THE WORD OF GOD, and the LORD I KNOW

On the PATHWAY to HEALING and DELIVERANCE we must RESTORE a REVERENCE and CONFIDENCE towards the “WORD OF GOD”.

CONTRARY to what some would tell you:

THE WORD of GOD is not DEAD, it has been RESURRECTED/EMPOWERED TO LIFE, to MORTIFY the  FLESH, and RESURRECT US to LIFE BEARING FRUIT.

HEB 4: 21  For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

ROMANS 10: 17 So then faith [cometh] by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

2 Tim 3: 16  All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness

JOHN 17: 17 Sanctify them through thy TRUTH they word is truth.

Ep 6: 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

2 TIM 2: 15  Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

DOES the WORD of GOD have a place in your life? 

IF the WORD of GOD has not found a place in your life and heart, as a PRIORITY in LIFE, then I am here to ENCOURAGE and ADMONISH you today, make it so.

Don’t just READ it like it is just a BOOK of HISTORY, but STUDY the WORD of GOD, for TRUTH and REVELATION, for GROWTH SPIRITUALLY and FOR HEALTH PHYSICALLY, as WORDS to LIVE BY.

When the HOLY SPIRIT empowers the messages of GOD to HIS PEOPLE, LIFE IS GIVEN to the individual that is reading it.

I Personally VALUE the WORD of GOD, and WILL give REVERENCE TO IT, for the REST OF MY EXISTING LIFE HERE ON EARTH.

THE BIBLE:

1. IT IS OUR WRITTEN DOCUMENT of the NEW COVENANT.

When you gave your HEART and LIFE to the LORD you basically AGREED to be in a COVENANTAL RELATIONSHIP with HIM.

Whether you realized it or not… YOU SAID.. “ I DO agree YOU are GOD and I will SEEK with all my HEART to KNOW YOU and OBEY YOU,  I WILL SEEK obey your precepts and principles according to YOUR WORD and ACCORDING to the REVELATIONS that YOU give me.

JUST like ISRAEL did at MOUNT SINAI, after MOSES’ read from the covenant of stone.

DEUT 19: 7 And MOSES’ came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words with the LORD commanded him.

8 and “ALL” the people answered together, and said, ALL that the LORD hath spoken we will do, and Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD.

IT  is through this “WRITTEN COVENANT” that you and I will find our MOST NEED of CONFORMITY to JESUS CHRIST, it provides instructions, many REVELATIONS about HIM and HOW HE interacts with HIS PEOPLE, and how our heart can discern ‘good from evil”.

2. THE BIBLE is inspired by the HOLY SPIRIT, and is written mainly for believers.

 SO HOW DOES IT INCREASE OUR FAITH?

3. THE BIBLE contains ‘instructions and guidance” for GODLY LIVING. Through Obedience to those PRECEPTS and PRINCIPLES we are BLESSED and we are SANCTIFIED.  Through our DISOBEDIENCE to those PRECEPTS and PRINCIPLES we are often chastised and defiled.

4. The BIBLE gives witness and testimony to the LORD’S CHARACTER and WHO HE TRULY IS:
1. HIS HOLINESS
2. RIGHTEOUSNESS
3. MERCY
4. And how HE interacts and deals with HIS PEOPLE over time, from blessings to discipline.

5. The WORD of GOD is our “SWORD”  TWO EDGED because it is both WORD and SPIRITUALLY,  EMPOWERED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, and when brought to LIFE by the HOLY SPIRIT, the enemy CAN NOT stand against it, and the FLESH will surrender and be mortified by it.

IE: What is “OF” GOD, written or spoken,  is empowered by the HOLY SPIRIT.  NOT what is OF the FLESH.

6. The WORD of GOD is able to CUT through the INTENTS of the HEART, given us the ability to “DISCERN what is good or evil” because it is TRUTH, and in TRUTH we are “SET FREE”.  AGAIN, what is “OF” GOD, either written or spoken is empowered by the HOLY SPIRIT.

IE; EMPOWERED it is able to bring HEALTH to the BODY, soul and spirit. EMPOWERED it has the Ability to MORTIFY the FLESH, and RESURRECT our LIFE toward the IMAGINE OF CHRIST.

