Author: Joshua Maynard

There is nothing more enticing to someone who is already being manipulated by religion than to mention “anointing”, “power”, “double-portion” or “mantle” in the same sentence with and Old Testament Bible verse and offer those things in exchange for a “seed offering” of money.
You wonder why people continue to give to televangelists and ministries that are preaching manipulatively to obtain money?
1.) They don’t know that they are already anointed.
2.) They dont know that they have the same power in them that raised Jesus from the dead
3.) They revere the Old Testament more than the Gospel because they still believe in trying to obtain/maintain their salvation by works and following parts of the law.
4.) They don’t feel empowered to study the Bible for themselves because they have merely been made converts and not disciples properly.
If we can fix these points, the manipulative ministries will lose traction.
– Bishop Joshua Maynard

Christians preoccupied about the sin in others deny the perfect sacrifice for sin which is Christ.

You cannot love you neighbor and hate their sin.

Don’t fool yourself.

You will yell at your neighbor, shun your neighbor, condemn your neighbor and in no way love your neighbor.

You will hate your neighbor.

– Bishop Joshua Maynard

Healiing is for you today

 

Cancer is one of the most destructive diseases that humans deal with.
There are more than 100 types of cancer. Some say that there are more than 200.
However, when a Christian deals with any cancer, whether in their own body or cancer that is affecting a loved one or friend, we must remember that God is not the cause. Death is not the solution or the healing.
Death entered into the world by sin, and Jesus came that we might have life!
Nothing has changed about this simple truth, and yet people are quick to blame God for disease and death.
It’s easy to blame God for disease and death if you believe that God controls everything or allows everything bad that happens.
It’s also easy to blame God when we don’t understand why bad things happen to us and others.
Here is a fact that I hope you will be able to receive today:
If you choose to believe that God controls everything and allows everything bad that happens to us, then you can’t also believe that Jesus came to give life and life more abundantly. (John 10:10)
You can’t believe two things that are diametrically opposed to one another and claim that what you believe is true.
Either God sent Jesus to save our spirit and kill our bodies or God sent Jesus to bring life and life more abundantly in every part of our being.
(Truth: John 10:10)
Either Jesus came to save, or Jesus came to kill. (Truth: Luke 9:54-56)
Either Jesus came to destroy the world or to destroy the works of the Devil. (Truth: 1 John 3:8)
Either Jesus heals all of or diseases or He causes and allows them.
(Truth: Acts 10:38, Acts 28:8-9, Matthew 8:17)
You say, what about when people aren’t healed?
God’s will isn’t done automatically on the Earth, even though it is clear from the example of Jesus and that of the disciples that God wants everyone healed.
How do we reconcile that everyone isn’t healed, even though the Bible clearly shows Christ and the disciples healing?
A:) We can believe that healing and miracles passed away with the early church.
B:) We can believe that healing is part of the atonement by Christ Jesus and believe for healing despite how things unfold.

Is the power of God not greater than the worst disease on Earth?
Of course it is.
How can we believe in healing when we don’t see consistent results?
How can we tell others that God can heal them but apparently won’t?
These are questions that I’ve wrestled with, and I’ve read quite a few answers that others have provided.
I don’t like the answers that have been given.
Here are a few of the commonly believed reasons to WHY PEOPLE ARENT HEALED.

Some say that it is a lack of faith in the part of the person praying that prevents healing.

(They often cite: Mark 9:17-18 in which the disciples could not cast out the demon afflicting a boy.)

