In the world but not of the world

In the world but not of the world

 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
1 Corinthians 2:12

These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."
John 16:33

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content. But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
1 Timothy 6:7-10

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world--the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life--is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
1 John 2:15-17 

 Now the flood was on the earth forty days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. The waters prevailed and greatly increased on the earth, and the ark moved about on the surface of the waters.
Genesis 7:17-18 

Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea.
Revelation 21:1

The merchants of these things, who became rich by her, will stand at a distance for fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, and saying, 'Alas, alas, that great city that was clothed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls! For in one hour such great riches came to nothing.' Every shipmaster, all who travel by ship, sailors, and as many as trade on the sea, stood at a distance and cried out when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, 'What is like this great city?' They threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and wailing, and saying, 'Alas, alas, that great city, in which all who had ships on the sea became rich by her wealth! For in one hour she is made desolate.'
Revelation 18:15-19

Then I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name.
Revelation 13:1 

Daniel spoke, saying, "I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the Great Sea. And four great beasts came up from the sea, each different from the other.
Daniel 7:2-3

I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours. And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them. Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth. "I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.
John 17:9-21

And the Lord said to Moses, "Why do you cry to Me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward. But lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. And the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
Exodus 14:15-16 

"Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed, Who establishes a city by iniquity! Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts That the peoples labor to feed the fire, And nations weary themselves in vain? For the earth will be filled With the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, As the waters cover the sea.
Habakkuk 2:12-14

So the men marveled, saying, "Who can this be, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?"
Matthew 8:27

Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them the wrath of God is complete. And I saw something like a sea of glass mingled with fire, and those who have the victory over the beast, over his image and over his mark and over the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God.
Revelation 15:1-2

The JOY of CHRIST JESUS!

The JOY of CHRIST JESUS!

Even as the merry- making of the season wanes, let the deep joy that comes from the LORD JESUS linger and increase in our hearts until it becomes full!

Wouldn't it be more meaningful for us as Christians, not greet each other, "Merry Christmas!" but a "Blessed and Joyous Christmas!"

The LORD never asked us to be merry. He asked us to rejoice and desired that we experience His joy!

Being merry means enjoying the things that make our fleshly or carnal self satisfied and happy.

The 'Beatitudes' speak about being blessed, which means being extremely happy!

Being blessed means having the favour of GOD upon us.

GOD'S word commands us to 'Rejoice'! It is a decision we are asked to make regardless of our circumstances and despite our  difficult situations.

When we abide in CHRIST, we experience and bring forth joy as a fruit of the Spirit!

So I commended enjoyment, 

because a man has nothing better under the sun
than to eat, drink, and be merry; 

for this will remain with him in his labor 

all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 8:15

 And do not become idolaters as were some of them.

 As it is written, 

"The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."
1 Corinthians 10:7

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, 

For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 

Matthew 5:3 

Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, 

For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 

  "Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, 

and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. 

  Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, 

for great is your reward in heaven, 

for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you. 

Matthew 5:10-12 

Rejoice in the Lord always. 

Again I will say, rejoice! 

Philippians 4:4 

 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,

  knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 

  But let patience have its perfect work, 

that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
James 1:2-4 

 These things I have spoken to you, 

that My joy may remain in you, 

and that your joy may be full. 

John 15:11 

Until now you have asked nothing in My name. 

Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full. 

John 16:24 Prov 

SAGO

SAGO

 If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.
Colossians 3:1-4


 But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.
Colossians 3:14

This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
John 15:12

We can understand a Christian principle while cooking Sago!

When you purchase a packet of sago, you will see the separate white balls of sago pearls. You boil water in a pan and put in the sago and start cooking it. You will notice that the sago pearls gradually become transparent. when they are completely cooked, each pearl is completely transparent and they stick together.

We are all full of our sinful self like the raw sago pearls. When we are born again, we begin a new journey with CHRIST in us. He is the hope of glory in us. As we progress spiritually, He increases in us and the sinful self decreases, like the sago boiling in the pan! In due time, when all of self is replaced with CHRIST, we are one with each other in CHRIST! Then, we are ready to appear with Him in glory!!

