JESUS CRUCIFIED

Job 28:20-28 (KJV)
“20 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
23 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, ...and seeth under the whole heaven;
25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
27 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.”
Wisdom comes from transformation; deeper the transformation - deeper the wisdom. Jesus is the power of God and He is the wisdom of God (1Corinthians 1:24). Therefore, He is the power in us to change and He is the wisdom gained in doing so.
Many things concerning sin cannot be understood as sin until we find the power to depart from it. Jesus is that power. His act on the cross deals with all our acts and brings them into focus. It takes an act to bring sin into being and it took an act to end it, to cleanse it, to stop it, and to take it from us; His blood cleanses us from all sin.
All our good acts no matter how good in quantity they may be can never atone our bad ones; only His blood can atone our sins, His act on the cross gets to the bottom of the reason why we act the way we have, do, and will act out in the future. Jesus is understanding waiting to happen as we become intimate with Him on all levels of life – He is life, and He is the understanding of how it should work for us and not against us.
This is why Paul said, “For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified” (1 Corinthians 2:2). His act on the cross is the only act that can straighten up our act.

MISSION

2 Timothy 2:3-4 (KJV)
“3  Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
4  No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.”
We had a saying in the 82nd Airborne Division, “If it aint raining it aint training.” We would spend days out in the cold rain and was taught to ignore it. The mission becomes more important than comfort.
Living in the spirit must become our mission. The mission is at hand, adapt and overcome. We must not allow the affairs of this life to become our comfort forfeiting our purpose as a good soldier in Christ. The endurance it takes to accomplish our mission becomes our comfort; in this, our mind is able to ignore any resistance that may be present.
“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds” (Hebrews 12:1-3).    

FULLNESS

Ephesians 3:14-19 ESV
“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to ...know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”

There is fullness in God we cannot obtain by knowledge alone; this fullness is beyond knowledge. In other words, we are never complete without it. we can cram all the knowledge of God inside us and from all appearances it would look like we could be complete with that knowledge; nonetheless, without being rooted and grounded in love, without the love of Christ we cannot be complete much less bear fruit of this kind (completeness in God).
One can spend a lifetime reading and dissecting scripture and miss love; knowing love comes from another source and that source is beyond the knowledge of Him, simply, it is Him. Because of my knowledge I know China is on this planet and have never placed my feet on its soil. There are those who can talk God all day and have never encountered Him.
Talking about this will never produce the practicality of knowing this. It is only hands on practice that we can know it. Until we practice His love we cannot know His love; it is the only way to know His love, it is beyond knowledge.
To come into the fullness of God is when we practice God. The military taught me how to jump out of air planes; they taught me how to be a paratrooper. Nonetheless, they did not put wings on my chest until I actually jumped from airplanes; knowing how was not enough to wear those wings. It was not until the silk popped above my head and I descended from the sky to the earth from a plane that I officially became a paratrooper.
Likewise, we cannot know the fullness of God (Love) until we practice God (Love).

TONGUE

James 3:5-12 (KJV)
^“5  Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
⁶  And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
⁷  For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
⁸  But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
⁹  Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of Go.
¹⁰  Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
¹¹  Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
¹²  Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.”

Jesus said, “…for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.” All tongue issues are heart issues. If we get our heart right our tongue will get right.

“Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me” (Psalm 51:10).

TIME

2 Peter 3:3-10 (KJV)
"3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up."
Ecclesiastes 3:1 tells us, “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:” Time is nothing more than allotted space. For instance, morning is allotted time for breakfast, noon for lunch, and evening for super. When we make appointments it is usually surrounded by time, time we have allotted to meet. Therefore, time is more about purpose than the space it occupies.
This is why one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as one day to God. His purpose is more important than the space allotted to it. God is patient and He is longsuffering. His purpose can out live our apathy and our lack of concern; in other words, His love for us does not change throughout the tenure of our lives whether we are conscious of it or not.
The day of the LORD is an allotted time; it is an appointment that will take place in a specific space and time. Just as there was a time God created the heavens, a time the world overflowed with water and perished, His day will consume everything in a fervent heat; “…the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.”
We must understand this space is not as important as His purpose. God will bring justice to all that has gone wrong. In the center of all this we need to understand His heart. It is not His will that any should perish but that we all come to learn transformation; that we all should come to repentance. “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” (Hebrews 9:27).
The long and short end of all this is; God’s long patients hastens our repentance. In other words, our allotted time is scheduled for one purpose and that is for us to learn transformation.
Daniel saw fire coming from the throne consuming the Roman Empire (the fourth beast of Daniel 7). Peter lived in the vice of Rome. Daniel’s response to that vision was that the enemy seeks to change time and to wear down the saints; his whole function is to invade our space (time).
Pay him no mind for “the time is at hand;” fulfill the Father’s heart and learn transformation. The condition of this world does not get to choose our condition with God, it did not with Daniel and Peter in their time and it must not with us.

