Sojourn: October 2011

Monday, October 31, 2011

with the humble is wisdom.

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.

The greatness and infinitude of God's wisdom is made available to those who will say: i really don't understand. Teach me. Show me.

wisdom and knowledge increase in the man who relies on God as His teacher as His understanding.

Trust in the lord with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding.

A Godly, perfect way of living, a lifestyle of humility, service to others and profound insight is found in the man who will humble Himself before God to ask for the way to live.

To understand things from God's angle and perspective is profitable wisdom that brings success, which creates peace, not strife, and gains His blessing.

AB Simpson: Devotion on Oct 30:

God's presence blends with every other thought and consciousness, flowing sweetly and evenly through our business plans, our social interactions, our hearts' affections, our manual toll, our entire lives. Like the fragrance of a flower or the presence of a friend consciously near, and yet not hindering in the least the most intense and constant preoccupation of the hands and brain, so God consecrates all and is conscious through all. How beautiful the established habit of this unceasing communion and dependence amid and above all thoughts and occupations! How lovely to see a dear old saint folding away his books at night and humbly saying, "Lord Jesus, things are still just the same between us" and then falling asleep in His keeping.

So let us be stayed upon Him. Let us grow into Him with all the roots and fibers of our beings. He will not get tired of our friendship. He will not want to put us off sometimes. Beautiful words of the suffering saint: 44 He never says goodbye. He stays. So let us be stayed on Him.

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Joshua and Caleb - a lesson of Character and Holy Faith

Joshua and Caleb endured journeying with an embittered and unbelieving generation of people. A people who endured in a state of 40 years of pain, failure and disappointment, hardness, unbelief and anger with God.

Joshua and Caleb never allowed their own hearts to become hardened due to the failures of that generation they journeyed with, neither did the unbelief and disobedience of that generation taint the hope and bold faith which burnt in their hearts.

The focus of their hearts was single and their thoughts were continually:

Numbers 14:

8If the Lord delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

They only wanted to walk to fully please God and walk continually in the grace and acceptance of God, in obedience and faith, to be in his highest favor, to walk in the good, acceptable, even the perfect will of the Father. (Romans 12:2).

In that favor, they would possess both freedom from the lifestyle and mentality of slavery and gain the freedom, dignity, purity and courage offered to those who would walk as sons who pleased God, sons who are not ashamed to trust in God, who could obtain the promises which were given freely.

Numbers 14:

28Tell them, As I live, says the Lord, what you have said in My hearing I will do to you:

29Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness--of all who were numbered of you, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against Me,

30Surely none shall come into the land in which I swore to make you dwell, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

By faith and obedience they received that divine declaration that divine seal of God's acceptance of their faith, "none shall come into the land in which I swore to make you dwell, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun." A declaration, a promise from God which would shape decades of their life to come, and cause them to lead and impact a whole other generation of people which would also enter fully into God's promises. They became pioneers and models and leaders of the next generation through faith.

As unto the unbelief of the generation who walked who did not believe in the goodness of Jehovah, so it what they believed happened unto them, but as unto the faith of these two men who reckoned in the faithfulness, goodness and the unchanging character of a merciful, gracious and mighty God, they obtained what God promised : you shall enter into my promises, my inheritance, a plentiful land, a life of abundance, a life of holiness, faith, dignity, purity and character - a life that pleases God and feeds itself an sustains itself on the abundant mercies and joys of reliance on God's great generosity. They entered the promised land while on earth. "they kingdom come, your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven."

Deut 11:21

21That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

Thereby becoming examples of faith and offering to us a model of persistent and enduring faith who were bold to believe in the character of Jehovah - that Jehovah delights in changing and setting salves which live in bondage into freedom. That at the core of the heart of Jehovah, that the heart of God our Father longs to manifest Himself as a deliverer. The One who delivered them from the bondage to egypt - the world, to the prince of the power of that world - pharaoh and satan and delivers them into freedom, out of the darkness of spiritual bondage into the freedom and glory of His presence, His marvelous light. (1 Pet 2:9). If only men would believe in Him, seek Him and walk in that lifestyle of purity, faith and character, God would be free to manifest Himself as a Father, a God of victory and liberation, a God of love.

