21st century life is always about instant, now, quick….

It has accelerated even beyond the frenzy on the 20th

Even our recreation is something we rush to

We flit from one avocation to another hobby never truly enjoying them

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So to, our approach to Papa is forced into some timeframe formula

So many chapters a day, so many minutes in prayer

What has happened to lavishing our time and energy on Him

Sometimes we have experienced “extended worship” in special services, but that’s not the norm.

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Is it this flesh suit which overwhelms our true senses of the spirit?

Is is the rush of daily obligations and pressing schedules?

Why do we stop up our ears when He calls to us to join Him?

Is it really the best decision to follow the urgencies of life and ignore the wooing call of the Holy Spirit?

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There is no hurry with our Papa

We are always welcome in His presence

So rushing in is never a problem

However, It is always best to linger there

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We speak of soaking in His presence, what is it?

Tea bags soak to release their wonderful flavors

We soak in mineral baths to absorb the healing essence

Fabric is soaked in dye to take on the nature of the dye

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Our best time spent is soaking in His company

Resting against His chest hearing His heartbeat

Listening to His whispers of love and comfort

Lingering in His fragrance enfolded in sheer bliss

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I heard recently that we should follow these three guidelines when we are with Papa:

Speak slowly

Listen Slowly

Leave Slowly

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Never forget that He is with us always, as we are the temple of the Lord

What is real? Is it our present sensory world? Sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell…… Is it just that which can be sensed with the physical perceptions? Or is this all an illusion? A matrix of present reality to which we are bound in this mortal flesh. We all know down in our knower that there is more to life than just this physical realm.

Some rebel against that innate knowledge and proclaim that there is nothing spiritual. Others dive deep into the spiritual without regard to it’s source or true identity. How shall we then live? Here and now and in preparation for what may come at our last physical breath? If we do not deny the internal knowing of the spirit world then we must seek answers to how it relates to us now.

Seriously, We have all experienced glimpses into the realm of the spirit and have given these events various names; dreams, visions, DejaVu, visitations, encounters, raptures, ecstasies. Some beautiful beyond comprehension others terrifying beyond words.

There is indeed a fascination with the spiritual and the world beyond this physical plain. Man has devised many legends about the world beyond and built many systems to work our way into that world. Either a way to join the gods in their bliss or simply a way to understand the workings of that ethereal realm.

Where does it all come together? Do all roads get you to the same glorious destination. Is there one path which is better? All religious systems go back to some requirement to assuage the wrath of a deity or group of competing deities. Who somehow represent good and evil.

The resulting sacrificial system that came into being over the millennia is so engrained in our collective psyche that no other system makes “sense” to our mind and all “just” legal systems operate the same way. Do “good” and you’ll be OK, break the laws and you’ll pay the penalty.

So the one true Creator of us all, had to abolish this mindset and poured out His love on the whole world to accomplish it. He chose to work inside our most refined, twisted, sacrificial system to annihilate that idea once and for all. He came down here himself as a son of man and fulfilled requirements of that system for our benefit. At which time he totally rendered it null and void.

With no wall of separation left, He welcomes us into His family with open arms. Our only “obligation” is to realize His overwhelming love and join in the celebration. That celebration IS the reality we long for and it is available now.

It is impossible to Resist His all consuming Love

Where can we hide from the love of Papa in Yeshua

He was the perfect representation of Papa in the earth

Neither life nor death, height or depth, angels or demons. Nothing that can separate us from His all consuming love.

He split time and sent His only Son down here to show us how deep and wide and limitless is His love

Breaking through all religious preconceptions and “rules” to overwhelm us with His desire to reconcile mankind back to Himself.

Shattering the wall between Jew and Gentile, obliterating the idea that some men are more holy than others.

Resulting in one new man called into His family through the fulfillment and abolishment of religion and all its systems.

The world says, you can’t make someone love you. But the demonstration of love on the cross will draw all men to Yeshua and there the revelation of the cross is irresistible.

