June 2014
Dear Partners and Friends,
In the month of June we will be ministering in Kentucky, Missouri, Alabama, Montana and then returning
home to Colorado for our ministry training seminar.
Ministry Training Center Update:
Your giving is making a difference as the response to
our new Ministry Training Center has been wonderful.
With all the giving we are now below $200,000 as all
the financial giving from our building partners is all
going towards the principle. I believe that this year in
2014 we will see the building paid off. We are very
grateful to you our partners and friends who have given
so generously towards the purchase of our new ministry
training center.
Training Seminar: Our next ministry training session
here at our Colorado Springs office will be held Saturday, June 28th at 10:00 a.m. Attendance is free but registration is required as space is limited to small group
sessions in order for more personal attention for those
who attend. The intent of these seminars are not just to
teach but to include discipleship training to establish the
word of God in your heart in a practical way for life. To
register contact our office at 719-243-4100 or email at
[email protected].
Web Site update:
Development work on our new website continues.
Many of you have expressed your excitement over the
live streaming phase of our new website. We are
blessed to let you know that even though this was the
last phase of finishing the web site I have met with
those involved with its development and we have decided to advance the live streaming aspect even before all
other aspects of all phases are completed. We will share
more in next month’s newsletter.
Ministry Training Center Update:
Your giving is making a difference as the response to
our New Ministry Training Center has been wonderful.
With all the giving we are now below $200,000 as all
the financial giving from our building partners is all
going towards the principle. I believe that this year in
2014 we will see the building paid off. We are very
grateful to you our partners and friends who have given
so generously towards the purchase of our new ministry
training center as your giving is making a difference.
Devotional Teaching: Is Our Heart Prepared to
Receive the Seed?
Luke 8:15 NASU "But the seed in the good soil, these
are the ones who have heard the word in an honest and
good heart, and hold it fast, and bear fruit with perseverance.
When the Word of God like a seed is sown do we really
receive the seed into our heart? Is our heart prepared to
receive the seed of the Word of the Lord? When we
listen to the Word of God being taught we all hear what
the person is saying and we may even choose to believe
what the person is saying but has that truth really become ours or is it just something that we have chosen to
believe. When it comes to the Word of God it must be
something to us that is more than just what we hear and
agree with. The Word of God is a Spiritual seed that
must be received into our heart. Then there is a process
we enter into where something is being produced that
will manifest into this natural realm that we live in.
When a farmer puts seeds into the ground he expects a
crop. He would not go to all the time and effort of planting the seed without expecting the benefit of his labor,
the crop. If you are confident of the benefit of the crop
then you will hold fast to the truth of the Word of God
with a confidence in the one who made the promise
knowing that He is faithful. The end result from your
perseverance is fruit.
Matt 13:8-9 NKJV But others fell on good ground and
yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some
thirty. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!"
Everyone hears preaching and teaching of the Word of
God but not everyone has the ears of their heart open to
hear resulting in perception and understanding coming
forth by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is always
involved in spiritual change. So the question again is
this--is our heart prepared to receive the seed?
If our heart is described as soil then what is good soil?
If our heart can be honest then what is an honest heart?
If our heart can be good and honest then can it be bad
and dishonest? If our heart is in a bad condition and
dishonest then does that make me a bad person and
how does this affect my righteousness that I experienced at salvation?
All unbelief is always about us! It is about what we
believe that is contrary to the Word of God but it can
be truth to us because that is just simply the way we
see it. This is how we close the eyes of our heart and
usually do not realize the condition of our heart that it
is in a condition of unbelief and dishonest. We can
always have a willingness to resolve an issue of the
heart no matter how bad the issue as long as we understand that our righteousness is in our born again spirit
not in our heart. There can be an issue of unbelief in
our heart but we are still righteous and in good standing because of Jesus not because of our performance.