They dared to believe: that though they were born slaves, they would walk into the freedom of the Sons of God, though they were but mortal men, the Goodness and faithfulness of God was sufficient. They could boldly come into their heritage and full inheritance as fully mature sons, sons who were able to walk and please the Father though loyalty and trust in God and manifesting bold faith to obtain the promises which were given to them.

Never let disappointment and hurt and discouragement - even 40 years of it taint your faith, but shake it off and believe afresh in the character and promises of a God who is good and lavish in mercy a God who is faithful, a God who is mighty, whose word never fails. A God who keeps and fulfills all His word.

Joshua 21:45

Not one word of all the good promises that the LORD had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass.

So what if nobody else believes? As people of faith we are certain to be treated as strangers in a strange land. Furthermore, there is bound to be a generation who is the first to believe in God, a pioneer generation, An Abraham generation.

All the patriarchs of faith believed and did not allow the generation of those living with them to taint or steal their faith. the promises that God gives to us personally are precious. we would do well to heed them, treasure them in our hearts and train our heart to believe in them in the face of the fiercest opposition and disappointment.

The patriarchs believed and did not come into their fulfillment that was promised but God will fulfill every word He speaks nonetheless. We would do well to heed His word especially the things He Himself speaks to our hearts we would gain commendation to God through faith, if not on earth then when we depart.

The favour and embrace of the Father

The favour and embrace of the Father saying im so very proud of you, you've done so well. I asked him what did i do he said you believe in Jesus. I will continue to trust and believe. Somehow those who have grown up under that favor turn out beautiful.

The faith and power that is available to us in Christ is vast and wide like the widest expense of the sea, all things are possible to him who believes.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

A consecrated people

1 Kings 9:7-9

7Then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them, and this house I have hallowed for My Name (renown) I will cast from My sight. And Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all the peoples.

8This house shall become a heap of ruins; every passerby shall be astonished and shall hiss [with surprise] and say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?

9Then they will answer, Because they forsook the Lord their God, Who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have laid hold of other gods and have worshiped and served them; therefore the Lord has brought on them all this evil.

Nehemiah 13:26

Amplified Bible (AMP)

26Did not Solomon king of Israel act treacherously against God and miss the mark on account of such women? Among many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel; yet strange women even caused him to sin [when he was old he turned treacherously away from the Lord to other gods, and God rent his kingdom from him].

1 Kings 11 1BUT KING Solomon [defiantly] loved many foreign women--the [a]daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites. 2They were of the very nations of whom the Lord said to the Israelites, You shall not mingle with them, neither shall they mingle with you, for surely they will turn away your hearts after their gods. Yet Solomon clung to these in love.
3He had 700 wives, princesses, and 300 concubines, and his wives turned away his heart from God.
4For when Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not perfect (complete and whole) with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.
5For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abominable idol of the Ammonites!
6Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and went not fully after the Lord, as David his father did.
7Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abominable idol of Moab, on the hill opposite Jerusalem, and for Molech the abominable idol of the Ammonites.

Nehemiah 13:

22And I commanded the Levites to cleanse themselves and come and guard the gates to keep the Sabbath day holy. O my God, [earnestly] remember me concerning this also and spare me according to the greatness of Your mercy and loving-kindness.
23In those days also I saw Jews who had married wives from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
24And their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak the Hebrew, but in the language of each people.
25And I contended with them and reviled them and beat some of them and pulled out their hair and made them swear by God, saying, You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.
26Did not Solomon king of Israel act treacherously against God and miss the mark on account of such women? Among many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel; yet strange women even caused him to sin [when he was old he turned treacherously away from the Lord to other gods, and God rent his kingdom from him].
27Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil and act treacherously against our God by marrying strange (heathen) women?
28One of the sons of Joiada son of Eliashib the high priest was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I chased him from me.
29O my God, [earnestly] remember them, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priests and Levites.

will there be a consecrated generation that is pure of heart to the lord and ministers to Him in the most holy place?