Some say that it is a lack of faith in the part of the sick person that prevents healing.
(They often cite: Mark 6:4-5 in which Jesus could do not mighty works because of their unbelief. Let’s not forget that it says that while Jesus could do no “mighty” works, He still healed a few people.
Some say that it is others around the sick person that do not have faith and can hinder the healing.
(They often cite: Mark 5:39-40 where people made such laughter at Jesus in disbelief that He had to put them out of the house before He raised the little girl from the dead.)
Some say that it is unconfessed sin that prevents healing.
(They often cite: John 9:1-2 where the Disciples asked Jesus if the blind man had sinned or his parents. Jesus answered them and said “Neither”.)
If unconfessed sin blocked healing, then no one would be able to receive healing. None of us HAVE confessed or even CAN confess every sin.
Some say that God gave the person sickness for a purpose, so God’s grace is sufficient to suffer it.
(They often cite: John 9:1-1 claiming that God gives people sickness so that He can heal them and get glory from it. However, it seems that Jesus was merely refocusing their attention on how this situation is an opportunity to bring glory to God and not an opportunity to focus on sin. Their focus was in the wrong direction.
They also quote 2 Corinthians 12:7-9 and falsely claim that Paul was afflicted with a sickness from God. They claim that he was getting “puffed up” about the revelations he was receiving. They also say that God gave Paul a sickness and refused to heal him so that Paul would stay humble. It would take another article to fully explain, but Paul’s “thorn in the flesh” wasn’t sickness at all.
Additionally, they will also cite the entire book of Job as evidence that God afflicts believers and allows Satan to harm us, while conveniently leaving out the fact that Job and all that Job had were under Satan’s dominion already, and that God had no covenant or promise with Job.
It was only God’s grace that kept Satan from killing Job.
Some say that demons are the root cause of the sickness and that the person praying has not fasted and prayed enough to be able to cast them out.
(They often cite: Mark 9:28-29 where Jesus says that “This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.” They believe that Jesus is referring to the demon, but He is actually referring to unbelief.)
Everyone seems to have an opinion (always based on scripture, right?) about why people don’t always receive a healing or a miracle.
Faith, sin, lifestyle, demonic oppression, God’s greater purpose, God’s timing, God’s sovereignty are just a few reasons that are commonly used.
The great question of “Why we aren’t always healed” may never be answered while we live on Earth.
You can chase after formulas, prayer chains, healing waters, healing meetings and many other possibilities, but Jesus just said to BELIEVE.
Over and over again, Jesus reminded the disciples to just BELIEVE.
BELIEVING even when a healing doesn’t seem to be happening isn’t foolishness.
Seeking medical help doesn’t mean that you stop believing for a healing.
Death is NOT a victory over sickness and Death is NOT a method that God uses for anything good.
If we learn anything from Jesus and His example of the Father’s heart, understand that God is about giving life, not death.
How can we comprehend why God doesn’t intervene in death, even when babies and children die from disease?
I believe that we aren’t meant to understand why.
We are meant to BELIEVE in spite of the circumstances and even in spite of death.
Medical science cannot offer TRUE HOPE, only possibilities and probabilities of outcomes.
Without the HOPE that is in Christ for healing that our faith gives us, our soul becomes sick along with our bodies.
When our soul becomes sick, the outcome is all but certain: Faith dies.
If you need medical aid or surgery, don’t give up on hope for a healing.
With many medical procedures comes a recovery time, and your recovery can be smoother and shorter when God’s healing comes to you.
I have received many healings, and I have prayed for people who have also been healed.
I have not been healed of every issue in my body, but it will never convince me that God doesn’t heal today, or that He doesn’t want me healed.
I have heard that in other less-developed countries, people receive healings so much faster and easier than in the United States.
I believe it is because we have a culture of both medicine, death and vain religion in America.
We have years and years of garbage and wrong believing in our minds to bypass in order for our faith to be expressed in purity, without unbelief.
Unbelief is by far our biggest issue in receiving healing, and our bodies respond to what we believe, not what we fail to believe in.
I’m praying that anyone who reads this will receive their healing, and never stop believing that God heals today.
I pray that you won’t blame God for your sickness, nor for your lack of healing.
It is God’s will that you live free from pain and sickness.
It is God’s will that Satan’s work in your life be destroyed, and that every sickness has to leave your body.
God is the giver of healing and life. Sin and Satan bring about death.
I pray that God will guide you in your decisions and help you to make better choices for your health.
In Jesus name. Amen.
– Bishop Joshua Maynard

A church that is not teaching discipleship to people for ministry or at the very least empowering them with Truth is merely a social club for those who want to follow a set of tradition and rules.

It is often absent of the True and Living God and His overcoming Power.

