We do not do things to try to get somewhere with God – We are now in Christ; we are accepted, and we are held and kept as Joint-Heirs with Christ.
It is not our performance that makes us mature, but our acceptance of who we are in Christ – Our old way of thing is that if we do right, we will be right and therefore we spend our lives trying to do all the right things, to make ourselves acceptable. But Paul says in Ephesians in his prayer – “that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your [understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints” – It is our acceptance of all Christ is that we grow into the full knowledge of God.
The only way to get off the hamster wheel of drivenness and performance is to know and accept the everlasting, Glorious love of God. The sin of one man, Adam, gave us a consciousness in our natural birth that fills us with shame, guilt and condemnation. Adam’s sin haunts us even when we come into Christ. God makes us a new Creation in Christ and we die to sin and become a New Creation in Christ, and it is in our New Creation heart that we receive the love of God. By accepting God’s love, His all-encompassing, limitless, accepting love we lose the lock of guilt and condemnation and realize that in Christ we have been eternally set free. We are no longer think of ourselves as sinners in Adam but as Holy and Righteous in Christ. Jesus has paid the price for Adam’s sin and now in Christ we are eternally set free.
Faith recognizes that the sinful nature inherited from Adam died with Christ at His cross 2000 years ago. Therefore it is not faith that removes our sinful nature. In the recognition of our death to the old, we’ll effortlessly manifest the new!
“After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper.” – 1 Kings 19:12
What does God have to do to get our attention?
This fascinating passage from the life of Elijah certainly speaks volumes into our perspective of the workings of God. Elijah fleeing from the threats of death on his life seeks refuge in the safety of the wilderness, but God tells him to go to the mountain. And there on the mountain, God sends the wind, an earthquake and fire but that was just a prelude, God actually revealed himself in the silence of a whisper.
We may flee to the wilderness but God calls us to the mountain, for it is at the mountain where provision is found. The wilderness is full of wandering, crying out and waiting, but the mountain is the place of revelation, and in Elijah’s experience commission.
The mountain was Mount Sinai, the birth place of the Old Covenant, the place where Moses met God. This mountain was the revelation of God’s Covenant with his people, and with his prophet Elijah. But now for us the mountain in the New Covenant is Jesus Christ. All our life is found in the finished work of the Cross, when we come to Christ we rest in his revelation alive inside us.
And how does that revelation come?
It comes in the intimacy of our relationship with Christ, not in loud noise, earth shattering events or seeking words that tickle our ears but listening to that quiet whisper of love which motivates us to trust.
Elijah had to learn the hard way, he didn’t have Christ living inside him, he only partially knew the presence of God, but we who are born into the glory of God have the Holy Spirit interceding for us, speaking to us and alive within us.
Today, take time and cultivate listening to the whisper of God, it is more real and more powerful than any external source and it will bring you into a deeper, closer, more intimate relationship with God.
I believe that God is giving us dreams and visions in our sleep, but more importantly is healing us whilst we sleep. I think that the Holy Spirit actively heals our emotions and our thought processes as we sleep.
That is why the enemy comes to disrupt and destroy our sleep. Not being able to sleep soundly at night is a weapon of the enemy to stop the Holy Spirit working in our mind and emotions and it comes against the healing power of Christ alive in our bodies.
So today, agree with me that from this moment on that sleep will be a rejuvenation of all Christ accomplished at the cross.
Do not accept sleeplessness or sleepless nights as normal, or just part of life. They are a weapon of the enemy and this weapon has been defeated at the cross and you are guaranteed good, sleep filled nights in Christ.
Go to bed at night expecting a good nights sleep and the Holy Spirit to work in you, healing and setting you free.
God wants you restored and whole in Christ.
This word below posted on facebook by Lana Vawser is very significant and important to get a grip of.
GOD IS DOING SO MUCH WHILE YOU SLEEP… OVERNIGHT MIRACLES!!! By Lana Vawser
I had a dream a few weeks ago and the Lord spoke to me that sleep is KEY right now! Since that dream I have seen sensing the Lord is doing a deep work in the hearts, souls and minds of His people as they sleep. He is reaching the deepest depths of hearts and souls with His love and bringing deep refreshing, healing and restoration. Many deep roots that have plagued, tormented and caused God’s people pain and anguish will be removed by His love as they go to bed at night and sleep!
I had a vision where I saw Jesus working on the minds of His people like a brain surgeon while they were sleeping. He was removing trauma, healing past memories, and the Word of God that had been stored into their hearts and used to renew their minds during the day, I saw the Lord breathing upon as they slept and it brought freedom, clarity and mental ease and peace, rather than torment. Many were going to bed one night sick, waking up the next morning – HEALED! MIRACLES ARE HAPPENING IN THE NIGHT!!!!
