Distance is Not An Issue
“For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.” (Colossians 2:5 WEB)
At that time, there was no Internet technology. There was no way to hop on a Zoom online conference call to speak to the churches. Instead, the apostle Paul saw visions of the churches in his spirit, and that is how he could see their order and steadfastness of faith. Having the Holy Spirit in us is like being connected to the Internet. We are connected to all the knowledge and power that God has.
Nowadays, the local church that I attend is not allowed to hold in-person church services due to government regulations. As a result, all services are held through online broadcast instead.
Although I miss sitting in the physical services, worshipping the Lord together with other believers, I believe that online services are no less powerful than in-person ones.
Many people are more comfortable with ‘the human touch’, such as receiving prayer in person, having a pastor to place his hand upon them while praying, but this physical contact is actually not absolutely necessary.
In His second miracle, Jesus demonstrated that the power of the Holy Spirit is not limited by distance.
“Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe.” The nobleman said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported, saying “Your child lives!” So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him.” So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” He believed, as did his whole house. This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.” (John 4:46-54 WEB)
Jesus was in Cana, while the sick boy was in Capernaum. Just by speaking the words “your son lives” in faith, the power of the Holy Spirit healed the boy from a long distance away. Jesus did not have to lay hands on the child in order for him to be healed.
The nobleman initially thought that Jesus had to go to his house before the son could be healed. However, when Jesus released the words, “Go your way, your son lives,” the nobleman believed, and that was enough to receive the healing in proxy for his son.
We know that the nobleman believed because he met Jesus at the seventh hour (between 1 - 2pm). Cana and Capernaum are about 25 miles apart (about 6 - 8 hours walking distance) so if the nobleman set off immediately, he could be back home the same day at night to check on his son.
However, we see that the nobleman only spoke to his servant the next day. This means that the nobleman stayed at an inn or something for a night, and trusted that his son had been healed. If he had been unbelieving, he would have rushed home right away so as not to miss his son’s last moments, since he was “at the point of death”.
There are other long-distance healing miracles like this one, such as Jesus healing the Roman centurion’s servant, and Jesus healing the Syrophoenician woman’s demon-possessed daughter.
Continue to feed on the rhema word that God is releasing in season. Whether online or in-person, God’s power is still fully effective, and is not limited by the distance or channel.
As long as you hear or read, believing it, you shall experience the manifestation of the rhema word.
In the nobleman’s son’s case, the word in season was “your son lives”.
Earlier this year, I felt like I was coming down with a flu. I was sneezing repeatedly and my nose was dripping. I felt weak and irritable.
As I was praying in tongues and also asking Jesus to heal me and make me well, suddenly I heard these words in my spirit: “he grew strong through faith”.
Instantly, I knew that the Holy Spirit was talking about the apostle Paul’s description of Abraham in “Romans”.
“Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn’t waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God, and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.” (Romans 4:21 WEB)
This was a rhema word for me to be healed. I grabbed it and repeatedly confessed and meditated on this, that I was growing strong through faith.
Abraham grew physically stronger through faith. He was already old and weak, but because he believed in the rhema word which God spoke to him, he and his wife Sarah experienced drastic youth renewal.
Their saggy skin, old internal organs, weak muscles, and dry bones were all renewed miraculously, allowing them to be fit for childbearing and even raising a child.
As I kept confessing “he didn’t consider the deadness of his own body, but he grew strong through faith,” I felt physically better and I did not sneeze or have runny nose anymore.
It was just a few words, but I emphasized on the “grew” and “strong”. Suddenly, each word was pregnant with life-giving power for my situation.
Faith comes through hearing the rhema word of Christ. What is He saying to you? As you are listening to a sermon video online, what is the key message or statement that jumps out at you and makes a strong impression in you heart? Sometimes the Lord whispers a verse or passage to you from within. Grab it and declare it for yourself because it carries the miracle-working power of God to turn your situation around!
