Pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to us the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of our understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is your hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

And what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places……,

far above all principalities and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, also in that which is to come. And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.              ( Ephesians 1:17-23).

Let us chew on the wonderful, beautiful word of God: what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe?…. This is the same power that stole from death the Son of the Living God. This Resurrected Life of Christ lives within us and  quickens our mortal body! The same power that freed the bondage of death over mankind is upon and in us today. Just by our faith in the Lord, we are so victorious because of Him…. What a Savior! God always does more than we can hope, think or imagine for His children. How great is our God!

This same power seated Him at the right hand of the Almighty above all power and every name…. This same power put all things under the Lord’s feet and gave Him to be the head over all things to the church. The same power is in His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all….. Who is His body? You and me!!!!!!! Hmmmmmm….

So do you think we need to upgrade our faith a bit? Ahhh….. YEAH!

I am here not trying to get more power for the sake of more power…. I am here asking the Lord to give us eyes to see the availability of the power of His love that He has towards us every moment. What possibilities can we do in His name and in His love for His Kingdom….. if we really believe. Do we believe He answers our prayer? I know He does!

There is so much to open our hearts to receive so that we may receive the impossible. Then live the inconceivable life of God…. Complete His purpose in us…. and to not withdraw in slothfulness or fear or selfishness that would negate the power of His love for His Son working in our hearts. We are also His Son’s body corporately, the church, which is the fullness of Him that fills all in all…..

Do we fear….. why? Do we worry….. why? Do we know we are in His hands? Do we? Do we live knowing that all things are complete in His hands, including us? If we did, we would not be fearful but full of His peace. The peace that is beyond understanding because around us is chaos. That is God’s peace, beyond our understanding that we live in it when all hell is around us……

Bravery is living in faith in the total unseen world. We keep living as we were seeing all there is to see in the hidden realm of God….He said it so we believe it! It is also a life of joy and adventure…. Are we up for the task of living a life of faith in and by the Uncreated One?….. If there is a mountain before us, we know we have been equipped by God to pray against it, walk through it undaunted or ascend over it…..Whatever may be His will, He has more than equipped us for the task of achieving His glory here and now.

The Lord walked through the crowds that were trying to seize Him, He was untouched. He also climbed the mountain to pray and left the multitudes, they did not follow Him up, as if an unseen wall was there to protect His time with the Heavenly Father…..While other times the multitudes followed Him everywhere. Our Lord prayed against the bondage of Satan over the people over and over again…. He removed their mountain of bondage….. Do we have real faith in the greatness of His love for us and others? Do we?

Hear Him calling you to live the life of the unseen but seen by Him. Let us venture to go where He knows but we do not….yet! Do we really work on our trust in the Lord? Or do we stay inside the nice box we have made for us called the system of religion and keep Him  belted in the pew that we have made for Him….. Like He can be contained…. NOT…

He just moves on and leaves us to our vain imagination. Just because we are comfortable in our imagination does not mean God is comfortable….. In fact, the only way we are to be comforted is by the Comforter, the Holy Spirit….. He never, never, makes our flesh feel comfortable. He does just the opposite, He stirs us up….. He stirs the love of God, the fire of God within, so we burn with an everlasting love of God.

We should be found by His watching eyes, full of His strength born from our weakness, and not flinching by the darkness taunting us… Knowing that we walk in the Light as He is in the Light…. For we are His body, filled with the fullness of Him…..You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world, ( 1 John 4:5).

The same God…. the same powerful God that took death captive is here with us this minute…. The same God that kept the lions mouths closed in their den to save His anointed follower is here today…..The same God that parted the Red Sea, has opened the doors to heaven and taken death captive for us is here with us today…..IF WE BELIEVE…..then we are to walk in our belief!

Better yet, He is within us, teaching, leading, guiding and protecting us with His everlasting keeping arms, by indwelling Spirit of grace. Our bodies are healed. Our hearts are restored in the hope of salvation and the love that God has for us….. We have been given the mind of Christ so we may walk in His Spirit in alignment or agreement…. When the resurrected life of God eats up our mortality, we will be immortal…

For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heaven. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up in by life……( 2 Corinthians 5:1-4).

There is nothing that our God has not given us and blessed us in His love or His power that we cannot be found as overcomers from this world in His eyes. We are as victorious as our King, especially since we are abiding in Him as our all….. because the same Spirit of Jesus dwells within, the same Spirit, the same God, the same power……by faith, we can live this out to the fullest of Him! Do we believe or are we going to get stuck in religiosity…. It is up to us….because:

Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed, ( John 8:36).

Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty, ( 2 Corinthians 4:17).

Do we believe this? Do we really conquer our days with the power of His Spirit that is towards us who believe, ignoring the flaunting of evil, and choose to fly above with His word by His Spirit? Do we fly on His wings like eagles soaring the heights that are available because we can…by Him and in Him?

We can also die on the cross daily by Him and for Him. Is this not the way to soar?….. For the same power that Jesus Christ had that day to conquer fear and walk humbly to the nailing of His hands and feet is within us now to be able to suffer as He did….. Do we believe this?

Do we believe that we could handle the same cup as He? Do we believe that the same Holy Spirit who empowered the Lord will empower us to walk as He did on this earth….. The Spirit of God has not changed. The Son of God is the same yesterday, today and forever. So may be we need to upgrade the faith in the Almighty more? I DO, I DO!

Some of His chosen have been given this cup of suffering, some torture, some death……. Are we preparing ourselves, for it might happen in America? Are we ready for the exaltation of the Lord by us today?

Or did we not bargain for this kind of hardship in believing in the Lord Jesus Christ. Hey, we just want to go to heaven. Let us not get too spiritual here…. I just want my free ticket to heaven when I die….. What do you mean I have to walk like He did on this earth?

His power, which is His love towards us, that never fails…..His love never fails or stops….. His river of love flows freely from His throne of grace……. Do we really drink from His river that flows freely from the throne of God?….

Do we really live in the river of His Spirit? Swimming in His love way below the depths and way above the the heights? Do we fly beyond the lengths and reach behind the widths to know our God? Do we live there now, beloved?… No matter, how much we have climbed there is more than the abundance left that we have not uncovered in knowing this great God and the inexhaustible love that He has towards us that love Him.

We should be, because He has freely given this abundant resurrected life now to us…. There is nothing that we cannot overcome in this world, even ourselves and awaken as His image as His beloved bride…. There is nothing can hinder us, except us….

Our unbelief can stop this wagon train as nails deflate the tires on a car……

This nothing that is impossible to those that believe….. Nothing….

There is a lot to meditate on here…. All the power that came in that very morning to capture death from our Lord and bestow on Him, the First Resurrected Son of God….. That Life is in us, beloved, now…. Canceling death and darkness and rising us in to our Heavenly Father’s own sons and daughters…..

Living a life that we could hardly imagine, but it is the truth and reality of God for those who believe. I believe the measure of resurrected life within us is small to start and as walk in obedience to life in the newness of Christ and consider dead our old nature. As the room of the Spirit grows within us, so does all that grows with His life – filling us with His fullness also…. Eternal life in growing stages, like any seed that is sown… But beloved, we have the incorruptible Seed within us, that exceeding greatness of the power towards those that believe…. Nothing is impossible with our Great God.

Sometimes I wonder if we would look at the riches of grace given to us as though we walked through the door to a toy store as a seven year old….. All is available to him as walks in. We both know the child will believe all the possibilities that exist for him and are available to him…. Do you think he will take advantage of the offer? YOU BET……Do you think the child will push the limit to obtain all the child can? You bet!

Do we take advantage of the offer of His grace to us? ( The answer should be YOU BET!) You know that God’s grace is inexhaustible as is His mercy and love….. Beloved, let us go after all the grace we can get as a child in a toy store…..Why? Because we can! Beloved, let us grow in the grace of our Lord.

As we grow in grace, we also grow in the knowledge of the Lord….. It is never ending, just as the life we have in Christ….. Neverending, never stopping, always flowing, always growing in Him. Does this life resemble eternal life in our God! YOU BET!

Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think according to the power that works in us…..

to Him be the glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.( Ephesians 3:20-21).

Father, we ask in Jesus name, to give us the grace to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length, and depth and height- to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge that you may be filled with all the fullness of God, ( Ephesians 3:18-19).

To God be all the glory and honor for He is great and there is no other God like our God!

As we drown in the love of God, just live totally immersed in Him, the best attempts of evil to turn us away from the Lord, will fail miserably….. I am all for that…. Any way we can make darkness retreat is our goal…. We will not be offended at the Lord when we are made to ascend to His hill because of the trials and tribulations of the time….. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all,            ( Psalm 34:19).

Let us remember and take heart as we live knowing the exceeding greatness of His power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead is toward us who believe according to the working of His mighty power, ( Ephesians- paraphrase 1:19).

