Jesus, Precious One....

Today, I read a post on google+ that mentioned that, “if we love the Lord to tell Him and Thank Him”, and some verses or thoughts came to my mind to share why I love Jesus, the precious One…

In 1 Peter 2:6-7 it stands in the Scriptures: “See, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.” To you who believe, then, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,” One of the main reasons I find the Lord most precious and Praise Him is because from Him flow all spiritual blessings. In John 7:37-39 we can see that on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and cried out in a loud voice, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink, he who believes into Me, just as the Scripture said, out of his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water. And this he said concerning the Spirit whom those who believed into Him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

From the scriptures we know that Jesus  died to accomplish redemption for all mankind and rose from the death, ascended and was glorified. (Acts 3:13). Furthermore, He became the all inclusive Spirit, (1 Corinthians 15:45b), that is still reaching us today, all mankind, and flows as the Spirit, as streams of living water into all those who are thirsty and willing to come to Him.

I am so happy today that I found Him, the most precious One, and followed in the footsteps of so many other believers who once were dead in sin, thirsty, but came to Him and asked Him to come into their heart and be filled with the Holy Spirit. Our hope did not put us to shame for the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit, the precious One that has been given to us. (Romans 5:5). It is the Spirit of Jesus, the precious one that quenches all our thirst, our disappointments sometimes due to trespasses or sins we may be ignorant of, discouragement, loneliness, sadness, hopeless and even despair for whatever else our soul may long for or thirst for in this world.

 By simply coming to Him in prayer, by opening our being, our heart, the veils are taken away and we can touch Him as the Spirit and receive the flow of life into our human spirit, even our soul and body. (2 Corinthians 3:16). There is nothing more precious as Jesus in my spirit, soul and body. There is nothing more precious or anything else in this world that compares with Him to save our soul!
Furthermore, Acts 3:19-20 tells us that when we turn back to Him, no matter how fallen we may be or have become, our sins will be wiped away so that seasons of refreshing may come from His presence. 1 Corinthians 12:13 shows us that by one Spirit we are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink one Spirit. So today regardless of out nationality, tribe or tongue  receive him as the Spirit and experience daily the flowing of the Divine life enabling us to enjoy seasons of refreshing from His presence.
Hebrews 7:24-25 tells us that, “Jesus lives forever, He has a permanent priesthood. He is therefore able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for us.
If you are really thirsty, there is also a song on Hymnal.net, in stanza 2 about, “Jesus the most precious One that we want to seek constantly so that He can spread through us”. It is one of my favorites songs where we can sing our praise and appreciation to Jesus, the most precious One. This song helps us to get into the reality of Jesus as the living word of God. May you all enter into Him and enjoy seasons of refreshing from Jesus the precious One….
Amen
https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/ns/74

The work of the Spirit of Christ...

Christ work on the earth…
Praise the Lord for Christ’s ministry from the heavens upon the earth, a ministry from the heavens that still prevails within the hearts of all those who believe into Him here on earth. Today many believers know about Christ’s birth, human living, how He expressed God’s divine virtues through his human virtues as a man while living upon the earth about 2000 years ago and his death where he said on the cross, “ it is finished.”  In John 19:30  on the cross Jesus said,” It is finished”, and He bowed His head and delivered up His spirit. It is finished here refers to the fact that He finished the work of redemption through the shedding of His blood for our sins and the releasing of His resurrection life to bring forth the new creation.
 The Gospels of Mathew, Mark, Luke,  John and the book of Acts especially  furthermore declared  that Jesus after His death was resurrected and ascended to the heavens. The grave and the power of death and Hades could not hold him down for the divine life within Him is greater than the power of death. It is His resurrection life that raised Him from the death and enabled Him to appear to His disciples who were still witnesses.

Before His death in John 14:16-20, The Lord told his disciples that he would not leave them as orphans, but that He would ask the Father that He would give them the Spirit , the Comforter that He would be with them forever. Even the Spirit of reality whom the world cannot receive because it does not behold Him or know Him; but they would know Him, for He would abides with them and be in them. Furthermore He said, that in a little while the world would no longer behold Him but that they, His disciples or those who believe into Him, would behold Him since He lives and because of it also would live in them; And that in that day they would know that He is in His Father and they in Him and He in them. He even reminded them in Verse 25 of the same chapter 14 that the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in His Jesus name, would teach them in all things.

In John 7:37-39 Jesus spoke to his disciples that if anyone was thirsty to let them come to Him and drink and that He who believes into Him, as the scriptures said, out of his innermost being would flow rivers of living water, and this He said regarding the Spirit, whom those who believed into Him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet for Jesus was not yet glorified. The Spirit of Christ is the embodiment and reality of Christ ( Romans 8:9),  after His resurrection, ascension and glorification. It is that Spirit of the resurrected Christ who is both Lord and Christ and  dwells in all the genuine Christians today. Romans 8:9 says,” that we are not in the flesh , but in the spirit if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in us. Yet if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not of him”.  All those who are born of the Spirit of reality possess the life and power of the resurrection life of Christ.  Upon receiving  the Spirit of Christ with His resurrection life and power today we can enjoy Him as Grace’ even grace upon Grace and live in resurrection also. Romans 8:2 tells us that the law of the Spirit of Life has freed us in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. Sin and death have no longer the power and  freedom to  reign over us or within us, but the life of Christ, the law of the resurrected Christ who now as the Spirit operates within our spirit, soul and body frees us daily from the power of sin and death.

Ephesians 2:6 tells us that we are raised up together with Him and are seated together with Him in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus. Do you feel like you are raised up together with Him, do you feel like you are sitting together with Him in the heavenlies, a heavenly realm or sphere that is better than our earthly realm?. It is when we come to know the resurrected life and power of the Spirit of Christ that we truly know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His suffering , being conformed to His death.( Philippians 3:10-11)

1 Corinthians 12:13 tells us that we are baptized, immersed into one Spirit, one Body whether Jews or Greeks,  Canadians, Americans, or whatever country we come from, whether slaves of free, and were all given to drink One Spirit. It is the Peace of Christ that sanctifies us wholly so that our spirit, soul and body be preserved complete without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. ( 1 Thessalonians 5:23).

I will build my church...

Mathew 16:18 says: Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. (KJV).

The Lord in the book of Mathew said to Peter that he would build his church. My traditional concept about a church has always been a big building that was built in the city of where I grew up.  It did not take long that I discovered when I travelled in Europe and abroad and wherever else I turned that there were many so called churches and cathedrals amongst thousands of other homes in most centers of towns and cities all over the earth. At first I thought that they were replacements or copies of the tabernacle and temple that I knew from the Old Testament scriptures except for the fact that there was only one tabernacle and one temple the enlargement commissioned by God, even ever build as recorded in the Old Testament. God did not commission his people to erect more than one dwelling place. His desire and purpose is to dwell amongst His people in the midst of them from where He wants to set up His Kingdom to rule and reign over all the nations. This will become a reality and it may be not too far off in the near future during the millennial kingdom in which Christ and the overcomer will reign for a thousand years.

 In the Gospels of the New Testament we can see that when Christ came He was the replacement of the tabernacle. Later on in the book of Acts we see the replacement of the tabernacle, the temple which is the enlargement of Christ, the  Body of Christ that is the Church. In the book of revelation we see he rebuilding of the temple when the Lord comes back to rule and reign during the millennial kingdom until there is no longer a need for a tabernacle and the temple. Eventually there will be the consummation of the New Jerusalem, where God and man dwell together in oneness, in a new earth and new heavens.

From the Gospels we see a real change from the Old to the new.  God’s first begotten Son was the tabernacle of God and came to the earth to dwell amongst mankind. The apostle John said, “Behold the tabernacle of God”. God’s divine life and attributes were expressed in a man Jesus Christ who lived a human life for 33 and half years until His death on the cross. It was on the cross that his blood was shed for the redemption of mankind for by the shedding of His blood we receive the forgiveness of our sins.  Furthermore through his death, the divine life was released as resurrection life and He begot many children of God.  He was the one grain that was put into the earth to die but rose again and produced the many grains. They became his multiplication.  

Christ’s divine Life has been released and He overcame death and ascended and descended upon the earth as we see in the book of Acts. It is here in the book of Acts that we see the Church come into existence, grow and develop. It was the first local church, the church in Jerusalem. His Spirit and life were poured out upon and within his believers and whosoever received Him became part of the Body of Christ, His enlargement as the temple of God. People were baptized into the reality of Christ, or the Spirit of Christ directly and all became members of His Body to be a corporate dwelling place as the temple of God.

From then onward we see the believers meeting from home to home and continuing in the fellowship of the apostles. This fellowship of the apostles is the fellowship of the Father, Son and Spirit and is now also still working and operating within our being. Paul the apostle was one of the apostles and upon receiving the Divine Life by the Spirit of Christ he and many others travelled freely all over Europe to baptise, immerse people into the reality of Christ, the Spirit of Christ. The Spirit of Christ or the anointed one, the Messiah moved freely within and trough the believers among both Jews and Gentiles.  The anointed One as the Spirit immersing  many people of all nations into the reality of the Body of Christ establishing many local churches in cities all over the earth.  The anointing is still operating within many churches today! The Church is the enlargement by the building work of the anointing One from within.  

Once many local churches were established in cities such as Rome, Corinth, Ephesus, Philipy etc...  many faithful ones who were filled with the anointing travelled further, even reaching all continents around the globe, further baptizing and immersing many into the reality of the Body of Christ. It is in this simple way that the Christ, the anointed one is spreading, building and establishing local churches, local expressions in many cities all over the earth.  Christ Himself as the anointing is spreiding as the Spirit in many places and cities today. There is still only One Church universally but it is expressed in many cities locally. We need to ask ourselves are we truly in the Church? Are we regenerated as millions of believers have been and still are today? Are we truly in the process of being built into the one unique Body of Christ to be One Holy Temple for His expression universally and locally? Or are we simply maintaining our religious traditions and hoping one day to see God?  We should not wait for that because the anointing is leading many people to salvation every day who all partake of Him daily by enjoying Him as the Lamb of God that was slain and as the life giving Spirit that regenerates, renews and transforms us to become the many sons of God in Life and nature but not in the God head.

Christ is the Head of the Church and we are the many members of His Body. We become living stones that are being built into a spiritual house as Peter pointed out in his epistles and we are built into a corporate dwelling place not made by hands but by the Spirit of Christ, the anointed one, the messiah who died and rose from the death to dispense the Life of God into us daily with all its riches and attributes.
Today there are many false prophets, especially all those who claim to be ministers for God without possessing the anointing or the reality of Christ. Anyone who has not the Spirit of Christ is not of Christ and has no part in the building work of Christ and the Church. The gates of hades have tried to prevail in vain!  It is Christ Himself who is building His Church by means imparting Himself into all those who have been regenerated , renewed, transformed  until the Life of Christ is being perfected and becomes manifested from within them. They in turn become gifts to the Body as apostles, evangelists, shepherds and teachers for the perfecting of the Saint unto the building up of the Body of Christ, the Church in many cities allover the earth. May the Lord have mercy upon us and open our eyes to see the salvation of Christ, the one who died and lives and imparts Himself into us as life and grace daily. The love of God, the Grace of Christ and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

Two simple things....

Praise the Lord….