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Passion

Yes I am passionate about her joy, passionate for her deliverance, passionate for God's full will being manifest in her, passionate for for her highest good.

The wonders of Spiritual Hunger

Spiritual hunger - some people have His presence living in them and have Godliness in them but their spiritual hunger makes them feel absolutely famished, as though they have nothing at all. people with high metabolisms after a full meal, wait for them for an hour and they will say: i am totally famished. we must be famished for God or risk being content with lack and a deficient faith and deficient Christianity.

It makes them feel empty inside. The hunger compels them to go out and break through in Faith for more. That how people come to the fullness of the presence of God and Godliness and faith in their lives. to be content with a measure of the holy spirit infilling is spiritual death and atrophy. hunger makes a person go out, seek out, stretch out, sacrifice and lay down all for more, until we are "filled with all the fullness of God".

There is a longing for the presence of God, a desperation that seeks Him out, a desperation that presses in for more - paul confesses: 'not that i have attained but i press on that I may know Him.' More faith, more courage, more virtue, more of God Himself manifesting in our lives, more of the obedience of Christ manifest in our lives.

When asked why His disciples do not fast, He said, because I am with them, but they will fast when I am taken away. When they were with Him they dwelt in His presence daily, they fed on Christ daily, but when the bride has her beloved her bridegroom, taken away, she starts to turn desperate for His love, (read the song of solomon for more on this) she grows faint with lack. And is revived and full of His prence, His person and glory when she goes out, seeks Him out, until she finds him. The bride in Song of Solomon says, "I will seek you out and not let go of you until I find you."

In the Song of Solomon, She learns to treasure His presence in her life through abuses, through pain, through the slackness of her former contentment. She has come back to abide in her first and only true love, the only love that will satisfy her heart by the end of the story. Let not lose our first love for Christ.

A marriage becomes slack and colorless without passion, likewise our passion for God and His presence cannot allowed be become slack let us press on for more of Him, to know Him.

Ephesians 3:18-19 "they you may know the height, depth, length and breadth of the love of Christ, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Luke 1:53 He has filled the hungry with good things
but has sent the rich away empty.

Luke 5:35
35 The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days."

Spiritual hunger - some people have His presence living in them and have Godliness in them but their spiritual hunger makes them feel absolutely famished, as though they have nothing at all. people with high metabolisms after a full meal, wait for them for an hour and they will say: i am totally famished. we must be famished for God or risk being content with lack and a deficient faith and deficient Christianity.

It makes them feel empty inside. The hunger compels them to go out and break through in Faith for more. That how people come to the fullness of the presence of God and Godliness and faith in their lives. to be content with a measure of the holy spirit infilling is spiritual death and atrophy. hunger makes a person go out, seek out, stretch out, sacrifice and lay down all for more, until we are "filled with all the fullness of God".

There is a longing for the presence of God, a desperation that seeks Him out, a desperation that presses in for more - paul confesses: 'not that i have attained but i press on that I may know Him.' More faith, more courage, more virtue, more of God Himself manifesting in our lives, more of the obedience of Christ manifest in our lives.

When asked why His disciples do not fast, He said, because I am with them, but they will fast when I am taken away. When they were with Him they dwelt in His presence daily, they fed on Christ daily, but when the bride has her beloved her bridegroom, taken away, she starts to turn desperate for His love, (read the song of solomon for more on this) she grows faint with lack. And is revived and full of His prence, His person and glory when she goes out, seeks Him out, until she finds him. The bride in Song of Solomon says, "I will seek you out and not let go of you until I find you."

