A Broken And A Contrite Heart

Greetings in the name of Jesus! This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes With Jesus. Wherever two or three are gathered together in My name, Jesus said, there am I in the midst of them. To those of you who love Him in truth: mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied.

Amen! Father in Heaven, we thank you for this day; we thank you for this message that you have given me. Thank you Lord! Praise God! We pray that you would bless every person reading; that you would truly open hearts. Give us ears to hear and hearts to receive what you are saying by your Holy Spirit, in Jesus’ name. Thank you Father, Amen. Today’s program is called, A Broken And A Contrite Heart. 

Let’s turn to 2 Sam 11:1. Before I go any further with this, I just want to remind us that King David was a man after God’s own heart. He loved God; he served God; he loved God with all his heart, and yet this happened in his life. It happened in the spring of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the people of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. Then it happened one evening that David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king's house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to behold. So David sent and inquired about the woman. And someone said, Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? Then David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and he lay with her, for she was cleansed from her impurity; and she returned to her house. 

And the woman conceived; so she sent and told David, and said, I am with child. 

Then David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David. When Uriah had come to him, David asked how Joab was doing, and how the people were doing, and how the war prospered. And David said to Uriah, Go down to your house and wash your feet. So Uriah departed from the king's house, and a gift of food from the king followed him. But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house. So when they told David, saying, Uriah did not go down to his house, David said to Uriah, Did you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house? And Uriah said to David, The Ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are encamped in the open fields. Shall I then go to my house to eat and drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing. Then David said to Uriah, Wait here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart. So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. Now when David called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. And at evening he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house. 

In the morning it happened that David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck down and die. So it was, while Joab besieged the city, that he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew there were valiant men. Then the men of the city came out and fought with Joab. And some of the people of the servants of David fell; and Uriah the Hittite died also. Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war, and charged the messenger, saying, When you have finished telling the matters of the war to the king, if it happens that the king's wrath rises, and he says to you: Why did you approach so near to the city when you fought? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall? Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Was it not a woman who cast a piece of a millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you go near the wall?—then you shall say, Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also. So the messenger went, and came and told David all that Joab had sent by him. And the messenger said to David, Surely the men prevailed against us and came out to us in the field; then we drove them back as far as the entrance of the gate. The archers shot from the wall at your servants; and some of the king's servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also. Then David said to the messenger, Thus you shall say to Joab: Do not let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Strengthen your attack against the city, and overthrow it. So encourage him. We see very clearly right here that David had hardened his heart. When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband. And when her mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.

2Sa 12:1, Then the Lord sent Nathan to David. And he came to him, and said to him: There were two men in one city, one rich and the other poor. The rich man had exceedingly many flocks and herds. But the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb which he had bought and nourished; and it grew up together with him and with his children. It ate of his own food and drank from his own cup and lay in his bosom; and it was like a daughter to him. And a traveler came to the rich man, who refused to take from his own flock and from his own herd to prepare one for the wayfaring man who had come to him; but he took the poor man's lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him. So David's anger was greatly aroused against the man, and he said to Nathan, As the Lord lives, the man who has done this shall surely die! And he shall restore fourfold for the lamb, because he did this thing and because he had no pity. Then Nathan said to David, You are the man! Thus says the Lord God of Israel: I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. I gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your keeping, and gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if that had been too little, I also would have given you much more! Why have you despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in His sight? You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword; you have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the people of Ammon. Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife. Thus says the Lord: Behold, I will raise up adversity against you from your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. 

For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, before the sun. So David said to Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die. However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you shall surely die. 

Let’s turn to Psalm 51. David wrote this psalm at this time in his life. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness; according to the multitude of Your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against You, You only, have I sinned, and done this evil in Your sight—that You may be found just when You speak, and blameless when You judge. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me. Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me hear joy and gladness, that the bones You have broken may rejoice. Hide Your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your presence, and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me by Your generous Spirit. Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners shall be converted to You. Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation, and my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness. O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall show forth Your praise. For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise... Contrite means, deeply affected with grief and sorrow.  In verse 4, David said, Against you and you only, have I sinned and done this evil in your sight. In Psalm 38:18, David wrote, I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin. That is godly sorrow. Psalm 32: David said, I acknowledge my sin unto you, and my iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. 

