Commission of The Spirit

 "Now I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church. I have become its servant by the commission God gave me to present to you the word of God in its fullness— the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the Lord’s people."

COLOSSIANS 1:24-26

God makes you over in the Spirit at your choosing. In this make over, God makes you whole in his eyes - his purpose for all his children is to be a light - to be a pure bright light in the Spirit of Jesus Christ. This light is for the benefit of those in the dark - to be a beacon of hope, love and hope in the spirit of Christ Jesus.

The light that shines in you gets brighter and brighter the closer you walk in obedience with the Lord. His wish is for you to love him as you should love your heavenly father. He wants to raise you in the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

We are to be broken bread for Christ and poured out wine for his namesake. To be a light for God - to be used for only his purpose - God must break your human spirit such that you are obedient to his Holy Spirit. You cannot mind two masters. We are the bread to be broken for the molding purpose of the most high. 

Wine is not created without first squeezing the grapes for juice. We are the grapes to be squeezed in obedience to the Word of God. Our Father in heaven desires us to be filled with a new wine - the wine of the spirit of Christ.

Conscious in The Spirit

 "For when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, since I am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! If I preach voluntarily, I have a reward; if not voluntarily, I am simply discharging the trust committed to me."

1 CORINTHIANS 9:16-17

When you consciously accept the Lord into your life - and you actively seek him in all things - the Lord will respond and begin to take away every aspect of your life and make it new into a life with and for God. This does not mean - poof - everything that is difficult or challenging is over. No - The result of your current situation will all begin to take shape as the Lord fills you with his Spirit allowing you to handle and overcome any situation with his grace. God begins to shape you and the foundation at which all your life is derived from.

When the Lord reveals himself to you - there is but one way to go and one voice to listen to. When the Lord uncovers what was hidden and makes it known to you - how can there be any other call than the truth of Jesus Christ and his Holy Spirit? The call of God is supernatural as he is supernatural. Jesus Christ is a revelation that cannot be contained.

The Lord is my hope, my refuge, my shelter.

All hope and grace belong to king Jesus.

He is Lord of Lords and King of Kings.

Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord Almighty.

Give to The Poor

 Jesus looked at him and loved him. “One thing you lack,” he said. “Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

MARK 10:21

To be as Christ Jesus lived is the goal. It is also our direct privilege since Jesus came and conquered the world. In walking in absoluteness with Jesus, he will take you on HIS journey. not yours. Yours is dead in acceptance and obedience to the Spirit of Christ that lives within.

His way is real, it will require you to accept and experience absolute dependence on him. In this, your transformation to love - and the power of Christ - replaces worry and doubt for tomorrow. In your acceptance and obedience - Christ Jesus - the Spirit of the most high - lives in you.

The Lord's will is that you follow him first - before any other thing or person forges the path in which you take. Jesus specifically asks the wealthy to give to the poor - and in such - you will receive treasure in heaven. The call of Jesus for you is to completely reconcile your way to his way and then allow his will to be done in you through the Holy Spirit. Jesus will provide the Spirit to give you power -  choose him and follow his way.

The Call "To Go"

 As they were walking along the road, a man said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.”

Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

LUKE 9:57-58

The word of God is final. Absolute. In this world, we have created many schedules and things of perceived importance. The truth is that Jesus Christ came, triumphed at the cross - rescinded his Spirit to God - The Father, and in us - His chosen children - (All people who except Jesus is the risen Lord and Savior and honor God's laws).

In this, your spirit is given new in Christ Jesus - this begins the makeover that God has planned to bring you into perfect harmony as a direct and obedient temple for the Spirit of God - The Father Is the Son through the Holy Spirit.

Jesus does not soft peddle what you need to do for him. He is first and everything must come second to be his disciple. His words are abrupt and sound discouraging in today's world where all actions are pardoned. To live for Jesus - there can be no thing that hinders his will being done in you. Therefore, Jesus calls you specifically to remove the gap that lies between you and him and he says - follow me.

To Be Blameless

“Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift."

MATTHEW 5:23-24 

To be blameless is to be free in heart and mind. It is to be of the same mind and heart of Christ Jesus. In his Spirit he gives this right to you. It is the foregoing of one's personal will for eternity and lovingly allowing the Spirit of Jesus - the Spirit of God to permeate in all aspects of your being - creating a single Spirit in Christ.

