1God Acts 4 Prayer to GOD Through the Name of Jesus

 

There is so much church-instigated confusion regarding a simple thing like prayer.
Some churches pray repetitious phrases and mindless words.
Some use the time clock method, 2 minutes/ 15 minutes/ 1 hour etc.
Some pray hoping if they ask enough times that will get through.
Some depend on how many people they can enlist to help and agree in hope God will here somebody.
Some depend on the Pastor's prayer, others not so much.
Many don't know who to pray to, GOD, Jesus, saints, Mary, Mecca, Yahweh, Jehovah, I AM, Yeshua, Yahwuah, and a dozen more variants.

But in the Book of Acts, immediately following the four gospels, Jesus had ascended up, in his words, 
 to "MY GOD AND YOUR GOD" Jn 20:17/ Acts 1:10, and they watched as he went up.

WHO did the disciples pray to, as they continued together in prayer as the narrative continued?

This is why we may learn from them and so I defer to ACTS for the facts.
Here the first prayer in Acts is:
And they prayed and said, “Thou, Lord, who knows the hearts of all men, show us which of these two Thou has chosen..
Peter went on in Acts 2 to preach that "Jesus Christ of Nazareth, a MAN approved of God..... " was  

They knew Jesus is not God, and this is shown by their prayer in Acts 4 as they prayed:

Acts 4: 24 And when they heard this, they lifted up their voice
𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝, “𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝, 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡 and the sea and all that is in them,

25 who by the mouth of Thy servant David had said, ‘Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?  26 The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together
👉against the Lord <i.e. GOD, vs. 24>,

🎯AND against HIS Christ.’
 27 For truly against Thy holy child Jesus, whom YOU have anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, had gathered together 28 to do whatsoever Thy hand and Thy counsel determined before to be done.

29 And now, Lord, behold their threatening's, and grant to Thy servants that with all boldness they may speak Thy Word, 30 by stretching forth Thine hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of 🎯Thy holy child Jesus.”

31 And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together;
and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.

Peter had days before preached CHRIST to the Jews, that Jesus was "a MAN approved of God". Acts 2:22. In Acts 13:38 and 17:31 they were still declaring Jesus to be a "man",  and this was after his ascension TO God.

Does this sound like a prophecy of a man that is GOD?

Psalm 22:15-17  My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and My tongue cleaves to My jaws; and 🎯YOU have brought  🎯Me into the dust of death.
  16 For dogs have surrounded Me; the assembly of the wicked have enclosed Me; they pierced My hands and My feet. 17 I can count all My bones; they look and stare upon Me.

Isaiah 53 is also quoted as a direct Messianic passage.
The subject of that prophecy is about "a MAN of sorrows" who would be the sacrifice for sin.
There is nothing in Isaiah 53 to indicate the man is God, in fact, the passage shows the man and his relationship to his GOD. 

1God BY ONE SPIRIT the Promised Gift and a "New Thing"

 

BY ONE SPIRIT
-rory moore

The promised blessing of the Holy Spirit, but what is it? Who is it? How is it?

"And on My servants and on My handmaidens I will pour out in those days My Spirit, and they shall prophesy."

A few years back when I first realized the scripture said Jesus has a GOD, whom He called "MY GOD", I found 16 references for that. (see the John 20:17 example)

Still, it was a 2 year process to unlearn what I had believed, and my foundation in searching was my need of letting go of what the church versions of scripture did not say and-or especially what I THOUGHT it meant.

-In previous posts I said before how the Lord led me to search out the visions of God in heaven to see what the prophets "saw".

That made it clear the ONE GOD is ONE. Alone. "He", "Me", "Him", "I", "Myself". The One..

The prophets saw HIM, not a "them". "WHAT THEY SAW"

But this still created many "what about'?" questions. What about this verse, what about that verse? Confusion and conflicts result because we lack God's understanding of His Word. Yet He desires us to seek and to search for ourselves from His word.

