I am discovering insight (not necessarily truth) from a lot of places. God is messing with my sources. I am discovering the pride, arrogance, and greed of America on FOX NEWS. I am finding an America that is hungering for “a substance hoped for not yet seen” on CNN and NPR. Neither snapshot is truth. Neither source is truth. God is truth and the solution to all insights.
I can be watching some random television show and God show me the underlying hurt of the sequences that I am viewing. Unfortunately, the tragedy of the revelation is that He is not portrayed as the solution. We must fight. We must fight for the glory of our God and for the tears of his cherished creation.
God is connecting me, using some very unlikely tools, with the hurt and pain of others. As a result, intercession is exploding. Life is becoming a series of stories. Every story is becoming a picture of life with God or a picture of life without God. I find myself crying during comedies and laughing in dramas. I am discovering the joy of God in Him being in the story and the absolute passion of God to be in the story.
The themes in my life that I can not shake are Justice, Truth, Trust, and Intercession.
I am tired of misplaced trust. I am tired of misused theology. I am tired of “mis-focused” perspective and expression. They are all missed opportunities and all church issues.
Evil and sin represent a need for God. If I flee from oppressive areas, I disqualify myself as an agent of freedom.
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FLESH VERSUS SPIRIT- A SURRENDERED LIFE
Total surrender to God causes us to be accountable to God.
When actually you have surrendered to God and the things of the world are still attracting you, then there is a conflict. You can no longer live the life you used to live before.
It is a matter of total surrender. He has given us the power to become His own – His sons.
A true hearer is a doer of the word of God. Hearing God requires doing what he says; otherwise we have not heard from Him yet. Those who accept what He says in His word and begin to live that life are surrendered to Him.
Anyone who is born of God is of the Spirit of God – John 1:12-13; John 3:5-6. Those born of God are god. They are His – His Spirit.
But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, even to them that believe on his name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. (John 1:12-13 ASV)
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God! That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. (John 3:5-6 ASV)
For whatever reason God knows, He drew you out of all the people in the world to know Him. It is a privilege. You need to cherish and keep that privilege. When God chooses you and draws you to Himself and gives you understanding; it is given to you (a privilege) to have understanding. Drop arguments -you cannot argue with God. If you cannot accept what God says in His word, then are you given to understand it?
Once we know the truth, the truth shall judge us.
I have come as a Light into the world, so that whoever believes on Me should not remain in darkness. And if any one hears My Words and does not believe, I do not judge him, for I do not come to judge the world, but to save the world. He who rejects Me and does not receive My Words has one who judges him; the Word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. (John 12:46-48 MKJV)
We cannot claim we don't know any longer. We must stop sinning and move on to the call of God for our lives. God’s commandments are not grievous. We are to purify ourselves as He is pure.
Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, (Hebrews 6:1 KJV)
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. (1 John 5:3 ASV)
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