WRAPPED UP, TIED UP, AND TANGLED ALL UP IN GOD

Isaiah 40:29-31 (KJV)
“29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”...
The Hebrew word for wait here is “qāwâ” and is pronounced Kaw-vaw; it means to bind by twisting. This word is not as much about time as it is investment. To wait in this case is how much we invest ourselves into God by being wrapped up and tied up and tangled all up in Him. As a result, His strength becomes our strength.
Therefore, it is not about being patient; it is about being confident and secure. We must come to the place that our relationship with God cannot become any more real than it already is. Nothing has to manifest in this realm for us to be connected or for us to believe and trust. Waiting on Him is our investing into Him; it is tying ourselves to Him.
Waiting in this case is not about what He does or will do; it is simply about who He is. He is our salvation, He is our song, and He is our God. He is who He is unconditionally. We are connected to Him and conditions cannot disconnect us. We find strength in God as we face whatever life serves.
“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:38-39). This persuasion Paul speaks of is the waiting Isaiah speaks of. Be persuaded and wait on the LORD.

THE MUSIC

Isaiah 12:1-2 (KJV)
“1  And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
2  Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.”
Our voice becomes music; a certain wave length from beginning to end our heart becomes an expression with sound. His voice is music to me, He expresses His heart and I sing. He releases His disposition as He utters and I shudder with fear, yet I am not afraid as His music fills me; He is my song.
Talking about being stuck in the “already not yet,” the “Lord” is all up in here. Isaiah saw it coming; something about seeing it as it is coming makes you feel like you are already there.  “And in that day…” It is in this tension He becomes our strength to carry on. “Already” is as much our salvation as the “not yet.” The Kingdom is inside us now, in that day we be will stand inside it. The salvation He is working in us now will manifest complete in that day; therefore, salvation is a forward movement to be completed.
Standing here and now with His music inside us He is taking us there.  Hope to see you there “…in that Day…”

DROP IN A BUCKET

Isaiah 40:13-15 (NRSV)
“13 Who has directed the spirit of the LORD, or as his counselor has instructed him?
14 Whom did he consult for his enlightenment, and who taught him the path of justice? Who taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?
15 Even the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as dust on the scales; see, he takes up the isles like fine dust.”
Put all the nations that has been and is now together, even all together they are just a drop from a bucket, dust on a scale. All the accumulative knowledge, culture, rule, and reign the nations have offered cannot come close to the wealth and health found in our Father’s Kingdom.
His Spirit is mighty, questions we do not know to ask is in His every movement. It was He who moved upon the face of the waters and it is He who moves on us when we are empty and void. It is not us directing Him; He is directing us.

THE VOICE IN OUR HEAD

John 6:63 (KJV)
“It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”
Spiritual cognition is when we allow His words to become the voice in our head reasoning with our thoughts. His words are spirit, and they are life. Read His words, think on His words, and meditate on His words; allow His words to give us life.
Get inside the narratives of the Gospels as we read them. Allow the episodes to become like motion pictures in our mind; get close enough we can watch Him breathe as He speaks. Sense His disposition and position of heart as His words are spoken; as we let them come to life we will find them giving us life. And, let us not forget the greatest action concerning His words, believe them until we own them and they own us; until they become the voice in our head as we face life everyday.

VANITY

Ecclesiastes 12:8-14 ESV
“Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; all is vanity. Besides being wise, the Preacher also taught the people knowledge, weighing and studying and arranging many proverbs with great care. The Preacher sought to find words of delight, and uprightly he wrote words of truth. The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings; they are given by one Shepherd. My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh. The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.” Our intimacy with God is more important than our ability to communicate that intimacy. For example, we do not have any accounts of Enoch and his ability as a great orator deliberating his secrets of how he walked with God. The account we have is he did walk with God; so deeply, his walk has become a standard for us all.
The fact he did teaches us more than he could have ever expressed with words or instructions. The fear of God is not us pursuing God it is God pursuing us; more specifically, the fear of God is our reaction to Him and His pursuit of us. This is how obedience is involved.
Being intimate enough with God that He would instruct us to do something is a greater achievement than knowing what to tell others in what they should do. Lord, Lord Have we not cast out devils in thy name, and have done many wonderful works in thy name. Depart from me; your work has been that of iniquity. I never knew you.
To Fear God is not as much about us knowing Him as it is Him knowing us. “But if any man love God, the same is known of him” (1 Corinthians 8:3).

