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Empowered from above

 

Ephesians 2:6 He raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ.
What does God do through us and to others? He does what is loving, true, and just, and he disciplines our will for the saving of our soul and for the blessing of other people.

Proverbs 3:9 Honour God with everything you own; give him the first and the best. Your barns will burst, your wine vats will brim over. But don't, dear friend, resent God's discipline; don't sulk under his loving correction. It's the child he loves that God corrects; a father's delight is behind all this.

Peter had to learn to have not so many ‘Not so’s Lord’ (Mat16, Luke 22, acts 10)

JOHN 14:12 Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. (Exodus 20:7Do not take The Lord’s name in vain…)

Philippians 4:13 …I can do all things through Christ who empowers me (endynamoo)

Jeremiah 9:24 I'm God, and I act in loyal love. I do what's right and set things right and fair, and delight in those who do the same things.

We are empowered to defeat the powers of darkness from above.

Daniel 10:12 Then he said to me, “Do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard; and I have come because of your words. But the spirit prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; and behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left alone there with the spirit kings of Persia.

Ephesians 1:19 and know the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ephesians 2:6 He raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ.
What does God do through us and to others? He does what is loving, true, and just, and he disciplines our will for the saving of our soul and for the blessing of other people.

Proverbs 3:9 Honour God with everything you own; give him the first and the best. Your barns will burst, your wine vats will brim over. But don't, dear friend, resent God's discipline; don't sulk under his loving correction. It's the child he loves that God corrects; a father's delight is behind all this.

Peter had to learn to have not so many ‘Not so’s Lord’ (Mat16, Luke 22, acts 10)

JOHN 14:12 Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. (Exodus 20:7Do not take The Lord’s name in vain…)

Philippians 4:13 …I can do all things through Christ who empowers me (endynamoo)

Jeremiah 9:24 I'm God, and I act in loyal love. I do what's right and set things right and fair, and delight in those who do the same things.

We are empowered to defeat the powers of darkness from above.

Daniel 10:12 Then he said to me, “Do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard; and I have come because of your words. But the spirit prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; and behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left alone there with the spirit kings of Persia.

Ephesians 1:19 and know the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Healing the soul

The mystery of what to do with our pain. Transform it or transmit it.

2Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of an ordered mind.

AN OVERVIEW OF UNHEALED FEAR DRIVEN UNTRUTHS ABOUT US VS.GOD’S TRUTH FOR US

MIND-MINDSET (what are your thoughts about yourself) Spirit of fear -> disordered mind.

I have no self worth, I am a failure, I am deprived, I am a victim, rejected, misunderstood, not heard, not appreciated.

Is it true that you are worthless? How do you know? Has God told you this? So is it really true?

If we think this is really true then this becomes our belief system – and fear has won over faith.

What does God think about you?

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. (also Psalm 139:17How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!)

Prov 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. Who would you be without that unhealed thought?

LOVE-EMOTIONAL DISPOSITION - what are your feelings about yourself, and how does this make you feel amongst other people?

Resentful, depressed, anxious, frustrated, angry, suspicious, irritated, covetous.

If we fit in to one of these emotions and wear it like clothing upon our soul – fear has won over faith again.

How does God feel about you? (Romans 5:8 – still yet sinners…)

Jeremiah 31:3 “I have loved you, with an everlasting love. with unfailing love I have drawn you to myself. I will restore you, and you will again be happy…

Philippians 4:6 do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Who would you be without that unhealed feeling?

POWER-DOING LIFE (What does this make you do to yourself and others)

Put myself (and other people) down, shut myself (and others) out, take a place over other people, punish myself (and others), try to control others.

If we see ourselves doing these things then we need to find the grace of God to see this undone.

Faith cannot live there. What does God do through us and to others?

He does what is loving, true, and just (disciplines our will) Jeremiah 9:24 I'm God, and I act in loyal love. I do what's right and set things right and fair, and delight in those who do the same things.

Philippians 4:13 Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am. What would you do without that unhealed attitude?

