Big changes are coming. Wonderful changes...

Many seem to read my non-stop posts. But I suspect, of those, most look at the words as either condemning or desirable but sadly, impossible sounding. And what do I share? That we are either walking in the flesh or in the spirit. We are either walking in the old man, or the new. We cannot be both.

To be able to walk in the spirit, we must first come to the point where we hate our old nature, for it not only sins, it walks with self in full control. Oh, it can be religious, and can do good things, but because the power to perform these comes from the man, and not God, it is as filthy rags to Him.

When we finally are tired of our failure, and having our relationship with our Father be an "in and out", "up and down", "sometimes I am in charge, sometimes He is in charge" relationship, and long to ABIDE in our amazing God, and truly longing to lose our life to find His, then we are ready to take a drastic step. We are ready to reckon ourselves dead to the old man. We are able to believe what has always been true,from the first day that we believed, that we are dead and our life is hid with Christ in God.

This is what Jesus meant when He told us to "either make the tree good or make the tree evil." He told us clearly that a good tree CANNOT bear bad fruit. Wow! This is what God is restoring to us, His sleeping people. No more "trying to be good". No more being satisfied with a prayer life that was 95% us talking and and every once in a while we feel that He actually 'shows up'.

Abide. Walk in the Spirit. And trust me, we will ALL walk in the Spirit, once we get sick and tired of walking in ourselves. God is about to awake true Christianity in all of us.

I know how crazy this sounds, but it still is true. God is going to lead us back to the truth, so that we can all light our lamps and put on the Lord Jesus Christ. It is only this that will make sure that we do not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.

Look, I know how hard it is to wrap our heads around this, how impossible it seems, how supernatural, mirac ulous,almost 'biblical' in its proportions, LOL. Right?

But any true child of God will have to admit, even if it is just to themselves, that there is still an itch that has not been scratched, a level of intimacy that we long for, an inner belief that church is supposed to be family, blood brothers, walking as sojourners together towards our REAL home, not an hour and a half of intimacy with the guy in fronts' head. Am I right? Do you think God would plant that desire there, and then disappoint us? Not a chance in Heaven.

Big changes are coming. Wonderful changes.

Blessings,

Gideon

 

When I see saints walking as living sacrifices, loving not the world neither the things that are in the world, yet with smiles on their faces ear to ear, when I see prayer services as full as praise services, when I see saints believing that their God will NOT allow them to be tempted above their ability to resist, and them actually TAKING the way of escape God faithfully provides, then I will agree with you. Until then, I will continue to share what God has asked me to share.

Let us not be stubborn and dig in our heels and not get all that God has for us. The blind man received healing from Jesus and Jesus asked him if he could see. He said yes, "but I see men as trees walking." Wise man.

Jesus touched him again and he saw perfectly. Our turn to admit we see men as trees walking, amen?

I do not deny what God has done for us, and yes, many are much changed fro the life they lived in the world. But God has very clearly promised us total spiritual healing and victory. Let us realize that His promises, His exceeding great and precious promises, were given to us as stepping stones to being us into the likeness of His Son. Why would we not want them fulfilled in us?

Believing that Jesus was the Son of God is but the beginning of our good fight of faith. We must grow in faith, and the first thing we must do is to get rid of the rebel inside us, the one who lets the enemy in at times. We must become ONE with the Lord inside us and hate our old us who resents correction and chastening and there is but one way. We must reckon the old us as DEAD. To fail here is to doom us to a Christian life of Sinai wanderings instead of possessing what God died to give us.

We truly have no idea what God has prepared for us as the last day church, but I am getting glimpses, and it will take our breath away.

Blessings, and in love

your brother in Christ

 

Would it make much sense for someone to go hear a long winded but sincere pastor if you did not agree with his message, complained that his sermons were too long, and then were there again the next night, only to voice the same complaint again??

It would make on think that that person was there only to stir up others against him, amen?

This is an open forum, and I welcome you here, as well as others, to wade through my long posts. MY prayer is that somewhere along the line, what I share begins to take precedence over how I share it in your eyes.

If you do not like reading long posts, these that are mine are probably not for you. (Understatement of the year, LOL) I would think that would make it a slam dunk to simply pass them by.