This morning at the meeting we were encouraged to praise the Lord with not only our spirit but also our whole being, our heart, mind, emotion and will.  It struck a chord within me and reminded me on the verses in Mathew 22:37 -40 that the foremost commandment is to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul and spirit and secondly to love our neighbour as ourselves. By doing these two things we fulfill all the law and the commandments. Life would be so simple and love would prevail amongst all mankind if only we keep these two commandments.

This morning at our meeting with the Saints, I was glad to be reminded to exercise my mind, emotion and will and to praise the Lord from whom all blessings flow. All the blessings we receive spontaneously whenever we call upon His name and sing praises to our God.  

Many times, especially on the weekends when we gather together to worship the Lord our God we merely open our mouths to praise him. Our minds are off somewhere in another space at times and we consider all the things that we should have done right from wrong over the past days, weeks and months. The enemy even helps us in this matter and accuses us in our mind that we are not worthy to open our hearts to the Lord to utter a praises for all the things He has accomplished.  Things  such as saving us by regeneration, renewing us daily by the infilling of His Holy Spirit,  transforming us according to His will or heart’s desire  and making us one with Him according to His own image and likeness to express Him and carry out His dominion in whatever place we reside.

For me, it does not take much to deny the lies of Satan that prevents me from opening from deep within. The blood of Christ that was shed on the cross for our redemption still is effective since it has eternal power to wash and cleanse us from every sin.  What a joy to claim the cleansing of the blood of Christ that was shed on the cross for our sins or shortcomings to overcome the accusations of the enemy that come into our mind. By applying the blood in prayer we sense the washing of the blood as the Spirit cleanses us afresh from everything that keeps us down.  It does not take long before we can open up to Him in praises and songs for all the accomplishments that are fully unveiled to us when apply the blood and fully open up our hearts to Him. Whenever our heart turns to the Lord the veils are taken away and we all enter into the joy of the Lord with all the other believers to fully enjoy the fullness of God in Christ as the flowing Spirit that saturate our mind, emotion and will. Corporately we uttered praises to the Lord our God and all entered into the joy of the Lord.

Our meeting was greatly uplifted and we all loved the Lord our God with our whole being, our heart, soul and spirit. Furthermore I realized that once we enter into such a reality, the love of God abides in us, enabling us  to love our neighbours as even as ourselves. Amen.

Faith...

Praise the Lord for Faith....
Hebrews 11:1 says that Faith is the substantiation of the things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Many people are born with a particular religion and base their faith on the objective teaching, practices and rituals that have been passed on to them since birth.  The Apostle Paul was a good example for he was one of the foremost leaders in the Hebrew religion. He  zealously defended his faith and arrested many believers who lived contrary to what he was taught and practiced. It was only when he met Christ, the anointed, as a shining light on the road to Damascus that he was converted. It was by a baptism or immersion into the Holy Spirit.

From that day onward Paul changed course regarding his faith, because he had received a personal revelation regarding  the substantiation and realization of the reality of the Spirit of Christ within his being.  A little later he followed the same course of those whom he formerly persecuted. Christians who previously also had had the same realization upon been baptized and immersed into the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. What a change had been wrought in Paul's life and what an assurance of better things that were to come. Paul being a Hebrew was turned upside down regarding his former belief system, especially after receiving  a subjective revelation or substantiation of the things hoped for, the conviction of things  not seen.

It was not long after upon having received the Holy Spirit that he no longer cared about the outward forms and doctrines of his former religion. From his later writings we can see that he only cared for the Spirit of reality that was now real and substantiated into his mind, emotion and will. Paul's natural zeal was not diminished neither, but actually increased since He had been chosen and anointed by Christ himself to proclaim the message of salvation to the Gentile Nations baptizing or immersing them into One Spirit, One Body for Christ corporate expression allover the earth.

 In Acts chapter nine, when he met the anointed one, the Lord said," Saul, Saul why are you persecuting Me? Saul answered "Who are You Lord?" and Jesus answered and said," I am Jesus whom you persecute". He had no realization that in fact he was persecuting the Body of Christ. It was here that he received a further revelation of the Body of Christ.

Paul first received a personal revelation of the Christ as the anointing subjectively. The Greek word for the anointed is Christos and the English name is Christ, moreover the anointed in Hebrew is Messiah. Many people today believe in Christ and the Messiah yet there faith is still based upon a mere objective knowledge. Unless we enter into a subjective experience of Christ we only know and have the outward teaching or dogma regarding Christ. The fact is that the Messiah, Christos,Christ, or the anointed one is already here. Acts 2:4 tells us that on the day of Pentecost when the believers were gathered together they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. The Spirit of Christ  had descended upon and within them and that was the beginning of the Church, the Body of Christ.

We should not wait for Christ or the Messiah. By simply opening our hearts to Him we can receive instantly  many blessings and have the realization of the substantiation of the things hoped for, even to the point  as Paul of becoming convicted of the all things that are related to Christ. When the heart  turns to the Lord, the veils are taken away and the anointing makes itself at  home into our hearts. It becomes real to us in a subjective way. Today's believers whether Jewish, Greek or Gentile all over this world enjoy this wonderful Christ into which they have been immersed or baptized and have become the Body of Christ.  Our Faith includes the substance of the unseen reality of Christ, the infilling of the Holy Spirit and His Body since we all have been immersed into One Body and one Spirit.

If you like to know Christ subjectively, simply pray "Lord Jesus reveal yourself to me as you did to Paul and all the other believers. Come into my heart, fill me Lord with Joy and Peace.  Fill me with your Holy  Spirit, baptize, immerse me into you Lord and fill all my heart Lord so that I can substantiate  you as the anointed One and become part of your Body, your corporate expression and dwelling place on earth.  Praise You Lord Jesus.   Amen...

With our first love....