Later, when studying the Book of Acts I saw who Jesus is, the Jesus the non-theologically leavened disciples knew and preached. This came through the words they preached as they gave witness and testimony who Jesus is. I realized they knew best what to tell the people who Jesus is so I focused on their words as they preached who Jesus is in the Book of Acts.

Their witness in Acts was plain and simple. (not one mention of a triune/ trinity/ 3 God persons was ever preached. Their words were true. The disciples in Acts were untainted by the countless church versions that we all suffered through trying to understand Jesus and The Father, and Holy Spirit.

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I hope this will help answer some of your questions about the Holy Spirit as I had the same ones for many years....

1. Jesus in John 14 and 16 below, speaks of Himself in the third person, as He often did. Some examples:

"The son of man is come.."

""He that speaks to you is him".

"He that has the bride is the bridegroom".

Thus:

I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever”

17 even the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it sees Him not, neither knows Him.

But you <i.e. his apostles> KNOW HIM, for He dwells with you, and shall be in you.

-that "he" is the physical Jesus they knew that had been dwelling with them.

2. When Jesus spoke of "when the Spirit of truth is come",

he was foretelling of his Spirit and God's Spirit coming as the "One Spirit" quoted below.

Remember the physical man, Jesus Christ said "I am the Way the Truth..." Jn 14:6 But after, -the "Spirit of truth" is his spirit, unlimited by time and space through God's Spirit.

-even though He spoke in this way as "the comforter".

"when He the Comforter is come.." <speaking of himself again in third person>

"I will not leave you comfortless, I WILL COME TO YOU".

-and this was not as in a rapture, and not in His visible return.

Again we have his words John 14:18 but note the detail on his coming to you:

“If a man love Me, he will keep My words; and My Father will love him, and *We* will come to him and make *Our* abode with him."

3. here is the clincher. You will love it.

The phrase "Holy Spirit filled" has more for us than we knew. The exact phrase "filled with the Holy Spirit" is found *8* times in scripture.

*8* is the number symbolic of a "new beginning"!

But how could these people be "filled with the Holy Spirit" before the Holy Spirit was given?

Luke 1:15 For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink, and he shall be 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒐𝒍𝒚 𝑮𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒕 even from his mother’s womb.

Luke 1:41 And it came to pass, when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, that the babe leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒐𝒍𝒚 𝑮𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒕.

Luke 1:67 And his father Zacharias was 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒐𝒍𝒚 𝑮𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒕 and prophesied.

??? We ask because of this in John 7:39

"the Spirit was not yet given because Jesus was not yet glorified".

What changed from those like Elizabeth and her unborn child John, being "filled with the Holy Spirit" and the Spirit "NOT YET GIVEN"?

JN 7:38 He that believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.”

39 (But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believe in Him should receive;

for the Holy Ghost was not yet given because Jesus was not yet glorified!

HERE IS THE CHANGE:

It came after Jesus was raised and glorified,

Acts 2:4 And they were all 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒐𝒍𝒚 𝑮𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒕 and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Now we have the fulfillment of the "we will come and make OUR abode with him".

GOD's SPIRIT and Christ's Spirit are the ONE SPIRIT:

Cor 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, (no separation of Christ and Father's Spirit).(Spirit baptism is not "accepting Christ", communion, or because someone goes forward.

-It is a full baptism of Christ's spirit and will produce fruits of His spirit.

( Most churches will say you have something you never got.)

Here is more showing us "by ONE Spirit":

Eph 2:18 for through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.

Eph 4:4 There is one body and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

Summary:

The Holy, "One Spirit" is God and Christ undivided. Inseparable now.

Before Christ/ Pentecost, the Lord God  created creation, filled people, anointed people, and moved upon people.

-but that was not the Promise of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

After Jesus glorification, God broke the bread of Christ and gives his spirit it to all that seek Him to receive it, and He does so through Jesus Christ.

