As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth. I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe You sent Me. And they glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that they world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me, ( John 17:17-23).
If we remember how God had Noah built an ark for the coming Flood, we will also be wise to hear the Words of Jesus’ prayer…… as He is our Ark, our Rock of safety now.
Those words of our Lord are our Refuge. Those words are our instructions for the basis of our faith. Those words are our life to live out on this earth today….. They are our purpose. They are our goal. They are our crowning glory that we abide in…..The Word of God is our Lord Jesus Christ.
The glory of Christ in us is outstanding when we contemplate it. Our God never quits loving us. He never quits giving us His all……So He has made it available for us to give Him our all by the words of the Lord in the above scripture…. Do we see that?
The Lord has called us out of the world…. He has called us into Him and He into us…… Totally for His purpose and will…. we live that out minute by minute….As we learn Him, we live Him in our experience of His narrow road before us.
We are in the design of the Master Artist. He knows where we are to be in His next stroke of His Guiding hand……
Walking by His Spirit is not kind to the flesh of men….. but it is the best for every step we take, we take towards the map that enfolds to life eternity before His Presence.
We have been given His glory. We have been given His grace. We have been prayed and prophesied over by our Savior, who’s prayer is never forgotten…. He is the Word and His Word will always be accomplished.
This walk is not about us…..Nope…. It is about glorifying our Lord…. Showing the world how the Father loves us, even us, as He loves the Lord…..Showing the world the glory of the Lord in us, though they might not have eyes to see, but they wonder….. Yes, we are a wonder and a sign of what can happen when the Lord’s hand is upon us and His Spirit is within, when we turn to Him in repentance and belief…..We also get to experience the width, depth, height and length of His love! Come on into the Ark of God, His Beloved Son, our Lord…… Come and believe in God’s great love for men.
We were no different then the world but the Lord and His grace……Yes, but the Lord entered our lives and look what His death, resurrection and reception back into heaven has accomplished for those that believe….. Yes, see the Lord…. See the Lord, it is not about us…. It is about Him…. All about Him…. Even the last words of our Heavenly Father that are written in regards to Jesus on this earth were…. This is My Beloved Son, hear Him!
So hearing Him, as we obey our Heavenly Father, is imperative in being changed from glory to glory by obedience to obedience in knowing Him…. as we know Him, then we are in union or communion with Him…..We will walk like Him, talk like Him and have a single mind towards God, like the Lord.
There will be no separation. This union resembles when God shut the door on Noah and his family in the ark. They were with God and separated unto Him….. They lived out their faith for 100 years as Noah built the ark in obedience…. Noah lived out or proved he wanted to obey God and live a life towards Him.
Noah lived 100 hundred years building an ark as God had instructed. Life went on day after day for years…. The sun rose in the morning and set in the evening through many Springs, Summers, Falls and Winters….. So people went on living their lives. As written ignoring the man who was building an ark when there was not even a drop of rain had ever hit the earth…….
But what were the people’s reaction when they saw Noah and his family climb into the ark after all the animals? What were their actions when they started to see these black clouds forming in the sky never seen before ?
Then we contemplate on the words of the Lord in Revelation 21:5-8, Then He who sat on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And He said to me, Write, for these words are true and faithful. And He said to me, It is done! I Am the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts.
He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and He shall be My son.
But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
The Lord is sending out His word to all today….. As Noah was hammering away on the ark. The Holy Spirit is hammering away at our hearts and conscious.
What if the Lord showed us what would be the rewards of our actions?
What if every time we obey His words and commands, we see the growth of His Spirit within us… What if He showed His light illuminating us in the Spirit? Would we be more diligent to hear and obey His voice? What if we see the our souls being as the house in Bethany He chose to visit on the earth so often through the scriptures. A place where He is honored and listened. A place of love and devotion to Him and Him alone…..
Just to ponder what if’s a minute….. This is possible because….. all things are possible in God….. And if we call on His name, believe in His Son in our heart and follow in obedience, we are abiding in His Son….. What if all the agendas in men were done and all we did daily was to seek His word and seek the strength to obey, even when we will be deemed a fool? What could be accomplished by His Spirit within us…. What if we really set our hearts on prayer led life or life spent in union with God?
What if we saw all the response from heaven on our prayers…….Would we make all the more time to pray for others and know He is answering….Can we believe if we do not see? Is He a God that He should lie?….. He said anything we ask if believing we should receive….. Do we believe because we cannot see?
All is possible in the life of His Spirit, all is possible….. From the least to the great, all shall know Me, says the Lord, as written in the Gospel of John.
So let us live by His Wisdom as written in Proverbs 8:33-36, Now therefore, listen to Me, My children, for blessed are those who keep My ways. Hear instruction and be wise, and do not disdain it.
Blessed is the man who listens to Me, watching daily at My gates, waiting at the posts of My doors. For whoever finds Me, finds life, and obtains favor from the Lord; but he who sins against Me, wrongs his own soul; all those who hates Me love death.