Let us begin this journey towards glory!

I 'SAY, GO' for it!!

The Terror of Bushfires

The Terror of Bushfires

We form our own opinions of a person from the information we have gathered from others. But when we meet that person and get to know him, we realise that many things we had heard about him were false! It is so also with GOD. Do you know GOD? It is possible to know Him for yourself personally! It is important to know Him so that you may know how to conduct this life that He has given you!!

Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle (in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder), that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior, knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation." For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. 2 Peter 3:1-13 

The Bible says that GOD is love. Why then does He bring about or permit such sufferings for humanity?

As a parent, would you simply leave your child to progress on a destructive path without counselling him firmly and if necessary discipline him harshly? If your little child puts his finger into electric sockets that can endanger him, would it not be wise for you to spank him? That little pain of the spank associated with putting the finger in the electric socket will make him think twice before doing it again.

Our Heavenly Father's love is purer and stronger than the love of any earthly father.

You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin. And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: "My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him; For whom the Lord loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives." If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? 
Hebrews 12:4-7 

A little child will not understand why his mother takes him for a vaccination and makes the nurse give him a painful needle prick. The mother knows the long term benefit of the momentary pain her child has to endure.

Similarly, the people of the world do not understand 'The Big Picture'! Eternity is a reality. This earthly life is short and insignificant compared to eternity. If some painful experience we are put through, can benefit our spiritual life preparing us for eternity, it will be well worth it!

 Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 

We look at disasters like bushfires and our hearts go out for people who have suffered much loss. We think that we are compassionate and we look at GOD as though He is a hart hearted, fierce terror! Let us know the truth! It is man who has broken his relationship with GOD. It is GOD Who is seeking for man to restore this relationship for eternity, forever. GOD revealed Himself to Moses. 

 Now the Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, "The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children to the third and the fourth generation."
Exodus 34:5-7


He is the same yesterday, today and forever!

Although we have fallen and continue to fall short of His standards, He is very gracious. He has made a way for our salvation through His own Son, JESUS, Who came down to earth as a living sacrifice. JESUS, through His suffering and death on the cross, paid the price for all the sin of mankind. Thus GOD Himself has made a way for us to be restored to Him and to live with Him eternally!

The devil, who caused the fall of man, continues to oppose every good GOD has for human beings. Man has made the devil 'the prince of the air' by obeying him. Each of us has the choice to either obey the devil or obey GOD, Who has a good plan for us. Our fallen nature tends to follow the devil and his evil and wicked ways. If we repent of our sins and give our lives into GOD'S hands, the Holy Spirit of GOD comes into our hearts to strengthen us and to guide us in the path of truth and eternal life. He also speaks to us through His written word, the Bible.

Imagine a vast area of land that is dangerous to walk on, with one narrow but clean and clear pathway across. If the one who constructed that pathway gives you clear instruction to keep to that path of safety, whose fault is it if we neglect such clear instruction?

 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. Anyone who has rejected Moses' law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
Hebrews 10:26-29

GOD does not punish the way we deserve to be punished and He blesses us more than we deserve to be blessed!

during the bushfire crisis, an urgent plea was made by the authorities to those who were in danger areas. The message was, "Please heed our warnings and do not refuse to move out if requested to do so."

For you have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those who heard it begged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore. (For they could not endure what was commanded: "And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned or shot with an arrow." And so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, "I am exceedingly afraid and trembling.") But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel. See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, "Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven." Now this, "Yet once more," indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire.
Hebrews 12:18-29 

It is the responsibility of those of us who know GOD and understand His ways and are under His covenant of grace, to humbly stand pleading for His mercy on those who are yet to receive GOD'S salvation. Although GOD is a Holy GOD and a consuming fire, His heart is full of love. His heart is to save and not to destroy. Therefore He is looking intently down for an intercessor, so that He might save!