Let’s turn to 2 Cor 6:17, Wherefore come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and I will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. 2 Cor 7:1, Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Open your hearts to us. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have cheated no one. I do not say this to condemn; for I have said before that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together. Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I am exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation. For indeed, when we came to Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were troubled on every side. Outside were conflicts, inside were fears. Nevertheless God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus, and not only by his coming, but also by the consolation with which he was comforted in you, when he told us of your earnest desire, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced even more. For even if I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it; though I did regret it. For I perceive that the same epistle made you sorry, though only for a while. Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow led to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly manner, that you might suffer loss from us in nothing. For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; (In the King James Version it says, not to be repented of) but the sorrow of the world produces death. For observe this very thing, that you sorrowed in a godly manner: What diligence it produced in you, what clearing of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what vehement desire, what zeal, what vindication! In all things you proved yourselves to be clear in this matter. In 1 John 1:9, the Apostle John said, If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. When David sinned with Bathsheba he hardened his heart against God, and against Bathsheba and Uriah, even to the point of having Uriah killed with the sword of the children of Ammon. God, in His great love, sent Nathan the prophet to rebuke him and to chasten him and to show him his sin. Then David was sorry for his sin, and he acknowledged his sin to God. He truly had a broken and a contrite spirit before Him, and God accepted his repentance: he did not die. But God still pronounced judgment upon him. Nevertheless, godly sorrow works repentance not to be repented of. David truly repented and he turned from his sin, and he never went back to it again. He went on to serve God with all his heart, all the rest of his life. 

Are you hardening your heart? Have you hardened your heart to believe everything is ok, when you know in your heart of hearts that you have sinned against God and not repented? Are you comforting yourself with the false doctrines and lies that false preachers are telling you: Satan’s ministers; ravenous wolves, who are devouring you, preying on your guilty conscience, to make merchandise of you; promising you liberty while they themselves are the slaves of corruption? Turn from these men! Turn from these lies! Come clean before your God. Come boldly before Him, confessing your sins; turn to Him with all your heart, and be washed in the Blood of the Lamb! His mercies are great, and if you will sincerely repent and acknowledge your sin, He will abundantly pardon. Don’t think He won’t blot out your name from the Lamb’s Book of Life if you won’t repent; if you keep hardening your heart.  Jesus said that in that day there is going to be weeping and gnashing of teeth, but a broken and a contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. 

Thank you for reading this message from 15 Minutes With Jesus at roberthaymes.com .

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you who love Him in truth, Amen.

 A Psalm And A Teaching

Greetings in the name of Jesus! This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes With Jesus. Wherever two or three are gathered together in My name, Jesus said, there am I in the midst of them. To those of you who love Him in truth: mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied.

Father, we thank you for this day; we thank you for this program. Father, I pray that you would open our hearts to receive your Word this day by the Holy Spirit. Thank you Father, in Jesus’ name, Amen. 

In 1 Cor 14:26 we read, How is it then, brethren? Whenever you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification. Today we have a psalm and a teaching, both of which are based in Psalm 132, speaking about A Habitation For The Lord. 

My Habitation

By David Hickman and Rob Haymes

From Psalm 132 and Zephaniah 3:17

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I will not come

Up into my house

Or my bed;

I will not give

Slumber to my eyes

Until I find

A habitation for the Lord

The mighty God of Jacob.

For I have loved

The habitation of Thy house

And the place Thy honor dwells.

The Lord thy God in the midst of thee

Is mighty; He will save;

He will rejoice over you with joy;

He’ll rest in His love;

He’ll joy over you with singing.

This is My rest;

Here will I forever dwell,

And I will teach Her My covenant,

And I will clothe Her

With My salvation,

For I have chosen Zion,

And I desire Her 

For My Habitation,

And the place My honor dwells.

The Lord thy God in the midst of thee

Is mighty; He will save;

He will rejoice over you with joy;

He’ll rest in His love;

He’ll joy; He will rejoice

Over you with joy;

He’ll rest in His love;

He’ll joy over you with singing;

He’ll joy over you with singing.

He’ll joy over you with singing.