Loving the Lord with our First Love…

I was impressed this week regarding the work God that He is doing in our midst, a work that is revealed in one of the many signs of the book of Revelation. There is a conclusion to everything, even in the scriptures. The book of Revelation gives us the conclusion of Gods purpose upon  earth and His intention and desires are clearly laid out for us in the last book of the bible.

 In was in the beginning of the scriptures in Genesis 3:15 after the fall of mankind, that God spoke to the serpent who deceived Eve and said that her seed would bruise his head. In Genesis we see a woman and her seed that would bruise the serpent.  At the end of the bible in the book of revelation chapter 12 we can see the woman again and a man child that will be caught up to God and to his throne and that there was a war in heaven and the old serpent that is called the devil and Satan who deceives the whole  world. He was cast to the earth and his angels were cast out of the heavens with him. Here we see the old serpent again and many partners with him, fallen angels.  The old serpent had become a dragon and the dragon persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child and desired to devour the child. (Rev12:4) We should not think that we are alone in this universe or in this world. I  Praise the Lord for the woman who is bringing forth a man child and God who has protected her and the man-child during her persecution by the dragon, the old serpent who is cast upon the earth.

 Furthermore, Revelation 12:1 speaks of a woman clothed with the Sun and the moon underneath her feet that has a crown of 12 stars upon her head. This vision refers to God’s people on the earth, including the Old Testament and New Testament believers. The stars signify the patriarchs or forefathers of the Bible who were called by Him to express Him and to carry out His dominion over all the earth.( Genisis1:26).  The age of the moon refers to the Old Testament believers and the age of the Sun to the New Testament believers.

The believers in the New Testament became partakers of Christ who came as a great light to enlighten them. They formerly sat in darkness. All those who believe into Him and receive Him as Light become the true believers upon being Immersed or baptised into the reality of the anointing. Once enlightened regarding the true essence and divinity of God, they all become part of the woman that shines as a great light. John 1:9 says, “ that He was the true light, which enlightens every man that comes into the world”.   Furthermore  Acts 13:47 tells us that the Lord commanded the believers that they had being enlightened to become a light unto the Gentiles for the salvation of all mankind unto the ends of the earth. So the light of Christ is shining today from within the believers . They become the true testimony of Jesus in many churches that shine as lamp stands all over the earth for the salvation of whosoever believes into the true light. It is God’s will that all men should be saved and come to the full knowledge of his will. ( 1Timothy 2:4)

Furthermore  the woman is producing  a man child. It signifies  a stronger part of the majority of the believers, that all belong to the woman.  At the conclusion of the bible in Revelation  12:11, we can see the overcomers, the stronger ones who overcame Satan by the blood of the lamb, the word of their testimony and they did not love their soul life even unto death. They are the ones who truly love God with their first love, not loving this world nor the things in this world. To become the stronger ones within the woman or the man child we should be as the over comers and take the blood of Christ to be cleansed from every transgression, sin or offence of which we become aware off, especially once we have been enlightened by the light that is revealed trought the reading of His word. The light is in His Word, it is a light unto our feet that makes us to walk  worthily of our calling.

Recently I saw that in the book of  Revelation chapter two, the majority of the believers had left their first love. They simply cooled down or sat on the fence regarding the Lord and were in danger of losing Gods testimony, the expression of God manifested in the church in Ephesus, a shining  lamp stand.

The anointing or the Spirit said that they needed to repent, they needed to have a turn in their heart regarding their pitiful condition and situation.  From the word we can see that they actually committed an offence, a sin for otherwise they would not have had to repent.  Although they were zealous of good works, they labored and endured many hardships while bearing all things because of His name  (Revelation 2:2), they neglected to love the Lord with their first love.  They considered themselves to be ok, yet with the Spirit it was not ok.  Today the Lord is calling for the overcomers, to produce the man child while He is walking in the midst of the churches,  many local churches all over the earth.

Loving the Lord with our first love actually means is to give Him the preeminence in our being. The Lord reminded me regarding Saul.  King Saul was told by God to not keep any of the sheep and oxen when he conquered the good land for Gods kingdom and expression upon the earth. Saul kept the best of the sheep, but Samuel came to Saul and said that it is better to obey than sacrifice. Today many believers sacrifice many things to the Lord, yet when He speaks to them a word that He desires,  they do not obey.  Sometime the Spirit as the anointing  or the Lord within our human spirit may ask us to do something for Him. For example speak a word for him in the meeting or some loved ones and we do not obey. By doing so we do not let His light shine to those who are still in darkness regarding the purpose of his coming and his desire for all mankind to be saved and come to the full knowledge of His will.  His will is to express Himself trough a corporate people to carry out His dominion over all the whole earth that will consumate into the Millinial Kingdom and His reign for ever and ever.  I realize that we must give heed to the light that is revealed to us in His word and that is spoken to us in these days. let us not lose the shining testimony before Him upon the earth.

The Lord is calling for the overcomers today!.  Become an overcomer by keeping yourself in the light of His word and join yourself to the word according to the revelation that the anointing is showing you.  We should not let our traditions, culture, religion or any good work that is even about God and for God become a replacement that will hold us back from loving the Lord with our first love. It is only then that we will overcome and become the stronger part within the woman, the man child. The overcomers bear the true testimony of Jesus and it is in them that the enemy has no ground. They reign in life and the Spirit regulates or rules over them regarding the things He desires until He will build his Church as He promised and that is  a true testimony and expression for Him upon the earth.   

Whenever we read the scriptures we should join ourselves to the word of God. The word of God will set us free from the deception of the glory of this world and all its falsehood and usher us into the realty of God, the essence of the triune God, The Father, Son and Spirit and build us into a corporate dwelling place to shines now in the present days and forevermore.

