Hello and blessings to you. I am going to share something that has changed my life and the way I look at life. It happened while listening to a CD that asked a simple question that forced me to seek GOD and get an answer only HE can give. An answer that transforms and not only informs. With that said, you too must seek GOD and have HIM answer your questions and quell your fears. We must run from acquiring head knowledge and run to HIM who changes the Heart, for out of the Heart flow the issues of life! HE is the Giver of Life, seek HIM and you too will be blessed and a blessing.
This CD was about the Power of the Spoken Word by Louise Hay. A very interesting women who to my knowledge is not a "Christian" but in this CD she challenged me and it lead me to seek GOD. At the end of the CD she asked to picture the future that you want how does it feel and then she asked do you DESERVE it. Immediately, there was a grabbing in my gut, a tightness and a denial of deserving anything. This came from my past and past teachings that taught me I deserved Hell and really not deserving anything good. I have I guess always had issues of deservedness (I think I made a word up here) and this has been a stumbling block to me to receiving or retaining anything good in my life.
I went to the LORD in me. I got quiet and asked The Father about this whole situation. As usual, HE gave me a full download that has freed me from this whole issue of deservedness. I will now give you the basic thoughts and concepts HE relayed to me that set me free. Again, I caveat this that this must be a heart lesson and not a head. It must resonate from your Spirit and not your mind. With that said, GOD said, even if you feel undeserving what does Christ in you deserve. BOOM, that was it. It was Rhema, Christ Jesus in me deserves the BEST! Can you say that! Christ in me deserves the best. That Word set me free. It by passed the whole worthiness and deservedness issue and brought it to the core issue, What does GOD deserve! HE deserves the Best. That set me free. Then scriptures came to me, Jesus' prayer that we are ONE with the Father even as HE is, HE has blessed us with all Spiritual Blessings in Heavenly places, Christ in you the hope of Glory, the life I now live I live in CHRIST, I am dead never the less I live but not me but CHRIST in Me!
Christ in me deserves the Best and Christ wants the Best for me! I pray that helps you, I pray that sets you free! Christ in you sets you free from all things, the chains of the world the flesh and the devil are fully shattered and broken by the power of HIM who defeated death and hell to give us life. The LORD lead me to Romans 8 the other night and the verse in Romans 8:2, The Law of the Spirit of LIFE in Christ Jesus has set me Free from the Law of Sin and Death. YES!!! The wretchedness of sin and death with all its guilt and condemnation is no longer held to me. I am FREE from all that, I literally am now sitting in Heaven with GOD in CHRIST. I am already where I want to be and I could only be there if I belonged there. I belong because I am CHRIST's and CHRIST is mine we are ONE.... please meditate on this and go to your heart, be still and know that I AM GOD. HE shall set you free.
Second lesson GOD gave me was about worth. Again, worthiness, deservedness and like issues are about how we see ourselves. I have been seeking GOD about a healing to my shoulder, an injury that occurred almost a year ago. I heard GOD clearly tell me to know my identity, know who I am. Who am I since this new birth since being born again. Well, I did not pursue this, I thought about it but I did not seek it out. GOD in HIS grace would not let it rest. HE went strait to the issue and said, What is something worth? I thought well what someone would pay for it. So then what did I pay for you? BOOM, that did it for me. A flood of imagery and concepts over took me. I was bought, YOU were bought with a price that cannot be comprehended. We were bought with the life Blood of Jesus Christ, the Blood of Christ, the Life of Christ was our redemptive price. We are Priceless to GOD, forget the world, what does GOD say about you, what does GOD feel about you, what did GOD do to have you? HE gave HIS all to have us. We are PRICELESS and precious beyond imagination. I pray that sets you free. I share these personal revelations because of the blessings they brought me and that you and I are ONE, and we are ONE with GOD. So I know somewhere this message and its TRUTH are important to you or someone you know. GOD bless you and Grow in the grace and knowledge of LORD JESUS CHRIST. Let me know your thoughts. JB
Dr. Jim Richards at www.impactministries.com has a wealth of information on getting into your heart and hearing GOD.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Saturday, July 28, 2007
The LOVE of CHRIST
Children of GOD I want to bring you words of encouragement,transformation and love in this blog and I pray this one does that. Since being Born Again some 23+ years ago the words of Jesus Christ on the Cross to His Father have always changed me and brought me to a higher level of LIFE. When Jesus said "Father Forgive them for they know not what they do" the love the faith the hope and the Extra-dimensionality of those words stop me dead in my tracks and transform me. Jesus the perfect, the sinless, the guiltless and all powerful prayed for forgiveness to be given to His false accusers, to His executioners, to His betrayers, and to all humanity who allowed this to happen and for whom it was happening for. He who could have called down 72,000 Angels to protect Him and revenge Him chose to LOVE, He WILLED to Love and it changed the world. You and I right now would not be here had Jesus chose NOT to Love.
