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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Door is Christ, but there is more!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Selah!

Part II—

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Part III Next week, if it be His pleasure!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Selah…. Part II, the Lord willing!

By His Spirit……

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Look up for our redemption draws nigh-

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

It is tremendous and free if you believe.

All things are possible, do you dare to believe?

The King is here for you and me …

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

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

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

Alas, it is His bride shining…..

Behold, she reflects His great love in brilliant array…

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

He watches with such strong intent….

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

For He sees His reflection in her beauty…..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Behold the King, behold His great love…….

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

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

The ancient doors are opened as the trumpet calls,

Come up here to see and hear….

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

Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,

Nor have entered into the heart of man

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Selah!

Every man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the hearts, Proverbs 21:2.

Are our hearts ready for the weighing?

Have we no fear of the final trial?

Is Jesus enthroned there in our hearts by faith?

If so, you need not fear the weighing.

If not, what will you do when the King sets up the final scale?

Oh My Heavenly Father,

May we be stunned by Your grace;

May we be amazed at Your love;

May we be humbled by Your mercy;

May we be moved to Your Healing Presence;

May we be shocked by the sacrifice of Your Son;

May we be awakened to Your Everlasting Arms;

May we have eyes to see and ears to hear Your call to:

Come and drink the Cup of Salvation!;

May we have the Wisdom to understand Your way of Everlasting Life;

For now and forever Your glory and dominion and power reigns in the Highest.

Oh Heavenly Father,

How we love and thank You; In the name of the King of Kings, Lord Christ Jesus, we pray for the lost and wounded to hear Your gentle whisper calling their names with love and yearning;  we ask they turn to Your way and call on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior…. then they may know Your peace, Your way, Your life in Jesus Christ. May they find their One Thing today. You are our only way to be whole and complete and at peace…..

In and by You, Lord King Jesus Christ, by the power of the Holy Spirit in the grace and mercy of our God….. We praise You for Your love reigns forever over us. Be glorified by our love towards You, our Great God.

Amen.

But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son cleanses us from all sin, ( 1 John 1:7).

Are we living by the fullness of the light the Lord intended when He spoke to us in…(John 12:36), While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.

The presence of the Holy One is dazzling bright and brilliant. So as we live by His presence, He will brighten any darkness within that we hold on to falsely as truth.

Do we choose to walk in the light of the Holy Spirit leading us or are we content with the darkness…. We have gained a certain amount of light or truth and that is as far as we will allow the Holy Spirit to clean out our hearts?

Do we live in the Spirit as He illumines the truth before us?…. Do we trust Him to let go of the darkness within our thinking and living…. When we choose to agree with the Lord that may be this thing or that attitude of ours brings darkness which leads to death…….He reveals the things that will come as well as what we cannot see with our natural eyes…. in our lives as well as things outside our lives. Can we have the courage to be as ruthless with the Holy Spirit to conform us from the likeness of the world to the likeness of Christ as He is with us?

Once we hear His voice…. as written in John 10:14-16….Do we hold His sound as a Treasure now?

We have the ears to hear and eyes to see the Lord….. Yes, we were blind before regarding God and His kingdom…..prior to His Spirit living within…… but now we can see!

Spiritual eyes to see and know the Lord Himself….in all manners and diverse ways manifesting Himself to us….

Revealing Himself in us as written in John 14:21, He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him……….

If we love the Lord- He will come and manifest Himself to us…..Do we long and ask to have eyes to see and ears to hear Him today, so that He manifests to us? Do we love Him more than any other or ask for the grace to behold Him as our Great Treasure?

Do we follow His Word even when it hurts or causes reproach? Do we count His love above all others, so when He is manifesting Himself we are aware of Him? We long for Him because of our love for Him….. Duty is duty but to follow because of love, nothing can separate love not even death!

Do we want to have eyes to see Him? The Laodicean church received His love letter as the other six churches in the first chapters of Revelation of Jesus Christ. The Laodicean church was reproved because they thought that their boat had come in, yet they did not understand their boat was full of potholes and was sinking into darkness fast… Judgment starts at the house of God…… Do we heed there may be a judgment coming or correction to the current day church? Or are we going to float on the cloud of delusion and deny wisdom to have any fear of the Lord?

