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Advent Thought – The Promise of a Coming King.

Advent Thought – The Promise of the Coming Witness

“Behold, I have appointed him (Him) [David, as a representative of the Messiah, or the Messiah Himself] to be a witness [one (One) who shall testify of salvation] to the nations, a prince (Prince) and commander (Commander) to the peoples.” – Isaiah 55:4

The promise of God declared by the prophet Isaiah is the assurance that God will visit his people with a witness to declare to all the heart of God. Therefore, if you wanted to know what God is like all you need to do is look at Jesus Christ.

Jesus’ life was a living testament to the glory of God.

The intention and commitment of God to his children was the coming of a saviour, a prince and commander who would guide, care and with kindness and love restore his children back into their father’s arms.

His children were always the desire of His heart, and Jesus Christ was the God’s witness to the plans and purposes of God. In all Jesus did he did with the power and commitment of His Father.

The fulfillment of God’s intention took place at the cross, it was at Calvary where mankind was reconciled back to God, the Cross was the starting point of history and the centre point of all God’s plans.

The promise of the coming witness is the eternal oath to reconcile man back to God, to make a way in the wilderness and to path a way into the Promised Land.

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Embrace Unconditional Love

Take every opportunity to embrace the unconditional love and unmerited favour given to you in Christ Jesus. Today rest in the fact that you are loved, that you are blessed with every spiritual blessing and that God approves of you because Christ is alive in you and you are united with him. Let the love of God be your light in the dark pathway of life .

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Advent Thought – The Promise of the Free Gift

“Wait and listen, everyone who is thirsty! Come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Yes, come, buy [priceless, spiritual] wine and milk without money and without price [simply for the self-surrender that accepts the blessing].” – Isaiah 55:1

This is one of the most amazing passages of in the Bible, the declaration of God that his abundant life is a free gift. Here is the heart of the New Covenant that the charge God makes for his divine riches is without price. And it is without price because Christ has purchased it all with his life.

This is extravagant grace, outrageous favour where the only thing God demands is our acceptance. That we lay down our self effort, our performance mentality, and our self righteousness and receive the divine inheritance.

Isaiah shouts out to us from centuries past to listen. It is in the listening that we connect with the heart and purposes of God. Jesus said it in another way to his disciples, “For him that has ears to hear, let him hear!” To receive of Christ it is essential to open our hearts and listen to the truth of his grace, for in the listening comes the understanding to receive.

We don’t need money to receive all the blessings of God, we need an open and listening heart that delights in the love of our Father.

Come, buy and eat, it is all available to you, you don’t need money, just accept and receive it.

The promise of Christ is the promise of God’s free gift, the invitation of abundant grace to all.

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Advent Thought – The Promise never to Abandon You

“But Zion (Jerusalem in captivity) said, “The Lord has abandoned me, And my Lord has forgotten me.” The Lord answered “Can a woman forget her nursing child And have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, but I will not forget you”. Isaiah 49: 14-15

There is a lie from Satan that has infected our view of God. This lie has rooted and established itself in our alienation from him. It is the lie that God does not want us. And this lie causes us to doubt God’s commitment to us, it causes us to withdraw from him and it causes us to feel abandoned in our hearts.

Here God declares the truth of his closeness to his people, his sustaining compassion in the turmoil of despair. His promise is that he will never abandon them, that he will never forget his promises to them and that he will never leave them or forsake them.

God’s commitment is that he is close, present, right with them, accepting them, guiding them and upholding them with his love.

Jesus Christ is the embodiment of that promise, here is God, alive in flesh reconciling man back to God, destroying the alienation of our minds. He is the living breath of God, the goodness of God, the mercy and compassion of God shining into the darkness of the world.

The promise of Christ is that God’s compassion is his radiant embrace that declares he has never abandoned us, that regardless of our feelings and thoughts, he is totally committed to us.

For we are his treasure, the delight and desire of his heart.

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Advent Thought – The Promise of the Favourable time.

“This is what the Lord says, “In a favourable time I have answered You, And in a day of salvation I have helped You; And I will keep watch over You and give You for a covenant of the people, To restore the land [from its present state of ruin] and to apportion and give as inheritances the deserted hereditary lands, “ – Isaiah 49:8

The good news of the birth of the saviour is that we have been placed into the perpetual season of the favour of God. That the plan of God was to bestow upon us the restoration and wholeness that we lost and our ruin has been superseded by heavens prosperity.

