“Remember what I told you: I am going away, but I will come back to you again. If you really loved me, you would be happy that I am going to the Father, who is greater than I am.” John 14:28
If you can embrace the truth of your union with Christ, you will begin to see life from a completely new perspective. It is challenging, but the reward is a total liberation into the grace of God.
One of the traps that the world tries, with great success, is to make us believe that we are separated from the power of almighty God and if we are separated then we are alone and powerless. We start to believe in a distant God who only shows up and acts in our lives when we cry out, pray and need him.
Our perception of God is often dependent on how we feel and experience his presence.
You as a believer in Christ are entwined and united into the glorious God who has created the universe. Every spiritual gift, blessing and ability has been made available to you and the infinite power of God dwells inside you. You have been made a New Creation in Christ, you are living in a place where there are no limitations, time does not exist, a place of no worries, no fears, a place where you are no longer a singular identity, because you are connected with God and Christ in his fullness lives inside of you.
Your true essence is that God, who is greater than you, now lives inside you and you in Christ have become a child of God. Acknowledge and embrace God’s greatness, feast on God’s greatness, let His greatness permeate and immerse your identity and let his power flow out of your life.
“Look upon me and be merciful to me, As Your custom is toward those who love Your name.”– Psalm 119:132
Christ’s power within us is the touch we need to restore our soul.
Christ is the satisfaction of our hearts, for he is satisfied with all we are in Him. His love has been showered into our heart and like a sweet perfume; our heart has become a beautiful fragrance to heaven.
Look to Christ and know that God loves you with an everlasting love.
For His love fills us with love.
His pledge to us is to be with us, never to leave us or forsake us, and to guide and protect us. To lead us into all that the Father has abundantly given to us.
You can cease from all striving and you can leave behind all trying. The love of God is your reassurance deep within.
Look only to the one who knows all and rest assured that he will reveal to you what is already true – that in Christ the reflection of your heart knows who you are.
Gaze into the mirror, into all his promises, into the image of the person of Christ, into his grace, and you will see your life, reflecting back to you, perfectly.
your Shepherd,
your Advocate,
your Mediator,
your Bridegroom,
your Conqueror,
your Lion,
your Lamb,
your sacrifice,
your manna,
your smitten Rock,
your living water,
your food,
your drink,
your good and abundant land,
your dwelling place,
your Sabbath,
your new moon,
your Jubilee,
your new wine,
your feast,
your aroma,
your anchor,
your wisdom,
your peace,
your comfort,
your Healer,
your joy,
your glory,
your power,
your strength,
your wealth,
your victory,
your redemption,
your Prophet,
your Priest,
your kinsman redeemer,
your teacher,
your guide,
your liberator,
your deliverer,
your Prince,
your Captain,
your vision,
your sight,
your beloved,
your way,
your truth,
your life,
your author,
your finisher,
your beginning,
your end,
your age,
your eternity
YOUR ALL IN ALL
“They are abundantly satisfied with the fullness of your house, and You give them drink from the river of Your pleasures. “– Psalm 36:8
Satisfaction has a bad rap, “Satisfaction leads to passivity, and satisfaction stops us from pursuing God. We need to be hungry, we need to be passionate, and we need to press in to God.” Is often the song sung from the enthusiasm of the good intentioned.
Yet satisfaction is one of the most precious truths of the gospel. Satisfaction is an amazing, wonderful contentment in Christ, in a fraught, ever encroaching maelstrom world of constant distraction. As sons of our heavenly father it is vitally important that we enter into and experience the satisfaction of God.
For God is satisfied with the sacrifice of the son for your sins. God is not mad at you, at odds with you, against you or judging you. He is satisfied with the work Jesus did to take away your sins, and he was the one who sent Jesus in the first place, because he loved you and was on your side and wanted to wash away all your sin and the ruin they caused in your life.
God’s satisfaction is so ultimately complete that for you there is no condemnation or guilt in Christ. God loves you and accepts you and the work of Christ is effective on your behalf. God is totally satisfied with Jesus work, and there is peace between you and God.
Satisfaction in Christ’s finished work is essential. What we believe about God’s satisfaction of Christ will be the measure of how we see and live our new life in Christ. Bizarrely, hunger need not be an alternative option to satisfaction, a healthy inward desire to know and experience in deeper levels all that we already have in Christ, produces an intimate love for our father and all he has accomplished on our behalf.
Let satisfaction empower you, to depths of love and oceans of assurance. As you experience God’s satisfaction of Christ and his satisfaction of you, fears, insecurities start to fade in the glory of the vastness of the all encompassing greatness of the cross.
Let satisfaction lead you into fields of overflowing provision, lands of lavish abundance, where you can view the vast expanse of the unconditional love of God and live in the abundant glory of his grace through the satisfaction of Christ’s infinite sacrifice.
“The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. ” – John 10: 10-11
God created you to be loved so that you could enjoy the delights of heaven and experience the wonder of the divine beauty in your life and that radiant bliss would shine like a bright candle in a dark dungeon void of light.
