Quality Faith

 

The Object of faith is the crucified Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ….Romans 3:21-26 NKJV But now the righteousness of God apart  from the law is revealed, bring witnessed by the Law and the Prophet , 22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, too and on all who believe. For there is no difference; 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, 26 to demonstrated at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.;  Ro. 4:24-25 NKJV 24 but also for us, it shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, 25 who was delivered up because our offenses and was raised because of our justification, and then compare in 1 Cor. 1:30 NKJV But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God----& righteousness & sanctification & redemption--; Hebrew 1:9  You have loved righteousness & hated lawlessness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness more than Your companions.

THE Principle of the faith excludes boasting: Romans 3:27-31  NKJV Where is boasting them? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith. 28 therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law. 29 Or is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles also, 30 since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law.; Romans 4:4-5 NKJV Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt. 5 But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.  Also found in  Romans 9:30-33 and then compare with Ephesians 2:8-10; Titus 3 3:4-8; Phil. 3:7-9

THE Nature of Faith is an abandonment of all self-sufficiency and self-reliance in favor of a whole-hearted commitment to “the revealed “ word of the invisible God. See in Romans 10:4 for Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.;  Ro. 10:9-10 NKJV that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus & believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 for with the heart, one believes unto righteousness/ with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

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 & then compare with Hebrews 11:7.   The righteousness of God: unto eternal life, seen in Romans 5:21 so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 

1.   Without “the righteousness of God” which is received by faith in Jesus Christ, man truly remains lost. He is separated forever from God…..to be spiritually dead in sin: Galatians 5:4 …….2 Thessalonians 1:7-9 NKJV 7 and to give you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, 8 in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 these shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power. In Christ, we are given a new position which is defined & motivated to practice. In unity with Him in His death and resurrection, we now Christ are made into what God requires.  

                                                           

Separated forever from God…..to be spiritually dead in sin: Romans 2:1-16; Romans 9:1-5  I tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, 2 that I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart, 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my countrymen according to the flesh, 4 who are Israelites, to whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God and the promise; 5 of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who iover all, the eternally blessed God. Amen.; Romans 9:30-33; Romans 10:1-4; Galatians 5:4 and 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9

Righteousness is related to salvation, forgiveness of sin, & eternal life…See in Romans 1:16-17; Romans 6:23; Romans 8:1-2; Romans 10:1

 

So when we speak of a faith having quality, what is to be seen? Genesis 28 gives us details that faith is relational. Genesis 28:16-18 NKJV 16  Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I did not know it.” 17  And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!”  18 Then Jacob rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put at his head, set it up as a pillar, and poured oil on top of it.

In the thousands years before us,  oil's primary use was for food. Olive oil, a high-quality fat, gives the body more energy than carbohydrates do, and at the same time, it has fewer byproducts when metabolized. People of the Mediterranean area have known for millennia that natural fats are good for us, and the fat in olive oil is especially beneficial. While we might think of oil as just some cooking grease, the people of the Middle East held a far different view.

1.   The Hebrew word translated as "oil," shemen (Strong's #8081), literally means "fat" or "grease," but figuratively, it means "richness," an important idea to keep in mind. The word is also translated as "fruitful." Hence, oil symbolizes wealth, abundance, health, energy, and a vital ingredient for a good life.

2.   For the people of the time, then, olive oil was almost like liquid gold. In fact, oil sometimes functioned as a kind of currency. When properly made and stored, it will keep for years and thus hold its value. Biblically, abundant oil is a sign of prosperity (Deuteronomy 32:13; 33:24; 2 Kings 18:32; Job 29:6; Joel 2:19, 24),& running out of oil is indicative of famine and hard times (Joel 1:10; Haggai 1:11). In the Proverbs, excessive use of oil signifies wastefulness (Proverbs 21:17), while saving oil is characteristic of a wise man (Proverbs 21:20). While we no longer attach such value to oil, we need to understand its importance to life for those in the Bible.

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Relationship was presented but refused: Exodus 20:18-21 Now all the people witnessed the thundering, the lightning flashes, the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood afar off. 19 Then they said to Moses, “You speak with us and we will hear; but let not go speak with us, lest we die. 20 and Moses said to the people, “Do not fear; for God has come to test you and that His fear may be before you, so that you may not sin.” 21 So the people stood afar off, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.

