Saturday, April 21, 2012

When was the last time you were wishing to see The Lord Jesus Christ appear? The One who created everything? Seriously? When did you long for Him to hurry and get here? Maybe you haven't. Maybe you never have given it a thought. You just plod along each day, doing your work and tending to the family and watching t. v. at night, putting the kids to bed just to get up and start all over again the next morning.
Maybe you are not sensitive to The Spirit's dealings and what is going on in the world, BEHIND THE Scenes. Maybe you are not where you should be in His presences. And how could you be if you are not in His Word or praying fervently each day. Striving to keep The Faith, as Jude says. That should tell you something is wrong. It takes many years of studying His Word and praying and really getting to understand how He thinks, and who He is! One cannot do that unless you have a rap pour with Him. . I say that because we are in a DESPERATE situation and satan has come down to earth to try our souls.
I have a terrible sickening feeling in my stomach. it isn't going to go away anytime soon. Only when Jesus comes will things be put right.
I was reading Wachman Nee's book, The Release Of The Spirit, just yesterday, which I hadn't read in a long time. I wasn't too far into his book until I found myself crying. I've been doing that for a while now. In His Goodness he leads me to that which He wants to remind me.
Wachman Nee was a minister of The Gospel, an author, and an all round great man. Born in China in 1903. http://www.watchmannee.org/life-ministry.html He was imprisoned in 1952 until his death in 1972, for his faith in Christ. He has written several books that will inspire anyone to his faith in Christ.
In this wonderful book, Nee tells us that we as believers must be broken in our flesh and consecrated to Him in order to read The Scriptures and get the meaning of His Word. One cannot come to The Scripture in his own conceived ideas and bring forth It's meaning. The Spirit who inspires the writing of Scripture is the eternal Spirit, ever present in The Bible. If our outward man has been broken, our spirit has been released and can touch that Spirit who inspires The Scriptures. Other wise , The Bible will remain as a dead book in our hands. Page 53.
Oh, beloved of God, this is serious business. The new birth is just the beginning of what is suppose to be a life long journey.
When you are drawn with cords of love to Him and you are washed in His Blood from all sin, it is just the beginning. You will soon find The Spirit will deal with you over many things in your life that need to go. He is patient to a point. You will find that He requires the cross in your life.
If you are continuing in Him, you will find that you long for His Appearing. You understand who He is and you find yourself longing to be in His presence. Just as you would with someone you love being with.

1 comment:

Mama Deraso said...

Speaking of brokenness. Seems we talked about that last time we met. Either you talk on it often or the Lord is wanting me tO go deeper (no doubt). The book I have of watchman nee is 'Spiritual Authority,' I'll start looking through it. I appreciate your willingness to exhort. We need it, I need it. God bless the words that He asks you to speak boldly.