We should have eyes to see the Lord in each other, as well as, others see the Lord manifesting Himself through us by His Spirit and His gifts….. This Christ is still drawing all men unto the King and Redeemer….now through His body…..

It is imperative that we see Christ is in us with spiritual eyes. When I first came to the Lord, He was walking with me through time…. I was so grateful for Him to be that close…. I was in heaven….. then, I needed to grow so the Lord drew back a bit….. I cried for Him. I thought I did the unpardonable sin, not knowing what that was….. Of course, the devil in my ignorance jumped all over it……But, I thought, where did He go?

I didn’t screw up and He didn’t go….. He wanted me to have more of Him…….He died so that we could be in Him and Him in us…. But He has to be invited….. I cried out….. I need help here….. Everything is coming against me…What am I suppose to handle this, Lord?

Then He puts before me His people baptizing in fire, so I got baptized in the Holy Spirit….. Then I knew the Lord’s presence was within…..I was burning on fire for Him. The scriptures came alive as well as I did….I woke up to a new realm of the Spiritual Realm, the kingdom of heaven was now within me….The journey with the Lord was beyond any thing possible that I could have imagine….. That is God….. He breaks all human boundaries, He is not limited by space or time….. He can do what ever He wants to obtain His purpose with man….. Look what His Son did for Him……. Look at the courage and boldness of the saints that laid their lives down for His name sake.

I flew like the eagle with my King…..I saw the Lord in His glory….. He gave me the eyes to see as He gave me the ears to hear His voice….. I join with Paul and others as he stated that the He chose to reveal His Son in me.

Is this available to all, yes…. of course….. How bad are we willing to die to this life in Laodicea? How bad do we want the salve to anoint our eyes with the Holy Spirit….. You will not win any popularity contest, but the love of the Lord and the fellowship with the Spirit is worth the cost….. I will die daily to gain my Christ.

The Spirit is admonishing all to have eyes to see and ears to hear…. the Lord….. We have eyes to see Him and ears to hear Him in the end we become the image of Him….. Consummation of His love and our love which is little, but His is greater and covers our humanity…. to bring us into His divine nature….. so that Christ will be all and in all…. whether we contribute willingly or not…. Whether we love Him or not….. I can say if the love of God has waxed cold, I pray you seek His walk to the cross as you study Isaiah and John.

But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament because the veil is taken away in Christ, But even to this day when Moses is read a veil lies on their heart.

Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are becoming transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord, ( 2 Corinthians 3:14-18).

Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. But if one walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him, (John 11:9-10).

He answered and said, A Man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and said to me, Go to the pool of Siloam and wash. So I went and washed and received my sight, ( John 9:11).

Selah until part II is revealed, God willing…. Listen to His heartbeat, it is the heartbeat of heaven…… His love pouring out amongst the lost…. Be found in Him, beloved…. We are home and complete only by Our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen!

As He died to give us life, let us live that life to the fullness of the measure of Light He opens our eyes to….. for there is great adventure of knowing the Lord for every day is Resurrection Day…. Everyday is the Lord’s day…… Let us celebrate Him every day!

And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be the head over all things to the church which is His body the fullness of Him who fills all in all……( Ephesians 1:22-23).

For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness shall dwell, ( Colossians 1:19).

Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all, ( Colossians 3:11).

For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power, (Colossians 2-9).

Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me: for You have loved Me from the foundation of the world, ( John 17:24).

Then the Lord said to Noah, Come into the ark, you and your all your household, because I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation, ( Genesis 7:1).

And they went into the ark to Noah, two by two of all flesh, of all flesh in which is the breath of life. So those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the Lord shut them in,(Genesis 7:15-16).

Then the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple. And there were lightnings, thunderings, an earthquake, and great hail, (Revelation 11:19).

The royal daughter is all glorious within the palace; her clothing is woven with gold. She shall be brought to the King in robes of many colors, ( Psalm 45:13-14).

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven last plagues came to me and talked with me, saying, come, I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife. And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal. Also she had a great and high wall with twelve gates, and twelve angels at the gates, and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of Israel: three gates on east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, three gates on the west. Now the wall of the city has twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb, (Revelation 21:9-14).