1.   People were refusing the close relationship with God

2.   They turned to Moses to hear and then tell them what He said

3.   But God came to bring relationship with those who would believe, walk in faith toward Him. 1Cor. 10:2 all were baptized into Moses in the cloud & in the sea, 3 all ate the same spiritual food,4 & all drank the same spiritual drink.For they drank of the spiritual Rock that followed them & that Rock was Christ.5 But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

4.    1 Corinthians 10:2 tells us that the Israelites were “baptized into Moses”—referring not to water baptism, but to the fact that they became united with him as never before as they recognized his leadership and their dependence on him. So it is with Christ. When we were baptized into him (Matthew 28:19), we achieved a profound identification.

5.   Matthew 28:19 God therefore & make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father & of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ..Unity with the Father: Romans 6:5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection.

And what was His resurrection? Only those who knew Him saw Him again! And we will know this resurrection, this taking when raised up. And speak to tell others!

Romans 6:3-5 NKJV 3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead b the glory of the Gather, even s o we also should walk in newness of life. 5 for we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,

1.   identified with Christ’s death and resurrection that we actually did die with him and truly were raised with him, so that we now share in his resurrection life.

2.    Galatians 2:20 tells us: “I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.” Galatians 6:14 says: “...the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.” Just as we died with him, we were also resurrected with him. “If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God” (Colossians 3:1).

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Communion with God and People is Given by Holy Spirit : 1 John 1:3 that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.     and 1 John 4:13  By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.

If we have not the Holy Spirit in our lives, we cannot love others in our lives. Holy Spirit enables us to love others!  So from our foundational passage found in Matthew 25:1-13 Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bride groom. 2 Now five of the them were wise and five were foolish. 3 Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, 4 but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

5 But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept. 6 and at midnight a cry was heard, ‘Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!” 7 Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. 8 And the foolish said to the wise,’ Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ 9 But the wise answered, saying, ‘No, lest there should not be enough for us and you, but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’ 10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut. 11 Afterward the other virgins, came also, saying, “Lord, Lord, open to us!”12 But he answered and said, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.’ 13 Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of man is coming.                     

1.   From verse 2 the foolish: taken from moros numbering 3474 means dull, stupid, heedless, blockhead….likely to they are not enlightened, do not have the Holy Spirit so they are not born again unto God

   These were all asleep. So no one was awake watching for the Lord!

2.   Again God put forth a relation initiate by Himself. And we keep in step with the Holy Spirit for that relationship: Ephesians 4:29-32 NKJV 29 Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. 32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as  God in Christ forgave you.

Galatians 5:24-25 NKJV 24 and those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live by the Spirit, let us keep also walk in the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 13:14   NKJV  14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion ( fellowship) of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

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Looking at the Parable of the Ten Virgins (Matthew 25:1-13), citizens of the ancient Mediterranean world also filled their lamps with oil. The oil not only burns as fuel in the body, but also as fuel for fire. Used as medicine, as the Parable of the Good Samaritan reveals we also see that olive oil protected and nourished the skin and scalp in this dry desert region.  As we learn from Leviticus and Deuteronomy, God commanded oil to be used in the consecration of sacred people and things, in addition to its use as an ingredient in some of the offerings.  In looking at the oil placed on young David the son of Jesse. Oil was placed on Saul to be king.

                                                            

As seen, all the uses of oil and the value it adds to life, we can understand why it symbolizes richness, fruitfulness, abundance, & vitality. We can also grasp why it played such an integral part in the consecration of things like Jacob's pillar, representing the richness, fruitfulness, and abundance of God being poured out. While the indwelling of the Holy Spirit will certainly produce abundance & fruitfulness (see Galatians 5:22-23), it is more accurate to say that oil and the Holy Spirit are often parallel, but not exclusively so. As the example of Israel shows, God frequently provides abundance without imparting His Spirit.

 

When God revealed Himself to Jacob at Bethel in the dream, Jacob was a lying, cheating, supplanting scoundrel fleeing for his life.  

1.   God initiated a relationship with this cheating scoundrel who was on the run.  After the night of sleep, having a dream and God's words to him, he now was a man with a future.   

2.   Change had taken place in his life, even though God had not yet given him His Spirit. God made promises concerning his descendants & his safety. He promised never to leave him, a taste of true abundance through this experience with God, & the source of everything oil represents.

