STRUGGLED ENOUGH?

I’m impressed to write this to all those who are struggling with an “old” vs “new” mind-set. The “old” keeps saying that you are a sinner because you are not “perfect” in your thoughts or actions. The “new” in a small still voice is saying, “I died for that and I’m here, right now to silence that contrary voice.”

The only way a baby grows is by beginning to suckle on the breast of its mother. That requires a closeness unparalleled in this world, the mother giving that which she has and the baby receiving from the mother. Soon it comes that baby is ready for more solid, yet soft food. Again, the mother provides that which the baby receives and takes. And so it is with growing physically. To grow we must eat.

So, in like manner we who have believed, in no way, by any definition are immediately fully grown upon first believing. We have just merely been given the free and permanent access through the Spirit of Eternal Life to the greater and eternal things. So, God, to grow us up within the Son of His Love, Christ, sends to us the Spirit of Christ Jesus Who then teaches and trains us within the Word of Truth in Christ the whole of Truth to lead our soul into union with His soul.

In America, the Spirit will lead to the Bible as our starting point. We need to let our eyes feast upon the Word of Life which is Jesus. He is also called the Bread of Life. Eat it, chew it, digest it until it sustains you with the Life within it. Then you will come more and more to understand.

We will only grow as we eat of the Heavenly Bread of Eternal Life. We will only be trained in the way we should go by the Holy Spirit. The world being without the Spirit of Truth cannot and therefore will not teach or train us in the ways of Christ in God.

As we grow up into the Way of our Lord and walk within the teaching and training we’ve received from the Holy Spirit there will be times that we make mistakes. This is especially true for those who did not receive the Word of Truth until they had many years of training in the world’s ways.

However, the Good News is that mistakes and even ignorance do not ever separate us from Jesus. Love’s Anointing that we’ve received never leaves nor forsakes. In short you can never lose that which is given of God Himself. It’s called grace, the favor of God.

Trust the love of God. He has separated us from the world. Believe it to receive and take it. And by the “way” you will make less and less mistakes if indeed you’ve taken and keep on taking of the life that God freely and continually gives in Christ Jesus.

DIVINE LOVE

    The love of God has no competition and no competitors. The love of God is God giving of Himself. God is love (1 John 4:8). That is His nature, divine eternal love.

                Jesus is the expressed divine love of God sent to reveal His Father’s eternal abiding love into the world that He made because He loved the world He made so much. John 3:16.

                The blood of the Son of mankind was then and is now the evidence of God’s love for All that He made. Christ’s sacrifice of Himself redeems all from an eternal separation from the Father of All things eternal.

                The Holy Spirit was poured out of the Father’s love through the only begotten Son, Jesus upon all flesh in order that those once separated would now be conformed to the image and likeness of His Son within Himself thereby partaking of His divine nature. Proverbs 1:23, Isaiah 44:3, Ezekiel 39:29, Joel 2:28-29 and Acts 2:17-18.

                We accept all the above and that opens the door to our heart to receive a spirit like the Son of God. We call this belief. However, we would not have this belief if it were not for Jesus giving us of His faith to believe. Ephesians 2:8.

                Jesus said, “All that the Father has is mine and I give all that I have to you.” The only requirement to obtaining all that is given us is to simply believe that it has already been given because it is the Father’s will that we have it.

                It’s called salvation. It is a new and lasting beginning of a relationship with the Heavenly Father that was planned long ago, even before the foundation of the earth.

                Mankind was conceived in divine love and made to be an image and likeness of divine love in the earth. Genesis 1:26.

                Therefore, my friends, follow the Son’s lead and abandon the ego by offering your spirit, soul and body as a living sacrifice to love. In this Way you will most assuredly encounter the true love of your life.

NO COMPROMISE

There is no compromise in the Kingdom of Heaven (Spirit of God). Everything is pure, perfect and Holy. If we approach the "Lord's prayer", with the same attitude as we reverence the Lord then we would approach too this prayer that Jesus gave the disciples in all humility, honesty and awe and respect. And what is prayer?

                Prayer is 1st the Way that we come into the Presence of the King which is to empty self of self motives and realize that apart from Christ Jesus we can do nothing on our own out of self. He is the door to the Way Everlasting.

                Secondly the path is Christ. He does not merely lead us to a path. He is the path and the Holy Spirit is more than willing to guide us along this path which is the path to and of Truth, again it is Jesus. The path is the path that leads to Eternal Life, which is God Himself. The scriptures teach us that Jesus is The Life Giving Spirit and no one comes to the Father but through Him.

                You will know when you are in His Presence because therein is no fear at all only unconditional love. There is no compromise within His love where you see Him as He is and are changed.

                If you are praying, "Your Kingdom come" know when it does come it comes without any compromise of the Truth, which is Christ.

TRUTH IS ETERNAL, THE ETERNAL NOW

              Jesus said, "I AM the way and the truth and eternal life." and "I will ask the Father and He will send the Spirit of Truth to You."

