IS IT NOT THE PRESENT CASE?

Each of us want there to be solid ground beneath our feet. We cringe at the thought of our life suddenly  being swallowed by a "black hole". Gripped by the fear of the unknown, we do not venture there. We want "things" to remain static, explainable, constant - solid.

                Is this not where we are today? At some point on the time line we all come face to face with this present "reality". It is not just the "enlightened" who must pierce the strongholds of the present. We all hope in the tomorrow or we would simply die in the present "reality" and resign our soul to the grave of hopelessness and despair.

                I remember a time years ago when I was, even as now, "working out my salvation in fear and trembling" and reading the words of Jesus, "Rejoice, I have overcome the world!"  and my response was, "That's great for you but what about me?" I was at the time as they say "a Billy goat Christian"; always inserting the word "but" followed by "what about me?"

                That's the disease that Jesus came to make us free from - self. His tools? Blood and words. Death and resurrection life. Faith  comes by hearing truth and trust in those words will deliver us out of the "black holes" and place us into the Light of our true being.

                Out of our own mouth, words uttered by us will either  justify or condemn (Matthew 12:37). And words once released, are "out there" and reveal who we are and who we are "walking" with.

                When it is revealed to us that our heavenly Father loves us not from afar but up close and personal and is ever ready to embrace us and not only us but all of us, is it not true that when we do allow Him that intimacy we will want to pursue even more His words which are truth fused one with wisdom and unconditional love out of and for all of eternity.

                When we take what it is that we've been given out of the eternal love of our Father we will not only want to share with others we will share because that love cannot stay hidden and He will not allow it to stay hidden.

                He becomes the solid rock upon which we stand. He is the Light removing us from the black holes. He delivers us out of fear through unconditional love which love is static, constant, solid, yet to those who have experienced it they still cannot fully explain it. They can merely invite others back to the Father's House where they belong.

LOVE FROM BEYOND NOW GIVEN - TAKE IT!

      Are we not the most happy when we are in the presence of unconditional love? Does not joy flood our being when the abundance of unconditional love bursts forth out of that which we have received and freely released to others? Do we not experience the most security when bounded by unconditional love? Do we not sense our own completeness when wrapped within unconditional love?

                I do hope and pray that the above are merely rhetorical questions to you and that you have had repeated experiences with that unconditional love which comes from its true source - our Father which is in heaven who came to earth in the form of His Son and is now establishing unconditional love where He wills - which is everywhere all the time.

                Whether you call Him Father, or Lord, or Jesus, or Y'shua is not as important as that you call upon Him who said, "I AM WHO I AM". As the omniscient One He knows the depths of everyone's heart and therefore He knows when a person is calling upon Him. 

                 

                It is the call from an humble heart that gets His ear. I know from experience. I have called upon Him from deep within and never uttered a sound from my lips. He answered me and revealed Himself to me in more ways than I can count. He is always waiting for our call.

                Seek Him who is unconditional love. Ask Him for that which is eternally unconditionally free because He never withholds anything of Himself. You will find that it has already been given and is ever near just for the asking. And when you take it you will also find you will not store it away but you will gladly give that love away! It is impossible to withhold from a needy soul.

THE LIGHT HAS COME

             At dawn's first light the True light of the world returned. We who have experienced the darkness and now have the light as our life do ever rejoice that the True Light is ever present and the darkness can no longer suppress the Truth. Resurrection Life was manifest that day and He who is that Life is never going away! Celebrate Life!

                So as I welcome the new day (every day is new) I now have a new practice. I seek first to go to my Father in heaven and the Son whom He sent and partake of a break-fast like no other. I go to the table of my Lord, my Master, my King as a servant-son to dine on the Bread of Heaven and the New wine. There, knowing full well that my Father has already planned my day, I inquire as to what He desires of me.

                Often He just says, "Rest here and eat and drink. I have a few things to work out before I send you". As I rest in His presence He reveals more of Himself and I take and eat. Often I realize that something is imparted but I have no idea as to what or when it is to be revealed to those outside.

