Saturday, September 29, 2012
Self sufficiency is not a God attitude. Dependence on God our Father is.
John 5 :15 the son can do nothing of himself unless it is something he sees the sees the Father doing.
everything Christ had was given by the Father. it was in dependence on His Father that He did anything. self sufficiency is not a god attitude.
I need to receive all from the Father to complete and do His will. I need to receive His deep wisdom, His directive, his power, authority His skill. His love. to do all He wants me to do.
Adam received every step of development and thing from His Father whether small or great. every benefit and blessing came from His Father much like Christ who also received all things of His Father, who walked hand in hand and step in step with His Father growing into His fullness and stature even dying on a cross in obedience.
the tension is not whether we receive all things from god and not work or work and not receive from God.
we receive all things from God and work and develop with God at every step receiving grace and peace to grow and develop as we depend also on Him everything comes of God Our Father is the source. but everything comes through God - our Father is also our fuel, our sustenance, how can we live but to depend on Him at every step?
The Wisdom of Love
love is wise. when u have your heart full of love you then can better think and conceive the thoughts of god for God is first love. love prepares the heart to receive wisdom and in the prepared posture of love, wisdom comes to guide loving responses. Both are God but one takes precedence.
He thinks from love and compassion. His wisdom is subject to the over-riding intent and purposes of love.
love is wise for it is patient and refrains to judge prematurely and avoids errors in judgement through compassion.
even justice is subject and tampered with His love. for "mercy triumphs over judgement" and in His judgement He remembers His love His faithfulness His covenant His mercy. His mercy lasts a thousand generations but anger is but a mement. the highest revelation of God was the mercy seat during a dispensation when judgement was the ruling order of that covenant.
wisdom is an expression of love. Wisdom conforms the world and shapes it to the standards of love and relationships over things tasks and objects.
things tasks and objects are arrayed deployed and arranged by wisdom to produce love's directives and goals.
God looses His counsel and wisdom and strategies to those who would act and rule with His heart. the secret counsel of the lord is with those who fear, love worship, Him. the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom but love is its end thats how the bible ends with reconciled love.
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Abiding in the Father's love
loving the Father is the greatest command and greatest goal of Christianity. even as the Son loved His father and did all things in love with and for him.
the commands, the law is only fulfilled by love. for love is the command. the royal law is love. all works are to be but an overflowing response to the love of god. every other work is childish work. love is manly work, mature work.
Jesus fulfills His commands in us by loving us to fullness. we love for god has fist loved us. God has immense love for His creation. the Father loves us even as he has loved His son. He wants to be one with us. He wants perfect reconciliation and intimacy and the cost that was paid for that is infinite. the cost of the sacrifice of Christ. the punishment of Christ.
it is not merely knowledge of reconciliation that counts but the deep and growing experience of intimacy in His presence that makes love real, not only to the mind but to the heart. for it is from the heart that our lives flow from. any real change and transformation starts at our core of our beings - our hearts.
abiding - keeping in the deep experience of the love of Jesus and the father is therefore the greatest command. He wants to pour out His love on us more than we want to receive His love. for it is only by His love that we can live right. only by His love can we be transformed into love and fulfill the great command and upholds the law.
he desires that we live right, that our lives be expressions of His love. he desires our love to be mature love.
the only way that love can mature is in the ever greater experience and revelation of the mighty love of God our Father
only this can give us the power to leave the world - the love of our father. if anyone loves the world the love of the Father is not in us. but if we keep experiencing the love of the Father, the love for the world will be left behind for a higher and greater joy.
Love must grow. love must increase and expand to take in all our spirit soul mind and strength yes filling our bodies which are to be temples of living Spirit.
all that matters is to receive and give out His love- for love is mighty. in love the power of the spirit is released. acting and responding out of love is the key to the release of the power of the spirit. 1 cor 13 the higher way that releases 1 cor 14 the gifts of the Spirit. the Spirit is a Spirit first of love (the fruit of the Spirit is first love) and manifests Himself when we love as He loves. when we consent to believe in love to know love and to act in love to practice love in practical tangible ways then is His Spirit activated alive and flowing in our lives.
in love we bond with God. in love we are made perfect in oneness with the nature of God. this love is Holy. it is incompatible with a flesh led life. we will never know how deep this love goes if we hold dear the pleasures of flesh and sin.
Let us be made one with God in love. to be filled with compassion. this is the highest order.
the commands, the law is only fulfilled by love. for love is the command. the royal law is love. all works are to be but an overflowing response to the love of god. every other work is childish work. love is manly work, mature work.
Jesus fulfills His commands in us by loving us to fullness. we love for god has fist loved us. God has immense love for His creation. the Father loves us even as he has loved His son. He wants to be one with us. He wants perfect reconciliation and intimacy and the cost that was paid for that is infinite. the cost of the sacrifice of Christ. the punishment of Christ.
it is not merely knowledge of reconciliation that counts but the deep and growing experience of intimacy in His presence that makes love real, not only to the mind but to the heart. for it is from the heart that our lives flow from. any real change and transformation starts at our core of our beings - our hearts.
abiding - keeping in the deep experience of the love of Jesus and the father is therefore the greatest command. He wants to pour out His love on us more than we want to receive His love. for it is only by His love that we can live right. only by His love can we be transformed into love and fulfill the great command and upholds the law.
he desires that we live right, that our lives be expressions of His love. he desires our love to be mature love.
the only way that love can mature is in the ever greater experience and revelation of the mighty love of God our Father
only this can give us the power to leave the world - the love of our father. if anyone loves the world the love of the Father is not in us. but if we keep experiencing the love of the Father, the love for the world will be left behind for a higher and greater joy.
