Saturday, July 23, 2011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Men after God's own heart.
Forgetting all the mistakes I made in the past, that past that held me as a prisoner and subjected me to it's will. I press on, press to know Him, that know that which has laid hold of me which is the power of Jesus' Resurrection. My heart was tearing apart because of the pain and burden of past affliction and grief. Everyday it comes to haunt me, but like a solid beam of brilliant light ripping through a sea of darkness, this past is held back and I am saved from it because of Jesus brilliance and power to save AND to withhold me. How do I press on? How do I move on? I lay myself down in my brokenness, in His arms.
The one thing that has ahold of me and will not let go, is the same passion which brought Jesus to death on the cross, the same passion brings us to death of this life, and into life in Him. Passion is suffering. Paul said "I suffer all things for the glory of the Lord". To live a life of passion is to live a life of suffering, there is no grey area, there is no in between. Suffering, loneliness, brokenness and poverty, scorn from believers and non-believers. The man who lives passionately will suffer all of these things so that others do not have to. Men like Paul, suffer passion, live passionate lives and bow their knees to Jesus at His beckoning and don't need to be convinced to do so. There is no resistance to the love, the tears, there is no shame in the tears and passionate desire for Jesus. Those who really love with passion will find themselves consumed in every moment with thoughts of their Lord with hearts that beat at every moment to be near a Lord that only demands that you surrender your pain unto Him. They don't need to be convinced to read their Bible more, or to pray 30 minutes once a day, and hope they make it.
"Those who follow me, will suffer passion derision, objection, and subjection to the cross." Life comes through death on the cross suffering for what you know in your heart to be truthful, honest and good. We might have lost sight of all of this as a society, but we will still have one spark of hope if we are calling on Him. All it takes is one spark to ignite all of this dry tinder.
"Let God arise and let His enemies be scattered", there are still those who are enemies of the cross. They did not just exist in Paul's day, and they are in the church. They did not go extinct when Paul, and some are even seem to be God fearing people! It is not the ones who know God's way that are the problem, it is those who seem to know! The real enemy are those within the church who hinder people from entering lives to passionately serve the Lord because these men dont feel "comfortable" with that. They still exist! They hate the tears of lovers of Christ, they hate to see a man or woman shaken by the Lord, and say that they have a demon. They oppress the lovers of God and sell them into slavery to what they think is right for them, for what they are "comfortable" with. They do not recognize the work of the cross in someone and they lash out at others because of this love that has gotten ahold of the lovers of Jesus.
John the baptist was not a voice whispering or talking from the wilderness, he was a voice CRYING from the wilderness passionately preparing people's hearts for the coming of Jesus, and speaking about what was among them, and not for tomorrow. Jesus was there among John's disciples, and John was not looking for escape, he was looking at Jesus. These are the times that we are in now. As everyone spends their time religiously pouring over end time prophecy, which speaks in a whisper, there is a voice desperately crying out to show us Who is among us! We have been missing the work of heart preparedness that the Lord wants to do among us. Men that live passionately for Jesus do not live in the whisper of the end, but in the voice crying about NOW. The end times are not darkness and doom. They are light piercing what is already darkness and doom, a brilliant light that flesh can not stand.
And then when a man sees that all of those things he has lost, given up, surrendered are but rubbish before the Lord, then the Lord can do something in our lives. I can not be molded or shaped into a man of God's own heart without first giving up all that I am, and all that I hold onto "just in case" or " in case of emergency" the things that Paul said "but what things were gain to me" (Phil 3:7) these things are seen for what they are, pure garbage before Jesus. How many can say that as they read these passages in Philippians 3 that they too have come to this place? And how far into this land are we willing to go? Are we just hanging out near the border, in case things get tough and we aren't comfortable? and we don't like it here so we are going to leave this place and go back to what we know already? OR are we willing to take this land without doubting and fear and wandering around for years before we step into our ministry our calling? Have we gotten so spiritually mature in our religious understanding that we no longer need Exodus?
This is what Paul is talking about here. Leaving behind all that he was in "Saul" and all the things that his fellows told him were right and good and true. People talk about how they want to live free, and how they hate slavery, yet when the true freedom shows up they want to murder it. Paul left his "Egypt" which looked good and felt good and gave him a life of prestige and honor among his peers, and riches from those in authority, and went to something better. As it was in the Old Testament, those who hold onto the former ways of fear and doubt will not live to see the promised land, few of the old generation will step into it. The men like Joshua and Caleb that are faithful and are willing to give up all that they believe at any moment, abandoning the old way of doing things and that which they believe makes them who they are in faith, and trust only in Him Who leads, will step into the promises that God has given them for this life.
The one thing that has ahold of me and will not let go, is the same passion which brought Jesus to death on the cross, the same passion brings us to death of this life, and into life in Him. Passion is suffering. Paul said "I suffer all things for the glory of the Lord". To live a life of passion is to live a life of suffering, there is no grey area, there is no in between. Suffering, loneliness, brokenness and poverty, scorn from believers and non-believers. The man who lives passionately will suffer all of these things so that others do not have to. Men like Paul, suffer passion, live passionate lives and bow their knees to Jesus at His beckoning and don't need to be convinced to do so. There is no resistance to the love, the tears, there is no shame in the tears and passionate desire for Jesus. Those who really love with passion will find themselves consumed in every moment with thoughts of their Lord with hearts that beat at every moment to be near a Lord that only demands that you surrender your pain unto Him. They don't need to be convinced to read their Bible more, or to pray 30 minutes once a day, and hope they make it.
"Those who follow me, will suffer passion derision, objection, and subjection to the cross." Life comes through death on the cross suffering for what you know in your heart to be truthful, honest and good. We might have lost sight of all of this as a society, but we will still have one spark of hope if we are calling on Him. All it takes is one spark to ignite all of this dry tinder.
"Let God arise and let His enemies be scattered", there are still those who are enemies of the cross. They did not just exist in Paul's day, and they are in the church. They did not go extinct when Paul, and some are even seem to be God fearing people! It is not the ones who know God's way that are the problem, it is those who seem to know! The real enemy are those within the church who hinder people from entering lives to passionately serve the Lord because these men dont feel "comfortable" with that. They still exist! They hate the tears of lovers of Christ, they hate to see a man or woman shaken by the Lord, and say that they have a demon. They oppress the lovers of God and sell them into slavery to what they think is right for them, for what they are "comfortable" with. They do not recognize the work of the cross in someone and they lash out at others because of this love that has gotten ahold of the lovers of Jesus.
John the baptist was not a voice whispering or talking from the wilderness, he was a voice CRYING from the wilderness passionately preparing people's hearts for the coming of Jesus, and speaking about what was among them, and not for tomorrow. Jesus was there among John's disciples, and John was not looking for escape, he was looking at Jesus. These are the times that we are in now. As everyone spends their time religiously pouring over end time prophecy, which speaks in a whisper, there is a voice desperately crying out to show us Who is among us! We have been missing the work of heart preparedness that the Lord wants to do among us. Men that live passionately for Jesus do not live in the whisper of the end, but in the voice crying about NOW. The end times are not darkness and doom. They are light piercing what is already darkness and doom, a brilliant light that flesh can not stand.
And then when a man sees that all of those things he has lost, given up, surrendered are but rubbish before the Lord, then the Lord can do something in our lives. I can not be molded or shaped into a man of God's own heart without first giving up all that I am, and all that I hold onto "just in case" or " in case of emergency" the things that Paul said "but what things were gain to me" (Phil 3:7) these things are seen for what they are, pure garbage before Jesus. How many can say that as they read these passages in Philippians 3 that they too have come to this place? And how far into this land are we willing to go? Are we just hanging out near the border, in case things get tough and we aren't comfortable? and we don't like it here so we are going to leave this place and go back to what we know already? OR are we willing to take this land without doubting and fear and wandering around for years before we step into our ministry our calling? Have we gotten so spiritually mature in our religious understanding that we no longer need Exodus?
This is what Paul is talking about here. Leaving behind all that he was in "Saul" and all the things that his fellows told him were right and good and true. People talk about how they want to live free, and how they hate slavery, yet when the true freedom shows up they want to murder it. Paul left his "Egypt" which looked good and felt good and gave him a life of prestige and honor among his peers, and riches from those in authority, and went to something better. As it was in the Old Testament, those who hold onto the former ways of fear and doubt will not live to see the promised land, few of the old generation will step into it. The men like Joshua and Caleb that are faithful and are willing to give up all that they believe at any moment, abandoning the old way of doing things and that which they believe makes them who they are in faith, and trust only in Him Who leads, will step into the promises that God has given them for this life.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
There are the radicals
True kingdom radicals are not the people who stand outside of abortion clinics holding signs that condemn people. True radicals are not those who do things for show so that everyone can look at them and say "that is just a bunch of radicals". When we say the word "radical" you almost think of that type of person, and although they do a service in kingdom work, they are not the radicals. John the Baptist was a radical, he would preach repeantance, he was a herald to the ministry of Jesus. Jesus sought those who were hungry for healing, he preached to the brokenhearted and to the lowly. That was radical. "If I can get into the best clubs, hang out with the richest people, drive the nicest cars, make the most money, be the best at what I do", there is nothing radical about that. People all over desire to have that, and honestly most people would jump at the chance to be seen and recognized for who they are and how great they are.
When you see someone that is truly radical, you probably would not recognize it. While John the Baptist was out preaching repeantance and heralding the gospel, everyone else was in the synagouge or they were at religious feasts looking for answers where there were none, looking to man and not to God, because these guys were well dressed.
Someone who is radical for Jesus does not have to go out and show the sinner the picket sign saying "you are going to burn in hell", that is suffering them to come unto Jesus. Those people consider themselves radicals for their ideals. Faith is not in that picket sign and you will see why:
Luke 18:1-8 :
1 Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart, 2 saying: “There was in a certain city a judge who did not fear God nor regard man. 3 Now there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, ‘Get justice for me from my adversary.’ 4 And he would not for a while; but afterward he said within himself, ‘Though I do not fear God nor regard man, 5 yet because this widow troubles me I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.’”
6 Then the Lord said, “Hear what the unjust judge said. 7 And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? 8 I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?”
What was it that caused justice? what gave birth to it here? No one was outside picketing this womans cause, the woman was going before her judge on her own. She had a cause and she was not radical for man, she was radical for God, what He had shown her was right. There would be so fewer struggles in your life if you could get to the point where you no longer care what man has to say about it, that you hear what agrees with what the Father has already said of Himself. We always go to man, we seek to fit in, to belong to a group and to have a social club. But radicalism for Jesus is "I will not move until He moves, I will not say what He did not say, I will not do what He has not told me to do". Go to those places, the bars, the clubs, the abortion clinics, whatever it is that you feel called to do. Instead of sitting outside with a picket sign, have you tried praying over them? That is real faith, you know that you can make a person feel bad about what they are doing if you can show them a sign that has condemnation on it, or tell them that they will go to hell. But you may not see your prayers go answered. Hate the sin to the point that you can say "I would die to see a sinner saved" and then die to the flesh and it's lusts, there you will see fruit.
Where we get in trouble is in that we do not understand God is as Who He says He is, we understand Him as Who man says He is. We listen to the sermon, and get hurt because the pastor or whomever said something that offended or made us feel confused, so we ran away or we felt betrayed and said "Oh what is the point", when we needed to come before His presence and let His love draw out all that is needed to be worked on. We can not back down. Putting yourself in the picket line does not bring you to a point of loving God. Is it bringing people closer to Jesus?or is it heaping up condemnation.
We are not selling salvation like we would sell cars and we do not have a quota to meet. We are not tricking people into loving Jesus based on guilt, or emotion. Our mission is to be a light, and where there is a light the lost will be attracted to it. We have to see it that way. Jesus said "suffer not the little children to come unto me", that does not just go for children. It goes for those who don't know better, or those who have not been told better, or those who have not heard HIS voice. We can not bring them closer to Jesus by making them feel bad about what they do, yes some conviction is involved but that is the work of the Lord.
The most powerful things are things that can not be tamed by any man. We have a vision of doing that hard work and saying "well no one could tame that horse but me" we have dreams of being that amazing. But we are the ones that are the untameable. God is the only one that can tame us, if we are being tamed by man into acting a certain way, that is not radical. The most powerful things, are things that can only be tamed by God. No man came to John and told Him to eat locusts and honey and wear camel skin so that people would look and say "what a radical he is" God told John that. God tamed him into radicalism. See it is not the same here with God. Man tames things into quiet sheep like submission, and yes we are the sheep of His pastor, but God gave us a personality for a reason. We are not to be sheeple. We do not have to listen to the doctrine of man, or theology of angels even!
Galatians 1:8 -
8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.