Again while walking my dogs, The Father touched my heart that I need to love like that and He has empowered me and you to be able to do so. HE has placed in our Hearts the ONE who can forgive like that. Jesus Christ in you still WILLS to Love like that but now through You! When I think of my natural reaction to even trivial things I see the gap between my flesh and the True GOD. This brought to mind what Paul said and the transformation available to all of us, he said " I die daily." Dying to SELF, what a concept! Not denying yourself a cookie or fasting or acting nice. No this has nothing to do with the works of the Flesh or denying the flesh that is FUTILE. This is about WILLING to be like GOD. WILLING to deny your revenge and rights and Forgive and let the Power and Love of GOD in you transform the world and people around you.
I will give you a small and seemingly insignificant incident that happened today. While walking my dogs this morning I headed up a hill and saw the house of a person who I felt had snubbed me by disregarding my Hello's and Good Mornings. Well, GOD was dealing with me about forgiveness so I said "Father I forgive them I forgive them all and give them all to you I choose to Love." That's all and on the way down the hill there was the neighbor and actually looking for me. I said "Good Morning" and we had a simple but deep discussion and connection that lead to an instant friendship. This may seem small but to me its Miraculous its the Abundant Life it is what we are here for, to bring the KINGDOM to earth to people.
The SELF even though dead (we are crucified with Christ we died and HE now lives in us) it is always there residing in the corpse we carry around but it is dead and has no authority. We have to WILL to choose to Love and to be like Christ and to allow HIM to reign and love over and through us. Doing this is not only GOD's will but healing, transformational and miraculous for us and the people around us. The LOVE of Christ is so unbelievably powerful NOTHING is IMPOSSIBLE. He who can forgive the unforgivable LIVES in you, He loves you and has forgiven you..He who has been forgiven much LOVES much...you have been forgiven far more than you can ever imagine let us now Choose to Love beyond imagine..let us be Fools for Christ to love beyond imagine and let go and let GOD..
Father forgive them for they know not what they do!...That is the power of Christ in you. It certainly looked like they knew what they were doing. Heck they conspired to do what they were doing! They planned they plotted and forced the situation to manifest and yet Jesus sees them differently. He sees from the beginning to the end He knows all the root causes and consequences of every thought and action. This is why His judgements are just and true and HE chooses to love! How much more we who do not know these things and more importantly we have been commanded to LOVE by the Lover of our Souls.
The more we know and trust GOD the more we can love or let love love through us..GOD is Love, Jesus is GOD. Let Him Love you and Love through you. Choose to love, choose to be loved, choose to seek HIM and know HIM, choose to change and be transformed so you can be a source of change and transformation in and to this world. It starts with the will do this, the very will Jesus laid down at the feet of His Father in the Garden of Gethsemane, we must lay down our will and take up His Glorious Incorruptible and Transcendent will. This can only happen as we commune and walk continuously with Him in Spirit and Truth. Blessings to you and power and love. You have the mind of Christ and you can do ALL things through HIM who strengthens you. PTL.....JB
Again while walking my dogs, The Father touched my heart that I need to love like that and He has empowered me and you to be able to do so. HE has placed in our Hearts the ONE who can forgive like that. Jesus Christ in you still WILLS to Love like that but now through You! When I think of my natural reaction to even trivial things I see the gap between my flesh and the True GOD. This brought to mind what Paul said and the transformation available to all of us, he said " I die daily." Dying to SELF, what a concept! Not denying yourself a cookie or fasting or acting nice. No this has nothing to do with the works of the Flesh or denying the flesh that is FUTILE. This is about WILLING to be like GOD. WILLING to deny your revenge and rights and Forgive and let the Power and Love of GOD in you transform the world and people around you.
I will give you a small and seemingly insignificant incident that happened today. While walking my dogs this morning I headed up a hill and saw the house of a person who I felt had snubbed me by disregarding my Hello's and Good Mornings. Well, GOD was dealing with me about forgiveness so I said "Father I forgive them I forgive them all and give them all to you I choose to Love." That's all and on the way down the hill there was the neighbor and actually looking for me. I said "Good Morning" and we had a simple but deep discussion and connection that lead to an instant friendship. This may seem small but to me its Miraculous its the Abundant Life it is what we are here for, to bring the KINGDOM to earth to people.
