Getting beyond the physical realm
According as He has chosen us in
him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without
blame before him in love
Being blessed with every spiritual
blessing in the heavenly realms, means that in Christ we have all the benefits
of knowing God.
Being chosen for salvation being
adopted as his children, forgiveness, insight, the gifts of the spirit, power
to do Gods will, and the hope of living forever with his son Jesus Christ are
just some of the benefits of being saved
Because we have an intimate
relationship with Christ, we can enjoy these blessings now
The heavenly realms, means these
blessings are eternal, not temporal.
The blessings come from Christ’s
spiritual realm, not the earthly realm…
You must remember that he chose us
and salvation depends totally on God.
We are not saved because we deserve
it, but because God graciously and
freely gives salvation.
He saved us according to His plan.
There is no way to take credit for our salvation
Some times it is hard to understand
how God could accept us as to what we have become, but because of Jesus and the
finished work at the cross, we are holy and blameless in Gods sight.
God chose us, and when we belong to
him through Jesus Christ, God looks at us as if we had never sinned.
All we can do is express our thanks
for his wonderful love, his loving kindness and live righteous before him.
God has adopted us as his own
children, through Jesus’ sacrifice; he has brought us into his family and made
us heirs with Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:17 says… and if children,
then heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ.
God has showered us with his loving
kindness along with all wisdom and understanding.
Gods’ purpose is that the ones that
trust Christ should praise our glorious God.
God has identified you as his own
by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom he promised long ago
The spirit is Gods guarantee that
he will give us everything he promised, and that He has purchased us to be his
own people.
I want you to realize what a rich
and glorious inheritance he has given to his people.
God is so rich in mercy and grace
and he loves us so much that while we were dead in our sins, he gave us life
when he raised Jesus from the dead.
It is only by Gods favor that we
have been saved…
All because we are one with Christ Jesus
As Jesus is…so are we…
The will of God will never lead you
where the grace of God can not keep you.
The cross of
And being led by his Holy Spirit, the spirit of truth…
What we are experiencing on earth
right now is real, but God has another now for us…
God see’s us living above our
circumstances… he sees us delivered and walking in joy and power.
So how do we rise from the way we
see ourselves into how God sees us?
When you read Gods word, the Holy
Spirit must communicate it to your spirit, because your natural mind won’t be
able to comprehend it.
The spirit, your spirit, must rule
the mind, don’t allow what we experience in our physical senses or our emotions
to control what we think.
The promises of God, activated in
our hearts by the power of the Holy Spirit, confirms a higher spiritual
reality… it is conformation of being able to understand…
It is the ability to conceive of
something that you can not see with your natural eyes…
Most people’s circumstances falls
between two realities, a physical reality and a spiritual reality…
The one we were born into… and the
one we were born again into…
The born again reality has a higher
spiritual reality… it’s the ability to see ourselves the way God sees us.
In our daily pain, we see only our
physical or human reality…
And that is why we loose our focus
on our power for living the blessed life God has planned for us.
We must go beyond this physical
realm, because the natural or carnal thinking will lead us over in to the area
of doing things in our own self effort or our own strength…
The physical realm is a very self
destructive place.
It leads to fear, stress,
confusion, depression and now you have a monkey on your back that you can not
shake.
When you get to this point you want
anything that will give you some peace…
When people get to this point, they
are about to make some of the biggest decisions they will ever make…
Do I turn to drugs and alcohol or
to this God I have been told about?
We need to get over into the word
realm and out of the world realm, and be aware of our circumstances enough to
recognize Gods presence
Rejection of God makes it
impossible to hear him.
God is directing your life for a
purpose, and every day is not always so pretty, some days are cloudy…
Welcome to Christian reality, keep
your eye on the Savior…
Peace be to you,
Brother Andy
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