 Let us  exercise our whole being, especially our mind to muse upon his word and understand it according to His desire and will as it is written and revealed to us from last book of the Bible, the book of Revelation. We need to continue to Love Him with our first love and practice His word as it is written. Practice the word as we see the light regarding God’s intention and desire by dropping all our concepts regarding tradition, religion, background and culture  and simply trust in Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith. Let His word speak  and dwell in us richly. And last but not least let us exercise our will to read the scriptures daily, for by doing so, we will enter into a relationship of the Spirit and life so that we can grow and mature in the divine life until all the attributes of God become real, revealed in us and expressed trough us  wherever we meet with the other believers for the perfecting of the Saints unto the building up of the Body of Christ.

Paul planted, Apollos watered and God causes the growth. Let us do all things unto God for His Good pleasure and will upon the earth as in heaven until we all rejoice with him in the heavens. Let us all become the overcomers  to bring Him back to reign and rule with Him in the coming kingdom. Praise the Lord.

Man shall not live by bread alone

I was in an English class when a teacher told me that man shall not live on bread alone. (Mathew 4:4). It was many years later when I realized that this was only half the truth and the full truth many years later finally sunk in. Many persons are always concerned about making a living including myself while I see others simply enjoying life fully depending on God who provides for their daily needs. Did the Lord not also teach us to pray for our daily bread? What about prayer? Do we ever pray, ask God for our daily bread or provisions... or are we simply depending on our own inventions, capabilities, education, social well being, family or a rich country we live in?
It was in a church meeting that the second half of the story was told to me that man shall not live on bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. At that particular time I did not realize that I was spiritually dead, I thought everything was honky dory and live could not get any better. I lived in an opulent society, enjoying all the things mankind produced to make my life more comfortable, pleasurable and very enjoyable, except deep within there was always something missing, a hunger for reality or the joy and peace that my soul and human spirit within was longing for. While my soul  was  enjoying all the world had to offer me, spiritually  I was depressed. My mind  convinced me that I had attained everything my soul could desire and I tried to put on a happy face, yet within I was not living, void of the joy and peace that flows with a real satisfaction and enjoyment within my human spirit.

The outward material things temporarily offered me some kind of comfort, some kind of relief but never fully quenched my thirst for the reality I was looking for.  The Lord pointed out in the Gospel of John that if anyone is thirsty we should come to him and he will give us a drink, a drink of living water that quenches all our thirst. Furthermore He said that the water would flow out of us and that the water is the Spirit whom those who believe into Him will receive. (John 7:37-39).

How do we get this water or the Spirit that quenches all our thirst?. By simply opening up to Him and take in His word. He is embodied in the Word and in  His words are Spirit and Life. When we spend time in the word we truly will live and not on bread alone. When we get ourselves immersed into the reality of this Word , all our thirst is quenched and the Spirit as living water flows from into our inner being, our spirit, soul and body and quenches all our thirst.

Finish God's work

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.John 4:34. This verse really is very meaningful. What is the work that he came to finish?. In Genesis we can see that God created the heavens and the earth and he said that it was good. Furthermore he created mankind after his own likeness and told man to multiply and replenish the earth. Furthermore  He gave them authority to rule over the earth and all living things that were upon the earth.  God said that it was very good and rested and he was refreshed.  He took the seventh day off to enjoy his masterpiece or all the work that he just had accomplished. The heavens are created for the earth and the earth for mankind and mankind to become God's kind.

 His intention was to have a corporate man that would multiply, express Him and rule over the whole earth. God's intention was that man would rule for him on the earth and subdue everything in his dominion or Kingdom.  But it did not take long before man choose to become independent, Man disobeyed God and even left the presence of God. No longer listening to God's word but doing what whas right and evil according to their own imagination. When they left the presence of God they build cities in which to dwell and exalted themselves to the uttermost. Babel was a prime example where man did everything according to their own imagination to exalt themselves by building a tower with all their names written on to reach the heavens and challenge God.

But God did not give up and continued his work to subdue mankind and He raised up some God fearing ones to do the work that he originally started, which is to rule and reign with him on the earth and let his Kingdom come and spread on earth as it was in the heavens. It took several generations of prophets, priests and kings to accomplish what God was trying to do and eventually God gained a group of people who no longer worshipped idols but continued to maintain his testimony on earth by building a tabernacle that  eventually was replaced by the temple where God and man could meet and move upon the earth.

God's work has never ceased and continues even today. Jesus said that He come to do the will of the Father and to finish his work. He is the real high priest and king that gathered God's people into one corporate Body both Jews, Greeks and Gentiles. He not only came to work amongst them to heal the blind, lame and sick but continued to raised up many disciples who became the real priesthood and kings who eventually will finish the work of God with Christ when He comes back to rule and reign over the whole earth.

 Today there are still many who are called and chosen to carry out Gods work. All those who are born of the Spirit have entered into the kingdom of God and are God's children, having being born of the Spirit. They not only live by the Spirit but also walk by the Spirit and become the Sons of God who express him and rule for him wherever they may be.

 He said that he would build his church and that the gates of hell would not prevail against the build church. The church today is not a chapel in the air or a huge building on a hill or center of a town but the many members of the Body of Christ who are spiritually united and build in Him to express him and rule for Him wherever they are.

Christ has build, re-constituted and given some as apostles, shepherds and teachers for the perfecting of the Saints unto the building up of the Body of Christ. As the many members are being perfected they function as true priests, not merely being ordained by mankind but by having become the true representatives or ambassadors as it were for Christ upon the earth. Furthermore they rule for Him whenever they come together and pray according to the will of the Father that is being revealed to them via the Spirit of Christ or the anointing within their being.