The SELF even though dead (we are crucified with Christ we died and HE now lives in us) it is always there residing in the corpse we carry around but it is dead and has no authority. We have to WILL to choose to Love and to be like Christ and to allow HIM to reign and love over and through us. Doing this is not only GOD's will but healing, transformational and miraculous for us and the people around us. The LOVE of Christ is so unbelievably powerful NOTHING is IMPOSSIBLE. He who can forgive the unforgivable LIVES in you, He loves you and has forgiven you..He who has been forgiven much LOVES much...you have been forgiven far more than you can ever imagine let us now Choose to Love beyond imagine..let us be Fools for Christ to love beyond imagine and let go and let GOD..
Father forgive them for they know not what they do!...That is the power of Christ in you. It certainly looked like they knew what they were doing. Heck they conspired to do what they were doing! They planned they plotted and forced the situation to manifest and yet Jesus sees them differently. He sees from the beginning to the end He knows all the root causes and consequences of every thought and action. This is why His judgements are just and true and HE chooses to love! How much more we who do not know these things and more importantly we have been commanded to LOVE by the Lover of our Souls.
The more we know and trust GOD the more we can love or let love love through us..GOD is Love, Jesus is GOD. Let Him Love you and Love through you. Choose to love, choose to be loved, choose to seek HIM and know HIM, choose to change and be transformed so you can be a source of change and transformation in and to this world. It starts with the will do this, the very will Jesus laid down at the feet of His Father in the Garden of Gethsemane, we must lay down our will and take up His Glorious Incorruptible and Transcendent will. This can only happen as we commune and walk continuously with Him in Spirit and Truth. Blessings to you and power and love. You have the mind of Christ and you can do ALL things through HIM who strengthens you. PTL.....JB
Friday, July 27, 2007
He Who The SON Sets Free Is Free Indeed
Once again while walking my dogs the LORD spoke to me about being Free by what Jesus Christ had done and I want to share this with my prayer you too will revel in the Freedom bought and paid for by Jesus for you personally! Romans 8:2 Says That the Law of the Spirit of LIFE in Christ Jesus has set me FREE from the Law of sin and death! This is powerful and profound and for the most part no meaning to Christians today. This one statement summarizes the work of Christ on the Cross and yet we have failed to comprehend and apprehend the significance of the WHO we are in CHRIST!!! This is the gist of this blog today.
From Adam down man has lived in sin since the fall of Adam. We have a whole human DNA history that knows nothing but sin and the fruit of sin death. Jesus came as the Second Adam and His redemptive work has brought us back into full righteous relationship with the Father. Sin is No longer the issue at hand it is what you do with Jesus Christ that is the issue! Let me explain, scripture says He who knew No sin BECAME sin so that we can become the righteousness of GOD in HIM...Jesus the only LAMB of GOD, purely innocent became the very thing anathema to GOD to win us to GOD. Paul states that we have been crucified with Christ, having died with HIM we now LIVE with HIM. Now this is to those who identify themselves with and in CHRIST. You can be born again and not identify yourself with Christ and be defeated but IN CHRIST you have been made NEW!!! Old things have passed away and behold all things are NEW!!! Yes you are New not the old man of sin and death but the New Man of LIFE...
This is how we have power and authority because we now identify with the ONE who bought and paid for us. The ONE who ALL authority and power and dominion has been given to. We are HIS ambassadors on earth here. What the Father showed me was this...The Tomb was empty!!! There was no rotting corpse or sin layden body...it was empty for the RESURRECTED CHRIST walked through it..the grave had no hold on HIM. He became sin and took it to Hell. All that was in mankind that should die and suffer in Hell IS THERE DOING THAT right now! Sin was condemned in the flesh and when CHRIST rose resurrected it was in a resurrected body not the body of sinful man. So all sin guilt shame and even death has been judged and condemned. So the choice now is not to sin or not its is to Live with CHRIST or deny CHRIST.