PROSPER

Genesis 39:22-23 (KJV)
“22 And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it.
23 The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; because the LORD was with him, and that which he did, the LORD made it to prosper.”
Still feasting on the message Brother Fisher p...reached at our homecoming. He preached about not giving up on our dreams. Though he did not use this Scripture he alluded to the message in this Scripture. Many have built theologies surrounding prosperity making it the text rather than focusing on the context of which it has in Scripture. The way I see it, prosperity is not about possessions as much as it is a spiritual connection driving us as believers. The connection in David is when he released the smooth stone taking the giant out, the connection in Rahab is when she let the men down by a cord from her window, Samson pushed the pillows, Daniel praying consistently three times a day, The little girl when she tells the defense minister dying with cancer about the prophet who instructed him to dip seven times in Jordan, etc… We have visions in our hearts given to us by God and as we pursue them prosperity takes place. Our wellbeing takes hold of prosperity in the steps we take in moving towards the vision we have in our hearts. This was the case with Joseph and it is the case with us when we connect with those things God drops in our hearts. As a result, with God given visions we are motivated to act and prosperity follows.

SOW

Galatians 6:7-8 (KJV)
“7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.”
Unfortunately, we have all sown to the flesh at one point in time. Reaping corruption is not positive for anyone; nonetheless, the process can be reversed in time. ...
Time in all this is the conundrum many struggle with concerning reaping. We find in Scripture the lasting effects generational curses have, some extend to the fifteenth generation. The roots flesh seed produce runs deep.
This (flesh seed) principle applies to believers as much as it does unbelievers. Many folks in prison come to accept Jesus as LORD, regardless; they remain in prison reaping what they sowed to the flesh. Therefore, reaping is just as sure as sowing.
Time is rough. Some spirit seeds we sow will not be reaped until we pass from mortal to immortal. The Scripture tells us the enemy desires to change the times and the seasons. Just because we have received salvation does not mean our reaping stops immediately. Anyone in agriculture realizes this simple principle. You do not want something to grow, do not plant it; if it is planted it will eventually manifest.
The reversal takes place as simple as this, stop sowing and we will eventually stop reaping. Old things pass away and behold all things become new. Sowing spiritual seed is the new and sowing flesh seed is the old. Which do we prefer? The old brings corruption, the new brings life everlasting.
In the meantime realize this, either way it takes time. As we cultivate, keep this in mind, and what comes up will not surprise us. Also, it is not God's will that any should perish but that we all learn transformation (repentance).

LET

Genesis 1:1-5 (KJV)
“1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.”
There is a harmony between God and creation; a symphony of relational reaction between His heart and the creation appearing. He begins and continues creation with one simple prevailing word “let.” The Hebrew word here for let הָיָה (hāyâ) is both a command and an invitation; God’s commands are invitations a call to relationship.
When His commands are obeyed love is manifested. Love becomes the relational symphony lived out with God; this is the “new sound” every time it appears. Let it be. Letting things happen is reciprocal (expressing mutual relationship or action) both by the commanding invitation and the accepter, the giver and the receiver.
Therefore, the first day of creation became a paradigmatic event for the following days. It is as simple as this, nothing can happen unless we let it; let demands a response, "...and there was light."

IN HIM

John 15:4 (KJV)
“Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.”
Everything I see in Him, everything I do in Him, everything I have in Him, and everything I feel in Him is eternal. Nothing is lost in Him. Nothing is wasted in Him, absolutely nothing. It is never over in Him; it begins and is sustained in Him.
In Him I move, breathe, and have my being; in Him.  I am lost in Him, I am found in Him, for in Him I am consumed and overtaken by Him; “Him” is just all over me. More of Him I get more of Him I want; just ate up from the floor up with Him.
I am my own tombstone and on my heart is engraved “Him.” Rain can’t wash it off, fire can’t scorch or burn it off, and any sized hail can’t beat it off; “Him” is on here to stay forever, He is my forever.
I will never forget the black man that attended my home church when I was a child. He said, “If they send me to hell, my Holy Ghost and fire will burn everything up down there.” He said that with a genuine confidence in Him.
There is no pride, jealousy, bitterness, or resentment in Him; in Him exist that I may exist in Him. Death where is your sting? Grave where is your victory? Neither one of you have anything on “Him.” Moses and Elias stood next to “Him” and testified of things we know nothing about and our theology cannot explain. In Him are things beyond me.  So, come on Death give it your best shot; come on Grave, give it your best shot too. On the last day He will raise me up as He has said, He will be in me and I will be in Him. 
In Him.