Proverbs 3:5 Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don't try to figure out everything on your own. Listen for God's voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; he's the one who will keep you on track. Don't assume that you know it all. Run to God! Run from evil! Your body will glow with health, your very bones will vibrate with life! Honor God with everything you own; give him the first and the best. Your barns will burst, your wine vats will brim over. But don't, dear friend, resent God's discipline; don't sulk under his loving correction. It's the child he loves that God corrects; a father's delight is behind all this.

Being saved

1 Corinthians 1:18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing (being destroyed), but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. (NKJ)

1Peter 1:8 Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, 9 Obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

There is a need for the true ‘Salvation of the soul’ to be experienced by ‘those who believe’ (1Timothy 4:10)

2Corinthians 2:15 For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing (being ruined, destroyed- ie, not being saved, because of unbelief and ignorance and disobedience).

Salvation (Strong’s Concordance) soteria; feminine of a derivative of 4990 as (properly, abstract) noun; rescue or safety (physically or morally): — deliver, wholeness (health), salvation, save, saving.

What is the most important thing in the Scriptures for the sinner? Many will answer, Salvation. Yet this important term only came into use in the English language about the twelfth century, say eight hundred years ago. It is a purely Latin word. At that time it bore the meanings both of safety or rescue (salvation), and of wholeness or health. The believer's salvation was his wholeness or health. Tyndale, in the year 1526 A.D., was the first one to use the word salvation in the Scriptures, and he used it once only, in John 4:22 ("for salvation commeth of the Jewes.") Salvation occurs not once in the Anglo-Saxon Scriptures (680-900 A.D.), or in Wiclif's version (1380 A.D.). Wiclif always uses the word "health," although he uses the terms "make safe" and "safe." The old word used for the Saviour was Haelend, or "Healer." Not only does He make one safe, but He heals. (Alexander Thomson Born 1889 –Theological writings)

The soul can be kept safe or get destroyed. Being kept safe means our minds are in order, our emotions are at rest and our will is in operation for making right decisions. The opposite of these have consequences of not experiencing salvation. People ask why there’s not enough healing. Let us ask why there is not enough peace, and love, and joy, obedience and commitment. Perhaps if people called on the name of The Lord to ‘be saved’ in their souls, to experience His life flow from the wellspring of life within us, there could break out more physical healing as well.

Salvation is not just a word that describes what Jesus did once for all of humanity (spirit saved), nor does it only describe a future hope that many have for the ages to come (body saved in the resurrection), but it describes His work for you as a Saving Saviour every day and hour of your life. As you put your faith and hope in Him, He is salvation. At every moment in time you are being saved, living in a shared life with Him. He is touched by your feelings, pain, and weakness and helplessness (Hebrews 4:15 - soul), and you are awakened to His compassion and touched by His comfort and joy and strength, flowing from His life to yours.

1Peter 1:10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories. It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things which angels long to look into. Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance… Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God, having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth…

 

 

 

 

 

 

Simplicity of Christ

2Corinthians 11:3 But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent beguiled Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

The serpent deceived Eve into thinking there was something more that God should be doing for her which made her feel suspicious and overlooked. So the trust factor came into play. Is God a good God, does he love me, does he want to bless me, and if he is all that why can’t I have the blessings that I should have? But Eve had every blessing that she could have had. Her fear of missing out damaged her soul and drove her into deception.

The goal of our faith is the salvation of the soul (1Peter 1:9)– the inner spiritual blessings that we are told God has already blessed us with in Christ Ephesians 1:3.

This is the love and peace and joy which is the fruit of the indwelling Spirit, that we can access by faith.

I have seen many other blessings of God’s healing and material provision for my life and I trust him in those things and give thanks. But if I get any sickness should I lose trust in God as a good God and suspect that he is holding out on me, or does it mean I didn’t have enough faith. It can become confusing unless I understand the reality/acceptance and faith Scriptures. 2Corinthians 4:16 – So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
So the simplicity of Christ in our circumstances is; Continuing to pray and at the same time to trust and give thanks to God in all things (Philippians 4:6).