That which was preached was the gospel, and that which has changed your life is the gospel. The gospel is the testimony of Christ, and the testimony of Christ is the Spirit of Prophecy, and the Spirit of prophecy speaks only what the Lord speaks, does only what the Lord does. Jesus looked to heal the broken hearted! Or have you not read that? Jesus came to heal the sick, or did you not get that? We have that mission, we have that aim and that goal, it is not found in theology, or doctrine, it is found in purpose. Radicals do what the Lord has told them, even if they heard Him say it only once long ago. They do not need to hear it again, when it comes from the Lord it is His will for you and His desire. Radicals do what Jesus did because they know they are lambs being lead to the slaughter, they are fuel for the fire. Stop worrying about the how to respond to the arguments of an unbelieving world, what they need is to see the fire in the lowly. Those who are great in their own eyes, have to have their mindsets changed, but radicals know they are lowly in the eyes of man, so they are great in the eyes of God. We have to pray for them first, then we can deal with the bondage and the deceits they are living under. We have to pray and pour our hearts out over the lost and then let the Lord do His work on them. If not then we are just "selling cars", getting people saved to reach this quota. That is not our God. Pray, and you will see people saved, pray and you will see lives truly changed. Pray and you will see women with unborn babies suddenly change their minds at the door because believe it or not, the grace of God is still enough for them. How were you saved? When I truly gave my life to the Lord, I was not in a church service, and I was not listening to some preacher, the grace of God was right there for me. "By grace we have been saved" our prayer should be for mercy, and then grace to save the lost. Mercy for the sins that cover a nation, mercy that comes from our thankfulness that we have been taken from the pain and death we were living in, and grace to produce genuine love through salvation.
Ezekiel 33:11
11 Say to them: ‘As I live,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’
That is what should be said. "The Lord does not desire that you should perish! You know in what ways you are being wicked! He wants you to have life!!!!!!". It says "As I live", as the Lord lives and gives life , He does not desire to see anyone perish. His grace is enough even for the lowliest of sinners. Your presence with prayer is more powerful than the picket sign! Prayer will work more miracles, prayer will reach more people, prayer has no boundaries or borders or any civil restrictions on where and when and how you can preach and protest! They can take away your freedom to meet in the park and talk to everyone about Jesus, they can take prayer out of schools and tell kids that they don't have to stand for the national anthem, and they can try to suppress talking about Jesus, while giving freedom of speech rights to people who will say vile and perverse things, but they can not take the prayer away from your hearts, they can not take away your cries to God the Father for Justice! It is truly perverse when people are willing to talk about perverted, violent and hateful things with each other without offense, yet we can't talk about Jesus.
We declare justice for our nation, justice for those who have cried out for so long, we declare justice in our schools and justice in the streets, outside of bars and dark places, we declare that God is real and we declare Jesus reigns. Nothing can take that away from us.
Other nations, other people have fought for this kind of freedom, but have not gotten it. God has given us this freedom because we honored Him in our struggles, and the word says "He will honor those who honor Him". But what have we now? Our people take this freedom for granted and like all the others throughout history who turned their backs on God, it will not go well for us. Education, and pretentiousness will not keep us safe from it. Education is important, but we have turned into people who are "too intelligent for God", it has become common thought "those who believe in Him are ignorant", and those that don't accept this modern agenda of social progresivism are all intolerable people. We have become so lost. We don't even know where we came from anymore, history is becoming so convoluted. There are two nations of people, one that is serving the Lord and one that is not. The Lord has said that the older will serve the younger, not the older in age but the older in mentality. Those who honor Him are honored, He will restore your youth like the eagles if you honor Him. We will mount up on eagles wings despite the muck ad the mire. Rise up radicals, you are the young!
So far the picket signs and protests have not worked, and the only fruit that has come of it is hate. We need to pray that we can get through with love, setting predjudices aside and reaching the heart of man. We are aiming for the heart, not the head. "Love covers over a mulitude of sins" hate and anger just spawn more sin. But love conquers all.
When you see someone that is truly radical, you probably would not recognize it. While John the Baptist was out preaching repeantance and heralding the gospel, everyone else was in the synagouge or they were at religious feasts looking for answers where there were none, looking to man and not to God, because these guys were well dressed.
Someone who is radical for Jesus does not have to go out and show the sinner the picket sign saying "you are going to burn in hell", that is suffering them to come unto Jesus. Those people consider themselves radicals for their ideals. Faith is not in that picket sign and you will see why:
Luke 18:1-8 :
1 Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart, 2 saying: “There was in a certain city a judge who did not fear God nor regard man. 3 Now there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, ‘Get justice for me from my adversary.’ 4 And he would not for a while; but afterward he said within himself, ‘Though I do not fear God nor regard man, 5 yet because this widow troubles me I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.’”
6 Then the Lord said, “Hear what the unjust judge said. 7 And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? 8 I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?”
What was it that caused justice? what gave birth to it here? No one was outside picketing this womans cause, the woman was going before her judge on her own. She had a cause and she was not radical for man, she was radical for God, what He had shown her was right. There would be so fewer struggles in your life if you could get to the point where you no longer care what man has to say about it, that you hear what agrees with what the Father has already said of Himself. We always go to man, we seek to fit in, to belong to a group and to have a social club. But radicalism for Jesus is "I will not move until He moves, I will not say what He did not say, I will not do what He has not told me to do". Go to those places, the bars, the clubs, the abortion clinics, whatever it is that you feel called to do. Instead of sitting outside with a picket sign, have you tried praying over them? That is real faith, you know that you can make a person feel bad about what they are doing if you can show them a sign that has condemnation on it, or tell them that they will go to hell. But you may not see your prayers go answered. Hate the sin to the point that you can say "I would die to see a sinner saved" and then die to the flesh and it's lusts, there you will see fruit.
Where we get in trouble is in that we do not understand God is as Who He says He is, we understand Him as Who man says He is. We listen to the sermon, and get hurt because the pastor or whomever said something that offended or made us feel confused, so we ran away or we felt betrayed and said "Oh what is the point", when we needed to come before His presence and let His love draw out all that is needed to be worked on. We can not back down. Putting yourself in the picket line does not bring you to a point of loving God. Is it bringing people closer to Jesus?or is it heaping up condemnation.
We are not selling salvation like we would sell cars and we do not have a quota to meet. We are not tricking people into loving Jesus based on guilt, or emotion. Our mission is to be a light, and where there is a light the lost will be attracted to it. We have to see it that way. Jesus said "suffer not the little children to come unto me", that does not just go for children. It goes for those who don't know better, or those who have not been told better, or those who have not heard HIS voice. We can not bring them closer to Jesus by making them feel bad about what they do, yes some conviction is involved but that is the work of the Lord.
The most powerful things are things that can not be tamed by any man. We have a vision of doing that hard work and saying "well no one could tame that horse but me" we have dreams of being that amazing. But we are the ones that are the untameable. God is the only one that can tame us, if we are being tamed by man into acting a certain way, that is not radical. The most powerful things, are things that can only be tamed by God. No man came to John and told Him to eat locusts and honey and wear camel skin so that people would look and say "what a radical he is" God told John that. God tamed him into radicalism. See it is not the same here with God. Man tames things into quiet sheep like submission, and yes we are the sheep of His pastor, but God gave us a personality for a reason. We are not to be sheeple. We do not have to listen to the doctrine of man, or theology of angels even!
Galatians 1:8 -
8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.
That which was preached was the gospel, and that which has changed your life is the gospel. The gospel is the testimony of Christ, and the testimony of Christ is the Spirit of Prophecy, and the Spirit of prophecy speaks only what the Lord speaks, does only what the Lord does. Jesus looked to heal the broken hearted! Or have you not read that? Jesus came to heal the sick, or did you not get that? We have that mission, we have that aim and that goal, it is not found in theology, or doctrine, it is found in purpose. Radicals do what the Lord has told them, even if they heard Him say it only once long ago. They do not need to hear it again, when it comes from the Lord it is His will for you and His desire. Radicals do what Jesus did because they know they are lambs being lead to the slaughter, they are fuel for the fire. Stop worrying about the how to respond to the arguments of an unbelieving world, what they need is to see the fire in the lowly. Those who are great in their own eyes, have to have their mindsets changed, but radicals know they are lowly in the eyes of man, so they are great in the eyes of God. We have to pray for them first, then we can deal with the bondage and the deceits they are living under. We have to pray and pour our hearts out over the lost and then let the Lord do His work on them. If not then we are just "selling cars", getting people saved to reach this quota. That is not our God. Pray, and you will see people saved, pray and you will see lives truly changed. Pray and you will see women with unborn babies suddenly change their minds at the door because believe it or not, the grace of God is still enough for them. How were you saved? When I truly gave my life to the Lord, I was not in a church service, and I was not listening to some preacher, the grace of God was right there for me. "By grace we have been saved" our prayer should be for mercy, and then grace to save the lost. Mercy for the sins that cover a nation, mercy that comes from our thankfulness that we have been taken from the pain and death we were living in, and grace to produce genuine love through salvation.
Ezekiel 33:11
11 Say to them: ‘As I live,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’
That is what should be said. "The Lord does not desire that you should perish! You know in what ways you are being wicked! He wants you to have life!!!!!!". It says "As I live", as the Lord lives and gives life , He does not desire to see anyone perish. His grace is enough even for the lowliest of sinners. Your presence with prayer is more powerful than the picket sign! Prayer will work more miracles, prayer will reach more people, prayer has no boundaries or borders or any civil restrictions on where and when and how you can preach and protest! They can take away your freedom to meet in the park and talk to everyone about Jesus, they can take prayer out of schools and tell kids that they don't have to stand for the national anthem, and they can try to suppress talking about Jesus, while giving freedom of speech rights to people who will say vile and perverse things, but they can not take the prayer away from your hearts, they can not take away your cries to God the Father for Justice! It is truly perverse when people are willing to talk about perverted, violent and hateful things with each other without offense, yet we can't talk about Jesus.
We declare justice for our nation, justice for those who have cried out for so long, we declare justice in our schools and justice in the streets, outside of bars and dark places, we declare that God is real and we declare Jesus reigns. Nothing can take that away from us.
Other nations, other people have fought for this kind of freedom, but have not gotten it. God has given us this freedom because we honored Him in our struggles, and the word says "He will honor those who honor Him". But what have we now? Our people take this freedom for granted and like all the others throughout history who turned their backs on God, it will not go well for us. Education, and pretentiousness will not keep us safe from it. Education is important, but we have turned into people who are "too intelligent for God", it has become common thought "those who believe in Him are ignorant", and those that don't accept this modern agenda of social progresivism are all intolerable people. We have become so lost. We don't even know where we came from anymore, history is becoming so convoluted. There are two nations of people, one that is serving the Lord and one that is not. The Lord has said that the older will serve the younger, not the older in age but the older in mentality. Those who honor Him are honored, He will restore your youth like the eagles if you honor Him. We will mount up on eagles wings despite the muck ad the mire. Rise up radicals, you are the young!
So far the picket signs and protests have not worked, and the only fruit that has come of it is hate. We need to pray that we can get through with love, setting predjudices aside and reaching the heart of man. We are aiming for the heart, not the head. "Love covers over a mulitude of sins" hate and anger just spawn more sin. But love conquers all.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Stand up and recieve!
God wants you to get your feet wet. Take a little toe and just dip it in the water, feel how "the water is just fine". God never said to Joshua "Hey Josh, let me tell you what, you want to go into the promised land?" Josh says "Oh yeah Lord" and did the Lord say "well, just pull out the lawn chairs, kick back relax here next to the Jordan and wait for the water to dry up", where would the miracle be in that? How could anyone ever say "I have seen the miracle working power of God" when they were kicked back on lawn chairs next to the brink of the Jordan, sipping on lemonade, waiting for a miracle? What warriors would do that? I can say that I have seen, felt, experienced, and witnessed in others the miracle working power of God because our feet were wet.
In Joshua 3 the Lord said "Now these priests have got to place their feet in the Jordan and then the waters will part" They had to get out there! You see how it should be? "We worked a miracle, hand i hand with our God!" now it can be reproduced. Reproduction of God's will can never be reproduced in you until you first walk in obedience. The miracles can never happen for you, and you can not experience the blessings of intimacy with the Father until you first learn to be obedient.
Ephesians 1:4- "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,". You can read on if you like, but what the Lord is trying to get across to us, "You do not have to love me any more. You can not. I want to love you more! Come close to me, be obedient and come close to me, I got all this love for you and I want to pour it out on you". We keep trying to love Him more, there are conferences and books "How to love God more" there are sermons in multitide and teachings in quantums on this subject. The whole point of God's love, is that we can not love Him enough. We re not in ourselves the source of love, we are not God's love, we represent God's love. It was a relief to me when I first heard that! How many times have you agonized over how you don't think you love God enough? And you prayed and you fasted and you cried out and He taught you to love Him. How did He do that? He didn't say "Ok now if you act like you love me, then you love me" no, it says "before Him in love".
