Passover Meditation #16 for the Lenten Season 2012

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COME unto ME+,

all ye that labor

and are heavy laden,

and I+ will give you rest.

Take My+ Yoke upon you

and learn of ME+;

for I+ am meek and lowly of heart:

and ye shall find rest

unto your souls.

For My+ Yoke is easy,

and My+ burden Light.

Matthew 11:28-30

HEADSTRONG... an Ugly Word

We put ourselves in harm's way when headstrong . We can know for sure that we are definitely OUT of the LORD'S Will when we are headstrong.  We are moving in DIRECT OPPOSITION to HIM+ when we are moving headstrongly  through life, in our decisions, in our  attitudes. We don't even have to guess if we are doing right or wrong: we are doing wrong.

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Do not confuse determination with headstrong. Be determined to move AWAY from being headstrong. Instead, be unshakably determined to move towards ME+ ... and make your unruly flesh and uncontrollable mind MIND ME+ . You will have to deal with yourself as a naughty child.

Operating in a headstrong manner moves you ALWAYS AWAY from ME+. 

I+ was not headstrong.  I+ was determined to do My+ FATHER'S WILL, not My+ own.  I+ will tell you this:

ALL headstrong paths are wrong...

from secret thoughts and accusations

through words spoken in haste,

in anger, and in jest ...

through actions. 

Sanctify you thoughts. Sanctify your words. Be not headstrong, My+ Child. 

NO... you cannot do something because "other Christians" are doing it. I+, I+ AM your Example+ ... not others.

So forsake your headstrongness. Teach your children to forsake their headstrong ways... by both word and example.

COME ! Be like ME+

It takes strength to turn a roaring bull from its path. You are like that bull.

Do you think

it is easy

to be lowly

and meek

?

.

It takes strength to be lowly and meek... more strength than what you've got.  This is one of the hardest battles you will ever fight because the ENEMY IS WITHIN; you have to fight against yourself. But, be of good cheer: I+ will help you !

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Find your strength

in ME+.

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COME !

.

Be lowly and meek

. 

.... and STRONG ...

. 

in ME+.

Passover Meditation # 15 for the Lenten Season 2012

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The one eating

of My+ Flesh

and drinking

of My+ Blood abides in ME+

and I+ in him.

John 6:56 Green’s Greek Interlinear

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Abides =

remaining UN-changing in a sphere or realm,

continuing...

Remaining in a fixed state,

stable ,

stays,

remains...

Continuously.

On-going.

In the present...

.

If ...

you join The LORD JESUS at the table of His+ death

daily...

partaking of HIM+,

uniting with HIM+

in His+ sufferings

(persecutions or discipline),

an amazing thing occurs:

You live instead of die !

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Slowly, another amazing happens: You find yourself stable, fixed, not tossed to-and-fro with torments.
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Your pet fears back away.
.
Your besetting sins find no energy to lure you.
.
The fog clears and you can hear His+ leading and feel His+ nearness.

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Solid in CHRIST JESUS, you will actually be abiding in a house made of ROCK+ … the Rock+ of Ages. And that home is continuously on-going, in the present, secure and lively.

Simultaneously, a third thing occurs: Amazingly enough, The LORD of the Universe is so near that HE+ begins to abide in YOU ! You yourself provide a home for HIM+.

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Is your home “secure” for HIM+ ?

. 

Can HE+ trust there is a place

for HIM+ with you ?

.

A place where HE+ can abide

...without sorrow...

for what HE+ sees you doing,

saying, thinking, reacting ?

.
Is there Time in your home

to listen to HIM+

and His+ concerns ?

. 

Uncluttered Time 

to hear His+ heart?

. 

Is there quality Time

to have

heart-to-heart sessions

with HIM+ ?

.

Is your home quiet enough to sit with HIM+ in stillness, at times, without the hustle-bustle of every day chores constantly in the forefront, demanding more than their fair share of attention, and keeping a constant stream of interruption going ?

.

Is it free of un-necessary commitments, ballgames, entertainments and other social activities that are not worth the distraction they cause, distraction that leads away from YOU+ ?

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O LORD, make my heart your home.

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I’m sorry for the cluttered closets in my mind, the unclean rooms of my emotions, and the unruly atmosphere of constant activities abounding here.

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I’m sorry for yesterday’s meals lying about... the world still being savored in me... as well as the dirty laundry of incomplete repentances in my heart... my unkempt life, not ready for Your+ visitation.
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LORD JESUS, I want YOU+. I want YOU+ to come and find a home in my heart. Clean me up, LORD, and I will set my priorities according to YOUR+ will, this time. Thank YOU+ JESUS, my LORD.