Let your heart not be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house there are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you. I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know, ( John 14:1-4).

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust, (Psalm 91-1).

Do I need to ask, where is our Home?….. In Christ Jesus, if we abide in His word. Abide in Me, and I in you. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned, ( John 15:6). In Him, is our rest. In Him, is where we belong in peace. In Him, by His grace and His Spirit, we rest from the law of Moses, we rest from our own weaknesses and failures…. In His grace over our weakness, His power is made perfect!

This great King has been exalted above all as He is seated at the right hand of Almighty. He is worthy and there is no other like Him. This same King dwells within us by His Spirit.

The Lamb and the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the glorified Son of God is seated at the right hand of the Almighty… Beloved, we live there with Him in the Spirit now…..

He carries us as we are on eagle’s wings way above the treetops, way above the mountains of jealousy and the wrath of Babylon. If we are not complete in Him, where else will we be complete? We are not complete or fulfilled here with out Jesus Christ…. There is only One place and One Person we are found complete…. Our Lord Jesus Christ. Let us be found in Him.

Beyond our comprehension is what we have gained with Christ from our Great I AM…. There is no other like our God…..

Beloved, keep soaring in Him as on the wings of the eagle….. Safe, flying high above the flood waters of deception and lies. Flying above the waters of death and poison. As His breath of life will carry us through the fire and water, where He has chosen us….to remain through all as He is our safety of our refuge…. our God in Christ Jesus, the Ark of the Covenant…. We abide in the mighty power of His Word and His Holy Spirit of fire…. We live and breath our Lord Jesus Christ until He is all and in all in the church or as His body is fulfilled in time, then the creation.

What a mighty inheritance or destiny as we have received from our Lord…now and forever. Praise God! What greater inheritance than the King of glory!

O Lord, Be thou our vision….. Give us the eyes to see greatness of You and all You have prepared for us.

May our eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him the to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all, ( Ephesians 1:18-23).

There is so much, beloved, to explore and live in Christ to gain all of Christ…..

Once we have accepted the redemption of Christ, is that all we need to believe in? When God delivered Israel from Egypt, was that all that God desired for them? Do we ever settle down and not desire more of Him? Did not many perish in the wilderness because of their unbelief limited the Holy One?

We do not stop getting more things of this world, if we did stop then all the stores would only be open a day or so a week. Our basic needs plus plus plus are met here in America, but we want more so we go there to get more stuff…..

Why is the concept too outrageous to go after God and His Son with the same gusto! With the Lord, there is never enough of Him. He meets me and I am filled, but I long for more of Him….That love of our God, makes me so hungry for more and to understand more and obtain more wisdom, so that I may understand more of the never stopping river of grace and love that keeps pouring from the throne of God.

Do we pray for the high calling to gain all Christ?….Do we dare to have such audacity to believe all that is written or are we content with a couple of crumbs of His mighty grace….. I believe our Lord is the whole big beautiful loaf of Heavenly Food to devour!

Hold on to Him and never let go until we are all gone at the cross and all is Christ and Christ is all and in all. We are complete as we are in Him as the church as well as individually. So when we awaken, we shall be as He is…..

Wisdom has built her house, she has hewn out her seven pillars; she has slaughtered her meat, she has mixed her wine, she has also furnished her table, she has sent out her maidens, she cries out from the highest places of the city,

Whoever is simple, let him turn in here! As for him who lacks understanding, she says to him, Come, eat of My Bread, and drink of the wine I have mixed.

Forsake foolishness and live, and go in the way of understanding. He who corrects a scoffer gets shame for himself, and he who rebukes a wicked man only harms himself. Do not correct a scoffer, lest he hate you; rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a just man, and he will increase in learning. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. For by me your days will be multiplied and years of life will be added to you.

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself, and if you scoff, you will bear it alone, ( Proverbs 9).

Amen and Selah!

The question will be determined how we proved our faith in purpose towards the Lord, when it is all said and done. Did we allow Him to be our plumbline, the standard in which we live by and for ?….. Did we allow His Word to be center stage? How hotly did we pursue Him? Did we act accordingly to the importance of the destiny the Lord had planned for us….. Did we apprehend Him as He apprehended us? Or did we compromise for the praises of men rather than the Lord’s?