7. YOU can TEST most “ALL” things that you HEAR, according to the WORD, by having your MEMORY refreshed by the HOLY SPIRIT according to what is RIGHTEOUS, JUST, and HOLY/SET APART. Anything, or any SPIRIT, that speaks in CONTRADICTION to the WORD of GOD is NOT OF GOD.

KNOWING THE WORD is LIKE getting to KNOW HIM!!!!

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THE LORD I KNOW NOW, has been REVELED from GLORY to GLORY,  MORE MAJESTIC Today, than the ONE I met at moment of MY SALVATION:

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What TRULY has moved my heart the MOST about HIM over the many YEARS of study,  is HIS DESIRE to have “INTIMACY’ with HIS PEOPLE.

HE IS NOT LIMITED, nor is HE POWERLESS. HE is NOT IN NEED of ANYTHING.

THE EARTH will even  TREMBLE at HIS PRESENCE!!!!

PSALMS 114: 7 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;

HE does not sit upon HIS THRONE constantly mourning and twisting HIS HANDS in nervousness, wondering how to handle a situation.

By HIS mere BREATH, HE can bring LIFE or take LIFE.

He is not WEAK or HUMBLE, nor can HE be “FORCED” by any other power, to tolerant or compromise HIS WILL or HIS WAYS. HE IS HOLY.

HIS VERY THRONE IS BUILD UPON RIGHTEOUSNESS.

AND YET, through HIS WORD, and throughout my life, I have found that HE is also MERCIFUL, GRACIOUS and LONGSUFFERING with HIS PEOPLE.

NOT because HE HAS TO BE, but BECAUSE HE CHOSE to be.

DO WE TAKE THAT FOR GRANTED??

  

I have seen HIM REVEALED through the WORD time and time again as a LONGSUFFERING LORD, that SEEKS to DRAW HIS PEOPLE NEAR to HIM, through LOVE and through Judgment.

I have seen HIM REVEALED through HIS WORD as a GOD of BLESSING and RESTORATION.

I have seen HIM REVELED through HIS WORD as a GOD of WRATH and DESTRUCTION for the waywardness and rebellion of HIS PEOPLE.

I am HUMBLED and at AWE OF HIM, by HIS GREATNESS, by HIS POWER, by HIS WISDOM, and BY HIS KNOWLEDGE, For HE truly IS ALL IN ALL.

HOWEVER, ABOVE ALL OF WHO HE IS, IN HIS MAJESTY and HIS GLORY, I am most mmoved by the “INTIMACY” that HE DESIRES with HIS PEOPLE.

AND that my brothers and sisters is is the DRIVING FORCE BEHIND MY “DEVOTION and DEDICATION” to HIM. It is not because HE is a KEY to get out of HELL, but that HE DESIRES an intimate relationship with HIS KINGDOM PEOPLE.

 It is why I HUMBLE myself before HIM from a willing heart of worship and praise.

I ACKNOWLEDGE that I  could be “FORCED” to humble myself before HIM due to HIS GREAT MAJESTY, but INSTEAD of “FORCING MY SURRENDER” HE chose the OPPOSITE.

“HE DIED FOR ME” to  REVEAL HIS GREAT LOVE TOWARDS ME and HIS CREATION, and for THAT I  CHOSE to LOVE and EMBRACE HIM IN RETURN.

ABBA FATHER!!!  \ ( .. ) /

 I OBEY HIS VOICE, because “I LOVE HIM” not because I am “FORCED TO”.

Knowing HIM in ALL HIS GREATNESS and MAJESTY, doesn’t begin to TOUCH my HEART like the acknowledgment and understanding of HIS DESIRE for RELATIONSHIP with HIS PEOPLE.

HIS JUSTICE:

HE IS able to LOOK into the HEART of man, woman or child, and the path of time, and has the ABILITY to cover our “IMPERFECTION”, our inabilities, our lack of understanding, and to cover those “WEAKNESS” that WE may stand before HIM as children and saints.

