Author: Jim Corbett

Jim is an author, heart revival coach, teacher, and public speaker. His heart and mission is to bring people to an understanding of the times and seasons and lead them to be all they can be in Christ and know the thrill of Jesus as their Lord. Merry is a co-author, editor, pianist, and worship leader. Her heart mission is to encourage believers in discovering the wonder and truth available in the opportunity presented to everyone because of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Together with their daughter Jubilee Faith, they are the founders of The 101 Group. A back to basics spiritual investment company that equips the body of Christ to effectively serve the Lord through written and spoken word, personal publications, music, daily devotionals, concert venues, and MASH icu, a comprehensive program for men.

10/03/19 What God Has Promised

"Do not allow your heart to be swayed by the things that are large and looming, those things that deny My plans and My purposes for your world. Do not allow your mind to be captured by the lies that seem larger and more powerful than My Word. You know what is true. You know that you live in a world full of fools who deny Who I am. There are those who have agendas that are designed to distract you from My task for you. They will cause you to look at circumstances and forget what I have promised. They will attempt to lure you to walk in arenas that have little or no eternal value. Give them no notice. Those places are not for you.
"I have called you to rise above the lies of the world and live in the power of My Word. I have provided others who hear the same call that you do. Walk with them. Be advocates for one another. Together you will walk through the fires of darkness, fulfilling the light of My Word in those who need to see clearly. Together you will be My true church. Now is not the time to pull back because things are changing around you. Now is the time to draw near to Me.  Now is the time to implement what you have been learning on My lap, in My presence. Listen only to what I say and have always said. Listen to My Word. Listen and act upon only what you know to be true. That is where I am."
Exodus 17:12 AMP
But Moses' hands were heavy and grew weary. So [the other men] took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Then Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side and one on the other side; so his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
Joshua 24:15 NIV 
"But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord."
Acts 4:29-35 NIV 
29) "Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness.
30) Stretch out your hand to heal and perform miraculous signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus."
31) After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.
32) All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had.
33) With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and much grace was upon them all.
34) There were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned lands or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales
35) and put it at the apostles' feet, and it was distributed to anyone as he had need.
Reacting to circumstances is never what God intends for His people. Those who accomplish mighty things for Him have learned that difficulties will always be present. They see challenges as opportunities to drive them into an intimacy with their loving Father. From His lap, the view of things becomes very clear. They take on an eternal perspective where God is completely in charge. As we respond to circumstances from God's perspective, there is an eternal impact, not one that is reactionary and possibly motivated by fear or anger or whatever else the enemy chooses to stir in us.
The world needs to see true followers of Christ. They need to see how He responds. They need to desire the more wonderful ways of His life. That can only be accomplished as each of us comes to know Him by spending time with Him. If He is our study and priority, His nature in us will then prevail over anything and everything that comes our way. His light will then shine brightly through us and be noticed by those who choose to see.
 
Never allow my heart to change just because the world is changing, Lord,
 
Jim Corbett

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10/03/19 Follow Me as I Follow Christ

These incredible words are one of the most powerful directions a man can give to his family. Just think of it, a man who chooses to follow Christ could assure his family that no matter what happens, he has Christ as a guide for himself and them. How comforting this would be for a wife and family who are serving the Lord.
With that kind of commitment in place, the man would have a corresponding commitment to do everything to protect his family, just as Christ did for the church. He would willingly lay his life down for the ones he loves.
Can you imagine the peace a family would have in knowing that their husband and father would lay his life down for them? Do you see the impact that kind of atmosphere would create?  A wife would be free to trust motives and decisions made in doing things that affect the family. The children would bask in an arena of absolute, unquestioned love. The family unit would be impenetrable. The outside forces against the family would never gain a foothold.
What a glorious picture - all members moving in unison, guided and directed by a father who is guided and directed by God alone. What an astounding plan! Maybe that's the way our Father in heaven wants it. What do you think?
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Jim Corbett