– Bishop Joshua Maynard

Some believers live in a constant state of war against “imaginations”, when Christ has already declared that He is victor over all the power of the enemy.
We are not called to entertain an imaginary enemy and wage an imaginary war against it.
2 Corinthians 10:5 KJV
[5] Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
We must take these imaginations captivity to the obedience of Christ because they attempt to exalt themselves against the knowledge of God and His true authority.
Those that have a real problem with such “imaginary” enemies tend to see Satan and his minions everywhere.
Satan is not omnipresent, and his agents are not everywhere.
They aren’t listening to our every word or watching our every move.
We give Satan too much credit and we don’t give God the glory He deserves.
We don’t take enough responsibility for the issues we create for ourselves.
When we chase after imaginations that we created, they distract from the real cause of our problems, US!
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
Grace preachers are often asked the same question that the Apostle Paul was asked.
Isn’t Grace a license to sin?
We give the same answer that Paul gave.
NO!
Then we are picked apart with criticism, often from Paul’s own writings in scripture and treated like heretics.
Why?
Because our culture is pervasive with ideas that are contrary to the Gospel, and a social media culture that seems to empower people in a spirit of criticism.
People call themselves Christians, but choose to remain just as steeped in religious traditions as the pharisees of Paul’s time.
It is both sad and frustrating.
We are preaching the same Gospel that Paul preached.
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
Very few things in our life are truly FREE.
Salvation is a FREE gift from God.
If you are working to earn it or working to keep it, then you’re trying to pay for something that is already paid for.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t like paying for something that is FREE.
– Bishop Joshua Maynard

If you received your ‘Doctorate of Divinity’ from a Bible University and you look down on ministers who didn’t follow in your footsteps, congratulations!

You paid to receive a spirit of division and superiority which most churches would have given you for free.

Not everyone learns the same way. God ordains, God empowers, and God anoints.

– Bishop Joshua Maynard

You always hear “Repentance means to change your mind”.
Most Christians probably already know this!
The issue isn’t knowing that Repentance means to change your mind!
The issue is in not understanding that to Repent means to change your mind about your state of righteousness, and NOT to change your mind about your sins.
You see, we can’t easily change our mind about our sins.
We know we sinned.
We might even be sorry that we sinned.
But we cannot by guilt and regret keep ourselves from sinning again.
If it was so easy to “change your mind” about committing sins we wouldn’t continue to stumble in them over and over again.
The more you renew your mind; to change your mind about how righteous you are in God’s sight, the less you will commit sin, and the more you will live for Christ.
Change your mind about the right thing.
Don’t waste time focusing on changing your mind about your sins.
Instead, every time you are reminded of your failures, remind yourself that you re the righteousness of God by Christ Jesus, and don’t allow condemnation to control you.
That is repentance!
Not wallowing in self-pity and promising God through tears or crocodile-tears that you won’t sin again.
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
When Lazarus was dead in the grave, if Jesus had prayed the way believers pray today, it would have sounded something like this:
“Lazarus come forth, if it be your perfect divine will, Father.”
…and Lazarus would still be dead.
– Bishop Joshua Maynard
“Renewing your mind” isn’t necessarily about reading the Bible or hearing the Bible preached.
I could read about David slaying Philistines all day, and that isn’t going to renew my mind to do anything healthy.
I could hear about God’s love from a preacher or a recording, but hearing “about” God doesn’t necessarily help me to hear “from” God.
Having a daily Bible reading plan is not a bad thing, but don’t fool yourself into thinking that it is renewing your mind.
We can learn a lot from this is in reading about Job.
Here is a man that heard a lot “about” God and look where that got him.
He made all kinds of assumptions about God and said things about God that weren’t true.
He later admitted in Job 42:5 –
“I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.”
We’ve all been like Job in this respect. We’ve all had that time when we thought God was the bad guy.
We’ve all had that time when we felt God was against us.
We’ve all had that time when we felt like we were more destined for Hell than for God’s glory.
Well, I have had those times.
It is when we renew our mind in hearing from God that we truly begin to change.
It is when we hear from God that we realize that God loves us unconditionally and that we are forgiven unequivocally.
Don’t get caught up in merely memorizing scripture and pouring over Bible verses and say that your mind is being renewed.
Your mind may have more Bible verses memorized than the average person, but what did God say to you personally?
What is the revelation of Him that you received today?
Unless we hear from God, we are not really renewing our minds.
God is not found in any book.
He is not limited to the pages of any book.
His Word is not the scriptures of the Bible being spoken.
Romans 10:17 tells us, “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God”, but whoever interprets that to mean “Faith comes by hearing the Bible” is not getting built up in their faith and they aren’t necessarily hearing the “Word of God”. Jesus alone is the “Word of God”.
His Word is His Spirit actively speaking to us, through us and through others.
You can hear a Word from God in a Bible scripture, or through a song or a sermon.
You can hear a Word from God in the words and actions of others.
You can hear a Word from God in almost anything you encounter in everyday living because His Spirit is dynamically revealing things to us all the time if we would just listen.
We need to renew our minds daily, and all it takes is an open mind and an open heart.
God is always speaking.
Are we listening?
– Bishop Joshua Maynard

