Finally, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable – if anything is excellent or praiseworthy – think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me – put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you. Philippians 4:8-9

Monday, December 31, 2012

THE MEASURE OF THE CROSS

 

The Cross of Christ encompasses ALL things. In particular it brings the whole race in Adam to an end, and it begins an entirely new race in Christ risen!
Our God is become that consuming fire of the Alter of His Son Christ Jesus.
The letter to the Romans presents the Cross there in its full measure.
The Cross of Christ is the alter to which each of us must go to lay our lives in surrender to Him. It is a place where the natural and carnal man must come. Jesus said that flesh and blood could not enter into the Kingdom of God.
What does that say of Jesus of Nazareth who was flesh and blood? He himself suffered the pouring out of His life’s blood, becoming the first born of those risen from the dead.

How can we compromise the Way, the Truth and His life for anything less than following Him into the requirements and full apprehension of His perfect will and purpose for our lives?
Nothing that flows out of the flesh will secure our right and relationship to the risen Christ. It is only at the Cross where we can be filled with the streaming flow of His precious blood for ministry of any kind. It is a ministry which flows from a broken and humbled vessel, from the least to the greatest.
The Cross of Christ defies making Christianity into a legal system of bondage. For the Church is built outside of time and the world.
The Cross of Christ is applied to all that spoils the harmony of the Body of Christ. There is an excruciating dislocation within the Body when there is discord like yeast __it ferments until the whole Church is filled with self interest and pride, offence and un-forgiveness, until there is nothing left but a false spirituality that is left to make merchandise of the things of God.
Anything that we add to the Cross, makes Christ less than He is. Again I say, “It is at the cross, the alter, where we find the ALL_NESS of Christ for our lives. He becomes our spiritual strength, supported by a sound mind, grounded in truth and righteousness. He is our inspiration, our hope and eternal salvation. Not because I have told you so, not because you heard a sermon of this truth, but because when we take hold of this Spirit Word by faith, we will experience the reality of the new nature of His life in us, His mind through the gift of the Holy Spirit that will reveal Him more and more to us as we come seeking Him in ALL things.
The full measure of the Cross brings us to Christ’s Kingdom which dwells within us, to overcoming, to victory in Jesus, our Messiah.
Now All things relate to our inner life. It touches our nature, our conduct, order and ministry. (Ministry to our family, friends, community and nation). We will manifest the rule of His kingdom effectively and eternally to the pulling down of strongholds, by letting Christ reign from the Alter of His sacrifice for our lives. It is the place where the fire will come down before many witnesses and consume that which is false and would challenge the WORD among God’s people.
Run to the Alter of the Lord, run to the Cross, let Him crucify your flesh, for only the truly crucified will walk in the Spirit, will partake of the things of His kingdom, will be defended and kept from the things of this world.
This is not doctrine. I’m not preaching. It is a place of redemption, it is a place of power, it is a “real” experience of crisis and revolution, it is where the most important decision of your life will be made. Everything will be shaken, overturned, and in some ways a reversal of what you have been taught and have known.
I pray that what I have shared will draw and motivate you to investigate the tremendous and personal invitation that is yours in approaching the One who is perpetually waiting to make you His own. To make you alive by the blood of His sacrifice __by the full measure of His Cross. All our love, _ Mr. Moses and Dove  (Shebet)   

LAMB OF GOD__PRECIOUS ROSE OF SHARON

 

 
PRECIOUS ROSE OF SHARON___YIELD__
YOUR PRICELESS OIL FROM GLORY’S FIELD,

YOUR NAME AS OINTMENT POURED FOR ME.

THE OIL OF GLADNESS__SOVEREIGN__ FREE.

NO OTHER FLOWER LIKE YOU MY LORD

NOT ONE COULD MERE MAN E’R AFFORD

THE THORNY CROWN THAT WRAPPED YOUR

HEAD__

WITH STEMS OF ROSES LONG SINCE DEAD.

EDEN’S ANCIENT ROOT DREW BLOOD

FROM YOUR PIERCED AND THROBBING BROW.

OH CRUEL MAN__PLEASE TELL ME HOW

WITH OPEN EYES AND HEARTS TO SEE_

YOU NAILED GOD’S SON UPON THAT TREE?

NOW BLOOMING LILY WHITE AND FAIR __AMONGST HIS THORNY DAUGHTERS RARE

IN VALLEYS GREEN__WHERE OPEN SKIES

DECLARE WHAT OTHERS WILL DENY

THE FRAGRANCE OF SWEET EDEN’S ROSE__REVEALING WHAT NO FLESH MAN KNOWS.

