Galatians 6:14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
The picture that you are seeing might be that you have come into an assembly of people that you feel comfortable with and there is that desire to be a part and do things to show your worthiness of their fellowship.
The picture you are seeing is that if I try hard enough you can become like them. You can learn to say what they are saying and you can fit in.
The picture you are seeing if you have a talent, musical, singing, or ability to catch people's attention, you will concentrate your time and effort to avail yourself into becoming the best at it.
The problem with so many people who are seeing that picture is that they are always on the outside looking in!
"All of the above are legitimate works that glorify God. But are we seeing the "Real Picture."
As Paul the Apostle wrote from prison in Rome awaiting his execution, he wrote: "But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. "
Paul was seeing the "Real Picture."
• Nothing in his upbringing, nothing that he had attained by his own efforts compared with what he saw in the pictue he was seeing.
• Paul has truly died but yet he was truly more alive than he could ever be!
• He was seeing the "Real Picture."
Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Galatians 2:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
For Paul, the picture he was seeing was all Jesus or it was all of the devil! It was Christ living and Paul dying!
And the grace of God that Paul refused to frustrate or to cause this grace of God to be of no power in his life was that he knew that from the "Real Picture " that he was seeing, he saw himself crucified with Christ, but Christ living in him! Christ by the Holy Spirit teaching him.
Titus 2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
Titus 2:12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
Titus 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
The Real Picture
I saw my sin___upon that old tree.
I saw His' love___and mercy for me.
I saw His' pain, and His' agony.
I saw the price that He paid for me.
I saw the real,
picture of Calvary.
"I pray that the picture you are seeing is the "Real Picture."
"I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless, I live!"
Saturday, June 28, 2014
Thursday, June 19, 2014
The Prayer of One Who Has Really Been to the Cross.
Don't do God any favors by just saying you accept Him. If the Spirit of God is drawing you, then you can come to God honest and broken over your sin and Christ will cleanse you and come into your body that God ordained to be the temple of the Living God.
Affirmation that I'm in Christ.
"Father God, I am in You by Christ alone! Nothing of my own doing! I rest in Your work at the cross of Your Son, Jesus Christ by His blood!" Thank You for forgiving me, a wretched and sinful person that I am. Thank You for accepting me!, not that I'm accepting You. I believe Your word concerning my life, that you have bought me back, I belong to You! My life, all of it is Yours." In Jesus name. A-men.
Affirmation that I'm in Christ.
"Father God, I am in You by Christ alone! Nothing of my own doing! I rest in Your work at the cross of Your Son, Jesus Christ by His blood!" Thank You for forgiving me, a wretched and sinful person that I am. Thank You for accepting me!, not that I'm accepting You. I believe Your word concerning my life, that you have bought me back, I belong to You! My life, all of it is Yours." In Jesus name. A-men.
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Communion With The Father
Communion koinōnia
koy-nohn-ee'-ah
From G2844; partnership, that is, (literally) participation, or (social) intercourse, or (pecuniary) benefaction: - (to) communicate (-ation), communion, (contri-), distribution, fellowship.
Luke 15:1-32
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. Luke 15:1
(Then) drew near. (When did they draw near?)
When these sinners and publicans saw JESUS! When they saw a man that was unlike all the other religious leaders.
They saw a man that walked all of the talk that He was saying!
They saw a man that was in "Constant Communion" with God the Father!
Galatians 5:16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Galatians 5:25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
"God's purpose is that we have "Constant Communion" with Him."
When we (the Church) decide to get back to living in constant communion with the Father, (then) the sinners will draw near!
Jesus was in "Constant Communion" with the Father.
"When seeking God's Communion becomes the priority in our life His presence will be found near us!"
Then one lost sheep will be more important in finding than those ninety nine that are safe. And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost. Luke 15:6
When that soul that is lost, regardless of who they may be, burdens our heart with the same burden that caused Christ to endure the cross despising the shame! But for the joy that was set before Him, He endure the cross! Hebrews 12:2
Just as the person who went out and found the sheep that was lost was able to find that sheep because Jesus said: "Seek and ye shall find." There was that joy set before that person who was seeking that which was lost, upon finding he returned with joy and saying to all his friends and neighbors: "Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep that was lost!"
God, Move us with compassion to find the lost!