I will not come

Up into my house

Or my bed;

Until I find

A habitation for the Lord

Let's turn to Psalm 132, Lord, remember David and all his afflictions; how he swore to the Lord, and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob: Surely I will not go into the chamber of my house, or go up to the comfort of my bed; I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids, until I find a place for the Lord, a habitation for the Mighty God of Jacob. Verse 13,  For the Lord has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His habitation: This is My resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it. I will abundantly bless her provision; I will satisfy her poor with bread.  I will also clothe her priests with salvation, And her saints shall shout aloud for joy.  Let’s turn to 1 Ch 17:1, Now it came to pass, when David was dwelling in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the Lord is under tent curtains.  Then Nathan said to David, Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you. David had it in his heart to build a house for the Lord: a glorious Temple in Jerusalem, but God sent the prophet Nathan to tell him in verse 10, …furthermore I tell you that the Lord will build you a house. And it shall be, when your days are fulfilled, when you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build Me a house, and I will establish his throne forever. I will be his Father, and he shall be My Son; and I will not take My mercy away from him, as I took it from him who was before you. And I will establish him in My house and in My kingdom forever; and his throne shall be established forever.  Clearly God was telling David about Jesus, the Seed of David, that He would build the Temple of the Lord. In verse 13, He said, I will be His Father and He shall be My Son. 

Let’s turn to Zec 6:12, Then speak to him, saying, Thus says the Lord of hosts, saying: Behold, the Man whose name is the Branch! From His place He shall branch out, and He shall build the Temple of the Lord; yes, He shall build the Temple of the Lord. He shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule on His throne; so He shall be a priest on His throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between them both. 

Isa 9:6, For unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, to order it and establish it with judgment and justice from that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this. 

Luke 1:26, Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin's name was Mary. And having come in, the angel said to her, Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women! But when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and considered what manner of greeting this was. Then the angel said to her, Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Jesus. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David. And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end.  

Let’s turn to Eph 2:19,  Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy Temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a habitation of God through the Spirit. This is the New Testament fulfillment of Psalm 132.

2 Cor 6:14, Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? 

And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? 

And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God and they shall be My people. Therefore, Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you. I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. Chapter 7, verse 1, Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. It is a holy Temple: a holy Habitation of God. Glory to God! 

God is making a holy people; He is purifying unto Himself His own special people: lively stones, that He is building together upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the Chief Cornerstone, into a holy Temple in the Lord: a spiritual house; a holy priesthood, that we may offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Unholy sacrifices, in the flesh, are not acceptable to Him; He will not accept them. Nor will He inhabit an unclean house. God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all. Truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ, in the light. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and don’t do the truth. But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with Him, and with one another, and the Blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. God desires a pure Temple: a holy habitation to dwell in, and He will have it!, through the sacrifice of His Son Jesus, and the work of the Cross in our lives: the breaking down of our hard, stubborn, rebellious hearts, that we may love Him and one another with a pure heart fervently.  Psalm 16:11,  You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore. 

Thank you for reading this message from 15 Minutes With Jesus at roberthaymes.com . May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you who love Him in truth, Amen

 Not Of The World

Greetings in the name of Jesus! This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes With Jesus. Wherever two or three are gathered together in My name, Jesus said, there am I in the midst of them. To those of you who love Him in truth: mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. (Jude 1:2)

Thank you Heavenly Father; we thank you Heavenly Father this day; we bless your holy and righteous Name; Amen, the joy of the Lord is our strength! Thank you Lord. Praise God! Thank you Lord. 

Today’s program is called, Not Of The World. In John 15:18, Jesus said, If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Does the world hate you?, or do they love you?

This is what has happened to the Church of Jesus Christ in America, and many other places in the world: 

Each person, almost every individual Christian, has been drawn, through the lusts of the flesh, into looking at and listening to the things of this world on their cell phones; on their computers, or on their TVs, every day. It’s person by person; day by day, and not very much quality time with the Lord in the Word of God and in prayer. The same thing is going on with the preachers. So, the peoples’ and the ministers’ hearts are full of the world; the things of the world, and the things of the flesh, and when we come together, that’s what comes out of our mouths and that’s what we are doing. It is not the things of God’s Word or the things of His Kingdom. Of course, there are exceptions. Do we even have any clue what God is doing in the Earth, in our communities, or in our lives? How many of us are actually yielding to the Holy Spirit every day, as He leads us in the Word of God; in doing the Words of Jesus, in every situation, to listen to Jesus; to God’s still, small voice, and follow Him? Do you understand where we are in the Word of God? Do you care?

