If you don’t love yourself, you can’t genuinely love others.
I’m talking about knowing who you are in Christ and being utterly in love with what He has made you.
If you don’t show your true nature to others, it is because you don’t have a revelation of who you really are in Him.
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
Luke 10:19 KJV – Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall y any means hurt you.
See I, I give unto you power to crush spirits of religion, spirits of torment and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
A mother of two killed in a head-on car collision.
A woman murdered while out on the town at night.
A baby died on her first day at daycare.
Don’t tell me that God sovereignly controls everything on Earth.
God is not willing that any should perish.
Jesus healed everyone.
People like this die senselessly every day and there is no glory for God in their deaths.
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
Words are the power of creation given to man by God.
God won’t take back the words He has spoken and neither can we.
Before you speak, remember that your words will last forever.
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
In churches all across our nation, people learn to better separate themselves from the very people they have the potential to impact for Christ.
Be a disciple of Christ and disciple others, and don’t just warm a church pew with your butt every Sunday.
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
If someone asks you “do you still like your new job?”, especially months after you started, what they are really saying is, “I want you to be as unhappy in your job as I am in mine.”
People don’t always want you to be happy and blessed.
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
There is a difference between using scriptures to support your beliefs and using scriptures to defend your beliefs.
When you move from supporting to defending, you’ve changed your focus from Grace to Law and moved from Humility to Arrogance.
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
If someone is telling you ‘the truth, in love’ and their words hurt like Hell, you can be sure of one thing.
It isn’t Truth, it isn’t Love, or it’s neither.
Truth and Love don’t hurt.
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
The Gospel is only about “Good News”.
Being told that you have to pay tithes isn’t “Good News”.
That’s not the Gospel.
Believe the Gospel.
Believe in God’s ability to bless anything that you give, not just money.
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
The Gospel is only about “Good News”.
Being told that God doesn’t give people the gifts of the Holy Spirit today such as “speaking in tongues” isn’t “Good News”.
That’s not the Gospel.
Believe the Gospel.
Believe in God’s desire to bless you with all spiritual gifts and then step out in faith and watch God work!
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
The Gospel is only about “Good News”.
Being told that God doesn’t heal people today isn’t “Good News”.
That’s not the Gospel.
Believe the Gospel.
Believe in God’s healing power for you!
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
God has removed sin as an issue.
Sin no longer separates you from God except in your own mind.
Period.
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
Christ came to break the chains of religion as much as anything else provided in the atonement.
Don’t allow legalism to creep into your revelation of God’s Grace.
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
If you stand on the Word, but that Word isn’t LOVE, you are standing on man’s word, not God’s.
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
To question the Bible the way you’ve been traditionally taught and seek out the truth of God for yourself is a huge step into understanding your existence in the world.
It is liberating.
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
If your inner circle of friends believe exactly what you believe, there is little to challenge your convictions, and you leave little room for God to correct you either.
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
Sin is paid for, but make no mistake, when you exchange Life for more death by making bad choices, you will not be free of consequences.
Choose Life!
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
We must all pay a death.
Grace does not spare us from this fate, and rejecting the Truth for sin will surely hasten our departure from this world.
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
It isn’t about how much sin you can get away with.
It’s about how much Grace you have to turn away from to keep on sinning.
Grace increases as sin increases.
When Grace wins, you have abundant life.
When sin wins, you have death.
Choose Life!
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
God has faith in you.
He trusts you.
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
No good, loving father would molest his children, make his loved ones sick to teach them a lesson, allow his wife to be raped or commit murder.
Yet somehow, God, who is Love, is accused of these things and worse according to a belief called “sovereignty”.
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
When you see God as the direct or indirect cause of all the pain and suffering in the world, you have ceased to worship your Heavenly Father and have exchanged Him for a bastard father of lies called the Devil.
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
If God caused or allowed all of the tragedies and evil that He is accused of, then He is not as loving as His own creation.
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
Churches that are packed full on Christmas and Easter Sunday to the extent that people have to reserve their seats in advance speaks volumes about the church’s failure as a whole, not their success.
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
Faith that is kept out of fear, whether real or perceived, is not faith in God.
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
Repentance isn’t about feeling ‘sorry’ for your sings.
Repentance is about recognizing that Christ has forgiven you and that you are the righteousness of God in Him.
Wail and wallow at the alter all you want, but if you don’t recognize who you are in Christ, you won’t be any more repentant than you were when you started, and sin will persist.
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
Sin-consciousness begins with the introduction of the Mosaic Law and ends with the new birth in Christ, unless you willfully choose to continue in the Law.
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
Don’t remind yourself or God of your sins.
He has already forgiven and forgotten them.
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
The freedom TO sin is the freedom FROM sin.
What then is to keep us from living in sin?
The same grace that gives you the freedom TO sin constrains you by the love of God NOT to sin.
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
‘Grace’ has been called a ‘License to sin’ because it will forever be free of God’s judgment.
That doesn’t mean that you can do whatever you want without consequences.
It means that your salvation is not tied to your performance.
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