Love must grow. love must increase and expand to take in all our spirit soul mind and strength yes filling our bodies which are to be temples of living Spirit.
all that matters is to receive and give out His love- for love is mighty. in love the power of the spirit is released. acting and responding out of love is the key to the release of the power of the spirit. 1 cor 13 the higher way that releases 1 cor 14 the gifts of the Spirit. the Spirit is a Spirit first of love (the fruit of the Spirit is first love) and manifests Himself when we love as He loves. when we consent to believe in love to know love and to act in love to practice love in practical tangible ways then is His Spirit activated alive and flowing in our lives.
in love we bond with God. in love we are made perfect in oneness with the nature of God. this love is Holy. it is incompatible with a flesh led life. we will never know how deep this love goes if we hold dear the pleasures of flesh and sin.
Let us be made one with God in love. to be filled with compassion. this is the highest order.
Friday, September 21, 2012
Is it safe to ignore the bible and rely solely on revelations from the Holy Spirit?
John 14:16
But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
John 14:23
Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
The Spirit's main means of operation is through the written word of God, and the word of God is ineffective apart from the empowerment and speaking of the Spirit of God.
Does God move in visions and dreams and revelations when we don't read our bible, does He act when we disobey His word? Undoubtedly He does.
Does this mean it is safe for us to ignore understanding the word of God and dilligent study of His ways?
When we give time and effort to diligent study, and endeavour to obey the word of God to the best of our ability, we are providing a template, a framework, materials in the form of ideas for His Spirit to speak, enlighten and move.
It can be compared to building a highway or an aircraft landing strip for the Spirit of God to speak and move in power and deliver gifts to us, rather than having Him try to hack through the swamp of the multitude of our fleshly thoughts in order to operate. The word of God gives us wise counsel and ministers life, provoking change, repentance, obedience. Obedience and submission to the word of God opens channels of peace and quietness in our hearts by which we can hear Him speak and can then obey further, opening channels for breakthrough and for the empowerment of the Spirit to function.
The word operates as a template, a pattern, a promise, an God-born idea that is planted in the heart, which the Spirit then comes to make experiential, through an encounter with His presence. The word teaches us what Jesus is like, what His motivations are, What His person feels and sounds like, what He values and what He hates, but the Spirit comes to give us a real contact, heart to heart relationship with Him and a real experience of infilling.
How do you know what spirit you are opening yourself up to apart from the word of God who tells you what Jesus is like? It is our agreement with the word of God that the Holy Spirit then uses to make us into a temple of the living God by filling you with power and coming in to speak with you, to empower you and to live the Christ life within you. The Spirit also empowers and causes the word of God to come alive in the first place.
What pattern does the Holy Spirit come to fulfill in us?
It is the pattern, the ways of living, it is the heart values of Jesus as revealed in the written word of God that the Holy Spirit comes to make flesh. The pattern of Christ, as revealed in the word of God, revealed through the Spirit.
Ps 119:97 Oh, how I love your teachings! They are in my thoughts all day long. If I could count the number of your thoughts they would overwhelm me. Thank God for His word, and thank God for the glorious operations of His Spirit which are one.
But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
John 14:23
Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
The Spirit's main means of operation is through the written word of God, and the word of God is ineffective apart from the empowerment and speaking of the Spirit of God.
Does God move in visions and dreams and revelations when we don't read our bible, does He act when we disobey His word? Undoubtedly He does.
Does this mean it is safe for us to ignore understanding the word of God and dilligent study of His ways?
When we give time and effort to diligent study, and endeavour to obey the word of God to the best of our ability, we are providing a template, a framework, materials in the form of ideas for His Spirit to speak, enlighten and move.
It can be compared to building a highway or an aircraft landing strip for the Spirit of God to speak and move in power and deliver gifts to us, rather than having Him try to hack through the swamp of the multitude of our fleshly thoughts in order to operate. The word of God gives us wise counsel and ministers life, provoking change, repentance, obedience. Obedience and submission to the word of God opens channels of peace and quietness in our hearts by which we can hear Him speak and can then obey further, opening channels for breakthrough and for the empowerment of the Spirit to function.
The word operates as a template, a pattern, a promise, an God-born idea that is planted in the heart, which the Spirit then comes to make experiential, through an encounter with His presence. The word teaches us what Jesus is like, what His motivations are, What His person feels and sounds like, what He values and what He hates, but the Spirit comes to give us a real contact, heart to heart relationship with Him and a real experience of infilling.
How do you know what spirit you are opening yourself up to apart from the word of God who tells you what Jesus is like? It is our agreement with the word of God that the Holy Spirit then uses to make us into a temple of the living God by filling you with power and coming in to speak with you, to empower you and to live the Christ life within you. The Spirit also empowers and causes the word of God to come alive in the first place.
What pattern does the Holy Spirit come to fulfill in us?
It is the pattern, the ways of living, it is the heart values of Jesus as revealed in the written word of God that the Holy Spirit comes to make flesh. The pattern of Christ, as revealed in the word of God, revealed through the Spirit.
Ps 119:97 Oh, how I love your teachings! They are in my thoughts all day long. If I could count the number of your thoughts they would overwhelm me. Thank God for His word, and thank God for the glorious operations of His Spirit which are one.
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