Activated Grace
v2 Grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ (Col 1:2)
~u can have grace without peace in areas of your life but you can't have true peace without grace. e.g. Paul's thorn in the flesh- a messager of satan used by God so Paul wouldn't inflate himself over his profound revelatory giftings, so what did God say when Paul tried through prayer to have God rid him of the irritant thorn? God drove him crazy by answering back that His Grace was sufficient! And as soon as Paul got back in his right mind.... the mind of Christ, he could see why that was happening to him and even accept it. God don't think how we do friend, but then, God's not afraid of the devil like we are either! That's the privilege of really knowing Who You are.
Had Jesus logically debated how He had to work like everybody else, He had to eat, sleep, and poop, like everybody else, He may have questioned how He could be God without any shadow of turning while sitting in a high place... He could have been overwhelmed with insecurity had He listened to so many who were questioning His identity anyway.... He had to know Father so well that you have to ask, Who told Jesus He was God? He didn't stand in some prayer line receiving a word of knowledge from the preacher so as to get direction for His Life and ministry.... when He told the woman at the well, "If you knew the gift of God, and Who it is who says to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water." Jn 4:10
When it comes to your identity_calling.... it's between you and the image of God.... once you embrace the image of God and let go of YOU in the fallen flesh nature, then you will see that being dead to self and alive to Christ is the gift of God's grace, and being hidden in Christ is through activated faith because Jesus is the express image of Father's Glory! Amen.
~u can have grace without peace in areas of your life but you can't have true peace without grace. e.g. Paul's thorn in the flesh- a messager of satan used by God so Paul wouldn't inflate himself over his profound revelatory giftings, so what did God say when Paul tried through prayer to have God rid him of the irritant thorn? God drove him crazy by answering back that His Grace was sufficient! And as soon as Paul got back in his right mind.... the mind of Christ, he could see why that was happening to him and even accept it. God don't think how we do friend, but then, God's not afraid of the devil like we are either! That's the privilege of really knowing Who You are.
Had Jesus logically debated how He had to work like everybody else, He had to eat, sleep, and poop, like everybody else, He may have questioned how He could be God without any shadow of turning while sitting in a high place... He could have been overwhelmed with insecurity had He listened to so many who were questioning His identity anyway.... He had to know Father so well that you have to ask, Who told Jesus He was God? He didn't stand in some prayer line receiving a word of knowledge from the preacher so as to get direction for His Life and ministry.... when He told the woman at the well, "If you knew the gift of God, and Who it is who says to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water." Jn 4:10
When it comes to your identity_calling.... it's between you and the image of God.... once you embrace the image of God and let go of YOU in the fallen flesh nature, then you will see that being dead to self and alive to Christ is the gift of God's grace, and being hidden in Christ is through activated faith because Jesus is the express image of Father's Glory! Amen.
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