KINGDOM / HOME

Luke 17:20-21 (KJV)
20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
Somewhere inside us we are connected to God’s Kingdom. It is not until His nature becomes our nature, His mind becomes our mind, His heart becomes our heart, and His essence is one with... ours that His Kingdom appears.
It will not be found in lands and buildings, polities designed by humans, or peace maintained by human control. There is only one true and everlasting King, only one and true everlasting Father, only one eternal Spirit of truth, and only one throne sets in the midst.
This throne surrounds itself with a midst that can set inside of you and me. If there were any other word to describe it, it would be home. It is where Daddy is, where our one Brother is, and where our Connector, teacher, and confidant dwell.
Do not have to die to get there, do not have to become anymore righteous than I am in Christ Jesus to get there, and I do have to pass through any gate or door this world provides to get there. I just close my eyes in faith, journey within, rest in Daddy’s Love and simply know this is Home.

SING

Psalm 96:1-2 (KJV)
“O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
Sing unto the LORD, bless his name; shew forth his salvation from day to day.”
Don’t know about other folks but I sure do like singing. Showing forth His salvation creates a pleasing sound to the LORD; it gives Him joy to know what He is doing in us is taking. God takes joy in giving us salvation over everything in our lives.
Give God some interaction in responding to His salvation by taking to it; let salvation work in us. My brother says it is more than just singing in the choir, in fact, a new song might throw the choir off; sing baby sing! Let His salvation ring.  

LIFE GIVER

Genesis 3:20 (KJV)
 “And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.”
 This is the most primitive definition of mother; Adam saw her as and names her as Eve (a life giver). Woman was given as a gift to humanity as life givers. Whether she is able to take seed and create a baby or not she is gifted to give life. Adam gives her this name before she ever bore children, of course, it was prophetic in the sense of becoming the mother of all living; nonetheless, she had given him life, therefore, this is how he saw her and how she would be perceived by all that would follow. 
 Women possess the ability to give life, this is the gift they become if they choose to cultivate it and release it from out of their being. A woman’s touch can heal all that is broken and make any booboo feel better. God has made it this way and the choice is up to women to come into agreement with it and become the life givers God created them to become.
 The books of wisdom out of Proverbs give us the grief born if woman fails to come into agreement with being this gift: “Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands” (Proverbs 14:1). To become this gift is a choice; to come into agreement is to build, to refuse is to pluck it down.  Unfortunately, if refused the woman becomes unfulfilled and miserable in her choice.
 Consequently, a woman’s touch can bring life when in agreement with her purpose and death if she chooses to live otherwise. On a positive note, healing is provided in the atonement for those who have failed to come into agreement; to come into agreement with the shed blood of Jesus becomes transforming and can change a woman’s touch from being that of death to her original purpose of life, and that is to become a “life giver.”

CREATURES OF HIS PRESENCE

Revelation 4:8 (KJV)
“And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.”
These six winged creatures are Seraphim’s; they were embroidered into the fabric of the veil separating the holy and the most holy place. The fabric was eighteen inches thick; historians say it would have taken two teams of ...oxen tied to it pulling in opposite directions to rip it. This give us a clue as to how thick the flesh is between us and His presence.
These creatures are all about the presence of God. Notice, they are full of eyes within and they rest not day and night. After being in the presence of God 24/7 one is bound to grow eyeballs in places you would never dream could be. “…eyes within…” indicate an introspective view matchless beyond human comprehension.
We cannot look into God and God not look into us; His presence causes us to see ourselves in ways could not be seen otherwise. Isaiah is a great example of this, “…I am a man of unclean lips…”
Furthermore, He is the God of our “was,” our "is,” and our “is to come.” Spiritually speaking, a consistent exposure to His presence will give us a perspective on all that has been, that is, and that is to come. Therefore, this information is not as much about our gifting as it is our time spent with God.
Consequently, seeing people as God sees them is a result of seeing ourselves as God sees us. Eye’s within give greater vision to the eye’s looking out.