Now if you disagree with WHAT I share, that God has promised us victory over sin and self if we continue in His words, then would it not be better to dispute my take with scriptures showing me in error and proving that we are indeed walking in all that God has for us? To continue to try to belittle me or my "sharing technique" would perhaps make some think you had no real argument but that you simply do not like my conclusions and were content with business as usual, amen?

Blessings,

Gideon

 

I have shared more than a few times about Ezekiel 36, where God Himself tells us what the new covenant will do for us. We will actually possess new hearts, new natures and because we will have been made new, He will be able to "cause us" to walk as obedient children.

Ezekiel 37 is tied into this amazing phenomenon. Most of us know it. It is the valley of dry bones. There once was life, now just dry bones of religion, form without life, without substance. But something happens. The bones begin to move, exhibit life-type movement. The form begins to take on a more "life-like" appearance. Bones get sinew and then muscle, but still, no real life.

Then, God tells Ezekiel to speak to the bones. Speak LIFE to them. And Ezekiel speaks:

"Live, bones, live."

And miracle of miracles, God breathes on the bones and.... they come alive.

Almost 2000 years without real overcoming life, with only "healed-only slightly", 2000 years of the promises of God not being seen to work, and finally, God awakens His giant. The church of God awakes. And the promises? We awake to them as well. The latter rain will finally have arrived and guess what? The former rain on the early church will be eclipsed by the torrent of life that will sweep us away from who we WERE into what we are always called to be- OVERCOMERS.

I am thrilled at the testimony of the house church you shared. I am thrilled at ANY true movement back to God and away from dead once-a-week form where we look at ourselves in the mirror briefly, and see God there, only to walk away ad then forget what manner of man we were. Back to the REAL world, right? ....or so we think.

This time? We don't forget who we are. This time, when we peer into the mirror of God, we stare at it, and the very sight of who we really are begins to change us from glory to glory by the Spirit of the God we serve.

It is coming. Revival. REAL new life. As far as what we have considered "revivals" to be, they were only minor electrical cardiogram impulses compared to the bolt of life that is about to hit us. The split will thus occur. The wheat and the tares will be separated as the end approaches on the horizon.

This last revival will cause many to turn back, for the cost will be too high. The cost? We must hate our own life that has gotten comfortable in a world we were never meant to love. We must long to be freed from the grip of a flesh who will NEVER let Jesus reign over us. We want it to be a "joint effort". God is my co-pilot? Never. He is the pilot and it is a one-seater cockpit we will be flying. Our seat is in the rear.

The reward? When we willingly put off our old nature, God cloths us with new ones, and the mystery of the gospel, Christ in us, the hope of glory? It comes to pass.

Gideon's army (and PLEASE, I make no references to me here) is about to learn what breaking their earthen vessels to reveal the light inside really means. The army of darkness is about to meet the army of light. We will all learn to "put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh (to exist) to fulfill the lusts thereof" and when we do, the effects will be staggering. Millions who love the light but hate churchianity will be swept into the kingdom of God and millions more will reveal themselves as tares, and run back to the god of this world, where their hearts really have been all along.

Do we see movement? Yes, some and praise God, the bones are beginning to rattle. But let us not be satisfied until God inhales deeply and exhales hard into us, breathing life, overcoming life, into our hearts and minds so that we can be fully prepared for the upcoming wedding feast. How prepared? Without spot or wrinkle. THAT prepared.

Did we think it was all a fairy tale? No, brothers and sisters, we are about to see what "living happily ever after" really means. We are about to stop trying in vain to "do" and learn how to BE. We ARE light, not to try vainly to become it, and the eye salve He is giving us will let us see what we have been up till now blind to, that we are dead and our life is hid with Christ in God.

Blessings,

Gideon

 

Jesus said:

"He that commits is is a servant to sin and the servant does not "abide the house always."


When we get tired of an in and out, up and down, always moving, seldom progressing Christianity and define freedom the way Christ did, and cry out from our wretched man state to be delivered from a nature that simply refuses to always obey him but only when it meets our approval, we will see and walk in real freedom, FREE INDEED, what the word calls "the glorious liberty of the children of God.

The world is headed to hell in a handbasket and we are for the most part found under our bushel baskets pretending like the job is done, patting ourselves on the back at how good we are doing.

If we believed what we say we believe, we would be bombarding Heaven day and night to light us on fire so that we can look an unbelieving world in the eyes and tell them with no shame that God can set them free from self rule, because He has for us.

But...we can't...because we don't.

Blessings,

Gideon