What is the pursuit of the high calling?….. Yes, There is an eternity in living the life of the high calling…. Living a resurrected life in Christ before Almighty God… How exciting!! However, we live that life now, by the presence of His Spirit within…. We have been risen with Christ in God and we also have died with Christ, so we are found in Him.

The day of the Lord will reveal what we pursued during our time in the wilderness…..He already knows what we did…..Now we  will be illuminated with Truth of our heart….. The Holy Spirit is always illuminating us to the Son…..In His light, there is no darkness. On that Day, we will see the measure of Christ in us or see the measure of something else……

All will be revealed before us as the way the Lord sees us now day in and day out. How we live now bears fruit of the Spirit or of the spirit of the world. We choose how to live this life every day here pursuing the Lord or not, God will not twist our arm for us to seek Him, even though He is seeking us.

Remember He is seeking us to see if we are seeking Him…… When He looks upon us, were we caught meditating on His creation? We were wondering what He meant in the Word when He said some particular scripture at a particular time? Did we awake in the night, longing for the reality of Him in all we do? Did we hold on to the Holy Spirit to do what He has to, so that we live by faith in Christ alone because He loves us so. Do we pray for the trust to let go all to Him because we understand and dare to rely only on the strength of His love that He has towards us?

Or were we caught with the vain fascination of the world and the comings and goings and found sleeping.

What do we think heaven will be like….. Is there a cloud and a harp reserved for each one as we lay down and float for all eternity?

Whose lame idea was that?….It had to originate in hell for a lie to deceive those not to work out their salvation with fear and trembling as written in Philippians 2:12. God is a God of order and purpose… There is a purpose in heaven as well as on earth…….There is purpose in every thing that is in this universe including the heavens and His heavenly Jerusalem, the holy city of God.

Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure, ( Philippians 2:12-13).

The last words spoken by the Almighty recorded was about the purpose——Matthew 17: 5, While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and suddenly a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is My Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him….

O Father, who dwells in heaven, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven????? There is business of the kingdom of God going on in heaven as is on earth! God is a God of order and purpose as written in Ecclesiastes 1:9, That which has been is what will be, that which is done is will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.

There is no written word on us floating on clouds with harps…..Next, we will hear that there are iphones and smart phones and tvs there…… All the comforts of the flesh? NOT!

Those who feed the flesh will starve in next age……. and those that starved the flesh but fed the Spirit of Life daily will be filled with everlasting glory. As written in Proverbs 4: 18-19, But the path of the just is like the shining sun, that shines ever brighter unto the perfect day. The way of the wicked is like darkness; they do not know what makes them stumble.

Think about this, we trip or stumble over something, don’t we look back at what it was that made us trip?…. I do, for sure….. I want to remove that thing ASAP….. So the way of ones that don’t allow the work and grace of the Spirit of God to invade their lives to turn their lives into light, will not understand and see what they keep tripping over…..Hmmmm…. But isn’t it written,  a very important Person will be as a stumbling stone to His enemies…. those that reject Him?

Then Jesus looked to them and said, What then is this that is written: The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone? Whoever falls on that stone will be broken, but on whom ever it falls, it will grind him to powder,( Luke 20:17-18).

There is no part of creation that does not have a job to accomplish for the Creator and His creation. All of creation is still doing the work of His command by His power… So…do not believe the lie that there is a cloud with your name as a reservation like a dinner reservation. There are however, a very great cloud of witnesses urging and praying us forward in the race.

Yeah, we say we know the Lord…… But does He know you? Will He know from whose house we are from? Have we apprehended the call of God …. Have we apprehended Him? He is so Big! How can we apprehend such a great King? But it is written that we can or least die trying to know Him which is eternal life !!!! ( John 17).

What is our vision….. Is it of the next game, the next shopping spree, the next vacation? What is our vision? If we have a vision for this earth, we are not lethal to evil, but if we have a heavenly vision, we are on his hit list…… That’s okay, because we know the end of the story, God will take him out.

