Putting Off the Old Man

If we study the teaching of the apostle Paul we will realize that his main focus was the revelation of the created new man in us who is Christ Jesus.


Many a times, we will see that Paul does not use the word order Jesus Christ, but Christ Jesus.  Christ, or the anointed one, preceding the name Jesus, depicts the Lord in His resurrected self as this new man. This new man is the one whom has already been created in us at the moment of our salvation. However, as how all functions in the kingdom of God, He must be revealed.


Its imperative that we put off our old man who was already nailed to the cross of Christ.


Rom 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.


The “old” man is the Greek word “palaios”. Palaios is something that is old by virtue of age, constant use, something that is worn out, broken down, sickly and at the point of death. Look at a 100 year old person. This is the “palaios” man. That is our old man. Yet we embrace him and protect and love him and reject Christ beacuse of him. Woe to man, deceived by sin! Only Christ can destroy the 100 year old man in us.


At the moment that we accepted Christ, we were co- crucified with Him on the cross. Our “palaios” sinful man was crucified with Christ. Paul tells us in Rom 6:6 that the purpose of this crucifixion was that the the body of sin might be destroyed. Destroyed, is the word to render obsolete, non functional, and a total inability to cause any type of harmful effects on us...in other words, it is something which is totally broken down.


The crucifixion of Christ was so complete in what it accomplished, that the old 100 year old man can be totally freed from our lives.  Paul describes the old man in Romans 7:24 as the body of this death.


The catch lies however in the word “might” in Romans 6:6....that the body of sin might be destroyed.


“Might” is in the Greek subjunctive mood which describes completion of an action, not as something automatic, but as an act of our will. The old 100 year man, the body of this death, though crucified on the cross, can be only be freed from us as an act of our will as we cooperate together with Christ in spiritual obedience. It does not automatically come off from us. This is why so many believers remain in bondage.


Lets look now at Eph 4:22-24.


Eph 4:22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.


Here we see Paul talking again about the “palaios” 100 year old man which has been corrupted, aged and diseased by sin. Paul tells us that we must free ourselves from this “palaios' man, who is the source of all disease, malady, hatred and sickness.


Similar to the subjunctive mood in Romans 6:6, Paul here implements the middle voice, which talks about joint cooperation between us and the Lord. The middle voice depicts  us performing the action back upon ourselves; kind of like a revolving action. Its not only the Lord who sets us free, but we perform the action of freeing ourselves from the old man through prayer, knowledge of the Word of God , faith, and obedience, in cooperation with the grace of God which is always working in us.


The verbal tense of the “putting off' is in the Greek aorist which is defined as something completely executed or done. We must completely set ourselves free from this, “palaios” man if we are to be totally effective for Christ.


It will cost us everything...but it is so worth it. This is the metamorphosis of the believer which Paul talks about in Romans 12:2


2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed (metamorphosis) by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.


The news gets better though.


Right here, we see what separates Christianity from every other religion. Only Christ has performed what we are about to see next; not Buddha , Mohammed, Ron Hubbard, Krishna, or anyone else.


Verse 23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;


The word renewed comes from the word “neos” which is the total opposite to “palaios”.


“Neos” is the word “new' as somebody who is very young in age...just like a baby!  Something which brand, spanking, new!


Lets now go to verse 24.


24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.


In verse 24m the word “new” is not neos, but “kainos”. Kainos is not something which is new by virtue of age, but by virtue of its novelty. It can be something that is old, but what was never seen before.  Its like a new world order, or a new paradigm.


Look at what Paul says.


Free yourself from with the help of Christ completely from the old cancerous man. Renew your mind until it becomes youthful in its thinking; so that the new man in you who has already been created and who is Christ, can be revealed, as a human being who operates in a totally new order and paradigm of the kingdom of God.


There is so much more , but I have to leave.


Lets finish with another play on Greek words by Paul in Colossians 3, who was not only a tremendous man of God, but a mental genius.



Col 3:9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:


Here Paul tells us to put off the “palaios” man as in Ephesians 4. However the new man in verse ten is now the “neos” man.


