Journey called Life (Part 2)
It is truly wonderful to belong (be a part) of The Lord and His people (the church), as we must understand GOD in the light of HIS WORD, and not with our own limited understanding. Indeed you have done excellently this far, in coming to THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. This is great, but ONLY THE BEGINNING OF THE REAL L I F E 'S JOURNEY which you have begun.
Please be PATIENT with me, as you read a TRUE-LOVE LETTER of a father's heart towards the journey for his child.
PLEASE READ THIS AT LEAST 3-4 TIMES,AS I DO KNOW WHAT THIS LETTER WOULD DO IN & TO YOU,PREPARING YOU FOR THE COMING DAYS.THANKS IN ADVANCE, FOR ALLOWING THIS LETTER TO BECOME PART OF YOU. LOOKINGFORWARD IN PRAYER, TO SEE GOD'S FULFILLMENT OF THIS LETTER.
The Journey called LIFE ,surrounds us every second with very important decisions to make ,and this is where the issue begins, AS TO:
1. WHAT DO I WANT FROM THIS LIFE FOR MYSELF? AND
2. WHAT DO I WANT TO GIVE OTHERS FROM WHAT I HAVE?
Before I ask myself the above questions, I must understand the Word "LIFE" which is presumed by so many as though there are no questions about it. As I look at Life,I also must know that life would be PURPOSE-FULL ONLY. WHEN I UNDERSTAND THE AUTHOR OF LIFE,AND WHY HE GAVE ME THIS GIFT.
What were HIS PURPOSES when HE Released to me THIS UNDESERVED GIFT?
Jesus said in (John.6.35)- "I am The Bread of Life, he that comes to me shall never hunger, and he that believes (Gets connected) on me, shall never thirst."
To understand the above verse, let's see another verse, and this is from (John.7.37/38)
Jesus stood and said:" If any man/woman is thirsty, let him/her Come unto Me, and Drink. He that believes (gets connected) on Me, as the scripture has said, out of his/her belly (inner-most part) shall flow RIVERS OF LIVING WATER " ( referring to THE HOLY SPIRIT and HIS SUPERNATURAL IMENSIONS in each of us, each day of our lives on this earth ) .
Jesus further said in (John.8.24,25)- " Truly, Truly, I say unto you, except a CORN of WHEAT FALLS INTO THE GROUND AND DIES, it remains ALONE, but when IT DIES ,IT BRINGS forth MUCH FRUIT. HE/SHE that LOVES his/her life SHALL LOSE IT, and he/she that hates his/her life IN THIS WORLD, shall KEEP IT unto life eternal" . Compare this with Jesus's famous Declaration of HIS TRUE IDENTITY in (John.14.6)-" I am THE WAY,THE TRUTH,THE LIFE, no man/woman comes to THE FATHER but through ME.
As we CAREFULLY study these verses, note THIS GIFT OF LIFE has been Released to me by THE MERCY OF GOD, when I was born-anew by HIS HOLY SPIRIT. So then whatever has happened to us so far, GOD IS FULLY AWARE OF E V E R Y part of it. Now as mentioned earlier, FOR THE 1ST TIME, we understand that THERE IS A UNSEEN BATTLE IN EACH OF US,AND THIS BATTLE IS TO MAKE US DEPEND ON OUR UNRENEWED MINDS- (system of what the world says, what others say, what friends say, what family says, what my colleagues say, what husband/wife says, the list may go on varying from person to person).
Note HOW does this battle come?
This System works through the words of people closest to us either in our family circle, or office circle, or friends circle, or neighbors circle or The News Media-Newspapers, Movies, or Words of our Natural Mind processed through time, dreams, fantasies etc. representing SATAN & HIS SCHEMES.
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The System of THE WORD OF GOD, coming through the Encounters with THE HOLY SPIRIT, as THE WORD OF GOD changes our Nature of DEPENDING on OUR Unrenewed MINDS. NOW instead, we depend on HIS HOLY SPIRIT To "Lead us through HIS WORD in every situation in our lives FOR EVERY DECISION MADE"
Why is this so?
Every Man/Woman was Designed from the essence of GOD, yet is always dependant on GOD as HIS/HER SOURCE. As human-beings we aren't self-sufficient, even though we would like to think we are. Without a RELATIONSHIP (Getting Connected ) with HIM, we Cannot See a REVELATION of GOD's IMAGE & LIKENESS. In every Situation of LIFE, we were intended to REFLECT GOD'S NATURE, thus manifesting our Continual Friendship with GOD. None can be truly satisfied with LIFE, until he/she loves HIS CREATOR-GOD, because we were designed to find ALL our Fulfillment and Ultimate meaning To Life I N G O D A L O N E.
