Prove it!

Ever noticed that those closest to us can be so enthralled with our outer shell that they set themselves up for dissapointment? It is funny, the demands of others for us to be 'moral', 'good', loving or perfect are honestly just the flesh's way of drawing us into a place that died! Just because we have stopped trying to produce love does not mean that YOU are producing it in the flesh my friend! For the very Truth we stand in -demands that we were made new in Him. That means the old life had to die. What life I have is Christs, "I" no longer live. I will not delude my self otherwise. For I know were the life and goodness comes from. You might want to consider why you are demanding it from me though? In fact law only produces more sin.

Love

Do we not know that we serve the Father in Love? That is not natural! It is a miracle! Our true 'daily bread' isn't food and wine, no, for He knows that we need that to live but rather, it is to KNOW and rely on the Love that God has for us and to share that same love with one another. Love is our source, our power, for we were birthed in it through Christ! We will understand nothing as we ought to without it. We will be swirled around in confusion and certainly not experience the free flowing of what it is to "serve in the newness of life". Do not listen to the lies of the world that encourage you to reject Love, do not attempt to deny it. Do not let those fleshly perceptions dictate to you what it means to live in Christ.   Walk as you ARE, born in love unto God, for good works in Him who IS Love!


"1If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.3And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
      4Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things..

Endless Reasons

I amazed at just how many dead 'reasons' come at us who are in Him. They come and they come. Be wise, for they are an attempt of the enemy to get your foot to stumble from your good standing. For the reasoning of the flesh goes on and on in it's deadness entrapping anyone in it's path. For it only desires to disrupt and keep the attention and focus on itself. Be warned! Be alert! Jesus once said something that we have S-U-C-H a hard time understanding. For we approach it as if it is to be understood naturally:


Luke 9:57-60

[57] As they were walking along the road, a man said to him, "I will follow you wherever you go."

[58] Jesus replied, "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head."

[59] He said to another man, "Follow me."

But the man replied, "LORD, FIRST LET ME GO AND BURY MY FATHER."

[60] Jesus said to him, "Let the DEAD bury their OWN DEAD, but YOU go and proclaim the KINGDOM of God."

Do we not see? Do we not hear? Let the DEAD bury it's own elemental understandings. YOU walk according to Life! Let go and turn away from that which is dead and live as one raised from the dead!

Love,

Adam

High Calling?

Man oh man! Do we actually think that God teaches us that we are to seek an identity outside of Christ? That is insanity dear one! It can not be done! Not in any true sense. For there is no true identity in anyone else nor anything else. Do not listen to the demands of the world and to the demands of the flesh that call at you to seek 'specialness' and importance in the flesh. Your life is not found there![in the flesh] It is found in another realm having nothing to do with the old crud of this world! For those things only result in shame and in death brother/sister.They are NOT your life. No loved one, you are taught by the love of God, what 'higher' calling do you need? What are you looking for? Hey you, I am speaking to YOU! You the one who is acting insane! I want to reach you and stimulate that new life that resides with and in you.

God is able to shake us from those perceptions and is entirely faithful to do it, just not like we might think it ought to be done or appear like. For God can not act like anything other than what He is...for He is Love. The wrath of  man does not bring the justice of God nor does it change anything God never fails..

Lean On Me

to rely on the flesh is to rely on weakness.

Thankful?

Thankfulness. We know what the world thinks of this. We are learning it all the time. Seeing it everywhere. The world does not know what true thankfulness is, do not be deceived. For it is not revealed to them to know. We who are His are given to know the riches of Christ and see and know and experience true thankfulness. We KNOW it is not an attempt. It is not a 'positive attitude' it is not a means of financial gain but, it is true life pouring out through our hearts unto God and to each other. For God sees it the same. Every time you notice your heart speaking love to another, it is as if to Him. He receives it that way. Yeah, I know, amazingly sweet huh? Love does that. This manifestation of true life can form words of thankfulness or it can just be a thankful heart that dwells richly in us. Do not be deceived, the new heart IS thankful despite any clouding of the fleshly mind! We are not any longer of the flesh, we are of the Spirit. Be ye thankful..enjoy your new heart!

