Let us Ascend the Hill of the LORD with clean hands and pure hearts together!
Author: ascendthehill
My greatest desire is to follow the Lord Jesus Christ and to see his church rise to the glory for which he has called them. Let's ascend the hill of the LORD together.
Today I was reading from one of my memories on Facebook. The post read:
“If we only knew the great worth we are to God then we would not treat each other like refuse.”
This provoked so much thought in me…
Last night I encountered this young man who said he has experienced the love of God but didn’t accept Jesus. As I listened to him the truth started to come out. He had been misused and burned by people who said they represent Jesus, you know “Christians.” I just loved on him didn’t judge him. His walls started to come down and he shared.
I love people. They are so treasured by God, but the thing is I have encountered these people over and over again. They could be satanists, witches, atheists, etc. and when the walls start to come down they all share a similar thing with me; that people who claim to know Jesus have treated them like trash.
If we knew the incredible value God sees in others we would not treat them like garbage. People have value. People are worth it. People are worth investing in! God invested his Son in humanity! People have value. People have destiny. People are loved and cherished by God!
“But woe unto you, Pharisees! for you tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs and pass over judgment and the love of God: these you ought to have done, and not to leave the other undone”
Luke 11:42
We have disqualified the broken, when God is saying mend the broken and make their path straight (easy to walk on). We have laid on them a standard of righteousness that we ourselves were not able to uphold. “Loading men with heavy burdens grievous to be born, but not lifting a finger to help them” (paraphrased from Luke 11:46).
I love you guys. We need to get a hold of God’s love and value system. Everything that we are building on this earth will be burned away, but if we invest in souls it will last forever. It was his love who gave up everything to receive us to himself again. People are worth it. Invest in eternity and pour out yourself into them and watch the miracle of God break out in the broken.
“Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you hide not yourself from your own flesh? Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your health shall spring forth speedily: and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the LORD shall be your rere-ward. Then shall you call, and the LORD shall answer; you shall cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If you take away from the midst of you the yoke [religous burdens], the putting forth of the finger [casting judgement according to the law, accusations], and speaking vanity [speaking according to the eyes of the flesh]; And if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall your light rise in obscurity, and your darkness be as the noonday: And the LORD shall guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in drought, and make fat your bones: and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. And they that shall be of you shall build the old waste places: you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in”
Isaiah 58:6-12
This promise is to me and my seed. This is something that I know my house will walk in. But this promise is also unto you and everyone who our God has called. “For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call” (Acts 2:39).
God bless you guys! I love you! Our Father loves you! Jesus loves you! Now go out and love others. Pour out your soul to the broken and hurting and see the salvation of our God break out in the midst of you. Much much LOVE!
The biggest takeaway from Christianity is: God is good; mankind is evil; God is faithful; mankind is unfaithful; God is righteous; mankind is unrighteous; God justifies the ungodly; mankind is unable to be godly without God.
If your theology points toward human effort and the establishment of your own goodness (especially that over God’s) then you are wrong. Everyone wants to try very hard to be righteous through their own effort, but never really trust in the righteousness of God. I will be as direct and honest as I can be. MOST Christians believe that they have good standing with God by their own merit. Now most Christians would argue and say that they do not. But, a good portion of Christian teaching is how the recipient of grace must behave himself to be in good standing with God.
Do you want power? Fast, pray, and live a holy life then maybe God will send it. Do you want fellowship with God? Fast, pray, and live a holy life then maybe God will talk to you. Do you want anything from God? Well, you must live according to how a “good” person lives, and then God will give it to you…
The reason why sinners and publicans enter the kingdom of God before the “righteous” is because they rely on God being morally good over their own moral goodness. Many will declare their acts of love and devotion toward God (i.e. prayer, fasting, religious works), but I WILL ALWAYS DECLARE GOD’S RIGHTEOUSNESS!
The God who is light in whom there is no shadow of turning. The God who, despite myself, loved me and gave me new life. The God who has remained faithful even when I was unfaithful. The God who believed in me, even when I didn’t believe in myself. The God whose devotion toward me has far surpassed any feeble devotion I have shown him. I will DECLARE HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS!! I will declare him to my brothers! Jesus is LORD and I have found favor in him!
All those who trust in anything besides the righteousness that is the LORD’s will fall.