Acts 2:33 Therefore, being exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, He has shed forth this which you now see and hear... (they were speaking in tongues and prophesying). ("I will come unto you", "We will come and make our abode..")

Peter said in Acts 2:17 ....this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel.

17 ‘And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.

18 And on My servants and on My handmaidens I will pour out in those days My Spirit, and they shall prophesy.

The Holy Spirit is not a mythical "third person", it is the Spirit of GOD and Christ, coming to us undivided and God does not separate Himself into three persons, which scripture never stated.

This is what Father spoke in Feb 2024:

"All that I say to you..

All that I do, *I DO THROUGH MY SON*.

Through Me, He IS WITH YOU AND IS IN YOU."

*After* Pentecost in Acts 2, the "new thing" God would do, He now brings the spirit <character, nature, authority, power etc.> of Jesus that we may be filled with and empowered to become sons of God.

Now I see how so many of us argued for their version of God the Father, His beloved son, Holy Ghost, and did so from our shallow letter traditions. trinity, oneness, JW's, Mormon, Catholic, etc. People repeat what they are told without being equipped by the Holy Spirit to discern tradition from truth.

-all from intellect and carnal traditions without revelation from Father.

THE GIFT HE WANTS TO GIVE AND FOR EVERYONE TO HAVE:

And Peter said unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Acts 10:45   And they of the circumcision that believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Spirit. for they heard them speaking with tongues. -first evidence.

Acts 11:17: If then God gave to them (us gentiles) the like gift as he did also unto us, when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?
Acts 19: he said to them, “Have YOU received the Holy Ghost, having believed?”

And they said, “We have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy Ghost.”

3 And he said to them, “to what then were you baptized?” They said, “Unto John’s baptism.” 4 Paul replied, “John truly baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in Him who should come after him, that is, in Christ Jesus.”

5 When they heard this, they were (re) baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 6 And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Ghost came upon them, and they spoke with tongues and prophesied. (evidence)

Think of a glass, that's us. The Holy Spirit is Living Water.
Many are an empty glass, and many empty attend church.

Some have but a teaspoon. There is room for 16ounces.

God wants us to be filled that others may drink. It is an unending fountain and the glass refilled many many times. As we are filled, there is evidence of power, authority, and fruit of His life.

It is a free gift, and does not require tithes, nor keeping church law, nor church membership, nor the many laws from the Old Testament.

It WILL: lead you to desire a closer walk with Jesus, a desire to tell others about Him, to feed on his Word for yourself, convict of personal sins and even change your views on many things.
It WILL empower you to be a witness, give you spiritual gifts to use to minister to others, and open your eyes to the Kingdom of God.
It WILL lead you and guide you into more and more Truth while exposing the lies we are surrounded with in the church world and the world system.

ALL by the selfsame Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:31
But covet earnestly the best gifts, and yet show I unto you a more excellent way.
1 Corinthians 14:39
Therefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak in tongues.

1GOD: IS Jesus The I AM speaking at the burning bush?

 

Was Jesus the "I AM" at the burning bush?

Who  spoke to Moses in Exodus at the encounter with Moses and God at the famous "burning bush incident?
Does Jesus tell us who Moses spoke to in Exodus 3?

Exo 3:2  And the Angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush.

Exo 3:13  Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?”  And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ”

Jesus told them:
 Luke 20:37 Now that the dead are raised,
even Moses showed at the bush when he called  the Lord
the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.’

   For HE is not a God of the dead, but of the living, for all live unto 👉Him👈.”

And so the "I AM" error on John 8:58 is settled by Jesus.

because of the One at the burning bush:

 "GOD", THE LORD", "HE" and "HIM" is not Jesus saying "ME"

The LORD told Moses in Exodus 3:14 tell them that I AM THAT I AM has sent you.
Jesus was not The LORD.

Here is Jesus saying "I AM.."
John 8:40 I AM A MAN who told you the truth which I heard FROM GOD"

just like Moses heard from God.

