WHAT WE SAY

We say we have eternal life. But are we living out of that life or are we living the old, the self life? Paul said, “To live is Christ and to die is gain”.

I have no former life to draw from, to obtain anything from, for I died with Christ and He is my now life. It is from that life, which is the life of the Spirit, which is now within which I live, move and have my being. It is from that life that I have and obtain my moment to moment living.

Anything other than that is a waste and void of Life.

If we are not speaking truth one with another I must ask, “what is it we are speaking”? Jesus said, “I am the Truth…”, so if we are not saying what He is speaking is it of the truth?

Out of Truth we were born from the highest. Another way to say it is, “out of the mountain that is God we came to be”.

Truth trumps every lie. When seen as it is Truth will change you.

It is time, well past time, to say to the mountain be removed. It does not say pray to the mountain, it says say to the mountain. Not merely speaking mere words to the mountain while wishing it would move but speaking without doubting. When we keep asking for the same thing over and over again we've never gotten the revelation of having received. The proper sequence is ask, believe (know without doubt it's yours to have), receive it (by believing it is your to have) and then it will be done as you say. The thing we're asking for is only received through the revelation of having that for which you have asked. Only when you have that revelation will your mouth be filled with the Word that is out of faith to speak.

So first you have got to be in a place where there is no doubt. That place is within the mountain of God for "there it will be provided". Go to the mountain; spend time within the mountain until you are one with Truth, complete within Truth, made whole within Truth and when the release is given to speak, when your mouth is filled with the Living Word, then say to the mountain “be removed!”

Your responsibility is over after you have spoken the Word out of Truth. Now the Spirit of Truth establishes (in earth as it is in heaven), makes manifest the Truth as you have spoken it. The manifestation is not so much so you can have stuff but to strengthen your trust that what you say you can have and thereby glorify the Father and the Son. 

HAVE THIS MIND

Phil 2:5 – “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.”

                The past tense, “was also in”, is speaking to Jesus as the man who gave up the glory that was previously His and lowered himself in all humility to the state of fallen man (though a sinless man). But the apostle’s command was, “let this mind be”. This mind, the thinking, the constant focus on the absolute of things – the word of the Father’s love forever settled in the heavenlies and the Spirit’s leading here on earth to the mission to be accomplished.

                The NASB says, “Have this attitude in you which was also in Christ Jesus.”

               

                In both instances the word “in” has the meaning of within some whole, within some defined space. I tend to think first of humility for if we have not an attitude of humility we are tempted to exalt self, to seek the praises of men, abuse and misuse the gift(s) given.

                Jesus said, “I did not come to be served but to serve”. We must be baptized, fully immersed in that attitude. It becomes a bit easier to realize and act in accord with that attitude if we will come to understand that all we have has been given as a grace gift, an undeserved life coupled with, “Without me you can do nothing”. We can’t even think as He is now thinking unless we remain in Him, within His word.

               

                If not within Him, drawing all from Him, we remain outside and are left with nothing. However, if we are within Him who is our Eternally Living Life we can say as Paul, “I can do all things through Him Who is my strength”.

I HAVE A PREPARED PLACE

Heard these words and began to write:

I HAVE A PREPARED PLACE

                “Let it be known that before you were in your mother’s womb I had a place within Me prepared for you. No other can take that place for it is prepared for you only. I am now calling you into that place for it is there that you will be endowed and endued with all that you need to accomplish and establish what I have prepared for you to bring into this earth; that which is of the new earth. Trust Me in this endeavor with your whole heart.

                Be no longer timid. My word is at rest in you. You just need to rest in that word. The words I spoke of you before the foundation of the earth are more real than what you see and which have been defined to you as the earth. It is now-time. Immerse yourself within My word and I will reveal myself, not as I have before but greater, higher, deeper and as My word expands you then you in turn will be expanding the Kingdom on earth just as it is in Heaven. The end product you already know and see for I have allowed you to see the end when all is put together as one.

                Understand that I do require your full cooperation in order to fulfill these things I have planned for you and so lean not any longer on your own understanding. Know this without any doubt I love you, called you according to My purpose, and will most assuredly accomplish that which I have purposed. As you’ve heard before, your destiny is sealed in Me. All My thoughts toward you are good.

                You will know when you step into a new place that it is of Me because you will be full of peace there. You will sense the love like never before. You will be at peace and more comfortable in your own skin than you have ever been before. I said it and I will to do it.”

