From the desk of Steve Shultz:
It's all about and will always be about "the Cross." You know, I don't believe we've received enough revelation about what Jesus did on the Cross for us, BUT I do believe that much, much more revelation is coming about the "power of the Cross."
This is one powerful word from Mahesh and Bonnie Chavda on the glory of the Cross...there's even a powerful declaration they wrote for us to speak over our lives. I encourage you to speak out the declaration that the Chavdas share...there is power in the Cross we've barely realized yet.
Here are also a couple of great prophetic resources, by Bill Johnson and Mahesh Chavda:
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Mahesh and Bonnie Chavda:
Glory in the Cross - the Power of the Blood of Jesus
"In the Cross is salvation, in the Cross is protection against our enemies, in the Cross is infusion of heavenly sweetness, in the Cross is strength of mind, in the Cross joy of spirit, in the Cross height of virtue, in the Cross the perfection of holiness. Behold! In the Cross all doth consist...Walk where you will, seek whatever you will, you shall not find a higher way above nor safer way below, than the holy way of the Cross...Turn thee above, turn thee below, turn thee without, turn thee within, and in all these places thou shalt find the Cross; and everywhere of necessity thou must hold fast patience, if thou wilt have inward peace, and win an everlasting crown."?Thomas A' Kempis The Imitation of Christ, ch xii Of the Inward Life
The Power of the Blood of Jesus
We were recently ministering in Redding, California, when Mahesh had a word of knowledge about a child that was suffering from an eye disorder called Nystagmus. I, Bonnie, stood up in order to see who responded, and a mother with her young daughter in her arms immediately stood. Mahesh released a word of healing, and then continued to minister. Our ministry team found out later that the little girl's vision problem was so serious that she could barely see. But after Mahesh, she pointed to me and asked her mother, "Mommy, who is that woman standing there that is covered in blood?" She had been instantly healed. I had just been ministering on the power of the Blood of Jesus in a previous session. She was seeing spiritual reality as her natural eyes were healed. She was seeing the power of the Blood. The reality of the living Christ is available to us through the shed Blood of Calvary.
Nuclear fission is a natural illustration of the power of the Blood of Christ loosed as He entered His passion. The death of Jesus is the epicenter of God's glorious revelation of triumph over the march of death in the course of human history. In one movement in His own body, Jesus halted the cosmos' spiral into chaos and eternal oblivion. He turned it around. As His flesh was torn open and His Blood was loosed, the power of its perfection entered the cosmos and brought the gears of sin and cursing grinding to a halt. The way to the Father was torn and now, Blood-bathed, no man can shut it anymore!
As in fission, the inertia of the Blood has entered the core of the substance of all things created visible and invisible, and is ever being absorbed, multiplying in force and power as the Gospel is preached. Hearts transformed by the power of His Blood join into the epic chain and emit an ever-increasing wave of His power. The Blood breaks open the bars of sin's prison and sets the captive free. With it explosive power is multiplied and loosed in testimony of what He has done. This perpetual motion?the release of the light and heat of Calvary?is living and unfolding in increasing glory down through every succeeding generation. It is the assurance that the whole earth shall be filled with His glory.
The Love of the Cross
The Cross remains. It is not a onetime event of history that has ceased to surround us in its efficacy. It suffuses the very atmosphere of invisible and visible realms with the power of salvation and the treasure of resurrection from the dead! The Cross is the epicenter of glory from before the foundations of this world and the creation of the human race until the Lamb appears. If a man should glory let him glory in the Cross. If a man should find himself and be able to say, "I am," let him say, "I am crucified with Christ!"
Are you downcast? Look to the Cross. Are you rejoicing? Look to the Cross. Do you seek a compass? The Cross points the way. Are you weighed down? Let the Cross lift you up: A yoke that breaks every other yoke. A bond that looses every bondage. An ensign that rises above the highest mountain of opposition and is planted immoveable in grace in the miry depth of the lowest chasm of suffering. Let us say with the hymnist, "In the Cross, in the Cross, be my glory ever."
Edith Stein, a modern saint who voluntarily revealed her Jewish identity in order to share the love of Christ in the midst of the horrors of the Holocaust concentration camps, writes in her meditation, "The Love of the Cross":
The sight of the world in which we live, the need and misery, and an abyss of human malice, again and again dampens jubilation over the victory of light. The world is still deluged by mire, and still but a small flock has escaped from it to the highest mountain peaks. The battle between Christ and the Antichrist is not yet over. The followers of Christ have their place in this battle, and their chief weapon is the Cross.
...The lovers of the Cross, whom He has awakened and will always continue to awaken anew in the changeable history of the struggling church, these are His allies at the end of time. We, too, are called for that purpose...to have one's feet on the earth, to walk on the dirty and rough paths of this earth and yet to be enthroned with Christ at the Father's right hand, to laugh and cry with the children of this world and ceaselessly to sing the praises of God with the choirs of angels this is the life of the Christian until the morning of eternity breaks forth.?Edith Stein, "LOVE OF THE Cross: Some Thoughts For the Feast of St. John of the Cross"
Rejoice and Proclaim the Victory of the Cross!
Let us enter afresh into the power, victory and joy of our salvation. Make this daily proclamation and rejoice in the grace and victory for you in the Cross:
Today I testify personally to what the Blood of Jesus does for me.
Through the Blood of Jesus I am redeemed out of the hand of the devil.
Through the Blood of Jesus all my sins are forgiven.
Through the Blood of Jesus I am justified, made righteous, just as if I had never sinned.
Through the Blood of Jesus I am sanctified, made holy, set apart to God. My body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, redeemed, cleansed, justified and sanctified by the Blood of Jesus.
Through the Blood of Jesus every curse for disobedience is broken.
Through the Blood of Jesus every blessing of obedience is mine!
Through the Blood of Jesus the way to perpetual communion with the Father has been opened and no man can shut it.
Through the Blood of Jesus I am heir and possessor of all the riches of my Father's eternal Kingdom.
The Blood of Jesus speaks for me today from the mercy seat of God's throne in Heaven. Therefore, the devil has no place in me, no power over me, no unsettled claims against me.
The song of the Lamb surrounds me today with eternal victory and joy.
I overcome the world, the flesh and the devil through the Blood of Jesus!
Mahesh and Bonnie Chavda
Mahesh Chavda Ministries
Email: info@maheshchavda.com
About Mahesh and Bonnie Chavda: Drs. Mahesh and Bonnie Chavda have served together in full time ministry for over thirty years, reaching the nations with the Gospel accompanied by signs and wonders. Hundreds of thousands have come to salvation and thousands have received healing from critical diseases like AIDS and cancer through their ministry. Many of these miracles have been medically documented, including healings of Stage IV cancer, the lame, deaf and blind as well as the resurrection from the dead of a six-year-old boy. Through the The Watch television program produced by Mahesh Chavda Ministries, Mahesh and Bonnie reach a potential audience of a billion households every week with the saving message of Jesus and are equipping Believers to walk in the power and anointing of the Holy Spirit. Translated into Arabic and Farsi, The Watch is broadcast to 300 million households across the Middle East, and making a deep impact on nations within this critical region of the 10/40 window.
In addition, Mahesh and Bonnie have produced many useful tools for Believers including their books, Only Love Can Make a Miracle, The Hidden Power of Prayer and Fasting, The Hidden Power of a Woman, Storm Warrior and their latest book, The Hidden Power of Watching and Praying. Together, the Chavdas pastor All Nations Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Atlanta, Georgia. They also spearhead a global prayer movement, The Watch of the Lord?, where they have been leading their congregation in weekly corporate prayer for more than a decade.