Then we will light the candle of the Word of God!
Then we will sweep the house!
Then we will seek diligently until we find that part that's missing! And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost. Luke 15:8
Then we will be able to watch a son or a daughter go from us, knowing as long as we have that "Constant Communion" God is working His way in those we love according to His plan for His glory. "Continual prayer keeps us!"
That "Constant Communion with the Father gives us diligence. The ability to wait upon the Lord. Constant Communion with the Father gives us His heart towards others.
A heart that is perfect. (mature)
A heart that is longsuffering.
A heart that is merciful.
A heart that moves with compassion.
A heart that has unlimited love!
(RIGHT NOW!) We are one of the two that we see in the first part of Luke chapter fifteen.
We are looking for___or we are being looked for!
We are finding that one that has lost his or her way__or we are being found by someone who is in "Constant Communion" with the Father!
We find ourselves carrying someone upon our shoulders rejoicing because God has given us directions to find someone because of our "Communion with the Father__or we are being carried on someone's shoulders who has compassion of the Father and have come to us when we have lost it!
"That's true Communion with the Father!"
"When we realize that God's will for every child of God is that we have "Constant Communion" with our Father in Heaven we will know that something is missing. That "Good Part" that Mary chose and could not be taken away from her!."
"When you realize that "Good Part" is missing."
• You will light a candle! (The Word of God!)
• You will be begin to get into God's Word with the greatest desire to know the Father!
• You will allow the Holy Spirit by the Word of God, "Sweep the house!"
• You will be willing to allow God to make it dusty!
"It may be uncomfortable at first, but it will yield to peaceable fruit of righteousness in you!"
I must be willing to say:
• "Holy Ghost__ "Sweep my house!"
• Hold that lighted candle of Your Word closer to my life!
• Search from one end of my house to the other end!
• Find that part, that "Good Part" that is missing in my life!
"I believe God is talking to those that do know Him but have lost the first love of His presence, something is missing!"
John 4:34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. Jesus at the well. To start and finish.
But now as you are sweeping *(seeking God) the house *(you) all of a sudden realize that the piece isn't really missing!
As you find to your amazement, it is still in the house! (I will never leave you nor forsake you!)
It's still in the house! You've just had your house filled with things that clutter over the important, that "Good Part!"
That good thing__keep by the Holy Ghost! Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us. 2 Timothy 1:13-14 "Communion with the Father."
He that has begun a good work in you! Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: Philippians 1:6 As God's Holy Spirit is given complete access to clean our house, we will find "Constant Communion" with the Father.
"We must simply give the Holy Ghost the keys!"
• Give Him the keys! Give Jesus the keys!
• The keys to the front door!
• The keys to the back door!
• The keys to the side door!
• Give Him the key to all the doors that controls what comes in and what goes out! Give Him the keys!
• To all the doors inside your house! Give Him the keys!
• Every closet! Every room! The basement! Give Him the keys!
"After all the sweeping!"
"After all the Guiding!"
"After all of the diligence that God requires in our seeking His Communion, we will take on the attributes of the Heavenly Father!"
At the last part of Luke chapter fifteen, we see a father of two sons.
The Bible all through talks about two sons. The number of two is found through the Word of God many times.
• Remember, the two sons that the man had that one said he would go where his father said to go but didn't go. And the other son said that he wouldn't go but afterwards repented of changed his mind and went where his father said.
• Cain and Abel
• Male and female
• Issac and Ishmaiel
• Jacob and Esau
• Joshua and Caleb
• Jew and Gentile
• Jesus and the Father (One)
And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. John 17:11
Jesus' desire and prayer to the Father is that we may be one with the Father! That we have that "Constant Communion."
Both sons aren't satisfied where they are.
The younger son voices his request to his father. As we read his actions are disasterous.
The father in Luke 15:11-32 had wihout doubt, had his share of looking for and being looked for in his own growing up.
"Young people are always looking for ___ or hoping someone is looking for them."
God the Father is looking for you, young people!
"But fathers are hard to understand sometimes."
They are older.
They come across as to direct.
They don't understand today's generation.
"Those are attributes that we sometimes give to our fathers and they may be true at times.
As I look back, I thought those things at times about my father. When I was told by my Daddy not to ride my mini-bike on the main highways in my little town of Irondale, Alabama.
