AND WHAT DO WE READ IN JOHN 13-17 CONCERNING JUST WHAT JESUS SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES BEFORE GOING TO THE CROSS? LET'S
LISTEN IN....
"SIMON PETER SAID TO HIM, 'LORD, WHERE ARE YOU GOING?' AND JESUS ANSWERED HIM, .BUT YOU DO NOT KN0W WHERE I CAME FROM AND WHERE I AM GOING." (JOHN 8:14);
"WHERE I AM GOING YOU CAN NOT FOLLOW ME, NOW, BUT YOU SHALL FOLLOW ME AFTERWARD."
(JOHN 13:36)
BUT NOT TO FEAR BECAUSE I AM SENDING ANOTHER COMFORTER, HELPER (JOHN 14:16), AND TEACHER (THE HOLY SPIRIT) WHO WOULD EMPOWER THEM AND THOSE OF US WHO HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED IN THE HOLY SPIRIT, TO "GO DO WHAT HE DID WHILE ON EARTH". (JOHN 14:12) " AND THESE SIGNS WILL FOLLOW THOSE WHO BELIEVE: IN MY NAME THEY WILL CAST OUT DEMONS; THEY WILL SPEAK WITH NEW TONGUES; THEY WILL TAKE UP SERPENTS; AND IF THEY DRINK ANYTHING DEADLY, IT WILL BY NO MEANS HURT THEM; THEY WILL LAY HANDS ON THE SICK, AND THEY WILL RECOVER." (MARK 16:17,18 AND MATTHEW 4:23,24)
RECENTLY IN REFERENCE TO MY TAKING AUTHORITY OVER THE FIVE TORNADOES AS DESCRIBED IN PART 3, I WAS ASKED BY A READER: "WEREN'T YOU AFRAID WHEN YOU SPOKE TO THE TORNADOES?" MY RESPONSE WAS "NO, FOR IT WAS NOT I WHO 'DEVISED THIS'"! GOD FORBID! IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A MONUMENTAL CATASTROPHE, IN THAT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A WORK OF THE FLESH AND THUS LACKED THE EMPOWERMENT/AUTHORITY/ DIRECTION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT!
WHAT IS THE MESSAGE HERE AND " HOW DOES IT APPLY TO ME?" YOU ASK.
BASICALLY THIS,.CHRISTIAN,,,,,
WE MUST ALWAYS KEEP IN MIND THAT JESUS, BORN AS MAN, AT ABOUT AGE 30, WAS BAPTIZED IN THE RIVER JORDAN BY JOHN THE BAPTIST AND AS WELL, BAPTIZED (EMPOWERED) IN THE HOLY SPIRIT (MATTHEW 3:16), SO AS TO BEGIN HIS MINISTRY IN SETTING THE CAPTIVES FREE, (ROMANS 8:3) REDEEMING/RESTORING THOSE WHO WILL AND TO BE OUR MODEL AS TO HOW WE ARE TO LIVE. AND TO SERVE!
JESUS RELIED UPON HIS HEAVENLY FATHER THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT, TO GUIDE HIM IN EVERY FACET OF HIS LIFE.. THE FACT BEING, JESUS TRUSTED HIS HEAVENLY FATHER FOR HIS WATCH CARE OVER HIM 24/7! AND IT IS THE SAME WITH US!
THUS THE ESSENTIAL QUESTION FOR EACH OF US, HIS CHILDREN, HAS TO BE: "JUST HOW MUCH AM I TRUSTING MY HEAVENLY FATHER?" AM I LOOKING IN FEAR AT THINGS SEEN, OR AM I LOOKING IN FAITH AT THINGS HOPED FOR...(HEBREWS 11:1) "
JESUS' MISSION ALL THE WHILE WAS TO ACCOMPLISH THE WILL OF THE FATHER! WHEN JESUS WAS 12 YEARS OLD, HE TOLD HIS PARENTS AS THEY WERE SEARCHING FOR HIM: "WHY DID YOU SEEK ME?,DID YOU NOT KNOW I MUST BE ABOUT MY FATHER'S BUSINESS?" (LUKE 2:49)
HE KNEW WHAT WAS BEFORE HIM...WAS HE FEARFUL? CERTAINLY NOT! WHY NOT?
JESUS RELIED UPON HIS HEAVENLY FATHER THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT TO GUIDE HIM IN EVERY FACET OF HIS LIFE.. THE FACT BEING, HE TRUSTED HIS HEAVENLY FATHER WHO WAS FAITHFUL IN HIS WATCH CARE OVER HIM...AS HE IS WITH US, THANKFULLY!