When I continue to give God thanks in all things (1Thessalonians 5:18) I receive the love and peace and joy that makes all things well with my soul.
The most extraordinary Scripture is Job 13:15 …Though he slay me I will yet trust him…

The serpent wanted to destroy Eve’s soul. That is his goal. He doesn’t mind if we get material things. In fact he encourages us to want as much as we can get, any way we can.

If we really understood that we had everything we needed right now, concerning having ALL spiritual blessings in Christ, then we would approach tomorrow with a different frame of mind. We would not be afraid, or worried. We would have a new freedom, a new authority, and a new sense of empowerment. Life would have a new sense of meaning. We would know what it means to be saved.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fulness of God - Time

Ephesians 3:18 Ephesians 3:18 That we may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height— to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us…

Being filled with all the fulness of God involves depth and height and breadth, and also length.
Length is the dimension of time in our lives, both that which is behind and that which stretches forth into the future, not to mention the ever-present dimension of now (which is actually all there ever really is)

OUR PAST
The past lives in the dimension of forgiveness and mercy. Remember the woman who anointed the feet of Jesus and was forgiven much. Her past was healed because of forgiveness and mercy, and she was healed because she could now think of herself as God thought of her. Her past was redeemed and her future was in God’s hands. God shows us how to put the past behind us and how to put the future before us.

Paul also had a past that he had to put behind him, knowing the mercy and forgiveness he received from God and knowing he had to also exercise mercy and forgiveness towards himself, and others who had harmed him.
Philippians 3:13 … But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the invitation of God’s future for me in Christ Jesus.

OUR PRESENT
The present moment is eternal time. It is the ever present moment that travels from one experience to the other. The word eternal means age to age. That moment is always full of God’s loving thought and purpose towards us, and his action for us. We can do a reset of time at any time, by receiving mercy and allowing his thought to produce in us the person he created us to be, in his time. Now is always new.

OUR FUTURE
Our future is only a present reality to God – The future belongs to the world of hope, which for us is the world of hope in a good God.
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. In those days when you pray, I will listen. If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me. I will be found by you,” says the Lord. “I will end your captivity and restore your fortunes. I will gather you out of the nations where I sent you and will bring you home again to your own land.”

IN HIS TIME
Our time belongs to God not ourselves
Ps 139:16 You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.
How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered! I can’t even count them;
they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up, you are still with me!

We are God’s thought about us but we try to write another book of our idea of us and it is very often a futile effort. It is one where everything should work out the way we want it to. Did God create us or did we create us and are we still trying to create us – with our thoughts? We can make this lesson painful to ourselves or joyful.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Depth and height

Ephesians 3:18 That we may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us…

Isaiah 57:15 For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him who has a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

The only way we can truly appreciate and give thanks to our God who is in the highest place, is to know him as the one who loves us in our lowly place. We are all loved as much as anybody could ever be loved! That shows God’s highest and greatest kind of goodness.
We need never be ashamed of our place of lowliness because he dwells with us in it.
James 4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord and he will lift you up.

It is in the lowliest place that we can feel most loved, by faith. I pray for this grace to be upon us all.
Luke 7:36 One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to come to his home for lunch and Jesus accepted the invitation. As they sat down to eat, a woman of the streets heard he was there and brought an exquisite flask filled with expensive perfume. Going in, she knelt behind him at his feet, weeping, with her tears falling down upon his feet; and she wiped them off with her hair and kissed them and poured the perfume on them.
When Jesus' host, a Pharisee, saw what was happening and who the woman was, he said to himself,"This proves that Jesus is no prophet, for if God had really sent him, he would know what kind of woman this one is!"
Then Jesus spoke up and answered his thoughts."Simon,"he said to the Pharisee,"I have something to say to you."
"All right, Teacher,"Simon replied,"go ahead." Then Jesus told him this story:"A man loaned money to two people--$5,000 to one and $500 to the other. But neither of them could pay him back, so he kindly forgave them both, letting them keep the money! Which do you suppose loved him most after that?"
"I suppose the one who had owed him the most,"Simon answered. "Correct,"Jesus agreed.
Then he turned to the woman and said to Simon,"Look! See this woman kneeling here! When I entered your home, you didn't bother to offer me water to wash the dust from my feet, but she has washed them with her tears and wiped them with her hair. You refused me the customary kiss of greeting, but she has kissed my feet again and again from the time I first came in. You neglected the usual courtesy of olive oil to anoint my head, but she has covered my feet with rare perfume. Therefore her sins--and they are many--are forgiven, for she loved me much; but one who is forgiven little, shows little love."
And he said to her,"Your sins are forgiven."Then the men at the table said to themselves,"Who does this man think he is, going around forgiving sins?" And Jesus said to the woman,"Your faith has saved you; go in peace."