This singular Spirit of Christ allows you complete access to him and the Father. In this - you can do all things. It is through faith and obedience the Lord provides a oneness of Spirit - not works. It is to be blameless.

To be reconciled to God is to be blameless. If there is one that may hold you accountable to fault, bring your love for God to them and make amends for your fault, then the Lord will hold you blameless and accept your Holy offering with great joy as you have done his will of loving others before yourself.

Discipleship in The Holy Spirit

  "If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles. Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you."

MATTHEW 5:41-42

To know you are a disciple is to know that there is nothing of greater importance at any given time then to fulfill the Lord's will. That means you are second. The disciple in Christ carries with him the Spirit of Jesus, the Spirit of Love, the Spirit of Truth.

In this acceptance to the will of Christ Jesus through the Spirit - you become supernaturally made over into the oneness of Christ. Your will IS his will by no efforts, but rather by will of the Spirit of Christ Jesus that now lives in you. God is a spirit. God is love. God is all.

Discipleship only is made possible by the Holy Spirit of Jesus. There are no mental efforts that will allow you to do as Jesus asks of you without the Holy Spirit. He is the power. You are the tool to be used. The supernatural change that God makes inside you is providing his Holy Spirit as your guide - your helper - your advocate - your mighty counselor. God speaks to you from the inside through his Holy Spirit. You are made to communicate directly with God from the inside of you by the power of the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ Our King.

You Are The Gift to God

 “Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift."

MATTHEW 5:23-24

To sacrifice yourself to God - you must be prepared to be made completely new. The same loving forgiveness from Lord Jesus is there to be had for anyone regardless of what the sin is. The Lord has redeemed ALL and is available to all who will have him.

To have him in great fullness of spirit you must cleanse your body of sin and be made clean in the Spirit of Christ Jesus. This renewal can be difficult - but with Jesus with you - the spirit he has provided makes everything whole again.

The Lord's goal for you is that you will give your life to him so he can love through you.

The Goal of The Mission

 Jesus took the Twelve aside and told them, “We are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled."

LUKE 18:31

The Lord Almighty, our Father in heaven created us as was Jesus. The truth is - when accepted in faith - we have the same power as Jesus. In his walk - he had to save us from ourselves - so he triumphed at the cross. God wants the same fellowship with us. 

The good news is Jesus Christ. He died and rose again. We need not die - but just live through the spirit of Christ Jesus. In this - Our Father sees our truth in Jesus and your path and destiny will be revealed. We need not be Jesus - just to give our lives to him and be rewarded with eternity.

Service Through Love

 "You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am. Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you."

JOHN 13:13-14

To walk with the Lord in complete obedience is truly to walk in truth without efforts. Jesus is Lord of my life. This is the complete acceptance that Jesus died and rose for us. In this, we are made whole. We are sons and daughters of the most high God AND brothers and sisters of our Lord Christ Jesus.

This is truth - Christ is our eternal love, our flame, our family, our hope, our desire. Own Jesus as Savior and brother - his spirit is given to you in hopes you allow Jesus to live through you - in harmony - as one. Together.

Jesus does not force his will on you. He has chosen you and he also desires for you to choose him. Jesus is love in the flesh, therefore he gives love through the service of his life. Through his Holy Spirit - his love - the love from Jesus in heaven will descend on you such that you may also be love in the flesh through the Holy Spirit for the purpose of giving love to others in the name of Jesus through service of your life.

Missionary Purpose

 "And now the Lord says - he who formed me in the womb to be his servant to bring Jacob back to him  and gather Israel to himself, for I am honored in the eyes of the Lord and my God has been my strength he says"

ISAIAH 49:5-6 

Man was created by God - for God. The purpose of man is to give his life to God. This is Jesus Christ. In giving all your life to Christ Jesus - your spirit is reborn into his. Yes - you are created as a temple for the Spirit of the most high God - to be used specifically and Only to fulfill his will.

It is divine perfection to taste and feel the love and peace of the heavens given to you by Christ Jesus. Walk in the path of the Lord and never be afraid. Jesus is king - He keeps you exactly how he desires - with Love. God is Love.

God created man to serve his purpose on the earth, but sin altered this purposeful intention for man. Jesus is firm and absolute with us because he knows the truth about life and creation. To be of service for God - the Spirit that guides you must come from Jesus not human intention. We are made worthy to serve God only through Jesus Christ as he is the way.

Spiritual Perfection

And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect. 

