Now as Philippians 3:12-13 states: Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that which Christ Jesus has already 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 toward the goal of the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
May the key to apprehend from the above be this verse written a little later in the next chapter starting in 4 through 9: Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice! Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Jesus Christ.
Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy meditate on these things.
The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do and the God of peace will be with you.
The End will be as the Beginning as our King has spoken in Revelation 22:12-13, And behold, I am coming quickly and My reward is with Me, to give every one according to his work……. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.
How important it is to live our life knowing we live before the audience of One. When we behold our Lord, we set our hearts on what is above and heavenly. What we live for and before is our King and not men…. We become God pleasers and not men pleasers. We learn from Him how He walked this earth bringing heaven to this earth. His purpose was the will of His Father and now our Heavenly Father.
Do we know the force of King Jesus as He went against all the force of evil to obtain us. Yes, in His eyes we are His prize….. So if we do not see ourselves as His treasure, so what……Get over it!! Believe the Truth of God, you are His special treasure and His delight. It is written and it is the Truth….. If we love Him, we will believe all He says to us through His Word and about us.
Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy, that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God, ( Hebrews 12:2).
I in them, and You in Me; that they may be perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
Father, I desire that they may also whom You have given Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world, ( John 17:23-24).
If we do not know what He says about us, read the Word!!! Learn of His love. I always say if we know the Lord, we love Him. If we do not know the Lord, we do not love Him. If we know Him, we cannot but help to love Him. We know Him by studying His Word and in prayer- communion or communication with the One who should have our audience at His slightest whisper to us.
So may we ask for the strength of the Spirit of God to quicken us with the same mind and faith of God in Christ to apprehend our Lord with the same courage He went after us and won. Now He broke the boundaries, all we have to do is believe and learn His way on this matter….. or any matter…..We move in Him and by Him and through Him and we already have won, beloved. We never let up on Him as He never let go of us- even if we were kicking and screaming…… He has never let go of us…… May we learn to never let go of Him. We may not understand what is going on but we hang on to grasp His way which is above ours…. We never let go of Him…. and ask for understanding and wisdom of His way in whatever we are experiencing from Him… He is good and we must stay the course with Him as He has stayed with us…..because we love Him. We are learning that His love never fails and growing that neither will His love through us fail.
Our heart will sometimes go sideways instead of towards Him …… Do we really pursue this great King of kings and Lord of lords or is it a ritual performance before man…. for the Lord is not fooled….. He knows our hearts and how much we desire Him and knowing Him in greater measure.
The more we know Him the more of healing is in our leaves or hands, so to speak.
He is victorious and so are we in Him….. Forget this adventure if we are still trying to walk His walk and His life in ourselves….
Hey, has any dead person achieved anything?
Then why do we try to achieve any of the godly virtues or high ways of our Lord in our own strength…. That is like pulling a huge cart of sheaves up a hill by ourselves when there is a great tractor there to carry us and our cart.
Then before we know it- the cart is gone and we are given flight in the grace of God to ascend His hill in His victory….. Beloved, this walk and life is about getting to know our faithful God through His Son by the power of His Spirit and know Him- experience Him. His life filling us up into the fullness of God which is His body filling the earth! That is us!! WOW!
His life is our life for we have risen in Him by the Spirit….. Do we believe the Scriptures? Do we believe we are His new creation and are being renewed in His image? Are we still trying to band aid, or if a guy- duct tape, the dead man of the flesh…… Remember, He restores our soul into His image not Adam’s…. Good news, Right?
God is done with the man of Adam, our old man died with Christ. He has been replaced with our resurrected King Jesus and we abide in Him……He is our Beginning and our End….. He is creation’s Beginning and End. The End shall be as the Beginning.
Yes, we must hook our trust to the tractor for the ride ascending the hill of the Lord….. He will carry us but our faith must know this and trust Him. We must know He wants to carry us through to the End….Our experience of Him and by Him is continually filling us up to overflowing.
Beloved, the End is in Him and is Him. All things are in Him and by Him and for Him as written. It is not written by ourselves or for ourselves…… It is by His grace and Spirit says the Lord in Zachariah chapter four….. Check it out- do not take my word for this- take His, look it up!
Now, King Jesus is the Alpha and Omega and the Beginning and the End…… Then the End shall be as the Beginning as I mentioned before. God has made the Lord Jesus Christ the Standard of the new creation….. We must abide in Him. If we do not understand what that means….. Go to Him….. He will be overjoyed to show any one who seeks Him and asks.
Psalm 1:3, He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth his fruit in season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.
Ezekiel 47:12, Along the bank of the river, on this side and that, will grow all kinds of trees used for food; their leaves will not wither and their fruit will nt fail. They will bear fruit every month, because their water flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for medicine.
Revelation 22:2, In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
We see the purpose of God through His symbolic language in the Beginning and His desire at the End of the age, even in the middle by the prophet…… His Son who is the Desire of the Nations and He is the Healer of the nations…… Now He in us and flowing through us brings healing to the nations including ours.
As written in John 12:32, And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself.
As Paul stated in Galatians 6:14, 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. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world- the lust of the flesh, the pride of life- is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust if it; but he who does the will of the Father abides forever, ( 1 John 1:15-17).
The new creation in Christ Jesus has set their heart upon pleasing our Father by having the faith of God in His Son which brings honor and glory to the Father and the Son by His Spirit within us. As written in 2 Thessalonians 1:12, that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Our hearts are set upon following the fragrance of Christ by His Spirit. May the fragrance of Christ follow us as His children as scriptures states in 2 Corinthians 2:15-17, For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life. And who is sufficient for these things? For we are not, as so many peddling the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ.