In the Song of Solomon, She learns to treasure His presence in her life through abuses, through pain, through the slackness of her former contentment. She has come back to abide in her first and only true love, the only love that will satisfy her heart by the end of the story. Let not lose our first love for Christ.

A marriage becomes slack and colorless without passion, likewise our passion for God and His presence cannot allowed be become slack let us press on for more of Him, to know Him.

Ephesians 3:18-19 "they you may know the height, depth, length and breadth of the love of Christ, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Luke 1:53 He has filled the hungry with good things
but has sent the rich away empty.

Luke 5:35
35 The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days."

Song of Solomon 3:4
Scarcely had I passed them when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her who conceived me.

Phillippians 3:10-12
10 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.

12Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.

Jeremiah 29:13

You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.

Proverbs 4:13

Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.

Song of Solomon 3:4
Scarcely had I passed them when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her who conceived me.

Phillippians 3:10-12
10 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.

12Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.

Jeremiah 29:13
You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.

Proverbs 4:13
Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.

Monday, October 17, 2011

fight for your marriage.

fight for your marriage. fight for your wife until. fight the fight of faith until your.marriage receives the beauty of the kingdom heaven upon it.

every negativity and evil spirit defeated, every hurt made whole, every rough place evened out and strong and full of the father's intended design for your marriage.

brimming with life and joy and full of his blessing. what better testament to the world than marriages that reflect the romance of Christ with his bride?

we must then win this war for christlikeness in our hearts and bring the fight to our families and out into the streets of the world.

The Glory of the Father

Women are the Glory of mankind - man at its most beautiful is woman.

How much more does our heart long to know the beauty, the power and love of the Father?

The cry of the Spirit is for the presence of the Father. 'The Spirit cries 'abba, Father'. The communion of the Son was with the presence of the Father.

To have the glory and presence of the Father permanently dwell in the heart will quell every thirst.

'where dwelling in your arms is the permanent state'

i miss the days that with

i miss the days that with seemingly unadulterated passion and unhindered faith i wanted to live only for God.

Nothing seemed impossible and the possibilities of what God would do only seemed to stretch to far horizons. there was an expanding revelation of who He is.

May god renew His work in the midst of our days!

Saturday, October 15, 2011

when we know who we are in Christ everything changes

We get to throw off old identities – I’m lousy, I’m weak, ‘im bad, I would say this is part of the Chrstian experience as we struggle to find our self image in God. This is a real struggle but equally true of you is the fact that God’s almighty power dwells within you.

God shows us our weakness that apart from Him we really can do nothing this is a good thing. We know we cannot do anything apart from Him but we can do all things through His strength in us.

We have something better, something more than just that. We get to trade of the old identities and pick up a new identity in Christ. Our low self esteem – this usually results because we have been exposed to the conviction of sin through the Holy Spirits work but the problem is that the condemnation and accusation of devils tend to acerbate the problem. Through His cross we can think of ourselves through Jesus death and resurrection. We can have a new Identity

Some are going through times of trial where your weaknesses are revealed– in these times we need to know that His grace is more than sufficient, we need to focus on His grace, and His strength. While you know how weak you are, we also need to know the Strength of Christ that will rise up and upon you in your weaknesses. His grace is made perfect in your weaknesses. Refrain from seeing yourself only in your weaknesses, ask the holy Spirit to renew your mind and open your spiritual eyes as to who you are to Him – Ask Him to show you the more than sufficient strength that Christ provides, that you are His beloved, to show you who you are to Him and all that He can do through you.

He has provided the death of Christ that we can bury our old selves, so that we can give ourselves un-reservedly and passionately to Christ. He has risen from the dead so that you can be named as a Child of god.

God will chastise you, convict you, correct you and warn you. But not make you feel worthless, lifeless, spiritless, faithless. These are from the evil one. You are bad, you are filthy, you are worthless, good for nothing destroys your spirit. Your Spirit, the born again spirit man inside of you is the very thing you need to use to glorify God. Why would God want to destroy the very Spirit which he made alive, to defile the very temple which He wants to dwell in, shine in and show himself to the world through?