THE ESSENTIAL QUESTION FOR EACH OF US HAS TO BE: "JUST HOW MUCH AM I TRUSTING MY HEAVENLY FATHER?"
IN WHICH TENT ARE YOU BASICALLY LIVING?
TRUSTING THE LORD
WHICH SO BLESSES HIM
OR
LIVING IN FEAR/WORRYWHICH SO GRIEVES, OFFENDS, SADDENS
THE HOLY SPIRIT (EPHESIANS 4:30 AMP.)
JESUS INSTRUCTS US IN
LUKE 12:32 "DO NOT FEAR, LITTLE FLOCK, FOR IT IS YOUR FATHER'S GOOD PLEASURE TO GIVE YOU
THE KINGDOM." AND JUST
WHAT IS THE "KINGDOM OF GOD"? THINK OF A KINGDOM IN DAYS OF OLD...THERE WAS
A KING AND HIS PEOPLE....AS LONG AS THEY LIVED IN THE KINGDOM, HE
PROVIDED/PROTECTED THEM. AND AS IT IS WITH US, AS LONG AS WE HONOR OUR KING AND SUBMIT TO HIS LORDSHIP, HE MORE THAN PROVIDES/PROTECTS HIS
PEOPLE......FOR ONE OF HIS NAMES IS JEHOVAH JIREH, OUR PROVIDER, AND JEHOVAH
ROI, THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD AND HE CARES FOR/PROTECTS HIS SHEEP!
AND IN MATTHEW 6:25-34,
THE SCRIPTURES CONCENTRATE ON THE FOLLY (SIN) OF FEAR/WORRYING! WHY "SIN"? WE ARE NOT
TRUSTING GOD AND INSTEAD LETTING SATAN/FLESH REDIRECT OUR THOUGHTS
(FEAR/WORRY). GOD ALMIGHTY TELLS US TO LET HIM GUIDE/DIRECT OUR THOUGHTS.
"COMMIT YOUR WORKS TO THE LORD, AND YOUR THOUGHTS WILL BE
ESTABLISHED." (PROVERBS 16:3)
JESUS DECLARES IN VERSE
25, "THEREFORE I SAY TO YOU, DO
NOT WORRY ABOUT YOUR LIFE, WHAT YOU WILL EAT, OR WHAT YOU WILL DRINK, NOR ABOUT
YOUR BODY, WHAT YOU WILL PUT ON. IS NOT LIFE MORE THAN FOOD AND THE BODY
MORE THAN CLOTHING?"; "THEREFORE DO NOT WORRY ABOUT TOMORROW, FOR
TOMORROW WILL WORRY ABOUT ITS OWN THINGS. SUFFICIENT FOR THE DAY IS ITS OWN
TROUBLE."
JESUS COMMANDS HIS PEOPLE IN MATTHEW 28-30: "COME TO ME ALL YOU WHO LABOR AND ARE HEAVY
LADEN, AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST." (V.28) "TAKE MY YOKE UPON
YOU AND LEARN FROM ME, FOR I AM GENTLE AND LOWLY IN HEART, AND YOU WILL FIND
REST FOR YOUR SOULS". (V. 29)
"FOR MY YOKE IS EASY AND MY BURDEN IS LIGHT" (V.30)
SAINTS, KEEP IN MIND
WHAT JOSHUA PROCLAIMED: "...CHOOSE THIS DAY WHOM YOU WILL SERVE......AS FOR ME AND
MY HOUSE WE WILL SERVE THE LORD." (JOSHUA 24:15)
PRAYING THE BLESSINGS OF
THE LORD BE UPON YOU AS YOU MEDITATE ON WHAT
HAS BEEN WRITTEN...AND
ABOVE ALL, AS IT IS WRITTEN IN JAMES 1:22-25:
"BUT BE DOERS OF THE WORD, AND NOT HEARERS ONLY, DECEIVING
YOURSELVES.
FOR IF ANYONE IS A
HEARER OF THE WORD AND NOT A DOER, HE IS LIKE A MAN OBSERVING HIS NATURAL FACE
IN THE MIRROR; FOR HE OBSERVES HIMSELF, GOES AWAY, AND IMMEDIATELY FORGETS WHAT
KIND OF MAN HE WAS. BUT HE WHO LOOKS INTO THE PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY AND
CONTINUES IN IT, AND IS NOT A FORGETFUL HEARER BUT A DOER OF THE WORK, THIS ONE WILL BE BLESSED IN WHAT HE DOES." (NEW
SPIRIT FILLED LIFE BIBLE)
BE
GLORIFIED LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, BE GLORIFIED