Have you ever been to court? Or watched court television shows? What happens? You stand before a judge and receive your sentence or you get justice, that is what happens, you get what you deserve, or you make sure someone else gets what they deserve. We can now go to John 3:16. Look at this in a new light, stop looking at it the way you used to, trust me there is a mindset there that needs to be changed. God could have judged us Gentiles and non-Gentiles ALL GUILTY. But He didn't, He can not deny Himself. You can read that in 1 Timothy, "He is faithful for He can not deny Himself". God is love, you have heard that you have heard song after song about it. But how has it made you feel? Are you left in the dark? Are you saying you are blessed when in actuality you can not see anything to be so happy about? "Before Him in love" God's judgement on us was love. He poured HIS love out on us, we can only return it to Him. God is the source of love, so if we stand before Him it is to receive that love, that is His judgement.
Why have we received such harsh treatment in life? Why are there still people who call themselves "agnostic"? Maybe it is because they have not met you. That's right, we all say "they just need Jesus" and take a look at yourself. You and I , we are Jesus! OH no that is not blasphemy, look at Galatians 4:19. Remember when Jesus said "no one who has a lamp hides it in under a shade so no one can see it? Let your light shine out to all of man." Jesus also said " I am the light of the world". In the world, what is in us can not be seen except with an x-ray. We could look for a little statue, or an apparition of the face of Jesus in out rib cage, but that is not what Paul meant in Galatians 4:19. If Christ is formed in you, it is so that He can be reproduced in others. We are Christ. I don't care how you want to word that so you are comfortable with it, but that is Who you are here, whether or not you like it. You are Christ. God has always chosen to use man as His vessels. He says "get your feet wet, then you can cross" some were chosen for the fire, some were tortured and stoned (with rocks get your head out of the gutter) and some were crucified and imprisoned because of the gospel.
We should be ashamed. We do not have to do that so we can "love Him more" there is no "I need to love Him more" we need to let Him love us more. I go back to my statement, that is why there are so many agnostics in this world who have still not come to terms with their salvation. There will be no comfort there because it is not about being comfortable, it is not about rationalizing or domesticating or digesting it. There is not bodily function for it. There is no proper interpretation that can bring you closer. A book can inspire you, this blog entry can inspire you, but it is not the source. Have you read "Purpose Driven life"? ok then you should tell me about it, I'm sure it's good. But I know my purpose regardless of whether or not I read that book, who showed me my purpose? "I found that out when I put my feet in the water" oh Jesus. He is all over that, that is what you should be saying. Stop saying "I need to find my purpose" and you can say " I found out when I put my feet on the water"OH Jesus. You got out of the boat and you looked into your Saviors eyes and you knew, you just knew that was it for you. There is no turning back this time, not this time. Maybe Peter had to turn back, but you don't have to! Listen don't read that story as "oh my, if I get out of the boat and onto the water, I am just going to fail like Peter did, so why bother?" NO that is not what you should be saying! You should be rejoicing because you know that Jesus died so that you could RUN on the water, you can DANCE on the water! "OH Lord if that is You! I want to get out of this boat and go dancing with You on that water, I want to go NOW" . It is time. Get your feet wet, testify how the waters were parted. Testify how He loves you so much that even though these trials are constantly coming at you, you know that there is breakthrough afterwards. There is nothing more discouraging to the others around you than to hear you say "Man, I am just going through it" all mopping around sad and angry and hurt because you are learning something. Pick you head up and hold it high! Keep your eyes upon the sky! Oh Jesus, we need to get our feet wet.
That water will never part until you stand up and receive! Throw the lawn chairs away, take off the blindfold and say to the water "Stand up so I can receive!"
Jesus Reigns.
In Joshua 3 the Lord said "Now these priests have got to place their feet in the Jordan and then the waters will part" They had to get out there! You see how it should be? "We worked a miracle, hand i hand with our God!" now it can be reproduced. Reproduction of God's will can never be reproduced in you until you first walk in obedience. The miracles can never happen for you, and you can not experience the blessings of intimacy with the Father until you first learn to be obedient.
Ephesians 1:4- "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,". You can read on if you like, but what the Lord is trying to get across to us, "You do not have to love me any more. You can not. I want to love you more! Come close to me, be obedient and come close to me, I got all this love for you and I want to pour it out on you". We keep trying to love Him more, there are conferences and books "How to love God more" there are sermons in multitide and teachings in quantums on this subject. The whole point of God's love, is that we can not love Him enough. We re not in ourselves the source of love, we are not God's love, we represent God's love. It was a relief to me when I first heard that! How many times have you agonized over how you don't think you love God enough? And you prayed and you fasted and you cried out and He taught you to love Him. How did He do that? He didn't say "Ok now if you act like you love me, then you love me" no, it says "before Him in love".
Have you ever been to court? Or watched court television shows? What happens? You stand before a judge and receive your sentence or you get justice, that is what happens, you get what you deserve, or you make sure someone else gets what they deserve. We can now go to John 3:16. Look at this in a new light, stop looking at it the way you used to, trust me there is a mindset there that needs to be changed. God could have judged us Gentiles and non-Gentiles ALL GUILTY. But He didn't, He can not deny Himself. You can read that in 1 Timothy, "He is faithful for He can not deny Himself". God is love, you have heard that you have heard song after song about it. But how has it made you feel? Are you left in the dark? Are you saying you are blessed when in actuality you can not see anything to be so happy about? "Before Him in love" God's judgement on us was love. He poured HIS love out on us, we can only return it to Him. God is the source of love, so if we stand before Him it is to receive that love, that is His judgement.
Why have we received such harsh treatment in life? Why are there still people who call themselves "agnostic"? Maybe it is because they have not met you. That's right, we all say "they just need Jesus" and take a look at yourself. You and I , we are Jesus! OH no that is not blasphemy, look at Galatians 4:19. Remember when Jesus said "no one who has a lamp hides it in under a shade so no one can see it? Let your light shine out to all of man." Jesus also said " I am the light of the world". In the world, what is in us can not be seen except with an x-ray. We could look for a little statue, or an apparition of the face of Jesus in out rib cage, but that is not what Paul meant in Galatians 4:19. If Christ is formed in you, it is so that He can be reproduced in others. We are Christ. I don't care how you want to word that so you are comfortable with it, but that is Who you are here, whether or not you like it. You are Christ. God has always chosen to use man as His vessels. He says "get your feet wet, then you can cross" some were chosen for the fire, some were tortured and stoned (with rocks get your head out of the gutter) and some were crucified and imprisoned because of the gospel.
We should be ashamed. We do not have to do that so we can "love Him more" there is no "I need to love Him more" we need to let Him love us more. I go back to my statement, that is why there are so many agnostics in this world who have still not come to terms with their salvation. There will be no comfort there because it is not about being comfortable, it is not about rationalizing or domesticating or digesting it. There is not bodily function for it. There is no proper interpretation that can bring you closer. A book can inspire you, this blog entry can inspire you, but it is not the source. Have you read "Purpose Driven life"? ok then you should tell me about it, I'm sure it's good. But I know my purpose regardless of whether or not I read that book, who showed me my purpose? "I found that out when I put my feet in the water" oh Jesus. He is all over that, that is what you should be saying. Stop saying "I need to find my purpose" and you can say " I found out when I put my feet on the water"OH Jesus. You got out of the boat and you looked into your Saviors eyes and you knew, you just knew that was it for you. There is no turning back this time, not this time. Maybe Peter had to turn back, but you don't have to! Listen don't read that story as "oh my, if I get out of the boat and onto the water, I am just going to fail like Peter did, so why bother?" NO that is not what you should be saying! You should be rejoicing because you know that Jesus died so that you could RUN on the water, you can DANCE on the water! "OH Lord if that is You! I want to get out of this boat and go dancing with You on that water, I want to go NOW" . It is time. Get your feet wet, testify how the waters were parted. Testify how He loves you so much that even though these trials are constantly coming at you, you know that there is breakthrough afterwards. There is nothing more discouraging to the others around you than to hear you say "Man, I am just going through it" all mopping around sad and angry and hurt because you are learning something. Pick you head up and hold it high! Keep your eyes upon the sky! Oh Jesus, we need to get our feet wet.
That water will never part until you stand up and receive! Throw the lawn chairs away, take off the blindfold and say to the water "Stand up so I can receive!"
Jesus Reigns.
Monday, June 6, 2011
How often we have trembled
Have you ever had a desire that you trembled for?
So much that you almost fell down where you stand?
So much that it was like it came pressing down on you
From God's almighty hand
This is your word Lord! And I have covenanted myself to it
Your will is my will I will not fear
Therefore I tremble at Your word
It is You Who keep me from stumbling
"Come on son, daughter, did you think I would not take care of you?"
"Do you think I did not hear you? ( I listen to your heart) You believed
my words and I made it so
Like fire from Heaven
and thunder from down below
The word of God will never loose it's power
Now that there are seeds to sow.
He has held me even though I can't stop trembling
He has kept me from stumbling even though
my knees buckle beneath the weight
He has provided an escape even when there seems
to be no hope
In my desperation I have run to Him
I shook in anticipation and trembled at His word
The day of Christ will come, that day will arise even for the most sinful of creatures, for the lowliest of souls.
When was the last time you were so shook up over something you went all "Elvis Presley" saying "uh-huh, I'm all shook up" When was the last time something caused you to tremble in anticipation that would not be quenched until you got the answers? And how often does the word of God become that answer.
Isaiah 66:2- But on this one I will look, On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit who TREMBLES at my word"
What about these times when we were excited for a concert? There is just an energy, isn't there? When we are in the way, when we are waiting in line to get in, standing and waiting with the radicals and the first timers, talking about our respect for the artist. This is the same excitement that God wants to generate within you everyday. He wants to cultivate an intense anticipation for His word in you to the point where you are shaking just to hear it. You are a radical.
The world says God won't, God can't, God isn't, or God isn't doing that anymore. But we know, He is, He can, and He does!
Jude 24- Now to Him Who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy."
Joy unshakable though we waver and stutter and stumble sometimes that joy can not be shaken can not be taken. And though we stumble we will not stay down. "My God is more that enough" you say, and you should believe it! "My God provides all my needs" and you need to always see it. "My God He looks after me!" and He wants to show it! He wants to show you how mighty He is and that there is nothing you can't handle cause He fights for you! Joshua said to the Israelites "What have you to be worried about? Do what needs to be done! ONE of you guys puts 1000 of your enemies to flight because our God is mighty and He fights for you!" There is no fear in love, perfect love casts it all out,let go of that which you fear, let go of these concerns and things that you hold onto almost as some sort of identifier of who you are or something you fall back on because you can not fathom that you can deal with the full pressure of it. Do not hold onto these ridiculous schemes and thoughts that maybe just maybe you can have that past again! They are dead and gone! It is in God's hands now!This perfect love that comes from Him casts out all fear, and keeps you locked up in His embrace no matter how hard you might try to fight the truth.
1 Corinthians 10:13 "No temptation has overtaken you",Rejoice! These might be the only words that you need to hear, but if there is still that doubt that "But what about that time I..." it says " But God is faithful Who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able" Stop all of that "but what about how I messed up" God forgives and then He forgets, there is no memory bank of it once it has been forgiven it is gone for good there is no turning back! He is not reminding you of them, it is not perfect love that makes you hold onto guilt and therefore fear over what you might be able to do or how messed up you are or whatever prison that kind of fear and torment has had us in. See the blood of Jesus already tore all of those walls down and removed them entirely from any sort of existence. It is not God Who keeps reminding you of your sins and error, and to make you feel like you have to shed your own blood over the wrong you might have done. That is not God.
Oh thank You Lord! You will keep us from what harms us if we can just trust in You! If we can just put our hope in you, we will not stumble, we will not stay down. You can't keep us down! The world might try to suppress you, might try to make you feel like a fool for the gospel and believing in a Man Who has been dead for 2000 years and will never return. It might get to the point of oppression and finger pointing, the second you open your mouth you might only have the gospel of Jesus to talk about! But what the world needs now is not "love" faux love that does not stick around or take care of you, love that is fear of that person leaving or that thing leaving. That comfort blanket that you used to drag around when you were a child left a long time ago and what you need now is not another source of comfort other that the One Who will never leave you nor forsake you! You are so important to Him that time stopped just so He could see you saved, that complete and total death happened just to see you come back to life! Darkness enveloped Him so you could have light, death and fear eclipsed Him so now you have a way out of everyday temptations, demons and devils tormented at Him so that you could stand strong when they trip you up!
Thank you Jesus, even when all hope is gone, even when all the problems and fears mount up to take us into darkness and fear, even when the shadow envelopes and seems to try to consume us at every turn, and every step we make there are those that wish us harm and death, even when we think we have had all that we can stand, we are broken and trembling at Your word!
Malachi 4:2-
2 But to you who fear My name
The Sun of Righteousness shall arise
With healing in His wings;
We have nothing left to fear if we have put our trust in Him.
So much that you almost fell down where you stand?
So much that it was like it came pressing down on you
From God's almighty hand
This is your word Lord! And I have covenanted myself to it
Your will is my will I will not fear
Therefore I tremble at Your word
It is You Who keep me from stumbling
"Come on son, daughter, did you think I would not take care of you?"
"Do you think I did not hear you? ( I listen to your heart) You believed
my words and I made it so
Like fire from Heaven
and thunder from down below
The word of God will never loose it's power
Now that there are seeds to sow.