But as I look back as I stand here and see all sides of the picture, I see a father that had his faults but he had a desire to fellowship with His Father in Heaven. That desire for that fellowship, "Constant Communion" caused him to put limits and required expectations in us to become what God wanted us to be!
"Both sons were unhappy in their father's house."
The younger son left because he wanted to see the world and lost it all.
He wanted his money and he wanted it now!
The oldest son was unhappy because he stayed. He was always doing but didn't take the time to really know his father.
I believe this father was able to show both of his sons the heart of God the Father in his response to both sons at the end of this story in Luke 15.
"That the Father is willing to give to His children that ask."
"Those that have a clear (true) vision of their Father."
"How to you see God the Father today?"
Is He one that only gives or is He the One that makes?
To the younger at first He was the One that gives and lets him make his own choices.
But the younger found out it wasn't about how much his father could give but it was how much power, grace, and ability his father had to make him into what he needed to be!
To the elder son at first he, from what we see in scripture, he saw his relationship as a "make it relationship."
It was all business to him, keeping the name going on but it was more to his father than his sons having his name.
He found out that his father did want him to succeed in this life and be responsible.
But he found out that his father wanted him to know that in all the doing, it is to come out of relationship to him!
"Communion with the Father"
That's what God wants from us today!
All the doing, all the ability to do, all the sacrifice that we are able to make will come from that "Communion with the Father."
If you need to come and restore that "Communion with the Father" Come.
koy-nohn-ee'-ah
From G2844; partnership, that is, (literally) participation, or (social) intercourse, or (pecuniary) benefaction: - (to) communicate (-ation), communion, (contri-), distribution, fellowship.
Luke 15:1-32
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. Luke 15:1
(Then) drew near. (When did they draw near?)
When these sinners and publicans saw JESUS! When they saw a man that was unlike all the other religious leaders.
They saw a man that walked all of the talk that He was saying!
They saw a man that was in "Constant Communion" with God the Father!
Galatians 5:16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Galatians 5:25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
"God's purpose is that we have "Constant Communion" with Him."
When we (the Church) decide to get back to living in constant communion with the Father, (then) the sinners will draw near!
Jesus was in "Constant Communion" with the Father.
"When seeking God's Communion becomes the priority in our life His presence will be found near us!"
Then one lost sheep will be more important in finding than those ninety nine that are safe. And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost. Luke 15:6
When that soul that is lost, regardless of who they may be, burdens our heart with the same burden that caused Christ to endure the cross despising the shame! But for the joy that was set before Him, He endure the cross! Hebrews 12:2
Just as the person who went out and found the sheep that was lost was able to find that sheep because Jesus said: "Seek and ye shall find." There was that joy set before that person who was seeking that which was lost, upon finding he returned with joy and saying to all his friends and neighbors: "Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep that was lost!"
God, Move us with compassion to find the lost!
Then we will light the candle of the Word of God!
Then we will sweep the house!
Then we will seek diligently until we find that part that's missing! And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost. Luke 15:8
Then we will be able to watch a son or a daughter go from us, knowing as long as we have that "Constant Communion" God is working His way in those we love according to His plan for His glory. "Continual prayer keeps us!"
That "Constant Communion with the Father gives us diligence. The ability to wait upon the Lord. Constant Communion with the Father gives us His heart towards others.
A heart that is perfect. (mature)
A heart that is longsuffering.
A heart that is merciful.
A heart that moves with compassion.
A heart that has unlimited love!
(RIGHT NOW!) We are one of the two that we see in the first part of Luke chapter fifteen.
We are looking for___or we are being looked for!
We are finding that one that has lost his or her way__or we are being found by someone who is in "Constant Communion" with the Father!
We find ourselves carrying someone upon our shoulders rejoicing because God has given us directions to find someone because of our "Communion with the Father__or we are being carried on someone's shoulders who has compassion of the Father and have come to us when we have lost it!
"That's true Communion with the Father!"
"When we realize that God's will for every child of God is that we have "Constant Communion" with our Father in Heaven we will know that something is missing. That "Good Part" that Mary chose and could not be taken away from her!."
"When you realize that "Good Part" is missing."
• You will light a candle! (The Word of God!)
• You will be begin to get into God's Word with the greatest desire to know the Father!
