Power of Purity (eBook)

Dr. Kevin Drury (Autor)

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2025 | 1. Auflage
192 Seiten
Bookbaby (Verlag)
979-8-3178-2476-1 (ISBN)

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Jesus said, Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Many mistake this promise as relegated to the afterlife. Jesus was talking about this life, not the afterlife.

Kevin Drury was gloriously saved in a Motel 6 second-story room in Yuma, AZ. Kevin was pursuing his lifelong dream of becoming a Major League Baseball player at Spring Training in the San Diego Padres AA camp. Jesus had His dream for Kevin. It was April 1980 when Jesus metaphorically walked into Kevin's room one night and introduced Himself to him. Kevin immediately surrendered to Jesus and was born again by His Spirit. That encounter began the process of transformation that is ongoing to this day. Kevin is a passionate disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ who is passionate about discipling others to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Kevin believes Christ is Heaven's model and every Christian's role model for life and ministry. Kevin believes training, equipping, and activating Christians in the Biblical lifestyle of purity and power is paramount to the church Jesus is building, growing up in all things into the Head of the church. Through Revolution Movement, Kevin continues to follow Jesus while leading others to follow Jesus and discover His purpose for their life. Kevin is the author of twelve books: 'Welcome To The Wilderness,' 'Leaving The Land Of Your Limitations,' 'Christianity The Way Jesus Lived It,' 'Promises And Prayers For Our Posterity,' 'Sermon On The Mount,' and 'Devotional For Disciples' [Based on SOTM], 'Who Is The Israel Of God,' 'Jesus and Jerusalem,' 'Impact Of Impartation,' 'The Corporate Man,' 'My Church,' and 'It's Time To Act: Up.' Along with the Bible, these books and other materials Kevin is writing are being used to equip the saints to do the work of Jesus' ministry.

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Jesus said, Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Many mistake this promise as relegated to the afterlife. Jesus was talking about this life, not the afterlife. The Power of Purity delves into the possibility, potential, and responsibility of God's sons and daughters to pursue His purity along with His power. Purity and power are a powerful married couple in the life of those who believe Jesus meant what He said, when He said, The things I do you shall do, and greater things than these shall you do. Jesus did not say, The things I say you shall say. Jesus was very intentional to say what is possible when His disciples go beyond believing in Him and settle into a lifestyle of believing Him. Maturity matters! And a mature person thinks differently than an immature person. One way a mature person thinks differently is in the standard they live. They do not compromise God's standard for anyone or anything. The reason is because in meeting that standard they meet the One who originally set it. Journey with Kevin in this powerful book into a life of proving Jesus is worth following and imitating!

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Prepared and Positioned for God’s Raw Dunamis Power

When purity is married to power

the planet will be shaken for God!

Pentecostalism and Charismaticism [sic] have both reduced the baptism in the Holy Spirit to the wonderful ability to speak, pray, praise and worship in unknown [unlearned] tongues. That is not the purpose of the baptism in the Holy Spirit. Jesus did not say, “You shall speak in unknown tongues when the Holy Spirit has come upon you.” He said, “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon [up, on] you.”1 In fact, Luke recorded these instructions from Jesus in his Gospel: “And behold, I am sending forth the promise of My Father upon you; but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”2

“You are to stay in the city [Jerusalem] until you are clothed with power from on high.”3 Jesus had previously told these same saints they were to preach forgiveness of sins all over the planet, beginning in Jerusalem.4

What is the purpose of the Spirit’s power coming up and on a believer in Christ Jesus? God’s purpose for His promise is the life of Jesus in purity and power!

The experience the one hundred twenty disciples experienced in the upper room included the ability to speak supernaturally in what Paul called tongues of angels in 1 Corinthians.5 From that moment on through the Book of Acts and into our day, the saints who surrender to the will of God and receive His promise have enjoyed and employed the gift of glossolalia.

Luke recorded the people [men] in Jerusalem heard the disciples speaking in their language the mighty deeds of God.6 Some say, the tongues spoken that day were in the literal languages of the men who heard them. That may be true, but what if the disciples spoke one or more of the heavenly languages and the Holy Spirit interpreted them to each person in their own language? You know! Just like the United Nations does with electronic interpreters.