The Holy Spirit and God’s word says to you – you are loved, you are mighty, you are strong, yes you can with my help. I will change you, I will purify you, I will empower you. The things about you you cannot do, I will do for you. The Holy Spirit always brings the grace to do what we ourselves cannot on our own.

We get a new identity in Christ. Believe in your new God given identity. Yes I am your beloved, yes I am born again, by His blood by His sacrifice, Yes I can glorify God. Believe these things He has done for you through the cross. Keep them in your heart and mind, treasure them in your heart and speak about them continually especially if you don’t know that God loves you, in moments where He seems far away. Put off the old man and put on the new man in Christ! We can find new confidence in a new identity in Christ! Our mentality and thinking must shift to build our identity upon the one foundation stone of Christ and His cross, in other words we must begin to think of ourselves through the lens of Christ and His cross what He has done for us.

Yes we cannot do the good we want to do the evil we do not want to do, we keep on doing. But its is not the ‘us’ who does it, but it is the power of ‘sin’ which dwells in our flesh in our bodies. Paul made that distinction, he said I, the Spirit man, the born again believer want to do good in my heart. You are not evil you are born again you struggle with evil in your flesh but the way to overcome it is not to focus on it, it is to focus on what Christ has done for you and who you are through Him to take on Christ Himself and receive more grace to become like Jesus through Jesus.

The Holy Spirit comes to convict of sin, of righteousness and Christ’s victory over the evil one. We are righteous because Christ has shed His blood, because we can stand in His virtue before a holy God, not of your own righteousness it is the righteousness of Christ that we have. If you believe in the Gospel in Jesus as your righteousness correctly, the Holy Spirit comes to speak His righteousness over you and tell you that you are forgiven, loved and righteous as His Child. I want to say that that- that same righteousness of Jesus lives in you.

Our attitudes must change if we want to see His kingdom come in us – righteous, peace and joy through the holy spirit through the renewing of our minds. ‘ I beseech you brothers by the mercies of God that you offer yourselves up as a pleasing sacrifice unto God, which is your act of acceptable worship, do not be conformed any longer to the world, but be transformed through the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is His good, acceptable and perfect will’. Be changed through thinking differently, thinking of yourself through the lens of the gospel.

What I see in the bible are a whole lot of verses trying to tell us to think like we are kings, priests, royal priesthoods, children, created in the image of true righteousness and holiness– now are we going to think according to Christ or what we think is right?

We are sinners but we have been forgiven and now we are children of God. Now we must think of ourselves as His Children. We are dead to sin, alive in Him. Its is not a boasting in fleshliness or self confidence. If we know that all these things we can only have through the grace of God, as gifts to us, we will be humble yet strong in confidence in Him. We need to revive faith In Christ and faith in what he has already done for you and in you so that you can begin to be transformed.

Christ and The Father – ‘you are my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.’ The revelation of who we are is unfolded as we give ourselves to God in surrender and baptism unto death. When He reveals our identity to us, when we seek Him, that revelation from God, revealing our identities as His children, that revelation releases faith to do what we cannot do. To Gideon, God spoke and called him a ‘mighty warrior’, David – ‘the next king of Israel’. Our Spiritual Supernatural identity is more important than anything else. When we find who we are in Christ and our mission, place, His gifting and our work in His great Commission, something powerful happens we can do it through His empowerment of His Spirit.

They that know their God shall do exploits. You have access to the most high through His blood. We can all Know God through the cross.

Let us not drag the spirit recreated by God through the dirt and call ourselves sinners and then wonder where is the power to defeat sin. The power to defeat sin is in identity. If you destroy identity, there is no power left to live a Godly life.

“Several paradigm shifts take place in our hearts as we embrace our promotion from servants to friends (John 15:14-15).

