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Father God said, "Let go of your concept of Me, based upon your earthly Father... that I may show you Who I AM."
Thank You Father... that I surrendered... to receive afresh. Thank You for the Spirit of Obedience... that I might have the desire to be obedient to You even as Jesus was obedient... yes, for Your Kingdom Sake... but mostly because I love you... and desire to honor You in Spirit and in Truth...
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| It is written: Jesus said, "Father loves you because you love Me" John 16:27
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It is written: Jesus said, "Father loves you because you love Me" John 16:27
I remember the first time I read these words of hope .... even though I knew deep down without even so much as a shadow of a doubt God was my creator Father and He loved me ... I still cried. I cannot express with words what it meant for me deep inside to see these words of hope in print. I cannot find the words to articulate my love for Jesus and what He has done that we might have life and it more abundantly through the will of our Father. Through sending Jesus Father had made His love real to me deep within and HE was confirming it in another tangible way ... I had asked the Holy Spirit to speak to me through the Bible that day and opened it at random. As I wept... in gratitude with love returned, I remembered there had been times when I wrestled with thoughts to the contrary. I am not sure if they were twisted, condemning lies coming from Satan or my own thoughts .... originating from my unredeemed nature struggling with His truth as He renewed the Spirit of my mind or both. I did know His revealed truth experientially. I could boldly push these thoughts away with great faith and offered them to my heavenly Father as lies I once believed. I knew better now, Father had seared His love and truth through the reality of our relationship into my new heart. I could see with compassion how someone could very easily get caught up in dead works in an effort to earn Father's love... increase it... or keep it. I could see this tendency within me to do the same and released it as of the unredeemed nature, to Jesus in agreement with His finished work at Calvary ... in my minds eye I could see these lies being nailed to the cross, and made powerless by His truth made alive within. I repented for the times I might have unconsciously been caught up in dead works or encouraged it and prayed for those who are caught up in such ways of being. Through the Spirit of Christ abiding within me ever living to intercede though our union, I was led to extend the victory for us all, that HE had made me aware of, in agreement with words made alive within that Father's promises to us would not return to Him void.
After such... I am brought to a place of abiding rest within... aware, the Spirit of the Lord reveals such truths according to the unfolding of Father's eternal plan for His creation and the revealing of His truth sets us free. During such preordained moments, I am brought into another level of increasing awareness and understanding experientially, that He is indeed working all out after the counsel of His will as He establishes His Kingdom on earth as it already exists in Heaven... within us all in our eternal now. We do not need to wait until we die to know this as our reality.
Through His eyes of eternity, (He gives us eyes to see through HIS eyes), I have been made aware Father's creation is going through a spiritual awakening which will evolve into an explosion of faith, hope, love, peace and joy and manifested redemption the like of which humanity has not experienced as a whole to date. I have been given eyes to see men fleeing darkness towards joy and hope as they run to His living word of light and truth to embrace it as their own ... through their choice to come into union with the Spirit of the Lord of life, who empowers through divine truth and all that is.... ever reminding us Jesus is both the initiator and perfector of our faith.
Father may we ever be blessed with an awareness of the reality of Your unconditional love and truth far beyond what we could ever think or imagine before we ever heard Your voice or first chose to answer Your call to believe through your offer of the gift of faith. May we freely speak with boldness and humility of Your truths in our lives... revealing Your Presence among us as Your family ... a Presence all can know without a shadow of a doubt when one chooses to believe with all their heart. May we see with ever increasing spiritual clarity through Your eyes of eternity as we grow in Spirit and in truth. Bless You for Your gift of such as this and that which is to be ... according to Your unfolding plan for each of us, promises revealed in Your gospel and through the name of Your Son.
The above is an excerpt from my personal website: www.EnterIntoGodsRest.com
For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
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It has become my spiritual experience... one of the ways our relationship with/to Father God, His Son and the Holy Spirit awakened within... is manifested to us, is when we are given an inner revelation and this revelation is confirmed for us through the spiritual circumstances which come into being. Circumstances we come to recognize as Divine synchronicity and eternal spiritual truths... scripture bearing witness to such.
When this happens to us.... such imparts to some... perhaps all, an inner knowing no one can take from us... an inner knowing which awakens in us spiritual desires/senses ... a hunger for absolute truth, for...................... and sets us on a straight and narrow path.... a path of empowerment; imparting unconditional love, inner peace and joy, wisdom, insight, spiritual understanding and mysteries revealed, right ways of thinking, seeing, relating, being, truth............................................ in our reality as a new creation ... One who has an awareness they are in their now, an eternal Spiritual Being who is being conformed to the image of their creator through the course of events which are coming into being before them.
