Encouragement to the Soul

[rag4aCrown]

Greetings in the Lord Jesus;
This is word I received this morning.

There is no power but of God. God dispenses His power to His chosen vessels for His purpose to accomplish His will.
Chosen vessels of God seek after, yearn for, and follow Jesus. We care not for the world, nor the things within it; as worldly life knows. We are humble, meek, lowly spirits, owning nothing; yet possessing all things. We have forsaken worldly properties, lands and homes, possessions of treasures, goods and clothing, and money for survival. God knows we have need of these things. We trust in God, who is our provider, of all things; not seeking it out for ourselves; but depending on Him who is able to provide all that we need. One who labors is worthy of his meat. God provides for the spiritual body, as well as the physical body, meat for the feast. Amen

God purges the spiritual being, as well as, the physical being of all things that will take our attention from Him. We have been chosen by Him, for Him. We trust and depend on God. We desire to be with Him, where He is. God seeks vessels of broken and contrite spirits; vessels this world and worldly churches has abused and treated shamefully. God draws these vessels to Him; reconstructing our brokenness into vessels, walking in the gifts of the Spirit; a vessel meet to be used of the Father; for our life belongs to God.

Obedience takes time. Obedience comes when faith is tried and flesh is purged from all unrighteousness. The trying of our faith works patience. Let patience have her perfect work. For it is not self that works the fruits of righteousness; but God. He is molding and perfecting His vessels into mighty soldiers for God; by Him we are perfected, For Him and His will. Each of these vessels growing from faith to faith and glory to glory. God knows how to keep His vessels humble before Him; least we should think more of ourselves then we ought to think. Obedience being perfected, while being established, being rooted and grounded, built up a spiritual house by faith.

God is the all powerful. He is all seeing, all hearing, all knowing. He knows our heart; He is the Creator of it. God is not lacking. He uses every little bit we will give; and everyone of us without even knowing it. He uses all things to work together for His good. One walking in Spirit and in truth has laid this world down and their life in this world. We no longer seek to please the world or those in it; but God. With God, there is no respector of persons.

God bares me witness of all my short comings and stumbling's in my road. These things are put in our path for the purpose of our growth in Him; abounding in faith toward Him; (be careful when ye think ye stand, lest ye fall) keeping God the Father, our Creator, Establisher, and Finisher of our faith in the Godhead bodily. We are nothing without Him. Amen.

I forgive myself of my falls, stumbling and insecurities. We have nothing to be insecure about. We have been secured unto the day of salvation. Amen. For our life is an owned possession of Him, that lives within us. Not only must we forgive others, if we want our Father to forgive us; but we must also forgive ourselves, and He will forgive us; picking us up, correcting us, and enabling us to push on for the mark of our higher calling.

May the grace of God and all spiritual gifts perfect us unto His coming.
May our joy be abundant in His eternal life; not of this world.
May we seek to be partakers of the fruits of righteousness; that His masteries fall upon us,
...being sanctified by faith,
...justified by the blood,
...and sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise.
May God's elect be found worthy
...to suffer for His names sake,
...to stand in the day that Jesus comes in the clouds in power and glory and all His angels by His side,
...to escape the day that God pours His wrath upon this earth,
...to not fall (die) on the Sabbath day, or in the winter; for there will be much tribulation in those days.

I pray the Lord bless you mightily with these words He has spoken to my heart; in Jesus name. I thank you Father that you hear me. Amen.
All praise, honor, and glory be to God. Amen.

 

[ChristFollower]

Our loving Father really knows when and how to reach us. His words are food for the spirit. The process of growing in Him is not easy and we often need words of encouragement. Thank you so much for sharing this message, dear sister. May Jesus bless you.

 

[LoveStory]

You may not realize it, but you are preaching law, works, and self-righteousness; that you can somehow gain brownie points with God by self-effort or self-denial.

I am not superior to the unsaved. I'm not going to get God's approval through any efforts of my own.

We no longer live under the law. You were purged of all your unrighteousness (past, present, and future), as it's a gift when you accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Thank you, Jesus!

God has never called me to punish my flesh as you describe.

If we have nothing, how can we help people? I know God blesses us so we can help people.

By the same token, if I don't follow Jesus into the darkest places, how can I witness to the people who need it?

Jesus himself ate with the sinners and the thieves.

Ephesians 2:8-10
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;
not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

2 Corinthians 5:21
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Romans 4:25
He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.

Romans 6:14
For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.

 

[LoveStory]

Righteousness simply means, "to be right with" God. This is what Jesus has done for us. He has made us right with God our Father by bearing the penalty of our sins for us.

Some people wrongly believe that they must make themselves right with God. This is how all the false religions of the world came into existence. They do not realize that in order to make themselves righteous they would first have to become sinless as Jesus is and then go to the cross as Jesus did. That, of course, is not possible.

