My child, I am a God of peace. I bring My peace to your soul. Even though in this world you experience trials and tribulation, My peace is available and ready to calm your heart. Receive My peace. Live in it. This takes faith and courage and will become your way of life if you allow it. Only you can decide to accept it or reject it. My offer is always there. When you keep your eyes on Me and believe Me, you will have no trouble in experiencing My peace. Take your eyes off of Me and put them on the circumstances, then fear and anxiety will rule your heart. You choose. My peace or the world’s anxiety. It’s up to you.
Otherworldliness: Part 4 of the Series
“The triumph of the human spirit” boils down to clinging to life in this world—an insistence in experiencing all life has to offer. Yet termination confronts us all. Shouldn’t we be preparing for it—not just the suffering of old age, but death itself? When the plug is inevitably pulled, do we simply cease to exist or do we live on into eternity? As the climax of life, death ushers in a whole new set of experiences.
Believers wrestle with this issue as well. As followers of Christ, we are constantly being drawn away to the abundance this world has to offer. Our enemy cleverly uses this ploy, tempting us to believe that there is ultimately something here which will fulfill our human needs. The Bible offers a solution to this dilemma, if indeed we will heed it—if we will believe God as opposed to what our natural senses tell us.
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Housecleaning
It’s time to do some housecleaning. I’m talking about internal housecleaning. Rid yourself of all the junk you carry around. Get rid of past regrets and failures. Don’t hang on to bitterness or unforgiveness. Place all distractions and discouragements at the foot of My cross. Be done with worldly pleasures. I am calling a pure and spotless bride. I desire all of you. Give Me your whole heart. Don’t hold anything back from Me. Do you not know I hold the world in My hands? Do you not know your future is secure in Me? Then die to every selfish desire. Be done with every vain thing. Rise up and take your place in Me. You are My bride. My pure and spotless bride. You are washed clean by the blood of My cross.
Otherworldliness: Part 3 of the Series
“Slavery” is pertinent to a life unavoidably ending in death. Those who are still young are least aware of what life ultimately holds. They think they have time! Watching her twenty-year-old grandchildren, my wife’s 99-year-old mother (daily undergoing the rigors of old age) uttered: “somebody needs to tell them!”
Tell them? Really? Oblivious, they would merely have brushed it off as an unpleasant thought—a remote and distant reality, “I know, but that’s a long way off. Why worry about it now?” And I can see their point. Life can be a wonderful thing. The chance to live all that can be experienced—to be able to see, hear, feel, taste and smell the feast that is set before us offers a sensual distraction most live their lives for. It’s what happiness seems to be all about. Is it any wonder that the notion of God and a life hereafter get shoved into the background?
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Stand And Resist
My child, you are anxious about so many things. Only one thing is necessary. Time spent at My feet, and total surrender and devotion to Me. Seek Me with all of your heart. Come, let go of everything, every thought, every concern. I am your all and all. I am your everything. I am all you need. Walk in My presence today My love. Take those thoughts captive. Don’t let distraction be your guide today. I will come in like a flood. I will have victory over this battle in your mind. Stand, resist and take authority over the one who would love to take you captive. You are free in Me. Live in that freedom today. Your Father who paid the price for your freedom.
Otherworldliness: Part 2 0f the Series
People possess the opportunity of achieving astounding success. And we tend to pin our hopes on becoming more like them, desiring to experience the self-worth we instinctively know they must possess. We’re constantly presented with a eulogy of these lives, “So and so lived to a ripe old age, here is a list of his or her achievements. What a life of honor; what a life well-lived!”
At the risk of being a bit morbid, now in my later years I’m much less enamored with the prospects of life on this earth, no matter how fulfilling and rewarding it might appear to be. Life without Christ boils down to fear. In portraying the ultimate freedom of the follower of Christ, a life truly well-lived, the Book of Hebrews affirms in verse 2:15: “and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives.” What we once were in this world, in Christ we no longer are.
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I will lead you
My child, listen carefully and heed My words. Do not go the way of the world or take the path of the fool. You are destined for a higher calling. Your path has been planned out by Me. Before the foundation of the world, I set up your destiny and calling. Walk in My way for you. Do not choose your own. Do not be distracted or detoured. Keep your eyes focused on Me. I am the Way, the Truth and the LIfe. Stay focused. I will keep you from stumbling. I will make your way clear. Your destiny awaits My child. Take My hand, I will lead you up the mountains and through the valleys. Let Me lead you to the place I have for you.
Otherworldliness: A Compelling New Article
Life! What a marvelous gift we’ve been given—to live on this earth X number of years with the chance to pursue and achieve our dreams, all the while enjoying the penetrating beauty of this natural world as a backdrop. Now, in practical terms, we do not all share a level playing field. Many, the majority of people, I fear, are born into a world of dismal poverty where opportunity is so limited that they are destined for an existence of mediocrity, largely overlooked, invisible to the likes of us who have been ushered into a life of meaningful prospects.
Whether silver-spooned or raised a little less glamorously, privileged lives offer a bedrock of promise, where people have been furnished with the capability to advance. This is the hallmark of Western Culture and those who emulate it, a richness not only of material wealth, but also the prospect of longevity, providing us the resources to achieve things more or less unreachable by previous generations.
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Otherworldliness: A Compelling New Article
Life! What a marvelous gift we’ve been given—to live on this earth X number of years with the chance to pursue and achieve our dreams, all the while enjoying the penetrating beauty of this natural world as a backdrop. Now, in practical terms, we do not all share a level playing field. Many, the majority of people, I fear, are born into a world of dismal poverty where opportunity is so limited that they are destined for an existence of mediocrity, largely overlooked, invisible to the likes of us who have been ushered into a life of meaningful prospects.
Whether silver-spooned or raised a little less glamorously, privileged lives offer a bedrock of promise, where people have been furnished with the capability to advance. This is the hallmark of Western Culture and those who emulate it, a richness not only of material wealth, but also the prospect of longevity, providing us the resources to achieve things more or less unreachable by previous generations.
Read the entire Article: CommuningWithGod.org/Articles
Otherworldliness: A Compelling New Article
Life! What a marvelous gift we’ve been given—to live on this earth X number of years with the chance to pursue and achieve our dreams, all the while enjoying the penetrating beauty of this natural world as a backdrop. Now, in practical terms, we do not all share a level playing field. Many, the majority of people, I fear, are born into a world of dismal poverty where opportunity is so limited that they are destined for an existence of mediocrity, largely overlooked, invisible to the likes of us who have been ushered into a life of meaningful prospects.
Whether silver-spooned or raised a little less glamorously, privileged lives offer a bedrock of promise, where people have been furnished with the capability to advance. This is the hallmark of Western Culture and those who emulate it, a richness not only of material wealth, but also the prospect of longevity, providing us the resources to achieve things more or less unreachable by previous generations.
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