On the Cross all that sin and death could do was done to JESUS and HE won. We live under a New Law the Law of the Spirit of LIFE in CHRIST JESUS...That is your heritage now Child of GOD live in it...All that comes to you now that tries to kill you are memories and satan both of which have no authority over you accept what you give them. Speak as JESUS taught us in Mark 11:23-24 to these fruits of sin and death and tell them to be cast into the sea of forgetfulness, into the abyss! They are LIES and have no authority over you, in fact You now are TRUTH and You have authority over them...Do not eat of their fruit anymore deny them any authority or right in you. Cast them out...EAT from the Tree of LIFE, Jesus Christ! Know HIM seek HIM and LOVE HIM...Stand strong Children of GOD knowing you belong to the FATHER. Spread the Kingdom for the KING lives in you...The Tomb is empty and sin and death have been judged. You now have CHRIST in you. You are a New Creature! Everything you should be punished for and everything you feel guilty about is being punished and judged and you died to those things...BE FREE NOW IN THE POWER AND LOVE OF CHRIST the Caterpillar has become the Butterfly of GOD...Rejoice and be glad and LIVE....GOD BLESS YOU JB
From Adam down man has lived in sin since the fall of Adam. We have a whole human DNA history that knows nothing but sin and the fruit of sin death. Jesus came as the Second Adam and His redemptive work has brought us back into full righteous relationship with the Father. Sin is No longer the issue at hand it is what you do with Jesus Christ that is the issue! Let me explain, scripture says He who knew No sin BECAME sin so that we can become the righteousness of GOD in HIM...Jesus the only LAMB of GOD, purely innocent became the very thing anathema to GOD to win us to GOD. Paul states that we have been crucified with Christ, having died with HIM we now LIVE with HIM. Now this is to those who identify themselves with and in CHRIST. You can be born again and not identify yourself with Christ and be defeated but IN CHRIST you have been made NEW!!! Old things have passed away and behold all things are NEW!!! Yes you are New not the old man of sin and death but the New Man of LIFE...
This is how we have power and authority because we now identify with the ONE who bought and paid for us. The ONE who ALL authority and power and dominion has been given to. We are HIS ambassadors on earth here. What the Father showed me was this...The Tomb was empty!!! There was no rotting corpse or sin layden body...it was empty for the RESURRECTED CHRIST walked through it..the grave had no hold on HIM. He became sin and took it to Hell. All that was in mankind that should die and suffer in Hell IS THERE DOING THAT right now! Sin was condemned in the flesh and when CHRIST rose resurrected it was in a resurrected body not the body of sinful man. So all sin guilt shame and even death has been judged and condemned. So the choice now is not to sin or not its is to Live with CHRIST or deny CHRIST.
On the Cross all that sin and death could do was done to JESUS and HE won. We live under a New Law the Law of the Spirit of LIFE in CHRIST JESUS...That is your heritage now Child of GOD live in it...All that comes to you now that tries to kill you are memories and satan both of which have no authority over you accept what you give them. Speak as JESUS taught us in Mark 11:23-24 to these fruits of sin and death and tell them to be cast into the sea of forgetfulness, into the abyss! They are LIES and have no authority over you, in fact You now are TRUTH and You have authority over them...Do not eat of their fruit anymore deny them any authority or right in you. Cast them out...EAT from the Tree of LIFE, Jesus Christ! Know HIM seek HIM and LOVE HIM...Stand strong Children of GOD knowing you belong to the FATHER. Spread the Kingdom for the KING lives in you...The Tomb is empty and sin and death have been judged. You now have CHRIST in you. You are a New Creature! Everything you should be punished for and everything you feel guilty about is being punished and judged and you died to those things...BE FREE NOW IN THE POWER AND LOVE OF CHRIST the Caterpillar has become the Butterfly of GOD...Rejoice and be glad and LIVE....GOD BLESS YOU JB
Monday, June 25, 2007
There Is No Spoon
Blessings to you. I have been excited and yet trepid to share this with you but it is so TRUE that I must. In fact I will probably expand this topic through several articles but suffice to say it is important. What we believe is crucial to all that we see and do, it determines who we are and where we are headed. It produces life or death, blessing or cursing it is the crux of our essense. In fact it is belief that stands between us and GOD, between perishing or Salvation. What we believe makes or breaks us. Scripture will bear me out. Jesus will testify what I say is True for He said it before me.
The title There Is No Spoon comes from the movie The Matrix. I am a big fan of the movie for the deeper Truths the movie conveys but this line comes from a scene in which Neo sees a boy bending spoons with his mind. The boy tells Neo, and I paraphrase, Dont try to bend the spoon just know there is no spoon! Woa, what was that? There is no spoon? Yeh but its right there I can see it and feel it heck if I hit it on my head it hurts. Yes but in the Matrix everything is just a computer program so there is no spoon truthfully, only information your perceive as a spoon.
Great well what does that have to do with us hear in the real world? Nothing and everything. Physics tells us we perceive things as solid that are not. Literally everything you feel, taste, touch, bang it to and go Ouch! are not solid! but waves of energy, infact we are mainly energetic forces with little to no matter at all. It is the interaction of these energetic fields that we perceive as solid! Does that make sense, I mean our whole world around us is but energy not solid mass. Thats physics not me saying this. I say this to show you that you too live in a matrix that you perceive one way and yet is completely different in Truth.