The answer:

Every individual Christian needs to repent of the love of the world; the lusts of their flesh and the lusts of their eyes, and come out from the world and come back to God; to His precious Word, and come back to the Holy Spirit as He reveals the Word of God to us, and come back to Jesus to be our Lord and Master in all our doings every day; to listen to His voice and follow Him every day. Jesus said, My sheep hear My voice and they follow me. We need to put away all our idols and uncleannesses and every defiling thing, and to purify ourselves by obeying His Word through the Spirit. 2 Peter 1:19, And so we have the prophetic Word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts; knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. 

1 Pet 1:13, Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, Be holy, for I am holy. And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear; knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the Word of God which lives and abides forever. You purify your souls by obeying the truth, the Word of God is the truth, through the Spirit. 

Let’s go to 2 Pet 2:4, For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked. For that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds. Then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority. Verse 20, For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. Lot’s righteous soul was vexed every day by the things that he saw and heard in Sodom. Jesus said, I have chosen you out of this world; you are not of the world, even as I am not of this world. He told Pilate, My Kingdom is not of this world. 

Once you begin to put off; put away, the uncleanness of this world and the flesh, and begin to increase in the knowledge of God and His holiness; as you are filled more and more with His truth and His love and His very presence, you will also experience more and more of His peace and joy, and you will begin to bear more fruit by the Word of God to His glory. 

Let’s go to 1 John 1:1, That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life—the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us—that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ. And these things we write to you that your joy may be full. This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. 

Truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ. If we walk in the darkness of this evil world, we will not have that fellowship with them, and we will not have true fellowship with one another. Getting together and talking about the things of the world is not fellowship. The early Church continued steadfastly in the Apostles’ doctrine, (the New Testament), in breaking of bread, and in fellowship, and in prayers. We need to return steadfastly to all those things. If we will; if we will come out of this world, and forsake the evil, we just might have a Church. We are going to have to fast and pray and put these things out of our lives, or nothing is going to change. Ask for grace to help you to do it; ask the Lord for strength and self discipline and love for Him and love for His people. Do you want a true Church in America, or do you just want to gratify your lusts? Jesus is going to have a spotless, holy bride. If you want to be accepted of Him, you must put the things of the world; the ways of the world and the ways of the flesh out of your life. The Scripture says that without holiness, no one will see the Lord. You can say you’re under grace all day long, but if you are not seeking after holiness; separation from this evil world and the sins of the flesh, don’t be deceived, you will not be with Him; you will not be part of the first resurrection. So repent, and cry out to the Father and to Jesus for grace to help you to do this, Amen! He loves you, and He will help you, if you are sincere. He will find out what’s in your heart, and if you will truly seek Him for righteousness, you shall be filled. 2 Cor 7:1, Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. 

Holiness is not wimpy; it is not “Holier than thou”. Jesus was holy; He only did that which pleased His Father; He never sinned; not once. He ate and drank with sinners; He loved them and taught them the truth. He came to save sinners and to turn us from darkness to light. Jesus was not weak. He was the strongest man who ever walked on the Earth. And if we will humble ourselves and turn from our wicked ways, the very things that make us weak, and follow Him, He is able to make us holy, that we might walk with Him and His Father, and dwell for ever in their glorious Kingdom. Holiness is not sitting around in fancy clothes and quoting Scripture. Those who will depart from evil and follow Jesus, He will put you to work, doing very interesting things and important things in His Kingdom. As He said, people will hate you, and you will have to learn to love them and overcome evil with good. 

