Eyes of The Holy Spirit

 "I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me."

ACTS 26:17-18

I am but a temple of the most high God. Given over by choice to Christ Jesus in all things. In the Lords perfect spirit of peace he allows the shedding of all idols  - all things not rightly related to his Holy path. It is in this spirit - you see truth.

It is only in this spirit - that you have power and grace from on high to walk in the light - to be a light - shining to all nations in sanctification. Praise Christ Jesus forever and ever.

The evidence for which a person has encountered Christ is that for which they have received. You do not encounter the living God Christ Jesus without receiving new eyes and a new heart. A lack of faith is blindness - not loving your neighbor is to reject Christ. 

You are to turn lost souls from darkness to light and replace their heart of stone with a heart of love through the love and grace of King Jesus. The power is in him - the willingness to be used by God is up to you. It is not knowledge of the Lord that saves or helps people - it is through his Spirit that we are changed and made new.

The Hidden Life

 "Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God."

COLOSSIANS 3:2-3

When you accept Christ Jesus as Lord and truth - it becomes more difficult to live in sin. As you accept Jesus - and follow him - The life of Christ is born in you - Christ Jesus gives you his spirit - his joy - his peace. There is no peace or joy without Jesus.

When you follow the Lord and all his decrees and you call on Jesus - the eternal Lord WILL show up - it is then - you can never live in the world again - but only for Jesus - to help spread the Gospel. Christ Jesus is the hidden life of eternity that is available for all who choose to see.

Revelation of The Holy Spirit

 "For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us."

1 CORINTHIANS 2:11-12

Many do not understand Jesus. Many do not understand the spirit. The rebirth through baptism of water in acceptance of Jesus Christ as the risen Lord and the Holy Spirit is only known through faith. No experience not related to God is worthy of thought.

Jesus Christ - the Son of God and the Spirit of the Most High is the only Truth. Jesus lives - he lives in all those who accept him as Lord and Savior. He is love. This spirit will set you free by infusing you with God's love, peace, joy, wisdom and patience. The Lord is truth - call on Christ Jesus - The Lord is waiting at your door.

The Spirit of God works in you - changing the inner thought dialogue to include the voice of The Holy Spirit of Jesus. This voice speaks to you from the inside in the same manner in which you hear your own thoughts. You are designed for communion with God through Prayer and continual dialogue. Faith and obedience to Christ are the lifeblood of the voice and Spirit of God to work in you.

Disobedience and sin lead to the voice of God being snuffed out inside of you as you choose the way of the failing world. Jesus desires a personal relationship with you so that he may give you his spirit such that his will is done in you and through you.

Loyal To Christ

"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters." 

ROMANS 8:28-29

The test of loyalty comes in difficulty. Christians today are much like the Jewish people of old - they would not recognize the Lord among them due to his humility. Jesus did not live for praise - but for obedience to the father. It is in this way that we, today, must be.

The Lord will work in us exactly as he did Jesus - The father is the son through the Holy Spirit - Make yourself whole before the Lord and do as Jesus did for you. Give your life to him in the most difficult unimaginable situation. Call on Jesus in your pain and sorrow and he Will be there. Fear only disobedience to Christ - For he is the Only truth.

There are many misunderstandings about Jesus, but the greatest among those who call him Lord is that he can not do in you what he said he can and will do. Jesus lives today. Let him do his work in you.

Redemption - Life in The Holy Spirit

 "This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit." 

1 CORINTHIANS 2:13-14

Those who walk with God, need God. He is our father - creator - brother - hope - faith and truth. The Lord created you to desire his word - his heavenly peace that only he can provide. There is no food or sport that fills the desires of the heart like the most high God has created in you.

It is in redemption that you truly begin to thirst and hunger for your Lord. Jesus says, a man must not live on bread alone but on the word of God. It is in Jesus that we are fed. It is in Jesus that we drink the water of life.