With that said lets go to Jesus and what He has to say and did! Jesus, unlike us came here without sin or a fallen nature. Thus He perceived differently than us. The god of this world had blinded us but not Him. He came to destroy the works of the devil and to do good. He destroyed him who had the authority over death and hell. Jesus took that authority from satan and gave us His authority. Jesus said of the the devil he was a liar and no truth was in him. Satan is described as I quoted as the god of this world. So somehow this world lies to us and we have believed it. Jesus said the Truth will set you free, all who are freed by the Son are free indeed. Jesus showed us what we perceive as real is not Truth. HE is Truth and HE confounded the world.
To clarify more let me give you an example and I will use a commentary by Bill Johnson whose book Dreaming With GOD..I had just finished. In it Bill describes the episode with the disciples being on the boat in a horrid storm and Jesus is Sleeping. They wake Him up and declare "Dont you care that we perish!" at this Jesus calmy rebukes the storm and turns to the disciples and says " Where is your faith?" Bill comments that in Jesus' life there were NO storms and this struck Truth with me. How else could He sleep in the midst of something so powerful that seasoned fishermen were in fear of their lives. Because in Jesus Kingdom, His world, His LIFE there are No storms..the lie layed in the hearts of those who saw and perceived the storm. Jesus did not see the world He saw His FATHER and in Him there are no storms! Praise GOD! In Him there are no fears doubts and unbeliefs and we are given moment by moment the opportunity to live in HIM by faith.
Paul says "We walk by Faith NOT by sight" Faith (Trust, Love, Relationship with GOD) sees and tells us something far different than the world tells us. Faith based on the character of GOD and the Word of GOD tells us something completely different than the News or the world in general. It tells us your Heavenly Father Loves you and cares for you and wants the best for you. His LOVE knows no bounds it is infinite and He is more than willing to pour it out on us. The question is are you willing and ready to receive it, to Believe it? That is the point.
You see in Light of Christ and in the Light of Christ nothing that contradicts HIS word can stand! Literally, it does not exist! In Christ the world that wants to bring you down it is the spoon and THERE IS NO SPOON...In Christ! We then must do as Jesus said Seek Ye First The Kingdom of GOD and All These Things Will Be Added Unto You! So our purpose is to seek GOD, to know Him to hear Him to be wrapped up in His presense 24/7 and to be in LOVE with Him. In that place there is no sickness, lack, famine, hungar there is nothing that contradicts HIS Word. Be Still and KNOW that I AM GOD Ps 46:10...be still my Brothers and Sisters Be Still and tell the world " I see you but I dont BELIEVE you....I BELIEVE my FATHER!!" GOD bless and my prayers are with you. I pray that you will grow in the Grace and Knowledge of our LORD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST...In HIM we are Free, we are LIGHTS and the darkness cannot overtake us!!! AMEN JB
The title There Is No Spoon comes from the movie The Matrix. I am a big fan of the movie for the deeper Truths the movie conveys but this line comes from a scene in which Neo sees a boy bending spoons with his mind. The boy tells Neo, and I paraphrase, Dont try to bend the spoon just know there is no spoon! Woa, what was that? There is no spoon? Yeh but its right there I can see it and feel it heck if I hit it on my head it hurts. Yes but in the Matrix everything is just a computer program so there is no spoon truthfully, only information your perceive as a spoon.
Great well what does that have to do with us hear in the real world? Nothing and everything. Physics tells us we perceive things as solid that are not. Literally everything you feel, taste, touch, bang it to and go Ouch! are not solid! but waves of energy, infact we are mainly energetic forces with little to no matter at all. It is the interaction of these energetic fields that we perceive as solid! Does that make sense, I mean our whole world around us is but energy not solid mass. Thats physics not me saying this. I say this to show you that you too live in a matrix that you perceive one way and yet is completely different in Truth.
With that said lets go to Jesus and what He has to say and did! Jesus, unlike us came here without sin or a fallen nature. Thus He perceived differently than us. The god of this world had blinded us but not Him. He came to destroy the works of the devil and to do good. He destroyed him who had the authority over death and hell. Jesus took that authority from satan and gave us His authority. Jesus said of the the devil he was a liar and no truth was in him. Satan is described as I quoted as the god of this world. So somehow this world lies to us and we have believed it. Jesus said the Truth will set you free, all who are freed by the Son are free indeed. Jesus showed us what we perceive as real is not Truth. HE is Truth and HE confounded the world.
