This Morning

I was just processing this morning's prayer time and discussion and writing out the substance and what the Lord was saying to me in it all...and I just thought maybe you guys would benefit and enjoy the sharing of it.

This morning our prayer time turned into a powerful exposition on the lack and the necessity for the eyes of our hearts to be enlightened to the glorious riches that is His inheritance in the saints - - which is to say, what bounty there is in the elementary teachings of the gospel that we have overlooked in order to bite into "meatier" things which our bodies have not the matured ability to digest and distribute as sustenance to our spirits. We have become cynical, lackluster people who can not love eachother nor enjoy the grace offered to us because we have not adequately appropriated or even seen the reality of redemption, justification, sanctification or even the efficacy of the Blood. It was said that the result of overlooking the gospel is death and decay in our inner man.

*Here are bits and pieces that I took as notes as several of the saints had input:

- God is the prism through which we must see eachother.

-Hardness, vindictiveness and cynicism are the cruel outcomes of disappointed illusions - an idealism which is itself a deceptive form of humanism.

- The death of every fellowship and relationship is the ideal (seed of destruction) that we each bring into it.

- When you look at the underside of an embroidery, it is a jungle of thread, a tangled mess - but viewed from above, it is a masterpiece. It is all contingent on our "seeing".

-Death is always the wage of sin - even for believers to have no delight in prayer, scripture, or fellowship is a form of death - we need to receive His Life afresh in the place we have been subdued. To keep our heart requires ALL diligence, for from it flows all issues of life.

- If our work is done from the Rest of God, we can never experience "burn-out". He is our vigor and vitality - in Him there is no decay or loss.

-Nothing justifies being downcast - God has made every provision for life, so every bit of death is reprehensible - YET as for us, we must lift the downcast and strengthen feeble knees - it is doubtful that any are unaware of their faltering - they do not need condemnation, but a timely word for their flagging souls.

- Death diminishes one's ability to see any benefit in God

- We must always carry a contrition within because we know from what pit we have been dug and could easily fall in again but for His grace that keeps us. This affects our very tone with one another and the way we go about in our correction.

Thanks for sharing in this with me guys - love you and miss you!