Jesus said, “I say unto you, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (from John 3:3). If you want to see and enter the Kingdom of God you must be born of water and the Spirit. But how do you do it? Is it through keeping the Torah, or fasting and prayer?
In this video we go over what will worship is and the will of man / will of the flesh and how that has nothing to do with God’s choosing of an individual. Let me know what you think!
“Let the high praises of God be in [the saints] mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand; To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; To execute upon them the judgment written: this honor have ALL his saints. Praise the LORD.”
(Psalm 149:6-9)
God has given ALL his saints the ability to bind up, cast out, and destroy ALL the works of satan and his minions. There are not certain people who have been “anointed” for a deliverance ministry, it is all of the saints who have this honor. There are not certain anointings for certain things… There is ONE anointing (if we have received him): the Holy Ghost!
One Crafty Liar
One of the craftier lies the enemy has placed within the church is: You are not equipped with everything you need to defeat him. He makes a person believe that they need to chase after an anointing to get the deliverance they need. So a person spends their time running from one person/conference to the next trying to get a breakthrough when the King of breakthrough lives in us.
One Thing is Needed
What we need is to spend time with Jesus, the anointed one, and speak his word. Confession is made unto [breakthrough, deliverance, healing, salvation, etc.]. We don’t need a special anointing to defeat him, we need the Holy Ghost (which is the anointing).
Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word. But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? bid her [for this reason] that she help me.”
And Jesus answered and said unto her, “Martha, Martha, you are careful and troubled about many things: But one thing is needful: and Mary has chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.”
(Luke 10:38-42)
Marth was running around and worried about many things, but Mary was just hanging out with Jesus. So, for all of those out there chasing after an anointing, that is only the devil trying to distract you from the ONE thing that is needed (spending time with Jesus), and make you think that you are lacking something so that you can’t defeat him.
This theology of lack is completely contrary to what the Bible teaches. It tells a person that something is missing. That they are still some how incomplete and in need for a special impartation or anointing to get what they need. But it is inconsistent with true biblical doctrine.
What does the Bible say about our salvation (deliverance, breakthrough, healing, etc.)?
“…Do not say in your heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:) Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) But what does it say? The word is near YOU, even in YOUR mouth, and in YOUR heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; That if YOU shall confess with YOUR mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in YOUR heart that God has raised him from the dead, YOU shall be saved.”
(from Rom. 10:6-9)
The Bible tells us that our salvation is near us. Even in our very mouth and in our heart. We do not need to chase after an anointed one to receive a breakthrough, but our breakthrough is in us. We just need to declare it! “…with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” [deliverance, breakthrough, healing, etc.] (from Rom. 10:10).
We make a declaration that JESUS IS LORD over that situation! That is also why in the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ it says, “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” (from Rev. 12:11).
What the Bible says is:
God has given us everything that we need in this life. “According as his divine power has given unto us ALL THINGS that pertain unto life and godliness” (from 2 Peter 1:3).
That we are complete in Christ and lack nothing, and also to not let any person deceive us into thinking otherwise. “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And you are COMPLETE in him, which is the head of all principality and power” (Col. 2:8-10).
We are to reign in this life over our enemy (the devil and ALL his works). “…they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ” (from Rom. 5:17).
So don’t let anyone deceive you! YOUARE MADECOMPLETE IN CHRIST and GOD HAS GIVEN YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED to defeat whatever satan throws at you. Keep pressing Child of God! It is our FATHER’SGOOD PLEASURE TO GIVE US THE KINGDOM! Spend time with Jesus and speak his word. Then watch your breakthrough happen before your very eyes. Love you guys and have a blessed day.
Now thanks be unto God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ, and makes manifest the savor of his knowledge by us in every place! 2COr. 2:14
In Exodus 34 God says that he by no means clears the guilty! We know that we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, so how can He forgive us? Find out in this latest video.
Check out this video about Jacob’s Ladder and why that matters to new covenant believers! (First time doing a video, please excuse the quality. As I go I’ll grow. Love you guys!)
Hello fellow Ascenders! We haven’t forgot about you, its just been a really busy time here. I’ve started a couple blogs but have not posted them yet. I believe the Lord does not want me to share the ones that have been written yet. Just know we love you guys and we’re excited about the future. Just a reminder; those who have put their trust in Jesus, the Son of God, will never be put to shame! God always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ. We win! So there is a lot to be excited for. Much Love to everyone reading this!