• You will allow the Holy Spirit by the Word of God, "Sweep the house!"
• You will be willing to allow God to make it dusty!
"It may be uncomfortable at first, but it will yield to peaceable fruit of righteousness in you!"
I must be willing to say:
• "Holy Ghost__ "Sweep my house!"
• Hold that lighted candle of Your Word closer to my life!
• Search from one end of my house to the other end!
• Find that part, that "Good Part" that is missing in my life!
"I believe God is talking to those that do know Him but have lost the first love of His presence, something is missing!"
John 4:34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. Jesus at the well. To start and finish.
But now as you are sweeping *(seeking God) the house *(you) all of a sudden realize that the piece isn't really missing!
As you find to your amazement, it is still in the house! (I will never leave you nor forsake you!)
It's still in the house! You've just had your house filled with things that clutter over the important, that "Good Part!"
That good thing__keep by the Holy Ghost! Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us. 2 Timothy 1:13-14 "Communion with the Father."
He that has begun a good work in you! Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: Philippians 1:6 As God's Holy Spirit is given complete access to clean our house, we will find "Constant Communion" with the Father.
"We must simply give the Holy Ghost the keys!"
• Give Him the keys! Give Jesus the keys!
• The keys to the front door!
• The keys to the back door!
• The keys to the side door!
• Give Him the key to all the doors that controls what comes in and what goes out! Give Him the keys!
• To all the doors inside your house! Give Him the keys!
• Every closet! Every room! The basement! Give Him the keys!
"After all the sweeping!"
"After all the Guiding!"
"After all of the diligence that God requires in our seeking His Communion, we will take on the attributes of the Heavenly Father!"
At the last part of Luke chapter fifteen, we see a father of two sons.
The Bible all through talks about two sons. The number of two is found through the Word of God many times.
• Remember, the two sons that the man had that one said he would go where his father said to go but didn't go. And the other son said that he wouldn't go but afterwards repented of changed his mind and went where his father said.
• Cain and Abel
• Male and female
• Issac and Ishmaiel
• Jacob and Esau
• Joshua and Caleb
• Jew and Gentile
• Jesus and the Father (One)
And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. John 17:11
Jesus' desire and prayer to the Father is that we may be one with the Father! That we have that "Constant Communion."
Both sons aren't satisfied where they are.
The younger son voices his request to his father. As we read his actions are disasterous.
The father in Luke 15:11-32 had wihout doubt, had his share of looking for and being looked for in his own growing up.
"Young people are always looking for ___ or hoping someone is looking for them."
God the Father is looking for you, young people!
"But fathers are hard to understand sometimes."
They are older.
They come across as to direct.
They don't understand today's generation.
"Those are attributes that we sometimes give to our fathers and they may be true at times.
As I look back, I thought those things at times about my father. When I was told by my Daddy not to ride my mini-bike on the main highways in my little town of Irondale, Alabama.
But as I look back as I stand here and see all sides of the picture, I see a father that had his faults but he had a desire to fellowship with His Father in Heaven. That desire for that fellowship, "Constant Communion" caused him to put limits and required expectations in us to become what God wanted us to be!
"Both sons were unhappy in their father's house."
The younger son left because he wanted to see the world and lost it all.
He wanted his money and he wanted it now!
The oldest son was unhappy because he stayed. He was always doing but didn't take the time to really know his father.
I believe this father was able to show both of his sons the heart of God the Father in his response to both sons at the end of this story in Luke 15.
"That the Father is willing to give to His children that ask."
"Those that have a clear (true) vision of their Father."
"How to you see God the Father today?"
Is He one that only gives or is He the One that makes?
To the younger at first He was the One that gives and lets him make his own choices.
But the younger found out it wasn't about how much his father could give but it was how much power, grace, and ability his father had to make him into what he needed to be!
To the elder son at first he, from what we see in scripture, he saw his relationship as a "make it relationship."
It was all business to him, keeping the name going on but it was more to his father than his sons having his name.
He found out that his father did want him to succeed in this life and be responsible.
But he found out that his father wanted him to know that in all the doing, it is to come out of relationship to him!
"Communion with the Father"
That's what God wants from us today!
All the doing, all the ability to do, all the sacrifice that we are able to make will come from that "Communion with the Father."
If you need to come and restore that "Communion with the Father" Come.
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