The more we talk and meditate about the gospel, the more we are conscious of and walk in the victory and freedom Jesus has accomplished for us at the cross.
God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit share with us the same divine nature of love and non-violence.
Emmanuel - God is always with us and He has equipped us with everything we need to prosper and have good success.
God gives His beloved sleep.
What is desired in a man is kindness, grace and mercy.
Keep expecting good things to happen, for surely His goodness and love chase my beloved and I and our family down all the days of our life.
Jesus is wild and untamable - He is the epitome of power, love and sound mind. It's fun and exciting to flow with him.
Allow ourselves to be pampered and cared for by the Lord, and He will give us the prayer of our belief system.
God's ways are ways of grace and mercy.
We are God's poetry in motion, created for his pleasure.
Jesus came to redeem us from identity crisis, and restores to us our original blueprint of His image and glory.
With humility comes wisdom and honour. God gives grace to the lowly.
Jesus came to serve. We are blessed serving, ministering and building up one another.
We are defenders of the weak, comforters of the weary and healers of the oppressed.
We live by your grace. We rest in your all-sufficient grace. Your strength is made perfect in weakness.
We create as we speak - blessings and glory and honour and goodness and love!
Speak to the rock about who we are in Christ and what we have in Christ.
God is one with us. He does not dwell in duality.
Redemptive imagination about our oneness with God is the power to heal the world with peace and love.
Today we choose life by putting on the mind of Christ by aligning our thoughts with God's, and we will live the abundant life.
Our strength is to lift up the weak, and our wisdom is to set the oppressed free. We are blessed to be a blessing.
Enlightenment. Awakening. Realising we are all one with God in Christ and there is no duality.
Dare to speak our mind for liberty's sake. Don't care what people think. Don't let the seed of blessings die unborn. We create what we speak.
When we are flowing with love, joy and peace, others are also set free from oppression and bondage.
The best things in life aren't things. We can do no big things; only small things with a big heart.
We may be only one person to the world, but we can be the world to one person.
True freedom is found in serving faithfully my loved ones - that's blessed captivity.
Showing posts with label Rock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rock. Show all posts
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When we discover Jesus’ identity, we discover our own identity
We all may have some sort of identity crisis at some points in our life – we may either have a poor, beaten down image of ourselves, or an elevated view of ourselves. We would ponder over questions like “where do we come from?”, and “what is our purpose in life?” But once we realise who Jesus Christ is, we will actually discover our true identity – that we are made in His image. Jesus has come to be our perfect representative, and all His divine attributes of power, love and sound mind become ours.
The only accurate picture of ourselves we can have is to see ourselves in Jesus’ image. The following is an awesome revelation shared by Francois du Toit.
Hades is a place of ignorance, where there is an absence of knowledge of God nor the true identity of humankind. Praise the Lord for the revelation, for when people’s eyes are opened to see who Jesus is, and realise He is their true identity, the gates of ignorance shall not prevail against the church. Instead, the knowledge of the Lord shall fill the whole earth, as more and more people shall see their true identity in Christ, through the preaching of the gospel. And they and we all shall continue to be transformed from glory to glory into His same image, as we behold His glory and see ourselves in Him as in a mirror reflection: “Christ in you, the hope of glory” and “as He is, so are we in this world”.
It’s all about relationship. God created us to have fellowship with Him. Because of Adam’s disobedience, man lost his original identity. But by Jesus’ obedience at the cross, man was restored to fellowship with God.
We now realise the significance of Jesus giving Simon bar Jonah (son of Jonah) a new name Peter, which means “rock”. It’s wonderful how Francois drew out the revelation from the old testament to explain the new testament concerning Jesus as our new identity. Jesus is the Rock of Ages, and He has hidden us in that Rock - “For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God (who is our Rock)” (Colossians 3:3)
The only accurate picture of ourselves we can have is to see ourselves in Jesus’ image. The following is an awesome revelation shared by Francois du Toit.
“In Matthew 16 Jesus asks the most important question in the Bible, “Who do men say that I the son of man am?” By revelation, Simon asserts in response that Jesus is not the son of Joseph, but the Messiah. He is the promise of man’s redemption, the image and likeness of God fully displayed in human form; the son of the living God.
Notice how Jesus responds to him: “Blessed are you Simon son of Jonah, for flesh and blood have not revealed this to you but my Father. If I am the son of God, then so are you. I have come to reveal that man began in God, and not in father’s seed or in his mother’s womb! Jer.1:5. Your surname is no longer derived from your father in the flesh but from the Rock that begot you. (“You have forgotten the rock that begot you and the God who gave birth to you…” Deuteronomy 32:18. “Look to the Rock from which you were hewn…” Isaiah 51:1) Upon this Rock, I will build My church (Greek, ekklésia).”
- Francois du Toit
“Hades is a compound word like most Greek words, ha, negative, or not + ideis, to see. Thus the blindfold that traps mankind in ignorance about their true identity will not prevail”
- Francois du Toit
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| The gate of hades in Caesarea Philippi, Israel, where Peter confessed Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the Living God. It is a rocky place, where the main cave was traditionally known as the 'gate of hades'. Jesus took the opportunity to give Peter the revelation of his true identity in Christ, and said the gates of ignorance shall not prevail against the church upon this revelation of their identity in Christ. |
Hades is a place of ignorance, where there is an absence of knowledge of God nor the true identity of humankind. Praise the Lord for the revelation, for when people’s eyes are opened to see who Jesus is, and realise He is their true identity, the gates of ignorance shall not prevail against the church. Instead, the knowledge of the Lord shall fill the whole earth, as more and more people shall see their true identity in Christ, through the preaching of the gospel. And they and we all shall continue to be transformed from glory to glory into His same image, as we behold His glory and see ourselves in Him as in a mirror reflection: “Christ in you, the hope of glory” and “as He is, so are we in this world”.
It’s all about relationship. God created us to have fellowship with Him. Because of Adam’s disobedience, man lost his original identity. But by Jesus’ obedience at the cross, man was restored to fellowship with God.
We now realise the significance of Jesus giving Simon bar Jonah (son of Jonah) a new name Peter, which means “rock”. It’s wonderful how Francois drew out the revelation from the old testament to explain the new testament concerning Jesus as our new identity. Jesus is the Rock of Ages, and He has hidden us in that Rock - “For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God (who is our Rock)” (Colossians 3:3)
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