NOW FILLS THE EARTH__THOSE KINGLY FEW

THEIR ORNAMENT AND PURCHASED CROWN

OH STEMS THAT WRAP MY HEAD AROUND

MADE LIVE FROM CRIMSON BLOOD THAT FLOWED

BLOOD THAT PAID THE PRICE I OWED

OH ROSE OF SHARON__LILY WHITE

OH OIL PRESSED OUT IN DARKEST NIGHT

SWEET FRAGRANCE FILLS MY LONGING SOUL__
BALM OF GILEAD BESTOWED 

I BOW MY HEAD WITH THIS DESIRE

PLANT IN ME__YOUR ROOT OF FIRE

TO BLOOM FROM THAT ETERNAL TREE

TO FILL THE EARTH THAT ALL MIGHT SEE
THE WORK YOU’VE WORKED,

 
PREDESTINED PLAN
 
BEFORE THE WORLDS HAD FOUND THEIR PLACE
 
FOREORDAINED IN INNER-SPACE
 
WHERE LIFE AND DEATH AND BIRTH ANEW
 
REVEALED THOSE THINGS WHICH ONCE I KNEW
 
THE GARDEN PATHS THAT I ONCE ROAMED
IN HEAVEN'S LIGHT THAT WAS MY HOME
 
WHERE ONCE I HEARD THE LIVING WORD
 
AND BOWED THE KNEE__IN SHARON'S WOOD
 
WHERE GREW THE WHITEST PRECIOUS ROSE
ON THORN-LESS BRANCH MY HEART NOW KNOWS
 
 
WITH ALL MY HEART__YOUR DAUGHTER WITH THORNS ____ SHEBET

Saturday, December 29, 2012

THE SOUL'S ALWAYS SEARCHING FOR ONE MORE EMBRACE



HOW IS IT THAT YOU RISE IN MY SOUL...EVEN AS THE SUN BREAKS THROUGH A RAGING STORM?HOW IS IT, THAT THE TOUCH OF YOUR HAND IS LIKE A WARM EMBRACE...OR THE WIND THAT COMES OUT OF NOWHERE, COME AND GONE...LEAVING ME MORE ALIVE THAN EVER BEFORE?
PROMISE AFTER PROMISE...YOU REMAIN...YOU WAIT...YOU RESTORE.

I AM SATISFIED IN YOUR KEEPING
I AM LOST WITHOUT THIS MOMENTS PRESENCE OF YOU
MY THOUGHTS RUN FROM ONE TO THE NEXT...
"LORD, LORD...EVEN MY GOD."
MY BREATHING IN, MY BREATHING OUT
THEN I GASP FOR AIR WHEN I CAN'T HEAR YOUR VOICE...
WHEN I CAN'T TASTE THE SWEETNESS OF YOUR WORD...YOUR UNMISTAKABLE WORD...
THE LIFE GIVING SOURCE OF MY BEING
THE JOY OF MY SALVATION


MY ONE TRUE LOVE.

I'M ALWAYS AMAZED AT HOW YOU SHEPHERD THE DAY.

AT BREAKFAST, MR MOSES AND I DISCUSSED THE DISCONTENT WE FEEL SO MUCH OF THE TIME...

WHY?

WE HAVE SO MUCH TO BE THANKFUL FOR...WE LACK NOTHING...WE ENJOY EACH OTHER...LOVE EACH OTHER...SHARE YOU TOGETHER...WE ENJOY OUR RETIREMENT TOGETHER...

WHY?

ALL THROUGH THE DAY I ASK MYSELF THIS QUESTION...

AND IT COMES DOWN TO THIS...FOR ME, LORD

MY SOUL IS ALWAYS SEARCHING FOR ONE MORE EMBRACE...THE FEEL OF THE YOUR LOVING ARMS ENFOLDING ME...

THAT (((KNOWING OF YOU)))...THAT REST THAT COMES FROM YOUR ALL ABIDING PRESENCE...

THAT JOY THAT IS UNSPEAKABLE AND FULL OF YOUR GLORY...NOT AS THE WORLD GIVES...BUT THAT WHICH IS FOUND IN YOU, AND YOU ALONE...

BLESSED ARE YOUR EVERLASTING ARMS...

"EMBRACE ME LORD"

"EMBRACE ME LORD."

Monday, December 24, 2012

SOUL SONG OF CHRISTMAS


Lord, All I can think about this Christmas is how little I have to give to you.  The one gift you did give to me that gave me the greatest joy and pleasure to give back, was my voice, to sing praises to your name, to tell the wondrous story of your birth, life, death and glorious reserrection.  

Now the only voice I have comes from a heart that groans with longing to minister unto you the love that you have and are giving to me every day, pressed down and running over.  Blessings you set upon the table in the presence of my enemies,  the oil of gladness that fills my heart with the assurance that I will dwell in your house forever.  

I ask this one thing, my Lord.  That those who do not have the specific gift which you have measured out to others, to play and instrument, or sing in tune like the thrill of your song birds...may come asking that you play upon their heart strings the melodies of your Spirit, that their own spirits may soar to the heights of your love and minister what joy you are, what grace you are, what majesty, and power...

Be praised in Spirit and in Truth...let our songs be acceptable in your hearing, a worthy gift of our praise...our soul's song to you...  It is Christmas, especially in our hearts......"Happy Birthday Lord"

Tuesday, December 18, 2012


 
Lord;
I've heard testimony of those who have heard the songs of creation...each in their kingdom join together in singing your praises, from the smallest to the greatest...

The orbs in space sing together, the trees clap their hands, the flowers bloom their fragrance and vibrate in miriads of color and glorious praise...

The birds thrill with the dawn and greet you with their song...and Oh the harmony of it all...
The wonderful "Living gifts of life" are passed by, by so many of today's generation....they have become deaf..., blind...and unmoved...

How is it possible that they have become so callous to the abundant Life all around them? How is it that we look no further than our own wants and needs...missing the testimonial display of your gifts that have come down to us, out of your loving heart, dear Father of Lights?
You gave me life, that I might commune with you, bless you and praise you...yes...But you did it out of your LOVE nature, your Holy Spirit nature, that desires to be at one with your creation...
In this moment let my full attention give you praise...honor and glory to your name...I join with all of creation as we wait for the manifestation of the sons of God...All of creation groans to be released Lord...
Until then, I will glory in the testiment of your loving grace, in the beauty of the rose, the rush of a gentle breeze, the sound of a bird greeting the dawn, and strain to hear the singing of numberless stars in distant galaxies...
"In the beginning was the WORD, and WORD was with God, and the WORD was God...Be praised, and honored and glorified in all of Heaven and Earth...let everything that has breath praise YOU, let the rocks and rills, the rushing waters, and every heavenly host give YOU the praise you are due".............AMEN