God has a specific call for us here and when this age ends….. Time is an opportunity to complete our wilderness training in the Spirit by the Spirit so we may be educated in the ways of God…. His ways are known and made apparent to all men…. They are not mysterious as the slogan goes…… They may be mysterious to those that have not sought after Him….Not to those that know Him and have sought to learn His ways.

The happenstance’s goal that we go through so we may achieve to apprehend God, may be hidden until time passes and the light dawns within. They are for us to grow in the knowledge of our God, we will know Him better as our Refuge, Stronghold, Healer, Deliverer, Best Friend, Commander, Host of the Battle, Giver All Peace, ….. on and on is the list of the Great I AM.

We live sometimes through adversity as though we go through a tunnel….. we will come out into the shining day of the Lord….. There is our hope,  though we may not see the day, the day is approaching…. the Day of the Lord…. Our hope and our anchor and our joy…. Our Lord!

I know calculus is mysterious to me, however, I have never sought after calculus, and God willing will not have to….I thank God it is not a requirement to God’s realm…..The One we need, His yoke is easy and we do not have to know calculus!

People are afraid of the plague called cancer….. Why? Because it is a killer…… however, Jesus Christ is the Healer of everything….. Why do we not seek after the Healer to get well? Some do……

God is God and He still plans to shake up the comfortable and comforts the shaken….. I know I would be very bored if I just looked forward to sitting on a cloud with a harp….

Man, I pray there is more opportunity to learn about the Holy One…. I want to continue to ask Him questions that He still has not answered me….. I want to still learn and grow in Christ….I want to study our King….I want to hear His words and commands. I want to see how He is when millions times millions are praising Him on His day…. I want to see Him in His glory and stay by Him forever…. I sure don’t want to be floating on some cloud somewhere from the action of King….. I desire the King in all His glory to be known to all.

He is so beautiful. I have to hear and see His expression and character more…. I want to know the answers to all my questions….. Why the giraffe’s neck so long? Why did He create the alligator? Why? Why the wasp? Why did Adam name the hippopotamus it’s name?

Why did He put chapters in Isaiah and Ezekiel about Satan….. Who is the King of Tyre written in Ezekiel?

Why did He put thorns on roses? He already answered me on the existence of evil here.

Why such a King as beautiful and magnificent as He would die for me? How can I grasp such great love in my heart?

How is it that You loved us and never let us go for centuries? What God is like You, My King of glory>

O King of my glory….. Be Thou My Vision now and always. As we look for you today, may it be a long stretch of tomorrows with You, My King of glory…..so that we may gaze into Your face as long as there is eternity……

How are we showing our love to our King of glory? Let us  not put Him off like going to the doctor’s…. Take advantage of the day we have and seek Him as He is watching you and waiting for you to seek Him. Do you hear Him knocking on the door of your heart, your life…. He wants the okay to invade your life and then make it glorious! Hear the King of glory speaking His love over you today or tonight when the still small beautiful voice of His can be heard over all the distractions….. Listen……. Hear Him!

How is your gift from the Lord of 2015 growing….. I pray that as His gift grows in us, we are getting smaller and the face of the Lord is all we see!

He is Number One as placed in the high place next to the Almighty God, so He should be our Number One now also. He is the Beginning and the End…. He is the Alpha and Omega. He is our Alpha and Omega and He is our End and our Beginning and the reason we can live forever. Christ is all and in all according the counsels of the Godhead…… Let us seek Him as we seek our next breath.

Holy Spirit, do Your work in our hearts, I pray for the grace for obtaining the tenacity of the faith of God so we apprehend and dwell in the mountain clefts of our King’s realm. May we see the workings of His hands and ways so we may magnify His glory and explore His greatness.

Lord, You promised us never to leave us. You admonished us to learn of You and take Your yoke upon us because of Your love, the yoke would be easy…. We thank You, and hold on to Your yoke and You so that we may apprehend You with the same tenacity as when You took our stone hearts in Your hands and made them flesh again….. Flesh of Your flesh….Born again from heaven as sons and daughters with a great inheritance…..

Our Inheritance is You our Great King, as we are Your Inheritance…. Fill our cup with You overflowing in Your love, so that our love may pour forth before Your throne as a sweet smelling fragrance…….of Christ to our Father in heaven….. Without Your love working in us mightily, we cannot love or even look for You…. All Your love turned us away from death and darkness. There is no God like You.