Holiness is achieved only through love. Because you love God; because He loved you and gave His only Son for you to save you from your sins. Because the Father loved you and Jesus loved you, you love them, and you want to please them and you seek them for grace to be holy; for help in the time of need, when you are being tempted. Again, God promised, if you seek after righteousness, you shall be filled. If you want to please the Father and do His will, you can. You say, That sounds real nice, but no one can do that. That’s not true. Jesus did not lie. The Scripture is true. If you will try and ask God for help, He will help you, if you will humble yourself and ask for His grace. It takes time; it takes continuing in His Word and learning the truth, and being set free by the Son of God from the evil in your life. It takes separating yourself from false prophets and false brethren and embracing the truth, and others who love the truth. We can do this, if we are willing; we can have a true Body of Christ in America, and be a true light to the world. Amen!

Thank you for reading this message from 15 Minutes With Jesus at roberthaymes.com . May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you who love Him in truth. ( 2 Cor 13:14)

 Prayers Answered

Greetings in the name of Jesus. This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes With Jesus. Jesus said, Wherever two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them. To those of you who love Him in truth: mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. (Jude 1:2)

Thank you Father; in Jesus’ name, we thank you for this day; thank you Lord for this program that you have given me for your people. Give us all grace to hear what you are saying by your Holy Spirit, and to understand. In Jesus’ name I pray, Father, Amen.

Today’s program is called, Prayers Answered. First of all, we are going to see who God is; what He said about Himself. So, let’s turn to Ex 34:5, Now the Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, (Moses), and proclaimed the name of the Lord. And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children to the third and the fourth generation. The first thing He told Moses is that He is merciful; He keeps mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgressions and sin, but by no means will He clear the guilty. 1 John 1:9 says, If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. So when we come to the Father in Jesus’ name and confess our sins, He is faithful, for Jesus’ sake, to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness, through our faith in His sacrifice of Himself and His shed Blood. Only through His sacrifice and the atonement of His shed Blood are we forgiven, when we repent and believe this Gospel; when we do this in faith; in humility; in true repentance to God. His mercy is abundant and He forgives our transgressions, and we are cleansed of all guilt before Him. If we do not believe in Jesus and His sacrifice for us; if we will not repent and confess our sin to God, we are guilty and God will not clear us. In fact, He will visit our sins upon our children and grandchildren and great grandchildren, unto the fourth generation. He does not change. 

This is who He is; if we refuse to repent and come to Jesus, we will die in our sins.

So, the first thing we need to consider, regarding prayer, is who God is, the one we are praying to, and what He requires of us. If we are guilty of sin, and we will not repent, He will not clear us, and He will not grant us grace; our prayer will not be answered. So before you pray, consider who He is and what He requires of you and humble yourself before Him. If the Holy Spirit shows you a sin, confess it to God, believing His Word; believing the sacrifice of His Son: that He forgives you in the Blood of His Son, and you are not guilty any more. Your conscience is clear; void of offense toward God and man. You are not guilty, and don’t let the devil or anyone else, including yourself, convince you otherwise. A major method of the devil is to make you feel guilty when you are not. Don’t yield to him; resist him. That is unbelief. Repent and believe what God has done and move on with Him. If Satan can get you in guilt, he has seduced your faith, and, unless you pray in faith, your prayer will not be answered. James said, A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. James 1:5, If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. In Heb 4:15 we read, For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. God’s throne is the throne of grace. God gave His Son, and He will grant us grace through Him because of His sacrifice of Himself upon the Cross for us.

Let’s consider some other scriptures on prayer. 1 John 5:14, Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. If we want God to hear our prayers, we must pray according to His will. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him. Believe and doubt not. John 14:13, And whatever you ask in My name, (faith in His name), that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If we are praying anything according to His will it will be that the Father may be glorified in His Son. Is that our desire? Is that in our hearts? Or, are we seeking our own desire; our own glory. Jesus said in John 15:7, If you abide in Me, and My Words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples. As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends. You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. 

So, if we are loving others as Jesus has loved us, we are abiding in Him, keeping His Words, and whatever we ask will be according to His will; His love, and we will have what we ask. It shall be done, if we don’t faint; if we keep on believing Him and seeking Him. Through His love; abiding in Him, and His Word abiding in us, we shall go and bring forth fruit, and our fruit shall remain, as we abide in Him, and whatever we ask of the Father in His name, He will give it to us. Jesus said, He that seeks the glory of Him that sent him, the same is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him. Are we seeking God’s glory, for Him to be glorified, or are we seeking our own glory?

