As I reflect on this past year and half with God, I can say I am truly blessed.
I am blessed that my Father has pursued after me relentlessly. I am blessed that through identifying with His Son Jesus, I can know him intimately.
I am in love with Abba.
This desire has thickened through being called insane, through others having pre-conceived notions, and through being mocked.
I have received just a glimpse of what was like to be in Jesus' shoes. I am blessed.
Jesus was mocked. Jesus was called demon-possessed. Jesus was thought of as crazy for raising people from the dead, from casting out demons in people, and from sitting and eating with the tax collectors and prostitutes. WoW.
In fact , the very demonstration of Lazarus' resurrection is what led to Jesus' arrest.
People hate this God. People mock this Christ that shines through his true followers daily, and is mocked by those who claim to be brothers and sisters in Him. Jesus said we would do even greater wonders than He did and that those who walked in that type of surrender would be persecuted.
And guess what? It is true.
The same Holy Spirit that raised Christ from the dead can live in every believer. And that same power that anointed Jesus to cast out demons, resurrect people from the dead, heal people ,etc.,etc.. is waiting to consume these sinful bodies.
The third of the Trinity is so forgotten. He is pushed to the side because He cannot be put in a box. He cannot fit into the intellectual mind of a theologian or your ordained pastor who was taught a lot of man-made theology and so forth. The Holy Spirit is ignored in the church of compromise. What a pity.
Truthfully,
The God of the universe who spoke the earth into being can do what He wants. The heart of the matter is are we going to allow Him to do what He wants with us even if we don't necessarily understand it. I want that. I desire that daily. I want God to do what He wants with me so Christ may be glorified. I want to make God smile with every detail of the life He has given me.
Do not be so misled to think that those were only for the days of Jesus or only for certain people. It is for every single individual on this planet.
I am in love with Jesus Christ, and if I am mocked for allowing the Holy Spirit to have His way in me. So be it.
To identify with Jesus Christ, is to face persecution and opposition. One who claims to be a follower of Jesus and has no opposition or trial I question that relationship.
Know Jesus, Know Him intimately, Allow Him to have His way.
Don't sugar coat the Christ who suffered and endured wrath for every individual on the planet.
We are here to make God smile, to glorify His Son Jesus; not to please people or make them happy, and never to compromise the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Galatians 1: 6-10
"I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel-which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned. Ae we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you another gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned.
Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Jesus Christ."
Matthew 5:11-12
"Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all of kinds of evil against you falsely on My account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in Heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you."
Father,
I thank You for Your Word that is all inspired from Your Holy Spirit. I thank You for being Truth. I thank You for being Life. You are Majestic, and You are Mighty Father. I thank You for sending Jesus to die for us. We are so undeserving, but You chose to love us anyway. Abba, I ask that You would bring back Your people to the foundations of Your Son Jesus. Christ is the ONLY Solid Rock, on which we can firmly stand upon. I ask Father, that would pierce the hearts of people around the world, convict them , and bring them to You God. Pour out your Holy Spirit all over the nations, and all over the campus of Wingate. We need You, Lord. Your faithful servants are crying out for You. Hear our cries, O Lord.
I love You and I thank You for all that You do,
In Jesus' name,
Amen
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