MATTHEW 5:48-49

God is a Spirit. God is Love. To live in the Spirit is to live in this life as Lord Jesus. Not to be him, but to be rewarded in the Heavenly Spirit given unto you by him. He lives in us by our faith in allowing him to makeover our complete life. 

As you are made over, the ways of yesterdays human life are over and the Lord Jesus heavenly ways begin. Accept Jesus in all situations and his heavenly love and wisdom will permeate into every aspect of each breath you take. He is Lord of your life. King of Kings.

Through the power of The Holy Spirit from Jesus, we are called to live through him. We are to allow God's life to be lived in us with power and wisdom from heaven, not to act Godly as humans. Jesus says to be perfect as your heavenly father is perfect. Therefore, through Jesus and his Spirit, we can be perfect for God such that his will is made complete in us as it was in him. Jesus is the Lord.

To be perfect for God is to Love your neighbor and to Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and then put his love in action for others such that he is seen in you.

Walk with Jesus

 You are those who have stood by me in my trials. 29 And I confer on you a kingdom, just as my Father conferred one on me, 30 so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

LUKE: 22:28-30

Walking with Jesus as a true disciple is forgoing all worldly things, thoughts and temptations. As you walk with him - the journey to discipleship is new and difficult to understand because it is the opposite of the world and all that your human mind can understand.

God knows your path already even when you feel lost, sad or depressed. Trust Jesus for he conquered the world to show us the truth of the world. Fear not the unknown. Fear not the difficulties of giving up the world and stand fast with peace and love in your heart in the perfect truth of Jesus Christ.

Spiritual Temptation

 "Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin."

HEBREWS 4:14-15

Christ Jesus came to show us how to live and how to be saved from the laws. The world is but a spiritual field masked by what the eyes show and the senses feel. The truth is the Lord Jesus. The way is Lord Jesus. In the re-birth and baptism of the Lord you are made new.

This new is pure as the Spirit of the Lord is descended upon you. This spirit allows the renewing of your heart and mind to see as the Lord Jesus does. This truth changes temptation from the perspective of man to that of the most high God. In this truth salvation is found.

Temptation From God

 "No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it."

1 CORINTHIANS 10:13

Temptation is simply the outward pull of desire as a reflection of inner man. The temptations that you feel outwardly reveal the inner spirit of the man. As you walk with the Lord - allow the transformation of your heart and mind to reveal your new temptations.

Feel not worried to have temptation for this is by design - reform that for which you are tempted though by the purification of your spirit in Christ Jesus. Allow the temptation of man to be the outward desires of the Spirit of the Lord.

Temptation itself is not sin. Temptations that you experience due to a lack of focus on God that are yielded to in lust can lead to sin. "Do not lead us into temptation," is said in prayer with a focus on God to yield your human nature of temptation to manifest itself for God's purpose.

Private Prayer

"But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words."

MATTHEW 6:6-7

We are designed and created to be in full and open communion with God. This is our birth right in the acceptance of Jesus Christ as Savior. This is why we say, "born again."The Father wants your devotion. He wants you to honor him in the specific manner that his son Jesus taught us.

Pray not for things that are passing away - but pray for the eternal fellowship the Lord offers through his son. Ask not what can be done for you, but for what you can do for your Lord.

The purpose of prayer is to communicate with God - the creator of the Heavens and the Earth and everything in it - the Creator of the seas and skies and everything in it. Prayer is an act of faith in love for God. When you pray - your mind is raised up to God with intention for God in the name of Jesus Christ.

Private prayer and devotion to God are necessary to receive power from God. It is in the private devotion where the strength of the disciple is gained and the true knowledge of our invisible God is realized. 

Renounce Shameful Ways

"Therefore, since through God’s mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart. Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God." 

2 CORINTHIANS 4:1-2

Renounce all that is not from the Lord. Let your heavenly wisdom guide you in not making the mistake of diverting from the Lord's course. Others may resort to self motive or craftiness to obscure a situation into a different favor. Never allow this, stay the course to sainthood in honoring the Lord in all things.

As the Lord allows you to see through his eyes - your responsibility to the Lord increases. You know what others don't and you must allow them to see the light of the Lord in you.

If there is a thing that is in private thought or action that you wish not to be made known publicly, renounce it at once. Remove all shameful thoughts and actions and be renewed by the word of God. 

Jesus is The Way

 "But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the Spirit you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough."