You are a mighty and beautiful God and all our love and honor and blessing belongs to You forever and ever, Amen.

I also thank You with that we do not have a cloud reserved for us,we want to be among the multitudes exalting You because we shall see You as You are! Father, I ask that we have ears to hear Your voice of wisdom and instruction by Your Spirit, in Jesus name.

I pray we know but what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ.

Yet, indeed I also count all things loss for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ, and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrections from the dead.

Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press forward toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you, ( Philippians 3:7-16.)

Thank You for Your work to be complete in us according to Your Word. Amen!

Selah!!

Why so much interest in the word destiny? Well, we can surmise that in the heart of every man and woman, there is need to understand why we are here….. Deep down, we are searching for our meaning in life, right?….. So…….

Do you know your destiny? Do you know why you were created at this time for this time? There is a mystery involving every man and woman created by God, but it is not  hidden any longer. It is not a secret or some hidden mystical theory…..

This is quite simple to understand and get the faith to live it out… For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are in the earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created by through Him and by Him, ( Colossians 1:16).

So we can rest assured we were created by the Uncreated One. We are here for His purpose and by His love, we will complete His plan for us… That is awesome, there is no  mistake or freak of an accident in any one’s birth.

You were in the mind of the Godhead and in His counsels before the foundation of the world as written: Just as He chose us in Him from the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, (Ephesians 1:4). Well, we have been chosen by God before the universe was created to be holy and without blame before Him.

Well, I do not know about you, but to me, that is quite a huge destiny that has been given to us as we abide in Christ….. Isn’t that an awesome destiny?

Now our destiny or purpose in God may be different than our mind set….. If our destiny is wrapped up in wanting to be a somebody with a name, or fame or fortune…… God’s purpose and ours might do a huge collide until  the submission to His word is established in us: But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you,            ( Matthew 6:33).

God is so wise and so a great Father….. As we think we are seeking the Lord with all our heart…. He shows us the hidden self centered agendas we have….. So we then may let them die on the cross as the carnal man.

We, then, are not in enmity with the Lord as written in Romans 8:6-8:  For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

What happens  when we seek the Lord and His Kingdom and His rights, we loose our own in His love. Our agendas do not hold  the importance that they once held in our hearts….. The Lord has taken over that desire of  our hearts….. He has become our agenda. He becomes our One Thing that we search after….. So when the fame, name and fortune come or not, we do not change our main focus of seeking Him as our Needful Thing and our Only One Thing we go after and hold on.

We should be like the woman with the issue of blood, she knew if she touched the garment of Jesus, she would be healed….. She was made completely well by her faith in not letting go of Jesus. (Mark 5:25-34). The flow of life ebbing out her was stopped…..

That is destiny is it not?    His destiny or purpose for us as we become born again “abiders” in Christ….. This is etched in the heart of the Father through out the Word, through out all of time….His own family…..

As Paul boldy tells us our destiny,  precise and very clear for all to interpret and understand: And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the Firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified, these He also glorified, ( Romans 8:28-30).

WOW! What a destiny we have in Christ from the Godhead…. That is awesome and who needs to further  inquiry of their destiny once we learn what God has called us to?????

There is no mystery to our call in Christ Jesus from our God…… But to be changed from glory to glory …. Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we, all with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord, ( 2 Corinthians 3:17-18).

That is a mystery!!!! We are transformed just as we are born from above….. All  the works of God are completed by faith and lived by faith according to the power of His word. The work of God has been made manifest ….

Why? And to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ; to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and power of the heavenly places, according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through faith in Him, ( Ephesians 3:9-12).

So the mystery that was and is and is to come…… as Paul states: the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints. To them God willed to make know what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among  the Gentiles: which Christ in you, the hope of glory. Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we might present every man perfect in Christ Jesus,        ( Colossians 1:26-28).

Want to know your purpose, it is not hidden from you…… WOW…… This precious gift of Jesus Christ to us from the Father is so AWESOME, beyond what we can imagine or think!  We trust in the Lord, to walk in the fullness of His calling, because He has given us His Spirit within to empower us to be found blameless before Him on His day….. How awesome is our God!!!!