 Are you a called one, born of the Spirit, a true representative of Christ on the earth today fulfilling the Fathers heart desire?. Are you expressing and ruling for him on the Earth as he intended you to do?
We all should ask ourselves this question to ensure that we keep on the right track to express God and rule for him which was his intention and purpose from the beginning and for what God has created you for!

 Again let us  read the scriptures for they unveil to us all the counsel of God so that we may live a peaceful and tranquil life while participating and accomplishing Gods will upon the earth as it is in heaven. Praise the Lord that he came to finish the work of the Father!

A Stone cut out without hands....

Becoming a stone cut out without hands....

The book of Daniel chapter 2 verse 34 speaks about a stone that was cut out without hands a stone that struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke it into pieces. In Daniel chapter 2 verse 35 it  goes on to say:" Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

What we see here in the book of Daniel is a prophecy regarding the great image that represents four kingdoms upon the earth. Kingdoms that even today are still prevailing upon the earth. Furthermore it speaks about a stone that is cut out without hands that struck the great image or kingdoms upon the earth. So this prophecy deals with two aspects, first the kingdoms of this world and second the stone that relates to Christ as the Stone that is gathering his people from every nation and tongue into a corporate dwelling place not made with hands but by the Spirit of Christ that is being poured out upon all those who believe and receive Him.

 On the one hand, today many people, nations, tribes, including ourselves pay much attention to the first aspect of this prophecy and sometime we get bombarded with the latest news about the great image that relates to the kingdoms of this world  including all the world events that have taken place over the past centuries.  On the other hand we sometime forget or know little about the second phase or aspect that is related to Christ as the Stone that is cut out without hands.  Have you ever considered that the second aspect is actually more important than the first aspect since Christ and his followers will turn the age and bring in a new kingdom, the millennial kingdom to restore all the nations?

 There are many references in the New Testament regarding the Stone. In the beginning we can see that Christ was rejected at the beginning of his human living on earth. But actually, when Christ came to the earth He became the cornerstone who joined both the Jews and the Gentiles into one spiritual house that will eventually become a corporate stone, cut out without hands to become a great mountain that fills the whole earth.

1Pe 2:4 tells us to come to Him, a living stone, rejected by men, but yet precious and chosen by God. Besides in verse five, we also, as living stones, are being built up into a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.  Furthermore 1Peter 2:6, 7 says, "Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, elect, precious, and he who believes on Him will by no means be put to shame. Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious; but to those who are disobedient, the stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone,"

John the Baptist said in John: 3:30 "He must increase, but I must decrease.  Here we see a principle of the stone that is increasing, not relying upon ourselves to become someone or somebody but by simply allowing Christ to make Himself at home into our hearts.  Christ does increase day by day into all those who believe and are joined to him spiritually. He who is joined to the Lord is one Spirit.   Zechariah 2:11 also said that many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and they shall become His people. And that he will dwell in their midst and then they will know that the God has sent Him to us.

Paul in Philippians 1:7, Hebrews 3:14 and 2 Peter 1:4 shows us that we should become partakers of the Grace of Christ and partakers of the Holy Spirit once we  have tasted the heavenly gift that is freely bestowed upon all who believe into Him and receive Him. We become partakers of the divine nature having escaped the corruption that is in the world.

The way to become His increase is by simply coming to him, by enjoying Him and becoming partakers of him as Grace and the Holy Spirit. It is in this way that He imparts His divine life and nature. The way this has been carried out is by the ministry from Paul and the teachings of the apostles. Paul planted and Apollo’s watered and God gave the increase or caused the growth. ( 1Corinthians 3:60). Today many born again believers, Christians are being perfected and like Paul and Apollos  continue to plant and water all those who believe so that the prophecy in the Book of Daniel may continue to be fulfilled. The stone that the builders, religious ones, rejected is becoming a corporate stone that joins all the true Christians or believers into one Stone that will become a great mountain and fulfill God’s heart desire in the near future. We should come to Him the living Stone and become partakers of him so that we can become the living stones, corporately expression that is joined to him.

In Colossi ans 4:11 Paul says “These are my only fellow workers for the kingdom of God; they have proved to be a comfort to me. We should let Christ dwell in our hearts by faith; that we, being rooted and grounded in love, (Ephesians 3:17-19) may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, length, depth, and height so that we may know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge, until we are filled with all the fullness of God and become the corporate stone that will end this age and usher in the new millennial kingdom.  

There is a prophecy in Joel 3:11 that says Hurry and come all you surrounding nations , and be gathered. There cause your mighty ones to descend O Jehovah.....We know that this refers to the end times when the Lord Jesus comes back to invite the overcomers, the mighty ones, His army to defeat the Anti Christ, a ruler who will come in Europe to set up his kingdom. These will also become the co-kings in the millennium.

 There are two wills in this universe God's will and man's will. Today there are many little kingdoms allover the earth and the reason so many nations are at war or fighting is that there is a difference of opinion amongst themselves having a will separate from God's will. The best way to know God's will is to read the Bible. In the Bible we align ourselves with Gods will and the end result will be that we will be saved, regenerated by receiving his life and nature, transformed and eventually conformed to the image of His Son who is the head of the Body of whom we are all members. 

Gradually we all become like minded. Romans 12:2 says to not be conformed to the pattern of this world but to be transformed by the renewing of our mind. Ever considered that when you read the bible you receive God's words that has been spoken to all mankind whereby we get renewed? God's will is to bring in His Kingdom and we enter in to it by being born of the Spirit and water, John 3: 4-6. The Lord is working as the Spirit into all those who have received Him and all those who have been raised with Him in His resurrection according to the scriptures. 1Peter 1:3 says that Christ according to His great mercy has regenerated us unto a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the death.We all were born naturally and were dead spiritually, but now we have the fact that through the resurrection of Christ from the death we have been regenerated unto a living hope. The resurrection Life of Christ is available to all mankind who believes and will receives him as the life giving Spirit into their spirit.

