RESURRECTION DAY PONDERINGS

RESURRECTION DAY PONDERINGS

I love fun. I love to see smiles on any aged face. When I was a kid, I loved Easter egg hunts. I still love "finding things." I like games, treasure hunts, and researching a few things. However, sometime in my adulthood, I learned where the egg hunt tradition came from...........It was from paganism, like most of our holiday traditions of men.   I wish that during our celebration,  that we say is about the death, burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, whom we call, "Lord,"  that we at least post and teach a disclaimer, saying something like: "We are having an Easter egg hunt for you, because we love to see you happy and having fun.  BUT, we especially want you to know that this is NOT what this season is about."  Then go on to tell them, plainly, what it IS about.  However, Paganism is darkness, and The Word of God says, "Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." Eph. 5:11

The Word says that we are the apple of His eye. Is He the egg in ours? I know many will not like this, but I have held back saying what's been in my heart for a long time. This year, Love constrains me to just say it. I love you all. I love, adore and worship Him.

I have been there, done that too. And most seem to still think it is ok. That is between them and God. I have to be true to what I "hear." I have been hearing things contrary to many traditions for a long time.

Ecclesiastes says that there is a time for every purpose under the sun. This is my time to speak what is in my heart. I must. It has been there so long it hurts. I had to get it out.

LAY IT DOWN!

LAY IT DOWN

‎"It is the spirit that quickens; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." John 6:63

THE SPIRIT OF THE FLESH IS DECEIVING US! LET'S STUDY TO LAY IT DOWN! It is called, "sinful." It is represented by the serpent. That is why Moses lifted it up in the desert. Look! See this as true, and LIVE. The Word of God is Spirit. Seek to know THAT Word, and destroy the power of the enemy.  We must be steady and ready, praying about everything, not doing our own thing. We must develop unconditional love and pray for "keen" discernment.  We must be able to see the beam in our own eye and get it out, so, if need be, we can help those who just cannot see their own specks, much less their own beam. We do not get to choose our own faults........the ones we do not mind confessing. We ALL need to ask God, "What must I do, to be a vessel that is fit to be used to usher in Your Kingdom, Lord?" It is possible to have a big and very old beam in ones eye and not be able to see it. If someone points out a beam in our eye, will we be willing to look at it? Would we hold up the coming of The Kingdom,  just to hide our beam?
 

COME UP HERE

COME UP HERE

His heart was full of Music. His eyes were full of Love.
I wonder who all saw Him, remove to heights above.
I wonder who all sensed it. Who heard The Voice He heard,
Saying, "Come up here, My Son. We Are The Living Word.


In the twinkling of an eye, He reached His dwelling place.
His sunlight, now, forever, The Sonlight of His face.
My heart is full of longing. My eyes search for His face.
Who'll be next to rise up, to their dwelling place?


I wonder who will know it. Who all will hear Them say,
"Come up here, beloved one. You're home with Us today."
Where next will shine the lightening? My heart awaits the sight.
Soon will be Eternal Day. We'll be one with The Light.

CHANGED IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE

I have in this study, written out some scriptures, but have only made reference to others, so as to take up less space. All of those I have only made reference to, are very important also. I have put these in bold print and underlined them.  I had put links to them to make them easy to look up, but could not make them work here. So please do look them up, for it is what God had written down for us in The Word that is important. And I believe what is written in God's Word backs up what I have written here.  They are all VERY important to this study. Having heard a thing a certain way for a long time, often makes it difficult to "hear" in a different way.  It is my personal belief that many things we have been taught of men are misleading.  The Word of God is all true, but not all who teach it are.  It is important to know this.  And God will hold us responsible for how we handle His Word, for He has told us: "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." 2Timothy 2:15 The scriptures that are written out and those that are not can all be looked up and verified at http://www.biblegateway.com/

Changed in the Twinkling of an Eye (A Picture From the Story of Gideon)

"And he divided the 300 men into 3 companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers (vessels), and lamps (lights) within the pitchers (earthen vessels)." Judges 7:16. "And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon." Judges 7:20

We are the earthen vessels within which Christ dwells.  We must be broken if His Light within us is to be seen by a dark and dying world.  We ARE the Light of the World, but we must be formed within, in The Truth that will set The Light within us free.  "Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness."  Luke 11:3

In the last days, God will have a company, a mighty army, who will be vessels of clay, which have been emptied of self.  Inside, is The Light, The Life of Christ.  When the last trumpet sounds, the corruptible shall fall away.  We shall be changed (what's inside turned without).  "He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver:  and he shall purify the sons of Levi,  and purge(empty of dross) them as gold and silver." Malachi.3:3   "I am also formed out of the clay." Job 33:6  "If a man, therefore, purge (empty) himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the Master's use and prepared unto every good work."  2 Timothy 2:21.  "If thine eye be single, thy whole body (vessel) shall be full of light." Matthew 6:22  "Then shall thy light break forth ............the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward." Isaiah 58:8 Please, right here, read Joel 2:1-11  

The Son's of God shall be revealed, in the twinkling of an eye it shall happen, just like God's Word promises.  It does not say we will be caught up into the sky.  It says we shall be caught up together in the air (This word being the Greek word, which refers to a blowing or forcing out "(God breathed into Adam's nostrils and he became a living soul)"  See Gen.2:7  Another word is used for sky.  We shall be caught up together, shall be of one mind, one spirit, one accord, one body (The Body of Christ). God will judge the world through this army, by His Word, in the earth.   Please see 1 Corinthians 6:2 and John 12:48 and Isaiah 26:9.   We shall behold His face, and we shall be in total awareness of our place in Him (in the air=heavenlies), while we walk the earth.  Please see 1 Thessalonians 4:14-18    Remember when Christ said to Mary, "Touch me not, for I am not yet ascended (caught up) unto my Father?" John 20:17  But, later they did touch Him. Later, He appeared in the room with His disciples, though the doors were shut.  It was then that He told Thomas TO touch Him.  Therefore they could see Jesus there with then, even though, through implication, He had been "caught up."  He had not "flown away."  Dare we who have been thinking differently about "caught up" begin to see the meaning of this in a different way?   Perhaps we all need to rethink some things we have been "taught" of men, and let God show us what HE is saying to us.  We all need to test everything against The Word to us by The Holy Spirit.  "And say, Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I am against thee O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her." Ezekiel 28:22.  Shall He not be glorified in the midst of us....literally, as in: "the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple?"  Malachi 3:1 When He shall come to be glorified in His saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day."  2Thessalonians 1:10.  Now, after the millennium, the Holy City will be seen descending out of heaven, but note, carefully: "And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for behold, the kingdom of God is within you". Luke 17:20-21.

We shall be shut in with Him during His wrath.  We will not, in a twinkling, "go out in haste," but be revealed. " For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the Lord will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your reward."  Isaiah 52:12  Please see Isaiah 26:20  The Israelites were shut in, in safety, during the plagues, but were  removed from one location to another.  Their feet were still on this earth. Note how John, in Revelation, was "in the Spirit and caught up."  Rev. 1:10   and Rev. 4:1  "Beloved, now are we the Sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Hinm, for we shall see Him as He is."  1John 3:2  (Not fly away, but be revealed)  Want Shelter?  Want Comfort?  Read Psalms 91, and believe God.  Not men.