Monthly Archives: July 2024

July 30, 2024 · 11:43 am

Are You Suffering from a Betrayal by Someone You Love?

Betrayal causes severe anguish and pain. What is our reaction to this? We cry out to God. These five words are the answer to some of life’s great questions: Why do we have to physically or mentally suffer? Why do our old earthly bodies break down? Why must we “walk through the valley of the shadow of death”?

God allows “bad things” for us to suffer, so that we will turn to him. Though it is difficult for us to comprehend, it is Yahweh’s great love for us that He subjects us to excruciating misery at times in our earthly lives.

These “bad” times are designed for us to overcome. When we overcome the trials, our spiritual muscles are strengthened. This is how we grow in His infinite grace.

This is one of the great mysteries that the Spirit is now revealing to us. Why do we suffer from things that are not seemingly even our fault? Because it is part of God’s plan. His plan fulfills His purpose. He is reproducing Himself in the form of agape love in our vessels.

Those that overcome all things will sit with him on His throne, even as Christ has overcome all things.

But how do we overcome? First, we must get over the shock that Yahweh uses “evil” to produce righteous spiritual growth in us. This growth comes from understanding and knowing the hidden mysteries concealed in His plan as stated above. And we can only understand through experiencing the suffering that spiritual growth requires. This engenders forgiveness; agape love grows as we forgive each other. That includes forgiving God for putting us through the pain and anguish.

Part of this knowledge concerns the Hebrew God’s implementation of trials on us His creation. This is when many of the called fall away. They will say, “This cannot be true. How can God, who is love, allow bad things to happen?”

The apostle Paul knew the answer. The Spirit through him wrote this down: “For the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.” Yahweh had mercy on the Israelites, but He hardened Pharoah’s heart, all to fulfill His plan and purpose. The unenlightened will protest and begin to blame God. To which the Spirit replies, “But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’” (Romans 9:19-20 NIV).

Crying out to God would not happen without pain. All I ever wanted as a child was a loving peaceful home. My parents were always fighting. They finally divorced when I was eleven. My world was beginning to shatter. Nine years later I worked as a lab tech in a MASH hospital fifteen miles south of the DMZ near Quang Tri. The blood and death every day completed the shattering. But the divorce and the war God used to instill in me an unquenchable desire to know the truth. Not just the truth about the war, but the truth about why we are here on this planet? And if there is a God, then, Who is He?

Yahweh used these two heartbreaks—the divorce and the war—to send me on a quest for knowledge even till today some fifty-five years later. I have forgiven my parents and Uncle Sam. And now through God’s mercy, I have slaked the bitterness I once endured. I died with Christ and now have a new heart that praises Him for His love and forgiveness.    Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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July 21, 2024 · 1:22 pm

How to Wait on God’s Timing Without Anxiety

We expect what we believe shall be. To expect is waiting for what we believe He has promised will come. But waiting is difficult for human beings.

But what shall be is what Christ, the Seed, the Word, said will be. We believe that He will grow in us unto perfect maturity. We, consequently, expect to grow. We expect to happen in our lives, what Christ said will happen: That after many trials, we shall overcome all things. For it is these very trials of our faith that trigger our spiritual growth. They make us stronger, even though we disdain them. But then, His ways are not our ways.

For example, when I go to my desk, I expect that God will give me the word of wisdom and the word of knowledge. I have no doubts that He will meet me there and deliver inspiration and understanding of His word. It has been twenty-seven years now, and the meal barrel has not run dry.

Yet, a question arises. Can we not have the same expectations when it comes to healing? Healing someone is a gift of the Spirit to us and then through us to another. But when will the Spirit give that gift through us, that He would heal through us? We all are waiting for more of His power to be manifested in and through us.

The Ultimate Wielding of His Power

Of course, we are talking about wielding game-changing power in the earth. Miracles are not just about knowledge. They are about doing. Miraculous actions will go viral in the 21st Century’s social media. We must be strong enough spiritually to survive the onslaught.

We are talking about the “high calling of God in Christ.” We are referring to the ultimate wielding of power and strength from the Spirit of God. We’re talking about bearing 100-fold fruit of the Spirit. This is when the Spirit is fully matured in us. Knowing, Doing, and Being. You must have knowledge before you can do. And it is by doing that we become our destiny.

Some of us now are turning our heads and hearts toward this calling. You and I are “waiting for the adoption… the redemption of our body.” While we wait on Him, we walk in this new knowledge by first studying and proving it from the scriptures.      

Evidently, we are not quite ready for 100-fold prime time just yet. But this we should know that “there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven.” That especially includes the season and time for His purpose (Ecclesiastes 3:1).

We are at present the “called according to His purpose.” And we now know that His purpose is to reproduce Himself. He is Agape love, and He plants His love as a Seed in those He has called (Romans 8:23, 28). There is a season and a time for this planting and reaping. And the harvest is “the manifestation of the sons [and daughters] of God” (Romans 8:19).

Someone hearing this perhaps, is saying in their heart, “You said that we can be like Peter, James, John, and Paul, and even Jesus. That is impossible to do.”

To which I say, “You’re wrong. I’m not saying this; the word of God is saying this. The scriptures say that Yahweh knew us before we were born. He foreknew us and predestinated us “to be conformed to the image of his Son that he might be the first born among many brethren” (Romans 8:29). That is where we are heading. But there is a season and time which only the Father knows, when we will join the ranks of the manifested sons and daughters of God.