A life lived on the line of redemption is constantly working to alter our disposition to make us new - into the life of Christ - manifested through our bodies. This life is only lived through the Holy Spirit for the purpose of God.

The Holy Spirit is the spirit of God and is received through Baptism by water in the name of the Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit. The Lord Jesus provides you his Holy Spirit when you ask for forgiveness of your sins, turn from your ways and through faith follow him. The Holy Spirit is the spirit of God and it lives inside you as you are obedient and faithful to Jesus. The purpose of The Holy Spirit is to counsel you and be your advocate everywhere you go in every situation such that you can do his will.

Take Up Your Cross

 “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it."

MATTHEW 16:24-25

The Lord asks that we give all of our lives to him such that we are made new in him. In this giving - you accept that your individual life is gone - thus aligning all you are to Christ Jesus. Individuality separates the direct communion and fellowship that Christ Jesus requires we give him.

Reconcile yourself to the Lord in all ways - renew your heart and mind in the word and spirit of God. Seek Jesus in everything - he lives in you - for you - as you allow through faith and obedience. In faith, the desires of Jesus become your desires thus allowing you to be used by him as a lampstand to draw all those who seek him.

All life is ordained by god. You are not created to walk alone or be left alone to your decisions. God is love and Jesus desires a very personal relationship with you. He loves you as only true love can. Jesus asks that you deny yourself so that you can follow him. You cannot follow your way and his way at the same time. The crossroads of man and God meet at the cross of Jesus Christ. Choose to follow Jesus in this day and let your mind rest in his loving spirit.

The purpose of life for Christ was to go to the cross to redeem all people. God loves people so he gave us his only son Jesus to be the sacrifice to break free of the law of Moses. We do not have to go to the cross or carry our own cross. Jesus did this for us to set us free. Take up your cross of individuality and follow Jesus.

Redemption

 "For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy."

HEBREWS 10:14 

The great truth in redemption is that Christ Jesus has already absolved the world and conquered the evil one. It is already done. Those who accept the Lord Jesus as the sinless risen Lord that he is - recognize the truth of the cross.

It is at the cross where sin was beaten - where the Lord triumphed over evil and gave himself willingly as the only perfect human atonement for every sin of man. One man lived - died and rose again in purity and love. He is Lord. He is alive and his name is Jesus Christ.

Redemption only comes through accepting what Jesus did on the cross. There is no line of being sorry that will make you right or save you from death. There is no acceptable sacrifice that can be brought before God - as he gave the world his only son Jesus - to be the sacrifice for all people. It is the identification with the death of Christ through acceptance of what he did that allows people to be reinstated into the covenant of God. 

We are forgiven by God only because of and through the blood of Jesus Christ that was shed at the cross. To be forgiven by God by the blood of Christ  - you must therefore believe that Jesus Christ went to the cross, bled to death and rose again so that you may live through his living and Holy Spirit. 

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.

I will let you escape with your life

"For I will bring disaster on all people, declares the Lord, but wherever you go I will let you escape with your life."

JEREMIAH 45:5

In the Lord Jesus Christ all is found. For in him is life. Jesus is the truth of life - to be abandoned to him you must live in "the way." This is the way of Jesus. Doing as Jesus said and did. This is how you get to know Jesus. If you never walk with him, as surely as the Lord lives, I say he does not know you.

To know Jesus is to hold his hand. To welcome him in every moment. To be free in Jesus only occurs when you walk with him all the time - in all moments. Jesus is alive. He lives in the spirit of you - he lives in the present moment - waiting for you to seek him.

What more can a person want than life itself. The Lord declares that when you are abandoned to him, no matter where he places you, even the depths of hell, you will escape with your life. To be abandoned to the Lord is to rest your mind in the truth that he will supply what you need in all things for the duration of your faith.

It is faith that will begin your relationship with Christ. Faith will grow into understanding. Understanding will lead to wisdom. Wisdom provides peace of mind. Trust in Jesus - he is the truth.