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Wilderness shoutout

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This blog is dedicated to those believers who feel like they are in the wilderness. What is that?

The Hebrew meaning of wilderness is “the arrangement of things to create order.1“

1 Cor. 14:33, “For God is not [the author] of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.”

I am reminded of when someone breaks a bone in their body, but it is not setting correctly so the doctor must break the bone again in order to set it the right way. This must be agony for the patient, but it is for the patient’s well-being. The initial pain is almost unbearable, but is necessary for the results.

Heb. 12:7, “Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?”

Heb. 12:11, “No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.”

So, how do we endure? Is God going to browbeat us into obedience? I say no. Chapter and verse brother please?

Rom. 1:17, Gal. 2:20, Gal. 3:11, Heb. 10:38

“The just shall live by faith.” This faith is His faith in us that we partake of by revelation. This is how we can be more than conquerors in the wilderness. Jesus went into the wilderness and came out in the power of the Holy Spirit as the Last Adam bringing obedience unto righteousness and holiness sanctifying those who would believe on Him. The fullness of the Godhead dwells in Him.

The wilderness can be an awesome place to be and how we respond in this environment will take us to where we are going. Whether it be in circles to insanity or onward with vision and purpose in His will, Phil. 3:13-14.

In the wilderness, we are not led by our souls, understanding, intellect, sight, feelings, emotions, other’s opinions, hunches, but by revelation of Him in us.

Deu. 8:2, “And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, [and] to prove thee, to know what [was] in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.”

Our righteousness is no longer based on law-keeping. Christ is our righteousness, 1 Cor. 1:30, Phil. 3:9.

I believe the order that is created from the wilderness is created by His grace through faith. Romans 5:1-5.

The bible says Jesus died for our salvation and that we might know God and His overflowing love for us. I believe Jesus also died for our motive. Our motive prior to salvation was contrary to us and against our best interest. Our motive was used to betray us and spiritually kill us, Rom. 7:11. We were spiritual dead in our trespasses and sins without knowledge of Him.

In the wilderness, there is potential and opportunity to grow in His motive and will in us by the renewing of our minds, Rom. 12:2. This imparts his nature and grace into us making us (mature) sons of God, Rom. 8:14. Order almost seems to be a manifestation of His will in this creation. Reminds me of redemption, Eph. 1:10.

Where is the HOW?

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06/22/09

Rom. 7:18, “For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.”

The HOW is His will in us. He brought the new way of the Spirit. It is Him in us by revelation of His Word. It is His willingness.

Stop being offered

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Hebrews 10:2, “2If it could, would they not have stopped being offered?”

If I am unsure about my walk, my righteousness before God the Father then there is a possibility I could be under self-imposed law even though I am not. If am tired, trying to make things right, walking the tight rope of self-righteousness, looking over my spiritual shoulder, not sure if my next step is sure then this does not sound like liberty or being under grace or being IN Him to me.

The dead works cease to be offered when you are not compelled to offer them. Why? Because He has revealed Himself IN you! He IS our righteousness and our identity is hid in Him.

This also originates back to our conscience being purged from the guilt and knowledge of the judgment of the law. Which the writer of Hebrews discusses further in Hebrews 10. Good stuff. Thank God for our High Priest in the order of Melchizedek.

Onward!

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If a brother or sister stumbles or even utterly falls they do not start over, but continue onward. As believers, I am of the opinion we can only go forward, Phil. 3:13, and NOT start over. Rom. 8:1 says, “There is no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus.” Gal. 2:18 says, “If I rebuild what I destroyed, I prove that I am a lawbreaker.”

Rebuilding what I destroyed is ’starting over.’ This is trying to hit the bulls-eye, but there isn’t one. His righteousness in us is not compelled to gain self-approval for peace. He is our peace, Eph. 2:14. If our nature is intrinsically righteous according to revelation and grace then we ARE. If we ARE then we don’t have to try to be or even try to sustain ourselves, but grow in the grace and knowledge of Christ. He keeps us.

“The thought came to mind”or “The Lord told me”

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I thought I’d jot down the times I perceived the Lord or the Holy Spirit communicate to me. I have perceived the Father, but more Him emoting and being.

Essence of fear: In cafeteria this morning, 10/22/09, getting coffee. I noticed a woman next to me. I sensed her fear. The thought came to mind, “Self-imposed law creates fear.”