Invisible

We have all seen or heard stories about the invisible man. It is a  created ,worldly fable about a guy that no one can see but is able to do incredible things because well, you can not see him! I see this as probably a creative attempt of the empty existence lurking in the dark for some hidden power to do it's own bidding without being 'seen'.[bad or 'good'] But, I also see a testimony to Christ and God in it. For the world is always bound to play with the shadows of our God's reality. For there is an invisible God. He lives in me. He lives in you who can hear it.[and you DO hear if you are His!] He can not be seen by evil, He can not be seen by the flesh. He is too great, too wonderful! Ah! But He made us to see Him. Enjoy that sight, enjoy your Father knowing you, loving you protecting you. He is true laughter, He is true gladness, He is true love.

Love One Another?

Hello again!

To love one another.

Yes, mmmmm..yes. My heart just rumbles with desire when I hear that phrase. For this is the response of my new heart. It is that simple. Oh I have been given to know that this four word statement also represents death to the world that passes away. For it is total emptiness to the the vain mind that has not God. It represents a life of work and toil and burden and futility.
But what does this all mean to us who are alive? I mean what does it present to US? Let him who has an ear- hear! While we once were swindled into seeing this according to the flesh we now know what it means to actually love another. Oh we can still be distracted of course  and my heart cries for some of the saints who have been kept in the binds of this trickery for so long but, we do KNOW what it is to love another. For it is part of the new life that lives within. So what it is it? Ask yourself! Is it not the absolute joy and privilege of serving from a new heart in the full assurance of faith!? We were given to know what it was to suck the life and love out of everyone and everything in our path before being given the reality of God. For that is life and 'love' according to the flesh! We are not in the flesh though! No, no not any longer! Despite it's cloudy attempts at erasing this joy in  us, it can not ever be done! We have the eternal life of Christ! We do not need to lower our heads and make agreement with the flesh to live as if we have no treasure in Christ!

Love one another..hear the call of the REALITY of this and go feast on the royal privilege of loving another.

Could This Be Love?

Well good morning,                                                                                                                        8/30/10


It escapes us doesn't it? That memory of once being without Love. Do we even remember what that existence was like? We spent our whole entire lives trying to' fill it up' or even find it.[we have the scars to prove it!!] Do we realize that the love and acceptance of 'the world' is antagonistic toward God? If you can even call it 'love'? I mean I have come to know it is complete utter emptiness. A mirage. Do we not see it? The world is bound to seek love and acceptance from 'things' and each other and the flesh!. Can we expect those without Life to do anything else? Why are we so surprised all the time? Can we 'teach' them to do right? No, no. We can not do that. It is futile to attempt to do so. Do we condemn them for it? No, no that is not what God teaches us.
Is it not all amazing that we KNOW the Love God has for us? We know and UNDERSTAND the Father's Love. At one time in my life , through the empty deception of the  flesh , I was able to be 'convinced'  I was separated from God's love by MY performance. Do we know how we walk in THIS life? We walk as totally forgiven, totally clean and totally directed people! The old empty thoughts will tell you anything BUT this, for it can not submit itself to to the understanding put within us which is from God. Yet we have this understanding within because He lives within us![outcasts we are to the world!] It is AMAZING that He totally rescued me from sin and death! But it is just as amazing that He rescued me from the fleshly religion that has seemed to cover the face of 'Christianity' as if from Him. Somehow Love did not fail in this. Though appearances seem otherwise.
Do we not recognize our life source? Brother, sister, do you not SEE? You have been given the perfect Love of God! Wow! We were saved from all that emptiness and void. The fleshly mind and thoughts will always attempt to devise objections to all of this but, we are not in the flesh but in the Spirit! We have no obligation to the flesh![ nor to it's voice] We are totally purchased and belong to Another!!! We do not BELONG to the flesh as it would suggest. [and boy does it constantly suggest it!] Do we not know the sanity that is Christ? Do we not know were it is found? John said we[no one] can not know God except through Love!! No, no not fleshly love, for we have already made it clear that the world is SEEKING love but, can only love as the world loves. It does not have the Love of God. You have been given EYES TO SEE!! Go ahead, use them brother/ sister!!! God is calling you, encouraging you, exhorting you "go ahead, use them!"


We wake up each day to a world that opposes us, that is presenting hell essentially as 'life'. It seeks to convince us that we are to take on all those empty perceptions that were indeed once part of our inheritance in THIS world. But God teaches us from within something totally different! This anointing of God is ALWAYS working in us 24 hours a day despite what things appear like sometimes to our former perceptions. God IS love. Let him who has an ear to hear, let him hear!!!




