Sunday 18 November 2012

Entering into the inheritance of Sonship

Today is a day of the heart today. I realized that we are as much in loving our neighbour and loving God. The two are not able to be separated. I will borrow a phrase my good friend Steve today, "The Lord Jesus is present to heal today" just as He walked around Jerusalem healing the sick, the same Jesus is doing the same things today.

It reminds me of a passage in Deuteronomy, in which no man will come before the Lord today, empty-handed. It was a reference to the feasts, pilgrim feasts that were celebrated in Jerusalem. It is Jubilee today!

For it is the heart that God is speaking to today, since we are members of one another, and we are members of the same body, in the body working together, we are glorifying God through our service. It is because God wants the body to work together, to make up the lack, and bring equality to all. I feel speaking out of my depth in sharing these things, not because I cannot, but because I am most of all reminded what He has spoken to my heart, today, That I am a Son, and I have an inheritance in Him. Today is a day that God's plans and purposes are being realized, it is a day when we witness to the goodness of God who gives liberally to all.

You are that spiritual gift, you are that letter of the heart - for God has chosen you to bear fruit, he has chosen and appointed you, that what is fruit may remain. This is because He Himself comes to us in the form of love, which no one can say "this is made this way" - He comes as Himself coming to us. It is the only form that you may behold and say "Holy Holy Holy" He wants us to be the hands and feet of God, just as He in a way communicates to us through the Elders.
Thou art worthy, O Lord,
to receive glory and honour and power:
for thou hast created all things,
and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
  Do not spare, do not say in your heart, "I cannot do God's will today" - for He has given you strength to do what He has commanded. Today is the day when the body is seen in the earth today. For in your loving your neighbour, you are loving yourself, you are that neighbour who has much work today for the Father. Discipleship towards the Son consists only in this, that you would love the Lord with all your heart and all your mind, and all your soul, and all your strength. For He has put out the opportunity for you yourself to say no to what the world holds valuable, and given glory to Him, through choosing Him, before you choose any other.

Be like me today who had nothing to offer Him, be like me today hearing a word that I will receive strength in me to plan and purpose what is God's will, and not turn away from it, because his plans and purposes for me are for my good. He has chosen you. I have to say, "do not turn away from it!" God is himself turning you to himself to obey Him at all costs. Your turning away has been healed, your backslidings, forgotten, He has entered into your heart today, so that you would choose Him, and hold fast to Him. In your giving, give your heart. It is near you, it is in your heart.

The same thing that happened to me today will happen to you as well, you will hear a voice behind you saying "This is the way, walk ye in it" bearing witness to what you are going through, and filling you with peace and good will in all areas. He will be your provider and security in all things, even to the end. He knows all about you, and what you are going through.

Hear in is the waiting that he provides. The wait to rest in Him, and cease from labouring, and to rest. This then is all that He is asking of you. Believe it in your heart and you will have it. If you have believed on Jesus for the forgiveness of your sins. Because your sin is opposed to God, but God has given you His son, nailed on a cross, as an understanding and a revelation of God's purposes towards you. He Himself did all that was needed for all this to happen, believe on Him and you will have it all because He will live inside of you.




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