2 CORINTHIANS 11:3-4

Understand that Jesus is the essence of simplicity. He said through "no works" will you be entered into his kingdom. This means believe in him, his words and the powerful everlasting Spirit of God.

In obedience to the ways of Jesus and baptism of The Holy Spirit - the spirit of Jesus literally lives inside you - he gives you his all conquering spirit. Mold your mind into renewing all thoughts into the ways of Jesus. It is only through simple belief and strict obedience that you become one with Christ Jesus in the Spirit.

 

Surrender to Jesus

“Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do."

JOHN 17:1-4 

The complete act of discipleship is walking with the Lord for all things. Removing oneself from the world to follow Jesus. In doing this, it is difficult, but know Jesus is there for eternity burning his spirit bright inside.

In the hard times he is there as well as the easy times. Fear not of the untruths that manifest into false beliefs in the world. Forsake what is seen for the unseen truth of Jesus Christ. To deny Christ is to deny your own salvation. Walk with Jesus and allow him to reveal his truth in you.

Surrender you heart to Jesus and be filled with love. Surrender your will to Jesus and be set free. Surrender your mind to the one you holds the key to life and death and worry no more. Surrender your will to Jesus and allow his life to be lived in you. 

God is always patient - never demanding of any man's heart. Jesus asks for you to willingly by choice come unto him. To come unto Jesus is to deny ones personal self and will for his will and life purpose to be done in you.

The Spiritual Unknown

“You don’t know what you are asking,”

MATTHEW 20:22

Spiritual confusion happens when you follow Christ - yet endure very difficult situations. In these difficult situations you respond with softness and patience only the Lord can provide through the Spirit. It is how God teaches his strong spirit filled children.

Learning in God's way is to experience much hardship as Jesus did - but overcome and spread the great news. Jesus overcame the entire world for you to come to him for guidance. Don't leave him, he wants you most when you feel the most pain - so he can love you - just the way you need him too.

Missionary Service

  “You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am. Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. Very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him."

JOHN 13:13-16

Through God's grace all things are possible. God is all. In such, to receive all - you must prove all life and all work and all situations that you will perform as he chooses. This is words, heart and health. The purity of heart in your makeover is at the very crux of the training God puts you through to be released into the world.

This is how God makes you over - then all good things are complete and meaningful in the name of Jesus.

Jesus has called us to serve one another. This is what he showed with his life in all of his encounters with people. Jesus lived his life as a blessing to everyone who entered his path. We are not called to simply tell people what Jesus said and did. No - We are called to do what Jesus said and did through The Holy Spirit. Jesus is the teacher of life. He came to save us and also show us how to live.

Let us serve one another in this day in the name of our Lord Christ Jesus. Let us show those who do not know Jesus how to love our neighbor. Let us be love as Jesus is love. 

Unseen Worship

 "How do you know me?” Nathanael asked.

Jesus answered, “I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you.”

JOHN 1:48

The real test of faith is not Sunday at church. It is taking advantage of every second and every opportunity -  when nobody else is around or listening - seek the Lord. It is only through absolute dependence on the Lord that the Lord makes you ready for his work in the world.

This is how Jesus takes his chosen. They are rejected by the world, yet find solace with Jesus. In this truth -Jesus teaches and trains you through your love for him. Pray not at your time of need only, but strengthen up your relationship at every interval.

Well rooted faith is practiced in private. It is in the unseen times of worship where you gain strength in faith. Private worship of God is where you are made worthy to be seen in public for him. It is where you prove to God that you are his. If you devote your unseen life to Christ - the Lord makes you fit to be relied on in the difficult.

Captive For Christ

 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 

2 CORINTHIANS 10:5

In giving my life for Christ Jesus as he did for me, I have no choice but to honor my brother with the Spirit he has blessed me with. As we are renewed and filled with the Spirit given by Jesus we have no alternative but to be obedient.

I cannot - once accepting of the Spirit - now say - I live on my own free will. No, I can only live through the Spirit entrusted to my flesh. God is love - God is all - God is a Spirit. In accepting my brother and Savior Jesus, I accept the Spirit of my creator - my father, my everything.

The life of the saint is cloaked in Christ. Each thought and action is to be obedient to Christ for his perfect will to be fulfilled. The son can do nothing outside of his father's will. It is not impulse that drives the mission of the saint but the very purposeful intentional call of Jesus. There is no power without Christ. The mind of man does not know the will of God - through Jesus Christ and The Holy Spirit you are specifically called to have your mind renewed into his love - where his truth and life will be revealed to you.