I heard a pastor on the radio say that he is “convicted” every time he opens the Bible and reads from it.

He said something always “pricks” him.

That is what the Law does.

It always prompts you to be sin-conscious.

Instead of thankfulness, joy and faith, you are filled with guilt, sorrow and doubt.

A person like this opens the Bible expecting conviction, correction and a painful “prick” instead of expectantly looking forward to it as an opportunity for the Holy Spirit to reveal God’s nature, Love and Word to them.

– Bishop Joshua Maynard

The same people that say that “free will” is merely an illusion and that God sovereignly controls everything that happens (good and bad), will also pray many-a-prayers saying “Not my will, but Thine be done”. A statement that is in direct opposition to such a belief.
In fact, Jesus prayed this same prayer, so even He had the free will to choose not to do God’s will.
If people (and Jesus) never had a free will to begin with, then they are essentially lying to God.
“Yeah God, I know my will doesn’t count, but I want you to know that your will is more important than the will that I don’t have. See, I’m humble.”
Arrogance is in not believing that we have a free will and ignoring the truth that God works within the laws that His Word ordained.
Arrogance is false humility.
– Bishop Joshua Maynard

For the hungry, He brought food.

For the religious zealot, He brought Truth.

For the failing fishermen, He brought a miracle catch.

For the tax collector, He brought coin.

For the wedding party, He brought wine.

For the temple, He brought a whip.

For the hurting, He brought healing.

For the dead, He brought Life.

For sinners, He brought forgiveness.

For believers, He brough Power.

In me, He brough Himself.

– Bishop Joshua Maynard

If you believe that a sermon preached in 30 minutes is enough to sustain you until you come back next Sunday, you are fooling yourself.
We all need daily refreshing from the Holy Spirit.
Citizens of the Kingdom of God are putting on their game faces for Sunday morning, and then warming a bench the rest of the week.
God wants to put you in the game, but you’ve got to be ready, and you’ve got to know the playbook.
There are those that think they know the game but are leaving on a stretcher because they weren’t ready to play, and they didn’t know who they are and who they represent.
They didn’t know that the game was already won before it started.
They didn’t even know whose team they were playing for!
Citizens of the Kingdom, prepare yourselves.
Prepare each day to see God work and move in you, around you and through you.
Expect to see winning results.
Don’t fear your opponents, because they can’t stop you.
All they can do is distract you from your goal.
Don’t warm the bench this week. Get in the game!
The Holy Spirit wants to teach you the way the game works.
He wants to show you the right plays to avoid the moves the enemy is making.
He wants you to be an overcomer!
– Bishop Joshua Maynard

Those that meditate on the Law day and night will find themselves meditating day and night on Sin.

There is no rest for the sin-conscious person, nor for a person who tries to live under the Old Covenant.

– Bishop Joshua Maynard

To be saved by Grace through Faith is to be condemnation and guilt free.

Are guilt and condemnation beating you down in your mind?

Life up God’s Word against such thoughts by speaking against them!

God is greater than your thoughts.

What does God say?
“You are irreproachable, blameless before me.”

– Bishop Joshua Maynard

You can’t put God first, so stop condemning yourself when you don’t seem to measure up to standard that you put on yourself.

God IS First, and God IS Last.

You are sandwiched in between with His everlasting Love, and NOTHING can take you from His hand.

– Bishop Joshua Maynard

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