To clarify more let me give you an example and I will use a commentary by Bill Johnson whose book Dreaming With GOD..I had just finished. In it Bill describes the episode with the disciples being on the boat in a horrid storm and Jesus is Sleeping. They wake Him up and declare "Dont you care that we perish!" at this Jesus calmy rebukes the storm and turns to the disciples and says " Where is your faith?" Bill comments that in Jesus' life there were NO storms and this struck Truth with me. How else could He sleep in the midst of something so powerful that seasoned fishermen were in fear of their lives. Because in Jesus Kingdom, His world, His LIFE there are No storms..the lie layed in the hearts of those who saw and perceived the storm. Jesus did not see the world He saw His FATHER and in Him there are no storms! Praise GOD! In Him there are no fears doubts and unbeliefs and we are given moment by moment the opportunity to live in HIM by faith.
Paul says "We walk by Faith NOT by sight" Faith (Trust, Love, Relationship with GOD) sees and tells us something far different than the world tells us. Faith based on the character of GOD and the Word of GOD tells us something completely different than the News or the world in general. It tells us your Heavenly Father Loves you and cares for you and wants the best for you. His LOVE knows no bounds it is infinite and He is more than willing to pour it out on us. The question is are you willing and ready to receive it, to Believe it? That is the point.
You see in Light of Christ and in the Light of Christ nothing that contradicts HIS word can stand! Literally, it does not exist! In Christ the world that wants to bring you down it is the spoon and THERE IS NO SPOON...In Christ! We then must do as Jesus said Seek Ye First The Kingdom of GOD and All These Things Will Be Added Unto You! So our purpose is to seek GOD, to know Him to hear Him to be wrapped up in His presense 24/7 and to be in LOVE with Him. In that place there is no sickness, lack, famine, hungar there is nothing that contradicts HIS Word. Be Still and KNOW that I AM GOD Ps 46:10...be still my Brothers and Sisters Be Still and tell the world " I see you but I dont BELIEVE you....I BELIEVE my FATHER!!" GOD bless and my prayers are with you. I pray that you will grow in the Grace and Knowledge of our LORD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST...In HIM we are Free, we are LIGHTS and the darkness cannot overtake us!!! AMEN JB
Monday, February 26, 2007
Out of the Abundance of the Heart
Hi and Blessings to you in the name 0f our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The other night while driving home from work I asked the LORD about the difference between the mind and the heart. I wanted to know because scripture does make distinction between the two but I wanted a clear distinction in my own heart and mind. After getting still the LORD began to speak and as usual HE does this instant download of information. What became clear to me is the following.
The mind is our thoughts and thinking processes. Things that can change, things that are always in flux and sometimes very convoluted. In fact have you ever stood back and said why did I think that? To do that, to disagree with a thought means you are NOT your thoughts. At times your thoughts can be out of control and there is much that can control your thoughts.
It is the Heart that is the True you, the place as Christians we need to live out of but it also needs work too. You see the Heart is the core of your being, not Spirit but being, what your core beliefs and things you truly believe about GOD, yourself, the world around you. Most of which was written there by other people and their skewed and damaged views. Deep with in you is your Born Again Spirit and it tells you who you are and deep with in you know this but life deals us many scars that thicken the tympanic membrane of our heart's ear to hear the Spirit. Thus we have a problem. Jesus said " Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks" and as the LORD revealed to me it is usually when push comes to shove or the bottom drops out that we realize what we believe by our actions. Do we turn to the LORD and seek and Trust HIM or do we run to the world? In whom do we Trust? This is most important for if our knowledge of GOD is only head then in crisis when the mind goes out the window all we are left with is our core beliefs, the foundation of what we truly believe and this can make or break us.
In scripture it says renew your minds with the Word of GOD. We read and re-establish a thought process geared toward GOD as we reconstruct our thinking process to see through GOD's Truth. The Heart is not renewed by the written Word but by experiencing GOD, meditating, listening, stillness, silence. It is healed by experiencing GOD and communing with HIM and having HIM tell you with Words that Heal, who you are to HIM. In Proverbs it says "Guard your heart for out of it flow the issues of Life" the heart is how we react and act in this world and the direction we take our life in this world. This is why we must not only read and know GOD's word but commune with the LIVING WORD of GOD. We are addressing two different aspects of our humanity-the mind and the heart!
I will delve deeper into this in another article about Rewriting the Tablet of Your Heart but suffice to say you have CHRIST in you and HE is calling you to hear HIM. You have the written word to establish a foundation of Truth and parameters to operate in. In Christ Alone you have everything already...Be still and call unto HIM and HE will show you great and mighty things.
