There is a verse in Colossians chapter 3 that stood out to me recently. It says " For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory." Col 3:3-4 The word that stood out to me in this passage is the word "appears". This word also means "manifest". When I realized that, it opened up plenty to think about. When we have encounters with the Lord that is him appearing, manifesting himself to us. Think about what happens when we are with others that have not received salvation yet Jesus appears right in front of them, you see Him appear but the other person does not, therefore you are being glorified in that moment with Christ. On the other hand, if there was someone that had seen Jesus in a dream and got born again within the dream, he too had the encounter with the Lord appearing, manifesting himself. I believe this is also works with a salvation mindset, we may be ...
I don't know why my generation refuses correction. A generation that loves to be right even when we're wrong, one would think we enjoy being corrected so that we could actually be right . Proverbs 12:1 Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but whoever hates correction is stupid . Why don't we love discipline? We love slinging the word "love" around yet we don't actually love what needs to be loved . We are too busy loving ourselves and seeking out our own desires and hoping that our desires match with God's desires, even though we know deep down his desires are not like our desires . Re-read that if you have to. We gladly watch social media and blindly and deadly accept everything we are seeing as truth. Where did we make the wrong turn? What happened in our childhood that made us to the point of not even wanting truth but being comfortable with living in a lie? Its truly heartbreaking. Jesus wins in the end no matter wha...
As I started on my walk today I noticed it was getting ready to rain. I at least wanted to get one lap in so i told the rain to hold off for at least one lap. It held off for more than half way, thank God. I had a short discussion(if i can call it that) with a ministry friend the other night on reigning over certain regions when the new earth is here. When Christ comes back what will he give us to reign over? I brought this up. We have a heart garden that we and the spirit of the Lord cultivate together. We water and feed fruits and trees in this heart garden and i dont believe that stops when the new earth comes. Here are my thought on it. I would say that if we are alive when christ comes and he launches the new earth, then what was inside of us will be made manifest outside and we will have dominion over what we have cultivated over the years. Take it a step further? We might even have angels that have been helping us here on earth to help us tend to our garden. If we are fa...
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