His perfect will does not possess fear: Played foosball today, 07/22/2009. I was a little concerned about being skunked. Then this thought came to mind, “You can’t will to win with fear.”

Achoo!….God bless you: “I noticed that someone was actually stopping in the middle of traffic to let someone in from the parking lot. I asked the Lord or myself, ‘Why do people impeded traffic for the sake of being ‘nice’?’ This was the thought that came to mind, “It makes them feel good inside. They get a warm fuzzy feeling.”

Patience: non-anxious thoughts: “In the Aramaic New Testament, it says patience means, “the thought of not being anxious.” You can read this and it could be just plain ol’ head knowledge, but I’ve been chewing and meditating on this in my spirit. Today, I heard it again inside at the stop light. This thought came to mind, “I cannot be anxious or have anxious thoughts if I have fullness.” What does that mean? In His presence, there is ALL FULLNESS.”

I don’t believe. I know.: “Then one day I thought about my mother in heaven and this thought came to mind, “She is not dead, but alive!” Didn’t Jesus say this in Matt. 22:31-33, “I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”

Lupe: “Later, the thought came to mind,  perhaps Einstein said that we only use 8-10% of our brains. I thought some animals brains are like 8-10% the size of a human brain which lead me to the next thought. Did Adam communicate with the animals in a different way Prior to the Fall than we do now?”

Days of Noah: “On 02/19/09, this thought came to mind. Now, we are under grace not law. The “days of Noah” was ‘before the law’. In the ‘days of Noah’ they were not under the law the either. Moses had not yet even been born.”

Half-hearted: “This thought came to mind, “I put law on myself in the master bathroom.” I was reminded of Christ saying in Matt. 7:1, “Do not judge, or you too will be judged.”

Glory of nature: “I could see the reflection of the sun on the trees. I could see the leaves and branches wave in the wind. I perceived the Spirit of the Lord say to me, “That is the glory of the tree.”

My youngest son accepted Christ in his heart:  “I perceived the anointing. And then I realized I could hear the Spirit of the Lord ‘knocking’ on my younger son’s heart.”

Is that obedience?: “As I said, I finished shooting the ball and I perceived the Lord ask me, “Are you going to put the ball back on the ball rack?” I responded yes inside, but really just wanted to leave the ball there. I took the ball and put it on the ball rack. Then the Lord ask me another question that blew me away, “Was that obedience?”

You are holy: “On 05/27/09, Saturday morning, I was brushing my teeth and I perceived the Lord speaking these words to me in my spirit, “You ARE holy.”

Do you really want to?: “Today I heard the Lord tell me, “You don’t have to love people.” I said, “Excuse me, huh?” “You don’t have to love people.” This is true. I don’t. If I have to then is that real and bona fide motive from my heart?”

Daughter of mercy: “When this little girl looked at me I perceived the Lord tell me, “This is mercy.” The Hebrew word for mercy means “to delicately teach or bring up.”

Good report: ” I heard a small voice in me saying, “Go to the gym.”

Plastic forks and spoons: “I heard, “Go down stairs and put back the utensils.” My reply was, “Are you serious?” I heard it again three times. I walked away and this thought came to mind,“MY WILLINGNESS MAKES YOU RIGHTEOUS.” It echoed and I reiterated it to myself over and over.

Old is gone. Total detachment.: “I remember a while back the Lord told me, ” I give you the willingness, but you make the choice.”

He dwells in reality and truth: “Today, 10/16/09, the Lord told me, “I dwell in reality and sincerity.

“You are a priest”: “Afterwords, the Lord told me, “You are a priest.”

Torturer: “Now, that I am be honest with myself I think the Lord told me this morning, “Forgiveness comes through you.”

Residence: “Prior to Saturday night, 01/17/09, I noticed something different in my walk. I asked the Lord that night, “What happened?” I felt He told me, “I do not dwell in unforgiveness.”

“Now separate to Me”: “I need to realize the Lord does not say things just say them. I thought I realized that when He recently told me, “I am separating you. You are a different person. You are not who you were anymore.”

Hello, my name is ________ .: “One night, I was lying down about to go to sleep and the Lord told me, “You have always been who you are.

To eat or not to eat the apple?: “Then the Lord told me, “My Forgiveness is bigger than your unforgiveness towards yourself.”

Ten minutes: “I am walking to my apartment and the thought pops in my brain, “Remember, you said 10 minutes.”