Blessings to you and let me know how your walk is going JB
The mind is our thoughts and thinking processes. Things that can change, things that are always in flux and sometimes very convoluted. In fact have you ever stood back and said why did I think that? To do that, to disagree with a thought means you are NOT your thoughts. At times your thoughts can be out of control and there is much that can control your thoughts.
It is the Heart that is the True you, the place as Christians we need to live out of but it also needs work too. You see the Heart is the core of your being, not Spirit but being, what your core beliefs and things you truly believe about GOD, yourself, the world around you. Most of which was written there by other people and their skewed and damaged views. Deep with in you is your Born Again Spirit and it tells you who you are and deep with in you know this but life deals us many scars that thicken the tympanic membrane of our heart's ear to hear the Spirit. Thus we have a problem. Jesus said " Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks" and as the LORD revealed to me it is usually when push comes to shove or the bottom drops out that we realize what we believe by our actions. Do we turn to the LORD and seek and Trust HIM or do we run to the world? In whom do we Trust? This is most important for if our knowledge of GOD is only head then in crisis when the mind goes out the window all we are left with is our core beliefs, the foundation of what we truly believe and this can make or break us.
In scripture it says renew your minds with the Word of GOD. We read and re-establish a thought process geared toward GOD as we reconstruct our thinking process to see through GOD's Truth. The Heart is not renewed by the written Word but by experiencing GOD, meditating, listening, stillness, silence. It is healed by experiencing GOD and communing with HIM and having HIM tell you with Words that Heal, who you are to HIM. In Proverbs it says "Guard your heart for out of it flow the issues of Life" the heart is how we react and act in this world and the direction we take our life in this world. This is why we must not only read and know GOD's word but commune with the LIVING WORD of GOD. We are addressing two different aspects of our humanity-the mind and the heart!
I will delve deeper into this in another article about Rewriting the Tablet of Your Heart but suffice to say you have CHRIST in you and HE is calling you to hear HIM. You have the written word to establish a foundation of Truth and parameters to operate in. In Christ Alone you have everything already...Be still and call unto HIM and HE will show you great and mighty things.
Blessings to you and let me know how your walk is going JB
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Not MY Will But Your Will Be Done, does saying that scare you?
Not My will but Your will be done. These words spoken by Jesus was the crux of what changed the course of humanity. It was here that fallen man was redeemed. As the first Adam sinned and wanted his will to be done and in so doing steeped all creation into sin. It was Jesus Christ the second Adam who bought us back and brought us back into right relationship with GOD. Jesus did not want to become the very thing He hated, sin. He did not want to be cut off from the Father, He did not want to go to the cross. In the garden of Gethsemane HE lined HIS will up with the Fathers. HE could have willed to say NO they are not worth this, forget it I AM out of here but no. Scripture says For the Joy set before HIM( that joy was you and me!) HE endured the cross despising its shame. Isaiah tells us it pleased the Father to bruise and crush Christ??!! It was for our sake, that was the plan from before the foundation of the world. Jesus the creator of this universe and us, planned to sacrifice HIMSELF if man sinned. Mind boggling the Love of GOD. For us, HE who knew no sin became sin, HE became anathema to GOD the Father. HE died for us so that we could be raised with HIM!!! The wages of sin are death and HE paid those wages in full for you and me. That is LOVE!
So what does that have to do with you and me, besides everything? Back to the will. Does saying Not my will but Yours be done scare you, does it conjure up being sent to the wildest most desolate areas of the world. Does fear rule you to think of having GOD's will be done in your life? Does anger or indignation rise up at the thought? Well then you don't know GOD! The solution as always is to know HIS love!
The Bible is replete with HIS love and HE constantly tells us of HIS love. Jesus showed us LOVE and told us of HIS love. John 3:16 so commonly quoted but never fully understood, tells us GOD so loved the world that HE sent HIS only SON to save us and Not condemn us. With that said would Jesus die for us so that the Father could be mean or indifferent to us? Makes no sense does it. Romans 8:32 says:
He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? That's scripture my friends I did not make that up. Think of the logic of that statement, if HE did not spare HIS son the tortures, the pain and humiliation of the cross but gladly allowed this to buy us why would HE not gives us all things to richly enjoy. We need to dive into the Truth of who GOD is and swim in that love and drink it in. Let not this corrupt and evil world tell us who GOD is let us let HIM do so.
