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At work at lot of times, while doing what I do, I don't envision myself in a warehouse walking down aisles trying to find parts. Instead, most of the time I can see a sea of people, both eager and hunger to see what He has tell them. Most days it's usually something border lining what I can tell babies, but today more secrets have been revealed.
Let me start this note by saying that by no means do I take lightly the secrets of His kingdom. Honestly I believe that though the apostles reached extremely high goals, that we who can learn from them, have the opportunity to both do more and run deeper in the knowledge of who He is. Thus, I firmly believe that God has kept some things hidden, some things secret for such a time as this. I believe that this generation that is rising today will witness God at much faster pace than our forefathers, and as a result we will bare witness to the Spirit that gives power for His glory.
Jesus told a crowd of disciples and Pharisees once that all the laws given to Moses (including the other 300 laws) could all be summed up with just one simple command: Love your neighbor as yourself. Something I've heard my whole life, but I cannot attest that I've given my full effort to keeping it. But as walked up and down the stairs at my job today, His Spirit began to show me things as the words on the pages of my Bible began to almost literally jump off the pages. "Love does no harm to its neighbor." (Romans 13:10) Immediately what the author was saying became clear: Love your neighbor the same way that God loves you.
God knows what is best for you, often times more than you know what is best for you. Also God loves you through Grace, and included in that Grace is favor. Basically God gives His love to you though you don't deserve it and knowing that there is nothing you can do to earn it. And that is the essence of Grace.
Inside of Grace we find Favor. How many times have gone into situations not knowing that God's favor, given to us and not earned, surrounds us like a shield, and everyone who comes in contact with us must first come in contact with that shield? It's Grace. God loves you through Grace and His commandment to "Love your neighbor as yourself," is really a command to love your neighbor the same way God loves you.
God holds no grudges, holds no sins, and most certainly holds no judgments against you. His anger and judgment was poured out on Jesus for all you past sins, you present sins, and your future sins. In the same way how much more should we treat each other with love, through the Grace that God has given us? In doing so we fulfill the law the same way Jesus did (Romans 13:10), with love.
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Nothing elborate tonight, no elaborate stories with spiritual endings, tonight's note is a note that hopefully pushes us to remember who we are, and hopefully challenges you to begin to walk in what is provided in the very person of Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 1:7-9 says that in Jesus we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, and He (God) has lavished us with all wisdom and understanding. And He (God) has made known the mystery of His will, ACCORDING TO HIS GOOD PLEASURE, which He (God) purposed in Christ.
Isn't that awesome? Upon receiving Grace (Jesus), you then receive the benefits. You become redeemed (to deliver from sin and its consequences), meaning that you no longer have to ever feel or suffer the consequences of your sins, past, present, or future. "For it us by Grace that you have been saved.it is the gift of God, not by works." - Ephesians 2:8 So fighting to live up to the Ten Commandments only ends in failure, but now by recognizing your faults, stop allowing the enemy to batter you and destroy you for not being perfect. Just remind him that it's not by works that we have been saved, but by GRACE. And that Grace is Jesus Himself.
In that Grace we receive forgiveness of sins, we receive wisdom in all things; we receive the understanding in all things, and most importantly the mystery of His will is made known to us. No longer do you have to guess if God wants you be sick, or if God wants you to be poor and broke the rest of your life. For it is according to His good richess (not mine or yous, but His) that we receive everything we will ever need. And all this because He finds pleasure in doing it.
For He is Jehovah Jireh, not the Lord will provide, but the Lord IS my provision. Jehovah Rophe, not the Lord is my healer, but the Lord IS my healing. Jehovah Tsidkenu, not the Lord gives me righteousness, but the Lord IS my righteousness. You see He is everything I will ever need. He's not my healer, but He is my healing. He doesn't provide for me, because He is my provision. All that I have ever needed and will ever need is found in Him, the Creator of the universe. And the best part is that He lives in me, so I'm never sick, I'm never in need or want, and I am always righteous.
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Tonight I watched God preform the greatest miracle ever, and being so caught up in the moment, almost missed how significant it was.