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10/02/19 Agents of His Will

"When My Son prayed, do you know what the "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven" part means? I know that most of this is quite obvious, but it means that all of your creation and the angelic creation before you are continually transferring what is accomplished here in the heavenlies with Me to the earth. My overall plan for your world is being accomplished. It is being brought to My determined conclusion precept by precept. I have set in motion natural laws that each moment are fulfilling My timetable. The angels observe and implement for Me. And then there is you, My children. Your portion is also to implement what is accomplished in the heavens on your earth.
"Let Me explain. Every "war," a term you can understand, is actually the pushing aside of what is at present and replacing it with what I desire to happen. It is all spiritual. In fact, it is the spiritual transferred into the physical realm by My agents. My Son demonstrated the accomplishing of My will when He said that nothing was done of Himself, but only through Him by Me. He wasn't saying that He was weak. He was showing you how to freely live and move and have your existence in Me as agents of My will, overcoming your portion of your world.
"I have given you all authority to implement My changes through My presence in you. The problems arise for you when you attempt to engage in the "war" of furthering My purposes in your own strength and wisdom. Most of the time, you don't have any idea what I am trying to accomplish in a given situation. You don't spend enough time with Me to find out what I am really doing. You make assumptions, pray fruitless prayers, and wonder why you are in trouble. It is because you have determined to do your will, sometimes even calling it My will; and, in essence, are opposing Me in the process. That is a hard road to travel.
"Your burden becomes light when I give it to you and then carry it for you. Find out what I am doing and then simply use what I have given you to accomplish it in My strength."
Matt.16:19  AMP
I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind (declare to be improper and unlawful ) on earth must be whatever is already bound in heaven; and whatever you loose (declare lawful ) on earth must be what is already loosed in heaven.
Col. 3:1-2 AMP 
1) If then you have been raised with Christ [to a new life, thus sharing His resurrection from the dead], aim at and seek the [rich, eternal treasures] that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
2) And set your minds and keep them set on what is above (the higher things), not on the things that are on the earth.
When I was young, I had a tendency to take the more difficult road. "Paving new paths" I would call it, rather than walking the proven, successful way of doing things. When I did this, and when the egg was very evident on my face, my dad had a kind way of cutting to the chase concerning my folly. He would say, "You roundhead." It was really a loving term. I knew exactly what he meant and we would laugh, the failure and guilt were gone; and we would examine ways for me not to get in trouble again - at least in theory. My actions became "round" more often than I care to remember.
The ease with which we can avoid all of the pitfalls in this life is really astoundingly simple. We must determine what the will of God is in any given situation and then walk in it, "loosing" it on this earth.
The problem is that most of us are spiritual "roundheads." We won't spend enough time with our Lord to find out what He wants done. We say, "God said" this, "He told" me that. We bind this, loose that, and pray for our own will and call it His. Then we wonder why nothing happens.
Sadly, even more shameful, is how we appear to the unsaved world. Our foolish words and powerless actions have painted a picture of a weak, powerless God who doesn't answer prayer or change anything. We present an image of Jesus that few people would desire to follow. Plus, we can't even explain why things are happening as they are, because we don't really know.

 

Maybe it's time for us to determine to wait in the presence of our Lord until He shows us what to do each day. Maybe we should determine to do only His will instead of ours. Maybe we should.
 
Tired of wiping spiritual egg off my face,
 
Jim Corbett

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10/02/19 An Incredible Heart

I wish I could give proper credit to the players in this story, but I don't remember who they were or when the story took place. I just remember how much it impacted me.
The story goes that a father set some rules for his children to obey, so that there would be harmony in the home and Jesus would be glorified. If a violation of any one of the rules took place, the violator had to spend the night in the barn - not only for punishment, but to have that person think about how good it was to not be separated from the rest of the family. At the time, belonging to a family unit was a very important thing, so being an outcast (even for a short time) hurt.
After one of the children was sent to the barn for a violation that had occurred during the day, he heard - amid the strange groans and creaks encountered in a loft late at night - a particularly clear presence of someone else in the barn. As he cowered in fear, awaiting the intruder to make himself known, his father's face appeared at the ladder. As he entered the loft with a pillow and blanket in hand, he said something like this. "I had to follow through with giving you the consequences you earned, so I couldn't let you in the house; but that doesn't stop me from coming out here to spend the night with you so you won't be afraid."
As a father, have you ever given of yourself even when strong discipline is deserved by one of your children? Has there ever been a big dose of love accompanying it? As it says in the Word, our Father disciplines us for our own good. Do you do the same?
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Jim Corbett

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10/01/19 A Great Lesson

10/01/19 A Great Lesson

I remember the time my dad came to me at 2:00 AM with a spare tire in his hand, because I had burned the rubber off my own tires after about two months. I had a flat about a mile from home, and I woke him up to take me back where I left my car. I was sure that I was really in for it this time. He had commented on me driving foolishly for a long time, so I knew this was incredible fuel for a fatherly "I told you so" kind of lesson.
What surprised me, though, was the fact that he said nothing that night, or even after that I can recall. He didn't have to. I knew how wrong I had been. Now, I'm not going to say that I changed my ways immediately since I went through many sets of tires before I finally wised up; but that instance had a great impact on me none-the-less.
My dad's quiet assistance at that time said more than any lecture he could have given me. He simply served because he was my dad. In his own way, he said out loud that he loved me without saying a word in a situation where I deserved many words.
As a father, it might be good to take a thorough look at the way you are directing your children into wholeness. Are you continually correcting them, or are you giving them some space to learn some valuable lessons in ways that allow God to work on their hearts? Sometimes the most is said when no words are involved. It gives you time to pray for their best interests, too.
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Jim Corbett

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