Actionable Steps:
1. Get yourself plugged in to a ministry that preaches the Gospel. Listen to the new messages released by the pastor or preacher. If the Holy Spirit led you there, then you will benefit from believing the rhema words that is released through that ministry.
2. Train your mind to believe in the limitless reach of prayer. Pray for people who are far away from you, knowing that God will answer your prayers of faith, regardless of the distance between you and them.
3. When you receive a word in season (rhema word), write it down in your notebook or somewhere so that you do not forget. Revisit these words often and declare them, so long as you are still waiting for the manifestation.
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Your Flesh as an Instrument for Righteousness
“knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin. But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him; knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him! For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God. Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.” (Romans 6:6-14 WEB)
Our human spirit that was dead in sin (inherited from Adam) cannot be reformed through good works. The only way we can be freed from sin is to die to it and be resurrected with a completely clean slate.
This is what happens when you first placed your faith in Jesus. Your old self was in that instant crucified with Christ, and the Holy Spirit resurrected you and made you a new spirit. This new spirit has a divine nature because it is joined with the Holy Spirit to become one spirit.
Since death is the penalty of sin, and you have already died, you have been freed from sin.
Now the true you (the reborn spirit) is already having eternal life because you will never die again.
We have to stop identifying ourselves with our mortal flesh. When the New Testament says “you”, it is talking about you the spirit—the real you.
I like how Paul distinguishes the mortal body (“your members”) as “instruments”. You live in a body, but you are not the body!
Imagine that you are a person sitting in a robot and controlling it.
Paul is telling us to control the robot and use it for righteousness to glorify God. Those who do not understand what has happened to their spirit are the ones who let the robots control them.
They leave the robot in autopilot mode and it takes them wherever it wishes, in the form of being driven by sinful passions and evil imaginations of the flesh. The problem is that the robot’s autopilot mode is faulty, and the error causes it to do evil things that are against God’s will.
Yes, sin is still present in the body, but we do not have to obey its solicitations. Sin is not our master anymore.
Instead, we can tune in to our spirit and be led by the Holy Spirit. Let Him supply your robot with the ability to do what is pleasing to God. All you have to do is realize that you are not the robot. You are the one in the driver’s seat. You are actually holy, perfect, blameless, and righteous like Jesus. Time to steer your flesh well as an “instrument of righteousness to God”!
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His Banner Over me is Love!
“He brought me to the banquet hall. His banner over me is love.” (Song of Solomon 2:4 WEB)
In a Jewish wedding, the wedding couple get married under a canopy called a “Chuppah” which consists of a big sheet (like a banner) stretched out over four standing poles.
This scene is a picture of two people in love sealing their marriage by a covenant.
Imagine Jesus standing with you under the canopy, affirming His love for you. He sealed the New Covenant of Grace for you by shedding His own precious blood.
Perhaps that is why I was led to color the carpet as red because we are standing upon the foundation established by His blood.
““You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. The work of the skillful workman shall it be made.” (Exodus 26:31 WEB)
Without realizing it until the picture was done, the colors I used reflect the four colors of the veil in the Tabernacle, and the golden wings of the cherubim on the Ark of the Covenant. The Chuppah is like a tabernacle—you are preserved from the corruption of the world and kept from harm in God’s dwelling place.
“For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.” (Romans 7:2 WEB)
A covenant between two is dissolved when one of the two parties dies.
You already died once when you first placed your faith in Jesus. You shared in His death at the cross, His burial, and His resurrection. This means that the covenant between you and God can never become null and void!
When you know that you are united with Jesus by an everlasting covenant, you will not be afraid of falling out of His favor or of any enemies.
His banner over you is love. Just look up and see His love spreading out over you, enveloping you, keeping you safe and protected under the shelter of God!
