Series 2.7.21 - #202

 

July 21, 2004

All have sinned and come short of God's glory. The favor given to me is without regard to my worth or merit. I do not deserve the merciful and gracious expressions that he is showing unto me. God has been longsuffering toward me and abounding in goodness and truth unto my life. He has delivered me from the distress of this dilemma because of his mercy, love, compassion, and patience. I do not take his grace for granted. I must continually seek to find grace through the prayer of faith, which is offered in humility. I do not rejoice because my enemies are fallen before my face. Unless I had found grace in his sight, I would be one of them in the dark ditch of blindness. Except by his grace, I would be one of those who despise prophecy and the testimony of Jesus Christ. It is not because of any righteousness on my part that God has brought me into this goodly land. It is not for my righteousness or for the uprightness of my own heart that I am going in to possess this rich land that he has brought me into. Jesus has sent me into a good land that he may perform the word that he swore unto Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

I am a Gentile, but I am Christ's seed; therefore, I am Abraham's seed and a heir according to the promise. I purpose to hate the evil and love the good. I establish judgment in the gate of the Lord. He will be gracious unto me and those who follow me. He is going to be gracious unto them because of his love for them, not because he has accepted their persons. My enemies are falling before my face because they think that God is a respecter of persons and regards their persons. They do not know that he is against them because they have rejected the living word sent among them. He that receives me, receives him. He that rejects me, rejects him.

The fullness of grace and truth is available to those who walk by faith in the living word. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Rhema of God. Man shall not live by bread alone, but he must live by every Rhema word that proceeds out of God's mouth. He has placed his mouth to my ear. He has opened my ears to hear his voice. Now I listen to what he is saying unto me. I am saved through the grace of the Lord, Jesus Christ. Now I will not do any despite unto the Spirit of grace. Unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Freely I have received this grace, now I freely give others this grace, and it will continually flow in and out of my life. I have sinned and so has every man. He freely justified me by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Christ was set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God, to declare at this time his righteousness that he might be just and the justifier of all that believe in Jesus.

I do not despise the fact that they speak of my name as evil and call me a false prophet. Those who are the Lord's shall hear my words. The fact that they call me a false prophet is a revelation that they are not his and do not know his voice. Jesus is speaking the word of God in my ears that is forever settled in heaven. Those who do not know that this is the word of God are given the spirit of slumber and speak by the spirit of error. I am justified by faith without the deeds of the law. This is the only way that the law can be established, for the law is established through faith. Many think that because they have done good works and consider themselves good that they have found favor in his sight. God is not a debtor to any man. To him that works, is the reward not reckoned of grace but of debt. To him that does not work but believes on him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness. The blessedness of those who walk by faith is described herein: Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. David described this, for he knew that there were those unto whom God imputes righteousness without works.

The promise that Abraham should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law but through the righteousness of faith. It is of faith that it might be by grace. By grace, I have entered into the many blessings all about me. I rejoice and worship in the abundance of grace that has been freely given to me and all who follow me. I have not earned or merited this grace. It is a gift that is accompanied by faith. I continue to trust wholly in the mercy and the favor of my Lord and Savior. My many blessings are undeserved. In the midst of darkness, his gracious gift is shining brighter than many suns. I have faith in the complete will of God that was brought unto me by Jesus Christ and the gospel of grace. I will have no confidence in the flesh, for there is no good thing in it. I look continually unto Jesus, the author and the finisher of my faith. I will not fear. He is with me to do an awesome work in the face of gross darkness.

 

 

Hebrews 10:22 - 23

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)

 

Ephesians 2:8-9

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.

 

 

 

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