When this happens to us ... we discover that which once was... falls away... comes to its end and is resurrected anew according to an eternal plan which unfolds before us, from eternal now to eternal now.... our having been brought to the place of realizing we are eternal spiritual beings, who have been translated out of a realm of spiritual death, ruled by Darkness and illusion into the Spiritual Kingdom of Gods Light and Life... with an increasing awareness; empowering our consciousness to dwell with/in/through God... long after we have left behind the flesh nature.
Suddenly we find ourselves in circumstances where we clearly see with an inner knowing... 'this is truly supernatural intervention' ... 'this is not just a coincidence'. This is a sign and a wonder, of a reality I am being called to live in, experience life's challenges/truth through ... the reality of The Kingdom of God.... via a sovereign God, the Creator of all this was, is and is to be.... Who is all and in all ... discerned spiritually in/through/by the life, teachings, death, resurrection, ascension, outpouring and return of the glorified Spirit of Christ Jesus ... Who reveals to us our Spiritual Father and who we are in relation to the Spirit of God and all of creation.
When we choose to believe having been given the gift of faith/hope and revelation knowledge... our own unique spiritual life's journey of consciousness begins for us.
Each of us has a private experience not of this world ... as we come together... we discover others who dwell in this Spiritual Kingdom with us. It is a realm/age we have in common... and is much like the world of the flesh.... only it is Spiritually Discerned....
Spiritual rules and expanding guidelines grounded through the spirit of love and truth prevail. Love teaches us right ways of being, perceiving and relating. Love imparts wisdom and revelation knowledge and spiritual understanding with empowerment. Love anoints us to experience the truth of the fulfillment of our unique eternal purpose. Love freely gives us choices by way of contrast and bringing to remembrance that which is alive within. Love leads us into all truth.... teaching and refining ... causing us to evolve spiritually through this process we know to be life....
Thank You Spirit of the Living God... for life and it more abundantly.... once again, I receive that which is... and is yet to be in/through Your fullness with a grateful heart. Bless You....
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Thank You Father... for the power of conviction... and for Your victory over our sin nature that You give us daily through the works done in our behalf by/through Your Son at Calvary... and for the awareness we can receive Your will for us by faith ... faith in Who You reveal YourSelf to be and Your promises/power made alive to us through Your Son, empowered through the new birth experience You bring into Being as the grace it is.
Bless You for revealing to us we can come to You ... and rest in You and Your will for us with a knowing... it is not by our might, our power... but by Your Spirit we are convicted and abide in You and Your will. Thank You for revealing Your truth to us, for revealing to us Your unconditional love... that we cannot earn Your love... nor can it be destroyed... and through that love... and the unfolding of Your eternal plan for us... we walk together as one body in spirit and truth... justified by our faith in You and Your righteousness and the unveiling of Your glorious plan daily. Bless You we can rest in the knowing... there is no condemnation for those who are 'hid in Christ' through You.... and the fulfillment of Your glorious plan.... and that we receive our portion in it with joy, peace, truth, holiness deep within (even during spiritual battles) ... all You offer because it is Your will for such to come to fruition!
Thank You for sending Your Son... who being the initiator and completer of our faith... reveals to us YOUR truth experientially.... causing us to live it as our own. Thank You for showing us the contrast between the carnal nature and Your nature... and for giving us the desires to be conformed to the image of Your son, for the desire to bring you honor as the family of God... and for the desires to release all to You, that would hinder us from being who YOU create us to be in relationship to You and all of life... in time and eternity. Bless You... when we have done all we know to do... we can stand in faith... that the battle is Yours and even though we may not understand .... we can still trust You.
Father thank You for showing us we are powerless to change our natures outside of listening to Your voice... surrendering to You and Your plan... embracing Your wisdom... power within, acknowledging the indwelling of Your Holy Spirit... a portion of our inheritance made known through the new birth experience. Thank You for the gift of faith, Your faith... whereby we truly are rich in faith... and Your overcoming power. Bless You for Your offer of a spirit of humility... imparted as we take off the old nature to put on the nature of Christ... we bless You for the cloak of humility which is ours to wear with the power You offer through it.... a power which manifests Your glorious plan.
Bless You for the hope which is within us... that YOU keep alive through the power imparted in the new birth experience... that You are able to keep us from falling and present us faultless before the Presence of Your Glory with exceeding joy ... To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power both now and ever... we receive all through faith in You and Your gospel and the gospel of Your son ... who came, was sent in Your name... the name of Jesus... Messiah... God our Saviour... Thank You for waking us to You and Your truth... Your overcoming power... Your voice... You, Father, dad...... and Your glorious plan for Your family. May Your glory rise up for all to see and experience ... in this present age and the ages to come. Amen and Amen.
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