This is the brand new baby, the totally energetic, healthy and growing kid on the block. This is the new man who lives in us!


Paul then says that this youthful man "neos" is renewed ( kainos) in knowledge using the“kainos” mind or one who thinks in the new paradigms or the new order of things of the kingdom of God.


Piecing it all together we can see that the new man Christ already created in us, but in need of revelation, is brand spanking new in age, and energy, and health. He is put on as our mind is renewed to think in the new kingdom order and paradigms of God.


The new man secondly, is new in the way that it behaves and follows totally different paradigms than the ones found in this old word order, and is put on as we renew our minds with the thinking of a believing and trusting young and new child.


More later,I have to go.

The Governmental Order of God is Released in 2010

Its 6:00am as I am writing this blog after being in prayer.



As this year began, a few prophetic words have been forwarded to me by Judith Landy and Kaye Marks that have stuck out to me as prophetic rhema words for 2010. They speak about this year as the year of bringing everything into God’s divine governmental order. I have included the links to these articles following this blog


This is the year of the disclosure  of God’s government in our lives and upon the earth.


If we are to see revival come, it will not happen out of disorderly and disobedient Christian living, but out of the orderly release and execution of God’s kingdom. The grace, faith and authority of God have been released in this year for this to happen. I am sensing a new dynamic in the faith of God. We have entered into this new paradigm if we can see it by revelation and receive it.


As this year is inaugurated there is an ability by God’s grace to believe that the Lord will bring His divine governmental order upon “all” things which are out of array within our lives, our families, our businesses, our churches, our country, and even the nations of the world. Much of this will be accomplished in intercession and in living in the Spirit of God, and believing, reckoning and receiving by faith which is a law.


Romans 3:27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

The word that I am getting is that everything that is out of God’s arrangements and unyieled to God’s loving will and rule through rebellion, blindness, deception, and hurt, can be brought underneath the feet of Jesus in this year, or at least there can be a good start to it


It must first begin with you and me. If I cannot bring all things in my life into the loving order of God’s divine patterns, how can I bring my house into that same order? How can I expect my country to come into the order of God’s kingdom? If the body of Christ is in disorder and hurt and disobedience, how can the USA be brought back into God’s governmental order?


I am preaching to myself obviously, because the Spirit of God is convicting me in 2010 in this way. I still struggle with wrong eating habits and being overweight. These habits were birthed out of mental strongholds which I created in my mind as a child when food became a comfort for pain. I have been healed of this pain but now need to break these strongholds through the power of God.


1Co 9:27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.


The subjection that Paul talks about in the above scripture is not accomplished by fleshly efforts, but through prayer, the revelation of the rhema word of God which breaks the strongholds, and the reckoning of faith.


As I bring my life into the will and order of God I can then begin to grab hold of the faith and authority to bring my household, my children and my finances into the same loving order of God’s will and kingdom. I accomplish this by word, deed and prayer.


1Ti 3:5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)


I love Paul’s word for “rule” as he talks about a man or a woman of God ruling in their own home. The Greek word is denoted as “placing yourself in front.” Godly leaders who rule for God guide by example. Paul’s idea of a godly leader is one who can place himself in front of those whom he or she are leading and say; “my life radiates enough of Christ and is in enough divine order that I can be an example to you.”


I am excited this year to finally bring everything that remains out of order in my personal life into God’s governmental arrangements. I am excited to see everything that is still lacking in my family’s life to come into God’s governmental patterns . I am also believing and praying for my church, then the USA and the nations of this word. I am proclaiming that the government of my country will come under the authority of God’s government this year. At least that a good chunk of it will!


This process will cost us everything …but it is well worth it. Take a hold of this dynamic of the grace and faith of God which He is releasing to you and do battle with it in the Spirit. Let’s push and press in by the Spirit of God to bring all things into God’s divine governmental order and kingdom pattern in our lives, the lives of our families our businesses, our church and our country.



Isa 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government <04951> shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.


Isa 9:7 Of the increase of his government <04951> and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.