                Since He is the one who created time He alone is in control of it and just as when time was fulfilled He sent His Son so now it is the same for each of us. We are sent only in the fullness of time to those on the time line to speak and to do of the Father's good pleasure.

                So, here I sit, typing these words as they are given, my ear ever attentive to what He has given me to hear.  I often begin to run ahead and think of words to type but by the time I get to the place where I thought they belong He gives to me a different word, one much more appropriate for the message He wills to convey. Through this process I am learning to ever lean not on my own understanding, though it be of a truth previously revealed, but to stay in the moment He has prepared from which I am to take of Him.

                This is the witness I now bring. As we offer our body as a living sacrifice we will come to depend wholly upon His Life that is alive in us by His doing, that we are endued with that life in order that we  ever live out of that Life to make Him known in the earth.

PROVIDED

So many words are made to make us focus on self rather than on Him. Provision has already been ordained. We hear that He will provide rather than He has already provided. We hear you can do this, you can do that. Jesus said, "Separated from Me you can do nothing".

                If you believe something you have already been given is not available to you until some unknown date in the future I submit you will never have it to make use of it. Someone once said, "There is no someday on the calendar."

                "All the promises of God are (NOW) yes and amen within Christ Jesus." God is a NOW God, an all the time God, a 24/7 God, and is ever present everywhere at once. I heard this word several years ago when I had need of something, "Ask Me, I'll do it." It is almost as if I had to give Him permission to move on my account to manifest the provision contained within the realm of the spirit (heaven) into this realm and all I had to do was ask.

                In meditating upon this I see that when we go to Him and ask aloud for something that we know He has and is willing to give we bring to light our dependence upon Him to do whatever it is within the spirit realm of heaven to manifest it into the earth while at the same time giving Him preeminence in our life to His glory. By simply asking anything contained in His name we honor that name. His name is "I AM".

                I AM deliverance.

                I AM salvation.

                I AM whole.

                I AM eternal life.

                I AM truth.

                I AM shalom.

                I AM One.

                I AM all you need.

                Have you heard the call to be one with I AM? If so, reckon it so! If not ask, He is waiting.

WHO ARE WE WALKING WITH?

Who are you walking with?

      Many "believers" say in response, "With Christ!" or in "Jesus!". But are we really? If we are accepting anything in our soul life that is not out of God I submit to you that there is some spring cleaning to be done.

      Here as in most of the United States we adopted "Daylight Savings Time" and in order to remind us which way to turn our clocks the phrase "spring forward" is used. So Spring is here and there is some cleaning house to be done by springing forward.

      In springing forward we need to take a look at with whom we are walking daily. Why whom? Because we all have some ideas that we have adopted in our thinking that when acted out do not bring to light the Spirit that is of Christ and therefore do not reveal His character. After all that is who we are to be in this world, a representation of the Christ within.

      Jesus said, "He that is not with Me is against Me..." Uh Oh! The verse goes on further to say, "...and he who does not gather with Me scatters." Matthew 12:30. Again, uh oh!

      Jesus was talking directly to the Pharisees who were saying that He was casting out demons "by the spirit of Beelzebul (satan) the ruler of demons. In verse 35 He says, "The good man out of his good treasure brings forth what is good; and evil man out of his evil treasure brings forth evil."

      So the question is to us, "What are we considering as treasure and where is it stored?" Jesus also said, "Store up for yourselves treasures within heaven where the thief cannot come in to steal and moth does not destroy." Luke 12:33. In Matthew 6:20, Young's literal translation says,"...but treasure up to yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth more rust doth disfigure, and where thieves do not break through nor steal."

      The whole idea here is that we must guard our hearts (soul) from our most inner being (spirit)which is within Christ by giving our all (spirit, soul and body) to Him wherein there is no darkness at all, nothing to obscure our understanding of who we are within Him.

      Jesus said, "Unless a man hates his soul within this world he will not to be My disciple." The inference is such a one (who hates not his own soul in this world) will be a disciple of the world and all its lusts and ungodly passions for as the Apostle John said in his first letter, "For all that is within the world, the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the boasting of your physical well being are not out of the Father but out of the world".