Now what do you think Jesus meant when He said this in Luke 13:24-27, Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able. When once the Master of the house has risen up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open for us, and He will answer and say to you, I do not know you, where you are from, then you will begin to say, We ate and drank in Your presence and You taught in our streets. But He will say, I tell you I do not know you, where you are from. Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity.

It is quite obvious  what house we belong by the piercing eyes of flame of King Jesus Christ. He is the Judge and He is the Plumbline too. He is our standard and the image the Spirit of God is making us into…..Behold, I make all things new, ( Revelation 21:5)…..

After all, He knows His creation. Well, He knows all things, even our hearts!…… We can surmise that He recognizes His house, Christ within,  where His Spirit dwells in our hearts or not…… Hey guys, that is our only hope of glory…..May we heed our Lord’s words and obey…..His calling of our destiny purposed and planned before the foundation of the world.

I am in awe of our God and His neverending mercy and love for us….. May we heed to His plan and live looking as to a mirror from glory to glory…. So if this is our calling, what is the high calling that Paul refers to in Philippians?

May we grow mightly in the strength and grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us, ( 1 John 3:24). Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may gave boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world, (1 John 4:17).

He will see Himself in our souls, His home…..as our abode is in Him. What a purpose and destiny we have in Christ Jesus.

There is no one like our God! May we bless the Name of the Lord forever and ever! We love you, Lord. May we have eyes to see what You have planned for us and ears to obtain Your Word in our hearts from listening ears and courage and boldness of faith to believe and live.

Father, I thank You that You have given us a place to live the inconceivable life of God through Your Son by the power of His Spirit….. We praise You and thank You for Your neverending mercy. We praise You for Your hands always lifting us to new adventures in knowing You as our God…..

You are the Great I AM. You are the reason our hearts are fulled with joy….for there is no God that has delivered and loved and lifted and been a refuge and a dwelling place for all generations as You…. There is no one like the Great I AM.

Selah!!

The Holy Spirit reveals truth to understand our God: How precious are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them. If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; when I awake, I am with You!,                        ( Psalm 139:17-18).

Every scripture  written is to awaken us of the great God, so we know Him….. This is to have eternal life, the knowledge of the Lord. Every Word written  reveals or points to the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Lord Jesus Christ then points us to the Father who loves us….. As Jesus Christ told Philip in John 14:9, Jesus said to him, Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen the Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, show us the Father?

Now we have the Holy Spirit within us, our hope of glory, directing us to the Word, Jesus Christ and all that has been written…..

When we sleep, we are not conscious of our surrounding area.  When awaken in the morning, we are alert to the light of the day that has approached us. We can live without God in our lives, He will let us….. as we close the Door on  Him,  He keeps knocking on ours to reveal our need for Him,… the Great I AM. He wants us to awaken to Him as we awaken to the dawn of each morning, God willing…… Is that why the Lord is also known by the name, the Bright  Morningstar? Hmmmm….

Do we see that we are kept sleeping or unaware when we choose to live in the dark? When we do not choose Jesus Christ, we have chosen darkness.  But what happens when grace, the Light of God, awakens us to Him?  Do we see the Light that is hidden by our eyes?  Ahhh, but to our spirit man that light has awakened us as the sun awakens the dawn.

Then it is written, As for me, I will see Your face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied when I awake in Your likeness, ( Psalms 17:15).

Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is, ( 1 John 3:2).

Is time a place to learn to die to Adam’s race and awaken to the life we live in Christ forever? The psalmist says when I awake, I am with You.

The Spirit of grace awakens us to a need of a Savior… as we are dead or asleep in our trespasses against  God. Then His gentle blow of His breath, we awakened as if we were born for the first time…. God awakens us to life, first to the life out of our mothers womb, then again when we awaken to our Savior…. We awaken in our spirit to hear His voice and know the touch of Love, the Son of God as He births us as His children….

All of a sudden we see His hand in all of creation…. We wonder at His wonderment.  We are lifted up high in His love as  we  float  in the blue clear sky of  His grace. Every breath we take we now know His hand is involved in as He blesses us, guides us as His children—— maturing us  in to sons and daughters of God……in Christ Jesus.

