Peace With Christ

  "The Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid."

JOHN 14:26-27

The Lords plan on your life is so perfect that it is truly unfathomable. Life in obedience to God is a process that takes time. It is only in absolute abandonment to Christ that his peace is brought on you. It is in the difficulty of shedding old beliefs and habits that new ones - new thoughts - goals and dreams will be entered into you from the Holy Ghost.

Allow the Spirit of God to descend upon you through your obedience to Jesus. It is this heavenly peace in difficult times that allow others to see the Lords presence and peace in your life.

Peace belongs to the Lord and it accompanies him everywhere. Personal decisions without the Lord bring forth anxiety, fear, confusion and discouragement. The Holy Spirit will guide all of your decisions through prayer and faith in Christ. Peace accompanies the Lord and is given to you by The Holy Spirit to comfort you so that you know he is there with you as you have chosen to walk his way.

So be not in a hurry to get busy making decisions without the Lord as it is he himself that has prepared your path and is waiting for you to seek his purpose in you. There is no fear in Christ only fear of disobedience to God - but rather peace and a promise of hope and a future.

Pray Always

 

Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.

LUKE 18:1

The mind of men is tiny compared to that of the Father. We are designed to seek him and his will. The false created realities of this world have turned quiet time into "let's kill time." Everybody has clocked out. 

The Lord seeks your heart. Those who feel they have all the human answers to fix another's life are misguided if they do not speak of prayer and the will of God. Pray for the Lords will to be done in another's life - pray not for people to see things your way but in the way in which the Lord has designed them to be.

Intersession for another is to bring another before the Lord - not to be the Lord. Intersession is born in the fact of the redemption of Christ Jesus. To intercede on behalf of another - you must then by faith believe what Jesus did on the cross. 

Activity stalls prayer as it relies on constant busy action to overcome that which afflicts. The Lord says, Be still and know that I Am God. There is no task to great for the Lord  - he rose from the dead, he walks on water, he heals the blind and he rose to heaven on a cloud. Yes - the Lord can do all things and you can do all things through Christ - for it is he who strengthens you.

Quenching Personality

  "I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one I in them and you in me so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me."

JOHN 17:22-23

The great majesty and beauty of our King and our God is that he lives- in us. Man is born into the world as an individual - striving to find his personality - this is Only truly found in Christ Jesus - for our Father created us this way. Without Jesus there is the individual achieving in vain.

In Christ Jesus you achieve his goals and eternity of joy is the reward. Flush out the individual and give all your life to the Lord. God - the Father - is a spirit - of love - as asked for -he will fill you with his spirit - as you walk in faith and love - the personality of Christ Jesus is born unto you.

The individual personality stands in the way of being in The Way of Christ. Love is what alters your personality and identifies your flesh with Christ. It is the out pouring of love from you to another thus creating a connection bind caused by the action of love. This is the life of Christ - to be love in action. To be love is to come from love and God is love.

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.

Sacrifice of The Natural Life

 "Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says? For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a divine promise."

GALATIANS 4:21-23 

The difficulty people have in following the lord and the way of life for Christians is offering themselves for the sacrifice. As our Lord Jesus walked - so shall we. He gave all his life - offering the total package of natural for the total body miracle of the redemptive spirit of the most high God.

The spirit did not manifest until Jesus took his offering to the cross in triumph. We too are sacrifices - not to death - but to life in Jesus. Offer all you are - all you have ever known. Let it be gone and offered - give your heart to Jesus and his promise will show truth in you.

The natural life and the spiritual life cannot be lived at the same time. The natural must be put to death for the spiritual to spring forth. The natural life leads to sin - to work sin out of you - the spiritual life of Christ must be purposefully lived. 

The offering to God is the natural life. Christ is not natural - he is supernatural. The life of Christ in another can only be lived through obedience and faith to the Holy Spirit - to do the will of God - to love your neighbor - the person that which is near to you in need of loving kindness. This is the call of Christ Jesus.

Life in the Spirit

 "Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other."

GALATIANS 5:24-26

The natural way for God is to create a new you in him. To create something new - you must shed the old - old thoughts, feelings, hobbies, interests - finances. To create a brand new you in Jesus - all of the old you must pass away through faith and obedience to the Lord.

He will make his will known to you. He will share with you his path - through obedience you will walk his path and through this walk all is made new in the truth of Jesus Christ. There is nothing spiritual about money as a goal. Fall hard after Jesus - he is the only Truth.

The great task is to remove all self identification from you such that you only identify with the life of Jesus Christ. Any man that desires to be a disciple of Christ - must deny himself. In choosing Christ - you are choosing a life for which you must deny yourself - self desires. 

The natural life for man is of no benefit to God as it is self serving and leads to death. To say Jesus is Lord and not love your neighbor is not doing the Lords will. To be crucified in the flesh is to allow yourself to end your natural line of living and decision making and turn your heart and mind over to the Holy Spirit of Christ. The Holy Spirit is your advocate and will help you in all situations - speaking - teaching - guiding - directing and loving always.

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.