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THE DRY BONES - SCATTERED AND IN CAPTIVITY - ARE RE-GATHERED BY GOD’S WORD Ezekiel 37:1 God took a hold of me. God's Spirit took me up and sat me down in the middle of an open plain strewn with bones. He led me around and among them-- a lot of bones! There were bones all over the plain-- dry bones, bleached by the sun. He said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" I said, "Master God, only yo...

How can we know God?  We know him by faith. We are unable to mentally understand what God makes known only through revelation (Philippians 4:7 – surpasses understanding). But by faith we receive revelation of His love and power toward us, and we see his works on our behalf.  We can speak OF him, not just ABOUT him   Hebrews 8:11 We will ALL know Him, from the least to the greatest. HE SHOWS HIMSEL...

Romans 8:22. For we know that all of creation is experiencing the struggle of bringing something to birth together with us up to this very time 23. And not only they, but we too, who experience the initial phases of the transforming work of the Spirit – we too are agonizing deeply within, waiting for the full and final experience of being God’s mature children, which is the absolute transformation...

BREAKING FREE Romans 7:18 For now I fully realize that within that dwelling place of my imperfect humanity there is nothing of any lasting virtue at all. My true self intends to act with the purest of motive and intention, but when it comes to living it out, the capacity just isn’t there. 19 For the good that I keep telling myself I am going to do I simply do not do, but the wrong things I have no...

AGE OF ADAM Humanity was created in the image of God but of a lower order than God (Hebrews 2:7) and with many limitations so it was and is and always will be unable to live AS God. However it can rise to astonishing acts of love and compassion, but sink to atrocious depths of violence, fear and corruption. Built into this being was the capacity to live with a blind notion that God was absent from...

PUT TO THE TEST Numbers 14:21 But truly, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord, none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these ten times and have not obeyed my voice, shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me shall see it. But...

GOD ALLOWS A MOSES GENERATION TO SPY OUT THE LAND Numbers 13:28 The only thing is that the people who live there are fierce, their cities are huge and well fortified (Hebron). Worse yet, we even saw descendants of the Nephilim giants (the Anakim giants come from the Nephilim). Alongside them we felt like grasshoppers. And they looked down on us as if we were grasshoppers … Caleb interrupted, calle...

Love and miracles was about answered prayer because it was in the flow of God’s love to us and our love towards one another. John wrote ‘we have confidence toward God. And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we … do those things that are pleasing in His sight. And … that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another’. (1John 3:20) There were other instances of...

WHERE DO ANSWERED PRAYERS AND MIRACLES COME FROM? Living in the land of God’s love means that at any one given moment a creative miracle is happening in your world. Living in the land of conflict and judgment will starve your world of miracles. It blinds us to love and interrupts the flow of love – it deflects the miracle of God's love at work.  1John 3.11 For ‘this’ is the message that you heard...

1John 1:5 This, in essence, is the message we heard from Christ and are passing on to you: God is light, pure light; there's not a trace of darkness in him John 1:4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines on in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it  (‘take it to itself ’- Phil 3:12) 9 That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming in...

Our spirit feeds its truth to our soul and our soul expresses that, whether from our human spirit with its mix of acquired truth and experience, or with our spirit joined by faith to God’s Spirit and infused with his love and compassion. Our body feeds its sense experiences to our soul and our soul expresses them. (Seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and feeling etc.). Proverbs 17:22  Our spirit jo...

Lamentations 3:17 I've forgotten what the good life is like. I said to myself, "This is it. I'm finished. God is a lost cause." I'll never forget the trouble, the utter lostness, the ‘taste of ashes, the poison I've swallowed. I remember it all—oh, how well I remember—the feeling of hitting the bottom.  COMMENT I’m re-living the past – I’ve forgotten the good life - forgotten God - but I’ve not fo...

The first task is to be ‘held on to’ in the embrace of his love. That becomes our confinement until it fills and expands our heart. Then love overflows out to others. Love wants to flow. It is our decision to either prevent or release the flow of love. GOD CREATED US TO KNOW THE FLOW Having compassion is the ability to feel or identify with the pain or need of another and to caringly respond. To s...

When we can HEAR with the right kind of hearing (Attentive hearing - shema). Then we can DO with the right kind of doing, a partnership of loving with God. Galatians 5:6 Nothing counts for or accomplishes anything except faith that works though love. CONFINED BY GOD’S LOVE    2Corinthians 5:14 For the love of Christ compels/constrains/confines us (Luke 8:45  - the throng, Luke19:43 - the armies, L...

John 4:7 Jesus, tired from the long walk, sat wearily beside the well about noontime. Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Please give me a drink.” He was alone at the time because his disciples had gone into the village to buy some food… When Jesus shared water with the woman at Jacob’s well in Samaria, he opened her up to the power of his refreshing presence, the li...

Pathway of Peace - Water There is a power of refreshing presence that satisfies our soul in times of emotional struggle. This is not the fiery furnace we spoke about last week, of the fiery trials of faith through ‘necessary’ suffering. This is the living water that alone can satisfy the sorrowful soul in a dry and thirsty place.  John 4:7 Tired from the long walk, Jesus sat wearily beside the wel...

When we can SEE with the right kind of seeing, we can begin to HEAR with the right kind of hearing. Then we can DO with the right kind of doing. AN ATTENTIVE EAR 2Corinthians 10:5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience  (hypokuo - hearing under – attentive hearing) of Christ, Isaiah 55:3 In...

Hebrews2:6 ‘What is man that you pay so much attention to him, or the Son of Man (Jesus), that you would bewith him and look out for him?’7. You created him of a lower spiritual order than angels, and yet now you have given him a crown of glory and honor and placed him in supreme authority over everything that is yours. 8. He is in command of everything. There is nothing that exists outside the sc...

THE FIERY FURNACE  - Seven times hotter - end time significance. Daniel 3:23 And these three men, ShadrachMeshach, and Abed-Nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished; and he rose in haste and spoke, saying to his counselors, “Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?” They answered and said to the king, “ True, O ki...

There are two kinds of suffering we experience in this life; there is necessary suffering, and unnecessary suffering. John16:33 These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have Suffering (tribulation); - but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world (the voice of darkness).” Necessary Suffering: This is life itself pushing you to your limits - the ines...

John 5:30 Of myself (??? ae?r; from ???? ae?mi to breathe unconsciously“air”- as naturally circumambient) I am unable to do anything: as the voice comes to me so I make a decision: and my decision is right because I have no desire to do what is pleasing to myself, but only what is pleasing to him who sent me.  This is how Jesus learned the WAYS of The Father. There is nothing we can do of ourselve...

Luke 14:33 So therefore, any one of you who is not willing to cut ties from anything (forsake – apotassomar – separate from – Adieu! – place in God’s hands ) that gets in the way of knowing me cannot learn from me. This is the setting of the boats free from their moorings to discover (and uncover) the river of life. The Pathway involves times of setting oneself apart to practice moving from the he...