God is captivated with you so in love with you that before you did one thing, you breathed one breath, you thought one thought that he sent Christ to die for you.
Christ died for you before you could do one thing to earn his love.
Christ died for you before you could clean yourself up.
Christ died for you before you had faith enough to believe it.
Christ died for you before you could say sorry, vow to change, surrender, promise to do better, make him Lord of your life, feel bad about your sin, or even ask for his help.
Christ died for you before you were even born.
Christ died for you in a demonstration that you are loved.
Christ died for you and said to all eternity, “You don’t have to be good to be loved.”
Christ has forgiven all your past, present and future sins.
Christ has redeemed you from the curse.
Christ moved to help you, save you, cleanse you, free you, redeem you, ransom you, sanctify you all before you even existed and before you were born.
God created you to be loved and poured his love upon you by immersing you into Christ.
“We also rejoice and exulting glory in God in his love and perfection through our Lord Jesus Christ through whom we have now received and enjoy our reconciliation” – Romans 5:11
I am constantly perplexed by how hard it is for my heart to embrace what my mind affirms. The more I read, the more I listen, the more I see , everything that filters into my head, I find it easier to acknowledge and agree with ideas and thoughts but most of this usually is fodder for my mind.
The essence of who God is, if you like his glory and nature and all he has brought me into by his grace, has been birthed deep inside my innermost being. My heart is a garden of new creation soil, where the seed of Jesus Christ has been planted and watered by the Holy Spirit. Through his glory and goodness he has given me all his precious and great promises. His words to me are a treasure map that contains his plans and dreams for my life, and I know that every word he has provided he will always be faithful to, it is always true and that he is committed to it.
For it is one thing to agree with the finished work of Christ but it is something altogether different to experience its power and reality in the everyday crisis of life.
So how does this finished work of Christ become reality in my life?
The starting point for me was the realisation that I have become a partaker of the divine nature. That all my sins, past, present and future sins were forgiven at the cross, before I was born. That every promise of God had its fulfilment in Christ. That the ground of my heart was the fulfilled sacrifice of Christ and that everything pertaining to Christ had been planted into me. The Holy Spirit alive in me had cultivated a Garden of Delight within my heart and he was quietly, actively, effortlessly bringing my heart into blossom and ripening his fruit.
I now have a divine nature, and I no longer had a sinful nature. I had been made righteous and good, I have God’s desires inside me, I experience God’s delight within me, I have a fountain of life bubbling up through me. I had been set free from the slavery of the world, I had been delivered form the corruption, decay and death that I inherited through my natural birth and I was eternal clean, holy and blessed through my spiritual birth.
I have been brought into the fullness of Christ and his abundant grace has set me free to live in intimate communion with the lover of my heart.
“For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.” Romans 8:22
Since the beginning of time, God has consistently demonstrated his heart through his interaction with his creation.
Everything in creation shouts out that he is rich in love, he is abundant in goodness, he is good to all, he has compassion on all he has made, he is faithful to all his promises, he is trustworthy in all he does, he upholds all who fall, lifts up all those who are bowed down, he satisfies the desire of every living thing, and that he is righteous in all his ways and he is near to all who call on him.
Life starts to finally make sense when the revelation of the true nature of God is shared. His two-way communion with his creation has been the desire and overflow of his heart. The deep bond from the very first heart beat with man was an intimate relationship that connected creation into God’s existence.
God is always consistently and faithfully good, gracious and full of love. In a world full of cynicism, disappointment, clouded truth and manipulation, his desire is to bless, give and to be the source of all we do. It is when these attributes of God drop deep with our mind, our souls, our beings, I believe our outlook and life has an expectation and a flourishing certainty of the unconditional grace of God.
The important thing is that God shows his nature by doing good things for us and blessing us. He does this to us without distinctions, or anything required from us. No effort, no works, no levels of goodness, no qualification to obtain God’s blessings.
Grace is freely given, he loves us unconditionally, and His heart is to shower us with the fullness of heaven.
Word Whispers
“Nothing is impossible with God” – Luke 1:37
In Christ we have entered into the eternal realm. A grace covenant that was sealed before anything existed, in the silent expanse of nothingness Jesus was slain; he initiated redemption and connected us to him eternally.
His love has now been shed into our hearts, his light has invaded our hearts and his life is now our life. For in Christ we live and have our existence and the faith of Christ is now the faith that motivates our actions.
In the Old Covenant faith is me trying to please God, but in the New Covenant faith is something that God gives to me and something that Jesus has on my behalf. Today, Jesus has faith in me.
The impossible is now accessible to me because the most powerful influence over my life is Jesus who believes in me. He is the author and the finisher of my faith and his faith resides in me.
Before the cross, the flow of faith was man to God. Now after the cross the flow of faith is God to me. He gave himself for me, I am crucified with him and the life I now live, I live by the faith of the Son of God.
The power of the Kingdom of God is rooted in God’s faith in me. Christ invested everything at the cross for me so that now he accepts and values me in his finished work.
Nothing is impossible with God and his faith is now the power within my heart.
Living Grace 