Passover Meditation # 14 for the Lenten Season 2012

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Storms prevented posting on time but BLESS GOD, HE+ kept them from hurting us... just as HE+ said HE+ would do.

The one eating
of My+  flesh

and drinking of  My+ Blood

has Eternal Life

and I+,

I+

will raise him up at the Last Day.

John 6:54 Green’s Greek Interlinear.

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The Greek is pointed. The eating and drinking activities remain IN THE PRESENT and are CONTINUOUS, REPEATED, ON-GOING actions.

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The person continuously joining Our LORD at the table of His+ death --- doing the same things HE+ does: dying to Self to bring Life unto this world --- is doing so IN THE PRESENT.

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There is no pot of manna that can be kept from yesterday’s meal; it will turn wormy and putrid. (See Ex. 16:20).

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Likewise, there is no Living Bread that is effective from yesterday; you must join HIM+ anew every day at the cross … in order for you to have Life.

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And daily, then, you will taste a portion of that Eternal Life --- also in the present tense --- that is promised.

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Remember: CHRIST’S words here have NO past tense. It is not a one-time-then-finished activity. It is on-going every day.

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Meet HIM+ at the table of HIS+ death. Join HIM+ in the fellowship of His+ sufferings, and you will have Life… and Life abundantly.

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Just like HE+ said.

[ PS… If you are not suffering for CHRIST in the Persecuted Church, then join HIM+ “ in the fellowship of His+ suffering” by disciplining yourself with daily prayer-closet prayer times, fasting days, and seasons of Holy Silence.

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Do SOMETHING.

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Practice daily denying yourself pleasures, entertainments, and self-indulgences. Walk instead of nap, eat rice and beans instead of pizza’s and steak, drink water instead of cola’s, tea or coffee. If you do such denials already, then ask HIM+ what other things you can do to practice putting Self to death in these areas.

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Do SOMETHING.
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Dress somberly instead of like a flower-lily. Sisters, cover your heads and drop your eyes and watch your tone of voice in the home.

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Endeavor to keep a cheerful spirit for The LORD'S sake. 

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Attempt to keep the prayer stations even for 5 minutes and TEACH the youngsters at home to do the same. It will not upset your "important" schedule to at least read and recite a Psalm outloud at 9 a.m., noon, and 3 p.m.

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Do SOMETHING.

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Brothers, cover your bodies just as well and vest up. Watch your slang ( and GOD forbid, filthy talk or jesting ) when with your buddies and your attitudes in the home, likewise. Take that tongue to the cross and issue hearty thanksgivings instead of complaints. 

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Daily share with your offspring about The LORD, what HE+'s done for you, and question them about what HE+'s shown them every day. Then they will realize it is important to Dad; it must be important to GOD, also.

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Do SOMETHING.

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Do SOMETHING that curbs your desire to look cute to the world and acceptable to conservative America. Your dress and demeanor should give a silent VISIBLE witness that you are of CHRIST and NOT of this world so that everyone seeing you must receive a witness for CHRIST... whether he likes it or not. 

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Do SOMETHING to show which side you are on.

.

Do SOMETHING, both private and public.

.

Do SOMETHING

simply for the sake

of The LORD...

to show HIM+

you love HIM+.  

Passover Meditation #11 for the Lenten Season 2012

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Then JESUS said

unto them,

Verily, Verily I+ say

unto you,

Except ye eat the flesh of the SON+ of Man

and drink His+ Blood,

ye have no Life in you.

John 6:53

You have no life in you.

Just being born, you are born through the first Adam. You have the first Adam's ruined nature, which is to serve Self.  You will receive LIES in order to serve Self, like Adam did, like Eve did: you cannot help it, you will.

You will tell lies and blame others, like Adam did, like Eve did.

You will pursue fantasies and illusions all of your life, trying to fill yourself with Life... but they will all be lies. 

You MUST be born into the Second Adam, if you want Life.

Through CHRIST, the Second Adam, you must be re-born in order to partake of the Body and Blood of CHRIST. This is a great mystery.  The Bread and Wine are infused by the HOLY SPIRIT and thus sanctified.

You cannot lie to HIM+... HE+ knows what you eat and drink. Like the time that woman in the crowd who touched HIM+ in faith and virtue went out of HIM+ , 

HE+ knew. 

Yes, HE+ stopped immediately to talk to the one in all that crowd who had reached out to HIM+. 

HE+ knew.

You have NO CHOICE... if you want Eternal LIFE. 