So hence there is a W A R of words between GOD's KINGDOM on One side and the devil (Satan's) KINGDOM on the other ALL THE TIME, whether we believe in it or not, whether we are ignorant of this or not, it doesn't change any thing. Then also remember EACH Party ALSO DOES NEED PEOPLE,YOU and THE OPPOSITION Party. The Opposition Party (Satan) does not have the word "MERCY" in his vocabulary. Every member of the Opposition Party has ALREADY BEEN PROGRAMMED IN THEIR MINDS by their Father -The Devil.This strategy would remain the same from the 1st man/woman to the last man/woman on planet earth, and that is TO DESTROY our Relationship with Our Maker-God, released then in and through our Relationship with the church- HIS BODY, where HE is THE HEAD, then onto our Relationship with our family members, then with colleagues, friends, class-mates, and the world around us.
So let's Expose some of these Schemes which Satan (Opposition Party) would use, to stop you from being an Effective, Productive, Fruitful Christian. On the other hand The CREATOR-GOD would want you to LIVE A COMPLETE FULL-FILLED LIFE and ACHIEVE THE DESTINY OF NATIONS WHICH IS INSIDE YOU,BY THE WORKING OF HIS HOLY SPIRIT, THROUGH THE WORD OF GOD.
Now listed below are Only Some of the Satanic schemes being manifested until now. They are: Satan knows himself how he depended on The Presence of GOD to Hear God's Word and HIS VOICE as he was cast out of heaven himself. So his strategy will be to HINDER you from REALLY GETTING INTO THE WORD PROCEEDING FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD.
NOTE: (I didn't say reading) This is what SATAN HATES MOST. Since he cannot touch you/me he will now place Hurdles of ALL KINDS that would stop you from GETTING ( what Satan lost) namely THE PRESENCE OF GOD and THE WORD OF GOD.
WHAT DO YOU THINK THESE HURDLES/HINDRANCES COULD BE?
1.He would D I S T R A C T us into THE CARES of this life, so that THE WORD OF GOD will not CONTINUE coming to us. Most often you would find ALL THESE TEST'S on Sunday's only, or any-other Bible-Study Day where THE WORD IS TAUGHT.
a) Now some of these cares would be Very Legitimate to our Reasoning Mind, like The Company one is employed suddenly Decided to work on Sunday (Your Weekly holiday), to catch up with the business/or year ending issues. Now we know legitimately they can't break THE Company Laws in enforcing this, but we would surely compromise because of the majority who depend so much on their salaries to save them, and don't understand that Promotion doesn't come from anywhere except from GOD (Psalms.75.v.6).
b) Visiting the Family/ or suddenly joined by family friends who don't know HOW TO PASS their time, and just want to waste yours as they ARE BORED WITH THEIR LIFE and have not come to UNDERSTAND THE LIGHT.
c) Invited over for Weddings/Parties/Picnics, which cater to so much of Waste of Time, waste of money, waste of health, unwanted talking, self-boastings, gossiping etc. in most of these events, unless these are used to bring forth God's glory like Jesus didn't avoid accepting the invitation at the wedding at Cana, as He knew why He was going over.
d) Oversleeping out of Exhaustion in Over-Working, or Over-Doing things, or just Over-Eating, or Over-jesting as priorities have been mixed up in life, since life itself has not been understood.
e) Window-Shopping to just pass the time with friends, or get some amusement in the midst of others to TACKLE THE ISSUES OF LONELINESS, DEPRESSIONS, or go over to Hotels, TV's or any other form of Time Consummation, enough to Distract us from our REAL PURPOSES.
f) Selfish Ambitions Rotating around " I "/SELF -TOO MUCH ,COMPLACENCY, COMFORTS, More INSECURITY making us work to get accepted anywhere, anyhow, as long as our needs are met, Here GOD IS USED FOR Our Selfishness, in order to Pursue our Selfish Means.
g) Busy-Ness in life/or pretending to get busy by getting involved in every affair of the Unwanted, especially that which doesn't affect me as I'm trying to get recognized to cover up the unseen motives so cleverly, that none would even notice, as it makes me feel nice in doing so and my ego is lifted up unconsciously.
h) Love of money/Deceitfulness of riches and any thing to get it would CHOKE THE DESIRES OF GOD,DESIGNED THROUGH THE WORD so that I now become IRRESPONSIBLE.
Then there are also Natural Excuses and Reasons. They are:
1)I got up late, as I went to bed late and hence everything was late.
2)I was not well, and if you notice we would only get sick mostly on Sundays, to prevent us to learn Friendship with others. God says:If you are sick, call the elders in the Church and pray to release healing in those sick. So it gives us an opportunity to see GOD's Power Manifested over sick people being prayed for .
3)It takes lot of Strain/Pain to come, but I wouldn't have the same excuse if my JOB-PLACE was far, as my mind has programmed me for the job, but not for GOD. Can we Compare Our Strain/Pain to what JESUS came for namely The Cross for our sakes?
4)I don't know on the long run, whether this would really answer ALL MY QUESTIONS.
5)I've been wrongly influenced by UNWANTED FAMILY PRESSURES/FRIENDS ETC. through the ignorance of our approach to understand LIFE.
