I forgot about them!
Lol..
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It seems that you have been/seen many things... what is going. - from 70's?
My journey started in 1970's.
Blessings,
As did mine. I was hugely influenced by Keith Green, David Wilkerson and Leonard Ravenhill. They showed me how far we were from what God longed for from His children, but none offered me an answer as to how to change, or see others changed.
The first thing I ever wrote was a word God gave me titled "Repentance - Only hope for a sleeping bride". It is great to have one's eyes opened to the truth, but without the answer as well, I spent the next 25 years being miserable in my efforts to rein in my flesh. Needless to say, I was not exactly overflowing with people who wanted to hang around me. Gee, I wonder why? LOL.
It was not until my miraculous visitation almost 13 years ago that God gave me the answer I so desperately needed. The message is not "Repent!" but Repent and believe!"
When I finally had my eyes opened to why I could never walk steadily in victory, I was amazed why I had never seen it. And what was the reason? I pray all who read this have their ears awake, lol. Ready?
I had never truly reckoned that when Christ died, so did my old nature. To know that we died when christ died, so DID we is wonderful. To know that when Christ rose from the dead, do DID we to newness of life.
But knowing, as important as it is, is not receiving. In Romans 6, Paul told us
instructions to follow after we know these things to be true.
He told there therefore, to reckon ourselves dead to sin and alive unto Him. We must come into agreement with God and since everything from God must be received by faith, calling those things that are not as though they were, so it is with our stripping off our old self centered fallen nature and putting on our new one that God can then begin to change into His likeness.
I pray you memorize what I just shared there. This is not 'my' revelation, but THE revelation that God has for every one of His children. It is the truth that sets us free indeed, IF we continue to hold onto it as if our life depends upon it.... and it does!
This truth is our shield of faith that allows us to stare down the devil when we are tempted and say NO. It is the path we follow to take the way of escape every time when Satan comes accusing or tempting.
God has told us that we are not in the flesh and owe it nothing. Do we believe that? As long as we take the position that we are still just miserable unworthy sinners saved by grace, we will never walk as freed men who have been made worthy by the blood of the lamb.
In Revelations, we are told that in the last days, His children would overcome the world, the flesh and the devil by the blood of the lamb AND the word of their testimony as to what that blood accomplished!
Oh, dear brothers and sisters, this is OUR heritage. We are the subjects spoken of here. The church by and large is asleep. Some are snoring louder than others, lol, but all have walked in their old nature trying their best to be good Christians.
Can I gently break it to you? We have failed... all of us... with myself at the head of the line. Those days are ending, as all are about to be awakened to the birthright Jesus had purchased for us.... overcoming and walking IN HIM victorious over the world, the flesh and the devil.
What must one do to walk there. Hate your fleshly efforts. Hate your failure to walk truly pleasing to God, obedient, and filled with the fruits of the Spirit.
May I tell you a secret that will make you smile if you are one longing to be free, longing for a closeness with Jesus that is not broken... ever... by the things we all face in this world.
You already ARE dead. The old you died the day you came to know Jesus. What is then the explanation for why you have not walked in that new man you already are? Simple. Unbelief. We are told everything from the Father is to be received by faith. It is no more true than with out new nature!
We have been like Lazurus, raised from the dead but still bound by our graveclothes. We have believed satan's lie that we will always fail because we are only human.
Only human? Ha! We are new creatures, ones God has promised to change into His likeness, in THIS world... NOW. Satan has long dreaded the day when His saints awake and put on the Lord Jesus as their armor.
And well he should.
Live, bones, live.
blessings,
Gideon