“Who could ever separate us from the endless love of God’s Anointed One? Absolutely no one! For nothing in the universe has the power to diminish his love toward us. Troubles, pressures, and problems are unable to come between us and heaven’s love. What about persecutions, deprivations, dangers, and death threats? No, for they are all impotent to hinder omnipotent love, even though it is written: All day long we face death threats for your sake, God. We are considered to be nothing more than sheep to be slaughtered! Yet even in the midst of all these things, we triumph over them all, for God has made us to be more than conquerors, and his demonstrated love is our glorious victory over everything! So now I live with the confidence that there is nothing in the universe with the power to separate us from God’s love. I’m convinced that his love will triumph over death, life’s troubles, fallen angels, or dark rulers in the heavens. There is nothing in our present or future circumstances that can weaken his love. There is no power above us or beneath us—no power that could ever be found in the universe that can distance us from God’s passionate love, which is lavished upon us through our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One!”

Romans 8:35-39 TPT

https://www.bible.com/1849/rom.8.35-39.tpt

I am the wick, consumed with his praise and worship

Drawing on the oil of the Spirit

Blazing with His marvelous beauty

Sending up fragrant worship in the smoke of His glory

I remain lit with the fire from His presence

Yet must be maintained,

filled continually with the oil of His love

Trimmed of my spent works

Always in Him alive with His life

Shining forth His light as only I can

Joining with His sons to manifest His love in the earth

“An undeserved curse will be powerless to harm you. It may flutter over you like a bird, but it will find no place to land.” Proverbs 26:2 TPT. https://www.bible.com/1849/pro.26.2.tpt

This verse only speaks of undeserved curses. It doesn’t explain what to do about “deserved”curses. In truth, it makes no difference to the believer. If we are in the light, as He is in the light, then there are no deserved or undeserved curses standing against us any more.

Jesus became the curse for us and nailed all those curses to the tree. So they fall under “it is finished”, and don’t need our works to be annulled.

Being grafted into the living vine supplied by His life force we are above any and all curses. Regardless of the generational roots or ties to others all has been plunged beneath the crimson flow of His blood that ran down the cross to the mercy seat.

The Gospel is a faith issue. Will you stand on the truth that Jesus finished the work of Salvation before the beginning of time and step into His marvelous grace? Or will you continue to strive to “work out your salvation” on the treadmill of works. The choice is yours, striving to qualify for some religious goal to prove yourself worthy of His love or falling into His open arms of grace resting on the finished work of Jesus.

If we have to finish the work of our salvation by completing some list of righteous acts then where is the good news in that. It is merely following another religious system trying to claw it’s way into heaven or nirvana by our effort. The Grace of the Gospel is truly not just good news but the best news ever. It defies all logic and human understanding because it is fueled by God’s impossible love for us. The fact that it is humanly “too good to be true” is the whole point, it has nothing to do with human efforts and everything to do with our transcendent God. His sovereign interruption of time to release us from the tyranny of Religion settled the matter. It is by grace we are saved not of works.

Your perfect plan to send Jesus to the world shows me just who you are. Not some angry thunderer, but our loving Papa who was willing to give all for us, to reconcile us back to yourself and show us the depth of your boundless love. You revealed your perfect oneness with Jesus and invited us into that oneness without regard to our state.

Open arms to both the prodigal and the “faithful” sons. Both with their own unique rebellion, one welcomed home from the depths of debauchery and the other the offended unwitting owner of the whole ranch all along. One free from pride to enjoy the blessings the other trapped in his ungrateful pride.

The reality of your love is demonstrated from the foundation of time and eternity yet you have stepped into our reality out of eternity and set everything right between us. Showing us the perfect relationship we now have with you through Jesus by the way he lived in perfect union with you. He told us that he was the perfect reflection or representation of you Papa. His life of love was the ultimate picture of your true nature.

Knowing you’ll never let go of my hand Papa, has me completely undone. Sitting in your lap is the best place to be. Wrapped in your arms of love and under your sheltering wings is the ultimate refuge. Your all consuming love will never be completely understood. Even eternity is not long enough to decipher the depths of your love for us.