Where the Carcass is, there will the Eagles Be Gathered"

 

Have you read and pondered?
“wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together.” © rory moore 2024

"wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together."

Having read many times the mysterious words of Jesus and trying to make sense of them with various scenarios, I admitted not being sure even when some "interpretations" seemed plausible. 

The "pre-trib" rapure had appeal and there we would go, flying up like eagles while tribulation took place below..

Thanks to God, I will show you exactly who and what this is and how the Scofield-LaHaye-Missler-Left Behind  crowd had it wrong.

Jesus was speaking to His disciples about the end time events after they asked about "when shall these be?" in regard to the destruction and desolation of Jerusalem. He replied:

Mark 13:14  “But when you shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet,  standing where it ought not be” (let him that reads understand), “then let them that be in Judea flee to the mountains.

And to to be clear, here is the prophecy Jesus referred to in Daniel 9:26-27

 "after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for Himself;
and the people of the prince who shall come
shall destroy the city and the sanctuary.

And the end thereof shall be with a flood, and until the end of the war  *desolations are determined.

*“desolation(s)”:  to be desolated, be deflowered, be deserted, be appalled, be stunned,

appalling, causing horror, horror-causer, ruined)

Daniel 9:27 Is the verse mis-understood and wrongly used by the pre-trib people: 

Then he  <Messiah the Prince>

shall confirm a covenant with many for one week;

But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering.

When Messiah came, there was a confirmed Covenant along with the promise and prophecy’s)  with the Jews/Israel for 7 years.

When Messiah was "cut off" (killed),  the sacrifice of himself, ended the efficacy of the Jews sacrifices and offerings in the temple sanctuary in the city of Jerusalem. Because by one offering (Christ's blood and body) he forever sanctified those that believed.

-Then followed the NEW "covenant" which was confirmed in Acts 2 as Jesus poured out the Holy Spirit upon His disciples.

The renowned 70th week:
With this view we see and  consider His 3.5 year ministry, death on the cross, and the 3.5 years after His resurrection through Acts 9 where "many" were saved.

"And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate"
Even until the consummation, which is determined, is poured out on the desolate."

The “consummation” was the end of Israel as the kingdom-nation of God, the Old Testament contract, and the prophecy's to Israel as a Covenant people, i.e. collectively known as the Jews and Israel. 

How was Israel "consumed"?

The nation, city, and temple were made “desolate”, laid waste, ruined, became a horror, in a stunning flood of Roman destruction under the authority of Prince Titus.

“on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate” amazingly, - the Roman army standard was a brass eagle, wings outspread. -The eagle was mentioned in Moses' Law as an unclean bird, Lev. 11:13 and God labeled the eagle in the scripture, as an abomination. With the power and authority of the Roman  “eagle” came, Prince Titus and destroyed the sanctuary and the city of Jerusalem in 70AD.   Now look at what Jesus said as it all comes to Light! Mt. 24:28 For wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together. The “carcass” was the dead body of Israel where the Roman eagles (the image on their standards) were gathered making Israel desolate.

 

Shall we confirm?  Leviticus 11:13  

BTW, 11 symbolizes  “disorder and judgement” * page 96, Biblical Mathematics, Ed Vallowe 1992
13 symbolizes rebellion and depravity.)

‘And these are they which ye shall hold in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the osprey,

Again amazing thing was prophesied:
Hosea 8:1 “Put the trumpet to your lips!

An eagle is over the house of the Lord because the people have broken my covenant and rebelled against my law.

-and so it was, judgement and wrath fell upon them, 66-70Ad

Now do you see how far from truth is the "antichrist" guy in a building making a treaty with Israel and making himself God, and God turning to Jews after rapturing the church which was both "Jew and non-Jew" for 2,000 years?

See the series here regarding "Broken Paradigm" and the FAKE nation of them that say they are Jews but are not, called Israel.

Luke 14:33 "except you renounce all.."

you cannot be My disciple"..... the Lord will teach his disciples the truth..

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