To know the Father is to use our faith to believe that He is and always will be because we have a knowing that uses our spiritual eyes to see beyond what our physical man may never see. No flesh can stand in God's presence. The glory of the Father is pure and we are full of impurity, though there is a constant move toward purity, if we actively pursue His life and direction for our lives. The warning in Titus says it best and we must take heed (To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled. They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work) - Titus 1:15. We must not allow our lives to be unbelieving and our conscience defiled. In Jeremiah chapter 24, God says that the people of Judah who submitted to His will and went into captivity would be given a heart for Him again to know Him, verse 7,"Then I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God, for they shall return to Me with their whole heart". They yielded to Him and His will, they were finally obedient, and He was faithful to restore them.
Like the song, line upon line, precept by precept, He's changing you and me, if we endure and continue in His life and love. It is not fun at times to have spiritual cancers cut from our being, but if we are faithful, a change begins to take place in our lives; we begin to learn that we can rely upon God, building His character and reflection of Christ in us. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.-2 Corinthians 3:18 We walk softly and reverently giving a consistent Being for the Father to use so as to reach the lost of this world for Jesus Christ.
When we are baptized into His Spirit, we find an enduring comforter and helper in this endeavor. Healings, miracles, signs and wonders can occur, but it only follows a life that is fully committed to the Trinity. People will see the difference in such a life, and it will only manifest in a life that reaches the point of immersion in His Spirit, and yielded in humility, not loving this world and not self-seeking. The more we have been exposed and affected by this world, the more difficult the task to allow the Spirit to bring us to the point of full baptism. This person will be known by their love and humility, no self-promoter in this group. We must have self-discipline in our walk and love for reading His word, meditating upon it and praying to Him throughout the day. There is no substitute for time in His presence.
Nevertheless, we may walk in the obedience of the Lord and fulfill the scriptures in our lives. Let us consider Mark 16:20, "And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs. Amen."
Like the song, line upon line, precept by precept, He's changing you and me, if we endure and continue in His life and love. It is not fun at times to have spiritual cancers cut from our being, but if we are faithful, a change begins to take place in our lives; we begin to learn that we can rely upon God, building His character and reflection of Christ in us. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.-2 Corinthians 3:18 We walk softly and reverently giving a consistent Being for the Father to use so as to reach the lost of this world for Jesus Christ.
When we are baptized into His Spirit, we find an enduring comforter and helper in this endeavor. Healings, miracles, signs and wonders can occur, but it only follows a life that is fully committed to the Trinity. People will see the difference in such a life, and it will only manifest in a life that reaches the point of immersion in His Spirit, and yielded in humility, not loving this world and not self-seeking. The more we have been exposed and affected by this world, the more difficult the task to allow the Spirit to bring us to the point of full baptism. This person will be known by their love and humility, no self-promoter in this group. We must have self-discipline in our walk and love for reading His word, meditating upon it and praying to Him throughout the day. There is no substitute for time in His presence.
Nevertheless, we may walk in the obedience of the Lord and fulfill the scriptures in our lives. Let us consider Mark 16:20, "And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs. Amen."
Many scholars have a problem with this section of scripture because it seems to be quite direct in saying that THOSE WHO BELIEVE will find these things following them as they walk with the Lord and it seems to vary in style from the other body of text, nevertheless it has endured in cannon and was in the texts given to the common man, not the cleaned up version of the scholars, it was also used by early church fathers and is consistent with the scriptures if you read from the spiritual perspective.
What did they do? They preached and the word was confirmed, they preached in the face of death and persecution, they believed, having a Knowing of God, faith by knowing.
What did they do? They preached and the word was confirmed, they preached in the face of death and persecution, they believed, having a Knowing of God, faith by knowing.
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