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If you refuse to choose Eternal Llife, then know this: you ARE choosing a constant eternal death that goes on and on in the Lake of Fire.  It, too, never ceases ...   just like Eternity with CHRIST never ends. 

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Do not be tricked by satan who tricked Eve.

Do not be tricked by satan who tricked Adam. 

Do not be tricked by the same lies to serve Self.

Yes, your existence will not cease in death.  You will indeed be called to Judgment Day to find out that your worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched in the Lake of Fire...  forever. 

Just like

The LORD JESUS

said.  

Passover Meditation #10 for the Lenten Season 2012

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I+,

I+ AM

the Living Bread,

the ONE+ that came down out from Heaven;

If

anyone eat of this Bread+ , he shall live unto Eternity. And indeed, the Bread which I+ ,

I+ give

is My+ Flesh,

which I+ ,

I+ give

on behalf of the life of the world.  

John 6:51

The LORD JESUS CHRIST is the Living Bread+ send down to mankind from Heaven by The FATHER in HEAVEN WHO loves us.

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Eternity itself lasts for all... both good and bad... a long, long time.

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We on earth now are choosing WHERE we want to spend Eternity: in Heaven, with CHRIST JESUS Who+ loves us  --- or --- in the Lake of Fire with the devil, that old serpent, who constantly works to destroy us.  

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It was the plan of Our HEAVENLY FATHER for Life to come back into the sons of the Adamic race through The Living Bread+, HIS SON+ JESUS CHRIST. 

All mankind is invited, person by person, to eat freely at The LORD'S table: there is room enough for all. All are invited to freely partake of this Living Bread+.

"And the Bread

that I+ will give

is My+ Flesh,

which I+ will give

for the life of the world."

This Living Bread+ gives Life; it is not dead food! Whosoever partakes of this Bread+ will live forever in Eternity... and not have to endure the Second Death. ( See #8 Passover Meditation).

.

Be careful, though.

This Bread+

has a mystery

about it.

.

If your heart is clean before GOD, that Bread+ does indeed give Life. But, if your heart harbors sin and is thoughtlessly partaking of that Bread+, instead of Life you receive DAMNATION UNTO YOUR SOUL ! (I Cor. 11). 

That Living Bread+ is infused

by The HOLY SPIRIT OF CHRIST...

and you cannot lie to HIM+.

(See Acts 5:1-11 as to what happens

to those lying to the HOLY SPIRIT...

sooner or later. )

Will you choose to experience

the First Resurrection

-- or --

the dreadful Second Death

in the Lake of Fire ?

Remember this:

Death is not an "oblivious state" of repose.  

Death is sure not oblivion in Hell [Hades.]

Death is not oblivion in the Lake of Burning Fire,

either.

Passover Meditation #9 for the Lenten Season 2012

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No-one is able

to come to ME+

if not The FATHER WHO sent ME+ draw him,

and I+ , 

I+

will raise him up

in the Last Day.

Green's Greek Interlinear

The LAST DAY:  Three times has The LORD mentioned the LAST DAY in these verses... so it must be an Important Day ! The Last Day is found in Revelation 19:11 ... the day of the Coming of The LORD,  The Faithful and True ONE+ , coming upon a white horse.

HE+ treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty GOD, the King+ of kings and LORD+ of lords. The armies of the Heavenly Host  come with HIM+ from Heaven. 

Immediately, the saints are gathered together, " in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye" to meet HIM+ in the air as HE+ is returning to earth. ( See I Thess. 4:14-17 and 1 Cor. 15:51,52 ).

War rages

and the enemies of CHRIST

will lose !

. 
For 1,000 years the devil, satan himself, will be bound and shut up into the bottomless pit.

The First Resurrection ( Rev. 20:4-6, see Passover Meditation #8 ) occurs at this great Last Day... as the resurrected, glorified, blessed, and holy saints reign with CHRIST on earth for 1,000 years.

 

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Draw us, O HOLY FATHER Who art in HEAVEN, to Thy SON+ JESUS, through every contingency -- both good and bad --- that touches our lives. Draw us, O HEAVENLY FATHER, through Thy enormous love and tenderness for every living soul, ever closer to Thy HOLY SON+ JESUS that we may be counted worthy to obtain this First Resurrection.

We ask this in the Name of Our Great Redeemer, The LORD JESUS CHRIST, O FATHER. Amen.

Passover Meditation #8 for the Lenten Season 2012

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And

this is the Will

of the ONE WHO

has sent ME+,

that everyone

seeing the SON+

and believing,

trusting into HIM+

should have

Everlasing Life:

and I+ Will

raise him up

at the Last Day.