Since the dawn of creation the devil’s tactic has not changed. He comes and questions what God has spoken. At the very beginning of creation, he was in the garden questioning the word of God to the woman. It took place something like this:
"And God said, 'Let us make [mankind] in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.' So God created [mankind] in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them" (King James Version, Gen. 1:26-27).
Some time after the devil comes to the woman and says to her, "Has God really said, 'you must not eat of every tree in the garden?"
The woman responds, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, except the fruit from the tree in the midst of the garden. God has said, 'You shall not eat of it neither touch it lest you die'."
The devil smirked, he knew that he had her. She added to the word of God, God never said not to touch the fruit. He knew at this moment she did not have a full understanding of what God had said. The devil touched the fruit and said, "You surely won't die! God knows that if you eat it you will be like him knowing good and evil."
**This conversation is paraphrased and artistic license was used. Please refer to Genesis 1-3 for the full picture.**
Have you ever talked to someone about a subject and the more you heard them speak you knew they had no idea what they were talking about? It becomes so evident, especially if you know the subject they are talking about. The moment she added to the commandment of God the devil knew she didn’t have an understanding on what God had spoken This is the same thing Jesus got on to the Pharisees about. They taught the traditions and doctrines of men as commandments. Then rejected the commandment of God (read Mark 7:1-13). More importantly, though, she did not have a full understanding of what God actually said about her identity.
The Pride of Mankind.
I have heard people say that the temptation in the garden was based off of pride. To a degree this is true, but not to the extent that I have heard it preached. What people have said is, “they wanted to become like God, exalted to a place of power and omniscience. Just like the devil himself…” This is a complete and utter misconception of the truth.
Rewind back to what God had said when he created mankind on the earth. “Let us make man in our own image and after our own likeness…” then in the very next verse it says, “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them” (from Gen. 1:26-27).
So scripture cannot be broken, right? God said that he made mankind in his image and after his own likeness. So who was already like God? That’s right mankind. Is it prideful to admit something that is true? If someone comes to me and calls me a woman I would quickly let them know I am a man. Would I be in pride if I admitted to them the truth about what God made me? No; so why is it prideful for the woman to believe the word that God had spoken concerning her identity? The simple answer is that it is not.
When does pride come in this story? When she does not believe the word of God and believes a lie. Instead of humbly submitting to what God had said, she believed the devil when he made her feel like she was lacking. God made her complete and lacking nothing; but, instead of trusting in God to be true she was deceived into thinking she was lacking. It is not prideful to believe in how God created you, but it is prideful to think that you were created differently than how God created you.
“Woe unto him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What are you making? or your work, He has no hands? Woe unto him that says unto his father, What are you begetting? or to the woman, What have you brought forth?”
Isaiah 45:9
True Temptation.
There are only two times in the Bible where it is recorded how the devil tempted an individual. The first being in the garden, and the second is the temptation of our Lord Jesus Christ. They are actually quite similar. Let’s take a look at our Lord’s temptation.
"Then Jesus comes from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him... and Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: And lo a voice from heaven, saying, 'This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased'." (from Mat. 3:13-17).
Then Jesus was driven by the Spirit into the wilderness and after 40 days the accuser comes to tempt.
The accuser speaks in his ear, "If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread."
Jesus answered and said, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God'."
Then the devil takes him up into the holy city, and sets him on a pinnacle of the temple, and says to him, "If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down: for it is written, 'He shall give his angels charge concerning you: and in their hand they shall bear you up, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone'."
Jesus, knowing the devil's schemes, said, "It is also written, 'You shall not tempt the Lord your God'."
The accuser is fretting, Jesus knows and understands the word of God. He can tell he is losing and his time is short. He takes Jesus to a high mountain, and shows him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them. Then says to him, "All these things will I give you, if you will fall down and worship me'."
Jesus, in a commanding voice, says, "Get away from me Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve'."
Then the devil, knowing he lost the battle, left him.
**This conversation is paraphrased and artistic license was used. please refer to Matthew 4:1-11 for the full picture.**
The temptation of Jesus mirrors mankind’s temptation in the garden. God spoke a word concerning their identity, and then the devil comes and questions the very word God said about them. In Jesus’ case, he overcame the wiles of the devil.