The only way for a human being to become the righteousness of God is to receive the gift of righteousness that is being freely offered by God, through acceptance of Jesus Christ.

 

[LoveStory]

God is the all powerful. He is all seeing, all hearing, all knowing. He knows our heart; He is the Creator of it. God is not lacking. He uses every little bit we will give; and everyone of us without even knowing it. He uses all things to work together for His good. One walking in Spirit and in truth has laid this world down and their life in this world. We no longer seek to please the world or those in it; but God. With God, there is no respector of persons.

That's not correct. God works all things together for *our* good. More specifically, the Bible says, "and we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose." (Romans 8:28)

rag4aCrown, When you BELIEVE Jesus is your Lord and Savior, God IS pleased with you. Receive what God freely gives. Believe and have God's peace.

@ChristFollower:
God made it so easy to grow in him through the righteousness of faith in Christ Jesus. BELIEVE every blessing is righteously yours because Jesus died to give them to you. He also rose from the dead to enforce them in your life.

 

[rag4aCrown]

Greetings in the Lord Jesus;
I stand in all good conscience with my Lord.
It is apparent from all your accusations against me; that you would do Jesus the same way.
While pointing the finger, lashing out, gnashing of teeth, scoffing, ridiculing, biting, growling, judging, persecuting..........you know not what spirit you are of.
If you have done it to one of the least of these, my children, you have done it unto me, thus saith the Lord.
I see the truth of God's Word offends you. Very sorry to hear that.
DENY the flesh; pick up your cross and follow me, thus saith the Lord.
Jesus is the example God sent forth and we are to follow in His steps. 1 Peter2:21 Hence, picking up our cross; to live and die for Him, not ourselves.
The hypocrites killed the prophets God sent to them; so He sent His Son; lo, the hypocrites killed Him too. And they continued to kill after Him.
Like you are trying to do me now, snapping at biting at me like a demon from hell. You can not have my crown.
He has plenty to go around, get your own.
God's good is our good. We are not separate; we are ONE. HE is in me, I am in HIM, we go unto the Father. Amen.
It is all about HIM; not me, or you, or your precious treasures of this world. All shall parish with the using.
Oh, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
All praise, honor, and glory be to God. Amen.

 

[LoveStory]

My grace is sufficient for you. (2 Corinthians 12:9)

According to some Evangelical Christian commentators, using Paul's writings and other passages from the New Testament to justify the practice of mortification of the flesh is a complete misinterpretation. In the verses leading up to Colossians 1:24 Paul holds a very high view of Christ's redeeming work. "He understands this redemptive work to be finished, completed, and perfected. Nothing remains to be done, and the suffering of Christ's followers does not put the finishing touches on the triumph of Calvary. Paul does not believe that suffering has any atoning benefit for himself or for others. It does, however, 'serve to increase Paul's living knowledge of Christ.'" This suffering Paul refers to comes as one takes on the commission to share the gospel. Persecution and suffering like what Christ experienced will follow and Christians should see this suffering as a divine necessity. In chapter 9 "Paul compares the evangelistic lifestyle of believers to athletes who sacrifice normal pursuits for the sake of strict training and a competitive edge". In the Corinth church there were grey areas of lifestyle and behaviors (see 1 Corinthians 8) not specifically covered by the Mosaic law, and Paul was encouraging them to discipline themselves to abstain from those behaviors and practices for the sake of winning others to Christ. Mortification of the flesh being self-flagellation is something that is read into the text and an errant interpretation of it.

When we receive the Holy Spirit, the law is written on our hearts; Christ in our hearts makes us Holy. Romans 6:14 says, "For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace." So, if someone says they are under grace, but continues to live a *lifestyle* of sin, the person does not understand grace at all. You'll notice for Christians that truly know and experience God's grace and the gift of no condemnation, sin is the last thing on their mind.

Remember in the Bible the story of the woman caught in adultery? Jesus told her, "Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more." (John 8:10–11) Jesus extended His grace to her by giving her the gift of no condemnation; in doing so, he empowered her to "go and sin no more". He did this because he knew that he would bear her sins on the cross. It is only when we truly have a revelation that God doesn't condemn us because Jesus was crucified in our place, that we have the power to get out of the vicious circle of sin.

Grace ALWAYS results in victory over sin. Rest in what Jesus has done.

 

[rag4aCrown]

Greetings in the Lord Jesus
I praise God; He counts me worthy to suffer for His names sake.

Jesus was not sent to condemn the world; but to save the world.
Condemning us was not his job. John 3:17,18,19
We condemn ourselves because of unbelief, and judging one by how they look, what they wear...(carnal, fleshly judgments)

We are only found righteous and holy because of Jesus.
I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Amen
Only because of Jesus, the mediator, does God see us righteous at all.
All praise, glory, and honor be to God. Amen