In John 14:12, Jesus said, Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. It is Jesus who does the work through us, that His Father may be glorified. If we want the glory, He won’t work. We are not abiding in His love. If we will truly seek to glorify our Father in Heaven, through abiding in Jesus; keeping His Words, and loving one another, He will move through us. When we pray, we won’t be asking amiss, for selfish things, but we will be praying according to His will; according to His love.

Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. Spend time reading and meditating in the Word of God every day, not as a religious exercise, but with all humility, yielding to the Holy Spirit, as He teaches you and gives you understanding, truly seeking revelation and understanding, especially that you may know God and His Son Jesus Christ. Faith works by love. So, as you learn of Him, seek to obey Him and keep His commandments: the Words of Jesus. He said, that if we love Him, we will keep His commandments. The Apostle John said, For this is the love of God, that we walk after His commandments, and His commandments are not burdensome. Don’t believe the lie that you can’t keep His Words. When you walk into a situation, such as forgiving and loving an enemy of yours, you can ask Jesus for grace to help you to obey His
Words, and you will find grace to help in the time of need. God’s throne is the throne of grace: the place where He gave His Son, where He sent Him from, to come here and live as a man, tempted in every way, and to overcome all sin, the world and the devil, and to give His flesh on the Cross of Calvary for the life of the world. We love Him because He first loved us. Come boldly to the throne of grace, that you may find grace to help in the time of need. You see, if you come boldly to God in faith, He will respond.

Build yourself up on your most holy faith praying in the Holy Spirit, in your native language and in tongues; with the understanding, and in the Spirit also. Jude 1:20, But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. You need to be baptized in the Holy Spirit, so you can pray in tongues, in the Spirit, and in your language, as the Holy Spirit will lead you in intercession, for yourself and for others, and you will build yourself up thereby on your most holy faith, to believe the Word of God; to pray according to His will, and to receive the answer to your prayers! Hallelujah!

This is the truth of God’s Word. If you will believe it and obey it, God will work in your life. Don’t believe the lies any more: that you don’t need to be baptized in the Holy Spirit; that you don’t need to speak in tongues; that tongues have ceased. The Holy Spirit is a wonderful gift of God to you. Jesus said, I’m going away to be with the Father, but I won’t leave you alone, but I will send another Comforter that He may be with you forever. You need Him; His comfort; His exhortation, and His edification. You need to be filled with the Holy Spirit and walk in love. Faith works by love. If you have hatred towards someone; if you won’t forgive; if you won’t humble yourself and forsake your pride and your rebellion, you are in darkness, and you can pray in tongues all day long, but it will not be effectual.  The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much: a man or a woman who loves Jesus and the Father, and keeps their Words. Thank you Father.

Prophecy:

I am God Almighty. Those of you listening to My servant Rob this day, humble yourselves before Me; pray according to My Word, and I will respond; I will answer you, when you pray in faith according to My Word, says the Lord. Trust in Me, for I love you; it is My desire to answer your prayers as you pray according to My will; according to My Word, says the Lord.

Thank you for reading this message from 15 Minutes With Jesus at roberthaymes.com . May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you who love Him in truth, Amen. 

 Faith In His Name

Greetings in the name of Jesus! This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes With Jesus. 

Wherever two or three are gathered together in My name, Jesus said, there am I in the midst of them. To those of you who love Him in truth: mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. (Jude 1:2)

Thank you Father, in Jesus’ name! Thank you Father for this day, Hallelujah! Thank you Father for this program. Thank you Father; I pray that you would minister to many hearts; that you would give us all ears to hear and hearts to receive what the Holy Spirit is speaking, Amen.

Today’s program is called, Faith In His Name. Let’s turn to Acts 3:1,  Now Peter and John went up together to the Temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the Temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who entered the Temple; who, seeing Peter and John about to go into the Temple, asked for alms. And fixing his eyes on him, with John, Peter said, Look at us. So he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them. Then Peter said, Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk. And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. So he, leaping up, stood and walked and entered the temple with them—walking, leaping, and praising God. And all the people saw him walking and praising God. Then they knew that it was he who sat begging alms at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple; and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him. Now as the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch which is called Solomon's, greatly amazed. So when Peter saw it, he responded to the people: Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this? Or why look so intently at us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk? The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let Him go. But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses. And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. 

