For those who are in Christ and are unfabulous people, relax and rejoice in Him.

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Here is Corrie Ten Boom being interviewed by Kathryn Kuhlman:

“Oh love of God how deep and great, far deeper than man’s deepest hate.”

“There is nothing too great for His power and nothing too small for His love.”

What is the full dimension of the stewardship we have received from Jesus, of which we are required to be found faithful in?

Faithfulness to Jesus means to be faithful to Him in everything concerning our life and ministry, in every aspect, in every detail, in every part – in the hidden, private things, and in public – that in ANY aspect of our life, the Father looks down and declares, Faithful! :

To be in no part unfaithful to Him.

Any issue you can think of, in the Christian life, or in the Church, or in doctrine, in character, boils down to the issue of faithfulness to Jesus Christ.

The Spirit, Himself, is our eyes and ears, now. We have nothing of ourselves, now, in Christ Jesus.

This sudden cure of our spiritual myopia can happen at any time, for who can predict or control where the wind of the Spirit will blow next?

But when He does give a revelation of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ (and it can happen daily) then we think, Are we missing the point? Have we been sidetracked? Are we missing the glory of God? If only i could express what i see, and communicate Him to others! If only there could be a corporate revelation of the LORD Jesus, we would have a revival and a restoration on our hands.

A true revival is a revelation of Christ. A false revival is anything else.

When you DO see and hear, then prophesy what you’ve seen and heard, in obedience and submission to the Spirit of God, and others may also see Him, whom you see, as He really is – as the crucified and risen, all conquering LORD of Glory, who alone is worthy of all the praise and glory.

…You can’t be committed to the truth, if you’re afraid of controversy…

The more we learn of Jesus, the more, in turn, we discover about ourselves. His perfection reveals our weakness, and His light, any darkness or shadows in us. Even after many years we come to learn that we really didn’t know ourselves as well as we thought we did.

But then, as we look upon Him, we are changed:

But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. 2 Corinthians 3:18

We are changed into the same image as the One we look upon. Amazing? We look, He changes us.

When we see Jesus we see Holy perfection : the perfection of beauty.

May the beauty of the LORD be upon us! (Psalm 90:17)

U.S. aircraft carrier enters Gulf without incident

And…

But why would Netanyahu cancel the joint military exercises with the US?

He must have discovered something that has proved to be a very serious threat to the existence of Israel in the coming days. Maybe, just maybe, he has taken another look at the advanced radar system the US has placed in Israel with the stipulation that it must only be operated by US personal (military) and that Israelis cannot be in control of that radar system at any time?

The “Great Deceiver” (Obama) said that the radar system was there to protect Israel against incoming missiles. That certainly sounded like something that all Israelis would appreciate very much. But suddenly – maybe, just maybe, Netanyahu looked at the other side of that coin. With that US advanced Radar System in place in Israel, under the control of the US, it has now become impossible for Israel to launch an attack on Iran or anyone else without the co-operation of the US military who control that radar system.

http://www.thegoldenreport.com/reports/373-maybe-just-maybe

Simply, our life of worship happens in our spirit, and our new, regenerated spirit rejoices in the truth.

We walk by faith and not by sight – not by the five physical senses.

Therefore, worship in spirit and truth is also by faith and not by sight – not by the physical senses. God doesn’t measure or judge your worship of Him in physical terms, like how much, or how sweetly, or how loudly you sang, etc..

When our spirit worships God, then we will love and obey the truth, by the indwelling Spirit of Truth, and our physical body will simply obey our spirit, our heart. If your spirit rejoices, then sing a song of praise!

Worship in spirit and truth is always from the spirit of man. As God is a Spirit, therefore only a spirit can fellowship with Him and worship Him. God, the Spirit, therefore, looks deep into the heart of a man, into our spirit, to receive our worship.

Physical worship is only a byproduct of worshipping in spirit and truth. It’s not the outward, physical forms of worship which “impress” God, it is whether we worship Him in spirit and in truth. (Not that we can impress God)

Notice how much stock He places on truth, that He includes our love of His truth, and our obedience to His truth, in the innermost parts of our being, as being worship to Him? Which is why it is incongruous to see people, who don’t love or obey the truth, singing praises to God.

Our LORD repeats three times here, That we may be one!

Start small. Start local. Pray that this desire of our LORD will be fulfilled among the few whom you are in fellowship with, that you will be one, according to the Word of the LORD.

With the few with whom we can fellowship together in the Word, how do we be one? It starts with carrying each other in prayer, that you care just as much about them as you do about your own needs.

Then, this true love (which begins in prayer) overflows practically, so then we relate to our friends as one, as equals.

To be one means an equality of love and respect, and that results in every need being met. It checks pride and also false humility or being closed and withdrawn. Being one means there is no longer competition, grandstanding or boasting, and egos are put to death as enemies of this unity in Christ.

Being one means there is freedom to be whom God made you to be, and to express the gifts He has given you, as the Holy Spirit leads (To suppress the gifts is to suppress the unity of Christ).

If we are to be one, we need to get used to the idea of being together, but together for His purpose and His Gospel, and for His glory, and not for the glory or purpose of any man or organization.

John 17 is supposed to be a love that people can see lived out as church, as church was in the beginning – Lived out, not religious ceremonies.

Our LORD is very clearly spelling out that the effectiveness of our gospel witness of Him hinges much upon whether we are fellowshipping together as one, in our locality.

The doctrines of the NT never get in the way of us living as Jesus and the Apostles lived, but people can specialize in doctrine at the expense of obedience and the application of the truth, which would demonstrate they don’t understand, or don’t believe the doctrine to begin with.

There is not one doctrine of the Bible which is superfluous, or window dressing, that does not have a vital application in transforming the life of a man or woman.

But just say someone claims to be a Bible expert, and they are a jerk or a hypocrite in real life : That doesn’t mean there is any fault with the Bible, or that guy became a hypocrite cos he read the Bible too much…..

If people claim to know the truth, but don’t obey it, then that doesn’t put the truth on trial. It doesn’t make the truth, or doctrine the problem.

Doctrine simply means teaching. The teachings of God and His Son are called The Truth, and the Son is called The Truth. The Bible is the sum of the teachings that God wants to teach us, and that which He requires us to understand and obey.