And this promise of the favourable season contains that life giving fruit of creation. To bring and give us knowledge of salvation, to give us forgiveness and remission of sin, to place inside of us God’s heart of tender mercy and loving-kindness, and to draw our life and light from the power that indwells us.

No longer do we have to be influenced by the fluctuation of seasons, the pressure of circumstance, for In Christ we are constantly in God’s favour.

And this favour means that we are held in an everlasting embrace, kept by Christ’s indestructible life, filled with his unconditional love, and showered with unloseable grace.

For the promise of Christ is to heal the broken hearted, to set the captive free, to declare the favourable time of the Lord and to know the acceptance, value and love of a good God.

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Christ Has Delivered Us.

“For we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all of God’s people, which come from your confident hope of what God has reserved for you in heaven. You have had this expectation ever since you first heard the truth of the Good News.” – Colossians 1:4-5

The truth of the Good News is that Christ has delivered us from the captivity and oppression of a life without love.

The truth of God revealed in Jesus was that he came as the full expression of God. That God entered our world to experience the full range of our emotions, and to show us what it was to live with the tenderness of an open heart .

The truth revealed in Jesus was the bridge that closed the gap between the imperfection of our humanness and the perfection of God.

For God never rejected us, God never gave up on us, God was never separated from us and God never stopped pouring his love out on us.

It was mankind that believed the lie of shame and doubted the goodness of God. It was mankind that separated from God and chose their own idols.

Jesus came and revealed God’s truth. Jesus died as a sacrifice in the truth. Jesus rose from the dead as a demonstration of God’s truth.

The truth proclaimed by Jesus is that all who come to him will never thirst again and out of their hearts will flow rivers of living water.

 

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One That is All.

“For through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made all things we can see and all things we can’t see – such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him.” – Colossians 1:16

God is that which is bigger than anything we could imagine or comprehend. God in Christ is the One That Is All.

The infinite creativity that designed and formed the universe, that placed each galaxy and star in the sky is now placed and unlocked into the heart of every believer. For in each believer dwells the fullness of Christ.

We are the delight of God’s heart, and it is through his union with each one of us that God celebrates his own joyful existence.

For God who is complete has formed his completeness inside the heart of his creation.

And God who expressed his joy in creating us has released each one of us from oppression into the freedom of expression. In Christ we are now free to express the unlimited nature of Christ alive within our spirit.

We have been made New Creations in Christ as an expression of God’s love and beauty to celebrate the freedom of his grace and love.

Creations beauty is now alive within our hearts.

The desire that sparked the universe into life is a light within every child of God.

The greatest thing we could ever do is to receive it, believe it and delight in it.

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How We See God

“Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation.”- Colossians 1:15

How we see God is crucial to what kind of world we live in.

God has revealed to us his true nature in Christ. God is found in Christ.

To know God is to know Christ.

To know Christ is to acknowledge all good things he has given to you by his grace and to awaken your heart to the life of Christ alive inside you.

Christ’s life is there resting in you inside every experience you have. For Christ resides in the heart of every action, every thought, every feeling and every breath.

Recognizing the life of Christ that animates each moment brings God alive in us and transforms our daily existence. It brings heaven down to earth.

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One In Christ.

“In this new life, it doesn’t matter if you are a Jew or a Gentile, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbaric, uncivilised, slave, or free. Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us.” – Colossians 3:11

The amazing truth is that every believer has Christ alive inside of them. That every believer is now a manifestation of God to the world. That the glory of God dwells amongst mankind in the heart of each believer.

It is the realisation of this truth that has the power to change the world.

When we start to see the risen Christ in each of us all separation dissolves. When you see beyond gender, race, class, wealth, job-title or any other label, all boundaries evaporate and you find yourselves united to each other in Christ.

You find your name in Christ and your name is a new name written in his blood and carved on his hands. Your nature is now his nature because your ancestry goes back and starts at Christ it no longer starts with Adam.

You are birthed from the seed of your true father, in everlasting love and eternal acceptance. Your value is a high as the heavens and as deep as the uncharted oceans.

In Christ you stand complete in all He won for you at the cross.

In Christ you stand on the brink of endless possibilities.

For the resurrection power within you has the power to transform you from one degree of glory to another degree of glory and to transform the world around you.

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