3.   In His visitation of Jacob was similar to the man pouring fine, expensive oil on a dumb rock: It set something apart with abundance that was ordinarily common and unremarkable.

4.   Jacob had his first experience with God. It was powerful indeed & a monument of sorts was created. We are told that he piled up some stones & poured some oil over them & then called it ‘the house of God.’ Yes, there it is….he had created a very cheap monument that he used as an example to his great experience with our great God! It was in the middle of nowhere & was a meeting with God in the quiet place.  His experience was something that had cost him nothing.

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 In Gen. 28:16-17 KJV Jacob himself said, “ Surely the Lord is in this place; & I knew it not. 17 And he was afraid, & said,  “How dreadful is this place! This is none other but the house of God, & this is the gate of heaven. Jacob had not been changed by meeting with God in that moment of time. He was still Jacob! He was still known as the one who manipulates by calculating his next move . Was he using his strategy on God?  Genesis 28: 18 tells us this: Then Jacob rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put at his head, set it us as a pillar, & poured oil on top of it.

 

1.   That word “pillar” has the numbering 4676 & has the meaning of idol. 

2.   BUT another rock was anointed with oil and that was Jesus. He came to have a meal at the house of a Pharisee and His feet were anointed for the task ahead. He would be the burden bearer!   Mark 14:3-9 NKJV ¶ 3 And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as He sat at the table,  a woman came having an alabaster flask  very costly spikenard. Then she broke the flask, & poured it on His head.  4 But there were some were indignant among themselves, & said, “Why was his fragrant oil wasted?  5 For it might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, & given to the poor. And they  criticized her sharply.  6 And Jesus said, Let her alone; why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for Me.  7 For you have the poor with you always, and  whenever you wish you may do them good;  but Me you do not have always. 8 She has done what she could: she has come beforehand to anoint My body for burial. 9 Assuredly, I say to you  wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her.”

Those indignant to give extra to the Lord that is; as in worship & to glorify Him will in no way operate in it.  She came to do the work beforehand. She came before anything occurred to Jesus. She came exhibiting abundance for Him, for His life & His burial to be one heart with Him always!               

3.   Fausett’s gives this:the scent held in this precious oil was like a strong Valerian acting on the nerves….It is noted that the nervous system makes us who we are….

4.    the most important function of the nervous system is to integrate & respond to the environment—it lets us be mobile, independent units in a rapidly changing world. 

5.   So God is moving on them, on their nervous system to move for life, to move for victory. The nervous system is essentially an extension of all the processes that occur in the rest of the body, but on a much faster timescale. Because of this, the more rudimentary the nervous system, the less “self”-directed control a creature has over its own movement.

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For example, if in my belief, I think that plants are drastically more intelligent than humans, they simply can’t move like we can. A tree can spread seeds certainly, but a human can literally fly around the world of their own volition. The seeds will go where the animal takes them, or where the wind blows them.

Basically, nervous systems are for moving. Things would be breaking open unto the new. Jesus would bear the sin of the world but do we know it, hear it and obey it? Is resurrection on our minds when considering His return. This is for the first trip, for His first-fruits like Him?                  

As from Matthew 25:1-13 and the five wise and five foolish virgins, we find Holy Spirit is valid and important. The five wise virgins possessed a reserve of God's spiritual richness, fruitfulness, and abundance, which would include the Holy Spirit but not be limited to it. They had these things because they had an active, growing relationship with Him. The foolish virgins had a measure of those things, but they were foolish because they did not have enough. They did not take the time to prepare and ensure that they had everything they needed to last through the times of darkness.        

Quality of Faith is having an abundance of prosperity of the Lord. It is the blessing of Jacob, the faith of Abraham, and the salvation in Jesus! It is also belief in His work: His salvation, His death on the Cross, His burial and His resurrection. That faith is strength and is overcoming.  It is looking forward to future, it is never forsaken, an inheritance received, that rough places are smoothed, that what is not seen will be seen by Him, who calls us by name, and leads us in paths we have not known being guided by Holy Spirit always looking to reach and touch Him in the ways to see as Mary did.       