We are seeking His face and apprehending His grace and might to be all He has called us to be in Him. As well as having the faith to know in Him, we are complete as scriptures says—- Again, check it out…. Do not take my word for it—– My words will pass away but His words will be completely fulfilled and shall never pass away….
He sings over us today:
Oh My beloved, come away and rise with Me.
Leave the works mentality and come into Me.
I AM all you need and you shall be free in Me.
Free to be all I AM has called you to be.
Here I AM for you. As I AM was and I AM will be,
I AM stands today calling you complete in Me.
See Me and believe in all I AM has spoken to you and be in Me.
Apprehend Me, My beloved, and see what shall be.
I AM shall never diminish
in you but grow in greater capacity.
May we seek the grace to walk in the newness of the life in Christ Jesus as spoken in the scriptures in Romans…..The God of the Present who knows the End from the Beginning has called us to walk the way we have never been before…. We arise in the dawning of His Day knowing we are resting in the work He has done by drawing us to Him on the cross AND then transcending the death of Christ into His resurrected life as we are being made into the image of the Son unto the glory of the Father and the Son in the power of His Spirit. This is His new creation for He makes all things new as He has spoken in Revelation- Look it up!
We are with Him where He is, beloved, and this is a good thing to celebrate. The joy which is never taken from us is our gift today! Anything we ask in the name of Jesus Christ will be heard so our joy may be full as He has spoken in John. The knowledge of the growing revelation of the Lord in our eyes and rooted in our heart will also never be stolen away. The gates of hell cannot stand against the knowledge of the Lord growing in us for this is eternal life as written in John 17. Our End in Christ should be greater than the Beginning in our King Christ Jesus. Let Him water His Word over us and fertilize us with His Spirit of fire and grace.
Selah!
Children,
By your faith, you shall be where I AM. It is not for one and not another, oh no, My beloved. I AM desires you who believe in Me, shall be one with Me in the Father as I AM in the Father. Why do you doubt My love for you? How shall you be with Me where I AM if you do not believe?……
Come beyond My cross…… Did I AM not say, I AM the Door? The Door to Eternal Life is the knowledge of Your God, I AM. Some are content to know the cross for their own satisfaction and never venture past the cross into My known and your unknown. But alas, looms again the empty cross to enter through again to another hill…… You will climb and hit the cross on your knees and climb until the cross is bringing the knees to the ground all over again. Death brings life and life gains more life through the cross.
Come and sit awhile and learn of Me….. Your yoke is heavy and your burden is of no delight. Come and take Mine upon you. Learn of Me…. Religion never sets you free…… If You have Me, you are free indeed….. My Spirit is liberty. No man can accomplish what I AM is for you. Come and partake of Me….. I AM became broken so you may be whole in I AM….. You may remain broken but when you partake of Me……. You gain Me and lose your humanity. Know this truth, I AM has been broken for you so you may take and grow to know this day the abiding fullness of God available for you in Me.
Your eyes will see the Light before you as you follow Me. Your ears will hear the Words you have longed to hear- You are Mine so peace is yours for all eternity. You will receive the Words I AM whispers and they shall be planted as they are rooted and grounded in Me. What more could I AM have done for you to come and delight in Me?
There are many more things I AM wants to show you. Do you want to know? There is more of I AM than you could or imagine or think….. Please come and sit before Me…. Religious walk away because they do not know I AM today longs to reveal I AM with all who gaze My way.
Beware of religion for it is not of I AM. Beware of those who call to rise the flesh of men so to glorify the shame….. before your eyes. Keep your eyes on I AM. I AM shall be exalted and not the dead. Do not stand before for the rising of what I AM has condemned and destroyed on that day. What is done is done….. Those who rise the dead men, acknowledge My work is not enough. Religion never believes in Me with out denying My power.
Remember, you are now alive in Me and that is how it shall stand and shall be forever in eternity. Listen to the angels sing magnifying I AM. Did I AM say, as it is heaven it shall be on earth, for what is bound in heaven is bound in earth and what is free in heaven shall also be free in this earth……. I AM has set free those of Mine who have believed….. Oh, yes, you are free indeed. Whoever the Son sets free is free indeed.
Heaven on earth in My own transform the earth in to My throne by lifting I AM as I AM gathers all unto Me. Beware of religion for they come to I AM full and go away empty and those who are hungry are filled beyond their desire in Me.
Freedom in My Spirit is where I AM calls you to be….Held between the fire and the water, your life shall be. Oh, yah, there is more of I AM for you to explore……You are Mine. Come up unto Me….. Come up here and leave the distractions behind for I AM has planned for you more than you will ever see if you allow the religion of the world to bind thee.
My Spirit frees and lifts all those who seek Me. Apprehend Me and the Spirit lifts you full into flight of My call unto your life….. Be still and see all things that I AM has planned in Me.
Is it not written if you believe, you shall see the glory of God? Is it not written, great is the Lord and greatly to be praised and My greatness is unsearchable….. Did I AM say do not seek Me out? Did I AM not say ask and then seek and then knock…… Did I AM say your actions would be in vain? Is your King a man that I AM should lie?
All things are possible to those who believe in I AM….. That Truth as I AM was and is and shall always be for it is of Me. Come and rest and delight in Me……You are My delight and that day all shall see how I AM has loved thee with an everlasting love.
My table is set for all who believe and there is a place for you. I AM is waiting for you to enter into the presence of your King. Please come one and all and believe in Me and dine with your King. Your place will be open so you see how much I AM loves you. Come and see for there is no line and you can come right to Me…. We will meet and I AM then calls you My king and priest unto our Father….. Come and taste I AM and see I AM is good to you and for you.
SELAH! SELAH!