              Paul said, "He who is joined with Christ is one spirit with Him." Little by little, line upon line of the truth we are changed through this mystical joining with the truth which is Christ Jesus Himself. So then if you love the truth you love Him for that is who He is.

                In Ezekiel 36 and 37 The I AM WHO I AM says He will put His spirit into His people to hear and obey His statutes, His instructions, His commands, His ordinances, and thereby instill justice. He also says that it is not for our sake that He does this but for His name's sake, His purpose and His end.

                When we see any truth know this, that we have seen Jesus and we need to immediately take hold of it (Him) and walk in it (Him) because it is of Eternal Life (Him). That little preposition -of-, do not pass by it so quickly in the future because it means something is joined with something. Of Christ means out of His being and coming toward or into something/someone else. And you will never speak of that something but in the present tense ever again because once established it remains ("I will never leave you or forsake you.").

                I am of the considered opinion that to see Him as He is we will be changed and therefore each time we see (which includes hearing, smelling, touching, tasting) Him in any aspect of His Divine Nature it is immediately imparted to our soul to be made one with His spirit and we are forever changed.

FULL DISCLOSURE

Would it not now hold true that if I and others like me are one with the Lord and the Father that we have been mislead to believe that our God is hidden from us? Another lie uncovered.

                John 14:21 - Jesus says that those who love Him, and thereby keep His commands, He and the Father will love that one and will reveal, disclose, show, manifest to him "Myself". When Jesus said this He was speaking of something in the future after His death, burial and resurrection. Well, the future is now and He brought us into the now to ever be our future when He revealed Himself and we realized we are not of this world but from the Highest place . What is this Highest place? What is this now? It's the Oneness we have with the Father and the Son in the ever present now.

                On February 2, 1981, while silently crying out to the Lord, Jesus disclosed Himself to Me in the passenger seat of my car, and as I am prone to say, like a jillion tiny high intensity lights in the form of a man, and spoke these words, "I've been here all along", that shot through my right hip and diffused through my whole being, spirit, soul and body thereby making me one with His words. I now have come to know that to be full immersion into Him also known as the baptism.

                Paul, in his letter to the Ephesians said that the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ has blessed us with every spiritual blessing within the heavenly realms within Christ according to His choosing us within Him (Christ) before the foundation of the world so we would exist blameless in His presence within unconditional divine love.

                Peter said in his 2nd letter that the divine power has granted us all things that pertain to eternal life and reverence unto God that we would come to the fullness and completeness that comes from being one with the divine nature.

                We come to know Him and in so doing we come to know who we are within Him. The Father said that we would be holy because He is holy. Because of what Jesus has provided it now is that we be holy. The revelation of that only comes as we seek Him for who He is and His purpose, not ours. If we come to Him to get from Him something not provided in Him we err and are truly "missing the mark". He is now and ever will be all that we now or ever will need for within Him the fullness of the Godhead dwells forever.

                It is difficult to cast off old ways of thinking, but not impossible. Therefore be like Paul who said he put off the past as worthless and forged ahead to know Christ even as Christ knew him to be. We call it "Oneness". Christ Jesus calls it I AM.

WHAT A GIFT

Many are those who are occupied at this season each year with shopping for gifts for those they love or those who they want to do something special for. Time and money, in most cases well spent. However, there are other gifts that do not require money.

                You've heard it said, "It is better to give than to receive." There is a lot of truth in that. However, if one has not received first what does he really have to give? We've all been given life. the whole world is free of the former way if they would but take it. Few are they that have pondered that point and fewer still who inquire as to where this gift of gifts has come from.

                Those of us who call ourselves "true believers" have not only inquired, but have come to know the gift of life and that the true gift is a person. His name is Y'shua (Jesus in English) which means God is deliverance/salvation and through this gift access to the source (the Giver) of all life can be found and received and taught how to live the life He gives.

                The most wonderful thing is we can have this life just for the asking. Once we have it, we come to find that it is so much more than we ever thought or imagined because this life is not only everlasting but truly infinite. The more we seek of this eternal life the more we find. The more we ask of this eternal life the more receive.

                The more we "feed" on this life the more we grow and the stronger we get to live in accord with what we've been given. You will become addicted to this life, which to coin a phrase, "is the Good Life".

                Is there some special way to ask for this life? Yes, there is. Answer the calling, the drawing to your source, your maker who is always available and ever ready to bring you into His goodness to see, to hear and to know Him and the special things He has for you.

                He has promised that if we ask of Him for anything we need, not from Him but of Him, He will make it come to pass. The only thing we must do is believe that what we desire of Him, (again not from Him) He has already put within your heart to ask and has prepared it, custom designed for you.

                Please note, if whatever you desire is not of Him, He does not have it to give. Oh, He does require you give Him something to enter the "giving place", which He refers to as His Kingdom, where He rules and reigns. You must give to His Son who is at the door of the "giving place" all your resentment of others; i.e. you must forgive and let go and ask Him to forgive you. When you honestly ask for forgiveness it is readily available and immediately given as if there had been nothing to forgive.