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Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Ending
(ไม่ตายเลยซักครั้ง)
ปราบปีศาจแห่งความแค้น
Demon of Hatred
ปราบพ่อบุญธรรม
Owl Father
ปราบอาชินะ เก็นอิจิโระ สำนักโทโมเอะ
Genichiro Ashina
ปราบนักดาบเทวดา อาชินะ อิชชิน
Isshin, the Sword Saint (Endboss)
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is an action-adventure game played from a third-person view. Although compared to FromSoftware's Souls series, the game features no role-playing elements, such as character creation, classes, or equipment upgrades, as well as having no multiplayer elements. Rather than attacking to whittle an enemy's health points, combat in Sekiro revolves around using a katana to attack their poise and balance instead, which eventually leads to an opening that allows for a single killing blow. The game also features stealth elements, allowing players to immediately eliminate enemies if they can get in range undetected. In addition, the player character has the ability to use various tools to assist with combat and exploration, such as a grappling hook and a torch. If the player character dies, they have the option of being revived on the spot under certain conditions instead of respawning at earlier checkpoints.
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is an action-adventure video game developed by FromSoftware and published by Activision. The game was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on March 22, 2019. The game follows a shinobi known as Sekiro during the Sengoku period as he attempts to take revenge on a samurai who attacked him and kidnapped his lord. The game generally received positive reviews from critics.
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Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
ปราบซากุระริว
Divine Dragon
ปราบมิบุ อุจินาริ
Ashina Elite – Ujinari Mizuo
ปราบหอกเจ็ดเล่มแห่งอาชินะ โอนิบะ ชุเมะ มาซาจิ
Seven Ashina Spears – Shume Masaji Oniwa
ปราบจูคิจิแห่งอากะโซนาเอะ
Shigekichi of the Red Guard
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is an action-adventure game played from a third-person view. Although compared to FromSoftware's Souls series, the game features no role-playing elements, such as character creation, classes, or equipment upgrades, as well as having no multiplayer elements. Rather than attacking to whittle an enemy's health points, combat in Sekiro revolves around using a katana to attack their poise and balance instead, which eventually leads to an opening that allows for a single killing blow. The game also features stealth elements, allowing players to immediately eliminate enemies if they can get in range undetected. In addition, the player character has the ability to use various tools to assist with combat and exploration, such as a grappling hook and a torch. If the player character dies, they have the option of being revived on the spot under certain conditions instead of respawning at earlier checkpoints.
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is an action-adventure video game developed by FromSoftware and published by Activision. The game was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on March 22, 2019. The game follows a shinobi known as Sekiro during the Sengoku period as he attempts to take revenge on a samurai who attacked him and kidnapped his lord. The game generally received positive reviews from critics.
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ปราบเจ้าหัวขาด
Underwater Headless (Fountainhead Palace)
ปราบเจ็ดพักตร์ซามูไร
Shichimen Warrior (Fountainhead Palace)
ปราบเงาโดดเดี่ยว มาซานางะคมหอก
Lone Shadow Masanaga Spear-Bearer
ปราบชิเงกุระแห่งอุวาบามิ
Juzou the Drunkard 2nd Version
ปราบปลาคาร์ฟยักษ์
Great Colored Carp
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is an action-adventure game played from a third-person view. Although compared to FromSoftware's Souls series, the game features no role-playing elements, such as character creation, classes, or equipment upgrades, as well as having no multiplayer elements. Rather than attacking to whittle an enemy's health points, combat in Sekiro revolves around using a katana to attack their poise and balance instead, which eventually leads to an opening that allows for a single killing blow. The game also features stealth elements, allowing players to immediately eliminate enemies if they can get in range undetected. In addition, the player character has the ability to use various tools to assist with combat and exploration, such as a grappling hook and a torch. If the player character dies, they have the option of being revived on the spot under certain conditions instead of respawning at earlier checkpoints.
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is an action-adventure video game developed by FromSoftware and published by Activision. The game was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on March 22, 2019. The game follows a shinobi known as Sekiro during the Sengoku period as he attempts to take revenge on a samurai who attacked him and kidnapped his lord. The game generally received positive reviews from critics.