLOW THE WORD TO TAKE ON YOUR FLESH

Similarly, the things we get from God, we pound them in. The Word of God will work in you because you keep using it, speaking it, and acting on it. You can get revelation from God, but it won’t do you any good until you put it into your life. This is not works; it is the process of growing as a Christian.

Scripture will take on your flesh. I was meditating on Proverbs 3:5-6, and it took on my flesh:

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

My wife and I were stationed in Germany. We only had one son then. My wife was on the bottom floor of the airport and she was on the telephone. I was on the second floor getting ready to take a military flight out, but she was getting ready to take a commercial flight out. Someone stole her luggage, so she went to the police. They went all around the airport and they couldn’t find it. My wife was crying, but she said, “Take me to my husband. He can find it.”

So they brought her up to where I was, and I said, “Honey, what is it?” She said, “Someone stole my luggage.” I said, “Honey, you only had a pantsuit and children’s clothes in it. We will get another pantsuit and clothes for our son when we get back.” She said, “No, I want that one.” If you are married, you know what that means!

So I turned to the wall, and I said, “Lord, I have no clue where that luggage is, but I know You know and I trust You to find it.” They gave me fifteen minutes to find the luggage. So I took my wife by the hand. We walked over to the escalator and started down. There were windows all around, and people outside were lined up to get on buses. This was in Frankfurt, Germany.

My mind was going bananas, although I tried not to give any attention to it. We kept going down. My wife was trying to point out where she was standing. I paid no attention to that either.

While we were on our way down, my eyes focused on one man outside. I never stopped looking at him. I got off the escalator, walked out the door, walked within five feet of the guy. He dropped the luggage and ran off. I opened the luggage, and here was my wife’s pantsuit and my son’s clothes.

God used my legs, feet, and eyes. He couldn’t use my brain, because it wasn’t renewed. It is important that you renew your mind with His Word. If it isn’t renewed, God will use whatever He can to put you over.

All this happened before fifteen minutes were up. Learn to put your trust in God. Don’t feel like you have to have this degree or that degree and know all the scripture. No! All you need to do is know God and stay with the Word, and He will take care of you. But keep on learning.

Sometimes you may get entangled with some Christian and you get everything turned upside down. Before you get into the heat of the battle, remember, that person may not be acting like they are a Christian, but it behooves you to treat them like they are anyway.

I have been in places where it seemed like everyone in the building was bashing me. My tone of voice never changed. I had a professor saying all kinds of ugly things to me. Then he said, “What kind of Christian are you anyway?” I said, “I am a Christian.” He said, “You didn’t understand me. Are you evangelical, Word of faith, or Pentecostal?” He went on and on. He said, “Which one of those are you?” I said, “I am none of those. I am a Christian.” He said, “Obviously, you didn’t understand.”

He went back and gave definitions of each one of them. He was a professor in a Christian place, and he repeated his question: “Now which one of these are you?” I said, “Obviously you didn’t understand me. I am a Christian.”

He was so mean, nasty, and angry. Then I said, “Sir, stop, please. I didn’t come here to run your life.” He said, “You can never run my life!” I said to him, “Anytime I can make a man angry, I am running his life.” He stopped dead in his tracks.

At the end, we had to step down from the platform and speak five minutes extemporaneously. When this professor stepped down, he said, “You people have been very ugly and mean to this man.” He said, “I asked him what kind of a Christian he was. His facial expression never changed.”

The professor said of me, “His voice tone never changed. You heard me ask him what kind of Christian he was.” Then he said, “Whatever kind of Christian he is, that’s the kind I want to be!”

People watch your moves. They watch what you do and say, and sometimes they will push your buttons. If you don’t explode, you will get their attention. God has given us grace so we can learn how to live this way.

YOUR SUFFICIENCY IS IN CHRIST

Colossians 2:9-10, talking about the sufficiency of Christ, says:

For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power.

Think about it! You don’t have to go somewhere else to get your sufficiency. Your sufficiency is inside of you. You just have to learn how to access it. It is like having a billion dollars in the bank and not knowing the combination to get it out. You have all the power you will ever need. Learn to access it.

