LET THERE BE LIGHT

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SAVED BY GRACE!

 

Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine and all the hills shall melt [that is, everything heretofore barren and unfruitful shall overflow with spiritual blessing].

And I will bring back the exiles of My people Israel, and they shall build the waste cities and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards and drink the wine from them; they shall also make gardens and eat the fruit of them.

And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be torn up out of their land which I gave them, says the Lord your God.” Amos 9:13-15

 

The time is now!

We are living back in the Garden of Eden. We are eating of the fruit of eternal life. We have perfection in Christ. We are living no more in the world, but in the Spirit. We fellowship with God every day and we have immortality. All the curses are reversed. We are not anymore placed back into the soil from which we were made, because we are in the Garden of Eden and safe and secure. We are well-balanced of thought. No more illnesses, no more death, no more sin!!

 

“Have not I commanded you? Be strong, vigorous, and very courageous. Be not afraid, neither be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9

 

“Jesus answered them, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, Whoever commits and practices sin is the slave of sin.

Now a slave does not remain in a household permanently (forever); the son [of the house] does remain forever.

So if the Son liberates you [makes you free men], then you are really and unquestionably free.” John 8:34-36 Amplified

John 8:36 KJV “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.”

 

We have been set free on the cross. Our sins have been forgiven once and for all. The power of the enemy has been defeated once and for all. Our only enemy is our mind. We are free of all iniquities, all sicknesses all sin. All inherited past “goggas” and generic stuff.

 

Just believe it. Understand the saving merit/ value of Jesus’ blood. Understand grace, undeserved favor. Thereby understanding God’s love for us.

 

“And will our just God defend and avenge and protect His elect [chosen ones] who cry to Him day and night?

Will He defer them and delay help on their behalf?

I tell you He will defend and protect and avenge them speedily.” Luke 18:7,8

 

“You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and I have appointed you [ I have planted you] that you might go and bear fruit and keep on bearing, and that your fruit may be lasting, so that whatever you ask in My Name, He may give to you.” John 15:16

 

John 16:7 (Amplified Bible) “However, I am telling you nothing but the truth when I say it is profitable (good, expedient, advantageous) for you the I go away,

Because if I do not go away, the Comforter (Counselour, Helper, Advocate, Intercessor, Strengthener, Standby) will not come to you [into close fellowship with you];

But if I go away, I will send Him to you [to be in close fellowship with you].”

 

Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you, to touch your family, to flow through you, to fill you. Speak to Him all the time. Thank Jesus for giving the Holy Spirit to you. Worship with thanksgiving, because you are free and you have an Advocate, a Guide, a Comforter, a Helper, Who can show you the future.

 

“But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth-giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth).

For He will not speak His own message [on His own authority];

But He will tell whatever He hears [from the Father; He will give the message that has been given to Him]

And He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come [that will happen in the future].

John 16:13

 

“Everything that the Father has is Mine. That is what I meant when I said that He [the Spirit] will take the things that are Mine and will reveal (declare, disclose, transmit) it to you.” John 16:15

 

John 7:16 “Jesus answered them by saying, My teaching is not My own, but His Who sent Me.”

 

“And if the Spirit of Him Who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He Who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also restore to life your mortal bodies through His Spirit Who dwells in you.”

 

“Since, therefore, [these His] children share in flesh and blood [in the physical nature of human beings],

He [Himself] in a similar manner partook of the same [nature], that by going through death He might bring to nought and make of no effect him who had the power of death – that is the devil

And also that He might deliver and completely set free all those who through the [haunting] fear of death were held in bondage throughout the whole course of their lives.” Hebr 2:14,15

 

“Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” Hebr 4:16

 

John 6:27 “Stop toiling and doing and producing for the food that perishes and decomposes [in the using], but strive and work and produce rather for the [lasting] food which endures [continually unto life eternal; the Son of Man will give (furnish) you that, for God the Father has authorized and certified Him and put His seal of endorsement upon Him.”

 

Mark 8:34 “If anyone intends to follow Me, let him deny himself [forget himself and his own interests] and take up his cross, and follow with Me [continually, cleaving steadfastly to Me.].”

 

“Subdue to the Lord, and the enemy will flee.” Go in humbleness to the Lord and tell Him, here I am, Lord. Please use me for Your plan and purpose. I want to get closer to You, Lord. I want to do only Your will Father, and not consult my own will.

His pleasure is when we seek only to do His will.

Crucify your own will.

 

John 5: 30 (Jesus speaking) “…I do not seek or consult My own will [I have no desire to do what is pleasing to Myself, My own plan, My own purpose], but only the will and pleasure of the Father Who sent Me.”

 

We must change into the character of Christ, and therefore copying Him. Speak like Him. Do like Him. Don’t seek our own will, but only the will and pleasure of our Father Who sent us. We have been sent by the Father. He chose us long before time existed. He decided who He will place at what time in which place, long before time existed.

 

Delight also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart. Ps 37:4

 

The Lord knows our hearts and He will give us our secret petitions if we seek only His presence and delight in His Word. If He is our first love and we yearn to be closer and closer to Him, He will give us that as well. He sees our needs and wants both as needs.

 

“And this is eternal life, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, Whom Thou has sent.” John 17:3

 

“Therefore also now, says the Lord, turn and keep on coming to Me with all you heart with fasting, with weeping and with mourning until every hindrance is removed and the broken fellowship is restored.” Joel 2:12

 

Do not conform to this world, but be transformed by the entire renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and new attitude], so that you may prove [to yourself] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing that is good and acceptable and perfect in His sight for you.”

 

John 3:6 “What is born of [from] the flesh is flesh [of the physical is physical]; and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.”

 

Keep yourself busy with the things of the Spirit. Not of the world.

 

“Those who live in the Spirit, keep themselves busy with the things of the Spirit. Those who live in the world, keep themselves busy with the things of the world.”

 

If you keep your focus single-eyed on Jesus, the world and it’s glitter and glamour cannot pull you down and your faith wont wither. Don’t look to the right nor the left. Forget about yourself and your own ideals, take up your cross, meaning crucify your wants and go right into the Word and follow Jesus. Seek His love. Seek how He loved us. Seek His example and change to His character by staying in the Word and seeking more and more knowledge of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Read the Word in the Spirit asking the Holy Spirit to reveal it to you. Seek how to give mercy and love freely. The same you have received it – the grace, mercy and love.

Look through the eyes of Jesus hanging on the cross looking down to the people who spat on Him and who dealt cruelly with Him - when He asked the Gather to gorgive them as He knew they fif not know what they were doing. It was not them, it was the spirit of the world inside of them. Death reigned in them, but Jesus came to set us free and we now have a choice to accept that freedom.

 AMEN!

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