John 6:40 Green's Greek Interlinear 

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Everlasting LIFE versus the Everlasting DEATH --- that Second DEATH ! Yes, there is a Lake of Fire recorded in Revelation 20:14. Who is cast alive into that burning, rolling Lake of Fire?

1.  the beast - Rev. 19:20 2.
2.  the false prophet - Rev. 19:20
3.  the devil ...after 1000 years of being tied up in the abyss and STILL NOT LEARNING HIS LESSON - Rev. 20:7 and 10
4. Death - Rev. 20:14
5. Hell [ Hades ] - Rev. 20:14
6. ANYONE ELSE NOT FOUND HAVING THEIR NAMES WRITTEN IN THE LAMB'S BOOK OF LIFE - Rev. 20:15

Now, just who are these people who are not found written in the LAMB'S Book of Life? These are described in Rev. 20: 12 and 13 .

And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before GOD:

and the books were opened : 

and another book was opened, which is the book of life: 

and the dead were judged out of those things

which were written in the books,

according to their works.

And the sea gave up the dead

which were in it;

and death and hell delivered up the dead

which were in them;

and they were judged

every man

according to their works.

Now, just who were the people who were NOT included in verses 12, 13, and 15... and thus, WERE FOUND written in the LAMB'S Book of Life ? (Rev. 21:27)

• After the WORD+ of GOD arrived with His+ Heavenly armies and fought and WON THE BATTLE against the beast and the armies of the kings of the earth....
• and, after the dragon, that old serpent, which is the devil and satan, was bound and cast into the bottomless pit for 1000 years... 

THEN...

And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were

• beheaded for the witness of JESUS, and for the Word of GOD, and
• which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image,
• neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands;

and they lived and reigned

with CHRIST a thousand years.

But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 

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Blessed and holy is he

that hath part in the first resurrection:

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on such the second death hath no power,

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but they shall be priests of GOD and of CHRIST,

and shall reign with him a thousand years.
Revelation 20: 4, 5, and 6 ( 7 is good too!)

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So you see,

DEATH ITSELF

is NOT THE FINAL END

for anyone's soul !

 

Each and every person WILL face something ELSE AFTER DEATH. Each and every person WILL either be:

• resurrected
• receive glorified bodies, and
• join CHRIST as HE+ is returning to reclaim the earth, and
• reign with CHRIST as a Kingdom of Priests upon this earth

~  OR ~

 

called before GOD and,

• judged for doing bad works,
• judged because his name was NOT FOUND in the LAMB'S Book of Life, 
• and then face the SECOND DEATH
• and cast into of the Lake of Burning Fire.

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Therefore, let us come boldly unto the Throne of GRACE, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:16

Passover Meditation #7 for the Lenten Season 2012

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And

this is the Will

of The FATHER having sent ME+,

that of all

which HE

hath given ME+,

I+ shall not lose

any of it,

but shall raise it up

in the Last Day.

John 6:39 Green's Greek Interlinear

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IF we stay with CHRIST, we are secure... even unto the Last Day, the Resurrection.

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IF we stay with CHRIST, we are secure....

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IF we stay with CHRIST...

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IF we stay...

.

IF...

.

+  +  +

LORD Who+ knoweth

the end from the beginning,

I pray that THOU+

wouldst take me Home,

'ere I stray from THEE+. 

.

Should I fainting be,

LORD, let me never,

never

outlive my love for THEE+.

.

With all my heart I pray this,

O my GOD and my KING,

THOU + LORD JESUS CHRIST.

Passover Meditation #6 for the Lenten Season 2012

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For I+ have come down out of Heaven, Not that I+ should My+ Will, but the Will of the ONE Who has sent ME+.

John 6:38 

How great The FATHER'S love ! How greatly The SON+ loves HIS+ FATHER! Out of that great love for each other, a Will is formed --- the determined counsel of BOTH -- agreed upon to bring mankind INTO THAT SHARED LOVE !

+ + +

Come into Our Love; be nestled there.

Then you, too, will be enabled to do My+ Will in all manner of hard situations which I+ call you to embrace.

Be nestled in the Love that is between My+ FATHER and Myself+. Then you will be able to forgive, to pick up the Cross as I+ direct you, to face rejection and hostility for My+ Name's sake, and to further the Kingdom of GOD.

Do not be surprised when men cast out your name as evil, for they have cast Mine+ out also. You will not be crushed nor forsaken when you do My+ Will...  if you stay nestled in the Love that is between My+ FATHER and Myself+. 

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