Here are the important links to these articles

http://sttwm.blogspot.com/2010/01/have-always-been-careful-with-prophetic.html

http://www.injesus.com/index.php?module=message&task=view&MID=AB007H4R&GroupID=HB0069Y4&label=&paging=all

A Spiritual 2010 New Year's Resolution

I have always been careful with prophetic words, especially with those that we obtain on the Internet.

 The following is a word that was emailed to me by Judith Landy of our church, Doral Vineyard, from Dr. Clarice Fluitt.

 In all honesty I have not prayed about what she said regarding the mantles of healing being released after the death of Oral Roberts, a few weeks back, or her words about China.

 However she stated two things that have really resonated with me in my spirit and have set a type of spiritual “New Year's resolution” within me.

 The first one has to do with Dr Fluitt’s word regarding Christ’s power invested in us to cancel the evil plans and assignments of the enemy over this nation through prayer.

 I spent much of 2009 fretting and worrying about the political course of this country. God has once again reminded me not to worry, but to take authority over the circumstances and assignments which the enemy is attempting to bring.

 Dr. Fluitt superbly addresses these issues in her word. I believe that it is vitally important that through intercession we initiate this process in the New Year. I have included a link to my blog entry along with a link to Dr. Fluitt’s word, written a few months back called “What is the Real New World Order”.

 My entry basically substantiates that of Dr. Fluitt.

I must confess that I have forgotten to do what I had taught about.

The other point which Dr. Fluitt speaks about which reverberates within me is the issue of kingdom finances. As I read her word, I felt for the first time in my thirty years as a believer, that this is the year to really command and call in the transference of the wealth of this world into the kingdom of God. I am talking about big sums of money...large sums of money.

If possible please take out about 10 minutes to read Dr. Fluitt's word and my blog spot written a few months back. They are basically one in the same. As I said, her word has set a spiritual compass heading in my heart that I hope will carry through all of 2010. I pray that it does the same for you.

Here are both of the links.

http://campaign.constantcontact.com/render?v=001L9m-OEIPJ7W7wRTWRZkZNdVys-Q2Uci-pKEbMMSTgQmw0E1-em8PKBIASqtomGb37xFN661ZGPG7EA2KK5xLBvCcJPpweRipmEV7R6BjhZc

http://sttwm.blogspot.com/2009/09/what-isthe-real-new-world-order.html


In closing I would like to present two scriptural references that exemplify our authority in Christ to change the affairs of this word.

1Cor 15:24 Then <1534> cometh the end <5056>, when <3752> he shall have delivered up <3860> (5632) the kingdom <932> to God <2316>, even <2532> the Father <3962>; when <3752> he shall have put down <2673> (5661) all <3956> rule <746> and <2532> all <3956> authority <1849> and <2532> power <1411>.

25 For <1063> he <846> must <1163> (5748) reign <936> (5721), till <891> <3739> he hath put <302> <5087> (5632) all <3956> enemies <2190> under <5259> his <846> feet <4228>.

26 The last <2078> enemy <2190> that shall be destroyed <2673> (5743) is death <2288>.

"2673" (highlighted in purple) is the Strong's Word “Katargeo”: This word signifies to render non functional, obsolete and broken down. Our assignment through Christ is to katargeo all rule and authority, plans, and assignments being created by the enemy against the will of God through prayer, declaration and faith.

I am preaching to myself on this! I am determined not to fret this year but to take my authority in this manner.

In Jeremiah, we can see the similar authority of the believer in action.

Jer 1:10 See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.

The words “set thee” is the Hebrew word “paqad” which is defined as the ability to execute or bring a visitation.


We as believers have the right in prayer, word, and deed to bring the visitations of God as outlined in Jeremiah 1:10 upon our country and globe.

I pray that in 2010 these words will be part of your spiritual New Year’s resolution!

WHO IS YOUR ROLE MODEL? ( Is God Speaking?)

FIND OUT WHO TRULY IS YOUR ROLE MODEL. DON'T SCROLL DOWN YET, DO THE SIMPLE MATH BELOW, THEN SCROLL DOWN TO FIND YOUR HERO.




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1) Pick your favorite number between 1-9.






