This came from a vision a fellow traveler passed on to me:
A while back, I was in a prayer meeting, just blissing out on God’s presence, when a vision came – there was the Ancient of Days doing the dishes. The sleeves of His robes were rolled up and He was in front of me, I could see His back. He was up to His elbows in a big tub of water, washing a vessel, a large dinner type plate, and as He pulled it from the water, He turned to me and looked me straight in the eye, and rubbed His thumb over the plate which squeaked, squeaky clean. The vibration of that squeak went from my left heel, up my body and jerked me out of my seat and stood me upright, but kind of hanging out to the right, suspended as on the Rod of Correction as I beheld His steely gaze – I was literally suspended there, and giggling like a child as the vibration of the squeak tickled so much. He then returned to His tub and to His task. I thought that I had gotten the message then, but truly, it had only just begun. Now I think that I am beginning to truly comprehend it, but have not yet full apprehended it, but I press on and am pressed on toward the Mark of my high calling in Christ.
We have to submit ourselves as vessels to be cleansed by the Lord, fit for His service, lest we try by our works to present ourselves as being spotless, to clean up our own act, and in so doing develop our own Quixotic quest to clean up the world – to play at being Christ and so, inadvertently, become yet another antichrist, still “preventing” the manifestation of Jesus Christ, proclaiming our understanding rather than proclaiming Him, and showing ourselves to be a judge instead of a witness, not walking and strengthened in the Power of His Resurrection Life as we supposed ourselves to be, but still nailed to a tree, all the while thinking we are free.
P.S. If you can hear it and believe it by faith, we are all squeaky clean!
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S,
Praise God that you have come to the realization of what God has done for us through the work Christ on the Cross!
I read a piece by Ray Prinzing yesterday off of Godfire.net about being overcomers. The short of it is that we cannot become overcomers of ourselves but rather by allowing Jesus to overcome us first ( i.e. all of our selfish ways) so that we in time will be able to overcome the pressures that God brings our way to remove the dross from the silver i.e. to perfect us( mature us ). Our great God wants that for us more than we can imagine.
As for dying , well, to be honest , I’m not at the point where I can take it or leave it . Granted , it is a necessary thing and part of our salvation, actually, so it must be done but I believe that God is preparing us for it whenever it happens, as His love is perfected in us to the ultimate and complete elimination of fear.
I would encourage you to respond to this better good news of the Victorious Gospel by working out your salvation through the doing of the good works planned for you by the Father before the beginning of time all to His glory. Through this the Holy Spirit will perform the process of sanctifying you to become a Son of God ( an overcomer ) to reign with Christ in the age to come. That’s what we are being called out for and not necessarily to save the whole world in this age .
Bloom where you are planted and be ready to share this good news with others as the opportunity presents itself.
This is great…now that I know the implications of the “victorious Gospel” I feel much more free to live my life in Christ, not because I’m scared I won’t make the mark and reach heaven (wind up in hell) but because I’m thankful to Him for what He’s done and I want to live my life in a way pleasing to Him. I feel that I can come and talk to my Father and Creator about anything and the trials I’m currently going through seem less and less important knowing I REALLY WILL be spending all eternity with my Creator! For the first time in my life I’m not afraid to die (or at least not nearly as much as I used to be – guess we’re all a little afraid of death) and can say that I await my redemption with joy and not fear.
OK. I SEE IT’S HAPPENING AGAIN ON THIS WEBSITE. DISREGARD THE SECOND POST . WHEN I OPEN THE SITE MY FIRST POST WASN’T THERE PROMPTING MY SECOND POST . WHEN I POSTED IT, THE FIRST ONE APPEARED. GO FIGURE!
I’m just beginning to understand and realize in my own life what you are talking about here, Gary.
Lately, the Lord has been showing me the anger and hatred in my own heart toward my siblings. Old resentments of family Olympics from my past. One of my brother’s is receiving yet another award for his accomplishments and achievements as a retired district judge , who by the way is the only millionaire in our family. He’s always been an over achiever , something that psychologists say is common of a middle child and my brother could be a poster child for that syndrome . I wouldn’t have wanted to walk in his shoes to get to where he is today though nor do I resent it but I do fear that he will get even more puffed up than he already is about his “success” and pray that he will realize that God is behind this personal glory that he is experiencing right now and respond out of gratitude and humility ultimately to the glory of God.
I’ve emailed many times to him about spiritual things but he is stuck on politics of the far right kind and has a mean streak in him, as well. Have I mentioned that he is a strong believer in the Church of Christ theology?
So why am I so angry and hateful about all of this? Honestly , I hate what has influenced many of us in the American culture . Mammon, the things of this world, and what it does to us but also I hate the old tapes that I play in my mind as defense mechanisms when I’m around my siblings. I’m the youngest, so maybe you can imagine what I am talking about. Everyone of my siblings knows where I stand on God saving everyone but they don’t talk to me about it at all and that angers me , too, because they have been so euthanized by the traditions of men . I have no doubt, though, that they are all Christians and are all in a different place in their faith journey.
As for me, I welcome the judgments of God for I know that they are for my own growth in the Lord to produce more spiritual fruit to His glory and it’s all a part of being yoked to Jesus with that custom made yoke so His light can shine in and through me daily. Dying to sin ( self ) and living unto righteousness is what I pray for all of us as we grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord now and for evermore.