Your Word is a Lamp....

Here’s a word I hear a lot around church circles: What is “breakthrough”? This is just my take on it: Every time I repent …ie. I return to the Lord and lay down my life…my wants…my needs, upon his broken body, I understand more than I did before:  Jesus Christ “broke through” on my behalf, through his death and resurrection, so that I could enter His Rest. I receive his breakthrough, when I let go of the pursuit of my own... “In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,  having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.  And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,  by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, n...

Col.1:24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church... Justification for the church is a done deal: It was finished for us at the point when Jesus said so on the cross (John19:28-30). However... Sanctification for the Church is an ongoing process: see Romans6:4; Gal 2:20; Col 2:11-15. After all, if we had already achieved perfection in this life, what need would there be for the grace of God? But hallelujah - he no longer holds our sins against us - but sees us through the veil of the blood of his Son: Through the eyes of mercy. And, this is why Christ’s sufferings for his Church continues through us, His Body (Col 1:24). We cannot be followers of Christ, while at the same time, being friends with this world, under judgment: Quite to the contrary, Jesus promises us in the Gospel of John, that the world will hate us for following him. This is where the suffering c...

Written December 20, 2020 1Cor15:21-22,45-49 The First Adam ~~The pull of Pride: Genesis 3:4 But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.                                                                     5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be LIKE GOD, knowing good and evil.”                                                                                   6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to...

 Written March 15, 2023 When the Lord commissions us, He sends some thousands of miles away…and others to the neighbor next door; He sends some out first…and others out later; He sends some to plant…and others to water; He sends some to bring in the multitudes…and He sends others to go after the ONE that was lost: But every commissioning has equal importance, and all are equally valuable to the Lord: He does not measure “greatness” as we do…all that matters is OBEDIENCE. 1Samuel 15:22; 16:7 1Corinthians 3:6-9 Matthew 20:1-16

  Jesus answered, “Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, the rooster will not crow till you have denied me three times. John 13:38 After this bombshell revelation, just dropped on Peter, Jesus will now comfort him…comfort them all, in this, his final and what has become known as his farewell discourse… John 14  1  “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.  But surely there is only One God - right? If Jesus were not God, such a statement as this, would be blasphemy: Once again, Jesus is assuring his disciples, by - once again - claiming equality with God. This is enforced by his next statement: 2  In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? Here is a beautiful analogy of our adoption as sons and daughters, into his house - his home - the Place of His habitation; and not for us alone…and not for these disciples alone: For we read in Luke Ch...

  Jesus Washes the Disciples' Feet 1  Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.  Greek: “ eis telos” “‘To the fullest extent’ (check) Jesus is not partaking of the Passover Lamb at the usual time, but rather, he will eat this special meal with his disciples, ahead of time…because he is the Passover Lamb - who must be offered up at exactly the right time: at Passover. See Ch.7:30 & 8:20 We have reached the fulfillment of everything we have previously read in the Gospel. Now his hour has finally come…and to the very last second, he will not stop giving his all…to the glory of his Father: There is one more lesson he will now teach his disciples…and this one will throw through a loop, their understanding of what it truly means to be “great” in the Kingdom of Heaven… Read Mark 10:42-45 And Jesus called them to him and said to t...