ARE YOU STRESSED ENOUGH?

The news is out all over town that the USA is coming down. I ask, “Down from where?”

Down from the height of greed? Down from the height of permissiveness? Down from the height of personal liberty run amuck?  Down from the height of deception?

                Friends, you get the point. Or do you?

                All these things are down and all around people are wallowing in them. They have lost their way and gone to the deepest of the dark places because their heart is dark and there is no light of understanding in it. They have become the collective void and the collective waste.

                How can I say that? Because all I see and hear is I, I, I, me, me, me, vanity of vanities.

                Christians – wake up!!

                You have been eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and your GLUTTONY has resulted in a fatness that is killing you and even worse it has separated you from the free gift of God.

                How can you say that? Been there, done that and bought a whole closet full of ever larger T-shirts. When I put my eyes back where they belonged my soul was washed and refreshed and I was given the “eyes of understanding” (it’s called being one with Him).

                REPENT!  REPENT!  REPENT! The KING AND HIS KINGDOM ARE WITHIN YOUR MIDST!!

                The purveyors of doom and gloom are running wildly through the church and not without reason although many of them are of the world and chasing its riches (wolves in sheep’s T-shirts). Warnings are all around that truth is not being spoken (especially with any authority) and in some places in the USA is actually forbidden to be spoken. Now just who do we think (if we still can) is behind all the lying, all the deception, all the chaos and all the crises?

                Where have all the righteous gone, long time passing? Driven by insatiable desires they have forsaken the Way and allowed, yes allowed their freed soul to be once again enslaved to those desires which are void of life, liberty and happiness and property.

                Why do we keep looking to the things of earth to satisfy our soul? If we are looking for love there we are looking in the wrong place. The things of the earth will not love us back, nor can they. They are of the ground and whatever is of the ground is dirty, grimy and void of life.

REPENT!  REPENT!  REPENT! The KING AND HIS KINGDOM ARE WITHIN YOUR MIDST!!

Look to the highest – “Looking to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith”.

You say, “I tried that and look what I got. Ridicule, persecution, bankruptcy, divorce, sickness, disease of every kind.”

The only way I can respond to that is you were looking to the wrong Jesus. You were looking for the easy way. You were looking for a sugar daddy that would satisfy all your wasteful desires. They all left you where you reside now, calloused, broken, enslaved and sick. In simple terms your motives were not right. You never even gave the first full on attempt to “work out your deliverance in fear and trembling”. You are where you are because you are where you be. “As a man thinks in the depths of his soul so is he”.

You say, “But the preacher laid hands on me and said if I accepted Jesus I would be rich.” All I can say is that if the preacher was not making you a disciple of the Kingdom way he did not tell you the entire truth and was speaking of a different Jesus because Jesus said,

“REPENT! THE KINGDOM IS AT HAND!”

In another place He said, “The Kingdom is within you”.

That means it is within your reach. When we humble ourselves and turn to Him He gives authority to take it, to eat it, to become one with it and to henceforth live it. If we join our person, our new self with Him we become one with Him in spirit and that is the spirit of liberty.

He is a good Father and wants to give good gifts to us but He will not give anything that will cause us to be separated from Him. He wants, and because of what He did for us even demands that He be first place within our life and our living. Sounds selfish of Him some would say. Not so, He has vowed to and within Himself (we call this the covenant) to protect us, even protection from our own self. Now that sounds like a good Father to me.

All He is requiring of us is that we turn to Him regardless the need and ask and believe without doubting we have that for which we’ve asked of Him and from within His Kingdom it will come forth.

SO NOW, YES RIGHT NOW IT IS UP TO EACH OF US TO TURN, REPENT FROM STINKING THINKING, AND THE KINGDOM WILL BE REVEALED. As WE continue in the Light of His radiant splendor we will become all too willing to burn ALL those old stinky, grimy, gritty T-shirts.

WHEN IT'S HARD

When it’s hard to practice, practice anyway. When the pain says quit, practice anyway. When the going gets rough, practice anyway.

When it’s hard to understand, keep seeking. When you lose your way, keep searching. When it won’t budge keep knocking.

                When life is hard, keep on keeping on. When there are no answers, keep on asking. When the path is unclear keep on anyway.

                Practice what? And what for? Is it not easier to resign to the circumstances and just quit?