Before we had no knowledge of a God so loving and so close to us…. as close as our breath. We were closed off or asleep to Him….. because without the knowledge of the deep love of our Savior, we are dead or asleep to Him as well as our deep state of darkness. We have really yet to learn the depravity of our state without Jesus Christ…..

Sometimes we feel like we are going through hell, but I believe hell…. life without God, is beyond our imagination or understanding of the intensity of the darkness that exists. It is written  the angel of the Lord poured out his bowl of wrath on the beast and his kingdom. The kingdom of the beast became full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues because of the pain of the darkness! ( Read Revelation 16:10).

Before Christ, we put all we had in what others thought of us and to keep up with the              ” jones”, ( who are they anyway!).   We thought and believed and received the newest fashions were the all and the end, except when they would come out with the next year look or the next new teckie gadget. We believed that was our end, our goal…. but it leaves us empty and searching for the next thing to distract us…. from the real Truth.

Our sleep state keeps us locked in the today and not the tomorrow. Nor do we ever look up to see Him looking at us….. There was a closed door because of our unbelief, that we had no sense to look for Him or even need Him today….

Through our crisis’ in life  may  awaken us to a need of something deeper and higher in life. A life richer than the consumption of things to get in this earth…. because we realize that no matter how much we have and not have, the emptiness of our consumption left us still missing something…. Yet we are in the dark or asleep, unable to correct or fix  our hunger to be something important to someone…… to be noticed…..What is the point of me being here? Right……?

Isn’t that what we all want to be noticed and told we are important enough to love?….. Well, you are noticed and very important to the Creator….. He made us all with all unique crafted personalities to be fitted together in a great mosaic temple of God….. A spiritual house….

You are never out His sight or plan….. He never turns His love off…..He always is calling us home, calling us higher and deeper to Him…. So that we might know the width and length of His love in Christ……

The gentle awakening to the open door to heaven, Jesus Christ. The Door that opens to our faith. The Door opens to a realm which we never could grasp because of our sleepful state. But now as we walk through the Door cleansed of our sin because of grace….. as we walk through carrying no extra weight…. being free of our guilt of never measuring up to the standard of God…. He then calls us His own and starts raising us all together in a spiritual house of God.

He slowly takes the sleep from our spiritual eyes so that we see to fall in love with this great God…. He blesses us with His awakening slowly as the sun rises in the east. First, we see the darkness lighten a little, then greater and greater is the light that He bears through us by His Spirit.

Jesus spoke in Matthew 13:43, Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear!

Sometimes we miss the plan of the Lord or His working in us because we are still sleeping or in the dark on His motive or purpose for some of the trouble that comes our way. The Holy Spirit consistently blows out the darkness in our thinking and ways which are dead at the cross with Christ Jesus…. so  we awaken to a greater degree of Christ in us, our only hope of glory. He awakens us to His endless love. The Eternal Living Water that flows Life through us and out to others….

The more we die to our self centered ways in Christ, the more we awaken in His realm or kingdom….. We are now alive in our spirit, where His Spirit dwells in us. This is where His Life Eternal is!

The Spirit of God loves to sanctify our house or dwelling so it is fit for the King of Kings. He is gentle as we are young and as we grow in the Spirit, He is ruthless.

O Father, when we awake and arise, may You only see Your Son, our King’s image with in…. May You see His beauty through us. Thank You for the glorification of Your Son through Your children. We love You and thank You for being the greatest God that loves us through everything.  May we never let go of You as You never let go of us.

We bless You forever and ever for Your Love has never failed us! May we allow Your love to fill us so that our love never fails YOU. Father, I ask to keep us close in more grace so we abide in Your Son. Father, restore what has been lost in the testimony of Your Son, Jesus Christ. Father, it is written for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea, ( Habakkuk 2:14).  Fully awaken us to You and the power of Your Word, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

My heart is steadfast,of God, my heart is steadfast;

I will sing and give praise.

Awake, my glory!

Awake, lute and harp!

I will awaken the dawn.

I will praise you, O Lord,among the peoples;

I will sing to You among the nations. For Your mercy reaches unto the heavens, and Your truth unto the clouds. 

Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let Your glory be above all the earth,

( Psalm 57:7-11.)

Selah!