Without this understanding of your righteousness being in Christ and not in your own performance from
yourself then you would not have confidence to go to
God for help with the bad issues of your heart. A person with issues of sin in their heart might emotionally
feel shame which could through feelings of unworthiness to want to hide from God and not run to Him for
help.
Matt 13:14-15 NKJV And in them the prophecy of
Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: 'Hearing you will hear
and shall not understand, And seeing you will see and
not perceive; For the hearts of this people have grown
dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes
they have closed, Lest they should see with their eyes
and hear with their ears, Lest they should understand
with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them.
The problem with just listening to the Word of God
and just choosing to believe what we were hearing is
that there is no understanding in your heart of what
you have heard. It is one thing to receive information
into your conscience mind and another when the Holy
Spirit enlightens the Word of God causing understanding to come forth. When the Word of God gives us
understanding we are able to practically apply that
truth in a way that we live it and get spiritual results.
The condition of our heart is very important in receiving the Word of God. The example in verse 15 is a
heart that is dull resulting in hard of hearing manifesting itself at times with an attitude since a person can
feel very right about the way they see life’s issues. The
scripture says “their eyes they have closed” because
we have a free will to choose and when we make the
wrong choices out of a heart unprepared to receive
from the Lord, He is not responsible for us not receiving, we are. The scripture says “lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, enabling the Lord to
heal them. Receiving is about Jesus and not about us; it
is for us.
Turning is another word for being converted which is a
work of the Holy Spirit that we experience in Him giving us understanding which goes beyond the conscience mind and enters the sub-conscience part of our
heart resulting in enabling us to live the ways of life in
Christ. True believing is when our heart is firmly persuaded in the process of believing to the place that we
have a faith and confidence in the Lord with a constant
expectation of the good we are believing for.
However I do find that lots of Christians are still
afraid of mental illness, and are intimidated by
them. They also have a thing about it all being
demons. I get so irritated by what basically constitutes an almost superstitious view of mental illnesses. Your teachings will help me to help them,
as even though our family has been so blessed to
see our boys healed, I do not seem to be able to
help others as I would like to. I get frustrated and
am asking God to help me help them. I wish to see
them all set free right now. In our own experience,
we saw changes in our body’s right from the beginning, but others do not, years are going by, and
they are becoming increasingly desperate, or just
giving up! Thank you for making your materials
available to download. I continually listen to your
tapes on receiving healing. I need to get this for
sure! Great teaching I have listened to it about six
times already. This teaching so explains how it is
all about Jesus much clearer than I have ever understood it before. You both impacted lots of lives
big time, you both are a blessing!
But the seed in the good soil,
these are the ones who have
heard the word in an honest
and good heart, and hold it
fast, and bear fruit with
perseverance.
Luke 8:15 NASU
Lisa and I believe our partners are greatly prospering in Spirit, soul, and body as you experience
increase in the seed you have sown multiplying
and increase in the fruits of your righteousness.
God’s richest blessings in Christ are already yours.
Believe it and receive all that God has for you.
Blessings in Christ,
Luke 8:15 AMP But as for that [seed] in the good
soil, these are [the people] who, hearing the Word,
hold it fast in a just (noble, virtuous) and worthy heart,
and steadily bring forth fruit with patience.
Testimony:
I have been watching your teachings at healing school,
and absolutely love the way you teach. I am listening
to them over and over again. I am particularly thrilled
that you are not "afraid" of mental illnesses. "They just
need healing in the brain" Amen! My son Timothy has
been healed of Asperger’s Syndrome and other issues
(bipolar, etc) and my younger son was healed of autism. Andrew Wommak prayed for them in 2009.
Women!
Save the Date!
Our 1st Women’s Conference
to be held Saturday, September 20th, in Colorado Springs!
More details to come!
Cecil and Lisa Paxton Ministries, Inc.
PO Box 50555
Colorado Springs, CO 80949
Phone 719-243-4100
FAX 719-266-6533
Web www.clpmi.org