Amen! Let us eat the truth of His word as our only NEED!

Selah!

How is the intent of the Holy Spirit working in us regarding this scripture? Does the fear of the Lord kick any rebellion out of us when we know what the way of the Lord is? Do we then with set our face like flint to obey, no matter the cost? Rebellion is as witchcraft to the Lord….In Exodus 22:18, it is written: You shall not permit a sorceress ( witch) to live.…. Hmmm….

So Samuel said, Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord?

Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams,for rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.

Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He also has rejected you from being king, ( 1 Samuel 15:23).

For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore, do not be partakers with them, ( Ephesians 5:5-7).

Our God holds great earnestness for our obedience to His voice speaking His Word…..His instructions to us…. If we do not heed, there is great tragedy heading our way…

As it is written in Revelation 1: 4-6, Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

The Lord then had Samuel, the prophet and judge, anoint another man to be king over Israel…. God chose David, a man after His own heart….. Someone who would follow the Lord’s instruction…… David kept the Lord’s intentions first, even in the midst of his mistakes. The Lord and David had a hidden time together before he was anointed king by Samuel, the prophet.

This hidden time, proved David’s heart in showing the Lord his great faith….. During David’s hidden years , he learned to trust the Lord was faithful. Many came to follow David because they knew he had been chosen king from the Lord……. Could we say because of David’s loyalty in obedience to the Lord that he drew many to know the Lord who might have not known there was a great God as Jehovah?

So Saul is not the only king that can be dethroned! Since He has made us kings and priests to our God, the authority with that call can fall void….. Not by the Lord, but by Satan, he sees our disobedience and then has a place in us…. The presence of the Holy Spirit is grieved….. Let us pray daily to receive all the grace that is available to us to remain in the fire of the Spirit. We do not want to wax cold toward the Lord because of the hardness on our flesh in obeying the Lord.

How can we know it is God, if we do not know His Word and ways? How can we obey if we have not mastered the art of hearing God’s voice above all else? How will we not be deceived by hearing the wrong voice……. Know the Word of God, then we will know God…. If a stranger tells you something, you will recognize the deceitful voice….. as we only hear and obey the Shepherd as written in John 10…..It is very important to have a hidden time with God, in fact,  it might be most important in our learning the Lord closely.

I recognize my husband’s voice, his cough, his sneeze…… because I have spent time with him…. I know him. If we have been with the Lord, we should know Him…..!

Let us live what is written, we have died to the world and have risen in the newness of life in Christ.

The great need of His grace produces: Steadfastness…… Endurance…… Patience………Godly qualities are being pr0ven in us as we walk to obey in faith by His grace. This walk with the Lord makes a firm foundation in us in that we learn to trust His faithfulness. So we are willing again to walk out further in obedience to His word because we know He is there making a way for us where there was no way before…. His hand moves as our heart of obedience turns to Him…. If we are stagnant, there is no movement from us to Him and He waits upon us to say…… Okay, we give…. I will obey. Sorry, for my delay! I thank God for His longsuffering!

In our obedience, whether it is hard stuff or just simple instructions, brings the blessings of the Lord …. More of Him comes in to reign and through us. Our life is lived by faith in the Son of God by His Spirit and we grow in Him in maturity …. There is no other way to walk out our salvation and be the vessel of the Lord…..

In Galatians 5:4-5, You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by your by the law, you have fallen from grace….For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

In the letters to the church in Revelation, the first one to Ephesus, was rebuking the church for leaving their first love…..the words were used : Remember, therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place- unless you repent, ( Revelation 2:5).

Notice the mention from Paul’s letter to Galatians 5:4, you have fallen from grace…. The Holy Spirit is known as the Spirit of grace….. When we are doing works and getting our self righteousness from those works, we have left the Spirit of grace and have fallen again…… Our righteousness is in Christ alone…. Christ alone…..We must learn and live that we can do nothing good without Him as He spoke in the Gospel of John.

Our first love is knowing the grace and mercy of God through Jesus Christ…. There is no other way to know grace, but to know that we are not deserving of His grace…. We are lifted up by His Spirit or His grace to heaven…. Heaven has broken into our hearts because of what God has done for us…. There is nothing we could ever do to earn it or live righteously without His Spirit of grace and mercy upon and in us.. We do not receive the Lord without His Spirit drawing us to the Lord and His Salvation.