 So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one. Therefore I have poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; and I have recompensed their deeds on their own heads," says the Lord God.
Ezekiel 22:30-31

Wisdom and Knowing

Wisdom and Knowing

 However,
 we speak wisdom among those who are mature,

 yet not the wisdom of this age,
 nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery,

 the hidden wisdom which God ordained
 before the ages for our glory,

which none of the rulers of this age knew;

 for had they known,
 they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

But as it is written:
"Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,

Nor have entered into the heart of man

The things which God has prepared
 for those who love Him." 

But God has revealed them to us
 through His Spirit.

 For the Spirit searches all things,
 yes, the deep things of God.

For what man knows the things of a man
 except the spirit of the man which is in him?
 Even so no one knows the things of God
 except the Spirit of God.

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world,
 but the Spirit who is from God,

 that we might know the things
 that have been freely given to us by God.

These things we also speak,

 not in words which man's wisdom teaches
 but which the Holy Spirit teaches,

 comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

But the natural man
 does not receive the things of the Spirit of God,

 for they are foolishness to him;

 nor can he know them,
because they are spiritually discerned.

But he who is spiritual judges all things,
 yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.

For "who has known the mind of the Lord
 that he may instruct Him?" 

But we have the mind of Christ. 

1 Corinthians 2:6-16 

For now we see in a mirror, dimly,
 but then face to face.

 Now I know in part,
 but then I shall know just as I also am known.

  And now abide faith, hope, love, these three;

 but the greatest of these is love. 

1 Corinthians 13:12-13

When we reach Heaven, we will have a 'Knowing' that we can never understand while on earth. Although as believers in the LORD JESUS we know and understand many spiritual truths through the revelation of the Holy Spirit, our spiritual sight is dimmed by our carnal nature. We do not see spiritual things with our natural eyes but through eyes of faith, which is based on the word of GOD. We also live according to our faith. Such wisdom and such living is foolishness to those of the world. We live constantly with the hope that our faith will become sight one day!

Dwelling Place or Meeting Place

Dwelling Place or Meeting Place

 Do you not know that you are the temple of God 

and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 

1 Corinthians 3:16 

For thus says the High and Lofty One
Who inhabits eternity, 

whose name is Holy: 

"I dwell in the high and holy place, 

With him who has a contrite and humble spirit, 

To revive the spirit of the humble, 

And to revive the heart of the contrite ones. 

Isaiah 57:15 

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High 

Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 

Psalm 91:1 

In the tabernacle of meeting, 

outside the veil which is before the Testimony, 

Aaron and his sons shall tend it
from evening until morning before the Lord. 

It shall be a statute forever to their generations 

on behalf of the children of Israel. 

Exodus 27:21 

They said in their hearts, 

"Let us destroy them altogether." 

They have burned up 
all the meeting places of God in the land. 

Psalm 74:8 

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is 

For brethren to dwell together in unity! 

It is like the precious oil upon the head, 

Running down on the beard, 

The beard of Aaron, 

Running down on the edge of his garments. 

It is like the dew of Hermon, 

Descending upon the mountains of Zion; 

For there the Lord commanded the blessing-

- Life forevermore. 

Psalm 133:1-3 

Present or Absent?

Present or Absent?

During my schooling days over 50 years ago, soon after the school bell each morning, every class had register marking or roll call. You needed to be seated in your classroom to respond; when your name was called, you had to put your hand up and say, "Present". The teacher would give just a few seconds and if no response, would mark you "Absent".

Absent didn't mean you were dead; it just meant that you were not on your seat in your classroom. Obviously, you were somewhere else!

A mild form of epilepsy is called 'Absences' where, for a brief period, the individual concerned is not fully conscious of his or her surroundings. He or she is mentally 'absent'.

 So we are always confident, 

knowing that while we are at home in the body 
we are absent from the Lord. 

For we walk by faith, not by sight. 

We are confident, 
yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the 

body and to be present with the Lord. 