He has held me even though I can't stop trembling
He has kept me from stumbling even though
my knees buckle beneath the weight
He has provided an escape even when there seems
to be no hope
In my desperation I have run to Him
I shook in anticipation and trembled at His word
The day of Christ will come, that day will arise even for the most sinful of creatures, for the lowliest of souls.
When was the last time you were so shook up over something you went all "Elvis Presley" saying "uh-huh, I'm all shook up" When was the last time something caused you to tremble in anticipation that would not be quenched until you got the answers? And how often does the word of God become that answer.
Isaiah 66:2- But on this one I will look, On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit who TREMBLES at my word"
What about these times when we were excited for a concert? There is just an energy, isn't there? When we are in the way, when we are waiting in line to get in, standing and waiting with the radicals and the first timers, talking about our respect for the artist. This is the same excitement that God wants to generate within you everyday. He wants to cultivate an intense anticipation for His word in you to the point where you are shaking just to hear it. You are a radical.
The world says God won't, God can't, God isn't, or God isn't doing that anymore. But we know, He is, He can, and He does!
Jude 24- Now to Him Who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy."
Joy unshakable though we waver and stutter and stumble sometimes that joy can not be shaken can not be taken. And though we stumble we will not stay down. "My God is more that enough" you say, and you should believe it! "My God provides all my needs" and you need to always see it. "My God He looks after me!" and He wants to show it! He wants to show you how mighty He is and that there is nothing you can't handle cause He fights for you! Joshua said to the Israelites "What have you to be worried about? Do what needs to be done! ONE of you guys puts 1000 of your enemies to flight because our God is mighty and He fights for you!" There is no fear in love, perfect love casts it all out,let go of that which you fear, let go of these concerns and things that you hold onto almost as some sort of identifier of who you are or something you fall back on because you can not fathom that you can deal with the full pressure of it. Do not hold onto these ridiculous schemes and thoughts that maybe just maybe you can have that past again! They are dead and gone! It is in God's hands now!This perfect love that comes from Him casts out all fear, and keeps you locked up in His embrace no matter how hard you might try to fight the truth.
1 Corinthians 10:13 "No temptation has overtaken you",Rejoice! These might be the only words that you need to hear, but if there is still that doubt that "But what about that time I..." it says " But God is faithful Who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able" Stop all of that "but what about how I messed up" God forgives and then He forgets, there is no memory bank of it once it has been forgiven it is gone for good there is no turning back! He is not reminding you of them, it is not perfect love that makes you hold onto guilt and therefore fear over what you might be able to do or how messed up you are or whatever prison that kind of fear and torment has had us in. See the blood of Jesus already tore all of those walls down and removed them entirely from any sort of existence. It is not God Who keeps reminding you of your sins and error, and to make you feel like you have to shed your own blood over the wrong you might have done. That is not God.
Oh thank You Lord! You will keep us from what harms us if we can just trust in You! If we can just put our hope in you, we will not stumble, we will not stay down. You can't keep us down! The world might try to suppress you, might try to make you feel like a fool for the gospel and believing in a Man Who has been dead for 2000 years and will never return. It might get to the point of oppression and finger pointing, the second you open your mouth you might only have the gospel of Jesus to talk about! But what the world needs now is not "love" faux love that does not stick around or take care of you, love that is fear of that person leaving or that thing leaving. That comfort blanket that you used to drag around when you were a child left a long time ago and what you need now is not another source of comfort other that the One Who will never leave you nor forsake you! You are so important to Him that time stopped just so He could see you saved, that complete and total death happened just to see you come back to life! Darkness enveloped Him so you could have light, death and fear eclipsed Him so now you have a way out of everyday temptations, demons and devils tormented at Him so that you could stand strong when they trip you up!
Thank you Jesus, even when all hope is gone, even when all the problems and fears mount up to take us into darkness and fear, even when the shadow envelopes and seems to try to consume us at every turn, and every step we make there are those that wish us harm and death, even when we think we have had all that we can stand, we are broken and trembling at Your word!
Malachi 4:2-
2 But to you who fear My name
The Sun of Righteousness shall arise
With healing in His wings;
We have nothing left to fear if we have put our trust in Him.
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Knowing His thoughts for you
Saturate our minds with Your thoughts oh God. This has been something the Spirit has been saying to me lately, I can not got through a day without Him reminding me of this, that we can know His thoughts. The word of God reads "For I know the thoughts I think toward you", what are those thoughts? I can see now why so many struggle with this for the thoughts of the Lord are not our thoughts, they are not our way of doing things we like to function in practicality and functionality instead of doing things God's way, the way Jesus showed us to. I really like what Oswald Chambers said about this kind of faith in his writings, you can read it here:
http://utmost.org/yes%e2%80%94-but/
We have heard many times, that will of God is that none should perish but that all should be saved, that goes both ways. The word of God is certainly a two edged sword, even Christians need to remember this. That it is not just a one day one time one place deal and then we can get comfortable and happy sitting around doing nothing, this process is daily. I will say again the words that Paul used in this case that are quite possibly the most powerfully profound words ever spoken of in regards to a relationship with Jesus "I die Daily" 1 Corinthians 15:31. Paul is speaking about risking His life to draw near unto God that means forsaking everything one might hold dear for the greatest gift of all, abundant life in Christ Jesus but there is a price for a daily revelation of dying to the flesh. We are living sacrifices and our purpose is to praise God but also to know His thoughts. Adam and God walked in the cool of the garden, and what do you suppose they were doing? They were conversing, God was visible to Adam and there was no struggle to see Him or to hear His words spoken of clear as daylight and brighter than all the stars.
The struggle is that when we hear God speak to us and say what He thinks it might seem to much and we do not want to give up things we hold dear for the knowledge of Christ, "They changed the image of the incorruptible God into an image made corruptible like man", "Who exchanged the truth of God for the lie" this mentality is hard to break and it is not seen as a problem to most people. But we do not have to live that way anymore and this is where it starts that we should give up those things that we worship and let go of those things that keep up from knowing His thoughts! We can never get to the place where we have true fellowship with Him holding onto the created things.
I wrote recently that we will be discussing the deeper things of God, and I feel that the most important thing to know is the thoughts He has for us are being spoken everyday, He shows us in the little things because anything else would be too much for us to handle. Jeremiah 30:21 says " Their leader shall come from among them, and I will cause him to draw near to me, and He shall approach me, for who would dare risk his life to approach me?" Brothers and sisters, we have not been brought to death yet for the gospel, we have been persecuted but we are not abandoned and no matter what happens all around us we have been given the foreknowledge that we can know Christ that we can know the thoughts that God has for us because Christ already gave up His portion so that we could have it here. Praise Jesus.
http://utmost.org/yes%e2%80%94-but/
We have heard many times, that will of God is that none should perish but that all should be saved, that goes both ways. The word of God is certainly a two edged sword, even Christians need to remember this. That it is not just a one day one time one place deal and then we can get comfortable and happy sitting around doing nothing, this process is daily. I will say again the words that Paul used in this case that are quite possibly the most powerfully profound words ever spoken of in regards to a relationship with Jesus "I die Daily" 1 Corinthians 15:31. Paul is speaking about risking His life to draw near unto God that means forsaking everything one might hold dear for the greatest gift of all, abundant life in Christ Jesus but there is a price for a daily revelation of dying to the flesh. We are living sacrifices and our purpose is to praise God but also to know His thoughts. Adam and God walked in the cool of the garden, and what do you suppose they were doing? They were conversing, God was visible to Adam and there was no struggle to see Him or to hear His words spoken of clear as daylight and brighter than all the stars.
The struggle is that when we hear God speak to us and say what He thinks it might seem to much and we do not want to give up things we hold dear for the knowledge of Christ, "They changed the image of the incorruptible God into an image made corruptible like man", "Who exchanged the truth of God for the lie" this mentality is hard to break and it is not seen as a problem to most people. But we do not have to live that way anymore and this is where it starts that we should give up those things that we worship and let go of those things that keep up from knowing His thoughts! We can never get to the place where we have true fellowship with Him holding onto the created things.
I wrote recently that we will be discussing the deeper things of God, and I feel that the most important thing to know is the thoughts He has for us are being spoken everyday, He shows us in the little things because anything else would be too much for us to handle. Jeremiah 30:21 says " Their leader shall come from among them, and I will cause him to draw near to me, and He shall approach me, for who would dare risk his life to approach me?" Brothers and sisters, we have not been brought to death yet for the gospel, we have been persecuted but we are not abandoned and no matter what happens all around us we have been given the foreknowledge that we can know Christ that we can know the thoughts that God has for us because Christ already gave up His portion so that we could have it here. Praise Jesus.
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Update on the ministry #1
Hey brothers and sister,
This is just a quick update to let you guys know, that in the next coming weeks I will be posting these writings that the Lord has inspired. The word of God speaks about the pen of a ready writer, and as long as I can think back in my walk with Christ, this has been made quite clear to me, I am to have a pen and paper ready at all times, and within reach because He always has something to say. Jesus says to His disciples "What I tell you now in the darkness, shout abroad when daybreak comes. What I whisper in your ear, shout from the housetops for all to hear!" that is Matthew 10:27. So this is to keep everyone posted that YES the Lord has shown us things, He has taught us, He has molded us, so what do we say? Whatever He whispered in our ears, we are to share it with the dimming world so that our lights truly do shine in the darkness, we have not hidden these things, SALVATION REDEMPTION FORGIVENESS REMISSION OF SINS (yes that has to be in allcaps lol) because these are the key points in our lives. But there is more, not to diminish the value within scripture, but we have to get past the surface of just plain old John 3:16 for instance there is much more to that. We should explore why did He love the world so much? What does this mean NOW.
The unfortunate aspect is, that prophecy has been pigeonholed into the genre of "end times" yes, the prophetic involves that, but what has God been saying for TODAY? If we could just get our eyes off of tomorrow, we have a now to deal with so we can be ready for tomorrow. I know that everyone wants to be the first to say something, to be a pioneer of sorts, to say WOW I said that before it happened, but where is God in all of this? We have not made room for His words to be spoken because we have been so focused on our accomplishments and our gifts that we do not know what He is saying for today.
So, for the next couple of weeks, or as long as it takes and the Spirit continues to drill this in, the word will be "What is God saying RIGHT NOW", these things all affect tomorrow, but we are not going to focus on tomorrow or next year or 2012 or any of that stuff our focus is now. The problem that many Christians find themselves entangled with, is focus on all of this "end time prophecy" not that we are wrong or that these people are liars, I never want to cast blame on anyone, but a lot of this "end time" stuff is worldly and has nothing to do with what God has said! It's just our opinion! And what do we have to show for it? Anger? Rage? disbelief at the fact that our presumptions were not correct? God is much bigger than all of that.
As the Spirit leads, so will I write!
William Thuman
Jesus Reigns.
This is just a quick update to let you guys know, that in the next coming weeks I will be posting these writings that the Lord has inspired. The word of God speaks about the pen of a ready writer, and as long as I can think back in my walk with Christ, this has been made quite clear to me, I am to have a pen and paper ready at all times, and within reach because He always has something to say. Jesus says to His disciples "What I tell you now in the darkness, shout abroad when daybreak comes. What I whisper in your ear, shout from the housetops for all to hear!" that is Matthew 10:27. So this is to keep everyone posted that YES the Lord has shown us things, He has taught us, He has molded us, so what do we say? Whatever He whispered in our ears, we are to share it with the dimming world so that our lights truly do shine in the darkness, we have not hidden these things, SALVATION REDEMPTION FORGIVENESS REMISSION OF SINS (yes that has to be in allcaps lol) because these are the key points in our lives. But there is more, not to diminish the value within scripture, but we have to get past the surface of just plain old John 3:16 for instance there is much more to that. We should explore why did He love the world so much? What does this mean NOW.
The unfortunate aspect is, that prophecy has been pigeonholed into the genre of "end times" yes, the prophetic involves that, but what has God been saying for TODAY? If we could just get our eyes off of tomorrow, we have a now to deal with so we can be ready for tomorrow. I know that everyone wants to be the first to say something, to be a pioneer of sorts, to say WOW I said that before it happened, but where is God in all of this? We have not made room for His words to be spoken because we have been so focused on our accomplishments and our gifts that we do not know what He is saying for today.
So, for the next couple of weeks, or as long as it takes and the Spirit continues to drill this in, the word will be "What is God saying RIGHT NOW", these things all affect tomorrow, but we are not going to focus on tomorrow or next year or 2012 or any of that stuff our focus is now. The problem that many Christians find themselves entangled with, is focus on all of this "end time prophecy" not that we are wrong or that these people are liars, I never want to cast blame on anyone, but a lot of this "end time" stuff is worldly and has nothing to do with what God has said! It's just our opinion! And what do we have to show for it? Anger? Rage? disbelief at the fact that our presumptions were not correct? God is much bigger than all of that.
As the Spirit leads, so will I write!