Called into the fellowship of His Son

In 1 Corinthians 1:9 we see that some were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ.To be called into such Fellowship or union with God trough His Son is only the first step. Paul, a co-worker who also had entered into such fellowship, encouraged the believers in Ephesians 4:3-4 to keep the oneness of the Spirit. Many people are called and enter into a union with the anointing of the Spirit of Christ. But Paul goes on to say to be diligent to keep this oneness in the uniting bond of peace into one Body and one Spirit.

 God's intention in calling us is to have One corporate Body of believers, regenerated by the Spirit or anointing that unites  all into a unique bond of peace. When I used to go to church meetings as a child I only knew Christ from the many paintings and portraits that clad the halls on the walls of buildings where my parents used to take me. We had no choice in the matter whether we wanted to go or not and simply learned some of the basic truths regarding the death and resurrection of Christ. These remained mere  objective facts of some of the truths that are revealed in the first gospels. I never endeavored or learned the truths that unveil the whole truth or the full knowledge of the truth. It is God's will after all that we all should be saved and come to the full knowledge of the truth.  It is like you stand in front of a judge when he or she asks to tell nothing but the whole truth. God desire is the same and he is the Judge of all. Recently I read in Henry Mathews writings that if  a man commits an offence or sin against another human being, God can forgive him but if we commit a sin or an offence against God who else is there to forgive us or set us free?

It was not until later in life that I began to search for the full knowledge of the truth by reading the new testament or all the books of the new testament. By arriving in Canada someone gave me a new testament and i started to read it. It was not long after that  I learned more regarding God and the anointing of Christ exponentially that brought me into a fuller knowledge upon having the subjective experience of the truth that is revealed in God's word.

 I was the same like the apostle Paul who formerly was called Saul. Before his subjective experience of the anointing of Christ he only knew God as the objective truth as revealed in the old testament. He zealously defended this truth that was passed on to him from his forefathers until the anointing came to him on the way to Damascus as revealed in the book of Acts, chapter nine.  When he met the Lord he said "who are thou" And the lord answered Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?. He was actually persecuting the believers in Christ, the first Christians who were already living in the reality of the Body of Christ since the day of Pentecost when they had corporately entered into the reality of the Spirit of Christ after being immersed or baptized into the anointing or the Spirit.

 This subjective knowledge of the truth or reality  can only be experienced subjectively when we enter into such a relationship with the anointing of Christ. Not long after Saul's encounter he called on the name of the Lord and entered into the same reality and fellowship having a subjective knowledge of the truth that was worth more than all his former training and teaching he had received previously. Later in one of his epistles he counted everything as dung in comparison to the subjective experiences of Christ.

Today we also can enter into this reality by simply calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. When we call Lord Jesus... we enter  into the fellowship of the Son or the fellowship of the Spirit, the anointing of Christ., First I merely received the objective truths about Jesus Christ and many teaching of the church.  But later and once I called on his name I entered and was baptised or immersed into the reality of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.  This truth about Christ being the anointing became subjective and now I also like the Corinthians endeavor to be diligent to keep the oneness of the Spirit in the uniting bond of peace, into one Body and one Spirit.

To live in this reality, the key is to walk according to the Spirit as Paul points out in the book of Romans. He said that if we live by the Spirit let us also walk according to the Spirit. When believers who are called have entered into such a fellowship they diligently maintain this oneness and God's desire is truly being fulfilled. The body of Christ is a corporate expression of the Spirit with the brothers and sisters who maintain and live in the reality of the oneness of the Spirit.  Praise the lord that today we know the secret to maintain this oneness to have a corporate expression where the fullness of Christ is exhibited in whatever church or locality we are. The church, which is His Body, the fullness of the One who fills all in all. (Ephesians 2:16)

The Joy of the Lord is my strength

A coworker said that he was impressed with some famous people and a movie stars demeanor when they got up in the morning at the hotel he worked. One star mentioned that he did not want anyone to come near him while he was trying to find himself that morning. He insisted to forget about all the attention, admirers, things that needed to be done or the hustle and bustle to come. He said that inspired him also. I reflected upon my experience and mentioned that I have a similar beginning each day but only by coming into the Lord's presence upon getting into his word.

In John 1:1 it shows us that in the beginning was the word and the word is with God and the word is God . The scriptures also tell us that God is Spirit and that God is embodied in His word. When I read His word and take it in, I receive the Spirit of Life that is embodied in His word. The word is also  truth, reality, not just the knowledge  that we acquire but the reality of the words we believe in. This is the infusing of the essence of God that we call Faith.

Before hitting the  highway and hustle and  bustle of my days I experience the reality, peace, joy in the Holy Spirit. Every day, I experience a renewing, a renewing of my spirit, soul and body. This reality of the Spirit in His word becomes my joy and strength. The Joy of the Lord is my strength daily and I Praise the Lord that the truth or reality of Christ as the anointing Spirit refreshes me daily. Whenever I spend some time before going about my day in the reading of His word my faith is renewed. It simply comes by the hearing of the word of God!

Taking care of our conscience to enjoy the divine fellowship

Whenever we give the Lord the preeminence in our hearts we are submitting ourselves under His throne and dominion. In Genesis chapter one, God's intention was that we express Him and  have dominion over all the earth. Whenever we have a clear sky as the living creatures in the book of Ezekiel, we allow God's presence with His dominion to come within our hearts. With His presence we receive His authority and corporately move with Him according to His will wherever we are. It is only when God can find men and woman who maintain a clear sky before Him That He has a way to carry out His dominion upon the earth. We see a similar example with the Apostle Paul. He said in the book of Acts that he had a clear conscience  before God and man. Here we see a man of God who had a clear sky. A man  who  carried out God's commission upon the earth. It was so with all the apostles. They not only expressed the human and divine attributes of God such as love, meekness, patience, endurance but moreover His intention or dominion wherever they went.  Whenever two or three are gathered into His name or the reality thereof while having a clear conscience or clear sky, they can truly pray and ask for all things to be done according to His will on earth as in heaven.
I look forward to the days when small groups of Christians  raise up to pray to carry out God's authority and dominion upon the earth, just as it was in the days of the apostles.