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ ( by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of your selves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast, ( Ephesians 2:4-9).

If we bow to the cross of Christ and now think we are okay with out any grace past the revelation of the redemption of Christ, we have fallen again…..

The Door is Christ, but there is more!

Once we enter the Door, He then becomes our Way we live, which is Christ. Once we come through the Door and enter in the Way, He is the Truth and Resurrected Life we live in and by the power of that Life is our daily strength….. As He is our Light in a dark world… He is our Light to walk the Way of Christ after we have entered the Door of Redemption of God. Our total salvation is of God… And Jesus Christ is more than our entry Door….. He is Everything….. to the Salvation of God .

So we are a part of His body and He is the Head giving us instructions on His behalf…. Just like our head gives instructions to the members of our body…..As it is written in Hebrew 3:15,-16 while it is said, Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion. For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses?

Today, if He is speaking to you—- Hear Him….. Tomorrow, we may not hear! We do not have tomorrow promised us…. We are given today, to hear Him and obey!

Let us hear and obey and continue with the Spirit of grace in His work within and with out…. bringing many to be made righteous….. Let us not even be known by the Lord to have a rebellious, selfish heart of unbelief.

Let it be said of us as it is written of the Lord in Isaiah 50 :4-11?, The Lord God has given Me the tongue of the learned that I should know how to speak a word in season to who is weary He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear to hear as the learned.

The Lord God has opened My ear; and I was not rebellious, nor did I turn away. I gave My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting.

For the Lord God will help Me; therefore I will not be disgraced; therefore I have set My face as flint, and I know that I will not be ashamed.

He is near who justifies Me; who will contend with Me? Let us stand together. Who is My adversary? Let him come near Me.

Surely the Lord God will help Me, Who is he who will condemn Me? Indeed they will all grow old like a garment, the moth will eat them up.

Who is among you that fears the Lord? Who obeys the voice of His Servant? Who walks in darkness? And has no light? Let him trust in the name of the Lord and rely upon His God.

Look all you who kindle a fire, who encircle yourselves with sparks: walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks you have kindled- This you shall have from My hand: You shall lie down in torment.

If we are like our Master, our High King of heaven, the actions of men towards  Him and the strength and power of the Spirit of God will also happen to us….. We do not take away the sins of the world….. but we partake in the many being made righteous…. In any of God’s work, evil wants to stop it, so the Holy Spirit keeps us pure and focused…..He awakens us with Himself morning by morning to instruct us on the way we should go today….

When we are awakened by Him, we should take heed to open the day with prayer or communion with the Lord. Let us hear Him!  We pray with Him, with His Word and set things in order for the day. He also illuminates us to the comings of the day and to pray for His purpose for that day…. (  His purpose takes precedence and should also be our course!) We then are covered in His anointed garment before we even get our first cup of coffee….His Spirit of grace…..

This is a wise way to start the day and the wisest way to end our day at night….. Be still and know that I am God and I will be exalted among the nations….. Every knee shall bow before our King….. The best way to know what to obey is to hear the instructions of the day and study our scriptures. We ask for the grace to enter in and cover us the whole day…Remember, He gives His beloved good sleep….even if the amount of it is short! So we can awaken to His voice… So we say, what’s up Lord? I am hear waiting and listening for You.

Those who wait upon the Lord and believe in Him shall not be put to shame….as written.

He has many ways to manifest the righteousness of God through us, if we are really intent on being His empty vessel, for His light to go out amongst many…. If we really want His interest, we will be bow to Him in love, not duty .

Loving Jesus Christ is showing Him that we want His Name and His Fame and His Reign, which is here and shall never cease forever and ever. Amen! How pleasing it is to the King, to have His court in our hearts freely. He guides our decisions in righteousness in His life by His ways. How we are different from the world is seen before the world, but most important, by the Audience of One. Let all know how we love our King, the Christ and Savior of the world and how He loves us, even us.

Let us have His heart, a heart of Him, for Him…. Ask Him for a new heart…… It is in His plan, read the books of Jeremiah and Ezekiel, check it out!

Let us be found in Him, not having our own righteousness. As His fire burns through us, let the fire show only Christ in us. Let us be in the King’s hand as His secret weapon……All will know God is God, and they are not! Glory be to the Lord today and forever…. Let us magnify His name among the nations today! We do not have to travel out of our country to magnify the Lord in America…..Let us bow and give our love in every act of obedience that He requires of us….. Loving Him and others with the same love we want for ourselves! Even when we do not receive that in return, we still obey our King because we love Him above all.