William Thuman
Jesus Reigns.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
That they might come to know Him
Paul wrote that he would wish himself to be accursed if it meant that his brothers and sisters would know Christ. He could not see why they would not know Him, it was agony. Worse than all the scars that he bore in his body over the beatings and pain that was inflicted by those same hands. Blood and sweat and tears are the price a man payed for the salvation of others, and Paul was also willing to pay that price.
Agony is not that which you can not have, or that which produces pain, real agony is knowing that there is hope, yet watching others fall for lack of knowing it. Watching others perish, although they could simply climb back on the boat and not drown, that is true agony. God is a God of such great mercy, and love, that has been given to mankind. He sent Himself, in Jesus, and died on that cross for us, God died on the cross for us. He suffered agony for us, while asking that we be forgiven.
I have to speak personally here, but I know pain, I know struggles and I know death. If Jesus could sweat blood in the garden, He poured that blood out because He had such hope, and fear that it He knew His Father was faithful. Some of us have not had faithful fathers and mothers, we have had unfaithful relationships and unfaithful friends and family members. People we were supposed to always be able to trust let us down, turned their backs on us and seemed to care very little, it was inconsequential.
Agony is watching someone turn, time and time again to the one thing that would destroy them simply because they do not understand that Jesus laid His life down, that He gave up His portion for us, agony is knowing you are going to die for people who will not care.
We have been betrayed and lied to, we have been let down and forsaken and left in the dark more times than we care to admit. But why? There is hope after all of this. When pride forces us to forsake each other, we have forsaken our God, and we have forsaken everything good that we could have for the imitation of good. An interesting fact in the world of coin collecting, the counterfeit coins are often the most prized and coveted. These are coins that were never put into production but a dye was cast, and someone in the mint decided to press a few for kicks and sold them later for large sums of money.
I would lay it all down, I would give it all up that maybe one, just one, would turn and honestly know the Lord, and see what He is all about. Agony is knowing that man has traded in the life for the lie. All He offers is life.
10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. John 10:10
There is no need for anyone to die alone, there is no reason for a person to live all alone in fear and pain and agony. Jesus took all of that in so that we could have abundance! This is not a sales pitch, the new car is not perfect, the man is never perfect. He is not trying to sell anyone a new car, or to bribe them into anything, or to trick them into becoming a fan of His on youtube or on myspace or to follow Him on twitter. He has no agenda like that, He does not want to take away all of your money, leaving you empty handed. He will never have children, and then abandon them to go and do His own thing, He does not rape and pillage, He has no hate. He's not like us.
2 Corinthians 1:5- For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds through Christ.
Agony is not that which you can not have, or that which produces pain, real agony is knowing that there is hope, yet watching others fall for lack of knowing it. Watching others perish, although they could simply climb back on the boat and not drown, that is true agony. God is a God of such great mercy, and love, that has been given to mankind. He sent Himself, in Jesus, and died on that cross for us, God died on the cross for us. He suffered agony for us, while asking that we be forgiven.
I have to speak personally here, but I know pain, I know struggles and I know death. If Jesus could sweat blood in the garden, He poured that blood out because He had such hope, and fear that it He knew His Father was faithful. Some of us have not had faithful fathers and mothers, we have had unfaithful relationships and unfaithful friends and family members. People we were supposed to always be able to trust let us down, turned their backs on us and seemed to care very little, it was inconsequential.
Agony is watching someone turn, time and time again to the one thing that would destroy them simply because they do not understand that Jesus laid His life down, that He gave up His portion for us, agony is knowing you are going to die for people who will not care.
We have been betrayed and lied to, we have been let down and forsaken and left in the dark more times than we care to admit. But why? There is hope after all of this. When pride forces us to forsake each other, we have forsaken our God, and we have forsaken everything good that we could have for the imitation of good. An interesting fact in the world of coin collecting, the counterfeit coins are often the most prized and coveted. These are coins that were never put into production but a dye was cast, and someone in the mint decided to press a few for kicks and sold them later for large sums of money.
I would lay it all down, I would give it all up that maybe one, just one, would turn and honestly know the Lord, and see what He is all about. Agony is knowing that man has traded in the life for the lie. All He offers is life.
10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. John 10:10
There is no need for anyone to die alone, there is no reason for a person to live all alone in fear and pain and agony. Jesus took all of that in so that we could have abundance! This is not a sales pitch, the new car is not perfect, the man is never perfect. He is not trying to sell anyone a new car, or to bribe them into anything, or to trick them into becoming a fan of His on youtube or on myspace or to follow Him on twitter. He has no agenda like that, He does not want to take away all of your money, leaving you empty handed. He will never have children, and then abandon them to go and do His own thing, He does not rape and pillage, He has no hate. He's not like us.
2 Corinthians 1:5- For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds through Christ.
Turn from the destruction
I pray that this get's out to you, that it get's through to the deepest part of your heart.
I had a dream that I was walking through this high school, in some part of the United States somewhere, in a town I have never been to. As I walked I became aware that I had to use the restroom and so I made my way to the front of the building where there was this little one person restroom that was maybe only 4 ft. wide without even a sink or anything in it. As I used the restroom someone suddenly opened the door and said "Oh, I'm sorry I just wanted to see if anyone was in here". And as the person walked off, failing to shut the door, I looked out the door reaching for the handle and I saw a group of young people, teenagers and kids standing around with cell phones out and cameras out looking up at something with exclamations of "oh man this is going on youtube" and so I looked over at what they were so excited about, and when I looked up I saw four tornadoes touching down to the earth, spinning violently and tearing through buildings. I realized that these four tornadoes (which were each distinct in color) were heading straight for us. So I started to yell at these kids to shut the door! And get inside! RUN, but they didn't hear me, and it was too late. These tornadoes hit, I could hear them, they sounded like 100 freight trains coming straight for us, the earth shook with the violent force of them. I knew that destruction was right on top of us, but it was too late, suddenly I could see chairs flying about, and mind you, I am still standing in this restroom, but there are big pieces of lumber and plywood crashing through the walls and I have now been lifted off of the floor. I could feel myself being slammed back and forth by the force of these storms and I wondered, what happened to those young people standing by the door?
Will you turn from the destruction? And find refuge in the arms of the Lord?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1381398/US-storms-297-dead-thousands-homes-destroyed-tornado-outbreak.html
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20110505/NEWS21/110505011/2275/RSS05
These articles are from the same time, one from the same week, of this dream. I have watched a trend unfold in front of my eyes, and all I ask is that we consider our position and our eternity. It is not my job to push religion or to condemn or judge, those who know me know that with my old lifestyle I would have no room to judge anyone in their lives. I know Who changed me, and it was not myself. I know that Jesus Christ is real, and that He is still performing miracles through us. But what is your stand? Believer or not, this question is equal to each of us. I have to ask myself that question everyday "What is my stand?" am I going to resort to the addictions and lifestyle of abuse that I was enslaved to? Believing that there is no point either way, and that I control my destiny? No, of course not that idea was stripped from me in the jail cell, I was not in control of that. But where is God in all of this?
Standing right in front of us all this time. He never left, we turned our backs.
I had a dream that I was walking through this high school, in some part of the United States somewhere, in a town I have never been to. As I walked I became aware that I had to use the restroom and so I made my way to the front of the building where there was this little one person restroom that was maybe only 4 ft. wide without even a sink or anything in it. As I used the restroom someone suddenly opened the door and said "Oh, I'm sorry I just wanted to see if anyone was in here". And as the person walked off, failing to shut the door, I looked out the door reaching for the handle and I saw a group of young people, teenagers and kids standing around with cell phones out and cameras out looking up at something with exclamations of "oh man this is going on youtube" and so I looked over at what they were so excited about, and when I looked up I saw four tornadoes touching down to the earth, spinning violently and tearing through buildings. I realized that these four tornadoes (which were each distinct in color) were heading straight for us. So I started to yell at these kids to shut the door! And get inside! RUN, but they didn't hear me, and it was too late. These tornadoes hit, I could hear them, they sounded like 100 freight trains coming straight for us, the earth shook with the violent force of them. I knew that destruction was right on top of us, but it was too late, suddenly I could see chairs flying about, and mind you, I am still standing in this restroom, but there are big pieces of lumber and plywood crashing through the walls and I have now been lifted off of the floor. I could feel myself being slammed back and forth by the force of these storms and I wondered, what happened to those young people standing by the door?
Will you turn from the destruction? And find refuge in the arms of the Lord?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1381398/US-storms-297-dead-thousands-homes-destroyed-tornado-outbreak.html
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20110505/NEWS21/110505011/2275/RSS05
These articles are from the same time, one from the same week, of this dream. I have watched a trend unfold in front of my eyes, and all I ask is that we consider our position and our eternity. It is not my job to push religion or to condemn or judge, those who know me know that with my old lifestyle I would have no room to judge anyone in their lives. I know Who changed me, and it was not myself. I know that Jesus Christ is real, and that He is still performing miracles through us. But what is your stand? Believer or not, this question is equal to each of us. I have to ask myself that question everyday "What is my stand?" am I going to resort to the addictions and lifestyle of abuse that I was enslaved to? Believing that there is no point either way, and that I control my destiny? No, of course not that idea was stripped from me in the jail cell, I was not in control of that. But where is God in all of this?
Standing right in front of us all this time. He never left, we turned our backs.
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Say to the deep
There exists within man a secret place. For so long many have taken the instructions in Matthew 6:6 quite literally, so they have built special prayer rooms and have designated spots that they find are nice to go alone and pray in. But there is something more the Spirit wants to show us here. Now there is nothing wrong with all of this but our exploration is not in the realm of the seen, for so man would search out a place for solace and solitude to find that which is within him.
Often Jesus went off alone to pray, we can read of times when He just slipped away and got off to the Father. Many instances, Luke 4:30 for example, it must have been that Jesus was surrounded by the mob, whether angry of just seeking. But for this purpose He was surrounded by angry religious types, the most dangerous mob there is, and they sought to end His life. It reads "they dragged Him outside the gates with the intentions of throwing Him off the cliff" with the rest of the garbage, THEY WERE GONNA KILL HIM.
We also read of the apostles being in this situation, an angry religious mob, mad as usual because their beliefs are being challenged. They are in peril, being dragged off in the hands of the merciless mob. 2 Corinthians 1:8-10 here is yet another stunning example of condemned men looking death in the face, yet living, rescued from death's cold gaze and grip. Now how was it that all of those times when these men were taken outside of the gates, i mean taken completely out of any form of security at all, but somehow they lived?
I go back to my original statement, there is a place within man where the door of the spiritual simply needs to touch the physical side. It swings open when man releases his hand from gripping the door knob, or his made is made to be cut off. These moments are times when man knows full well that he is going to die, and as far as anyone else is concerned these men are already dead and there is no possible hope for them. It is written that the Spirit of God will give life to our mortal bodies, that we will be strengthened with all might in the inner man, that is the core of it. Men who know how to take their hands off the doorknob welcome the Lord into dine with them for they have learned that the Father rewards with abundant life in that secret place where no flesh may glorify in His presence. These men know that to be dragged outside the walls by the angry and bloodthirsty mob, the men who have torn their flesh and clothes and cut them with biting words and spitting breath will not be harmed in the inner man. This is some real crucification of the man of flesh. In these moments men must trust in their God for it is He Who shall deliver. I can imagine the angry mob carrying Jesus and then the apostles on their shoulders yelling "death! death to them!", yet the Lord is shouting back "grace! grace be to them!".
Zechariah 4:6-7, this is the word of the Lord speaking of Zerubabel the man who would oversee the rebuilding of the temple of the Lord. "Have no fear when they drag you outside the gates and you are dragged out of your comfort zone! I AM WITH YOU!", says the Lord Almighty, "I am near you!" says the Lord, "I am YOUR GOD and you are my people!" says He. Many men scream for blood when the truth shakes them up.
Back to Ephesians 3:16- Paul was immediately referring to the tribulation that had come to him so many times before. In prayer, there is access just as Paul knew and was now writing to the Ephesians that their prayers for him, themselves, their families, and those abroad had so much more impact than they could ever have known. In v.11 Paul says that this is "according to the eternal purpose that was manifest in Jesus" and in v.12 that this purpose is this access and boldness that is permanent, immediate and demands attention.
When one accesses the temple of God, the first thing you must know is that temple is in you , okay yes then you realize that, then why is it in you? How? Whatever place you choose to pray in will someday not be there, like when Elijah found himself in the wilderness by the brook Chebar, that would someday dry up! His time there would be over. But there is a place within where the streams never dry up, and the "bread of life" the presentation bread of the eternal manifestation of Christ in His holy temple, will never perish. Jesus is STILL trying to get us to stop looking at these worldly things, He used something so basic, so vital to human existence as bread to illustrate the importance of the truth that lies within this very elemental yet powerful force of spiritual nature.
The eternal place of god is seated within you regardless of whether or not you should choose to exercise this boldness to access the eternal within. No matter what state a man could be in he still has this place within reserved for God and the voice still echoes from without as God calling His men from outside the gates , calling them to let Him in so He may come and be seated in His rightful place!
