Who’s will alone is free and absolute?
Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right. – Genesis 18:25
The preparations of the heart in man,
and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.
All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes;
but the LORD weighs the spirits.
A man’s heart deviseth his way:
but the LORD directeth his steps.
– Proverbs 16:1-2, 9
Who hath saved us, and called us with a holy calling,
not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace,
which was given us in Christ Jesus before the disruption.
– 2 Timothy 1:9
For ye see your calling, brethren,
how that not many wise men after the flesh,
not many mighty, not many noble, are called.
– 1 Corinthians 1:26
For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord:
whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.
– Romans 14:8
But by the grace of God I am what I am. – 1 Cor 15:10
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves;
but our sufficiency is of God.
– 2 Cor 3:5
…to you it is given to believe…
– Phil 1:29
Every person’s days are prerecorded in God’s planning and thoughts.
What we are in Christ is something completely detached from all the fluctuations of Christian experience. Is not the occasion of much of our distress due to estimating ourselves by ourselves, instead of by Christ?
Do not be discouraged in your severest of trials. Trust God’s steady, unfailing hand in all that we experience- in the “good” as well as in the “evil.” The knowledge that “God meant it for good” can settle the tired heart and bring peace to the worried mind.
Father has a plan, He is sovereign. Rest in that.
Relax and know that I am Elohim. – Psalm 46:10
If all of our interests are in God as our Dwelling Place,
we can be “careful for nothing”
in the beautiful biblical sense of having no anxious thoughts.
The divine perspective (the Absolute) is what allows us to keep breathing when life (the relative) gets suffocating.
Be sure that, if you are having great trials, it is because God has great plans for you.
Life didn’t go wrong; it went Father’s way.
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. — 2 Corinthians 4:6
We have the joy of waking up each morning as His clay. – Romans 9:21
We have the anticipation of living each day as His handiwork. – Isaiah 64:8
We have rest laying our heads on our pillow each night as His achievement. – Eph 2:10
Knowing God’s plans for us, let’s forsake the world’s glory in anticipation of the glory to come.
There is a necessary basis of seeing God in everything and everybody. The universe is God manifesting Himself. God doesn’t sit by and “permit” various adverse or tragic situations – He actually “determines” them.
All of God’s creatures have a will that He shapes to His good pleasure.
Learning is disguised as failure–
Abba Father, “My child, you did not fail. You learned.“
So now I don’t care what others think; I only care how I feel in the Lord!
According to God’s purpose of the ages, the members of the Ecclesia are not historic,
but prehistoric specimens of grace.
Belonging to the Outcalled Body of which Christ Jesus is Head involves membership in the most holy and highest calling open to humanity,
for we are called to become sons of God.
It is a great relief to recognize that we can’t disappoint Him nor surprise Him as we live out our day. We can rejoice knowing He is fully in charge of our days!
God’s servants have hard roads; it is necessary for their celestial occupation that lies ahead.
God is getting you ready for something much bigger.
Beautiful peace comes from looking beyond all circumstances and people in our lives, seeing only God – God alone – because He’s the true source of ALL.
God chooses “nobodies” in this world to whom He unveils His greatest glories.
We are all in this world as on a stage;
it is no great matter, whether a man acts the part of a prince or a peasant;
for when they have acted their parts,
they must both get behind the curtain.
We can only play the hand we’re dealt. Therefore, should we be surprised at anyone’s lot?
Freedom is my birthright.
For freedom Christ set us free.
Stand fast in the liberty with which Christ made you free. Gal 5:1
I am free to live, to serve, to love, to be who I am in Christ.
He gave Christ for your sins. He gave Christ as your life.
Be as free and happy, and without any sort of care as He wants you to be.
God is actively building a house for His Own dwelling – a temple, not of bricks and mortar made by hand, but of people, — Acts 17:24; I Corinthians 3:16; 6:19; II Corinthians 6:16
God imparts to each a measure of faith (Rom. 12:3). How much faith do you have? Measure your freedom. Those with little faith have little freedom, while those with big faith are now free to wander about the cabin. Lots of faith not only puts wiggle room in your life, but space enough to do cartwheels in. Happy is he who is not judging himself in that which he is attesting. – Ro 14:22
We live in the relative, but we rest in the absolute.
Every event in the Universe without exception goes to the accomplishment of the decrees of God.
To “hope to be better” is to fail to see yourself in Christ only.
To be disappointed with yourself, is to have believed in yourself.
To be discouraged is unbelief – as to God’s purpose and plan of blessing for you.
To be proud, is to be blind! For we have no standing before God in ourselves.
Known to God from of old are all His work. – Acts 15:17-18
God knew about every person before he or she was conceived. He forms the person in the womb and determines what that person’s temperament and personality will be, even before his or her birth. That person’s days are prerecorded in God’s planning and thoughts.
Justification is the believers’ declaration of freedom.
Our manifestation with Christ in the Celestials
will bring an end to the present Secret Administration.
During this dispensation God dispenses only grace. He doesn’t dispense signs, wonders and miracles in today’s economy; He doesn’t dispense Spiritual Gifts; He doesn’t punish.
For His achievement are we,
being created in Christ Jesus for good works,
which God makes ready beforehand,
that we should be walking in them.
– Eph 2:10
Seeing that out of Him
and through Him
and for Him is all:
to Him be the glory for the eons!
Amen!
– Romans 11:36