THE LIFE OF FAITH AND THE GLORIOUS CHURCH - 2009
                                                        MARCH 25th

                        HIS REPROOF AND DISCIPLINE ARE "ALWAYS" FOR OUR GOOD - THAT WE MIGHT BE PARTAKERS OF HIS HOLINESS


...."Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust"....

                                                                                                                                                                                                                2 Peter 1:2-4 NASB

          It is time for every child of God to "allow" themselves to be purged of any impurity that would in some way hinder the flow of God's life and love [light] through them. Each one of us, as children of God, need to have a strong heart-desire to be filled to overflowing with the mighty Spirit of God - in order that we might continually radiate His light in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation. How often we undermine [through fear and unbelief] our Heavenly Father's will for each of us to be partakers of His holy nature and, thus, we sometimes allow ourselves to be less than perfect witnesses of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Every believer needs to allow the Word of God to work in their hearts on a daily basis - burning away the dross, in order that "all" who cross their path might see and meet the living Christ. Not one child of God should ever fear the loving hand of their Heavenly Father, but rather they should rejoice in the fact that His reproof and discipline are "always" for our good: that we might be partakers of His holiness - with the end result being that those who still remain in bondage to the Evil One are set free forever, as they encounter the Living Christ in us!

VIEW ALL THAT WOULD SERVE TO REMOVE YOU FROM THE HIGH LIFE AS "POISON" TO YOU

          In these days, it is very important for each and every Christian to view all that would serve only to remove them from the "high life" [John 10:10] as poison - ALWAYS realizing that even the "smallest things" may be the most important ones to be cautious of. For often times they are the very point from which the Evil One will attempt to begin his "wearing down tactics". When the child of God reaches the point where they will not allow themselves to succumb even to the smallest intake of "poison" [that which is "unprofitable" spiritually speaking] - spirit, soul or body - then truly they shall be found walking in the fullness of all that the Father intended and, thus, "torrents of living water" shall flow through them to the thirsty masses.

Related Scriptures:  Hebrews 12:10-11; John 7:38;


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