When we know of our sinfulness and also know of our forgiveness we are being told here that we can exercise the greatest kind of faith and love towards God, than when perhaps we have done something virtuous and noble. This is living in a deep place of the supernatural. This inner spiritual reality is where height meets depth in the most perfect place… This is the glory of the cross and the resurrection.

We can now truly sing Amazing grace…who saved a wretch like me. This is the place where a humble and contrite heart can expect the abundant goodness that comes from; Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us…
As we humbly receive this grace in its depth we can also receive Holy Spirit in anointed power. Both areas of faith require the same kind of surrender of self effort to the power that works within us.

This is the place that lets go of the shame of our lowliness (Hebrews 12:2 despising the shame -kataphroneo - set the mind against) and the pride of our excellence and finds faith that knows with certainty that God is at work on our behalf right where we are in our thankfulness. He works in the world of the unseen for his goodness to be known by people with that kind of faith, who place Him in the highest place, as he shares with us our lowliness of heart.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About love

ABOUT LOVE

The cause of most if not all inner suffering in this world (an imperfect reflection on a human level) because of not receiving love. A person can be told they are loved and even know they are loved, but may be unable to receive that love. That is because they do not believe that they can live up to that love, or they have had love taken away from them and don’t trust in its power or reality any more. Yet everyone needs to know they are loved in order to be able to love. (Love is everywhere)

Love is the most powerful healing force in the universe. Lack of love is the most powerful destructive force in the universe. Somebody asked me the other day what I would answer if someone who didn’t believe in God asked me the question ‘What is God doing for me now?’ My answer is ‘God is loving you with all of his heart.’

God’s love is the value, above all other things that gives meaning to everything else that exists. There is no higher thing. It is the Eternal Reality -The ultimate truth). It is one thing to write ‘Eternity’ on footpaths, but it is another thing to have it written upon the heart (Ecc 3:11). ‘God is love’ is God’s signature written upon the heart of every human being that is born.

What follows on from this is that God loves every person that He created. This is the essence of the Good News – A constant factor in the equation of us and God. This is why Jesus came into the world (Jn 3:16). If we do not understand this, then we will set some other constant factor into the formula of our lives. This other factor will be our life experience, which is the facts and data of our everyday life, the good things and the bad things, and all the in between things that happen to us. This will become what we use to judge whether life has meaning or not. That will distort the true equation so that depending on how well life goes for us will determine for us in our minds whether God loves us or not. Our life situation is elastic and stretches backwards and forwards in time, in and out of reality and tied to our crazy emotions. But life is now – God’s love is always now.

The greatest reasonS that people find it difficult to believe that there can be a God arises from the overwhelming reality of evil in the world and of personal adversity. The existence of evil in the world is the result of the poor choices of a self-serving fallen humanity that causes it to continually ‘miss the true mark’ of God’s will and purpose of His gift of life to us. ‘Missing the mark’ hamartia, is the Greek word used for ‘sin’ in the Bible, ‘getting it wrong’. All have got it wrong and fallen short (Rom 3.23)

What does it mean in Romans 8:35 when it says ‘Nothing can separate us from the love of God, shall tribulation or distress or adversity…’ in other words, our life experiences, good and bad. I believe it means that none of these things stop God’s love from beaming towards us. But we can give up on God in those times and not believe in that love.

If we can trust God that he is working all things together for good for our inner and outer life journey, then we are on track in going forward in the course of our lives. In fact every challenge of faith that comes from God is designed to get us back on that course. Therefore we can see that faith in this love of God is the perfect disposition to have. because it allows for the greatest opportunity for us to become the person we were designed by God to be, with a moment by moment awareness of how to choose the most important, loving and caring thing to do in our personal world – first for our own inner journey, and then for the goodwill of God for others. Take first use of the Oxygen.