WHAT THEN DO YOU THINK WOULD BE THE SOLUTIONS FOR THE ABOVE CARES?
a)Understanding GOD by ALLOWING HIS WORD TO DOMINATE MY MIND, SO THAT EVERY CARE WOULD Bow DOWN TO JESUS, by MY DEPENDANCE ON HIM.(1 Peter 5.7)
b) Looking with Expectation towards FRIENDSHIP WITH one's SPIRITUAL PARENTS, and brothers/sisters who are ALL WASHED BY THE SAME BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST & truly who would even one day DIE FOR YOU,JUST LIKE JESUS-CHRIST DID.
NOTE: We miss our blood-family every moment, and know how to make SACRIFICES IF NEEDED to see them happy. We go back to our Homes, houses etc. because we belong there, but what about the CHURCH-which is needed so desperately for our MIND-RENEWAL according to GOD's Kingdom. The early Christians MET DAILY IN THE CHURCH, because THEY FELT THE NEED OF EACH OTHER,AND DIDN'T ALLOW ANYTHING TO COME IN BETWEEN THEMSELVES, WHICH COULD SEPARATE THEM FROM SHARING HIS LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP, because they didn't have the Spirit of THE WORLD.
c) Sunday is the 1st day of the week, and this is the day JESUS and the disciples met. We are commanded in (Hebrews.10.25) "Not forsaking the assembly of the people of GOD (Saints) together, as the manner of some is; but encouraging one another, and so much the more, as we see HIS day approaching." So we don't come to Fulfill some rituals, but THIS IS WHERE GOD VERY OFTEN VISITS HIS PEOPLE IN U N U S U A L -W A Y S.
d) As per Paul's letter in (1 Corinth.14.26),"Paul says:How is it then brothers/sisters, that when you come TOGETHER ,let every one of you have a Psalm, have a Doctrine, have a Tongue, have an Interpretation, have a revelation. Let every thing be done unto the building up of the believer." This is where our doubts about LIFE itself get cleared, as we ask questions one to another, especially whom GOD has placed for you, to TRUELLY BUILD YOU UP EMOTIONALLY,AS WELL AS SPIRITUALLY, ultimately proving The WORD OF GOD WORKS TODAY ALSO.
e) So just as we came on this earth into A FAMILY through our parents, similarly GOD brought us into HIS FAMILY-THE CHURCH to be a part of, hence becoming a Family Member of HIS BODY on the earth, and furthermore releasing US as a blessing of GOD in the church. Through your SPIRITUAL PARENTS, GOD would Nurture you, Feed you with CORRECT UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORD OF GOD, Guide you through their own life's experience of THE WORD OF GOD, Serve you in making sure you are Continuously Connected with GOD & HIS WORD, and seeing you practice THE WORD which is THE MAIN OBJECTIVE OF LEARNING, ultimately bringing THE Selfish Nature & Its Demands to Destruction through THE Lifting Up of GOD's Word in our lives, thus making us a TRIUMPHANT CHRISTIAN LIVING IN AND FOR CHRIST, in the midst of a compromising world even of so-called Christians.
f) Just as in A Company you work, and the Family you come from, there would be ALL kinds of Functions, Commitments, and Responsibilities. Similarly in God's Family-The CHURCH we have identical needs, and the Main NEED is TO ESTABLISH GOD'S KINGDOM ON THE EARTH,AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.
A Doctor-friend asked me last week, why do Christians meet on Sunday's all over?
I'm sure now, your own doubts about this subject have been cleared by & through The Understanding Released to you/me by HIS HOLY SPIRIT’S WORD. One word of caution-We have to be Continuously Protected from Pride, Presumptuous sins, Secret sins and hidden motives in our Attitudes towards GOD, His Church, Others around us who God HAS PLACED us with, in order TO SHARPEN US UNCONSCIOUSLY, especially those who haven’t received The LIGHT of GOD given to you/me. So we LIVE through HIS HOLY SPIRIT, through HIS HOLY WORD, and HIS GRACE daily. Continue to THANK GOD for what HE has shown you, as HE is waiting to show you/me much more of HIMSELF. So Don't get distracted by the other voices around you, as GOD HIMSELF is LONGING TO TALK to you/me, in order to release the DESTINY OF OUR LIVES.
IN CLOSING,GOD WILL NOT HOLD ANYTHING BACK FROM YOU/ME IF WE UNDERSTAND THE PATH ARRANGED FOR EACH OF US THROUGH HIS WORD, WHICH IS CALLED " LIFE'S JOURNEY" OR D E S T I N Y. WE CAN ONLY STAND AMAZED IN GRATITUDE TO SEE GOD OPEN OUR EYES FURTHER TO ALL THAT HE HAS KEPT FOR US. Remember along with GOD, we are with you in every thing ALL THE WAY. Now looking forward in ASSISTING YOU INTO EACH STEP OF THIS "JOURNEY CALLED LIFE".