Hmmmm…….
Now, on the flip side…… What if we could see each lie we speak against the truth- God- and men are a chain that binds us forever in eternity in the lake of fire…… unless we repent and turn to in faith to Him with all our hearts. What if every lie that we speak, we see ourselves with a shovel digging a hole for the one we lied about, but we end up in the hole! Then we are tormented hearing every lie we have spoke over and over again reminding us of our hate? With no chance of repentance? Unless, we repent and turn to Him in faith with all our hearts NOW, this is our reward.
What if every word spoken against the Lord and His creation was brought up before us now? We will be held accountable for every idle word spoken…… for the Lord said His Words are the Judge. I f we contemplate our words versus the Judge being THE WORD OF GOD! Do we think He might be biased on His Word being the Truth versus ours when we speak contrary to HIS?
What if we saw every time we judged a person, we are slapped on the back of the head? At least, we would know how evil that is, right? Right. We would remember quickly not to judge others…..We are all the same in need of a Savior and love….. What if when we point the finger, the four that are pointing back to us speak out loudly all our weaknesses or sins…. Would we stop?
If we see in the Spirit the truth of our actions toward the Lord and others, we would be slow to speak, quick to forgive and unless we want the word or action to come back on us, we would watch and guard our hearts and mouth…. Right ? Right….. We do not own our days, heaven rules in lives of men….. Time to man up is today when we hear His Spirit speak!
Maybe to know whatever we do will come back on us, in faith, in love, in kindness, in truth, in justice, in the fear of the Lord, or in God. The Holy Spirit will bless us with His expansion within us.
Now, if we are in the flesh, in hate, in covetousness, in jealousy, in rage, in idolatry, etc…. we are making our place in the lake of fire, where God’s presence is withdrawn from man’s knowledge…..Eternity is a long, there is no end. It is a good thing to have the fear of the Lord.
Remember what is written in Galatians 6:7-8; Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, for that he will reap. For he who sows to the flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.
If the people in Noah’s day saw what a rain cloud was or a storm or a flood, what would have happened?…. Would have they changed their heart towards God?
If we are given the sight of the unseen realm in the Spirit would we admit our darkness and come to the Father, through His Son and know we need forgiveness from Him and others. No denying how we need a Savior.
We have been given this opportunity here and now to grasp on to the Lord and never let go of Him…. We have been given the truth in the word of God as to what will happen to every man, a believer in Christ Jesus as well as a non-believer….
We can choose to be sanctified by the Truth of God, His Spirit now. We can allow the beautifully prayed Words of our Lord be fulfilled in us…. or…not..as the Word of God warns over and over again, for example as written in Galatians 5:16-26: I say then:walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, ad the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders,drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,meekness, self-control. Against such there is no law. ( Those that choose to live by the Spirit are living a higher way than the law.)
And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
Remembering the words of Jesus written in John 17:21…… that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.
We have the strength of God within us to complete our life walking by the Spirit of God and acting from the Spirit’s instruction…. We also have the perception of our actions and thoughts to reflect our God or not…. We have been given the spiritual discernment to walk this life of faith. We also know the fruits of others so we may pray for all so we all may be one with the Godhead….
We learn quickly what brings death to us and others and what will bring the resurrected life of Christ in us and others…..We may be fooling ourselves, well, a little…..we all know the truth of ourselves….but nothing is fooling our God, who sees all and knows all.
May be if we saw our words as seeds and our actions as gates and fences. The seeds are planting hope and faith in others as they hear and our actions, as gates and fences, build the strong foundation of love for them …. or we can plant seeds that will fall void in the hole we think we are digging for others because of no light only darkness. We end up in the hole and the fences and gates are actions that will bind us in that horrible pit.
So we choose humbly to bring a beautiful bouquet of fragrant flowers of Christ to our Lord and Heavenly Father. Let the Godhead see a magnificent garden of life and life abundantly as His words are building and constructing our lives and others.
Sooooo….. I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me, ( John 17:23).
It is all about Him in us, through us and from us as He gathers more in Him….. So our love can be made perfect……( mature). We can speak all the truth in love and love all in the truth in Jesus’ name.
As it is written Christ in us, our only hope of glory…….Lord, we want all of You in us. Lord, You make all things new.. We walk out our newness of life because we died with You on the cross and listen to the Spirit of God alone. We thank You the Word of God, the Seed of Life and Hope for us. In You may we pour forth out of our mouth Your life of Your Word and Your Spirit be our hands and in our actions…. so that You are glorified by us and we are glorying in You.
May all our lives glorify Your name, Your presence and Your great love!
We Love You! May You be pleased with the gardens of our heart and lives!
Selah! What is the meaning of giving the Lord our all? Didn’t we die with Him on the cross? Does He want us before the spiritual death of us on the cross? What of our all pleases the Lord?
