Who Are You?
Are you a child of our Abba Father or your circumstances?
Our Mission
God’s Triumphant Plan is here to lead you to being a child of our Abba Father in his family and a citizen of heaven. That is the inspiration for our preaching, teaching, and biblical counseling.
God’s Triumphant Plan is a supplemental ecclesia (church) because our messages are specifically designed to reinforce our personal relationship with our Abba Father and apply the Scripture to our life’s emotional difficulties.
God’s Triumphant Plan is unique in its messaging which delivers to everyone, biblical counseling’s focus on our relationship with our Abba Father. Biblical counseling should not just be for those with $500 or more worth of pain to justify “buying” professional help.
Conventional preaching features “belief” in our Abba Father’s existence and promises, which puts the focus on what he will do for us instead of what we can do together in the family business with the Holy Spirit
Mathew 11:29 says, “Take My (Jesus) yoke upon you . . .“ A yoke is the ultimate in working together.
why our Abba Father made us
Too few believers ever wonder WHY our Abba Father made us. Genesis does not tell us. But if one verse in the Scripture was the only verse we knew after receiving Christ, we would have a blessed life:
“Everyone who is called by My name, Whom I have created for My glory . . .” (Isaiah 43:7).
Our purpose in life is to glorify our Abba Father. Paul reaffirms this in 1 Corinthians 10:31,
“So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.”
Set our heart on glorifying our Abba Father in our life and he will take care of the rest.
The best evangelizing tool ever gleaned by humans is to be someone people see and say, “Wow, I want what they have!”
That is the real meaning of being made in the image of God. When we turn our lives to our Abba Father’s purpose instead of this world, the change is amazing!
"Come to me . . .
. . . all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest” (Mat. 11:28).
God’s Triumphant Plan is designed to help people come closer to our Abba Father in the personal relationship that he created for us. Our messages are designed for that specific purpose, and we invite you to share them with everyone.
Biblical counseling is the best presentation of Scripture connected to life ever gleaned by humans. The principle of “put off and put on” is its foundation. We do not just fight the enemy, we replace him with our relationship with our Abba Father. There is no reason a person needs to be in pain to receive the Scripture that way and share it with others.
Our note below on the word “ecclesia” and Mathew 16:18 are designed to show our audience that there is so much more to the Scripture than the prose.
The entire universe, our world, and our citizenship in heaven today are all there to be experienced and brought to life for our lives in relationship with our Abba Father and his family.
the word “ecclesia”
The word “ecclesia” is the ancient Greek word translated as “church” in Mathew 16:18, ” . . . and on this rock I will build my church (ecclesia), and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.”
Ecclesia means “community” as described in Acts 2:44-45, “Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common, and sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as anyone had need.”
The translation was changed to “church” in the Reformation period when it was impossible to tell the difference between the last money changing Pharisees of Israel and the 16th Century church selling “indulgences.”
What is interesting is that when Jesus said those words, he was likely on or near the rock with the cave that was considered to be the entrance to the gates of hell in Caesarea Philippi.
We doubt he was referring to Peter in that moment but instead he was throwing down the gauntlet with the devil before starting his march to Jerusalem to finish his work on the Cross.
an example
After Jesus threw down on the devil in Caesarea Philippi and his transformation on Mt. Hermon, Jesus healed a demon-possessed boy after the disciples could not.
Mathew 17:16-18, the dad says, “I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him. You unbelieving and perverse generation, Jesus replied, how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy here to me.” Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of the boy, and he was healed at that moment.”
“Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?” He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”
That story has a big problem for pastors, mountains never move. And yet it is preached as a bedrock of faith when everyone knows they can’t even move a prairie dog cone in real life.
However, “ean echēte pistin hōs kokkon sinapeōsit” (the Greek for “if you have faith of a seed of mustard”) must be true so we must seek its truth.
Previously when Jesus sent the disciples out to heal (Mathew 10, Luke 9. Mark 6), he filled them with the Holy Spirit. After Acts 2, the Holy Spirit came back into them and they healed again with no problems.
When the twelve apostles were with Jesus, did they ever say to someone, “No need to bother Jesus, we can heal you.” The answer is no so let’s look at the story more closely.
The story appears to have started while Jesus was up on Mt. Hermon with John, James, and Peter, the leaders of the pack, and the rest of the disciples were left alone. Had Jesus been there, Jesus would have healed the boy.
Without Jesus, John, James, and Peter, the disciples were lost and forgot that the power for them to heal came from the Holy Spirit. They tried doing it themselves and they came up empty.
The story’s real meaning is that even the tiniest bit of faith in a person AND the Holy Spirit can move a mountain.
Our Abba Father’s will and teamwork are critical because mountains don’t get moved just because we want them moved, “thy will be done.”
I used to joke, what if earthquakes were just believers trying out their new mountain-moving faith? When that event is understood, it goes from disappointing to exciting when we know exactly how our Abba Father works, through the Kingdom of God.
Please understand that the bridge from the story text to great faith is understanding our relationship with our Abba Father in the Kingdom of God with Jesus and the Holy Spirit.