Overcoming SIN, how...?

I stand at a crossroads. May this be an encouragement to anyone that happens upon this page. I don't think that when God said "I want you to be holy, because I am holy" he was saying "unless you are perfect you cannot enjoy my presence" (though that has been intimated)

My own imperfections are brought out in His perfect light. Rather I believe that He has and always will be the joy of His people because He made that decision. He would be everything that we need Him to be (Exodus 3:14)

One of these perfections or excellencies comes in mercy. "Lord, my soul breaks with longing for your commandments at all times" What this means is that, the Psalmist is saying to God, I have longed for your commandments (your judgments) to the point that my soul breaks. These longings are upon me at all times.

I would like to share with you some insights that I have had in regard to his love

It is God's provision. We cannot get out of the flood of His mercy. It is because God is the one that is the initiator, as the ones that He loves, the revelation that we receive from His Spirit is perfect.

The quality of His love. Do I recoil when I have sinned? or do I hear his voice saying. "David after Nob" The more that I receive of His mercy - being that thing which is really himself, reminds me of how I have indeed changed. I love it when he shows me how far I've come - that His love is deepening in my heart.

It is faith in Christ. This runs against the grain of every tradition and doctrine that we have built up - ironically it is dead religion and compromise. How can we put ourselves in the place of God and say "I have the choice to decide if I am saved or not?" The beauty of my relationship with Him is that he activates all the things that need to happen, my God. I don't even want to, like the sheep he leads me beside still waters.

He Provides

What do you see when you look at the Bible? I see a story of providence. It's like God is communicating to us, "I will make it possible for you to enter into relationship with me"
While thinking about how God said to Abram "I will come back this time next year and you will have a Son" and of the response. "Abram believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness" the word for righteousness here means, "has favor with God" I had to ask, "what was fulfilled in Abraham's obedience?"

It was because God was saying, "I myself make provision for you to have relationship with me" Wow! you mean it has nothing to do with what I've done? Even 500 years later, when the Israelites were in bondage, God heard their cries, provided them a Savior, Moses, who would lead them out to Mt. Sinai. Even at Mount Sinai, it says in Jeremiah 31:32

Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day [that] I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:

His provision for them as a Husband was giving them the LAW. Never did the law contradict FAITH, which said, "I will give you a Seed" - this giving is His provision. He provides at Calvary, raising up for the house of Jacob a Savior. We enter in by faith, having a relationship with Him.

 But those who establish their own good deeds to enter into relationship with Him, do not fulfill the law. It was like when Jesus said to the Pharisees "You read the scriptures because by them you believe you possess eternal life, but you are unwilling to come to me that you may have life" All the LAW is a curse, if you try to obey all the law, yet stumble in one part of it, makes you a law breaker and are charged as one. This is why we must enter into the provision of God, who makes the way possible. You see, God wants us to enter in he is not standing at the door saying, "you are too short, you are too tall, you are not smart enough..." He's set the perfect standard in the law so that those who enter in by faith are Sons.

What can I say to this? always enter into the provision of God for you TODAY, because he is your portion, he is your rest. Why should we be content with what we received yesterday?

Overcoming sin, just the beginning (2)

Oh, how I love your law!
it is my meditation all the day
You, through your commandments,
make me wiser than my enemies
For they are ever with me
I have more understanding than all my teachers,
For Your testimonies are my meditation
I understand more than the ancients,
Because I keep Your precepts
I have restrained my feet from every evil way,
That I may keep Your Word
I have not departed from Your judgments
For You Yourself have taught me
How sweet are Your words to my taste,
Sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Through Your precepts I get understanding;
Therefore I hate every false way (Psalm 119:97-104 NJKV)

I was in a predicament, it was a grace given to me. How am I safe, when I have a heart that is an organ that does not stop beating! Oh, i felt like I needed some safety somewhere when I realized "o, the secret is to be whole-hearted!" that is because I found out what you need. You need the Father.

This came through a series of heart-wrestling sessions where I was forced to give answers to the things that arise in my heart. What am I looking for? I'm looking for safety. That is the name that He has given to Himself. "The Lord is my refuge, The Lord is my stronghold, the Lord is my fortress of defence"

What does the statement "answers to the things arising in my heart" remind you of? To me, it reminds me of David. Does it strike you strange, that at his choosing, God poured out his Spirit upon this man, to experience knowledge in the ways of God, he didn't just have luck or fortune (1 Samuel 16:22) The root of this issue is what happened at his calling. I believe it to be God pouring out his mercy in the presence of His brothers, which made a colossal change to everything in His life. The reason for this is this, the LAW is a PROVISION of God, so that we would enter into Him through faith.

Read: You will never get ahead of delight of the Law, for what it has revealed of God's nature to you, which is fulfilled in His Son being the Lamb of God, taking away the sin of the world. Paul says "Does the message of the grace of God abolish the law? No, it makes it glorious!" Everyone wants to obey God. Like David, we have times when we do not - and SIN. Here is how it all fits together. We WANT to obey God, God has made provision to OBEY him (not just try to) through His laying hold of us. He laid hold of me at the cross, because he did something for me that I could never do: that is, freedom from sin. This makes me hate sin. Get in touch with your heart!