Hear Him ask you today, Who Do You Say That I AM?

Selah!

 

Part II—

2 Peter 3:14, Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless.

The Lord Jesus Christ is the Spotless One, we are known by the Father, because we believe in Christ and abide in Him as our daily bread….. Our food, our dwelling, our daily strength, our daily wisdom and Guide…As He becomes our all, we then will be found spotless and mature in the growth and knowledge of Him. Soooo, God has provided a way for us to be found holy, without spot, and mature- perfected by our Lord and our obedience to Him…….Every day the Incorruptible Seed is overtaking us in everlasting life and truth…. Do you see?

There is no command from the Lord that is burdensome or grievous….. but in the wisdom of God is the instruction of God. Now by our obedience to His word, His wisdom is found in us. So having understanding, we know it is wise to set our mind as flint toward hitting the target…Strength to obey. Let us not be found just standing out on the target range idly with no direction and found lacking spiritual fruit…

Jesus Christ is the Door, and also He is the Way— In the Way, He is the Truth and Life….He is the Light in the world, for us to live by. Once we go through the Door, we learn to follow His Ways…. He leads us by and in Truth and Life for He is our journey. He is our Food, our Bread from Heaven…. As we eat ( abide) in His Word, Him, we grow in Him as He grows in us…..It is our journey….to be consumed with the fire of God, but not burn!

All things are possible to those that believe…. There is nothing impossible to achieve in the Spirit and by the Spirit of God regarding the promises and exhortations of the Lord. He is our inheritance as well as He has given us all things that pertain to godliness to live a supernatural life from His divine nature. The Spirit dwelling within is our way of power or strength to achieve the impossible made possible life in this adventure of God, becoming or transforming us into the image of His Son, and living as His bride.

All we have to do is believe and obey His word daily that He gives us… Each child is different and each child is a different member in the body with a different task…. So we each need to diligently hear the word of God for our daily Bread. Someone else eating their bread, will not feed you…. So we each need to seek His Word and Wisdom daily…. and get our Food of Life and our daily instructions from our CO, ( Commanding Officer).

He has been given to us for this purpose… that we may become a blameless generation that seek the Lord’s face…. So we have a single vision of the Lord Jesus.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved, ( Ephesians 1:4-6).

It is written in Romans that Abraham was righteous before His sight because He believed God. He,    ( Abraham) did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform. And therefore it was accounted to him for righteousness,( Romans 4:20-22).

So if God tells us to be holy as He is holy….. He has provided everything necessary for us to walk that out in the faith of His word, in His Son, in the power of the command….

Since He wants to see us walk blameless before Him all our days, He has already provided the way to do that —– by His Spirit within us, the hope of our glory, Christ within. It is also by knowing how the Lord walked on this earth that we also can follow in accord with the Spirit. It is not by any of our works, but the work through His Spirit within and coming through us by faith, as we abide in the Son and as the Son is abiding in us, Christ, our only hope of glory!

It is all about Him and by our faith in what He died to give us in His resurrected life…. We live now because He lives in us. We are now living an incredible supernatural life by the Spirit of God and our King is in our midst…. By all things we have been crucified with Christ, and the life we now live is by faith in the Son of God, who died for us because He loved us and gave Himself for us, ( my paraphrase of Galatians 2:20).

And He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness. Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ sake for when I am weak, then I am strong, ( 2 Corinthians 12:9-10).

Everyone applies grace to the forgiveness of sins….. That is great, but the grace of God is not limited to the crucifixion of Christ as the Sacrificial Lamb of God to the forgiveness of our sins. The redemption from Christ is ever expanding as we learn more of the revelation of Christ. There is always room for growth in our knowledge and grace about our Lord and His redeemed.

The grace of God and His mercy are never ending, so to limit the grace of God is limiting the Spirit of God….. We do not want to do that…. We want to give Him free reign over us and complete the work that He has to do in preparing the bride of Christ. Let us have the eyes to see His vision and know that He has given us everything to obtain that vision within our hearts then it shall manifest outward.

He wants to reinstate our fallen state, not just wipe away our sin against Him….. He wants us back to worship Him in Spirit and Truth….. He wants us as His family ….A family made in His image, not Adam’s. He wants a people that are weak in the flesh but strong in His Spirit, that live a life supernaturally dependent on this great God, so all will see and many will be made righteous.