Adam

Fear

My hunch for today:


For those in Christ[all] fear isn't about changing our circumstances or even changing our attitudes, rather it is simply in recognizing we were freed from the law in Christ.


"..perfect Love casts out fear because fear has to do with punishment"




Adam

Reality?

So just what is it the natural mind tells us about this new reality we are standing in? Maybe that "it"[the new life] or He[Jesus] really has no REAL connection to our "real lives" here in on earth? A dear brother wrote this today and I believe it be strait from Him. Here you go:

Justification
Posted Sun, 08/15/2010 - 09:23

How often have you limited your understanding of justification based upon how it relates to Biblical or religious doctrine? If so, I understand, because most doctrinal statements include it. But if you really want an accurate picture of justification, simply remember any of the zillion times you explained your actions away in order to avoid the consequences. If you were to listen with unbiased ears, you would hear people justifying and/or validating themselves, just like you have, in most every conversation or argument at any given time of the day. Wouldn't you love to silence that constant urge to justify or validate yourself? This is the meaning behind the justification provided by Jesus Christ on the cross.-Jim Minker

James

Good morning,

I woke up and stumbled over to my computer and ended up reading a wonderful little quote from a dear friend of mine and here is that quote:

"So, let your words fit with what's really going on. If you are suffering, let your words be directed to the One who is working the very best in your life. If you are encouraged, let your words come out in songs of praise and rejoicing. If you are in a weakened condition, let your words call for those who stand strong in Christ so that their words are directed to God on your behalf as they present you as one in whom the Spirit lives. And the prayer of faith will deliver you and the Lord will pull you out of this. And as far as any sins that have been produced, they will not be held against you."-Jim Minker

Sound familiar? It should, it is an exact description of the thing said in the book of James. Read it, and enjoy!


Adam

Tender Mercies

Well yes! Did you know that  in Luke 1:78 there is a reference to" God's tender mercy?" And that's not even what came to mind for me just now no, it was the fact that Paul later on spoke to his converts about being tender hearted and forgiving towards ONE ANOTHER! Now why would he say THAT?


Are we not looking on all sides for that mercy? That kindness? That tenderheartedness? Any little glimpse of it and we go running for it. Do we not know that Christ is the Author of this kind of Love? We don't have to go around demanding it from others but, rather trust Christ to open up the reality of it IN you. For HE is in you.

Adam

God's Confusion?

 I woke up today considering the idea that maybe God IS the very sanity of mind that works in the midst of and through our confusion..[it's ALL Him] We think of confusion as a testimony to Him NOT working in us and yet I submit it is the very evidence of His working in us. God is Love, why wouldn't He produce sanity?[or rather encourage us and cause us to live unto our new reality, which IS sanity]-Adam

Morning Time!

Wowza!

It has been a looong time since I have posted anything! Geez! I have been real busy that is for sure. This morning I was thinking about getting into the habit of writing down a few words that occur as the inspiration strikes and thought "hey why don't I blog?"! So here I am , back again. So I was woken up at like 4 am this morning by my 3 year old wondering were everybody was? I am sooo tired[I was up till 12 last night]!! So I got to thinking and here are a few thoughts that occurred to me in the wee hours of the morn:

"Is it possible that we have been duped into viewing Jesus totally after the flesh? I mean what led us to the idea that He does not care about us anymore? Was it not all the stuff within our earthly life that made us question what it is He thought of us? Yeah and didn't the wisdom of religion and man give us an answer? It sure did. That answer put a heavy load on our backs! Can't we see it? That load..is a "load" of you know what! That stuff isn't true of and in Him. Thats the stuff of man that we were told and that we told ourselves. What ever happened to that sense of hopefulness? What about that sense of love and care you once had? It came from God but, in our turning our minds over to the voice of the flesh we have derived a sense of burden and guilt and confusion and fear and you know the rest. To boot, we also began returning to the old state of things. You know like taking up OUR OWN cause, defending OURSELVES and promoting and caring for ourselves in an OBSESSIVE way. Now why would we do this? Maybe it is because after listening to fleshly wisdom it only made sense to return to what was familiar in the OLD you. Hey it may not be a bad thing if you do not realize the game being played with you by your adversary. Hey but, we were not called to live walking in that old dead existence! We are called to freedom. What freedom? Well for starters freedom Fromm thinking that life is all about our FORMER darkness! That old life of shame and emptiness. That loveless life, that empty life. Now we are were called to Life! Life fulfills all the dark places that was once us and that IS good news!"-Adam