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There are many times that we must go and see what Christ has accomplished for us in the cross, and stand in that promise that is was finished on Calvary. That is our blessed hope. We can moment by moment give our lives to the Holy Spirit. He keeps us moment by moment. And it is always by faith that we trust him to do this. Praise to his holy name. Yes we are very weak individuals, but when we are weak, Christ strength is made strong. And when we turn the problem over to him, he can in his strength perform great things. So let us not make any excuses for the flesh, it is a horrible thing and deserves nothing but death. Hallelujah! Jesus Christ is the Lord of my life, and looking forward to his return! When we look forward to his return we will not become bored, but we will be living in the light of his return, and we don't know how many minutes we do have. He is the one who has given to us our breath, and he can take it back anytime he wishes.
When we sin intentionally we are going against God's word. When God says something is wrong, let us not fight against him with what we want, but let us forsake our very selves so that he might live.
Let us stop thinking about ourselves, and let us get our affections on things that are above, like God himself says in his word, if you then are risen with Christ set your affections on things above where Christ is seated at the right hand of God, and not on the things of the earth. And let us do what Jesus Christ tells us to do. Pray with me for an hour, be in intimate relationship with me. Do not be in such an hurry to go do things for me, but come apart and learn of me by taking my yoke upon you and I will teach you the humility how to be lowly in heart, how to surrender to the disciplines of the spirit. Come to really know me, and my power that is for and in you. Come and know the love that I have for you.
How can we know someone unless we spend time with that person? Our Lord Jesus Christ is telling us. To be with him for an hour is so wonderful, and believe me that hour grows, and you'll find yourself thinking about him wherever you are at. Praising him will become a garment that fits very nicely, and you'll find yourself in his presence no matter where you are. We can have our thoughts upon him, and his Spirit singing songs within us. It is so wonderful to hear him singing to the Father, and to Jesus Christ. We can dwell within his presence, and when we are in his presence we will be singing his songs all the daylong.
I know this for a fact, for the Lord God Almighty has given a song within my mouth and my heart, and he is the very gift of that life. I enjoy the music that goes on within me, and to listen to him praise.
Even when I was terrified over my son not coming home one night, and I cried, and wept because I was looking in the natural, and then I would hear the Spirit of the Lord singing this song, He has done great things, He has done great things, He has done great things bless his holy name. I would stop crying and listen to him sing, then I would cut him off and chose to cry over the situation, and then the Spirit of the Lord would come and sing the same song again, trying to woo me in my sorrows, and I would listen for awhile, but then chose to rather look at the situation and cry instead of believing the Spirit of the Lord and his greatness.
Then the Lord Jesus went to jail and woke up a prisoner, and showed the prisoner a picture of me in dressed in black with a black veil, then the prisoner said, Lord what is wrong with Betty? The Lord said, Betty is just like Peter, she is denying me, and tell her there will be more denials,
This prisoner had a work release, and he worked in the same place that Bob and I worked in. When Bob and I came in to tune the pianos, The prisoner asked me, what I was crying during the night for. I said my son didn't come home all night and I was afraid, he said the Lord said that you were just like Peter denying him, and he also said, tell Betty there will be more denials. I immediately went back to last night, and replayed what happened, and beloved I was denying the Lord, because I had refuse to listen to him singing, that he had done great things.
Oh how we can deny the Lord even when we think we are not. I hope this makes sense to you all. Because if we are not careful we can deny the Lord, no matter how mature we think we are, and praise God there is forgiveness, and if we cry out for the Holy Spirit to rule and reign in every situation, he will deliver us from what we can't deliver ourselves from. But I don't need to have this thing be a stumbling block in going to a higher realm where Christ has won for us. And that is a deeper death in Christ.
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