I know that there is nothing good in my flesh, that is why I am happy to go to the cross daily, no matter how it hurts from reproach and persecution…… because…. what cannot die or be destroyed in me is what Christ has done for me and is doing in me…. restoring His life within me to His image…..that is His work and it is eternal.

But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world,            ( Galatians 6:14).

I guess when we realize all we do that  obtains any good or heavenly results are from His Spirit, there won’t be any jealously or hate because we finally learn, it is all about Jesus Christ and His work in the Spirit, not ours….. The Spirit of Grace has brought the glory to Jesus Christ and our Heavenly Father! We all are ministers of the Spirit of grace, because He speaks through us….. Not us doing the brilliant works and words, we are not magnificent, only the Godhead soooooo…. all is Christ now and forever and God Almighty be the glory!….

The grace of God is also applied to living a holy separated life unto Him. We live by faith and are totally dead to the world…. Remember we are crucified to the world and made alive to Christ. Or we live dead to Christ and alive to the world! Choose life…. Yes, and AMEN!

We are living a life of faith in His Word, no matter what it looks like in the flesh….. We take His grace upon us and refuse to back down on what God said, God will do…. I will walk before Him in faith and trust in His faithfulness that what He has called me to be He will finish. So I may be found in Him blameless, not having my own righteousness, but magnifying His righteousness all over my days in Him on this earth. You too, right?

Grace be upon us as we live in the heavenly places with Christ Jesus today, that we know He is in our midst every second that we breath in this life on this earth. That we are with Him where He is now…. He is our Healer, Redeemer, Provider, Protector and our High Priest for us. As it is written, as He is so are we in this world in 1 John. Do we believe that and then live it????? Do we?

I have a question for us all, are we willing to drink of the same cup that He drinks for His behalf?

Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner, but share with me in the sufferings for the gospel according to the power of God, who saved us and called with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began, (2 Timothy 1:8-9).

If we aren’t, His Spirit will strengthen us to drink the cup of suffering. The same cup of His resurrected life will grow in us in greater measure. God’s ways always increase Him and decrease us ….. Are we willing?…. If we are found willing, then …..

He is faithful to complete what He has started in us….Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

He who calls you is faithful , who will also do it, (1 Thessalonians 5:23-24).

We do not cease to pray and ask that we may be filled with all knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light,( Colossians 1:9-12).

And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, blameless, and above reproach in His sight- if you indeed continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul became a minister, ( Colossians 1:21-23).

What do you think Jesus Christ meant when He said to pick up your cross and follow Him? Does that include the cup of suffering? What does Paul mean that if you desire to live a godly life, you will suffer persecution….. Are we ready in the west to suffer for the Name that is above all names? Will we obey when we are really under fire? Will our faith make it through the lion’s den?

Let the Holy Spirit search our hearts and prepare us to be strengthened by His might to drink the cup of the Lord. Holy Spirit help us also go through the winepress………We can by abiding in the Son of God…. We can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, ( Philippians 4:13).

Selah! We will continue to meditate on the Best Food Ever Available, The Word Of God!

Part III Next week, if it be His pleasure!

 

For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous, ( Romans 5:19).

Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in the newness of life, for if we have united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.

For He who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.

For the death that He died, He died to sin once and for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.

Likewise, you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus Our Lord.

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God, ( Romans 6:4-13).

In prayer, I was awakened to a reality of responsibility from the Lord as He was talking about lip service versus real obedience from the heart….. We can only obey the Lord, by the strength of His Spirit within us…. We can do no good thing apart from the Lord, for all flesh is as dung…. So much for our humanistic intentions of well doing!

On meditating on the verse of scripture, I realized I just applied the glory to the Lord, for of course, it was the Lord that turned many to righteousness by His obedience to the cross….

But He put before me….. Are you not a member of My Person?…. My body?…..

Yes, Lord….. then by your obedience to My Spirit, many also are continued to be made righteous…..

Wow, what a responsibility we have in Christ, in hearing and then obeying the voice of the Lord and in His Word….In obedience to the Word, Christ within will then awaken many to righteousness.

Many will be made righteous by our obedience to the Lord….. The Gospel of Christ Jesus is very simple. The Word of God is a nail into our hearts from the reality of His Truth.

So what ever we receive by God to do, we better obey and be His vessel as an active member of His body. I always saw Christ making many righteous…. but by our own little obedience through His Spirit, the Christ is making many righteous through His body…. How awesome is that….