2 Corinthians 5:6-8 

The Scripture says that we walk by faith and not by sight. Christian believers who have the Holy Spirit active in them, have a spiritual sense they constantly respond to. They have spiritual vision and spiritual hearing and other senses that are beyond the physical senses. These senses give them understanding of spiritual happenings in people and in circumstances. This is referred to as the walk of faith. When the spiritual mind is active, the natural mind could be 'absent' and vice versa. 

Such experiences could also be referred to as 'going in and out and find pasture' or 'being In the spirit'.  

 I am the door. 

If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, 

and will 'go in and out' and find pasture. 

John 10:9 

 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, 

and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet, 

Revelation 1:10 

It is important for us to develop such a spiritual mind so that we are constantly 'present' with the LORD, sensitive to the promptings of the Holy Spirit.

Then one day when we hear the call "Come up here", we will be ready to respond. Then we will be forever absent from the body and present with the LORD! We will 'go out' no more!

 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, 

with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. 

And the dead in Christ will rise first. 

Then we who are alive and remain 

shall be caught up together with them in the clouds 

to meet the Lord in the air. 

And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17

He who overcomes, 

I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, 

and he shall go out no more. 

And I will write on him the name of My God 
and the name of the city of My God, 

the New Jerusalem, 
which comes down out of heaven from My God. 

And I will write on him My new name. 

Revelation 3:12 

Dollar Sense - Dollars and sense!

Dollar Sense - Dollars and spiritual sense!

A million dollars cannot save one soul!

One saved soul can see a million souls saved

by bringing them to the LORD JESUS!

One soul is therefore more valuable than a million dollars.

So work on seeing one soul saved than seeing a million dollars saved!

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world,

and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words

in this adulterous and sinful generation,

of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed

when He comes in the glory of His Father

with the holy angels." Mark 8:36-38

Dengue Epidemic!

 Local newspapers reporting of Dengue epidemic in Sri Lanka

One of the main reasons for the spread of dengue is improper
garbage disposal, he pointed out, urging that there is a need to
change the habits of the people in this connection. He was
adamant that the best ways to bring about a behavioural change
were strong campaigns both in education and the media. The
campaigns should also not be one-off but consistent and
throughout the year. Schools should educate children on proper
garbage disposal which would then impact not only on dengue
but many other diseases as well and keeping the environment
clean, while the media (print and electronic) should do the same
for the wider public.

Unclean spirits are like viruses.
Viruses work and multiply through cells of other living creatures.
They need others’ cells to fulfil their destructive purposes.
Similarly, unclean spirits operate in and through human beings. 

Garbage is the place where mosquitoes that carry viruses multiply.
Hurts, unforgiveness, anger, and bitterness are spiritual garbage.
Unclean spirits thrive in lives where there is spiritual garbage.
They cause anxiety, depression, murder, cheating and fightings
which in the spiritual sense are as dengue and other diseases.

Let us keep our lives, minds and hearts clean so that we may live
peaceful and happy lives filled with GOD’S love for one another!
The Holy Spirit dispels the unclean spirits.
The truth of the word of GOD, the Bible is like water that washes
our minds clean.
The Blood of the LORD JESUS is like a powerful stain remover
or cleanser!
Let us use these in prayer and intercession to clean ourselves and
clean others and relationships.

Who is wise and understanding among you?
 Let him show by good conduct 
that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom.

But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.

This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic.

For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

James 3:13-17

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ forgave you. Ephesians 4:30-32

If anyone teaches otherwise

and does not consent to wholesome words,

even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ,

and to the doctrine which accords with godliness,

he is proud, knowing nothing,

but is obsessed with disputes

and arguments over words,

from which come envy, strife,

reviling, evil suspicions,

useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds

and destitute of the truth,

who suppose that godliness is a means of gain.

From such withdraw yourself.

1 Timothy 6:3-5

TWO SIDES

TWO SIDES

All things have two sides. 

Let's think about it. 

Doesn't everything on earth 

have two sides to it?