Access starts first with the love of God and forgiveness. God is no respecter of persons. He will talk to you if you talk to Him. My biggest problem was, I used to tell Him all these things, then I would get up and walk out. I never got an answer to prayer because I didn’t wait to hear. How can God say anything when you or I are not open to receive? One of the greatest principles of prayer is expectation.

We need to take time with Him regardless of where we are. A lot has been said about “a prayer closet.” You can do some damage in that prayer closet, but you need to take what you do in the prayer closet out with you wherever you go.

Open yourself up. God is here. You don’t have to try and bring Him down from heaven. He is right here with you!

When you get the revelation that God loves you, there isn’t anything that can be held back from you, and God will manifest Himself to you.

Conclusion:

This Is Your Time!

A new day has already dawned. The dawning took place three thousand years ago, but we are in the latter part of it now. God is fine-tuning us to do a mighty work. As we are getting tuned up, people will recognize us when they see us walking in the streets. The glory is going to be on us so strong that when we open our mouth, they can’t do anything but listen.

We will walk into Wal-Mart or Sears or the mall and someone is having a cramp in their leg. You walk by and tap them and they are set free. You may not have to pray for them either. There is no other time that is like this time. You will do what the Holy Spirit prompts you to do.

Many times we see people on TV. They do certain things, and people say, “Wow! That’s really great.” They preach and they do this or that.

This is your time! All the things you thought you were incapable of are available. God will do those things in you and through you by the power of His Spirit. He will raise you up, because you are talking God talk and walking His walk.

Prayer

Father God, I’m not where I should be in my fellowship with You. I want to focus my life on Jesus, with the Holy Spirit leading and guiding me and teaching me Your ways.

Today I make a fresh commitment to You, Father God. I acknowledge Jesus Christ as Your Son and that in His triumph over the enemy at the cross, He provided a great exchange for anyone who will receive Him as Savior and Lord and walk in His ways.

I renounce every work of the flesh that I have been entangled in. I repent and I accept You, Jesus, as my personal Lord and Savior. I yield to Your plans and purposes for my life.

Thank You for empowering me with Your precious Holy Spirit, enabling me to let my flesh die and allowing Jesus to take ascendancy in every area of my life. Thank You for clothing me with Your grace, Lord!

Thank You that today is a new day in my life because of Jesus, in whose name I pray. Amen!

About the Author

Dr. George Moss is a compassionate, faithful, mission-minded minister and counselor. With a ray of sunshine he lives his highly favored life traveling the world sharing the uncompromised Word of God, renewing the mind, with miracles and prophetic demonstrations, drawing the hearer out of religion and tradition.

He earned his B.A. in Education in 1960 from West Virginia State College (University) and upon graduation entered the military as a 2nd Lieutenant. In addition he also received a degree in Guidance and Counseling from Troy State University in 1976 while serving in the U.S. Military. After serving eighteen years he retired as a Major.

He continued his education by attending Rhema Bible Training Center located in Broken Arrow, OK. After graduation, the next several years lead him to serve as Associate Pastor at Grace Fellowship also located in Broken Arrow, OK. In May 2010 another achievement was to receive an Honorary Doctorate in Biblical Counseling from United Graduate College and Seminary.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 My Transition from the Flesh to the Spirit

Chapter 2 Understanding God’s Grace

Chapter 3 The Light of the Gospel Drives Out Darkness

Chapter 4 Transition to a Spirit Being

Chapter 5 Growing Up Spiritually

Chapter 6 Walking and Living as an Overcomer

Chapter 7 Living by the Spoken (Rhema) Word of God

Chapter 8 The Great Exchange

Chapter 9 Living and Loving Like Jesus

Chapter 10 Exercising Your Faith

Chapter 11 Adopted into God’s Family

Chapter 12 The Test of Righteousness

Chapter 13 Getting a Grip on Agape, the God-kind of Love

Conclusion: This Is Your Time!

Prayer