May be that is why from Abraham through all the epistle: the word holy and blameless are spoken as a reprove over and over again for our listening ears…. A place that we aim to shoot our arrow towards the mark of the high calling.

Genesis 17:1, When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, I Am Almighty God; walk before Me blameless.

No less than 15 times is the word blameless written…..Three of them were written in the old testament, however the other 12 are from the new. Blameless and walking by faith in the Spirit, I believe are the same measure from God’s view….

When we walk by faith in His Word today and obey,…. the Spirit must be within us to empower us to heed His commands….. So as we walk by faith in the Spirit of God, we will be found blameless. In walking in faith, we are strengthened by the Spirit to continue in obedience to follow the Spirit of God in greater measure. We can grow in strength and faith as we obey.

Jesus speaks to the Pharisees in Matthew 12:5, Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless?

It is written in Luke 1:6, And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless….. I want to mention that this was prior to the Holy Spirit given to us at Pentecost… Now we have been empowered to walk in the nature of God and not the nature of fallen man.

Now we have exhortations from the Epistles from Paul and Peter, after the power on High was given, giving believers…..as written in 2 Peter 1:3-11, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness to brotherly kindness, love.

For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren or unfruitful in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.

Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Peter and Paul encourage us to take the salvation of the Lord earnestly to work the grace that He has given us in the leading of the Holy Spirit by our faith…..We are to walk in the Spirit by faith which is not by our reasoning or our natural sight….How? By faith in the what the Word of God says about our life in Christ…. We obey by faith and then walk in faith knowing our Lord will meet us in His power.

Remember it is written in Hebrews 11:6, But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is , and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

1 Corinthians 1:7-8, so that you come short in no gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Philippians 2:14-15, Do all things without complaining and disputing, that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world.

1 Thessalonians 5:23, Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul and body be preserved blameless at the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

This is mind of God that we walk blameless before Him in a crooked world….. By obedience in faith because of His great Love that He has for us, we are encouraged that this command is not grievous. By His Spirit, this production of His grace will bring this eternal fruit….. By His power…. we are His children. By His power, we are His sons and daughters. By His power, we can walk blameless before Him……

It is not by us or our own power….. It is by the Spirit of grace within us, doing the work of God through His sons and daughters….. We cannot become the sons and daughters of God, as well, as we cannot make our selves born again….. It has all come through the Spirit of God, by His mercy in Jesus Christ as Savior….. It is all God, and He gets all the glory….. He also should be getting His fruit of obedience through us too that leads many to be made righteousness.

We will meditate on this further, so in our walk of obedience may bring many to righteousness….by His Spirit in us!

Selah…. Part II, the Lord willing!

By His Spirit……

 

As we celebrate the cross of Christ as well as His resurrection, we also need to realize as part of His body, bone of His bone, we also celebrate because He died, we have died and because He rose, we rise in Him…..

It is all about Him and then all about us living through Him. So how do we perceive Him as our Lord…. Savior and King!? Paul’ s life is a great example of how we are to live this adventure in Christ today!

Paul, the apostle, is a great example in the workings of the Spirit of God in men. The Holy Spirit of grace opens our spiritual sight and ears to the realm or kingdom of God. He anoints us with Himself…. Paul was Saul of Tarsus. He was a staunch Pharisee. He was a leader in the Mosaic law and form of the doctrine of the temple…. but he was deaf and blind to the way of Christ. He persecuted the ones that followed the way of Christ….. until…..

As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. Then he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? And he said, Who are You, Lord? Then the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. It is hard for you to kick against the goads.

So he trembling and astonished, said, Lord, what do You want me to do? Then the Lord said to him, Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.

And the men journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice but seeing no one. Then Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes had opened he saw no one. But they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus. And he was three days without sight, and neither ate nor drank.

Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias; and to him the Lord said in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Here I am, Lord. So the Lord said to him, arise and go to the street called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas for one called Saul of Tarsus, for behold he is praying. And in a vision he has seen a man named Ananias coming in and putting his hand on him, so that he might receive his vision, ( Acts 9:3-12).

Paul received his sight as well as his spiritual sight of the Lord…. He saw the Lord Jesus in His glorified state….. He knew there was a spiritual sight that now was opened…. He would probably speak to us today, and say he was blind and now he could see ….. see the Lord…… as the Lord, King Jesus Christ…… Son of God….. He calls this the vision of the Lord…. He delighted to reveal His Son in me as Paul wrote in Galatians….. When we have received the vision of the Lord, our spiritual eyes and ears and heart now learn to  know the King as we become His vessel of light. He then becomes our only reality, the only true reality……

Christ’s body today has the same heavenly vision as Paul did….. The command has not stopped: to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that the may receive the forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me ( Jesus Christ), ( Acts 26:18).