First, what we know changes, as we gain access to the heart of the Father. His heart is the greatest resource of information we need to function successfully in all of life. Jesus laid the price of our access to the Father, therefore granting us the freedom that comes from the truth we gain through that unlimited knowledge of His heart. Liberty is found in this phase of the promotion.

Second, our experience changes. Encounters with God as an intimate are quite different from those of a servant. His heartbeat becomes our heartbeat as we celebrate the shift in our own desires. The realm of His presence becomes our greatest inheritance, and divine encounters our greatest memories. Personal transformation is the only possible result from these supernatural experiences.

Third, our function in life radically changes. Instead of working for Him, we work with Him. We work not for His favor but from His favor. In this position, He entrusts us with more of His power, and we are naturally changed into His likeness more and more.

Fourthly, our identity is radically transformed. Our identity sets the tone for all we do and become. Christians who live out of who they really are cannot be crippled by the opinions of others. They don't work to fit into other people's expectations but burn with the realization of who their Father says they are.”

Bill Johnson – dreaming with God.

Thoughts on the Sanctification process: tensions between the self life and renewed life and transformation through the renewal of the mind.

Thoughts on the Sanctification process: tensions between the self life and renewed life and transformation through the renewal of the mind.

I have been crucified with Christ, I no longer live, the life i live in the flesh I live by the Faith of The Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

If anyone would come after Me, let him deny himself, take up his cross and follow me. He that would lose his life for My sake will save it for eternal life and he who would save his life will lose it.

We are called to the death of the old self, the unrenewed nature which is apart from Christ. We can die to everything not of Him -our own small selfish and carnal desires, we can be rid of them and indeed we have died to them, if we have received Christ.

Every desire out of the new life that God implants in us, can be trusted and depended upon if we have received the new life, the life of Christ in the Holy Spirit. Desires that arise out of the new life- desires to please God the Father, desires to do righteousness, desires to do justice and service desires for humility are all expressions of the new life within the heart. Every desire that God did not plant cannot be allowed to persist.

James 3:17 esv But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy.

Ephesians 5:9 esv for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth.

But everything that remains of the old nature must be put to death, being brought to submission to the power of the Holy Spirit to obey the reality of the cross which is a spiritual reality, having already occurred in our lives and is in the process of being worked out. We have been crucified with Christ, those who are Christs have already crucified their sinful passions and desires, in the Spirit realm it has been done and accomplished in the eternal spiritual realm, but what remains is for that same reality to be worked out in the earthly realm the realm of practice and experience and time. The eternal and heavenly needs to be to be worked out gradually in the temporal and earthly.

When we look and stare at the revelation which proceeds from the living Christ, that revelation itself works into our natures. what is needed is a continuing revelation of what has already happened to us in Christ. To see Christ, having defeated the sin nature in death, having risen again to the right hand of the Father, to perceive through the revealing power of the Holy Spirit the risen Son of God day by day.

How we obtain this revelation of Christ is though the surrender of our entire lives in worship - if you lose your life - to obtain life, to obtain Christ, revelation and life will be yours. We exchange our old natures for Christ's life and nature, we exchange our self will for the Father's will. The Holy Spirit comes to give the new when we surrender the old. The Holy Spirit comes to reveal Christ, to show us the risen and living Christ and impart that same reality of the risen Christ into the heart.

John 16:15
All things whatsoever the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he taketh of mine, and shall declare it unto you.

Romans 12: I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Ephesians 4:23 says and that ye be renewed in the spirit of your mind.

IT is in the continual surrender of our lives in worship and thanks to God to glorify Him that the Holy Spirit also comes and takes the word of God to apply it to our minds that we think through God's perspectives.

Renewed in the Spirit of the mind means the Holy Spirit is able to renew our Spirits and that renewed Spirit imparts the thoughts and desires and intents of the Holy Spirit into our Spirit and that controls the thoughts, the natural mind, the heart, the emotions, intents and motives of the heart.

Dealing with the Fallen man -

Romans 8:2 The law of the Spirit of life in Christ has set us free from the law of sin and death.