Quality is just that. It is transforming you from being the dust of the earth to being the image of God. Belief in Him who is true always, not sometimes. 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14  Amp. Bible But we, brethren beloved by the Lord, ought and are obligated [as those who are in debt] to give thanks always to God for you, because God chose you from the beginning as His first fruits (first converts) for salvation through the sanctifying work of the [Holy] Spirit and [your] belief in (adherence to, trust in, & reliance on) the truth. 14 It was to this end that he called you through our Gospel, so that you may obtain and share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah).  There is no “coasting” into meeting with Jesus for when we look at the terms of the Gospel. It is by holding in that “faith” that reliance where all our trust is in HIM!  Labor is trouble and Jesus knew it and saw it. He came to bring the Gospel and the power to resurrect dirt. He is our perimeter. He is heaven on earth where the kingdom is spoken of and seen daily. We are fixed, firm & resolved to faith, fixed in sound judgment, defending our faith done in the maintenance of integrity, exhibiting zeal with a faithful love.  Amen.

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Do Not Accept or Approve that Which God Forbids

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Proverbs 10:14 Amplified Bible Wise men store up knowledge [in mind and heart], but the mouth of the foolish is a present destruction.

Proverbs 18:1-2 Amplified Bible He who willfully separates and estranges himself[ from God and man] seeks his own desire and pretext to break out against all wise and sound judgment. 2 A [self-confident] fool has no delight in understanding but only in revealing his personal opinions and himself.

What we display before others gives an account of what is in our heart!  Yes it involves those personal opinion and himself! Whether we give out of love to give the life and love of God to others or we give out of self-confidence in ourselves and the value we place on ourselves above others and God. It will certainly show up in the family home while growing up from a baby to a young adult. If you watched any television news this week, you have most likely seen it. It is something that will be revealed in a marriage when trouble knocks on the door! It will appear when down-sizing of a corporation that you worked at for many years. Now from scripture we are told in Numbers 1:3 that those "from twenty years old and above---all who are able to go to war in Israel. Numbers 14:29-32 marks those twenty years as accountable to being rebels, those who are counted as sinners! V. 29 The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above.

What is revealed to us that accountability is at the age of 20 years! Certainly that spirit within those who is talked about in this passage are those who had no heart toward God or obeying Him. And it is God who calls on us to be devoted and to worship Him that we might move in Him by faith that He is faithful.

Harmony had appeared on earth in the Garden of Eden, but for a short time. God and Man communicated. The commands of God were given and Man complied. Yet as the population grew, what was harmonious turned into that which corrupted Eden. What the adversary did was to tarnish the Image of God in that place and still today, we find that very thing appearing, not only in business meetings, but also in public squares and council meetings.

We are told in Proverbs 9:9-12 Amplified Bible 9 Give instruction to a wise man and he will be yet wise; teach a righteous man (one upright and right standing with ) and he will increase in learning. 10 The reverent and worshipful fear of the Lord is the beginning (the chief and choicest part) of Wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight and understanding. 11 For by me [ Wisdom from God] your days shall be multiplied, and the years of your life shall be increased. 12 If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scorn, you alone will bear it and pay the penalty.

If you take on a new job, a new position or other, you still have to receive the instructions of that which is new to you. We must pay attention to what they, the new boss or executive desires. Certainly you should be educated to that job that is to be performed, still we must have a heart to receive instruction to how the position you now have fits and flows with other moving parts and positions in the new work environment.

 If one is expecting to be paid for their work, then they should desire to not appear slack. Although the appearance today appears to be about doing as less work possible but still gain that check at the time end of the time period. I remember the day when “journalists’ actually went out to find out what was going on in the world. Today there are many who just make things up on hearsay! Now that is just a lazy person who will not make the effort to live as God intended us to live!

But in truth, we must have and know truth that brings many days of life to us. In thinking on the miraculous gift of the Cross we must know what the Father’s heart was in sending Jesus to die for us. And the very core of that Christ died was and is today for us is that we would die to ourselves and the very life and light of Christ would live on through us, yes through you and me!

Just like appearing on your first day of the new job or position, you would not appear to tell the boss or CEO what your desires are for that work nor while you are there. The very same is that we do not live to tell Father God what He must do for "us" this day, but be so glad to hear what He desires for me to do for His glory of that in His Son Jesus Christ. We must celebrate He was mindful of us to send us His very best indeed!

So many today are demanding their own rights and their entitlements. There are no entitlements. Social Security is not entitlement, it is what was paid in from those working and paying their taxes for decades. The real truth for everyone: Get a job! And then be the "one" who keeps a regular working schedule and in about 35-40 years you can retire if you need to, you can certainly draw on that which you saved along the way of life in working. 