A life of sin robs on from this boldness to access, there are holes in your testimony. This sin is abrasive and degrading to the Spirit of man, it causes nakedness and allows hi, to realize his nakedness as it was with Adam and Eve after the "apple incident". Mankind is in a state of perpetual nakedness. The Spirit within man the part that is separated and distinguished from the soul and flesh has been stripped of it's vestments and the articles of the temple have been desecrated. Sin taking advantage of this keeps men in such a state. When the spirit of man which is permanently altered and robbed of it's dignity lay in this state in the dark the devil has his way with it.
Man denying God access remains naked and helpless to the accuser and any attempt to clothe himself result only in more pain and suffering inflicted at the hands of loss. The crushed head of the serpent with it's busted fangs continues to gnaw away at the flesh injecting his poison into the vein further ravaging the spirit. All it needs is to tear the skin slightly and it's venom is in the blood stream and causing fatal calamity if not for the Blood.
Now here is the point in man, where for lack of direction and understanding feels it is necissary to reserve a place for Tobiah within the temple.
Nehemiah 13:7-9
The name "Tobiah" means "goodness of Jehovah", now we know of study and of reading of Nehemiah that Tobiah was anything but the goodness of Jehovah since he meant to rob the people of the goodness by setting himself up as "an abomination that causes desolation". This abomination has from the very beginning sought to set itself up within the temple after the sin has done it's work on the vestments like moths in a linen drawer and further seperating man from God is still it's goal. After man has done his own work denying access of the King to His courts a type of reverse affect happens and is an imitation of the goodness of Jehovah, the devil deals in counterfeit.
When we first get saved we learn that we are a new creation and we go through a process of becoming that new creation then we learn to enter His gates and furthermore we see that without Him we are helpless. Now this subject is in itself a very deep thing it is almost difficult to not just dive right into it, but we will leave it as it is. You know what you have experienced.
Now when I say that this "Tobiah" is a reverse effect, the truth is just that. The abomination will seek to get it's foot in the door it will seek to set itself up within the temple anywhere it can, does not matter if it is just the storeroom once it is nin it seeks to be worshipped. Even worse that this should be in the storeroom right before the entrances to the inner courts or the place of worship since every time one should try to come into the presence of God this abomination whispers to them and distracts and tries to entrap them in it's own "temple". Paul wrote about this in Romans 7:23, he knew that within all of us this war is raging.
It may not appear to you that this is war, but if it keeps us from going to that eternal place while in dire conflict damage will occur and possibly a life of abundance lost, or maybe even a life or lives depending on the state of things. These Tobiahs have kept many people from really knowing Him. There is a veil over the hearts of man that keeps him from going into the place of the eternal. Nehemiah saw this we are given an example of this boldness here, Nehemiah goes and throws Tobiah along with all of his things out and the room is cleansed. You see just as we were strengthened to prosper in the Lord into everything we might set our hearts to do it might seem in this reverse imitation state that good things are always happening.
It might seem we don't need God, we have cut Him off and look at us! We have a new car we have a nice house, a beautiful significant other and everyone lusts after us. All of those things listed in this sense of "self achievement" might as well be other idols, you might as well have a little shelf in your new closet with red candles, pentagrams, and little wooden figurines of the things that you worship. By any means the Tobiah abomination seeks to get you to resist the will of God.
James 5:1-6, James gives a seething rebuke here of these actions, but what is it that needs to be seen? These are some of the actions that one imitates from what is within himself. The man who has set himself up within his temple to worship the abomination will only result in desolation. Let's look back as that word briefly, first in Webster's and then in original tongues:
Desolation in Webster's is - 1) Greif, sadness, loneliness, devastation, ruin, barren wasteland
Desolation in Strong's - Shamam, to stun, devastate, stupify, make amazed, astonishment, also to be made destitute, destroy, make waste, wonder.
People worship this because on the outside it clothes you with the finest apperal silk and fine linens, it places a crown in your head and puffs you up, it intoxicates you on your own riches and miseries, leaving the inside stripped and naked. When the spirit is stripped and naked man will never be satisfied, worship of these things causes barrenness the only reproduction is the curse of sin and death the inheritance is the same. And so many are following this today. There is a river that everyone is jumping in, it looks good to them because they have wander lust and their eyes are glazed over with drunkeness and it wil cause you to do things that you will later regret. The water looks good but it is filth and sewage and rotted blood filled with every vile disease and stench of rotting corpses that is all heading for a waterfall plunging into jagged rocks and acid fire.
"What we are now saying, is that place within us will now be opened and that we will see the truth. We decalre by the Holy Ghost, that we recieve and hold onto the victory over this illusion of life. We declare that we are spiritual beings that have eyes to see and ears to hear. We declare that our God is mighty, our God is holy, and our God is above all other gods. VICTORY IN JESUS FOR THIS GENERATION"
All of this wandering does not have to be so.
Often Jesus went off alone to pray, we can read of times when He just slipped away and got off to the Father. Many instances, Luke 4:30 for example, it must have been that Jesus was surrounded by the mob, whether angry of just seeking. But for this purpose He was surrounded by angry religious types, the most dangerous mob there is, and they sought to end His life. It reads "they dragged Him outside the gates with the intentions of throwing Him off the cliff" with the rest of the garbage, THEY WERE GONNA KILL HIM.
We also read of the apostles being in this situation, an angry religious mob, mad as usual because their beliefs are being challenged. They are in peril, being dragged off in the hands of the merciless mob. 2 Corinthians 1:8-10 here is yet another stunning example of condemned men looking death in the face, yet living, rescued from death's cold gaze and grip. Now how was it that all of those times when these men were taken outside of the gates, i mean taken completely out of any form of security at all, but somehow they lived?
I go back to my original statement, there is a place within man where the door of the spiritual simply needs to touch the physical side. It swings open when man releases his hand from gripping the door knob, or his made is made to be cut off. These moments are times when man knows full well that he is going to die, and as far as anyone else is concerned these men are already dead and there is no possible hope for them. It is written that the Spirit of God will give life to our mortal bodies, that we will be strengthened with all might in the inner man, that is the core of it. Men who know how to take their hands off the doorknob welcome the Lord into dine with them for they have learned that the Father rewards with abundant life in that secret place where no flesh may glorify in His presence. These men know that to be dragged outside the walls by the angry and bloodthirsty mob, the men who have torn their flesh and clothes and cut them with biting words and spitting breath will not be harmed in the inner man. This is some real crucification of the man of flesh. In these moments men must trust in their God for it is He Who shall deliver. I can imagine the angry mob carrying Jesus and then the apostles on their shoulders yelling "death! death to them!", yet the Lord is shouting back "grace! grace be to them!".
Zechariah 4:6-7, this is the word of the Lord speaking of Zerubabel the man who would oversee the rebuilding of the temple of the Lord. "Have no fear when they drag you outside the gates and you are dragged out of your comfort zone! I AM WITH YOU!", says the Lord Almighty, "I am near you!" says the Lord, "I am YOUR GOD and you are my people!" says He. Many men scream for blood when the truth shakes them up.
Back to Ephesians 3:16- Paul was immediately referring to the tribulation that had come to him so many times before. In prayer, there is access just as Paul knew and was now writing to the Ephesians that their prayers for him, themselves, their families, and those abroad had so much more impact than they could ever have known. In v.11 Paul says that this is "according to the eternal purpose that was manifest in Jesus" and in v.12 that this purpose is this access and boldness that is permanent, immediate and demands attention.
When one accesses the temple of God, the first thing you must know is that temple is in you , okay yes then you realize that, then why is it in you? How? Whatever place you choose to pray in will someday not be there, like when Elijah found himself in the wilderness by the brook Chebar, that would someday dry up! His time there would be over. But there is a place within where the streams never dry up, and the "bread of life" the presentation bread of the eternal manifestation of Christ in His holy temple, will never perish. Jesus is STILL trying to get us to stop looking at these worldly things, He used something so basic, so vital to human existence as bread to illustrate the importance of the truth that lies within this very elemental yet powerful force of spiritual nature.
The eternal place of god is seated within you regardless of whether or not you should choose to exercise this boldness to access the eternal within. No matter what state a man could be in he still has this place within reserved for God and the voice still echoes from without as God calling His men from outside the gates , calling them to let Him in so He may come and be seated in His rightful place!
A life of sin robs on from this boldness to access, there are holes in your testimony. This sin is abrasive and degrading to the Spirit of man, it causes nakedness and allows hi, to realize his nakedness as it was with Adam and Eve after the "apple incident". Mankind is in a state of perpetual nakedness. The Spirit within man the part that is separated and distinguished from the soul and flesh has been stripped of it's vestments and the articles of the temple have been desecrated. Sin taking advantage of this keeps men in such a state. When the spirit of man which is permanently altered and robbed of it's dignity lay in this state in the dark the devil has his way with it.
Man denying God access remains naked and helpless to the accuser and any attempt to clothe himself result only in more pain and suffering inflicted at the hands of loss. The crushed head of the serpent with it's busted fangs continues to gnaw away at the flesh injecting his poison into the vein further ravaging the spirit. All it needs is to tear the skin slightly and it's venom is in the blood stream and causing fatal calamity if not for the Blood.
Now here is the point in man, where for lack of direction and understanding feels it is necissary to reserve a place for Tobiah within the temple.
Nehemiah 13:7-9
The name "Tobiah" means "goodness of Jehovah", now we know of study and of reading of Nehemiah that Tobiah was anything but the goodness of Jehovah since he meant to rob the people of the goodness by setting himself up as "an abomination that causes desolation". This abomination has from the very beginning sought to set itself up within the temple after the sin has done it's work on the vestments like moths in a linen drawer and further seperating man from God is still it's goal. After man has done his own work denying access of the King to His courts a type of reverse affect happens and is an imitation of the goodness of Jehovah, the devil deals in counterfeit.
When we first get saved we learn that we are a new creation and we go through a process of becoming that new creation then we learn to enter His gates and furthermore we see that without Him we are helpless. Now this subject is in itself a very deep thing it is almost difficult to not just dive right into it, but we will leave it as it is. You know what you have experienced.
Now when I say that this "Tobiah" is a reverse effect, the truth is just that. The abomination will seek to get it's foot in the door it will seek to set itself up within the temple anywhere it can, does not matter if it is just the storeroom once it is nin it seeks to be worshipped. Even worse that this should be in the storeroom right before the entrances to the inner courts or the place of worship since every time one should try to come into the presence of God this abomination whispers to them and distracts and tries to entrap them in it's own "temple". Paul wrote about this in Romans 7:23, he knew that within all of us this war is raging.
It may not appear to you that this is war, but if it keeps us from going to that eternal place while in dire conflict damage will occur and possibly a life of abundance lost, or maybe even a life or lives depending on the state of things. These Tobiahs have kept many people from really knowing Him. There is a veil over the hearts of man that keeps him from going into the place of the eternal. Nehemiah saw this we are given an example of this boldness here, Nehemiah goes and throws Tobiah along with all of his things out and the room is cleansed. You see just as we were strengthened to prosper in the Lord into everything we might set our hearts to do it might seem in this reverse imitation state that good things are always happening.
It might seem we don't need God, we have cut Him off and look at us! We have a new car we have a nice house, a beautiful significant other and everyone lusts after us. All of those things listed in this sense of "self achievement" might as well be other idols, you might as well have a little shelf in your new closet with red candles, pentagrams, and little wooden figurines of the things that you worship. By any means the Tobiah abomination seeks to get you to resist the will of God.
James 5:1-6, James gives a seething rebuke here of these actions, but what is it that needs to be seen? These are some of the actions that one imitates from what is within himself. The man who has set himself up within his temple to worship the abomination will only result in desolation. Let's look back as that word briefly, first in Webster's and then in original tongues:
Desolation in Webster's is - 1) Greif, sadness, loneliness, devastation, ruin, barren wasteland
Desolation in Strong's - Shamam, to stun, devastate, stupify, make amazed, astonishment, also to be made destitute, destroy, make waste, wonder.
People worship this because on the outside it clothes you with the finest apperal silk and fine linens, it places a crown in your head and puffs you up, it intoxicates you on your own riches and miseries, leaving the inside stripped and naked. When the spirit is stripped and naked man will never be satisfied, worship of these things causes barrenness the only reproduction is the curse of sin and death the inheritance is the same. And so many are following this today. There is a river that everyone is jumping in, it looks good to them because they have wander lust and their eyes are glazed over with drunkeness and it wil cause you to do things that you will later regret. The water looks good but it is filth and sewage and rotted blood filled with every vile disease and stench of rotting corpses that is all heading for a waterfall plunging into jagged rocks and acid fire.
"What we are now saying, is that place within us will now be opened and that we will see the truth. We decalre by the Holy Ghost, that we recieve and hold onto the victory over this illusion of life. We declare that we are spiritual beings that have eyes to see and ears to hear. We declare that our God is mighty, our God is holy, and our God is above all other gods. VICTORY IN JESUS FOR THIS GENERATION"
All of this wandering does not have to be so.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Prophecy Concerning a future
The seed will come forth, there is a future:
"But I heard a man say regarding it ' Yeah, I know, but I had this terrible dream, like this one little pistachio nut was cutting a hole into my window, I saw it as I entered the trailer'"
So I asked the Lord:
"Lord, what do these things mean?"