Faith in Jesus and the saving power of His crucifixion reaches to the inner depths of the Christian. The power of the cross to put to death the fallen nature through the Holy Spirit, - that power that comes centred in the cross and transmitted by the Holy Spirit to kill the sin nature is stronger then the power of sin that dwells in us.

The Holy Spirit is stronger than the sin nature which lives in us. The presence of the Holy Spirit ousts the power of the sinful nature. Every time the Holy Spirit applies the death of Jesus through the Cross to our fleshly nature, The Holy Spirit is victorious.

Romans 8 says that 'we' put to death the works of the flesh through the Holy Spirit.

Who is this "we" who put to death the works of the flesh? i submit that it is the renewed spiritual man, the one created in likeness of His righteousness that does this. In other words only one who is born again who possess the new Spirit man can do this. We surrender the fleshly nature to the power of the Holy Spirit for Him to put it to death, we choose the new life to live as those alive from the dead to God.

'Working out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you both to will and do for His good pleasure'.

The Will of the Father through the Holy Spirit empowers the renewed will of the Spirit man.

"if my word abides in you, and you abide in me, ask whatever you will" notice it is our will that is operative here - 'whatever you will', not 'whatever I will'. the result is answered prayer - "and it will be done for you".

God works and wills in us, we (the new spirit man) then wills and work thorough His empowerment through Him. We were not designed to work and live apart from the vital Spiritual union with Christ - He in us, We in Him, that is our privilege and position as Christians which were are exhorted to continually work and live in. Practically it happens through communion in the Holy Spirit in prayer and reading and meditating on the word of God.

Paul himself thought himself as crucified, "i have been crucified with Christ" and His life lived in the faith of the Son of God who loved him and gave himself for him. In other words, when he thought of himself without Christ his conclusion was - 'Crucified!', and the verse immediately brings us to how he thinks about himself - the life i now live by the faith of the Son of God", which is in vital union and communion with the Son of God, living by His faith, united in the life and gift of Christ Himself.

Thus the manifested outward evidence of the presence of the new Spiritual life in a man is a gradually increasing process in the truly and genuinely saved. it is manifested more and more, as more of the works of the flesh are being destroyed through the consent and will of our spirit man working with the empowerment that comes from the Holy Spirit.

1 John 3:8 Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared (was manifested) was to destroy the works of the devil.

The works of the Father and Son are to destroy the works of the devil. We manifest Christ through His life within us, when the practices of sinning (as referenced by 1 John 3) are destroyed thorough a thorough outworking of the life of Christ which reaches to the realm of our innermost intents, motives, feelings, thoughts, imaginations, and outwardly to the realm of speech and action.

Ps 40:8

I delight to do thy will, O my God; yea, thy law is within my heart.

The Holy Spirit births forth the desires and mind of the Father within us so that we with God do the will of God.

We are called to gain a new perspective through the reception of the life of Christ. When the life of Christ comes into a man, it should gradually change the way he thinks and sees the world.

A new perspective without the life is self deception, a new perspective which is being shaped and formed by the reality and power of a new life within is powerful, the new perpective paves that way for 1) powerful life transformation and 2) increased spiritual discernment and 3) empowerment to walk in the perfect will of God.

We do fall, we do fail and fall back into sin and follow the flesh - the word exhorts us to confess our sins to believe that He will cleanse us of all unrighteousness and give us grace to walk in holiness again. To return to our high position in Christ as His Children 'perfecting holiness in the fear of God'.

to rule

i am overcome with thankfulness hat god would call into his presence to learn of Him to know his heart and rule with him

i need to be holy

"you already are holy you just need to realize its power more and work it out"

Friday, October 14, 2011

increase

i will increase you.

to his kingdom and government there will be no end only increase

open my eyes

open my eyes to see the kingdom which is already here and not be overly focused on that which is not here yet... help me build on what u are doing around me.