EVERYDAY WORK OF GOD IN YOU- SANCTIFICATION
Since everything around us is going to be destroyed like this, what holy and godly lives you should live, 12 looking forward to the day of God and hurrying it along. On that day, he will set the heavens on fire, and the elements will melt away in the flames.
2 Peter 3:11-12
Since everything around us is going to be destroyed like this, what holy and godly lives you should live, 12 looking forward to the day of God and hurrying it along. On that day, he will set the heavens on fire, and the elements will melt away in the flames.
As we are MADE the Righteousness of God in Jesus Christ and set apart to God as His own possession, We are a Special Kind! We are the CHOSEN, ELECTED race of the people of God, the Creator Himself, as those in Jesus Christ to be His ROYAL priesthood, HOLY NATION. That is your ethnic background, that is the race of your bloodline and your past, present, and future of the legacy of your life! (2 Corinthians 5:21, 1 Peter 2:9)
The Righteousness of God is His people, The righteousness of God is the Way He made us in right standing before Him, and the righteousness of God is the Way of those made righteous. It is in the Creation and Making of His children in His Son, Jesus we are made a peculiar way and made to function, operate a peculiar way… it’s called Holy. The ultimate essence, existent of Our Father is that He is Holy and He created us Holy as He is in the death, life, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. (1Peter 1:15-16, Romans 1:17)
Knowing that we are made the Righteousness of God and now His own possession, He has given us a life that is filled with promises of eternal life and we will only die once, through faith on the Cross of Christ! And now living in the life of Jesus, through His divine power, He has given us everything we need to live a godly life that we honor, exalt and demonstrate the great promises and blessings of our “making” in the earth. (John 3:16, Hebrew 9:27, 2Peter 1:1-4)
WE NEED TO ASK OURSELVES A VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION!
WHAT MANNER OF PEOPLE OUGHT WE BE, LOOKING AND ANTICIPATING THE DAY OF OUR LORD? WHAT KIND OF WAY SHOULD WE BE, EXIST, ACT, DEMONSTRATE, OR EVEN RESPOND? HOW SHOULD WE LIVE UNTIL JESUS CHRIST RETURNS ON THAT DAY, THAT IS OUR PROMISE OF ETERNAL LIFE? WHAT MANNER OF LIFE SHOULD WE LIVE AS THOSE IN JESUS CHRIST?
This is not a long answer, We are to be obedient! It is only in the obedience to God through His holy word does He set us apart from the world bringing us to the end of our sanctification, which is being conformed and transformed into the image of His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ! (Romans 8:29, Romans 12:1-2)
God who is our sanctifier will spend every day of your life setting us apart from the world and anything that is hostile to Him, through Holy Spirit, His Faith, and His Word. Our fellowship in God’s Work is to be obedient to His Will, His Way, and His Pleasure. Trusting and Believing all things are worked out for our good, those that love HIM, those that are obedient to Him. (Lev. 20:8, Romans 15:15-16, 2 Thess 2:13, Ephesians 2:8, John 17:17. Romans 8:28, 1John 5:3 )
Be Encouraged Today that God, our Creator, and Father is doing a Great Work in you, that every promise, even the very promise that you will be blameless before Him in Jesus shall and will be fulfilled. Your job, Saints is to fellowship, yield, hear and be obedient to the Word, the Commands of God as he reveals His Word in your life! (Ephesians 1:4)
The Sanctification of God requires the willingness of your heart to obey and He will empower you to be a Hearer and a Doer for His Great Pleasure and Will. It’s called an offering to God, it begins in your heart; your mind, and your will. The sacrifice is different, as it is what you actually lay down for Him.
1 Thessalonians 2:12
We pleaded with you, encouraged you, and urged you to live your lives in a way that God would consider worthy. For he called you to share in his Kingdom and glory.
Have an Awesome and Blessed Day,
Frances Archer
Terebinth Moreh Ministries
LOOKING AT THE CROSS HE IS VALUABLE!
More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ…….
Philippians 3:8
More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ…….
The word “depreciation” means a reduction in value of an asset with the passage of time, due to wear and tear! Has the Value of God depreciated in your life because of the wear and tear of the Journey of Life? Does Jesus as Lord mean the same to you when you first received Him as your Savior?
The reality is we needed a Savior, but as Born Again Believers in Jesus Christ, we now are submitted to Him as King and King of the Kingdom of God! We fall short every day of the Glory, Holiness and Righteousness of God each day because of our carnal minds to serve ourselves, even IN Him as one born of Him. (Romans 3:23)
As believers we battle every day to follow Jesus Christ in the Truth, the Way, and the Life of our Father in Heaven. (John 14:6) That’s why our Lord gave us divine instructions to deny ourselves, Pick up our Cross and follow Him. (Matthew 16:24) As Apostle Paul asked, the religious jews of his day, I will ask you this morning, “Do you despise the riches of His kindness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? (Romans 2:4)
What is Apostle Paul saying? Do you devalue the Work of God in the lives of all He created, forgetting that Who He is: Kindness, Patience and Longsuffering to you, He is the same with ALL? And It is Who He IS to you, that this very God will be that, to others leading them to be turned to Him as their God?
Who God IS; Kindness, Patience and Longsuffering keeps us turned to Him in the trials and uneven places of the Journey of Life. How do we remember His lovingkindness of our past, to save us when we didn’t even know we were dead and needed to be saved?
How do we remember the forbearance, the patience of God, to NOT give us what we deserve as ones who ignore and oppose His ways and truth in our lives every day?
How do we remember the longsuffering of God to endure the low places in our lives as He works in us and for us as believers?