As the Lord was doing the deep works in the depths of His people as they slept, I saw chains breaking through the night. When they awoke in the morning, they felt so free, such joy, a great shift had taken place that filled them with the sense that “something changed overnight”.
This is the season where things are LITERALLY CHANGING OVERNIGHT! Things you have been contending for and contending for to see them shift and break open, will be released OVERNIGHT! God is releasing OVERNIGHT MIRACLES!
Everywhere I have been ministering lately, the Lord has had me call out sleep issues, insomnia, night terrors, sleep apnea… anything attacking the sleep of His people and God has been bringing healing and deliverance. The Lord is breaking the chains that have stolen sleep and in its place there is and will continue to be an increase of prophetic dreams.
Prophetic dreams are going to continue to increase in this season in ways we have never seen. The Lord is and will continue to heal, deliver, restore and renew His people in significant ways as they sleep. Things that have held His people for decades; will suddenly be broken.
God is doing more while you sleep than you realise. Clarity, insight, direction and breakthrough is being released especially through prophetic dreams.
I prophesy over you today that some HUGE breakthroughs are happening and will continue to manifest in your life AS YOU SLEEP! I decree all sleep issues and anything attacking your sleep is being broken off and healed in Jesus name. I declare over you that God is doing MORE in you and for you than you realise, while you sleep. I decree an INCREASE of prophetic dreams and awareness of what Jesus is doing in and for you while you sleep in Jesus name. I decree over you a season of OVERNIGHT MIRACLES in Jesus name!!!!
I encourage you, get an early night
“The wicked flee when no one is pursing, but the righteous are bold as a lion” – Proverbs 28:1
The promise of Christ is that we would be filled with the glory of God.
Our new creation spirit is totally new, it is full of Christ, full of His righteousness, love, joy, power and as we awaken to this new life inside us, our thoughts and feelings release the life of Christ inside.
This amazing transformation means we are NEW. God did not make us better; he created us NEW in Christ. We were re-birthed into the fullness of Christ.
We receive the boldness of Christ and the promise that we would do greater works than he did is now our reality.
Now we may not feel it, we might be only experiencing a little of this promise but every promise of God is ours in Christ. Our life is now hidden with Christ in God.
In Christ there are no hopeless situations, every circumstance is an opportunity to let the grace and power of God flourish in our lives. He places a table of his delights in the presence of our enemies, for Christ invites us to feast on all he has provided.
For confidence and boldness have been implanted into our nature.
Awaken your thoughts and mind to your new creation spirit and let the life of Christ fill your soul.
“The Lord raises up those who are bowed down; the Lord loves the righteous” – Psalm 146:8
You are loved.
God loves you with an everlasting love.
God sees you righteous in Christ, he sees you in his son, he sees you healed, holy, perfect forever. For In Christ we have been given the free gift of righteousness, and that means a vibrant, unhindered, perfect fellowship and union with God. A heart that is no longer guilty, condemned, feeling shameful or tormented with doubt, but is secure in God’s love, is peaceful and is in harmony with the presence of God.
When those thoughts of rejection and feelings of being bowed down arise in our souls, remember that these are lies. The enemy comes to kill, steal and destroy. His tactics are always the same, make you feel separated; feel alone, unvalued and unworthy.
The life of Christ in your spirit and the power of the Holy Spirit in your soul are the manifestation of the power of God to raise you up and see yourself seated in heavenly places in Christ.
Let Christ lift your head, raise your eyes and look into the glory of God, look into the eyes of Jesus and delight in his finished work.
“She looks well to the ways of her household…..her children rise up and bless her, her husband also” – Proverbs 31:27-28.
God loves families; we were never designed and created to be alone. He created in us emotions and desires to give and receive love, to connect and uphold each other.
God’s desire within us is expressed in our love and encouragement of each other. To build each other up, serve each other, to support, to think of others before ourselves.
To share God’s heart is to see Christ in each other and build each other up into the fullness of Christ.
Jesus Christ has torn down the way of separation that existed in our minds and has united us to the Father. Likewise, he also has torn down the wall between Jew and Gentile so that everyone can receive the fullness of the Kingdom.
We are united with Christ into God and into each other. We are living stones in the living, breathing temple of God.
How we look after each other is a demonstration of the love of God and the reconciliation of all things in Christ.
Therefore, encourage each other, help each other, serve each other and let God who is alive inside you demonstrate his love through your love for each other.
Living Grace 