And the Lord said:
The seed will infiltrate and be restlessly involved until a great expansion happens. It's the color of the pistachio, the green, like the green tree planted by many waters, the youthfull-ness, the "ready-to-go-ness". It's the small speck of green invading the world of the mundane and turning it upside down just as it was with the apostles in Jerusalem after Pentacost. The house of cards comes tumbling down.
It is like the perfect whirlwind
It is like a perfect storm
Cascading down
And rapturing their hearts
Moving them one
Place to another
Taking them from home "in the pit" where they have made their dwelling, dry and grey and saturating them with something new today. The fear of dreams
The Freddie Krueger like fear of dreams
Even he would be swallowed up in light
Even he would be consumed when he infiltrates and tries to steal the dreams of a future. There was not yet a future here, the seed was not yet there only the promise of a future it had yet to arrive now it has Infiltrated and it will saturate the current state of affairs until everything has been tinted to see the unseen until everyone has been thrust into the realm of the unknown and out into the region beyond the border of experience. THE EXODUS OF YOUTH.
"But I heard a man say regarding it ' Yeah, I know, but I had this terrible dream, like this one little pistachio nut was cutting a hole into my window, I saw it as I entered the trailer'"
So I asked the Lord:
"Lord, what do these things mean?"
And the Lord said:
The seed will infiltrate and be restlessly involved until a great expansion happens. It's the color of the pistachio, the green, like the green tree planted by many waters, the youthfull-ness, the "ready-to-go-ness". It's the small speck of green invading the world of the mundane and turning it upside down just as it was with the apostles in Jerusalem after Pentacost. The house of cards comes tumbling down.
It is like the perfect whirlwind
It is like a perfect storm
Cascading down
And rapturing their hearts
Moving them one
Place to another
Taking them from home "in the pit" where they have made their dwelling, dry and grey and saturating them with something new today. The fear of dreams
The Freddie Krueger like fear of dreams
Even he would be swallowed up in light
Even he would be consumed when he infiltrates and tries to steal the dreams of a future. There was not yet a future here, the seed was not yet there only the promise of a future it had yet to arrive now it has Infiltrated and it will saturate the current state of affairs until everything has been tinted to see the unseen until everyone has been thrust into the realm of the unknown and out into the region beyond the border of experience. THE EXODUS OF YOUTH.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Removing Labels
REMOVING LABELS, LOOKING PAST DENOMINATIONS
18 And it happened, as He was alone praying, that His disciples joined Him, and He asked them, saying, "Who do the crowds say that I am?"
19 So they answered and said, "John the Baptist, but some say Elijah; and others say that one of the old prophets has risen again."
20 He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"
Peter answered and said, "The Christ of God."
When Jesus asked this, the revelation that Peter had was very profound, it is a revelation that the church needs today. The answer was not "People say that you are a baptist preacher or that you are this denomination or that denomination", denomination did not exist. This conversation between Jesus and His disciples happened right after the miracle with the loaves and fishes, when Jesus said to His disciples "YOU give them something to eat", Jesus also said "I am the bread of life" and at the end of Matthew He told Peter "Feed my sheep".
For far too long people have only been concerned with denominations and doctrine and who has the right theology, thinking that if I am a good enough this or if I am a good enough that, if my doctrine is sound enough, if I know more than this person or that person. We have fed people the food of doctrine and denomiation for too long now, no wander they are starving! I hear people debating over which denomiation is better, or who has all the answers or who is really saved or who is really practicing the faith truthfully, we talk a lot about churches that have fallen under the lies of false doctrine, when really the only true doctrine is Jesus Christ.
I like what Paul said to Timothy in
"Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to your care. Turn away from godless chatter and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge,"1 Corinthians 10:12Paul also said this to Titus:
"but shun foolish questionings, and genealogies, and strifes, and fightings about law; for they are unprofitable and vain."I hear brothers and sister arguing about denomination, and arguing over theology and beliefs that they have. No wander so many of us live in such fear for our salvation, we have been fed the grand lie, "that denomiation saves you" or " theology saves you". What have we had entrusted to our care? Was it this teaching by man? Or is it the authority under heaven and earth that Christ Jesus had? I say the only way to truly see God for Who He is is to get rid of reliance on fleshly beliefs and to remove the labels that we have placed on ourselves. Jesus did not come claiming to be this or that, He never even said "I am a great Jew, now follow me!" He said " I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE", what do we have of our own? What kind of personal realationship is it when we are fighting over our denominations and arguing over who is right and who is wrong? Who is a heretic and who isn"t? Jesus said "I have come that they may have life abundently", where is the abundance in denomination? Where is the abundance is certain theology or doctrine? If there was ever anything we needed anymore than Jesus, some seem to believe that it is found in this "vain controversy". We are still mimicking our old selves, we have taken what we have seen in the medis, and what we have heard all over the world, and placed it into the Church, into the Body of Christ! That is the grand "heresy", that is the greatest lie. The word says "If any man be in Christ Jesus, behold there is a new creation", this new creation is something that has never existed before, it is an entirely different being altogether. But we still hold onto divisions, and striving over our new "laws", well you might say "Brother, these men were arguing over Judaism, not Christianity" like arguing over one is better than the other. It is worse to argue over the Body of Christ, how is it better to argue over our faith?
We all want to draw nearer, and we are wandering why we can't seem to fully grasp the truth, or maybe there are many of us who think that because we are of a certain denomination that we don't have to worry about ourselves and always look at that other denomination that we see as being full of lies and going against the truth of the word of God. Who made us the judge? We have strayed so far away from the personal relationship, we are still fighting for position and still fighting for recognition and still eating each other up, we are stumbling.
Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.
While our eyes are fixed on Jesus we will we will not stumble:
24 Now to Him who is able to keep you[a] from stumbling,b] 15 But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another! Galatians 5:11-15
And to present you faultless
Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, But when we are looking elsewhere, we are looking to ourselves for guidance and looking to each other for comfort:
11 And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution? Then the offense of the cross has ceased. 12 I could wish that those who trouble you would even cut themselves off!
We are still looking to the circumcision in the flesh, not of the heart. If we see our denominations as being the best, or the right, are the most true to the word of God or this or that, we are consuming each other. My prayer, is that we would destroy all of the labels that keep us from Jesus, that we would utterly cut off from ourselves the old man, let the circumcision be of the heart, and not look to our outward selves and what we believe in our joint doctrine as being better than this one or that.
It is the need of every man to have a personal relationship with Christ, it is the need of every Christian to have fellowship with Him, to have communion with Him. But we for so long have mistaken that as some sort of set of rules and regulations and proper procedure, we tried to make the freedom and liberty of Jesus into a military operation and we tried to turn it into a fast food like chain of denominaiton and doctrine.
1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life— 2 the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us— 3 that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ. 4 And these things we write to you that your[
And who was at the beggining? In the beggining the word was woth God, the word was God, the Word made flesh. Dwell on that for a while, as you consider what there might be in your life that you might need to get rid of while you come to Him. Unless you are happy to live the facade, then I pray for you. I was once myself happy to live in that same lie, I felt a comfort there, but it was only a lie, because what would seem to be a comfort to me was eating me alive and I was blindly following the blind. There was not a single ray of light or hope there, it was only darkness and misery followed by more pain and addiction and more misery. I saw that what I thought to be some sort of truth was really the farthest from it and there seemed to be no way back. That is until I saw that I really needed to repeant from believing so many of the false things that I was trained to believe.
So many people have gone throught a "boot camp" like process of the baby walk of Christianity, and they will forever equate all of the things that they learned then with solid truth. It is a shame. I encourage all of those who wish to see past the label, who wish to see into the eternal, to look up a writing by T. Austin Sparks called "Spiritual Sight", until then, God bless!
Jesus Reignsa] joy may be full. 1 John 1:1-4
13 For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."[1 Timothy 6:20Luke 9:18-20
18 And it happened, as He was alone praying, that His disciples joined Him, and He asked them, saying, "Who do the crowds say that I am?"
19 So they answered and said, "John the Baptist, but some say Elijah; and others say that one of the old prophets has risen again."
20 He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"
Peter answered and said, "The Christ of God."
When Jesus asked this, the revelation that Peter had was very profound, it is a revelation that the church needs today. The answer was not "People say that you are a baptist preacher or that you are this denomination or that denomination", denomination did not exist. This conversation between Jesus and His disciples happened right after the miracle with the loaves and fishes, when Jesus said to His disciples "YOU give them something to eat", Jesus also said "I am the bread of life" and at the end of Matthew He told Peter "Feed my sheep".
For far too long people have only been concerned with denominations and doctrine and who has the right theology, thinking that if I am a good enough this or if I am a good enough that, if my doctrine is sound enough, if I know more than this person or that person. We have fed people the food of doctrine and denomiation for too long now, no wander they are starving! I hear people debating over which denomiation is better, or who has all the answers or who is really saved or who is really practicing the faith truthfully, we talk a lot about churches that have fallen under the lies of false doctrine, when really the only true doctrine is Jesus Christ.
I like what Paul said to Timothy in
"Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to your care. Turn away from godless chatter and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge,"1 Corinthians 10:12Paul also said this to Titus:
"but shun foolish questionings, and genealogies, and strifes, and fightings about law; for they are unprofitable and vain."I hear brothers and sister arguing about denomination, and arguing over theology and beliefs that they have. No wander so many of us live in such fear for our salvation, we have been fed the grand lie, "that denomiation saves you" or " theology saves you". What have we had entrusted to our care? Was it this teaching by man? Or is it the authority under heaven and earth that Christ Jesus had? I say the only way to truly see God for Who He is is to get rid of reliance on fleshly beliefs and to remove the labels that we have placed on ourselves. Jesus did not come claiming to be this or that, He never even said "I am a great Jew, now follow me!" He said " I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE", what do we have of our own? What kind of personal realationship is it when we are fighting over our denominations and arguing over who is right and who is wrong? Who is a heretic and who isn"t? Jesus said "I have come that they may have life abundently", where is the abundance in denomination? Where is the abundance is certain theology or doctrine? If there was ever anything we needed anymore than Jesus, some seem to believe that it is found in this "vain controversy". We are still mimicking our old selves, we have taken what we have seen in the medis, and what we have heard all over the world, and placed it into the Church, into the Body of Christ! That is the grand "heresy", that is the greatest lie. The word says "If any man be in Christ Jesus, behold there is a new creation", this new creation is something that has never existed before, it is an entirely different being altogether. But we still hold onto divisions, and striving over our new "laws", well you might say "Brother, these men were arguing over Judaism, not Christianity" like arguing over one is better than the other. It is worse to argue over the Body of Christ, how is it better to argue over our faith?
We all want to draw nearer, and we are wandering why we can't seem to fully grasp the truth, or maybe there are many of us who think that because we are of a certain denomination that we don't have to worry about ourselves and always look at that other denomination that we see as being full of lies and going against the truth of the word of God. Who made us the judge? We have strayed so far away from the personal relationship, we are still fighting for position and still fighting for recognition and still eating each other up, we are stumbling.
Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.
While our eyes are fixed on Jesus we will we will not stumble:
24 Now to Him who is able to keep you[a] from stumbling,b] 15 But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another! Galatians 5:11-15
And to present you faultless
Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, But when we are looking elsewhere, we are looking to ourselves for guidance and looking to each other for comfort:
11 And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution? Then the offense of the cross has ceased. 12 I could wish that those who trouble you would even cut themselves off!
We are still looking to the circumcision in the flesh, not of the heart. If we see our denominations as being the best, or the right, are the most true to the word of God or this or that, we are consuming each other. My prayer, is that we would destroy all of the labels that keep us from Jesus, that we would utterly cut off from ourselves the old man, let the circumcision be of the heart, and not look to our outward selves and what we believe in our joint doctrine as being better than this one or that.
It is the need of every man to have a personal relationship with Christ, it is the need of every Christian to have fellowship with Him, to have communion with Him. But we for so long have mistaken that as some sort of set of rules and regulations and proper procedure, we tried to make the freedom and liberty of Jesus into a military operation and we tried to turn it into a fast food like chain of denominaiton and doctrine.
1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life— 2 the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us— 3 that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ. 4 And these things we write to you that your[
And who was at the beggining? In the beggining the word was woth God, the word was God, the Word made flesh. Dwell on that for a while, as you consider what there might be in your life that you might need to get rid of while you come to Him. Unless you are happy to live the facade, then I pray for you. I was once myself happy to live in that same lie, I felt a comfort there, but it was only a lie, because what would seem to be a comfort to me was eating me alive and I was blindly following the blind. There was not a single ray of light or hope there, it was only darkness and misery followed by more pain and addiction and more misery. I saw that what I thought to be some sort of truth was really the farthest from it and there seemed to be no way back. That is until I saw that I really needed to repeant from believing so many of the false things that I was trained to believe.