                “I thought when I became a Christian life would be easy.”

                “I thought when I became a Christian I would be loved.”

                “I thought if I forgave I’d be forgiven”.

                “I thought I would never get sick again”.

                “I thought I would experience a do over and it would be easier”.

                Where is the reality? Is there a reality I do not know of? If so, how can I find it?

                Well…it’s hard, really hard because we’re taught the total opposite. Have faith, we’re told. Simply believe, we’re told.          Really?

                Well…I’m tired of being told. I want to experience. I don’t want to listen to someone else’s experience any more.

                I’ve come to know that even what I know I do not really know. I just think I know. And I’m not by myself. You who are reading may be having a similar experience.

                I’ve been made jealous, not of any person, but of their relationship with God which I so desperately want. So I guess I’ll just have to do the hard thing I do not want to do. Forsake all, crucify my way and follow Him who then becomes my Way. When I say forsake all I mean all. My knowledge is not enough. Even my humility is not enough. I want the more that I know is waiting. “Unless a man loses his soul for My sake he’ll not find it”.

I remember some time ago, I was talking to God (mostly what we do rather than with Him) and reflecting on what Jesus said, “In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.” John 16:33. My response was,” that is OK for You but what about me?” Obviously I had not studied in context and I was focused on me rather than Him.

In the first part of that verse it says, “These things I have spoken to you that in Me you may have peace.” It’s the “in Me” I was searching understanding for.

In chapter 17 we see the intercessory prayer, the High Priestly Prayer of Jesus, for the disciples then and all who would later come. In verse 3 He said, “And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you sent”. And he was sent so we may know the only true God-because He was the expressed, manifested presence in the flesh of God exhibiting on earth every attribute of the God of heavens and earth.

To know, to have a real relationship, not with a fantasy described in ink but with a living being who has invited us to live in His house, with Him and His Father. He goes on to say here and in many and varied ways that the very instant we believed we became one with Him, vs.20-21. That oneness is our new spirit, INSTANTLY one with His Spirit.

But you have to know that in His house there are rules. Rules to enter and rules to live by. Only Jesus is the door and the way. Only those who are pure of heart who after having accepted the faith to believe receive grace to enter after firstly believing, “God is a rewarder of all those who desire to know Him.” To know Him for Him not for some selfish misguided motive, but to know Him for Himself alone.

It may come to pass that once you know Him, that this world that we’re in will reject us in ways we do not now comprehend. Will we endure the hard things in order to gain Christ? Testing is on its way and it will not delay. The testing is for your benefit to prove to yourself that you have truly in Him “overcome the world”.

LOOK FOR THE SILVER LINING

Monday late afternoon as I was driving home from the office there was a large cloud in the western sky’s horizon coming out of some smaller clouds. What struck me was the bright lining on the edges of the clouds, even the largest one which was as if an explosion had occurred among the clouds and a plume of smoke was rising from them. It too had a bright lining around its edges. The sun was hidden and was going down and a slight hint of pinkish rays were seen coming over the clouds.

                I was immediately reminded of our high school graduating song, “Look for the Silver Lining”.  The part I remember most was:

“Look for the silver lining
When e'er a cloud appears in the blue.
Remember somewhere, the sun is shining
And so the right thing to do is let it shine for you.

A heart, full of joy and gladness
Will always banish sadness and strife
So always look for the silver lining
And try to find the sunny side of life.”

Now it’s Wednesday morning and the USA has indicated yet once again that the majority wants nothing to do with the Righteous One and each is so individually myopic that they cannot even see the obvious. Will the country that was once of one mind and purpose and now evenly divided fall further into the slavery of its own creation until there is no semblance of what it once was?

Has it all been for naught? Is it really over? Has the one with outstretched arms succumbed to the disease that killed other great nations? Does sin win?

I say NO! But who is the leader that God will raise? Who is the one who has forsaken all for an appointment by the King? Who is the one who speaks with the boldness of heaven the words of Life?

That ONE is US. But we must leave traditions and convention. We must repent from the evil of compromise and seek with all that we are, giving up all our possessions whether physical, soulish or spirit and be consumed in the Love Dimension.

The call is for all, and all to be that one man who will in humility and unity with one voice proclaim, declare and decree the law of the Spirit, the law of Eternal Life, Christ in you, the hope of Glory!

The SON is ever shining no matter the clouds!