Think Like JESUS
Think Like JESUS
Think Like JESUS
Chad Gonzales
Scripture quotations taken from the New King James
Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by
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If you knew the gift of God and who it is who says to you,
“Give Me a drink,” you would have asked Him and He
would have given you living water. John 4:10
When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already
had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, “Do
you want to be made well?” John 5:6
For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that
He himself does; and He will show Him greater works than
these, that you may marvel. John 5:20
For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them,
even so the Son gives life to whom He will. John 5:21
Remember that Jesus only did what He saw the Father do.
One of the things Jesus saw the Father do was raising the
dead...so, that’s what Jesus did. Because Jesus was one
with God, what flowed through God flowed through Jesus.
You can’t give away what you don’t possess. Jesus
possessed that life and therefore could give it away
whenever He wanted.
In the very same manner, you and I have that same life. In
John 10:10, Jesus said He came so we could have that life.
Jesus came to give us that very life, not only for our
benefit, but also for the benefit of others. Jesus knew He
was a carrier and dispenser of the same life that exploded
out of God and created the universe; therefore, death was
never a match for this life Jesus possessed.
You can never get away from Jesus constant view of
relationship with the Father and the miraculous. God was
the professor and Jesus was the student. Because of
righteousness, Jesus could stand before the Father, watch
what was done and with boldness, turn around and
replicate it with the very same results.
Don’t ever allow death to be viewed greater than the life
inside your spirit. It’s time we not only see bones grow,
but dead bones come to life. It’s time for the world to
stand in amazement at our great God. It’s time for us to
realize that through our union with Christ, we can do what
the Father does because we too are His children.
Confession: The same power that flows through Jesus
flows through me.
Scripture reading: Matthew 15:29-38
Day 10: Miracles Prove My Mission
Then Jesus said, “Make the people sit down.” Now there
was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in
number about five thousand. John 6:10
The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.
John 6:63
Jesus and his disciples had just seen a man blind from birth
and the disciples asked why the man was born blind. Jesus
said it wasn’t anyone’s fault. People seem to forget we
live in a cursed world where sometimes things happen to
people simply because of where we live; however, the
focus of Jesus statement was not on the cause, but on the
solution.
Essentially, Jesus said, “If this man is going to get healed, I
must do something.” It certainly wasn’t God’s will for the
man to be blind because God didn’t make him blind. It’s
always and I mean always God’s will for people to be
healed, but in order for God’s will to be manifest, it will
take a man or woman willing to work the works of God.
It may seem arrogant, but it’s not. Jesus knew what His
purpose was; He was a man on a mission from Heaven to
manifest Heaven and destroy the works of the devil in
people’s lives. The people from this earth can’t do
anything about it, but people from Heaven can. We are
superior to this world including the demons and the
problems in it.
If Heaven is going to be manifest on the earth, we must do
it. It won’t happen just because God wants it; God gave
the earth to man and it’s our responsibility to take the
mandate from God, backed with the power of God, to set
people free from the bondages of Satan. God needs us to
manifest Him!
Jesus valued God’s Word. If God spoke it, Jesus did not err
from it. Never forget that Jesus obedience always
stemmed from His knowing God’s absolute, unwavering
love for Him. Every command given to Jesus was out of
love for Him and as a result, Jesus had an unwavering trust
for the Father.
If we want to see the miraculous, we have to see the
spoken word of God just like Jesus did. God’s Word is life.
Jesus did not add to it nor take away from it; just as God
told Him, that is what Jesus said.
It’s interesting to note that when Jesus faced the death of
a loved one, it didn’t change what He spoke. When He
was opposed by the political and religious leaders, Jesus
didn’t suddenly become politically correct. When Jesus
knew people were offended because of what He said, He
didn’t run after them and change His teaching. In Jesus
mind, what God said is what He said and nothing would
ever change it.
You can see why Jesus always moved in the miraculous
and the supernatural was natural for Him. People,
circumstances and emotions never changed what He said.
When God speaks, His word goes forth unhindered and
produces results. If we will renew our mind as Jesus to the
integrity and power of God’s Word, we would see the
same results.
What you think about the most is what you talk about the
most and we can readily see that with Jesus. We know His
identification with God was vitally important because
Jesus always talked about it. Jesus identification with the
Father was so important in fulfilling God’s master plan that
God gave Jesus proof of this union: miracles.
Jesus said, “If you don’t believe the teaching, believe the
manifestations!” God will never give you a message
without proof to back it up.
The message we have been given doesn’t make sense in
this world; therefore, it needs something that appeals to
people’s natural senses to help convince them of the
validity of the message.
This is why we need miracles. The Church must have
miracles because the world is crying out for something
real. The world is desperate for real manifestations from
the sons of God.
God never meant for us to deliver a supernatural message
without supernatural proof. The more we begin to see our
union with God, the more we will see miracles on demand
because God wants to reveal Himself to the world.
From the very beginning of time, it has been God’s heart
cry to become one with mankind; it was the sole purpose
of redemption. The world needs to see what the heart of
God has already provided.
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send
in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your
remembrance all things that I said to you. John 14:26
If your life isn’t rooted and grounded in the love God has
for you, you will not accomplish much for Him. In Jesus
case, it was the direct opposite; nothing could move Him
nor separate Him from the love God had for Him.
Jesus said “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you;
abide in My love.” Jesus was always showing us what was
possible on the earth as a man united to God and anointed
by God. In addition, Jesus never asked us to do anything
He didn’t do.
Jesus went on to say, “Abide in my love as I abide in His
love.” Perfect love casts out all fear. There is a reason
Jesus could look Hell straight in the eye and not be moved
because He was abiding in the love of the Father.
The word abide refers to “dwelling in a place without
leaving; to take up a permanent residence.” In other
words, once you move in, you never move out; it is your
permanent address.
This goes further than just loving people and not getting
offended. I’m talking about being so rooted in His love
that when Satan comes against you, you don’t even bat an
eye. Abiding in His love is abiding in His victory. Abiding in
His love is abiding in the realm of where nothing is
impossible. God’s commands produce victory and life for
us and are always from the standpoint of love for us.
When we obey what God tells us to do, we aren’t allowing
ourselves to be moved by the impossible; we remain in a
place of faith which causes us to remain in a place where
all things are possible. When we hold fast to God’s Word,
we stay grounded in His love for us and remain where the
supernatural is natural.
If I had not done among them the works which no one else
did, they would have no sin; but now they have seen and
also hated both Me and My Father. John 15:24
Indeed the hour is coming, yes, has now come, that you
will be scattered, each to his own, and will leave Me alone.
And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.
These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may
have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of
good cheer, I have overcome the world. John 16:32-33
I have given them Your word and the world has hated them
because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the
world. John 17:14
And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that
they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in
Me; that they made be made perfect in one, and that the
world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved
them as You have loved Me. John 17:22-23