Oh Lord Jesus.....

The scriptures say that no one can say Lord Jesus except by the Holy Spirit.(1Corinthians 12:3) When we say Lord Jesus we acknowledge Him as the Lord in our hearts and enthrone him in our lives. When we say," Lord Jesus" we give Him that very instance the preeminence in our lives. In the book of Corinthians, 1:2,  the believers called upon the name of the Lord everywhere... So why not call upon the name of the Lord today?. Romans 10:13 says that whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved!...Every day when I call, " Oh Lord Jesus"... I experience the joy of His salvation.

Live by the Spirit, walk by the Spirit

We were asking ourselves today what it means to live by the Spirit. The Apostle Paul said if you live by the Spirit let us also walk by the Spirit in chapter 8 of Romans.

To live by the Spirit is to life live a life that is fully dependent on and regulated by the Spirit, not by  law. Many people including ourselves live many times according to our culture, different laws according to the culture and religion we are raised in. Any culture and any religion is constituted with law or regulation and once we learn them and practice them  it is easy to live by them  according to what we think or conceive to be right in our own eyes. Most human beings are like that all over the earth and they do not know any other way except what their parents taught them according to the laws and regulations of the culture and religion they lived in. The issue is that many religions, traditions, and cultural differences causing much hardship, suffering, struggling and pain.

Therefore we must come to the Spirit and heed the anointing Spirit every day. When we call “Oh Lord Jesus” we touch the Spirit, we touch life and peace in our spirit. This peace of Christ or the anointing is the Spirit that regulates us in all things. Those who are born of the Spirit, have the Spirit or the anointing of Christ. Second we should allow the peace of Christ to arbitrate in our hearts regardless of the regulations and laws that are ingrained in our being according to the culture and traditions we are raised up in. When we set the mind on the Spirit and put to death all these practices we live in the Spirit. This week I was going to write something regarding the Gospel which is a good thing, but the Spirit gave me the feeling not to. A deadening feeling came in; As soon as I set or turned my mind to follow the Spirit and depended on the regulation by the Spirit I sensed life again and continued to live by the Spirit. Romans 8:13 says if you live according to the flesh, we must die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the practices of the body, you will live.  Day by day the Spirit is regulating our inner being and if we are willing to mind the Spirit and become dependent on the Spirit for all aspects in our daily living we shall live by the Spirit and continue to abide in the presence of the Lord all day. Praise the Lord!

Another beautiful day in paradise....

Many times I hear people say, "Another beautiful day in Paradise".  People think that paradise is a physical realm that we enjoy and where we have our being.  When we look around us today and more so when we look at the world as a whole, most of us will agree that there is not  much hope for a place that we can call paradise. Although we may have reached a pinnacle in our personal or professional  live there is much more to consider before we can enter into such a reality.

 In Luke 23:43 it tell us that there is such a place, a place where we will enter once we die, just as the person who died beside Jesus on the cross. But we should not wait until we die, rather in 2Corinthians 12:4  Paul pointed out that one person he knew entered into such a realm, even when he was alive.

Furthermore in the book of Revelation  we see the overcomers in the churches, which have been and still are and exist today. Those who partake of the tree of life in the midst of the paradise of God. Praise the Lord for the churches where we can partake of the tree of Life in the midst of the paradise of God, today!

Praise The Lord.....

Praise The Lord!

In Psalms 119:164 David said, "Seven times a day I praise you for Your righteous ordinances". We were talking about this over lunch and we realize that beside praying three times a day we should learn to Praise the Lord  for the things He gives us, the things  He has accomplished and is doing allover the earth and who He really is. These things are hidden in the Word or the scriptures. They also are referred to as ordinances or the law. Although we are not under the law any longer but Grace we still treasure them, for by getting into them we receive the riches of Christ as the Spirit and Life to sustain us in our daily lives and living.

One day a brother asked me, why do you say, "Praise the Lord", all the time?. It was an older brother who seemingly had lost the joy of the Lord or at that particular time was not enjoying the presence of the Lord. He was busy doing many things for the Lord through service, yet without joy. I was surprised to hear him say that. I was a young brother at the time, newly saved and enjoying the refreshing seasons of the Lord in my daily life. Every day the freshness of the Lord is so real when we come to Him by partaking of the riches in His word. I am enjoying His presence each time I open the scriptures and muse upon the words that He has spoken. The Words He spoke are Spirit and Life and whenever we come to the Word, we come to Him. The epistle of John shows us that in the beginning was the Word and the Word was God and is God. He also said that He is the bread of life and if we eat Him we shall live by Him. Furthermore the scriptures are Gods breath and whenever we take it in we are  breathing in God's life and nature. Praise the Lord that the Lord is so available and that we can enjoy Him as such a reality day by day.

Besides partaking of the riches of Christ in such a simple way daily, we can also enjoy Christ during the many feasts with plenty of food during the big meetings with the Saints.  Many a times I have seen cases of Saints who are serving the Lord yet without joy or the presence of the Lord. They can  hardly open their mouth to praise the Lord.  Nevertheless upon personally getting back into the Word and daily feeding on the living word from the scriptures at home or in the meetings, they eventually all come back to serve, express and share the riches of Christ with joy in our midst. Praise The Lord!