We have the Spirit of the Light of the world within to illumine the Lord before the world….. We walk in the Light as He is the Light. In Him there is no darkness, so as we abide in the Lord, we live in light of the Spirit…..

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. We are hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down but not destroyed- always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus sake, that the life of Jesus also may manifested I our mortal body, ( 2 Corinthians 4:7-11)

He shows us all things to come: He shows us what is being planned in the dark from darkness and what the Lord has planned for us and  is coming…..We work the life of Christ out in our lives as we are His body….. As He is, so are we….. What He went through from His creation, we also receive so that Christ may make Himself large in us. As we die in Him, we live in Him and He reigns through us in greater measure…… What cost, when we have Him as our Great Reward!

Look up for our redemption draws nigh-

Look up and see what the Lord has for you and me…

It is tremendous and free if you believe.

All things are possible, do you dare to believe?

The King is here for you and me …

Calling us out and up to be His light for all to break free…

Don’t turn away from the gentle Voice calling you to come out, come up to Him and see….

Look what has the King’s desire, who has His eye?

Alas, it is His bride shining…..

Behold, she reflects His great love in brilliant array…

She is His and His alone in His holy way….

He watches with such strong intent….

His eye will hold her in safety until His day of return……

For He sees His reflection in her beauty…..

He receives His travail of His soul in her gaze toward Her Only Love….

His reward is in Her eyes which are for Him alone….

He sees she is of Him adorned and crowned with His Name….

In the clean and pure white wedding garment of His Spirit upon her…..

See He is watching and waiting for the fullness of time…..

His beloved city, His bride, laid down her life….

For His sake, His fame, His glory, for all will know His Name….

She overcomes by His blood and His word and by His love….

Behold the King, behold His great love…….

Behold the bride who is adorned for Her King…..

Come and see what He has planned for you and me… Selah….

The ancient doors are opened as the trumpet calls,

Come up here to see and hear….

He shall call to the heavens above, and to the earth, that He may judge His people: gather My saints together to Me, those who have made a covenant with Me of sacrifice, ( Psalm 50:4).

Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,

Nor have entered into the heart of man

The things God has prepared for those who love Him, ( 1 Corinthians 2:9).

Beloved, we need our spiritual sight and spiritual ears to understand and live the purpose of our King and our Heavenly Father…. so we may be about the Godhead’s  business and not ours…… See His intent and strength in His purpose towards His beloved….. We are His and He is ours…. See His travail of His soul, us. See how He bled for her, called us to His own heart….. Let us let Him have His way….

Lord, thou be our vision, in the waking and in the night….. in peace and in the fight…..For all our adversities are none compared to Yours, we bear Your reproach, though it be night, we live by Your Light…. Keep us strong in the battle and in the calm…..For You are Sword and Shield. You have made us new and clean…..So Your glory will be seen.

We are Yours and we will go wherever You lead us… for we are Your sheep and You are our Shepherd….. We are Yours, we hear and obey and see You reveal Yourself within us….. Lord, only You….. We have eyes for only You and You alone….. You are the Lord of our hearts….. We rest in Your strength and Your power for all our days and nights until the day we awaken and will be in Your likeness. Awake us, O Lord, awaken us in Your mercy.

Praise be to You for ever and ever….. O King of glory, O Lamb of God….. Thank You for Your blood that cleansed us and keeps us safe from terror…. Thank You for Your sacrifice…. May we now make our lives a living sacrifice as Your bride….. holy and acceptable to You which is our reasonable service, but we want to be more than that for our love for You will not stop looking and watching for You…. Dying daily to the world and living unto You by the power of Spirit. O Lord, You are the Audience of One…. We die to live for You above all….In Jesus’ name, Amen.

This theme of coming to the Lord starts in Genesis and continues through the whole Bible…. Genesis 35:2, And Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him. Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, and change your garments.

Let us hear and see with a heart to obey the Lord today! Come within Holy Spirit and do Your work of fire….. burn away the chaff as the seed of love for our King will grow abundant fruit for His pleasure and desire…… The reward for His travail will be found in the love for Him and Him alone by His saints.

Grant us our request, O Mighty One….O King of Glory!

Selah!