We tend to think that temptation is when a sinful desire comes along and we struggle against doing whatever it may be. What true temptation is, is when the enemy tries to get us to believe in something other than what God has said. That was what the temptation was in the garden. Do they actually believe what God has said about them? And that was the temptation Jesus faced in the desert. Does he actually believe what God has said about him? This is what the devil is after in us, our identity.
Identity Is Everything!
One of the reasons the devil wants us to question our identity is because he knows if we do not know who we are, then we will do things that are contrary to our nature. If he can get you to believe that you are a lustful person then you will do lustful things. This is why identity is so important.
The bible says, “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he…” (from Pro. 23:7). If the devil can get us to believe things about ourselves that is contrary to what God has said about us, then he can manipulate and deceive us into all types sin.
But, bless God, if we stand firm in what our God has said about us we will be the righteous children he has always determined us to be. “For whom he did foreknow, he also did PREDESTINATE to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren” (Rom. 8:29). It was always in our Father’s heart for us to shine bright like the Son!
I am talking to those who are believers in Jesus Christ at this point. Those who are not born by water and the Spirit are enslaved to sin and must be born again in order to be freed from the bondage of Satan. I want you to know though, it is our Father's deepest and earnest desire for you to be born again. He loves you and wants you to be born again. Talk to Jesus and ask him to birth you again in him. He will do it for you. Our Father has so much love for you! Trust in his unfailing love.
“For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.”
Galatians 6:15
The only thing that matters is the new creation that God has made us, nothing else. Everything stems from what God has done in us, by birthing us again unto a lively hope. We are his masterpiece! And my Dad does not make trash! He is a Master Craftsmen there is none like him! “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works…” (from Eph. 2:10).
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation” (2 Cor. 5:17-18). We are new. We have a new nature, God’s nature (read Col. 3:9-10). He has said that he’s given us a new heart and placed his Spirit inside of us to cause us to walk in his statutes (from Ezk. 36:26-27). Now, are we going to believe the lies of the Devil? That we are still that old sinful person, especially when God has told us that we are a new holy creation?
Be blessed brothers and sisters! Our Father loves us with an everlasting love. He has given us an eternal victory through his Son Jesus. We always win. Especially when we hold firm to our confession. Jesus is Lord!
What if your spouse only told you what you wanted to hear, and they never opened up to you about how they were really feeling. Do you think that would be a healthy relationship? I honestly wouldn’t like it. That would make me feel like she didn’t trust me with her feelings.
Why do we do that to God? If we have an offense toward God we don’t address it, and we just say, “praise your name!”
God didn’t create robots, men did. Religion has its robots, God has children. Children, like their father, have feelings. Jesus cried, he was angry, sorrowful, joyful. Yet, we treat God as if he has no emotion. Then we come to Him as though we should not have emotions. We try to hide our feelings and say this doesn’t coincide with the word so I must push it to the side.
I tell you that faith does not mean your feelings are gone. I see men of God in scripture flat-out angry and complaining to God. The only reason why we believe it’s spiritual to deny our feelings is because of an unhealthy view of what spiritualism actually is. We think that being spiritual means being free from emotion, but the most spiritual being in all existence showed us that he has feelings.
In Numbers 11 Moses straight-up asks the Lord, “Why are you afflicting your servant, and why have I not found favor in your sight that you would place the burden of this people on me? Did I give birth to them that you should tell me to carry them in my bosom into the land that you promised their fathers? I can’t provide meat for these people. I cannot bear the burden of these people alone, and if you are going to deal with me this way kill me I pray.”
A lot of people nowadays would be like, “Moses! Bro, you need faith! Don’t you know your feelings aren’t what’s true? What are you doing complaining to God if you had faith you wouldn’t complain.”
Jesus called the Pharisees white-washed tombs. I believe because outwardly they were doing and saying what they thought God wanted, but inwardly they were dead. Jesus said they search the scripture because they thought in them they had life, but the scriptures spoke of Him. And they weren’t willing to come to him that he would give them life (John 5:39-40). Come to Jesus and open up to him. Tell him what’s going on so that he can heal you and give you life. He already sees it, he just wants you to be honest with him.
God bless you guys! Be blessed in the name of Yeshua Ha’Mashiach (Jesus the Messiah)!
A desire for all the nations of the earth to be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord. 