2) Multiply by 3, then






3) Add 3






4) Now multiply by 3 (I'll wait while you get the calculator...)






5) You'll get a 2 or 3 digit number...






6) Add the digits together.










Now Scroll down................










With that number, see who your ROLE MODEL is from the list below:






1. Einstein


2. Oprah Winfrey


3. John F. Kennedy


4. Sarah Palin


5. George W. Bush


6. Gandhi


7. Ronald Reagan


8. Babe Ruth


9. Pastor Jose E Alvarez


10.Rush Limbaugh

Its Official..We Are Going To Africa in February!!!

We are really excited!


Denvil Lee and I officially purchased our tickets to Kenya and Uganda yesterday and will be leaving Miami on February 24th via London and coming back on March 19th.  Please read the rest of the blog entry for details.

After what appeared as a sure cancellation of the trip to Kenya this month, turned out to be a delay of God’s timing.


The very day that I wrote to a number of people to notify them that I was cancelling the Kenya Christmas tour for lack of finances, $1525.00 came in, enough for the price of an airplane ticket.


I immediately realized that God had withheld the funds as a strategical and timing scheme. I felt to reschedule the trip to February when it’s considerably cheaper to fly to east Africa.


Secondly, the trip was to be three weeks instead of the usual two, so that I could visit with a great ministry that I have worked with in Uganda. The amazing thing about this country is that there is a genuine revival with children. God is raising up a brand new generation of young worshipers in East Africa!


When I sent another letter to update our friends of the rescheduling of the East Africa event, I got an inquiry from a church friend by the name of Denvil Lee about accompanying me .


Denvil is an amazingly anointed worship leader who sings, prophesies and plays the keyboards absolutely beautifully.


The Lord immediately reminded me of one of the final words which He had given to us in Kenya in 2007 when we moved back to the United States. God had told us then to bring the ministry of worship to Kenya! East African Christians praise Jesus Christ so wonderfully and powerfully! Yet they have gotten little introduction and training to the ministry of worship, the glory of God, and learning to wait on God’s presence.


Denvil’s desire to come on this trip is a direct fulfillment of the word of the Lord given to us to expose and train the East Africa body of Christ to the ministry of worship. Our hearts lept for joy!


 As always, we will also bring the teaching, healing and prophetic ministry of Jesus Christ to a land where there is revival and an amazing hunger and openness to the Lord Jesus.


This trip will also allow us to further strategize God’s vision for East Africa with wonderful Christian leaders.


Our potential itinerary for this trip looks something like this.


We are calling it: “The 2010 East Africa Worship, Prophetic, and Healing Tour”.


Wednesday, February 24th - Leave Miami, via London, to Nairobi, Kenya, on British Airways.


Thursday, February 25th - Arrive in Nairobi, Kenya


Friday, February 26 - Sunday, February 28th; Kitengela Worship, Prophetic and Healing Conference: Kitengela Kenya; Numerous pastors and churches involved.


Monday & Tuesday, March 1 & 2 - Kitengela / Mololongo local church meetings: Numerous pastors involved.


Monday (also), Trip to the Uganda Embassy in Nairobi - to obtain Uganda Visas.


Wednesday & Thursday, March 3 & 4 - Naamanga, Kenya; Maasai Land Meetings: Pastor David Tukai Ole Shelel (Not Confirmed)


Friday, March 5th -  Apostle Jackson Kayengo meetings:


Saturday and Sunday March 6 & 7th - Nyahururu Worship, Prophetic and Healing Conference; Nyahururu, Kenya: Pastor Henry Waweru


Monday, March 8th- Rest and Travel Day to Ugunja, Kenya


Tuesday & Wednesday, March 9 & 10th - Ugunja Worship, Prophetic, and Healing Conference; Ugunja , Kenya: Pastor Elias Onduas Ouma


Thursday, March 11th - Travel Day to Kampala, Uganda via Regional Bus Lines


Friday, March 12 through Sunday March 14 - Uganda Worship, Prophetic and Healing Conference; Kampala, Uganda: Apostle Jeremy Gichuru.


