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Eph 2:4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions — it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

(repent) change your perspective. Allow God to be complete goodness, joy, peace, and mercy. Allow Him to provide, enter His rest. It’s all real.

Once you do this you see the Kingdom of God really is at hand. (here, on it’s way, being revealed).

6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

EAT THESE WORDS allow them to change you and nothing will look the same again.

“Most Christians believe in Good News as long as it’s not too good. Make it too good and you will be labeled a heretic.” Craig Geis

God wants to bring you into union with Himself, but unless you are willing to give up your right to yourself, He cannot. “. . . let him deny himself . . .”— deny his independent right to himself. Then the real life-the spiritual life-is allowed the opportunity to grow. Oswald

Matt. 11:28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

Psa. 62:1 My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from him. 2 He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.

Madame Guyon from the 1500’s:

“Most Christians do not feel that they have been called to a deep, inward relationship to their Lord. But we have all been called to the depths of Christ just as surely as we have been called to salvation.”

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It is ours to be, not to do. We obey (do) to belong, now we belong because we are, one (be). Out of that we be, out of His being we do. Our King is here with us.

1Pet. 1:15 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; 16 for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”

Matt. 5:48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

What we often read into these verses is a command to obedience. Then puzzle at the impossibility, ending in despair, “I’ll never measure up.”

The very first words my step father said to me when we moved in to his house. “When I say jump, you jump, and ask. “How high sir?” On the way up.

I was 9.

I set about practicing to jump and trying to increase the hight of my jump while I was in the air, over and over for hours I would stand outside, jump and try and will myself higher. I’d think about it at night and be in fear when I’d see my step father because I wouldn’t measure up.

frustration.

The gospel is an invitation to “be”. The one who commands is creator King. Therefore He creates, by grace, we be.

“To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it.” -REVELATION 2:17

The manna is HIDDEN and the name is SECRET. The Lord is doing a work, but that work is, for the most part, hidden and secret. If we are always looking for something out in the open and in plain view then we will miss the deeper workings of God below the surface.

Source: “The Irresistible Kingdom” by Chip Brogden

http://theschoolofchrist.org/books/the-irresistible-kingdom.html

My goal is God Himself, not joy nor peace, Nor even blessing, but Himself, my God. Oswald Chambers

But He has to get me into the state of mind and spirit where I will allow Him to sanctify me completely, whatever the cost (see 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24). Oswald

sanctify=be one.

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We have been smoking spiritual Opium and believing what others say is true, because we are too damn lazy to seek Him ourselves. We are frightened children waiting for the fire to fall. We see in part, we know in part, but when He is fully known, as he intends, there will be NO more weeping, yet we quibble about politics and correct doctrine.

I second guess all the thoughts running through my mind. But In this case, I could not be more positive about what I touch, see, hear, taste and smell. The gospel is so much more then what we have allowed ourselves to believe. For if we believed it, the world would be a different place.

The Living God Himself has given us a brilliant gift, it cannot be revoked or changed by us or our opinion. The gift remains true while we circumnavigate the reality of it, by making up religious ideas to fence the reality in. Truth is an idea to some, or a book to others, that we debate. The truth is a man not an idea about Him.

Read very carefully what the book really says, not the headings and footnotes placed there by other people trying to help. Ask God to clear the curtains of human posturing from your mind, invite the Living God. Take your time and savor each word as if it were your last meal. When you read a word and your mind remembers something you have read or learned about it. Ask God to silence that thought, so you can listen to only him. What results is life altering. Listen to the whisper of His voice, remember he created you. So he speaks to you in the language He created you to understand. Be quiet, listen, see, feel, taste or just be. Let the Spirit of the Living God do the work. Rest in His love and easy yoke.

‘In the book, …“The Supper of the Lamb” by By Robert Farrar Capon the second chapter starts with the instruction to spend “60 minutes or so” chopping an onion. One onion sixty minutes’…on and on Capon leads us through a veritable onion meditation. By the end of the chapter one wonders if a single hour is enough time.’ from Mudhouse Sabbath, by Lauren F. Winter

We talk about the “gospel” as if it can be defined. We define it, so we can accept it, when in reality it is too wonderful to be true. We classify what it is, according to what is acceptable or taught. When the reality is still to wonderful for words. We argue about sin, free will, how we are “saved” what it means. All in all, we have a misunderstanding of the gospel. Whenever we approach the throne as a separate being. We are separate. When we realize how we compare to The Living God we fall short. It is from this place we often define the reality.

Eph. 2:6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus…NIV

Here is the place to define reality looking out from this seat. (mercy)

Eph. 3:14   For this reason, I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, 16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man; 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fulness of God.
NASB

The reality of God is so so much more then the picture we try to paint. His love goes deeper then we are comfortable allowing or can be defined. It is who we believe in not what, or why, or how, or when. Those are important to grasp only when you know who.

“I know Whom I have believed.” -2 TIMOTHY 1:12

“If you know Who, knowing what and why become less significant.” Chip Brogdon

Jesus taught us, saying: “Sell your possessions and give to those in need. Get yourselves purses that do not wear out, treasure that will not fail you, in heaven where no thief can reach it and no moth destroy it. For wherever your treasure is, that is where your heart will be too.”
Luke 12:33-34

What is the first thing you consider as a treasure?

Death is dead.

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Wimber-”My concern for the Church is the direction it seems to be taking to be more performance driven than presence centered…”

Hmm, it’s not what you do, what ocean you swim in, what songs you play, where you put your stuff, how you set the chairs. It’s not if you are rich or poor, Sunday or Monday. Piercing or crew cut or dreads. boy, girl or both.

It is if you are real all the time, good, bad, ugly. Real. smelly or not, truthful or not, fat or not, like dogs or not. real.

The presence of the Living God, the only measure now is the only time. It is the same on Tuesdays, as the weekend.

Sin management, seeker friendly, hell fire and brimstone, liturgy, holy spirit frenzy it is all His presence.

Living house

Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of – throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.

C. S. Lewis
Mere Christianity

That is the gospel.

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http://www.altervideomagazine.com/2012/09/20/learning-to-see/

Learning how to see.

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