Why am I stressing this point so much? Until you Know GOD as a loving Father you will never give HIM your will and as long as its your will it cant be HIS. We are not GOD nor can we run our lives but this is exactly what we are wanting and doing by denying GOD the opportunity to be GOD in our lives. By holding on to our will it is then our will being done in our lives and not HIS. This relationship only works with One GOD and that's HIM. To the extent that we will not yield to HIM this is the extent we Stop HIM. So by knowing HIS love for us and HIS desire to bless us and keep us in all our ways I pray you will Trust HIM who loves you with an everlasting love to say Not My will but Your Will be done. I cannot tell you how much HE loves you, not really though I have tried. Let HIM show you and teach you of HIS love. Spend that time and give HIM that place in your heart and I guarantee that The Joy of the LORD will be your strength and HIS will will be your will and you will be ONE...GOD bless JB
So what does that have to do with you and me, besides everything? Back to the will. Does saying Not my will but Yours be done scare you, does it conjure up being sent to the wildest most desolate areas of the world. Does fear rule you to think of having GOD's will be done in your life? Does anger or indignation rise up at the thought? Well then you don't know GOD! The solution as always is to know HIS love!
The Bible is replete with HIS love and HE constantly tells us of HIS love. Jesus showed us LOVE and told us of HIS love. John 3:16 so commonly quoted but never fully understood, tells us GOD so loved the world that HE sent HIS only SON to save us and Not condemn us. With that said would Jesus die for us so that the Father could be mean or indifferent to us? Makes no sense does it. Romans 8:32 says:
He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? That's scripture my friends I did not make that up. Think of the logic of that statement, if HE did not spare HIS son the tortures, the pain and humiliation of the cross but gladly allowed this to buy us why would HE not gives us all things to richly enjoy. We need to dive into the Truth of who GOD is and swim in that love and drink it in. Let not this corrupt and evil world tell us who GOD is let us let HIM do so.
Why am I stressing this point so much? Until you Know GOD as a loving Father you will never give HIM your will and as long as its your will it cant be HIS. We are not GOD nor can we run our lives but this is exactly what we are wanting and doing by denying GOD the opportunity to be GOD in our lives. By holding on to our will it is then our will being done in our lives and not HIS. This relationship only works with One GOD and that's HIM. To the extent that we will not yield to HIM this is the extent we Stop HIM. So by knowing HIS love for us and HIS desire to bless us and keep us in all our ways I pray you will Trust HIM who loves you with an everlasting love to say Not My will but Your Will be done. I cannot tell you how much HE loves you, not really though I have tried. Let HIM show you and teach you of HIS love. Spend that time and give HIM that place in your heart and I guarantee that The Joy of the LORD will be your strength and HIS will will be your will and you will be ONE...GOD bless JB
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Why in Christ Alone?
Why the title in Christ alone? As I walk out this life of faith it becomes more and more obvious its not me but CHRIST in me. All that is worth living, telling, sharing and loving is CHRIST and all else pales in comparison. HE is the beginning and the end, the first and the last. The whole Universe was created by HIM and for HIM and HE upholds it by the power of HIS word!
Paul says were are dead in Christ yet we live but not us but Christ in us. Jesus said apart from me you can do nothing but in HIM nothing is impossible to us. He has empowerd us to do the works HE wants done, it is in HIS name or authority that the devil flees and demons are cast out. It is HE, the second Adam, that redeemed us and bought us with the price of HIS precious blood. It is by HIM that we can speak to mountains and they move. By HIS love we are now eternally HIS one with the Father, JESUS is the door to the Father, HE is the bread of Life our Good Shepard.
I could go on and on but as you can see it is In Christ Alone my heart is found. HE is my light, my life, my song...for more inspiration listen to In Christ Alone by Maire Brennan, Joanna Hogg and Margaret Becker...GOD bless and know you are blessed..keep coming back and I will keep writing...JB
Paul says were are dead in Christ yet we live but not us but Christ in us. Jesus said apart from me you can do nothing but in HIM nothing is impossible to us. He has empowerd us to do the works HE wants done, it is in HIS name or authority that the devil flees and demons are cast out. It is HE, the second Adam, that redeemed us and bought us with the price of HIS precious blood. It is by HIM that we can speak to mountains and they move. By HIS love we are now eternally HIS one with the Father, JESUS is the door to the Father, HE is the bread of Life our Good Shepard.
I could go on and on but as you can see it is In Christ Alone my heart is found. HE is my light, my life, my song...for more inspiration listen to In Christ Alone by Maire Brennan, Joanna Hogg and Margaret Becker...GOD bless and know you are blessed..keep coming back and I will keep writing...JB
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