      But we who believe have this promise that every promise of God the Father is yes and amen (so be it) within Christ Jesus who not only is our savior but our eternal life and within Him we have been given everything that He is right here, right now. Jesus said, "I AM the way...".

      So therefore we now in all humility receive the word of God within Christ who is our life and no longer will to walk in the former ways of the fleshly mind set but accept our soul as being made free all to the glory of God!

SMOOTH STONES

Do you have some smooth stones? What are you doing with them? I suggest that you not cast them at a brother or sister in Christ or anyone else because the giants you think you are slaying are not human, they are spirits that use humans; even righteous ones from time to time. Remember Peter and what Jesus said to him, "...you know not what spirit you are speaking from..."

                Cursing and blessing should not be coming from the same mouth. James 3:10.

                We should not be talking about the weaknesses of our brethren but building them up through prayer and supplication, through interceding for them when we see error. And yet, first look at yourself because I have found that many times the very weakness I see in others I possess myself. Get the plank out of your own eye first. And if you need to forgive the person for something said out of weakness then do so quickly. Ask that the Lord to reveal the truth of the light within them.

                If they are in Christ they have been deemed for all time and beyond forgiven by God and justified by God himself, so who are we to pass any judgment on them? Their walk may not be perfect in your eyes but they are the righteousness of God in Christ.

                If we are truly dead to the flesh in Christ how is it that we see others in the flesh? Paul's exhortation in 2 Corinthians 5:16 was, "...we from the now regard none according to flesh...". Did you see the word "none"? My bet is he meant none, no one.

Set you mine on things above, not on things that are on the earth - Col 3:2 - directing the mind to seek for things above

For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God - Col 3:3 - to conceal, to be laid up

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages
has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ - Eph 3:9

the message I proclaim about Jesus Christ, in keeping with the revelation
of the mystery hidden for long ... Now all glory to God, who is able to - Rms 16:25

God has hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge within Christ. - Col 2:3 - hidden away, secret, stored up

Yet for us there is but one God, the Father, out of (literally out of the source and extending to its impact on the object) whom the all (implied all things) and also we into (literally motion into which, implies penetration)  Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through (literally successfully across to the other side) whom the all and (also) we through (literally successfully across to the other side) Him. - 1 Cor 8:6

It would be well for all Christians to fully soak into 1 Corinthians 1:29-30 wherein Paul states that the flesh has no boast before God because out of Him (God) you exist within Christ Jesus who has come into us being wisdom from God, righteousness both also sanctification also redemption...

SIMPLY ACCEPT

Do you when your body is sick or injured in some way not do everything you know to do to get well or repaired? Why then would you give a second thought that the Lord of Creation will not do the same for His body? The good news is that it is done and awaits your acceptance. Not the acceptance of a "thing" but the acceptance of the Son for it pleased the Father that all the fullness of the Godhead dwell within Him (the Son) in bodily form - that is us, His body which is complete in Him (Colossians 2:6-10).        

                The name Jesus (Yeshua in Hebrew) means God is salvation/deliverance. He was sent by the Father to bring to those who were estranged from the Father of all back to their origin, their roots, their genesis. The Spirit was sent to restore, to effectuate, to establish the Father's sons and daughters back to the place and position where they belong - the Kingdom of God. For we were not born out of blood, not out of the will of the flesh, not out of the will of man but out of God (Elohim) the Creator.

                The Spirit is given so we can come to know who we were in beginnings. The literal Greek of John 3:16 says," All who believe into Him will not be destroyed but posses life eternal." We are one with Him by the Father's doing - (1 Corinthians 1:30).  The Father's doing was completed before the foundation of the world. Eph 4:4-6 sums it all up by saying there is one body, one spirit, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is upon all and in accord with all is within all.

                So now simply accept who you truly are and allow the self to be removed from the fleshly mind-set and be renewed in your thinking to the new and living way which has been given you out of God's unconditional love which is through Christ within you the hope of glorious eternal life.