DADDY'S LOVE

Romans 3:1-4 (MSG)
"1 So what difference does it make who's a Jew and who isn't, who has been trained in God's ways and who hasn't?
2 As it turns out, it makes a lot of difference—but not the difference so many have assumed. First, there's the matter of being put in charge of writing down and caring for God's revelation, these Holy Scriptures.
3 So, what if, in the course of doing that, some of those Jews abandoned their post? God didn't abandon them. Do you think their faithlessness cancels out his faithfulness?
4 Not on your life! Depend on it: God keeps his word even when the whole world is lying through its teeth. Scripture says the same: Your words stand fast and true; Rejection doesn't faze you."

 
I want to be like You Daddy. Steadfast Love, Covenant Love, Face on Fire Love. None like You Love.

GREAT GAIN

1 Timothy 6:5-6 (KJV)
5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.
Where is our mind? And, what are we interested in the most? Gain can be connected to just about anything and the greatest is godliness with contentment. The focus here is this, godliness is more important than any gain we may have concerning anything. Gain or no gain godliness with content is a gain all of its own.
Jesus asked the question, “For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”
Godliness has two root meanings, good and worship and is implying devotion. Godliness is also used to imply holiness.
A man testified to me the other day, when his job became worship unto God is when he gained favor. Devotion to God is the gain in any gain that becomes godly. Turning our drudgeries into worship unto God is the ability to be content whether it benefits us or not, now, that is great gain.

THE HARVEST

Matthew 9:35-10:4 ESV
“And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out... laborers into his harvest.”
And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction. The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.”
Communication (teaching) – Proclamation (preaching) – Activation (spiritual gifting) – Impartation (giving)
Jesus looking at the harvest saw people scattered, harassed, and helpless without a shepherd to connect them and lead them to their solutions. Consequently, as long as people are spiritually disconnected wondering aimlessly the harvest exists.
Therefore, the harvest is not a geographical foreign field; it is a condition, no matter where on the planet it may exist. It is in America as much as it is in any other place on the planet. This is why Jesus told them to begin in Jerusalem. “Into all the world” includes where we are and it begins with where we are. Actually, the condition Jesus was looking at was in the people He was looking at when He made His comment concerning the harvest.
Who are we looking at and what condition are they in? Communicate, proclaim, activate, and impart what we have. What do we have to give that can heal this condition? Jesus.

ACCEPTED

Ephesians 1:3-6 (KJV)
“3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, ...
6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
The Father’s predestined will for us all is to learn transformation. “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9). This is His will for every person on the planet. In His election He has already made a place for us in His will.
Living accepted is the most liberating enabled posture we can take once we receive Jesus as Savior and LORD. The moment we accept Jesus and His love for us is the moment we are adopted and accepted.
This is a faith thing not a fake thing. He does not fake His acceptance and neither should we. We should approach every trial, tribulation, test, suffering, and temptation with acceptance in heart. We are not rejected in our battles, we are accepted and beloved.
“And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day” (John 6:39-40).”
This is the Father’s will for us all – we can live accepted and beloved and know in our knower that He will never leave us nor forsake us. Think accepted, act accepted – Live accepted

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SPIRIT

Jude 1:14-15 (KJV)
“14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
Here is the seventh grandfather from Adam, lived before Genesis was written and prophesies something written in The Revelation of Jesus Christ (Battle of Armageddon). Absolutely amazing to me, lived before the first book of the Bible and is telling us things written in the last book.
This tells me walking with God is amazing. Study of Scripture can put valuable things in us, as I see it; Enoch’s life with God reveals that there is something also very valuable in walking with God.
Passion for God can give us more than we can imagine. He is a person not just a philosophical idea surrounded by historical evidence. He is our Father beyond this earth life or anything tangible here.
Having a passion for God gives us something in God that is more valuable than the petty things we as humans count valuable.
I have a niece that has had brain seizures since she was a child; she is over thirty years old with the mind of a three year old; she has severe slurred speech among many other underdeveloped physical limitations.
I have seen her set on the edge of her bed watching Bill Gaither video’s with a bleating heart grunting out of her spirit passionate worship. God is a spirit and walking with Him is a spiritual thing. All the knowledge in the world cannot touch this.
Spiritual ignorance is a choice, if we do not want God we do not have to have Him; on the other hand, if we do, nothing can keep us from Him. After all, we are spirit also.

ONLY

John 3:16 (KJV)
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
“But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name” (John 1:12). Many are receiving Him and to them this power is given to become sons of God. Nonetheless, the fact remains, there is only “one begotten of the Father.”
Only means only. Only: Without others or anything further; alone; solely; exclusively. There is only one Jesus.