The Vine Life is Divine Life!
John 15:5-9 (MSG) [5] “I am the Vine, you are the branches. When you're joined with me and I with you, the relation intimate and organic, the harvest is sure to be abundant. Separated, you can't produce a thing. [6] Anyone who separates from me is deadwood, gathered up and thrown on the bonfire. [7] But if you make yourselves at home with me and my words are at home in you, you can be sure that whatever you ask will be listened to and acted upon. [8] This is how my Father shows who he is—when you produce grapes, when you mature as my disciples. [9] “I've loved you the way my Father has loved me. Make yourselves at home in my love.
The same sap running through the trunk of the tree runs through the branches, leaves and fruit!
The Divine Life coursing through the resurrected Christ is also coursing through me!
2 Peter 1:4 (KJV) - [4] Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Supernatural substance is pumping through my spirit this very moment!
The quality of material of which the glorified Lamb of God is composed, is exactly the same material deposited inside my spirit at the moment of my new birth.
I possess his life, his love, his nature and ability.
The same supernatural life injected into the crucified Son of God to raise him from the dead, is the same substance the Holy Spirit injected into me to raise me from spiritual death to life eternal. At the rapture all God has to do is fully release what's on the inside of me into my body, and boom!.. my body is instantly immortalized! Bam! Zap! It's done! El fini. He just amplified the signal a bit and that which I already possessed consumed my body too! Forever immortal and indestructible, beautiful and perfect!
The intensity of Divine Life radiating from the Immortal King of kings is also flowing inside me. The Vine Life is intense to say the least, pumping and saturating, filling every crack and crevice of my being!
Divine healing is learning how to let the Divine Life inside you flow out into your own body, or out your arms and hands into another needy person. It's in there - let it flow!
The Father rests in His love for you.
Why don't you just relax and rest in your love for Him? Is loving one another not enough?
Zephaniah 3:17 (KJV) - The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are all themselves SINGERS! God sings songs! And those songs are about YOU! God's songs contain YOUR NAME (similar to your songs to Him contain His name). They are personalized and very intimate in content because God celebrates you even more than you could ever dare dream.
Zephaniah 3:17e (KJV) - ...he will joy over thee with singing.
There is NOTHING you can do or NOT do to make yourself any more a child of God than you are right now (if you have received Christ, of course). YOU ARE COMPLETE IN HIM! You are complete in Him, PLUS NOTHING, MINUS NOTHING! You are THE REAL THING without any effort on your part, and all the effort was His! So rest!
Colossians 2:10 (KJV) - And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power.
To be IN CHRIST is the highest privilege in the universe. I know that no Christian has ARRIVED in their spiritual growth. But in your right standing with heaven you have indeed ARRIVED because of His finished work on the tree.
JUST BE before you JUST DO.
Romans 5:1-2 (KJV) - Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand...
Relax in your lofty position in Christ in order to secure your victory! Wrestling with your identity is defeat before you even get started. APPROACH GOD ON THE BASIS OF WHO HE SAYS YOU ARE, not on the basis of how you presently feel or the dire situation you now face.
Ephesians 2:6 (KJV) - And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
Are you praying from where you are positionally? (Seated in heavenly places in Christ). Or are you praying from where you are geographically on earth?
The POSITION from which you pray GREATLY MATTERS. Do you see yourself praying from DOWN HERE IN YOUR DILEMNA or do you see yourself praying from a position of authority, warmth, and acceptance in HEAVENLY PLACES positioned next to The Lord? One position breeds confidence, the other feeds doubts and fears!
Pray from the position of KNOWING WHO YOU ARE, not from a position of NOT KNOWING or FORGETTING who you truly are in Christ.
Skunks who forget who they are or don't know who they are... get eaten by predators. But woe to the predator who tangles with a skunk who KNOWS he is one!
The Father not only LOVES YOU, but He also LIKES YOU!
Father God likes me! (Favors me!)
Your point of frustration is your point of failure to surrender to God.
If it's frustrating you, you haven't truly surrendered it (or yourself) to The Lord.
Sweet Release doesn't come without Sweet Surrender first.
If you're miserable you haven't surrendered something to God.
Giving it up to Him.
Leaving it in His hands.
Praying it out.
Praying about it until you've really prayed.
You're not done praying about it until you feel a peace and release on the inside.
You must keep praying about something until you have shaped it on the anvil of prayer as a blacksmith does with his hammer over time over the white-heated fire!
Pray until you at least experience a breakthrough in your heart, mind and emotions. Then if necessary, pray again until you see the breakthrough on the outside.
Importunity is the key! Determination!
Refusal to take NO for an answer is a key!
"NO" comes from the devil, your own flesh, the pressing dilemma, and the fallen world and culture you live in. But the "YES" comes from God.
2 Corinthians 1:20 (KJV) - For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
Press in!
Pray the power down!
Delay is NOT denial!
Sometimes the answer comes in steps or is a process! Don't give up!
Expect Divine Safety! Expect Divine Protection for you and your family! Pray Psalm 91 ALOUD in the the first person. Declare aloud your safety decrees! Get in agreement with God about the daily protection of you and your own. |
