The Bishop’s Mind: Christian Wisdom, Daily Devotionals & Empowering Messages for Kingdom Living

 Identity Read – John 4:4-26 Scripture: “God is Spirit and they that worship God must worship  God in spirit and in truth (John 4:24).” Denial: “Nothing can separate me from God.”  Affirmation: “I AM a spiritual being.” Talking to the Woman at the Well, Jesus gave a very vivid one-word  description of God, the I AM that I AM, by saying, “God is Spirit.”  Distinguishing God from human beings who are both human and  divine, Jesus, the Christ, identifies God as Spirit, completely divine.  Spirit does not have flesh and bones (I Corinthians 15:50). Spirit  transcends time and space. Human beings are spiritual beings. Our  humanity comes from Mother Earth. God formed humanity from the  dust of the earth (Genesis 2:7). Our spirituality comes from the  breath of life that God breathed into our nostrils (Ezekiel 37:10,  James 2:26). God is a threefold being. Father, Son, Holy Spirit or Mind, Idea and  Expression. Humanity which is...

                                                          Co-Creators with God Read – Genesis 1:1-31 Denial: “No one else can create my experiences.” Scripture: “Through faith we understand that the heavens and the earth were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear (Hebrews 11:3).” Affirmation: “I AM co-creating with God the life that I desire and deserve.”  After creating the heavens and the earth in mind, God began to speak those things that God saw in the “mind’s eye” into existence. God did not just aimlessly speak those creative words, “Let there be...” but God believed with full assurance in the words that God was speaking (Genesis 1:3). God demonstrated faith when God spoke the words, “Let there be light.” God knew that the mental concept of light was going to become a reality...

 Glorification The Kingdom Key of Life & Death READ | John 12:20-33 “Jesus answered them by saying, the hour has come, that the Son of God must be glorified (John 12:23).” Jesus reinforced the Kingdom Key of Life and Death through the illustration of the ear of corn. Unless the corn goes into the ground and dies, it cannot multiply. When the corn lives above the earth, then it is just one kernel, a seed. Nevertheless, when it is put into the ground and dies, it reproduces itself and becomes a full harvest. It is only through death that we rise to a new form of life. Jesus used the symbol of the corn to speak about the ending of one form of his life, his earthly existence, and the beginning of another dimension of life, his glorification. Jesus called it glorification because he was returning to the glorious life that he had in the beginning with the Father. God receives the glory out of the events of our lives when we receive the blessing and learn the lessons from all our expe...

Hope Dealers The Kingdom Key of Life & Death READ | I Corinthians 15:10-28 “If our hope in Christ is limited to this life then we are miserable people (I Corinthians 15:19).” The Kingdom Key of Life and Death is about hope. This Kingdom Key empowers us to have hope despite situations that seem hopeless. The Kingdom always offers a new beginning and a fresh start with just a word. No matter how lethal the experience might appear, we have the Kingdom authority in our mouths. “Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the  fruit thereof (Proverbs 18:21).” The Kingdom gives us the right to speak life to dead situations. Like Ezekiel, the prophet, we can prophesy to a valley of dead dry bones until flesh comes back on those bones. We can speak the Word of  Life until breath comes back into those dead bodies, and they rise as a mighty army (Ezekiel 37). We are called to be hope dealers. That’s what we are selling to people, hope. Hope helps u...