So many people have gone throught a "boot camp" like process of the baby walk of Christianity, and they will forever equate all of the things that they learned then with solid truth. It is a shame. I encourage all of those who wish to see past the label, who wish to see into the eternal, to look up a writing by T. Austin Sparks called "Spiritual Sight", until then, God bless!
Jesus Reignsa] joy may be full. 1 John 1:1-4
13 For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."[1 Timothy 6:20Luke 9:18-20
The Reproduction of Christ
THE REPRODUCTION OF CHRIST
Jesus Christ reproduced. I know, you are shaking your head right now. You have probably heard of the stories that maybe Jesus physically had children and maybe you have read or have seen "The DaVinci Code". Well, this might come as a hard pill to swallow, but Jesus really did reproduce!
Now to those of you, who have figured this out and are still reading, know this, reproduction is not solely physical or sexual. Reproduction is mostly SPIRITUAL. The world has gottn this mixed up, as is usual, they think that you can only reproduce brothers and sisters and children by sexual intercourse. Wordlyness has been trying to explain something that it wants to believe of in Jesus, bringing Him down to an earthly level, which we know He isn't at! Praise God. Yet as usual it only has a speck of truth in it. It's like is someone were to come to America and try Chinese food, it has the idea of Chinese but has been changed to fit the culture, it would be totally different in the country of origin. And since we are talking about Christ's spiritual reproduction and spiritual seed, not a physical repoduction and a physical seed we should listen with our hearts and not to what our minds are now telling us.
The words "reproduction" and "intercourse" have, along with the word "Love", been degraded into a complete corruption of what God meant for us ETERNALLY. I would like to go back to the beginning, if I may, and say this to you, God did not create man first. That has been passed around churches for so long that people just simply agree with it as being factual, instead of what was really being said. Most think Adam was walking around in a physical garden with a physical tree that could probably still be located. This is not the case, it was a purely spiritual place, if so, why then when they left the garden would it need to be guarded by an angel? Could Adam and Eve have simply snuck back into it? Were there gates there that they could look through longingly hoping to get back in somehow by some sort of works? If that was the case God would have said "Now Adam, you are going to have to work off this debt, you owe me such and such for this magic apple you and Eve just ate, now when you are done you can come back inside" as if.
27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."John 19:26-27So many people have only blindly considered the account of Adam and Eve, that God made man, then when man was bored and lonely, He made Eve. No, that is not what it says, read that again, Adam was both Adam, AND Eve, it says "He created him both male and female.
The miracle that happened was spiritual reproduction. When God said "It is not good for man to be left alone", this was true, it was not good that man be left by himself without knowing how to reproduce, once again this was not yet a sexual concept, this was spiritual. Adam knew Eve, he recognized her as being a part of himself when he said "This is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh", he knew her spiritually, but Adam didn't know her sexually until after they were in the flesh.
Now that this has been established, let's take a look at
26 When Jesus therefore saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing by, He said to His mother, "Woman, behold your son!" 27 Then He said to the disciple, "Behold your mother!" And from that hour that disciple took her to his own home.Galatians 4:19Now how could this be that Jesus said this? Was Jesus speaking figuratively? Was He being metaphorical?or was He being quite literall. Well, we have heard of spiritual mothers and fathers, sometimes we say "Oh this is Nancy, my spiritual mother", but in the back of our minds we know that she is not really our mother per se, we have a mother that birthed us physically. This figure of speech probably came from this account in John, but that is not all that Jesus was saying "Oh I want you guys to feel ok, now you have someone to talk to". Did John just find out that he was really adopted? No, once again we are looking through our flesh and not the spiritual. We have been taught the only real way that one can be a son to someone (spiritually sons and daughters are the same there is no distinction) is that "Well honey, mommy loved daddy, and then mommy and daddy made babies", this is not really the case. Yes to bring forth children this physical act needs to happen, but that is not the genuine article, that is not simply how God sees it.
How did Paul sate these words in Galatians?
my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!
The world could come up with all kinds of things to say about that, "was Paul really a woman?" or how about this little bit of worldly thinking "was Paul really gay?". Oh the flesh, what subtle ways your creep into the minds of God's children and corrupt what the Father desires us to see!
The whole point of our walk with Christ, is to be with Him as He leads us back to the garden, I know you have heard this, but we should be in a place of communion with the Father, to "walk in the cool of the graden with Him". If this is the case, than how many of us can claim to be spiritual beings? If so then know that the reality that we see with our eyes is not reality at all! It is brought forth through parental training, school, education, experience and discipline. But what did Paul also say about that?
But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.
All of these things are of no eternal value, they benefit this life and should be cherished in this life since they will not come with you into the spiritual realm. I am not saying to drop out of school, it's just looking with our eyes, or as Des Walters put it "our imaginations, man's own personal Disneyland" will not explain what is really going on behind the scenes.
Now I started by saying "Jesus Reproduced" and this is true, spiritually. There was no use of physical reproduction on the cross because what appears to be death is really life, and what would appear to be life is really death to all of mankind.
Look once more at
Now, what happened immediatly after this? Jesus died, He not only gave up the ghost, but He gave up the seed, the birth, being the firstborn of many bretheren He died giving birth to those brothers. The soldiers came and pierced His side, the same side and place where God took the rib from Adam to pull Eve from him. When the spear peirced His side, the water broke and blood came forth and was spilled, just like when a mother gives birth to a baby.
So let the people searching for the physical lineage of Jesus keep searching in vain for something that has been standing right in front of them all the while, and you can step forward and claim that lineage, that heritage. This is not a figure of speech, and the world will be confounded, they will be seeking something that was created in "Disneyland" a prepackaged presupposed idea of what the lineage of Christ is, and who it is, supposing there to a a single family that has lived in anonimity for thousands of years.
From the body of Christ was birthed His bride
Came forth from the stabbing of His side,
Blood was spilled the whole earth mourned
Yet Just as He died, He rose again
Transformed
Kings of kings in all glory see
The Son of Man died for you and me
Jesus Reigns.John 19:26-27, Jesus reproduced there, it was not sexual it was spiritual. He said to John, "Behold your mother" and to Mary "behold your son", and it was so from that day forward. If it had been a figure of speech Jesus was using, then John would have probably just checked in on Mary every once and a while, or maybe he owuld have bought her groceries or done some chores for her. But Jesus was not just worried about His mother and wanted her taken care of, although that is true enough. Jesus just planted the seed into man, He impregnated the spirit of all of mankind with those words, John and Mary stood at the foot of the cross as ambasadors for all of mankind the power that was present is still present in us today, it is no different in you and I than it was on that day, in that year when John and Mary stood there looking up at the naked and bloody broken and bruised body of Christ on the cross. Jesus was reistablishing what was true in the garden before the fall, that spiritual reproduction was not just of flesh and blood.Philippians 3:7Genesis 1:27-28
Jesus Christ reproduced. I know, you are shaking your head right now. You have probably heard of the stories that maybe Jesus physically had children and maybe you have read or have seen "The DaVinci Code". Well, this might come as a hard pill to swallow, but Jesus really did reproduce!
Now to those of you, who have figured this out and are still reading, know this, reproduction is not solely physical or sexual. Reproduction is mostly SPIRITUAL. The world has gottn this mixed up, as is usual, they think that you can only reproduce brothers and sisters and children by sexual intercourse. Wordlyness has been trying to explain something that it wants to believe of in Jesus, bringing Him down to an earthly level, which we know He isn't at! Praise God. Yet as usual it only has a speck of truth in it. It's like is someone were to come to America and try Chinese food, it has the idea of Chinese but has been changed to fit the culture, it would be totally different in the country of origin. And since we are talking about Christ's spiritual reproduction and spiritual seed, not a physical repoduction and a physical seed we should listen with our hearts and not to what our minds are now telling us.
The words "reproduction" and "intercourse" have, along with the word "Love", been degraded into a complete corruption of what God meant for us ETERNALLY. I would like to go back to the beginning, if I may, and say this to you, God did not create man first. That has been passed around churches for so long that people just simply agree with it as being factual, instead of what was really being said. Most think Adam was walking around in a physical garden with a physical tree that could probably still be located. This is not the case, it was a purely spiritual place, if so, why then when they left the garden would it need to be guarded by an angel? Could Adam and Eve have simply snuck back into it? Were there gates there that they could look through longingly hoping to get back in somehow by some sort of works? If that was the case God would have said "Now Adam, you are going to have to work off this debt, you owe me such and such for this magic apple you and Eve just ate, now when you are done you can come back inside" as if.
27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."John 19:26-27So many people have only blindly considered the account of Adam and Eve, that God made man, then when man was bored and lonely, He made Eve. No, that is not what it says, read that again, Adam was both Adam, AND Eve, it says "He created him both male and female.
The miracle that happened was spiritual reproduction. When God said "It is not good for man to be left alone", this was true, it was not good that man be left by himself without knowing how to reproduce, once again this was not yet a sexual concept, this was spiritual. Adam knew Eve, he recognized her as being a part of himself when he said "This is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh", he knew her spiritually, but Adam didn't know her sexually until after they were in the flesh.
Now that this has been established, let's take a look at
26 When Jesus therefore saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing by, He said to His mother, "Woman, behold your son!" 27 Then He said to the disciple, "Behold your mother!" And from that hour that disciple took her to his own home.Galatians 4:19Now how could this be that Jesus said this? Was Jesus speaking figuratively? Was He being metaphorical?or was He being quite literall. Well, we have heard of spiritual mothers and fathers, sometimes we say "Oh this is Nancy, my spiritual mother", but in the back of our minds we know that she is not really our mother per se, we have a mother that birthed us physically. This figure of speech probably came from this account in John, but that is not all that Jesus was saying "Oh I want you guys to feel ok, now you have someone to talk to". Did John just find out that he was really adopted? No, once again we are looking through our flesh and not the spiritual. We have been taught the only real way that one can be a son to someone (spiritually sons and daughters are the same there is no distinction) is that "Well honey, mommy loved daddy, and then mommy and daddy made babies", this is not really the case. Yes to bring forth children this physical act needs to happen, but that is not the genuine article, that is not simply how God sees it.
How did Paul sate these words in Galatians?
my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!
The world could come up with all kinds of things to say about that, "was Paul really a woman?" or how about this little bit of worldly thinking "was Paul really gay?". Oh the flesh, what subtle ways your creep into the minds of God's children and corrupt what the Father desires us to see!
The whole point of our walk with Christ, is to be with Him as He leads us back to the garden, I know you have heard this, but we should be in a place of communion with the Father, to "walk in the cool of the graden with Him". If this is the case, than how many of us can claim to be spiritual beings? If so then know that the reality that we see with our eyes is not reality at all! It is brought forth through parental training, school, education, experience and discipline. But what did Paul also say about that?
But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.
All of these things are of no eternal value, they benefit this life and should be cherished in this life since they will not come with you into the spiritual realm. I am not saying to drop out of school, it's just looking with our eyes, or as Des Walters put it "our imaginations, man's own personal Disneyland" will not explain what is really going on behind the scenes.
Now I started by saying "Jesus Reproduced" and this is true, spiritually. There was no use of physical reproduction on the cross because what appears to be death is really life, and what would appear to be life is really death to all of mankind.
Look once more at
Now, what happened immediatly after this? Jesus died, He not only gave up the ghost, but He gave up the seed, the birth, being the firstborn of many bretheren He died giving birth to those brothers. The soldiers came and pierced His side, the same side and place where God took the rib from Adam to pull Eve from him. When the spear peirced His side, the water broke and blood came forth and was spilled, just like when a mother gives birth to a baby.
So let the people searching for the physical lineage of Jesus keep searching in vain for something that has been standing right in front of them all the while, and you can step forward and claim that lineage, that heritage. This is not a figure of speech, and the world will be confounded, they will be seeking something that was created in "Disneyland" a prepackaged presupposed idea of what the lineage of Christ is, and who it is, supposing there to a a single family that has lived in anonimity for thousands of years.
From the body of Christ was birthed His bride
Came forth from the stabbing of His side,
Blood was spilled the whole earth mourned
Yet Just as He died, He rose again
Transformed
Kings of kings in all glory see
The Son of Man died for you and me
Jesus Reigns.John 19:26-27, Jesus reproduced there, it was not sexual it was spiritual. He said to John, "Behold your mother" and to Mary "behold your son", and it was so from that day forward. If it had been a figure of speech Jesus was using, then John would have probably just checked in on Mary every once and a while, or maybe he owuld have bought her groceries or done some chores for her. But Jesus was not just worried about His mother and wanted her taken care of, although that is true enough. Jesus just planted the seed into man, He impregnated the spirit of all of mankind with those words, John and Mary stood at the foot of the cross as ambasadors for all of mankind the power that was present is still present in us today, it is no different in you and I than it was on that day, in that year when John and Mary stood there looking up at the naked and bloody broken and bruised body of Christ on the cross. Jesus was reistablishing what was true in the garden before the fall, that spiritual reproduction was not just of flesh and blood.Philippians 3:7Genesis 1:27-28
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