When did I get so caught up in trying heal people, trying to see people delivered and set free that I almost totally forgot what it is really all about? Of course those are great miracles, and who can look down on that? In fact in the last 2 to 3 months, I've seen someone delivered from demonic oppression, I've heard a testimony straight from the mouth of a girl that had me pray for a hainkerchief, believing that her mom would be healed, testify that nearly a month later, the disease that the doctors diagnosed as irreversable begin to clear up. Another man whose mother is in the hospital with three different diseases, after praying for the situation, is watchin now as she takes steps to walk out the hospital on her own without the help of anyone else.
All that said, I've seen and heard as God has done some really amazing stuff in these last 2 to 3 months. From personal testimonies of how God has literally sent unknown people across my path and fed me when I didn't have lunch, to meeting a complete stranger at Bojangles and God using him to fill in the blanks and put together the left over pieces in my head. So you see these last 2 to 3 months have been crazy.
But tonight was different. You see when you become "born-again" we call it a miracle, because the person literally dies to theirself, is birthed spiritually into the family of God, and becomes married to Christ, therefore becoming the bride of Christ (or the body of Christ). Thats the greatest miracle ever! because once you become apart of the family, then everything in the Will belongs to you, and is handed to you. Your healing that you'll need a year from now, is given to you the moment you accepted Christ. Food for lunch tomorrow when you don't have any money is provided for you in Christ. All the physical and literal needs that you have now and needs that will arise in the future have all been given to you the moment you accept Jesus.
When you begin to understand what Jesus did you for on the cross, the literal price that he payed so that you would never have to experience God's judgement and wrath against any sin after Him, you'll begin to live life to the fullest. And all the other miracles will begin to seem like nothing in comparison to miracle of you becoming a new creation.
"He who is seated on the throne has said, 'Behold, I am making everything new!' "
"...and there will be no more death or mourning, crying or pain, for the old things have passed and the new has come."
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Tonight, I'll write alone.
What is it to have faith? to honestly 100% believe in something that I cannot see. To trust that no matter the outcome You've got my back. And more than that, that You'll not only provide all my needs for me forever, but that before the very foundations of the world were laid, You had already set my victory into motion and planned a way of escape when I'm in danger.
To really ( and I mean really) understand what faith is, you must first understand how real, how big, and how serious He is. When He said that "I will supply all your needs according to My riches and glory," read on, and later find out that He said, "I own all the cattle on a thousand hills. The silver and gold belongs to Me," he meant it! He was serious! And as loving as a father can be, will He not take care of His children?
Not too long ago I struggled with the idea that the when I sinned, willfully and knowing that what I was doing was wrong, that He was angry and beginning to turn away from me. That somehow my actions restricted me from the Grace He so willingly gave me. But it is by Grace that we are saved and no sin before nor after is greater than all the Grace and all the Mercy and the Love that He has given me to be with me.
My spirit man is made PERFECT through the son, its my flesh that argues with foolish thoughts that first condemn and then later push me to the rejection of just how strong His Love really is. So understand that no action, neither good nor bad can bring me any closer nor push me farther away from He has ordained as my salvation. This cannot be worked nor manipulated. There is nothing that I can do to save myself, before and after his sacrifice was made. Just believe!
But believing for the sake of your salvation is not all that He designed. As I said before, my provision for tomorrow is already made so that He can get the glory. My victory next week is already won because He has already commanded the angels to fight this battle and win, and still so that He can get the glory out of it.
When I forget to make a provision for my future, I simply believe. This is already taken care of/won!
The most simple and yet most basic of all the principles in the universe is to just believe. To maintain the innocence of a child, and just believe that what your Father has told you will happen, first without my consent (because He is a good Father that takes care of children) will happen, and secondly without my knowledge of how. What really makes Him happy are people who can just believe, even as your holding the dagger to slay the very promise that He made you, believing that if He doesn't stop you that He will bring that promise back to life, because He cannot lie. He is a good Father.
Now BELIEVE it!!!
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