Sunday 3 January 2010

Practising the Presence of God

I want to know all I can about Practising the Presence of God an becoming spiritually fit and developing my spiritual sensesIt would be good for you to begin reading Mark 4, Ephesians, and 1John every single day because Romans 12 says we're transformed by the renewing of our mind.  The word "transformed" there actually is the exact same word for "transfigured."  Galatians 4:19 speaks of the travail of spiritual fathers until Christ is formed inside of believers, or to where their inner image of themselves is the exact same as their inner image of Christ Jesus. That takes total immersion in the Scriptures that speak the most to that divine nature that we're partakers of, according to 2Peter 1, and a willingness and diligence to do all we're told to do by those Scriptures, AS THOUGH WE WERE HIM, when we understand what He's telling us to do, moment by moment, by our moment by moment life in those Scriptures.  1John in particular dealt with everything even remotely hard or harsh in my personality in the 90s 'cause I'd sit on the couch reading it from start to finish aloud over and over and over again for hours 'til literally His manifested love would BATHE me, and according to that very book, the more I saw Him in it, the more I became like Him 'cause I was seeing Him as He is.It would obviously help to supplement with that spending the last few minutes of your day as you're trying to fall asleep confessing over and over again "God loves me" 'til He breaks through to you with another revelation of the depth of His love for you.  Growth obviously begins from a place of wholeness and that's the way to deal with any internal cracks in one's emotions, self esteem, etc., and you'll find your boldness going to the 10th and 1000th powers as fear is literally cast out by immersing in the Scriptures like that, particularly 1John that has to do with fullness of joy, being separated from sin, being kept by the Written Word so that wicked one can't touch you -- whether you're talking about the devil or any adversaries out here in the natural realm. Ever heard the stories about the Apostle John being the one they couldn't kill, though they boiled him in oil, 'til he was finally exiled to Patmos where he received the book of Revelation?  Faith works by love, and you'll never hear Him beyond your dimension of understanding of the depth of His love for you, and as faith works BY LOVE, it'll quench all of the firey darts of the wicked one, in Ephesians 6, again, whether natural or spiritual principalities and powers.  Perfected love IS your immortality, and 1John 2:5 says that those that keep His Word, in them the love of God is PERFECTED. That was available to each of the Apostles and New Testament ministries, just the same as it's been available to all of us ever since, but obviously that's a further level and a required level of diligence to the Written Word and to walking in love than most people are willing to submit their lives to 'cause like Martha in the Gospels, there's so much to be done, afterall, when Lord Jesus still says "one thing is needful" and He's the same as always in not taking that good part that's chosen by the Mary's that'll sit at His feet. He'd of multiplied the food Himself and fed all of 'em, if Martha had done the same thing, not worrying about nearly 100 folks being with Jesus since the 70 others were with Him and that's why she was likely freaking that there was too much to be done and Mary wasn't helping, that worthless lazy thing, in her estimation. roflol  But Jesus said to relax 'cause only one thing was needful -- time in the Word.  But He wasn't going to tell her that He knew what He was going to do, as when He multiplied the loaves for the crowds, if she'd simply come in line and had submitted to His yoke and had been willing to learn of Him 'cause of His meekness and lowliness of heart that would have brought rest and refreshing to her soul 'cause His yoke always has been and always will be easy, and His burden always has been and always will be light.  If He didn't tell Philip what He had in mind, while Philip was still questioning the meeting of all of these needs rather than listening to what He'd already been saying, then why was He going to tell her, if she wasn't listening and yielding, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of her faith, and entering into His rest, i.e. His teachings and the way He'd intended to meet every single need?

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