You Can Do It

  "The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ."

2 CORINTHIANS 10:4-5

Through Jesus, we have power, we have the Spirit. We have all that we need. Only through Jesus can we breathe in such that we have his spirit in us. He overcame all the world. In his acceptance, you have his power - the power of the Spirit of God. To know this is divine. 

You can accept Jesus and walk with him as he has told all. In this day, the Lord has called and I have answered. Through the Spirit given to me by my Lord Jesus - I have been chosen as the son to deliver my brothers children home.

The fight for Christ only begins at the point that our disposition has been sanctified by Christ. In this - we live not by human nature but rather by The Spirit - which is the moral decision line for which all choice is made. Spiritual living is not easy as it is counter to the way of the world and the typical decision making that is made. The moral line of decision making for God creates the innocent heart from within for which God is most pleased.

Through The Holy Spirit of God we have the power to demolish strongholds and arguments of every pretension that sets itself against the knowledge of God. This is true today. Through the Spirit and Power of Jesus Christ Our Lord, we have what we need from on high to let the Lord's will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

The Light of Love

“Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

JOHN 4:13-14

The promise of Jesus Christ is that in your acceptance of him as son is true belief - true wisdom. In this belief and knowledge of the Spirit of Jesus, rivers of living water will flow through you. 

As you create a oneness with Jesus through the Spirit given - Jesus will live through you - using you to get his message of redemption and truth to all those that have been called to listen. In such, you have truth. Place no gaps between you and Jesus and all will be shown.

The blessing you receive is not to remain idle with you but rather its purpose is to brighten your bulb so that you may be a light for Christ. To be a light - you must know Jesus - and know that he is the one that blesses and brightens you. To receive a blessing from God is divine - to receive wisdom from the Lord is life - to obtain understanding from the one that is, that always was and who is still to come is miraculous. There is no fear in Christ as there is no thing that he did not already conquer. Jesus did this for you. 

God so loves the world that he gave his only son, so that whoever believes in him will not die but have eternal life.

Come to Me and Drink

 “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. 

JOHN 7:37-39 

To know Jesus is too understand that no matter how difficult a task may be, the spirit you have inside can and will overcome all barriers in which the mind cannot conceive. Work not on understanding how something may occur, but rather on your close relationship with Jesus.

It is through Jesus - the barriers fall and the living waters will flow. You are the conduit. Through obedience and dependence on the Lord - all that needs to be done will be done. The Father knows more than the son, it is the ask of the son to be obedient - through faith - all is possible.

A river presses on regardless of what is in its path. Should a barrier fall in the path of the river, the water will quickly find a way around or through the barrier as it flows persistently. Do not focus on the barrier - but keep your heart and mind focused on Jesus. He is calling you to a closer relationship with him. 

It is Christ Jesus himself that flows through you by the spirit he has provided. Jesus is the water of life and he will quench the thirst of your heart, calm the unease in your mind and fill you with love from heaven.

Watch With Me

 “Couldn’t you men keep watch with me for one hour?”

MATTHEW 26:40

The Holy Spirit is God - The Father IS the Son THROUGH The Holy Spirit. As Jesus rose - he replaced his physical body on earth with The Holy Spirit - a replacement for the spirit of man. It is given through acceptance and baptism of Jesus and The Spirit.

He watches the world not from afar, but from your very eyes. We as Christians are but earthly bodies given eternity through the Spirit of Jesus Christ. We are his missionaries in all we do. He is always here.

"Watch with me," is what Jesus said to the twelve - but they didn't understand what he meant. The twelve were sad and scared for themselves as they scattered when Jesus was arrested as The Holy Spirit had not yet been given. We are asked by Jesus to watch with him - together - as a team that cannot be separated - not to watch for him.

He is always here - seek and you shall find. Jesus is after you. He seeks your heart and mind to be molded into his ways and his Holy Spirit to dwell in you perfectly so that he may comfort you, guide you and love you from everlasting to everlasting.

I am His

 “I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them."

JOHN 17:6-8

To belong to Jesus - is to entirely - by choice - give all to him. The act of giving your life to Jesus is hard. It is to forsake all that you have learned and seen for the unseen. It is to allow the Spirit given to you in acceptance and baptism of your Lord to permeate into and through your entire being.