Self-deceit

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Gal. 6:3 says, “For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.” The word deceiveth or deceive in the Greek literally means, “to deceive in one’s mind by fancies.” What is a fancy? (That’s what I thought too.)

Fancy:  imagination or fantasy, esp. as exercised in a capricious, impulsive or unpredictable manner.

Paul says in 2 Cor. 10:5, “Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;”

So, if it seems that vain imaginations are the catalysts to deceiving self with arbitrary fantasies and imaginations which is not revelation or walking by faith. In this case, I would be putting myself back under the law by enabling the old nature and rebuilding the things which were destroyed, Gal. 2:18.

Self-deceit really is deception enabled by the old self empowered by self-imposed law.

No wonder Paul says in Gal. 5:1, “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” If we live in the Spirit let us walk in the Spirit by revelation of Christ according to hearing the word of life and truth. If I live and walk in presumptuous decisions this is akin to self-deceit.

Prov. 3:5, “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine (your) own understanding.”

We trust and have faith in God by and through the faith of Christ in us. The just shall live by faith in everything.

Weak conscience

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1 Cor. 8:7-8, “7 However, there is not in everyone that knowledge; for some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. 8 But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we the better, nor if we do not eat are we the worse.”

The above verse says, “their conscience being weak, is defiled.” I believe the reason the conscience is defiled of the one who eats the food offered to an idol is because they are still under self-imposed law in their hearts. They are empowering and giving higher priority to the idol offered food because they do not have ‘knowledge’ yet. So, when they eat the idol-offered food to be like brother so-in-so they put themselves under the law again. The motivation in their hearts is probably Uzza or self-strength. How can I say that? Self-strength is not walking in the Spirit. Self-strength will put you back under the law. Self-strength is not revelatory, but presumptuous. Presumption is not understanding received by faith, Heb. 11:3. It is a guess. God is not the God of guessing, but omniscient.

The next verse says, “8 But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we the better, nor if we do not eat are we the worse.” I believe brother Paul is not just talking about food. Phil. 3:8 supports this. The only thing that truly commends us before the Father is the complete work of His only Son. The faith of His Son commends us by grace. So, keeping my ducks in a row does not even justify me. I live by His faith in me, Gal. 2:20.

He gives us His willingness

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Romans 8:3-4, “3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.”

The Father judged sin on the basis of His nature and love by sending His only Son in the similarity of these human fleshly bodies. While on earth, His Son was without sin.

The Father imparts His nature, essence and willingness by His Son to us now.

What separates us from God?

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I think we do.

Romans 8:38, “38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Brother Paul, does not say above we cannot separate ourselves from God. Prior to salvation, love is not love without choice of free-will. God in His perfect and good will according to His good pleasure chose me in His Son. I was always His choice. He is always my choice. If I am the only way to separate myself from God then glory! I’m not going anywhere Lord. I’m yours Father. I’m yours Lord Jesus. By grace, we have the mind of Christ. That means we also grow in His will and willingness. I am drowned into His death and immersed into His life by revelation of Him inside of me. I believe it is next to impossible to be separated from God and His immeasurable grace. To put it in finite mathematical terms, 1/∞, or x approaches zero. In the Spirit, naturally speaking, x approaches zero forever. They say that 1/∞ equals zero, but it really approaches zero. So, is 1/∞ equal to nothing? We can know by faith.

David says in Psalm 139:7-10 (NIV), “Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?”

If my biological Father is my dad according to the flesh then how much more is the Father of our spirits our Father by His Son and the Spirit of adoption. The price of supernaturual spiritual adoption is Christ’s life, body and blood! Christ is the Son of God.

Romans 8:7-11

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Romans 8:7-11,” 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. 8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. 10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.”

Paraphrase:

The carnal mind in its awareness of judgment of the self-imposed law in the heart, whose conscience is defiled, is not able to partake of the life of the Spirit. It is limited and blinded because of its ignorance of liberating truth and hardness of heart. Therefore, it is not in the Spirit by faith. In enmity, it separates itself from God’s life in His Son. It cannot please the Father by faith. God dwells, lives, resides, abides in us by the revelation of His Son according to hearing the Word of truth. If Christ is in me, the body is dead to the power of sin, but in the Spirit there is life because of His righteousness by faith and grace. If Christ dwells in me, the Father will also give life to my flesh and its members to exercise righteousness by His abiding Spirit in me.

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