Friday, January 9, 2015

And I will give you rest...

Hello Brothers and Sisters

Mat 11 25-30
At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.

Matthew Chapter 11: Warning and Invitation
Warning and Invitation
Matthew Chapter 11 : 28



Col 3 1-17
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
 
Whenever anything begins to disintegrate your life with Jesus Christ, turn to Him at once and ask Him to establish rest.  Never allow anything to remain which is making the dis-peace.  Take every element of disintegration as something to wrestle against, and not to suffer.  Say...Lord, prove Your consciousness in me, and self-consciousness will go and He will be all in all.  Beware of allowing self-consciousness to continue because by slow degrees it will awaken self-pity, and self-pity is evil.  Well, I am not understood;  this a thing they ought to apologize for;  that is a point I really must have cleared up.  Leave others alone and ask the Lord to give you His consciousness, and He will poise you until the completeness is absolute.
A true child of God is not conscious of the will of God because he is the will of God.  When there is the slightest deviation from His will,  we begin to ask....What is Your will?  A true child of God never prays to be conscious that God answers prayer,  he is so restfully certain that God always does answer prayer.
 
Mat 8 26
And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
 
When we are in fear we can do nothing less than pray to God, but our Lord has a right to expect that those who name His Name should have an understanding confidence in Him.  God expects His children to be so confident in Him that in any crisis they are the reliable ones.  Our trust is in God up to a certain point, then we go back to the elementary panic prayers of those who do not know God.  We get to our wits end, showing we have not the slightest confidence in Him or His government of the world.
What a pang must have shot through the disciples.  What a pang will go through us when we suddenly realize that we might have produced downright joy in the heart of Jesus by remaining absolutely confident in Him, no matter what lays ahead.
 
There are many stages in life.  Some when there is no storm, no crisis, when we do our human best; it is when a crisis arises that we instantly reveal upon whom we rely.  If we have been learning to worship God and to trust Him,  the crisis will reveal that we will go to the breaking point and not break in our confidence in Him.
 
We have been talking about walking with God, sanctification........what is it all going to amount to??
It should work out into rest in  God which means oneness with God, a oneness which will make us not only blameless in His sight, but a deep joy to Him.
 
The little things that happen in our lives, the temptations that we overcome one at a time are joyous moments in heaven.  What a honor it is to please our Father in heaven.
 
Love your Brothers and Sister....
 
God Bless you in the name of our Lord and Savior JESUS CHRIST!!!
 

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