Monthly Archives: May 2011

I have been inundated by many aspects of our daily routine in life lately with the many people that I associate with. I am in awe in the respect that we carry on in our lives as tho Christ does not exist?

We believe that our pure existence is to just carry on doing our daily duties of human society. What!? God’s intention was not for us just to exist to make life bearable to work,sleep,and eat. It was to have God indwelt in us from the begging of time! Yet we feel that we are to “better our selves to be something” in this life.

Our desire should be that of attaining God thru Jesus Christ!! Why do we not attain Him, through the understanding that It is Jesus Christ is the Life of God!

Let us remember that we are in the paradigm that we picked in the Garden of Eden, the paradigm of the “knowledge of good and evil”. We understand that we can portray what is supposedly good, and of evil. Isn’t this why we are in this state of “it’s just a matter of life” that we have to make do with this normal life of living.

God had and has a perfect plan!  Just accept and believe it, It is the “Life” the life of God indwelling in us! Amen and Amen!!

Please try and go to the website of Frank Viola and check some articles, books or podcasts of his ministry. You won’t be sorry.

Try this podcast out!

http://ptmin.podbean.com/2010/10/

Now that the weather is nice outside. I have the opportunity to go out on my deck and sit on our porch swing and read the bible and books. This is so refreshing to just sit and enjoy the Lord and his many wondruss things.

I have an old pair of antlers of what I do not know of what, that I received from my grandfather McCone when I was a boy that I have added to my scenic backyard. I will sometimes just sit and watch my little scampering friends the squirrels rustlel around our backyard investigating things or just burying peanuts that someone has given them in the hood.

I have also noticed that my little friends the squirrels( I have them named wilber and fred) have enjoyed the antlers for life. You see they will come by almost every day, and nawl on those atlers for the nutrients of them for life. Don’t really know how bones taste but guess it must be good to them.

It just goes to show you that what God says is true! That thru His death brings life!!

I have been given new eyes, and I didn’t have an operation either!!

I have been reading the bible with a new vision the last few years with new insight that has just amazed me of what God’s real intention was and is in the Bible!

It is as tho this is the first time that I have read the bible, and the spirit of the words are talking to me. It is sometimes hard to explain it to someone but I think it comes across that it is different but from the Lord.  It is sometimes  just plain “giddy” (I know this is an old term,but it works.) The excitement that I feel when God shows me something in His words of the bible, not just the words but the intention of his words that has overwhelm me, that it is almost unreal.

God has left many clues in His words for his intentions of His purpose, but we have failed to see them. I believe that we have been blinded by the words themselves to see the real meaning of Christ. After all it was the Holy Spirit that wrote the Bible, His ways are not ours even in writing!

I challenge you to read the bible today with a different perspective than you have before and read it thru God’s eyes! You will be astounded by what you read. I know I was. It will tell you the mystery of Christ that He wants us all to know!!!

A observation that I had this week over a discussion with a friend brought up an insight to me that caused me to understand the Institutional churches.

If you were to be asked by someone from outside your church or from the unchurched, what would be your answer? You see, I already know your answer! Your answer will always go back to last sunday’s message or what program is going on that is exciting you at this time.

But this is how the institutional church has gone wrong, we are very shallow in our answers because of two things. One being that it concerned us as a “I” experience. Our answers will always start with “Well, I was……”. When it should be about the others. Secondly, and mainly it is “all about the corporate church,or the Bride of Christ”.

This second answer shows  that we are not “Christ minded”. We are not of one like mind if we are not like Christ!  We then are separated from God if we are not with him in spirit. It is just and only about Christ’s mind and spirit.

The institutional church is very protected in not knowing anything outside their walls of church. God is moving,speaking,building His Church the way He designed it in the Garden. We need to understand that His church is not between the walls but “in Him,in Us”. I challenge you this week to look,listen, and search God’s world that His Spirit is moving as we speak!

God’s ways are not our ways, He is all about His Church, His Corporate Church, His Bride!

Man’s ways of our individual ways,or denominations, has got to change!! The bible affirms this thought in 1 Corinthians 1:10-17.

Let us all be about God’s Church!

I find it interesting that we use words to suit our purpose in telling a story.

Testimony, is one such word. There has been a mis-use I believe of this word for the  last few hundred years, the evangelistic movement of our times have used this word to promote our testimony to others of our faith.  Christ’s original context of this word was for our testimony to Him.

This is where we have been misled in our focus as Christ like. We have put the focus on our belief in Christ as an effort of us to communicate our testimony. We have been putting that yolk around us to further God’s kingdom in our own strength. This could not be farther from the truth, as it says in 1kings 8:12-21,Matthew 16:18,Ephesians 5:27,Colosians 1:24.

Jesus’s walk on this earth for 33 years was God’s testimony. His persuasion technique was not programs,religious sermons,institutions, or knocking on doors but HIS testimony of His Father. He was about His Father’s business, He said this in various places in the bible, one was when He was a boy and was by himself in the temple learning and standing up for His father and His ways. Another was when He was on the cross, when He said ” It was finished”, you see He only had 1 business to do, and that was His father’s business.

The argument to this way of thinking, is who is going to tell or witness to other people!  This is where we sell the Lord short! He will! His indwelling Spirit in us manifest’s in others just naturally,without us working to do so. This is exactly what happened at the day of Pentecost with Peter. Peter was giving his testimony to God, when the crowd believed and accepted the testimony of Christ’s life.

This should be our testimony, to The All inclusive Christ, indwelling Spirit, and Almighty God.  This is called fellowship!!