Ephesians 1:2. God is Spirit. We are His children, created in His image. What if we recognize each other more by our spirit, our presence, than by what we look like? Does someone who is blind or deaf or both learn to recognize people through their presence, or the spirit?
I recognize my heavenly Father through Spirit, not by the spoken word. I hear His voice without a word spoken. I have ears to hear in my spirit. I have a heart to love in my spirit. Release me, Lord, to live from the spirit, and put no confidence in the flesh.
Does grace and peace have a body or face? It definitely has a presence or spirit. You can know it as it is displayed by God or man. Where does true praise come from? He has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ: Love, joy peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, self control. Salvation. To know Him. Sons - children of God in Christ Jesus. Redemption. Forgiveness of sins in accordance with the riches of God's Grace. He made known to us the mystery of His will.
Jesus said, "In this world, you will have trouble, but I have overcome the world." Has anyone escaped trouble in this world? Jesus never lied to us. Even He, while assuming flesh, did not escape trouble of the worst kind. He did not escape (although He could have!) temptation of every kind. He took all our sickness, disease, hunger, pain, rejection from those He loved.
But He overcame so we can overcome. He made it to the finish line. Look at all the men and women in the Bible. They are gone, but we still receive strength from them. Psalm 143:8. Cause us to know and to hear Thy loving kindness in the morning, for in Thee do we trust. Cause us to know the way wherein we should walk, for we lift up our souls to Thee!
Grace. Chosen. His Will. Father, give us the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so we might know you better. Let the eyes of our hearts be enlightened in order that we may know the hope to which you've called us: the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints, and His incomparably great power for us who believe.
Jesus is Lord! Faith is believing in the unseen. It is knowing, deep in our hearts, that Jesus is Lord. We live my the Spirit. There, we are one. There, we recognize Him. When I first met Him, I recogn ized Him through spirit! Praise God!
In His Love, a work in progress
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