Yes, there are many today who deny this is of God, or if it was it is no longer valid. Bummer for them is all I have to say! As Paul said, “I pray with my understanding and I pray with my spirit, and I sing with my understanding, and I sing with my spirit.”7 He also said, “Do not forbid speaking in tongues.”8

I believe there were one hundred twenty disciples assembled in the upper room because that is the number of priests present when Solomon dedicated the temple David carried in his heart, received the pattern for, and raised the funds to build. When that temple was being dedicated the one hundred twenty priests could not minister for the weight of glory was too much for them to carry.9

On the day of Pentecost, the weight of glory that exploded in the room as wind and fire was not too heavy to carry. I believe it was because of the power of purity those in attendance possessed as a result of their encounters with the resurrected Jesus. His purity and power were palpable, and they were possessed by Him.

Additionally, when the sound of the mighty rushing wind and the fire entered the room and rested on each person there, they were clothed with power. The little pilot light flame most were taught in Sunday school is nothing like what took place that morning at 9:00 a.m.

Have you ever seen a firenado? I am convinced a firenado blew into that room and with it came who Malachi called the Lord, whom you seek.

“1 ‘Behold, I am going to send My messenger, and he will clear the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple; and the messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight, behold, He is coming,’ says the Lord of hosts. 2 ‘But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap. 3 He will sit as a smelter and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, so that they may present to the Lord offerings in righteousness. 4 Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord as in the days of old and as in former years.’”10

Our God is a consuming fire,11 and He will, one way or another, consume everything that is in our lives that is in His way. Far too many of God’s people bypass purity on their way to obtaining His power. Judas did that, and that did not work out well for him.

Power without purity will corrupt anyone unwilling to repent!

Our purity level must rise to the level of our prayers for the power!

Purity must be commensurate with the level of power we operate in!

If we are praying for God’s raw dunamis power to flow out of us to destroy the works of the devil and we are entertaining the devil in our heart, then he will destroy us. God’s power must destroy the works of the devil in our life first.

When John wrote that Jesus appeared to destroy the works of the devil, the context had to do with sin.12

Here is what John wrote: “1 See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. 2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. 3 And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

4 Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.

5 You know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin.

6 No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him. 7 Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous; 8 the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.

9 No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 10 By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother.”

That should clear up any confusion!

If not, reread it again, slowly!

We are on the cusp of a move of God where His perfect love will cast out all our fears, and we will be fully prepared, positioned, and purified to handle His raw dunamis power. If for no other reason than God is jealous for His Spirit.13 Here is what James said [TPT], “Does the Scripture mean nothing to you that says, ‘The Spirit that God breathed into our hearts is a jealous Lover who intensely desires to have more and more of us’?”

God did not give us the Spirit for us to trivialize and minimize Him!

There is a reason Paul said without holiness no one will see the Lord.14 Even Jesus taught in the Sermon on the Mount that impurity clouds our vision of God. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”15

In the current Christian culture, if God’s people were to begin walking in the power Jesus demonstrated on a regular basis, they would attempt to market it. Can you imagine what would happen when major news organizations caught wind of major miracles happening in a particular location, and started covering them nonstop? It would take tremendous self-control not to be swayed by all the attention.

Motives for going for it will have to be absolutely pure! When people hear the dead are being raised and they come in droves, like in Jesus’ earthly ministry, and they come with high expectations their dead will be raised to life again, we better be prepared and positioned for that level of power.

Let’s look at what Paul wrote to the saints in Corinth who were highly gifted and proud of it but had a huge deficit of godly character.

“1 And working together with Him, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain — 2 for He says, ‘At the acceptable time I listened to you, and on the day of salvation I helped you.’ Behold, now is ‘the acceptable time,’ behold, now is ‘the day of salvation’ — 3 giving no cause for offense in anything, so that the ministry will not be discredited, 4 but in everything commending ourselves as servants of God, in much endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses, 5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in hunger, 6 in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in genuine love, 7 in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and the left, 8 by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; regarded as deceivers and yet true; 9 as unknown yet well-known, as dying yet behold, we live; as punished yet not put to death, 10 as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing yet possessing all things.

11 Our mouth has spoken freely to you, O Corinthians, our heart is opened wide. 12 You are not restrained by us, but you are restrained in your own affections [emotions]. 13 Now in a like exchange — I speak as to children— open...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.12.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
• ISBN-13: 979-8-3178-2476-1 / 9798317824761