YWAM Update: We Must Go!

Hello everyone,

Grace and peace be with you in abundance. I am hailing from the home of my parents in Christchurch, New Zealand. With some exciting news! I wanted to share with you, that I will be moving to Queenstown. Why is that, you ask?

This weekend I invited my friend Lara to come for breakfast and to share with her what was happening - God had used her to confirm a direction change to go to Queenstown. However, it wasn't to be! not in the way that I expected anyway.

You see, God had to show me that he is everything that I want, everything that I need, all my passion, desire, delight, sustenance, pleasure, joy, gladness, I'm out of my mind to be saying this!

WE MUST GO!

It's not enough to be sitting in your comfortable surroundings! it's not enough to be given what you want! It has to end with suffering and God's acknowledgement of the goodness of such a thing. Of suffering that reminds you of Jesus, not just reminds, has Him. In other words, "That I may Gain Him, that I may be found in Him"

You who are in your comfortable surroundings are making yourselves enemies of God. He does not condone comfort for the sake of people going to hell without a word

If this makes you tremble, then good, God wants to break your life apart, and show you that he is better than what you gave up, he wants to demonstrate His love for you. if you've never been through trials, then you will complain. But the truth is, no one can say that, not anyone in the world can say that they have never been through trials.

It's just that out in the world, the people will be like the "Lady of the Kingdoms" saying "I will be a lady forever" - totally disregarding all the persecution her lifestyle is bringing. Those who are lovers of the world are enemies of God.

This is his mercy to his church, that he wakes them up out of totally being no Godly good. He wants everyone, regardless of where they come from, adopting a martyr mentality.

Did you make the connection?
I started with God the Father, demonstrating and approving His love for us, by showing his acceptance of the satisfaction of His wrath in Christ. It says "It is finished!" in both John 19:30 and Revelation 16:17

This is then, if we are His sons and daughters, echoed, simply "He forgave me of my sin" now that I am a Son "I have made the choice that I want to give everything to Him because I believe what He has done to be more worth than anything else in life" - then when we are persecuted, tortured, imprisoned, God is giving approval of it, that ought to be everything because He is our Father and He is pleased.

Let me say this: He is worth it. Every painful emotion, every hurt, every circumstance, every confused thought, every moment of perplexity, distress, discomfort, disillusionment, just to be put into the right shape as a vessel and image-bearer of Christ. I esteem him greater riches than the treasures of Egypt (Hebrews 11:26)

My heart is not offended at anything that he has brought along my path, This is the power of his mercy. I could not do it without Him. 

Let me exercise what I believe just happened. Everyone needs to hear this! It can't be stopped! It needs to get out there! This is life! I was seized with fear over what people would think of this! Get over it! I just experienced the greatest pleasure in utter weakness. These are not in contradiction! 

Overcoming SIN, just the beginning

I just experienced something that I have to share with everyone. Out of the overflow of this is a thing that will forever change the way you do everything in life. I want to share this with you

Don't settle for only the family of God, go out as well.

Now think what about I just said!

You have to understand my predicament I am utterly ruined.

I was thinking this way "the next revolution is not the global missions movement" but it is "the Father's heart movement"

Did you know they are the same thing?

Let me explain.

I just EXPERIENCED the full glory of God while I was in my weakness. Point one! you cannot say I'm excluded, because this happened to me when I had nothing!

You see, what I was thinking was this, I'm utterly disillusioned, everything is in calamity, and the things that I enjoyed doing I no longer have any motivation for. Would you guess what these things are? they are spending time with Father, praying, reading the word, and EVERYTHING OF CREATIVITY RELATED TO GOD! who am I talking about? the Father!

For he said to me: "you must come to me because you want to" - it can't come out of dead religion. Equally he said "The reason you will continue to come to me is because you are a Son and you choose to" - this sustains me in the dead times.

I was pondering and thinking, If I have all these things that are wrestling with me, for my attention, maybe this is the time I ought to come to God with supplication. I had something on my heart, so i went and started playing at the piano.

Then I realized the Spirit was being poured out, so I took my voice recorder and started recording. It was motivated by a scripture in Psalm 77, and a statement, "these things will only make the song grow louder, and the little child in me will come out" (From Psalm 8:1,2) actually the inspiration was a song that I had wrote years ago.

Would you imagine what it was?

It was this (very simple)

I see a flame arising, coming from your consuming heart,
I see a fire burning, coming to meet with me!

Who am I talking about? the Father

whose glory, IS the thing that I am after. Am I going to disagree with the Spirit of God?

This is what motivates me to GO! what a profound paradox. did you just get that? I'm ruined, I ought not to be making decisions about what I am going to do.

All of you, hear this!

(I may put the song up later)

Here is the Song.

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