““And I ask not only for these disciples, but also for all those who will one day believe in me through their message. I pray for them all to be joined together as one even as you and I, Father, are joined together as one. I pray for them to become one with us so that the world will recognize that you sent me. For the very glory you have given to me I have given them so that they will be joined together as one and experience the same unity that we enjoy. You live fully in me and now I live fully in them so that they will experience perfect unity, and the world will be convinced that you have sent me, for they will see that you love each one of them with the same passionate love that you have for me. “Father, I ask that you allow everyone that you have given to me to be with me where I am! Then they will see my full glory— the very splendor you have placed upon me because you have loved me even before the beginning of time. “You are my righteous Father, but the unbelieving world has never known you in the perfect way that I know you! And all those who believe in me also know that you have sent me! I have revealed to them who you are and I will continue to make you even more real to them, so that they may experience the same endless love that you have for me, for your love will now live in them, even as I live in them!””

John 17:20-26 TPT

https://www.bible.com/1849/jhn.17.20-26.tpt

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me Gal 2:20 NIV

Jesus said it Himself on the cross, “it is finished”. His work of redemption was accomplished once and for all. Our “part” in salvation is to merely come into agreement with what he accomplished on the cross. It’s more a revelation, an unveiling of the settled truth of the cross than a decision of our will.

Jesus broke through the veil of our religious system by submitting to it on the cross. It wasn’t a requirement to assuage Papa’s wrath against us, it was to show forth the futility of our fear based religion and the triumph of His love.

He could have come down here and tried to correct our foolish religious ideas, but instead He submitted to them and through His demonstration of infinite love on the cross abolished the law of religion forever.

Then just to prove beyond all doubt that He had put an end to religion, he raised up from the grave on the third day. The resurrection set Him apart from every other great prophet or spiritual leader or teacher forever.

“For it was only through this wonderful grace that we believed in him. Nothing we did could ever earn this salvation, for it was the gracious gift from God that brought us to Christ! So no one will ever be able to boast, for salvation is never a reward for good works or human striving.”
‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭2:8-9‬ ‭TPT‬‬
https://www.bible.com/1849/eph.2.8-9.tpt

Miracles have that “something special”, “out of the ordinary” mystique. They “break the rules” and alter reality. Super powers as we know them from fiction are the normal reality for the one who possesses them. In light of the Gospel we can see them as natural outflow of the Trinity’s presence in His vessels.

For believers they display the sons of God and empower them to bring heaven to earth. It’s not about us, but Papa showing the manifestation of his glory today in the earth through His representatives here. Being mature sons of the Most High confers on us the ability walk in all the supernatural power Jesus did. That would equate to far more power than all the fictional superheroes combined.

But how do we transition from the unusual, even rare miracle breakthrough to the common supernatural life of a superhero?Restoring the continual flow of power will come through intimacy with Papa, not some special anointing or gifting. The supernatural will just be part of who we are, not some ginned up work of striving to get them or to “faith them up” out of some formula we’ve heard preached.

We are supposed to be walking in the fullness of the power of the spirit which would make such manifestations of glory commonplace. It is only through being deeply in tune with the heart of Papa that we’ll hear His voice tell us when it is time to release power. Join me in seeking His face and learning to rest in His presence, no agendas, no wish lists, just learning to enjoy Him as much as He enjoys each one of us.

Remember, He was willing to come into our world, down to our level just to reconcile us back to unbroken fellowship. To release us from the prison of our misconceptions and the lies we held so dear. It will be out of that pure intimate fellowship that we’ll see supermen and superwomen appear as the manifest sons and release His power to bring heaven to earth.

Sitting by a river watching it flow by hearing the water in the arpeggios of the piano music.

First I see petals from the blossoms as they drop off giving way to the fruit which is growing out of the bud.

Then the fruit as it floats by beckoning me to pull it out of the flow and eat of it’s cool refreshing sweetness.

Then the leaves begin to fall and flow by getting caught in the rocks and spinning in the whirlpools.

Slowly the water slows and begins to solidify into the glorious designs of ice, even the cascades turn slowly into frozen pictures of their previous flow.

As the warm breath of spring blows on the ice sculptures they begin to release the torrent trapped inside.

As life comes into bloom once again I see the pollen filtering down into the pools and backwashes coloring them golden.

And so the cycle begins again……

Perfect harmony and balance between life and death, beginning and ending but showing forth that death is not the end, just the beginning of a whole new reality.

But a reality that we can enter into now, Jesus’ death and resurrection opened the way for us to walk, as He did, in continual fellowship with Him in our heavenly worship walk.