                When you enter the "giving place" you will be led by someone especially assigned to you to guide you, teach you and direct you to all that the Father of All has specifically for you. Here it is that many have pause and think of all the things they want of this world like material possessions, fame and fortune. Throw those thoughts away and;

                Think about this. The One who created heaven and earth and everything therein has drawn you to Himself because He has of His very being something specifically designed for you just because He loves you with an everlasting and unconditional love. And furthermore, if you will take of this love that He gives, with no strings attached, He will put you with others of the same heart and mind to be about establishing and expanding His Kingdom of the Rule of Love in the earth.

                Oh, and to top all that off He will make you to be just like Him. Why? So you and He and all others like the "new you" would be as One in the earth as in Heaven.

                The Bible calls this as being conformed to the Image and Likeness of Christ Jesus.

                There is no pain when He removes, only gain and gain upon gain. The mind set upon things of this world is not the mind of Christ and will lie to you to keep you bound to the ground. God says over and over again, "I will." He follows that up with, "Who then is it that can reverse it". No one, of course! People are always saying that by your non acceptance you reverse it. Not true. What God has said is always there, is always ready and waiting for you to join Him. When we join with Christ in what He has said is Truth we become one with Them, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

                His word is always present because He said it is forever settled in heaven (the spirit) and He is the one who performs it, not us. The renewed mind is little by little renewed to that which already is. As we say the Amen and the I am to the things given us we will come to know the truth and the truth will make us free in Him. Free to love unconditionally even as He loves unconditionally. Lord hasten the day when I too can fully say, "I am unconditional love", because my living is out of the unconditional love I live within.

                I used to think that I was just being honest when I agreed with the Liar that I wasn't what God said I was. I now know that to be untrue. I am everything that my Father has said and it is He working in me to bring it to establish it for His divine purpose. I quit "kicking against the pricks" and acknowledged that I be as He says I be, notwithstanding what I do. I am His child regardless of what I do. But even as it is in the world, it will not go well with me if I do contrary to what He, my Father has instructed me. Once I realized that my doing would never diminish His unconditional love for me I hungered even more after Him and His presence inside me to be the life to live.

                How is it that we keep asking for His presence and He is the God who is ever present always at once? As He has said, "Come now, and let us reason together." Now always is present. You cannot live life in the past or the future. Life can only be expressed (lived) in the now. The life He gives is the abundant life out of the eternal now. Now I be. Now I am.

                I've been given a choice to make in the now. Believe what He says of me and act like it or don't. It is my choice. Bad choices result in bad stuff happening. You can think you are doing the right thing but if it does not line up with God's instructions you are headed for a train wreck. Heed His instructions and you will always be on the right track and pointed in the right direction.

                On the mount of transfiguration God told Peter, James and John, "This is My beloved Son. Listen to Him!" He is saying the same today and every day. Get still of heart and soul. Quiet your soul and listen for the voice of the Shepherd of your soul. He will speak when you give Him your full attention. After all, He is the Father's gift to you.

MY LIFE IS IN YOU

"My Life is in you. Therefore live out of that Life. My words are spirit and they are eternal Life. You have been given the word." Believe within Him who is that Word given to you. He is the tree of Life. Eat of that tree.

                The eternal One says, "Ask of Me anything according to My will and I will give it. Seek Me and you will find Me. I have already provided all that you will ever need within Me because I AM, I AM WHO I AM."

                If you believe you are a victim, you will be. If you believe you are not delivered, you aren't. However, if you believe you are free, you will be and you will act in accordance with that belief. Therein is the proof of what you believe because out of that which you  believe you will think, say and do.

                Paul said that he was convinced that nothing in heaven of earth or under the earth could separate him from the unconditional love of God. Are we convinced of that love? Do we act in accord with that love? Have we been made one with that love? Each has to answer accordingly.

                The unconditional love of God has been deposited within each who believe that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son and that whosoever believes in Him will have become one with that love which is life eternal. If you believe you are a son or daughter of God then prove to the world you believe you are by acting out of unconditional love.

                Quit measuring yourself with the wrong measuring stick. Accept with all finality it is God who called you and has already in His own mind completed you within His Son and already conformed you to His image and likeness. God has said that what He begins He finishes. God said we would be holy as He is holy. Holiness is wholeness of spirit, soul and body.

                See now your spirit body as one with the risen and ascended Christ for it is within Him that we exist and therefore now live and move. As Paul said, "I no longer live but it is Christ who lives in me." We have been given every spiritual blessing in Christ. Within Christ there is no wanting to be because therein all is made complete in grace and truth out of righteousness and holiness of the veritable essence of truth.

                When we yield to that which has been put within us (the Kingdom) and forget about self-actualizing, self-consideration, self-improvement etc., etc. of self, self, self - then and only then can we truly see we are one with the Holy One by His doing. As we rest there, the place within Himself already prepared then the reality of that positioning becomes even more real. If that doesn't make sense to you, then know that the one who has called and continues to call you to be one with Him is awaiting your request to make Himself known to you. By the way, His name is Y'shua meaning God is deliverance/salvation. He is the true door to reality.