Newness of Life

  (still editing this but I am going to leave it on the blog while I'm working...may want to check back later) "Christ did not suffer so we could refuse his sacrifice. He suffered so we would “eat” his body, but we won’t allow ourselves because we must work for it, so we stay out in the field, tired, not satisfied, and maybe a little bitter-and Satan laughs, because it was the church that taught us to do it." I am chewing the word and promises for physical healing. Sharing some notes regarding what the Lord is teaching me: Remember, when you look to your symptoms, that  God calls those things that are not, as though they are, and He raises the dead. So don’t be frightened or put off by pain in your body, because His word raises the dead. Lord, make me like a child so I can enter into your Kingdom in the area of healing. I just realized I keep having a thought rooting around inside my heart, trying to not be discovered in the bright light of truth. "Well, how is your...

Your word is my shield and buckler. No matter what enemy David was facing, he consistently fled into the refuge of God's word. He meditated on it day and night until He saw God move.    “As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father; so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.” (John 6:57) How do we eat Jesus? “Hearken diligently unto Me, and eat that which is good , and let your soul delight itself in fatness.” Isaiah 55:2 We hear him, and we keep hearing him until faith is born. When faith is born, we enter into the substance of the unseen. When faith has been born, some work or experience will follow. Until then, it is dead. Like a tiny seed, the promise yields its peaceable fruit in due season; new fruit of the Spirit, or freedom from some opression. But first, we have to chew, and chew, and chew. This is actually the biblical metaphor for how we are to labor to enter into the rest of God. “Let us therefore fear, lest, a PROMISE being left us ...

  I was thinking this morning about the elder brother slaving away in the fields, working for his father, and how different he is from the child that Jesus said we must become in order to enter the Kingdom. How hard it is for us to trust completely on His redeeming sacrifice for everything that we need, and to believe that He truly is that merciful, kind, and generous.  The elder brother thought that he had to do something to earn His father's kindness, so he worked, and deep in his heart he waited for the debt that was owed to him. Paul tells us that that to the one who works, God is indebted, and because of this, he never enters into the Kingdom given freely by the Father. When his younger brother came home and his father threw a party, he was angry! He was the one who deserved the fatted calf.  He was the one who deserved a party! Lest we smugly dismiss the elder brother thinking that we are quite certain that God owes us nothing, because we haven't done anything to ...