This all requires reflection. It must be focused upon and thought through and totally believed in. it must be balanced with our disappointments and griefs and losses that are very real feelings of perhaps being forsaken, and let down, even by God. Reflection means to set time aside. Measure what is causing distress. Put it in its right place by seeing the greater significance in the true reality. Then look forward to what God is working out for us, for His best for us, then just let it be. (Once a week, fortnight, every moment?)

Once you can get to that place of reflection (breadth length Depth height)that gives you the will to accept this truth of God’s all-encompassing and purposeful love, then you are on course. Everything fits into place – you are going in the right direction. When God intervenes in our affairs it can seem like an interruption to our self determined progress, but it is designed to bring the revelation of God, and His love. It is done to purify our hearts (Acts 15.9). When we see that God is doing this in our lives and in everyone else’s life, we can stop comparing our circumstances with those of other people, and escape the ‘why me? Syndrome.

The result of allowing God’s love to be the constant factor in the equation of our lives will bring a gradual change in our inner being, producing inner peace. Over time our bad reactions become calm responses. We see life as it really is, from God’s point of view.
We treat God better because we love Him and trust Him.
We treat ourselves better because we know we are loved.
We treat others better because we know God loves them.
Then we can love others as ourselves.

 

Enlarge my borders

ENLARGE MY BORDERS

Jabez prayed to be blessed by God, for his borders to be enlarged, for God’s hand upon him, and to be kept from evil so that he would not cause harm. (1Chronicles 4:10)

Ephesians 3:14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,
15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, (Their name was once Adam, and now is Christ) (Saved but don’t know it) In Him we live…

16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,

17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. (God has found his home in you) that you, being rooted and grounded in love, (roots of our being go down into the heart soil of his love)

18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints (this is the faith that takes hold of what we already have- that’s my SALVATION) what is the breadth and length and height and depth,

19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. (borders enlarged)

20 Now to him who is able to do far (‘hyper over the top hyperekeinar’) more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, HS!

21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen

This is the enlarge my borders meditation /presence prayer.

Depth – Holy Spirit plumbs the depth of our hearts Psalm 139:23

Height – Faith that reaches to the heavens, seated with him (Colossians 3:1-3)

Length – Our times and seasons are in his hands. He holds the future… hyper hyper hope

Breadth – Holy Spirit is touching and perfecting every experience that is touching us now.

Present with The Lord

PRESENT WITH THE LORD

I want to talk to you today about the passing away of Jared Joiner just 4 days ago.
The Word of God tells us that there is an accuser that accuses us day and night before God. There are certain sensitive people like Jared who set an unattainable bar for themselves that allows these accusations to break their spirit and damage their soul. They cannot cope with this yoke that sits upon them and they seek relief in many different ways from this burgeoning pain, and that becomes a downward spiral.

In the book of Romans chapters seven and eight Paul describes the way through and out of this dilemma when he shares about the good that we all, without exception, might want to do but can’t because of our own limited strength, but which can be lived, through the grace of Jesus Christ within us. When Jared was awakened to this truth he grasped it and sought many times to take it into his lovely heart. When he went to live in Melbourne he took his Bible with him and also some of our discussion notes on these Scriptures that he asked me to print out for him. But the pressure of his inner conflicts became too great. He became weakened in resolve as his own mind and heart also accused him. His loving family reached out to assure and encourage him, but his independence drove him to fight this battle on his own, and in his own way, and that was not wise. He got lost in the fog of that war and got stuck and couldn’t go forward.

Whatever he put his poor body and soul through to ease that pain ended up depleting his energy and exhausting all the inner and outer reserves that he had, and ultimately stopped his lovely heart from beating. 