Moses Waiting on His Calling

We must “judge nothing before the time.” God revealed to Moses that the Hebrew slaves should follow him. But it was not the season nor the time for God to lead His people out of Egypt. Moses waited 40 years in exile in the Sinai desert before the call came from the burning bush. It just was not the time until then.   

Yet, Yahweh foreknew Moses and you and me. And He has given us a glorious destiny before our earthly slog began. And then, he called us. He gave us a sign that He is real. He met us where we were in the mire of sin and lifted us out of degradation into his marvelous light. Thus, we were called and justified. “And whom He justified, them He also glorified.”

Glorified! That is how Yahweh sees it. He sees us already “conformed to the image of his Son.” He sees us as joint heirs with Him. To Him it’s a done deal. Yet, for us, we wait for the season and the time. (verse 30).

Yahweh declares the end from the beginning. In the beginning we were with Him in His heart. Before we were deposited from the womb of our dear earthly mothers, He believed that we would respond. That’s His faith at work.

Consequently, God is for us! Who can withstand God and be against us? But there’s one thing we must realize before we receive our immortal spiritual bodies upon His return. We must understand that there is a certain season and time for everything—especially during the “time of the end.” That includes the time when He will work miracles of healing through us.        Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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July 15, 2024 · 9:15 am

Are You Longing to Know Christ’s Secret to a Joyful Walk?

If we listen to His “still small voice,” we may hear Him share a secret that few ever hear. It is a challenge to our present belief system. Our joy issues from His joy, which rejoices at the truth.

Right now, as we speak through these earthly bodies, we have another body. Yes, another body. It is a body that is celestial in nature. It is, in the pure sense of the word, extraterrestrial, for it is outside the scope of the earth. In fact, mortal eyes have not seen it, nor has its reality even entered into the hearts of mortals. What has not entered into our thinking? “The things that God has prepared for them that love Him (I Cor. 2: 9).

And what are those “things” that God has already provided for us? They are our heavenly bodies. And as we gaze into the mirror at our earthly bodies and lament their descent into mortality’s final sad scene, we cannot help but groan under the burden of our bodies’ betrayal of us. And we yearn for our other body to come and clothed us with immortality.

This present mortal state in which we live is the perfect environment, however, to nurture the Spirit within us. As we overcome in battle the devil’s onslaught, the Spirit within us grows with every victory. As we vanquish our enemy, who is designed by our Creator to dispense just the right amount of resistance each day, we grow according to the loving hand of our Master. Knowing about our heavenly immortal body is our ace in the hole and gives us great confidence that He has our backs. It is His ball game; He will win. He has already won in heaven, and now we are a part of the witness here on earth.

Our Victory Is Believing the Unseen

Our victories begin in believing that we have His Spirit within us, that He is guiding us, and that He loves us and wants us to grow to be like Him. He is our treasure that we now have in these weak, fragile earthly bodies. Our bodies seem to be hurdling back into earth. It seems that they want to return to the soil. Our bodies are not us, for they careen in an opposite direction than what our hearts would dictate. Our earthly bodies want to dissipate, but we want to live vibrantly in love and harmony.

Our “outward man” may be perishing, but our “inward man” is being renewed each day. Compared to the glorious future that He desires to shower upon us, our current afflictions pale in importance. Our afflictions are “the sufferings of this present time,” the sufferings we must endure that we may reign with Him (II Tim. 2: 12; II Cor. 4: 16-17).

We must not look at our mortal bodies thinking that this is all there is. There is no hope in seeing our flesh wrinkle and get old, our muscles failing of the strength of youth. Looking at our earthly bodies and pondering their demise is not faith. For faith is being assured of “things not seen,” not things which we do see.

We should not see those “things” in the mirror that stare back at us. We should rather look at “the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporary; but the things which are not seen are eternal” (4: 18). When we walk in the Spirit, we behold as in a mirror the glory of Yahweh, and we are changed thereby “into that same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit…” (II Cor. 3: 18). We will not experience this by looking at our earthly body, but by looking at those things that are not seen.

So, what are these things? These things are bodies, for it is bodies that the Spirit through Paul has been talking about all throughout the whole letter.

“For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” Most have interpreted that to mean that we are going to heaven. It actually says, however, that we have another house in heaven waiting for us. We have another body, a celestial one, a glorified one prepared for us by our Creator (II Cor. 5: 1-4).

Our earthly bodies that we see are temporary dwelling places for the Spirit of God to grow in. They are important and indispensable, but disposable. He made them that way, of course. And as the painful treachery of our bodies increases, “we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven.” Our burden is not to be “unclothed,” as in a lightening of our load, but rather “clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.”

Thus, the Spirit speaks of our heavenly body as clothing. As we ponder the word “clothing,” we see where He has promised the over comers clothing called “white raiment.” We see a picture of this in the transfiguration of the Son of God when “his face did shine as the sun, and His raiment was white as the light.” We see a picture of us after being clothed with our heavenly body. We look to that time when we “are changed into the same image from glory to glory.”

Faith is being assured that we have this heavenly body prepared for us, even though we cannot see the evidence of it right now with mortal eyes. This is the secret that His still, small voice is conveying to us (Rev. 3:4-5; Mt. 17: 2; II Cor. 3:18; Heb. 11: l).

[This is Chapter 16 of my latest book, The Additions to the Faith. To order your free copy with free shipping, email your name, address and title of the book to wayneman5@hotmail.com If this chapter has helped you, please help me get this to more people by you hitting the like button, commenting, and subscribing. Thank you.]

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