"Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life." 2 Corinthians 3:6
Yes God knows our hearts.. AND obedience is paramount..
Knowlege is gain, Wisdom is power but OBEDIENT TRUST IS PARAMOUNT.. Not by might or by power but by the Spirit of God..
God has given us the comforter by way of the presence of His Spirit. It is the Spirit of God who leads us into all truth by our submission. As He REVEALS HIS WORD to us By the Spirit of God the word becomes RHEMA.. IT COMES ALIVE.. and an "ALIVE WORD" will quicken the dead things as well as put to death those things in us that are emnity with God in our lives.
The world teaches us simply to gain knowledge and apply it..
As Kingdom Citizens, it goes deeper than merely ATTEMPTING, TO THE BEST OF "OUR OWN ABILITY" TO GATHER AND APPLY..IT IS ONLY THROUGH "YIELDED SUBMISSION" TO THE SPIRIT OF GOD.. THE ONE WHO GIVES LIFE TO THE WORD, that we are able to OVERCOME..
Without the SPIRIT there will be no Revelation.. Without the Spirit, there is no Power.. Without the Spirit.. Trust and Obedience will waver..
It is the Spirit of God who leads us into all truth.. Truth is gained in the mind, incubated in the heart and BIRTHED in the Spirit.. then made manifest in our daily living..
We are spirit beings and we live in a body.. we have a soul.. The things of this world are temporal but the things of the spirit are eternal.
Our striving to overcome by leaning to our own limited ability to understand and apply the Word of God will only frustrate and discourage us in this walk.. We must relinquish our rights to self and allow GOD .. BY HIS SPIRIT to take over..
Let us therefore cease to attempt to master Spiritual authority via Natural Ability.. We must LIVE IN THE SPIRIT.. for us to EXERCISE ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY OVER THE NATURAL..
When we insist on interpreting the scriptures according to human reasoning and common sense.. we will produce a GOSPEL OF PERVERSION that will serve to KILL and not to BUILD..
Amen, Before the cross men had to rely on prophets of God and The word they brought forth, and it was all good although some of the things they had to go through to learn the truth of a lesson took a lifetime... Thank God for coming in the flesh to straight things out,and give his life on the cross for all so that We could have the Spirit of God abiding inside of us personally, by faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus on the cross. The Father sent The Son, The Son sent the Spirit and now as true believers we have the Holy Spirit Of God abiding in our hearts giving us the ability to have a one on one relationship with God, whom will give in season revelation at a moments notice, Amen
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My dear sister, thanks for inviting me to look at your blog. It is quite refreshing and illuminating. I want to say you are right in the processing of the truth save that you left it at the place of birth. Surely truth is gained in the mind, incubated in the heart, and birthed in the Spirit. However, that is not where it ends. Truth must be manifested to impact and effect a change. This is where our generation of Christian truth is lacking in impact or power. We live lives that contradict the truth we have gained, incubated, and birthed. The result is confusion and grand self delusion. We must go on to manifest the truth otherwise the world has little to gain from us. We owe it to our God and the world He has placed us in to manifest the truth. How does this happen? It must happen in our every day living, in our common every day affairs. The truth therefore must be lived no matter the inconveniences we face in so doing. Did I say "inconveniences"? This is where the rubber meets the road! As believers we do not like inconveniences and so when a manifestation of the truth is likely to bring us into inconveniences we instinctively forgo the truth for the lie of the devil. So what do we have today? Convenient Christianity! Yet if the Lord had considered His convenience He never would have come into the world not to mention going to the Cross. We therefore need to return to the gospel of the Cross and it is in living it that we would manifest the truth in our world, and effect the urgently needed change. The truth process should therefore be as follows: "Truth is gained in the mind, incubated in the heart, birthed in the Spirit, and made Manifest in our every day living". Thanks and God bless.
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Amen Amen,, Pastor Israel, thank you so much for this rich response.. My title.. KNOWLEDGE IS GAIN, WISDOM IS POWER, OBEDIENT TRUST IS PARAMOUNT.. was meant to imply that OBEDIENT TRUST would produce the manifestation of truth in our daily living. Thank you so much for pointing out this very important missing component in the equation presented in this post.. without it there would be no conclusion.. May God continue to bless you Man of God..
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May God bless Sister Johnette and Pastor Israel for this great exposition. Very inspirational!
ReplyDeleteSister Johnette, you have not only blessed me with your deep and powerful writing, but you have also inspired to start a blog. I love to write just like you, and sincerely, you are simply great!
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ReplyDeleteThank you for your encouraging words.. I look forward to your blog as I know the anointing on your life is such that many will be blessed.. Praise God.. Stay blessed Man of God.