He is now absent to the body and present with The Lord.
He went to Melbourne to sort things out for himself in his inner struggle, and put himself in the care of welfare and rehab in one form or another, and Coral would go to search for him time and again. That’s when she told me about him taking his bible. I would pray with Coral that God would bring him home – not realizing how that prayer would be answered. Coral prayed a prayer that echoed the words of a song sung by Lauren Daigle called ‘You say’

Paul speaks to us about the ever present reality of God’s presence with us and the struggle of the soul to be at home in one place or the other - He speaks in one place about being absent to the body and present with the Lord. He says in another place that whether we live or die we are the Lord’s.
2corinthians 5:6-8 … absent to the body and present with the Lord.
Romans 14:8 Whether we live or die we are the Lords
Jared struggled in his soul to know God, and at the same time he didn’t feel at home in this world. Paul also talks about other kinds of people of great self confidence who don’t struggle in their soul to know God, but who make this world their only home, and their only struggle is to get as much out of it for themselves as they can.

Paul says in another place (Philippians 1:23) Sometimes I want to live here, and at other times I don't, for I long to go and be with Christ. How much happier for me than being here! But the fact is that I can be of more help to you by staying!
The Jared that I knew so well, that Jared that could get it all together could make you laugh, and make you know you were loved and appreciated, and he did this for so many people.

The final word Paul has on these things is found in another place, put very simply;
Be present to what is going on in the world of the spirit. In other words, do you know deep down that God is always present with you in your struggle to know him, having mercy on your weakness, and do you know deep down that you can be present with him in the midst of your blessings and your struggles.
2Tim 4:2 be ready (be present) in season and out of season; (eukairos and akairos – appointed times of blessing and of challenge and testing)

God makes all things beautiful in His time, and he has put eternity in the human heart.

YOU SAY – Lauren Daigle

I keep fighting voices in my mind
That say I'm not enough
Ev'ry single lie that tells me
I will never measure up

Verse 2
Am I more than just the sum of
Ev'ry high and ev'ry low
Remind me once again just who I am
Because I need to know oo oh

Chorus
You say I am loved when I can't feel a thing
You say I am strong when I think I am weak
You say I am held when I am falling short
And when I don't belong oh You say I am Yours
And I believe oh I believe
What You say of me I believe

Verse 3
The only thing that matters now
Is ev'rything You think of me
In You I find my worth
In You I find my identity

Bridge
Taking all I have and now I'm laying it at Your feet
You'll have ev'ry failure God
You'll have ev'ry victory

Ending
Oh I believe yes I believe
What You say of me I believe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The key of David

Revelation 3:8 ‘He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens”: “I know your works. See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it; for you have a little strength, have kept My word.
Isaiah 22:22 The key of the house of David I will lay on his shoulder; So he shall open, and no one shall shut; and he shall shut, and no one shall open (this was said to Eliakim – the God of rising).
There are many, many doors that these keys will open. God does open doors for us and there are times we have to ask God for a door to open. Paul asked the church in Colossians 4:3 …pray for a door of utterance to be opened for me… opportunities to speak and ears that will hear.

Open doors means change for new things to happen – God wants to open doors for you and for those you pray for. Consider now what is facing you this year that needs some definite action.
1Corinthians 16:6 I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits. But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost, for a wide door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

Our prayers can see the doors of peoples’ hearts being opened.
Revelation 3:18 Behold I stand at the door and knock.
We cannot stand halfway between two open doors of the same room. 1Kings 18:21 loiter between two opinions.

There are doors that need to be closed.
Things of the past, whether good or bad. Good in the sense that they were productive but the time has come for change.
2Corinthians 2:12 When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, even though a door was opened for me in the Lord, my spirit was not at rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedonia.
There are doors that need to be closed to things of the past that have been problematic and difficult. These things cause us pain or regret or shame. These things invade our minds and imaginations and God’s grace helps us to rise up (in our God of rising) and find new hope for new doors to open up before us. This is the redemptive work of God through suffering which brings new hope.

God prepares a place where we can go to him with those things and close the door on them - and a new door opens up.

Matthew 6:6 When you pray go into your room and close the door…
Psalm 31:7 You have considered my trouble; You have known my soul in adversities, and have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; You have set my feet in a broad place.

This is the enlarged space where Kingdom doors are opened up to us. This is like a large room with doors everywhere that would seem to have no back wall.