Certainly things change for companies, whether creating power, manufacturing certain products or even the forces that deliver those products to your home, but we as a people are to work together like the harmony that had begun in the Garden of Eden. And if an adversary appears, we must be those to pray and ask the Holy Spirit how to continue forward in love for the person we work with but also know how we keep to His commands so that we are not accepting or approving that which is wrong in God ‘s sight!

In remembering those choose to be greedy for gain, they choose less quality but more quantity so they make more money quickly. If our hearts pursue gain, is it for our glory, for our own name to make some ground with those of influence in a short amount of time? Truly being honest is speaking truth in all arenas of our lives! It is one standing to honor God in the avenues of life where we choose daily whom we will serve.

There is a day coming when man or woman will have to leave business at the door with understanding that time is short and without an open heart to God, then we fall short and without Him entirely. My prayer would be that people would be open to hear the good news of life eternally that gives honor and glory to God only. There is coming a day when one will be asked to give up their old life for that which brings life and not the deadly path so many encounter today.

If God did not allow King David to build the Temple because he was a man of war, how much so in our time for those who go to the HOUSE of God? How much more today should we find our full attention given to Him Who gives life?  For where our heart is, there is where we will go for an eternity! For what we treasure, that is that which holds maybe in not such a good place, but never the less, the place we treasure and hold onto is where our heart will lead us.

Jesus saw the Temple where God would come, and was seeing the day when the Holy Spirit would come to abide and comfort each individual on earth. His interest was in maintaining that which was holy unto the Lord and represent His Father on earth. Jesus’ heart was for Mankind. He was not about buying, trading and selling, but about having worship toward God. It was about employing prayer and relationship with God the Father. God's house in us is to be a house of prayer. It was for all men and women to hear and speak to God in prayer. If people would only come there with a humble heart, then there would be no need of war anymore! Spend time to know what is in the Father’s heart. Follow His commands to live for Him and not accept or approve that which He forbids!

Certainly the Flood should point many away from perverse behavior, still the Father did say He would not Flood the earth again and put the rainbow in the sky as His promise to us. Still, Jesus talks of the seven churches in the book of Revelation.  The church at Laodicea had no commendations, they were indifferent to what was going on around them and His instruction to them was to be zealous and repent! Of the church at Sardis, that some were commended that they had kept the faith, it was a dead church and they needed to repent and strengthen what remained. For Pergamos, the commendation was to keep the faith of Christ, the criticism was that they tolerated immorality, idolatry, and heresies and they were told to repent. Ephesus no longer held a fervent love for Christ, but they had rejected evil, persevered with patience. Their instruction was to “do the works you did at first”.

Jesus tells each church this: “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches”. We are to hear what the Spirit speaks and especially in these days when many are turning a deaf ear to those with agendas to serve the flesh and not the living God who promises eternal life with His Son. In knowing our Father is Spirit, might we be keeping time to keep the spiritual of God alive in our hearing so we not take a step into that which is a death chamber of horrors to where there is no end? Do not accept or approve what God forbids!

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That QUALITY of Respect

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Respect cannot be fully come unless two parties of people commit to know the other person. And the quality is dependent on those two parties of people and how they communicate with one another!

What relationships are we willing to protect?
I have some relationships that are distant. They, the other parties lives in various states, but we all once were a part of a church body within a certain city in the northwest. Although these have moved away, or I did, yet somehow by the grace of God they continue. One is a young man musically inclined with a gift that is truly of God. Another, well she is petite and sassy and lives far north of here, but even today though I do not see her I am reminded of her determination to live for God that brings Him glory. And the other, well she just is what God knew I needed when I needed her at a low point in my life.
Today I still have opportunity to minister to them through prayer. Although so far away, yet there is no distance in the spiritual realm.

I hold a respect for these people! They love God and it shows by their actions to help family and people they do not know. They act accordingly to seeking prayer for an individual who is not their circle of friends, but they know that those are the ones God holds in His circle.

Was thinking on this today and wondered on the power of God and His abilities that can bring such unlikely people into my life, yet I am so in awe I can find no words to really write or speak on the subject of His great love to bring so many different peoples together, all with different walks, but be held by that thread of red: yes, by the blood of the Lamb!