The journey to oneness with Christ is not easy - Jesus and his original 12 had a hard time. At Pentecost the Holy Spirit was poured out giving magnificent power to all those who accepted truth. The same opportunity exists today. 

Jesus already conquered. He is already here.

A disciple belongs to Jesus. It is the understanding that you do not belong to yourself but rather to the Lord that is the call of the missionary. I am not mine but have been made and prepared for the purpose of Jesus - such that his light is seen and his way is known. 

Jesus did not send any of his followers out into the world to speak about him until after his death and resurrection. First, he proved he was God as the grave could not keep him. Then, after his resurrection he gave The Holy Spirit to his followers at Pentecost. 

"The Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD, and He will delight in the fear of the Lord." 

You have been chosen by Jesus as his own special possession. The disciple belongs to Christ and Jesus himself looks after him for you are his witness. The mission is not about what the Lord has done for you - but knowing that you are his and he is living his will through you.

The Water of Life

 "David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!” So the three mighty warriors broke through the Philistine lines, drew water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem and carried it back to David. But he refused to drink it; instead, he poured it out before the Lord."

2 SAMUEL 23:16

When the Lord gives you a blessing of any sort, know the first fruits belong to the Lord. Take not for yourself the blessing in haste and stubbornness of thought. Look at the heavens, say thank you and give unto those in such that the blessing of the Lord may be given to others through you.

This is how living waters of truth, love and grace abound through you by the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Be fooled not by the world and the false desires you seek. You have eternity in the Lord Jesus.

The mighty men of David risked their own lives for the sake of providing water to their King. David saw the Lord had allowed his men to be successful for his sake, therefore the water retrieved he could not drink but pour out before God in thanks. It is God who is honored in this - and those who bear witness to another's devotion to God has their gaze brought up to heaven as well.

Jesus is the power - we are the tool to be used for his perfection and love purpose. Self indulgence in the Blessing will not bring forth new joy - but rather bitterness. It is for the Glory of God that the blessing is given - if the blessing does not pass through you - how can you be a river of living water that never ceases to flow?

The River of Living Water

 "Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”

JOHN 7:38

The Lord Jesus didn't come here to be a motivational speaker with business advice. He came to save the world. Discipleship is when you abandon all that is currently known for faith in the unseen Spirit of Jesus Christ.

The goal for man is to release the power of The Spirit of Jesus to the world. To heal, to bring peace, love and heavenly joy. To rid the world of lies, hate and fear. Jesus conquered all - and he gives you the power of the Father through the Spirit of triumph he gave at the cross. Accept it.

The Lord Jesus is asking us to be as he was. He has given us the power to do all these things through The Holy Spirit. His purpose was not only to save mankind but also to give us the power he has by choosing him and walking in his way with him - for him. He is the water of life  - through Jesus Christ you can do all things - and he will do all things through you for the purpose of love.

Jesus is the model for man. It is the goal of God to have each person choose Jesus, accept his Holy Spirit and do the specific things that Jesus did and asked us to do. He came to set us free and show us how to live for God. Jesus lives and he is love. Jesus lives and he is calling you. Jesus lives.

The Call of Holiness

 "But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy."

1 PETER 1:15-16

The world and its many visions create a distorted view of life - and its pursuit of happiness. The Lord says we are to pursue Holiness. In this search for Holiness - you create a oneness with the Lord allowing your body, mind and spirit to be sanctified by Jesus Christ.

In such pursuits and achievements of Holiness - Happiness is found - Heavenly peace and divine love will pour from you. This gift is from the Lord - Accept Jesus and his pure Spirit of heavenly virtues and be Holy as the Lord created us to be.

Jesus came to show us how to live for God. He showed us how to live as Saints of the Most High God for the purpose of fulfilling his will. We are called specifically to be Holy because he is Holy. For The Holy Spirit to dwell in you - you must turn from the sinful misguided ways of the world and turn to Jesus in all things. He is Holy - you are not Holy without Christ being born again from within you.

Jesus removed the barrier between us and God. To be Holy is not to be complacent. To be Holy is not to mutter in displeasure. To be Holy is not to grumble about a circumstance. To be Holy is to know that God has placed you where you are with intention. To be Holy is to be loving. To be Holy is to follow Jesus.

Holiness is achieved through Jesus Christ - by accepting his truth, allowing his life to be lived in you through The Holy Spirit and living purposely for God with the intention of allowing his love to be seen in you through loving others.