Let’s go to Acts 4:8, Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, Rulers of the people and elders of Israel: If we this day are judged for a good deed done to a helpless man, by what means he has been made well, let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. This is the Stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief Corner Stone. Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under Heaven given among men by which we must be saved. 

Php 2:5, Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in Heaven, and of those on Earth, and of those under the Earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. 

Jesus said in John 14:12, Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. 

Let’s go to Eph 1:15, Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers: that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the Church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. 

Hos 6:1, Come, and let us return to the Lord; for He has torn, but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up. After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His sight. Let us know, let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord. His going forth is established as the morning; He will come to us like the rain, like the latter and former rain to the Earth. Isn’t this good people! What a joy!: The Word of God and the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ, by the Holy Spirit through the Word of God. Hallelujah!  

Eph 2:4, But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, That is where we are! That is where we are! Those of us who believe in Jesus; who have faith in Him; who have confessed our sins; who have repented and believed the Gospel, and been crucified with Him, through water baptism, and raised with Him, and are seated with Him at the Father’s right hand, in the heavenly places, far above all principality, power and dominion, and every name that is named: we are there in Him! We must simply believe!; believe what the scripture says; believe what has been accomplished through the Gospel; through the resurrection of Jesus! Thank you Lord! 

Rom 10:8 But what does it say? The Word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that is, the Word of faith which we preach: that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture says, Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame. For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. For Whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. 

In Philippians 2, we read that the Father has highly exalted Jesus, and given Him a name above every name, in Heaven, on the Earth, and under the Earth. In Ephesians 1, we read, He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand, far above every power and principality and every name that is named!

We don’t just speak the name of Jesus; many people are speaking the name of Jesus. It is speaking His name in faith: faith in who He is, and in what the Father has done in him and through Him. When Jesus was on His way to Jairus’ house to raise his daughter from the dead, many, many people were thronging Him and touching Him, hoping to be healed of their diseases. But there was a woman, who came up behind Him, and she said in her heart, If I can just touch the hem of His garment, I shall be healed! She had faith in Him, and when she touched His garment, virtue went out of Him and immediately she was healed of her plague!  When we speak His name in faith in all that the Father has done in Him, and we refuse to doubt; if we continue in faith, believing the report in Isaiah 53: By His stripes we are healed; He has taken our sicknesses and carried our pains, we shall be delivered; we shall be healed. The prayer of faith, not just speaking His name, but faith in His name, will save the sick, and if they have committed any sins, they shall be forgiven. If you start to faint and fall into doubt, just stop and repent and acknowledge it to God, and get back to believing!: Lord, I believe, forgive and help my unbelief !  

One day, several years ago, I was speaking with a friend of mine about going to Israel. We were speaking many things about going to Israel. And at that time the Lord spoke to me and He told me, I’m sending you to Israel. I believed Him, and I kept on believing Him. I had no money to go to Israel. After a while, I stopped believing; I wasn’t believing Him about going to Israel, and one night, in my office, I humbled myself, and I prayed a prayer of repentance: I told Him, Father, forgive me, I’ve quit believing; I ask you to forgive me. From this night on I’m going to believe what you spoke to me: You are sending me to Israel! Immediately I had two charley horses, very strong; very painful, in my legs, courtesy of you know who, and I was in pain, but I determined that I was going to keep believing Him. And I kept on believing Him, and one night I was in a restaurant with a friend of mine, and they said to me, I believe it’s God’s will for me to pay your way to Israel, and they said, Do you think that’s God? I was overwhelmed, and I said, Yes I do, and, needless to say, God brought me to Israel, with a dear friend of mine. So, what a joy to believe God! So, as I’m saying, if you faint, if you quit believing, there’s no condemnation, come to the Lord and say, Lord I believe; help my unbelief ! 

Thank you for reading this message from 15 Minutes With Jesus at roberthaymes.com . May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you who love Him in truth, Amen. (2 Cor 13:14)