We remember The Cross and The Crucifixion of Our Lord Jesus Christ! The plan of Our Father to send A Savior to World and the willingness of Our Lord to suffer, die and bear the Sins; past, present, and future, Once and For all, that we as believers can boldly live in Him and declare the Greatness of God as we come to end of our faith in Jesus which is the salvation of our souls, the living hope of being with Our Father in the new heaven and earth. (Hebrews 9:28)
Do not allow Jesus to depreciate in your life! He is and has been the zeal and power of every breath we take, IF we are born again and born again in the One the Father sent, His Son, Jesus Christ! He died so we would be more, forevermore!
Be Refreshed in your mind today, to look again at The Cross and The Crucifixion of Jesus and be Reminded of the Goodness of Lord and Remain turned to God in all of your heart, mind, soul, and strength. (Matthew 26, 27)
Frances Archer
Terebinth Moreh Ministries
EXAMINING THE GODLY LIFE!
The Bible reminds us in 1 Peter 1: 1-4 that through the Knowledge of God and our Lord Jesus Christ, we have been given ALL THINGS pertaining to living a Godly Life! This is not just living but living in earth as one of the children of God.
The Bible reminds us in 1 Peter 1: 1-4 that through the Knowledge of God and our Lord Jesus Christ, we have been given ALL THINGS pertaining to living a Godly Life! This is not just living but living in earth as one of the children of God. It is through the ONE WHO CALLED US that we come into the Knowledge of HIM and THE WAY TO COME IN, ENTER, & BECOME ONE with God. The Way given in the Call of God is the WAY of Jesus Christ!
It is only through faith in Jesus Christ that one can answer The Call of God, TO COME TO HIM. This is The Heavenly Call of God to return and be reconciled with the Creator of your very being, Our Father (Hebrews 3:1) Apostle Paul reminds us there is ONLY ONE CALL.......A CALL TO HIM!
The answer to The HEAVENLY CALL to God has a specific answer for those that will hear. The one who answers the call is saying “Yes” to being “conformed into the image of His Son”. (Romans 8:29) Many are given the opportunity to answer, “The Call” as Jesus came to “save the world.” (1 John4:14) However there are only a few that will agree to be as God predestined His Call to be, in the Image of Jesus. (Matthew 20:1-16)
The reality of being saved and enduring until the end of salvation in Jesus Christ is that there is a destination of those God will choose from the ones given the opportunity of The Heavenly Call. This destination is to be conformed, transformed into the image and likeness of His Son, becoming whom the Father created when He created mankind in the Image and likeness of Himself. (Genesis 1:26)
It is wonderful to come into the knowledge that is embedded in the “making” of us in the “new creation” of Jesus Christ through the divine power of God. (2 Corinthians 5:17) This knowledge is that we are given ALL THAT WE NEED TO LIVE A GODLY LIFE IN JESUS!
In The Heavenly Call we are positioned to be “Of Him” and “For HIM”. The position “Of HIM” places us in His Image as one that is made “Of HIM”. We are to be Holy as He is HOLY! (1 Peter 1:16) We carry the DNA of our Father, who chose us in the Life of Jesus Christ. (Ephesians 1:4) This is the calling to BE OF OUR FATHER in the earth, as He is…HOLY. This is the calling to HOLINESS in the Heavenly Calling of God! (1 Thessalonians 4:7)
Not only are we positioned in The Heavenly Call of God to be Holy, but we are also positioned to be “For Him”. As one positioned “For HIM” we are created in the likeness of Jesus as He demonstrated from beginning of His birth to the exalted ending of His earthly life. (Philippians 2) The position Jesus walked in from the beginning was unto to death to Serve God! This is the Mark of the High Calling of God! (Philippians 3:14)
Jesus came to die at the service, devotion for the Father. It pleased God that He be bruised for us. (Isaiah 53:10) Jesus tells us himself that He came to serve! Jesus served the Father in His will to reconcile mankind to Himself, and in THIS service, He was a gift to many. (Matthew 20:28) This is the High Callings of Christ in the only Call of God, the Heavenly Calling.
Never forget Jesus Came to Reconcile the World, Return the World to The Creator, our Father! This is the only Call of God! Everything else is IN THIS CALL. Don’t miss the order of Your Salvation, to be reconciled to God and it is there You Must Endure until the end. Where is There, in the life of Jesus Christ! It’s always about the One Who Called You and His Pleasure! And His pleasure is in RECONCILATION!
Be Renewed in your minds today, it is freedom indeed!
Frances Archer
Terebinth Moreh Ministries
BE REFRESHED IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD!
The Knowledge of God is simply His Thoughts, His Way, His Wisdom, His instructions! We, as Born Again Believers have received His Thoughts in the Mind of Christ!
The Knowledge of God is simply His Thoughts, His Way, His Wisdom, His instructions! We, as Born Again Believers have received His Thoughts in the Mind of Christ! It is only with the Mind of Christ working in us through the gracious power of the Spirit of Truth, Holy Spirit that we are empowered with His “will'' and His “to do” to the pleasing will of the Lord! (Proverbs 2, 1 Corinthians 2:16, John 16:13, Philippians 2: 13)
Oh, How Powerful is the Knowledge of God in our lives! (2 Peter 1:1-4)
As we continue to meditate on The Knowledge of God in our minds and hearts, I pray you will continue to confess that you will, “Grow in the Knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ” according to 2 Peter 3:18.
Below are a few reminders for the week that the Knowledge of God is and remains powerful in your life, that YOU glorify God the Father of us all, in and through Jesus Christ, Our Lord.
THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD:
Reveals God……..John 17:3
Draws You……...John 6:44
Washes You…….John 15:3
Empowers………James 4:7
Protects………….John 16:33
Illuminates……...Psalms 119:105
Keeps You……...1 John 2:5