Monday, March 15th - Rest Day


Tuesday, March 16th - Back to Nairobi from Uganda via Regional Bus Lines


Thursday, March 18th - Leave from Nairobi back to Miami, Fl. via London, England


Friday, March 19th - Arrive in Miami


We estimate that we will need approximately $3,000.00 by the end of February to cover visas, advertising, venue expenses, travel money, lodging, transportation, meals, a new digital camera, and some cash to bless the men and the women of God whom we will be working with.


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The Eyeless Pyramid and the American Dollar

This is the second vision that I have had about the demise of the American dollar just within a few days from the first one. I encourage you to read the other vision, “Jaws and the American Dollar” in tandem with this vision


As I got on my knees to pray this morning, I saw the pyramid with the eye which is on the back of the one dollar bill, turned sideways. In other words, I was looking at the pyramid not from the front as is depicted on the dollar bill. I was seeing it from its left side. The eye had come out of the pyramid and was un attached. It was by itself suspended in mid air looking down at a road. I then saw many pyramids as far as the eye could see on a landscape that was being traversed by this road. The landscape was the USA. The eye that had once been in the USA dollar bill pyramid had given to it life. Anything that has an open eye must have life within it. Now all of these pyramids had no eyes. They had all become mausoleums or graves. The Lord suddenly then reminded me that pyramids had been used as graves in Egypt!

The vision then changed and I saw myself inside one of these pyramids, just like Indiana Jones, and the coffin of King Tutankhamen which was within one of its grave chambers, now in front of me.


I took an iron chisel and a hammer and broke open the golden coffin. Inside were bundles and bundles of dollar bills now for the most part dead and worthless. Our living pyramid on the back of the dollar bill now had become a dead and lifeless one holding within its grave chambers the coffins of the dead dollars.

It is no doubt that God is warning us, that the time to wake up and repent is already here and is passing us by. If we let it pass us by, it might be too late.

As the great rock and roll group of the 1970’s Kansas once sang …”The Point of No (Know) Return.” Are we getting to the point of no return? It’s funny that the song rang through my mind as I was writing this blog.


I have seen America in the spirit, get to the poverty level that one of my beloved nations, Kenya is presently in. It was poverty that woke up Kenya and has brought it to revival. I suspect that America is on the same path.


If we repent now, God will heal our land. If we don’t, only God knows. I am not the only one prophesying about the demise of the dollar bill. Others such as Larry Randolph, John Paul Jackson and Chuck Pierce are also saying it too.

The Lord ended the vision today with the following scripture.

Rev 6: 5 When the Lamb broke the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come." I looked, and a black horse appeared, its rider carrying a balance in his hand.
6 And I heard what seemed to be a voice speaking in the midst of the four living creatures, and saying, "A quart of wheat for a shilling, and three quarts of barley for a shilling; but do not injure either the oil or the wine."

Verse six is simply a definition of hyper inflation.

To finish, here is a lyrical verse from "The Point of Know Return" by Kansas.

They say the sea turns so dark thatYou know it's time, you see the signThey say the point demons guard isAn ocean grave, for all the brave,Was it you that said, "How long, how long,How long to the point of know return

I wanted to add to the original vision posted over a year ago.

Last week I had another vision of America.

In this vision, an underwater statue of Jesus Christ, as the one at John Pennycamp Park in the Florida Keys, lifelessly sank to the bottom of the ocean floor and toppled over upon the sandy bottom. At the same time an American dollar bill sank alongside with it. I was really alarmed because it seemed as if Christianity had totally died in America. All of a sudden Jesus, not as a statue, but as a living human being, emerged from the waters and walked unto the shore. He was holding the dollar bill in his hand. The bill appeared smaller than usual, more ineffective and was now in the control of Jesus’s hand. Somehow things in America had come into a more correct perspective.  Out of this financial drowning where the dollar can no longer breathe and becomes unconscious, our hearts will come to be more on Jesus and not upon the idolatry of money and entertainment. Or at least it will be Jesus who will be bringing this nation back to a right perspective. I feel that a humbling is coming to us where our priorities will be certainly better.