JOHN 7: 24  JUDGE not according to the “outward” appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

HE HAS the ability to LOOK beyond the OUTWARD appearances that HE bases HIS EMBRACE upon us  IT is NOT according ot our abilities, intelligence, gender or creed. etc, 

HE is able to see the INWARD HEART of devotion and dedication.

WHAT an AWESOME INTIMATE LORD WE SERVE:

I guess you could say. HE ISN'T looking for the MOST PERFECT person to enter HIS KINGDOM, but rather those that seek to be “DEVOTED” and “FAITHFUL".

What isn't PERFECT, HE IS ABLE TO MAKE PERFECT and SET FREE, the broken, the lame, those that are held captive etc.

A PERFECT GOD, doesn’t need a PERFECT VESSEL, for HE IS ALREADY PERFECT. HE only needs a surrendered and willing vessel to work with.

IT is almost like I can HEAR HIM SAY:

“THIS ONE IS MINE” not based on his or her perfection, but based on THEIR LOVE and EMBRACE of HIM.

  

CONCLUSION:

ARE YOU NOT at AWE OF HIM?

What would such an AWESOME CREATOR want with such a simple one as me and you?

I may never understand HIM completely.  BUT THE BIBLE TELLS ME IT IS SO.

HE IS HOLY/SET APART, PERFECT and TRUE, and yet the thing HE MOST desires is a RELATIONSHIP with HIS CREATION.

 That means HE is not only RIGHTEOUS, but in HIS “ RESPONSES” to HIS PEOPLE HE IS JUST,.... THAT makes HIM “FAIR and HONEST”.  MAKING HIM a TRULY INTIMATE LORD and SAVIOR.

 THROUGH HIS OWN DESIRE, HE is WILLING and ABLE to maintain that PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP with ANYONE that is Fulfills the condition of DESIRE, WILLINGNESS and FAITHFULNESS to that INTIMACY with HIM. 

Therefore HE can say “if a MAN LOVE GOD, the same is KNOWN of GOD”

1 Cor 1: 8 But if any man love God, the same is known of him.

WITH GOD ALL things are POSSIBLE!!!

HE is a LORD of PERFECT PRAISE AND HONOR. 

ONE WHO could "FORCE OBEDIENCE” and yet is able to find a place for the lowly in heart, in ability, the broken reed, the one who is weak, and the meek, and CAN and WILL CALL him or her HIS OWN.

FOR it is THROUGH OUR HUMBLENESS and BROKENNESS, HE DOES not REJECT HIS own CREATION who will come to HIM willingly and surrendered from a HEART OF LOVE.

DOES HE EXPECT OBEDIENCE... ABSOLUTELY, HE IS GOD.

YET, HE is able to KNOW us so INTIMATELY that HE knows the difference between what w are ABLE to do, from what we are NOT WILLING to do.

 JUDGING ALL THINGS JUSTLY and RIGHTEOUSLY!!!

  

  

OUR SURRENDER and OBEDIENCE is based on the foundation of LOVE we have FOR HIM and TOWARDS HIM.

HE came to RESTORE to RECONCILE the LOST, the condemned, the wayward.

That we could be given LIFE and LIFE everlasting..

If HIS interested had only been in the PERFECTION.  

HE would not have PROVIDED the “PERFECT” to be sacrifice.   HIS ONLY SON JESUS CHRIST.

HE Is an INTIMATE PERSONAL SAVIOR and LORD.  AMEN

MAY the LORD BLESS you with EYES to SEE and EARS to HEAR, that YOU will come to HIM willingly with a surrendered heart prepared to GET to KNOW HIM and OBEY HIM for all the great things HE HAS DONE for you.. AMEN

I SEE TRUE ABIDING LOVE IN HIM, do YOU?

INSTEAD of FORCING MY OBEDIENCE, HE chose to give HIMSELF, and POUR OUT HIS BLOOD, that I COULD BE RECONCILED and come to HIM, WILLING TO THE THRONE OF GRACE that I might LIVE a life with the willingness to surrender and obey.

I SEE NOTHING BY GAIN FOR MY ETERNAL SOUL THROUGH HIM and OBEDIENCE TOWARDS HIM.