Your mercy flows like a river.  In all its ways mercy is like a river flowing from your throne.  We see mercy as something too good to be true.  Unfathomable in its depth and power.  We step a toe in at first because it seems unreal that forgiveness is poured out in such a mighty flow.  Gingerly stepping in to see if it’s really true that your mercy has no bounds.  Yet as we take steps into this river of love we find that the gentle currents give way to a pull on our souls which is irresistible then overwhelming.  As we embrace the mercy we are carried away by a force so deep and wide that there’s nothing we can do but embrace your love and surrender to the fact that your mercy is shown without limits, without repentance, without end.   

”The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.“

Lamentations 3:22-23 ESV

“So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.”

1 John 4:16-17 ESV

Jesus walked in the manifest Glory of God.  Everywhere He went, the manifest presence of Papa, was demonstrated in healings, miracles and wonders.  He told us as believers that we would walk in the same manifestations as he did and even more!

“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.”

John 14:12 ESV

It was the very presence, the Glory, which Jesus walked in that overpowered the law of sin and death around Him.  We are to walk in the light as He is in the light.  Carrying the Glory of heaven here on earth.   Enforcing His rule and reign in the domain of men.

Moses spent 80 days altogether in the very Glory cloud up on Mt Sinai and walked in perfect health till he went home at 120.  Peter demonstrated this very principle of Kingdom living by the way his shadow would heal those he merely walked by.  Paul would touch pieces of cloth and they would carry that glory (anointing) to whoever was in need of healing and release the glory there. 

Should we not walk likewise?  We are under the same new covenant as the early disciples.  The centuries of church doctrines to the contrary do not negate the very words of Jesus and the testimony of the saints in the Word.  We are carriers of the light of Jesus. 

Step out in faith and begin to release the Glory, the light of Jesus into this dark and dying world.  Brothers and Sisters, we are the answer because we carry the Glory. 

Our mind is the source of our perception of the world.  We see everything through the lens of our experience filtered through either reason or faith. 

We frame everything in regards to what we’ve come to believe is the reality around us. It is our safe space, our comfort zone but it’s really a cage if it’s constructed from reason not faith. 

We become imprisoned, snared and in bondage to what we believe. You’re either in bondage to what you believe or are liberated by what you believe in the Word.  “Allen D Bruce”

The truth of the Word, both written and living in the person of Jesus unlocks that cage.  We hide inside the comfortable “safety” of our beliefs which we’ve constructed from our experience.  The world makes sense when we view it from our protected place in the cage.  It keeps out anything that contradicts its bars.   Yes the very bars which make up our cage are made from ideas and thoughts reasoned out in our minds.

When Jesus shows us the way, the truth and the light our caged world is shattered and freedom rushes in.

Faith opens a whole new world outside the cage and we begin to see clearly the limitless possibilities of life in the Spirit.   The more we seek Him, His face, His glory, the more He leads us into all righteousness and orders our steps.   The whole world, outside the cage, falls into place and our life has new meaning well beyond the visible sphere. 

It is in the relentless pursuit of Papa God that we find our true purpose and fulfillment.  Free from that cage we built to keep us “safe”.

Let us keep going after God for there is freedom in no-one else.