In each of these cases, I was remembering how they each had touched my life and how they loved God by their always complete determined heart to get to the designated place and do what needed to be done to bring the Lord glory due His name.

I am captured today, yes by the grand plan of a great God and in awe He chose each of us from different paths, different age groups, and still see the beauty of the Lord in each person's focus on the horizon, to always be moving forward, to keep hearing His voice and watch out for their neighbor, come together, and be knitted in our hearts forever!

Each is not concerned for their welfare, only the welfare of others and that which pleases their Father. It comes from that relationship where respect comes into view!

Was looking up some of the meanings listed for respect, and I came across this one that captured my thinking!
It stated:respect that is genuine, healthy, and a quality that dignifies the carrier.

When we place our love and trust on and in God, we spend that quality time to really know Him. It is not the popularity of being known by many, but by being known by ONE and that is God! When we truly set our hearts to know Him, spend time and then we will see Him, not only in our prayer time, but in the music when a young musician sets down to create it and then release it to others. For the dear lady who lives far north, we are far apart but not in heart. That is how it is with God, though we do not see Him even now, yet we should know Him. 

1 Peter 1:3-8
Amplified Bible
3 Praised (honored, blessed), be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah)! By His boundless mercy we have been born again to an ever-living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. 4 [Born anew] into an inheritance which is beyond the reach of change and decay [imperishable], unsullied and unfading, reserved in heaven for you. 5 Who are being guarded (garrisoned) by God's power through [your] faith [till you fully inherit that final] salvation that is ready to be revealed [for you] in the last time.
6 [You should] be exceedingly glad on this account, though now for a little while you may be distressed by trials and suffer temptations. 7 So that [the genuineness] of your faith may be tested, [your faith] which is infinitely more precious than the perishable gold which is tested and purified by fine. [This proving of your faith is intended] to redound to [your] praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) is revealed.
8 Without having seen Him, you love Him; though you do not [even] see Him, you believed in Him and exult and thrill with inexpressible and glorious triumphant, heavenly joy.


1 John 4:19-21 
Amplified Bible
19 We love Him, because He first loved us. 20 If anyone says, I love God, and hates (detests, abominates ) his brother [in Christ], he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, Whom he has not seen. 21 And this command (charge, order, injunction) we have from Him; that he who loves God shall love his brother [believer] also.

Yes, that quality of respect is that we love other believers. But out of that trust is a RESPECT!


Our confidence is in God or should be. And in expressing that confidence you and I will see God's power at work in us and through us.   According to Ephesians 4:1-6, we are told that  (4:1) As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. 2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. 3 Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit- just as you were called to one hope when you were called- 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

People may come and go out of our lives, but those who remain, especially near to our hearts are those who we know as those who are the prisoner's of the Lord. They live a life worthy of the calling they have received. There is just "that something" about them that sets them apart from others. They are the "gentle, the loving, and the empowered" in their faith walk that God is going to see over them no matter the difficulties, the world's economy and that the Lord God will have His way for His purpose in and through them.

I will not list their names, but maybe if they read this, they will know of who I write. They are those who carry a quality of respect that pronounces the authority of God in their lives. They keep His word and declare it determined that God will do everything He said He would do in His word.

It commands on them respect that comes from God to them......and those who know God will know those who God looks upon with such love and pleasure.

What sets the tone for that quality: only the relationship with Him and with others.

This quality will guard the unity of the spirit ! Ephesians 4:1-6  Amplified Bible: Therefore , the prisoner of the Lord, appeal to and beg you to walk (lead a life) worthy of the [divine] calling to which you have been called [with behavior that is a credit to the summons to God's service. 

 2 Living as becomes you] with complete lowliness of mind (humility) and meekness (unselfishness, gentleness, mildness), with patience, bearing with one another and making allowances because you love one another. 3 Be eager and strive earnestly to guard and keep the harmony and oneness of [and produced by] the Spirit in the binding power of peace.. 4 There is one body and one Spirit---just as there is also one hope [that belongs] to the calling you received-----5 [There is ]one Lord, one faith, one baptism. 6 One God, and Father of [us] all, Who is above all [Sovereign over all],pervading all and [living] in [us] all.

Jesus carried this, so did Paul, Peter, and John. Might we consider of having that quality of relationship with God that shows others what love really looks like?


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