MY FATHER IN HEAVEN… HALLOWED be thou NAME:

If only I had understood sooner.. 

HUMILITY BEFORE HIM, the substance of it ALL

I can look back on my journey now, and say.. Wow I have been through a LOT of change in my life. And I have no doubt there is still going to be changes going on in me in the future.

I  KNOW that I will have to wait until CHRIST returns to get my perfected body. And as long as I am on this old earth, I am going to be burdened and taxed by this old flesh, tempted and tried.; “

Fighting daily to surrender to HIS WILL and HIS WAY”

YET, I can DECLARE and PROCLAIM that My FATHER is GOOD, HE LOVES ME, and HE DESIRES GOOD FOR ME.

 HE IS ALSO a MERCIFUL and YET an AUTHORITARIAN in MY LIFE.

HE is FATHER, I am HIS CHILD. HE knows better than I know, and HE knows the beginning to the END. Because HE IS A FATHER/ ABBA HE also understands my frailties’ and my weakness’.  

HE IS HOLY, RIGHTEOUS, JUST, and doesn't show partiality. 

>>>NOR does HE show favor to those that KNOWINGLY SIN.

HE is seeking those that will LOVE HIM and OBEY HIM.

OUR ULTIMATE COMMISSION IN LIFE, is to HUMBLE OURSELVES BEFORE HIM, and to be CONFORMED INTO HIS IMAGE.

THUS we are TRANSFORMED and CONFORMED into the IMAGE OF JESUS CHRIST.

I can never be HIM, but I am CHARGED with the DUTY to SEEK HM and SURRENDER TO HIM,  to be MORE LIKE HIM, in character and actions.

UNTIL the RETURN OF JESUS CHRIST, THIS EARTH, as we know it, has an authority over it.. satan and his beast dominions.

I know surrender doesn’t come easy to us.. We struggle with the FLESH, cursed flesh,, daily. We are tempted, taxed, oppressed, and often suppressed by this old world.   

HOWEVER, as a BORN AGAIN person, Born of HEAVEN,  we are called to live among them, and NOT be of them.  In order to overcome these things, we must SURRENDER to LIVING in the SPIRIT, and not of the FLESH.

In this FLESH, OUR own minds oppose us, our Bodies betray us

We must live through the power of the SPIRIT,  fight the GOOD FIGHT. MEDIATE on the WORD, and submit through PRAYER.

ADMIT IT, We fight that surrender all time, people simply do not like be told what to do. We can't wait to grown up so we could do our on thing and we think we are Mature and wise, and we rebel against AUTHORITY.

But We are WEAK in our flesh, vulnerable, susceptible to our own LUST, COVETOUSNESS etc.

THE SCRIPTURES TELL US:

We are to come to HIM as a CHILD, recognizing HIM as LORD, as an authority!!

He came to rescue us, deliver us, HE came to guide, direct, and to make our pathway straight, and HE KNOWS all the answers.

We are to LIVE as a LIVING SACRIFICE TO HIM.

We are to YIELD our members, mind body and soul to HIM for HIS USE and PURPOSE.

WE are being sanctified, and are to sanctify ourselves, through surrender and discipline.

We are to live a SET APART LIFE while on this earth.

CONCLUSION:

There are many out there that will tell you that OBEDIENCE isn’t necessary. That surrender isn’t necessary.  If that is the way you live, then it is going to be a life of  disappointments, destruction and desolation.

IF that is the CHRIST YOU KNOW, HE IS NOT THE ONE THAT I KNOW. 

As a BORN AGAIN Believer, there is a constant journey of REPENTANCE and RESURRECTIONS going on in our lives, because we are still suppressed and oppressed by this world. 

As a BORN AGAIN Believer,  our lives  should be on a constant journey of being CHANGED through the CONFORMITY and TRANSFORMATION  into the IMAGE OF JESUS CHRIST.

1. Blessings come through Obedience, and chastisement comes to those that disobey and REBEL.

HUMILITY BEFORE THE LORD, HIS WORD and HIS SPIRIT SHOULD be an ESSENTIAL part of the character of the BODY OF CHRIST.  OUR SWORD is HIS WORD, our ONLY POWER IS the HOLY SPIRIT, and HE will only EMPOWER WHAT IS OF GOD.

HE IS THE ONE WITH AUTHORITY, to give you life or death:

1. Without humility and surrender, we stand on our own devices.

2. Without a willingness to humble ourselves before HIM we rebel and quench the spirit, and we WILL not HEAR HIS VOICE.

3. Without humility before HIM, we will find ourselves plagued with infirmities.

WAKE UP CHURCH!!!

Jesus Christ is going to return, and HE is going to  "MANIFEST HIS POWER and AUTHORITY"  “FORCE” reverence at that point, HE is not coming as a LAMB, but a KING, seeking a PURE BRIDE.

Those that REJECT HIM, and not humble themselves before HIM, will find their BLOOD on the end of HIS SWORD and an eternity in the LAKE OF FIRE.

2 Ch 7: 14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

ROMANS 6: 19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. 

Romans 6: 21  But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, G38 and the end everlasting life.

1 Thess 4: 4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

LEV 20: 7   Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God.

LEV 20: 8  And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you.

JAMES 1: 12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

JAMES 1: 13   Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

JAMES 1: 14  But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

JAMES 1: 8  Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures