You know I even believed the lie for a time. I was going through a storm a very severe spiritual storm and in my failing I saw every flaw every sin every disgusting piece of filth that I was no matter how hard I tried there were certain sins I kept failing in and it got so bad that it felt as if a hot knife was being slowly inserted into my soul I wept at night in my filth and found my worth to be so low that my very existance insulted God.
But God lifted me from that place and reminded me of the truth I once believed in that I can rest in the shelter of his love and his grace that my weakness and my failings show his strength and in his strength he will be glorified through me not because of me or because of my perfection but because of my imperfection
When I remembered the love and the freedom of resting in him life was brought back to me I once again knew the joy of his love and my love for him I was free from the chains I put myself in and childlike love and relationship with him returned I felt his warmth once again I felt my heart pierced by his love I felt the spirit jump with joy in me all because I remembered the truth he once taught me
Wonderful Testimony.
God is so good.
Having the right mind that understands that the blood of Jesus that started our salvation, always keeps us saved, allows us to rest from trying to be accepted, and gives us the Grace that is our power to live holy.
Philippians 1:6
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The "Joy of the Lord, is our Strength".
For those who understand Salvation as God's Gift that keeps us as righteous as He is, at all times, we found out that this allows us to REST in the Peace of God.
This Rest is JOY and its power and its deliverance....
There is a queer, devil inspired idea within some fake christian cults that teaches.......if we understand and believe that God both supplies and maintains our salvation, that this GRACE will cause us to run wild and live like the devil.
And people who do not understand salvation, and those who are not really born again yet play a christian game with themselves, will never understand that when you as a believer come to the place of knowing what God has literally done for you.. thru Christ.... that this Holy Blood of Jesus, that is God's blood shed for your sin so that you can always be certain of heaven as your home........this causes you to love God more, and want to serve Him more, and more and more.
This amazing Grace of God is His mercy that is new every morning..
Its when you are under the wrong understanding of Salvation, and are trying to keep yourself saved.......this is the place of no joy, no power, no prayers answered......its just bitter self effort failure, and endless condemnation.. and guilt.
But , thank you Jesus !!!.....when you as a believer find real faith, as....>"God's Grace that is your Salvation that can never be changed.......this RELIEF and this JOY that it brings to know the truth.... sets you free.... and is where power is found, is where anointing and impact for ministry is found.
Here is a wonder....... If you are called into God's service, then do this...... Just talk about the grace of God, and the Cross of Christ...... Just position those as the core of everything you teach, ....and then watch God work.
You will be amazed.
This bring to mind a story.
Starting In 1991 and for a few yrs , i was involved in Seminary..... yet, i didn't really understand the Spirit Realm.
I didnt at that time understand that everything that we are dealing with, is usually involved in that aspect, in some regard.
At that time the words in the NT were sweet to me and good to me, but not quite endless revelation.
I was working at that time, at MONSANTO, as a industrial draftsman.
Every day, i would go to the "canteen", which is the "Monsanto" word for Cafeteria, and sit down in a room full of men and women, among about 60 people.
I had my brown bag lunch, and i would take out my New Testament, and read it, while i ate.......... this was a 40 min lunch.
And every day i did this........the room would change......the atmosphere in the room.......as soon as that Bible was opened.
I would see this happen.......People started shifting, scratching, it would get quiet,.......then it would become a buzz of strangeness.
Why?
Because the word of God, is ALIVE, And it is so powerful, so convicting.....so TRUE, that it cause darkness to want to get away..... to run.
Notice that when Jesus was dealing with the demoniac,,.... the Demons were begging Jesus...
You beg on your knees, and that was what they were doing, in the Demoniac.....They were begging Jesus not to harm them..
That is how Demons react to God on this earth. And this same power is in the Bible, and is found in the Preaching of the Cross.
Its impossible for the word of God to come back, or remain, void. Its living......This word, and it has supernatural power that affects darkness.
All i had to do was take the Bible out, and each day the room shook because that Word of God, is a sword, and a Light, and the power of RIGHTEOUSNESS that is The Truth.
"thy WORD is TRUTH"....and this Truth is LIGHT.