If there is a beginning, there is an end.
If there is a start, there has to be a finish.
If there is an up, then there is a down.
Inside and outside;
 right side and left side.
Even the shortest thinnest line and the tiniest dot have two dimensions!
There is a width and a length!

Hooks and Loops!

There is a heaven and a hell.
There is a downward pull which is gravity and an upward pull which is glory.
There is light and darkness;
good and evil.

In relationships there is giving and receiving;
bearing and forbearing;
repenting and forgiving.

Even in our relationship with GOD there are two sides,
GOD'S and ours, just like any covenant.
GOD always does His part. How about you?
Are you doing your part to see GOD'S promises fulfilled in your life?

 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High 
Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
Psalm 91:1

For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion; 
In the secret place of His tabernacle He shall hide me; 
He shall set me high upon a rock.
Psalm 27:5

For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, 
whose name is Holy: 
"I dwell in the high and holy place, 
With him who has a contrite and humble spirit, 
To revive the spirit of the humble, 
And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
Isaiah 57:15 

Man dwelling in GOD
and GOD dwelling in man.
.................................
I am the vine, you are the branches. 
He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; 
for without Me you can do nothing.
John 15:5 

 Therefore let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. 
If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, 
you also will abide in the Son and in the Father. 
And this is the promise that He has promised us--eternal life. 
These things I have written to you 
concerning those who try to deceive you. 
But the anointing which you have received from Him 
abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; 
but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, 
and is true, and is not a lie, 
and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.
1 John 2:24-27 

I abide in CHRIST
and CHRIST abides in me.
...............................................
nor will they say, 'See here!' or 'See there!' 
For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you."
Luke 17:21

Assuredly, I say to you, 
whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child 
will by no means enter it."
Luke 18:17 

When the Kingdom of GOD is within me
I am in the Kingdom of GOD.
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 If we confess our sins, 

He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins 

and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 John 1:9

If we confess, He will forgive.
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He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. 

But as many as received Him,

to them He gave the right to become children of God, 

to those who believe in His name:
John 1:11-12

if we believe Him and receive Him
He gives us the right to become
children of GOD.
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 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, 

believe that you receive them, and you will have them.

Mark 11:24

If we believe we will receive. 

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Now He did not do many mighty works there 

because of their unbelief.
Matthew 13:58

and begged Him that they might only touch the hem of His garment. 

And as many as touched it were made perfectly well.
Matthew 14:36

If we touch Him He will touch us.
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Do not love the world or the things in the world.
 If anyone loves the world, 
the love of the Father is not in him. 
For all that is in the world-
-the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, 
and the pride of life--is not of the Father 
but is of the world. 
And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; 
but he who does the will of God abides forever. 
1 John 2:15-17 

Deceptive teachings from false prophets and teachers
lure even the very elect into carnal lusts.
When Babylon of worldliness stands tall and strong
and false teachers preach and offer things
that seem to satisfy the lusts of the flesh and eyes
and the pride of life,
the carnal mind gets attracted to it.
If money is the hook,
the love of money is the loop that gets hooked to it!
Such hooks will increase in the world these end times.
Let us beware and make sure
our minds and hearts are free of loops!

Keep your heart with all diligence,
For out of it spring the issues of life. Proverbs 4:23
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 "Ask, and it will be given to you; 
seek, and you will find; 
knock, and it will be opened to you.
Matthew 7:7 

When we ask it will be given to us.
When we seek we will find.
when we knock it will be opened to us.
Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, 
and I will listen to you. 
And you will seek Me and find Me, 
when you search for Me with all your heart.
Jeremiah 29:12-13 

When we call upon the LORD
He will listen to us.
When we search for Him
we will find Him.
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This is a faithful saying: 
For if we died with Him, We shall also live with Him. 
If we endure, We shall also reign with Him.
If we deny Him, He also will deny us. 
If we are faithless, He remains faithful; 
He cannot deny Himself.
2 Timothy 2:11-13 

Faithful GOD!



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