Monday, March 24, 2014
Word of the Day
"Transcendent: going beyond the limits of ordinary experience: far better or greater than what is usual."
Friday, March 14, 2014
Sunday, March 9, 2014
DON'T GET IT TWISTED 3/9/14
"The Old Testament was a covenant agreement between God and the Hebrew people. The New Testament is a covenant agreement between God and CHRIST, not of ourselves. It is finished. It is perfect, and it is NOT about anyone other than Christ, Himself."
DON'T GET IT TWISTED 3/9/14
"God is NOT withholding you blessing to teach you anything or to protect you from anything else"!
Queen Quotes 3/9/14
"If you're doing things like everybody else .... you're doing it wrong". The Noticer Returns
What If? 3/9/14
"What if .... the next time somebody points out that nobody promised it would be easy .... you kindly tell them the truth .... Jesus did!"
Saturday, March 8, 2014
What if? 3/8/14
"What if God's timing actually came 2000 years ago on the Cross of Calvary, and we're supposed to be walking in victory and not waiting for it?"
Friday, March 7, 2014
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
What if? 3/5/14
"What if Hebrews 11:1 really says, 'Now, Jesus is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of God'?"
DON'T GET IT TWISTED 3/5/14
"Knowing what Jesus DID and knowing who Jesus IS are NOT the same thing".
CHOOSE 3/5/14
You can spend your life expecting and looking for bad things to happen, or you can spend your life expecting and looking for great things to happen. Either way, that's what you're going to get! CHOOSE!"
Queen Quotes 3/5/2014
"When God raises you up and blesses you, it will absolutely be in front of the people who don't want you to be blessed, and they will dislike you all the more for it". Psalm 23:5 Luke 21:17
Monday, March 3, 2014
CHOOSE 3/3/14
"The world says the devil's in the details. Faith says God is the detail Master and creation is His proof".
Queen Quotes 3/3/14
"Life is not short. Life is eternal. What's short is the amount of time you have to determine where you will spend eternity".
Sunday, March 2, 2014
CHOOSE 3/2/14
"The world says, I'll believe when I see it. Faith says, I believe it before I see it, and I will have it".
CHOOSE 3/2/14
"The world says, I call like I see it. Faith says, I call those things that be not as though they already were."
Queen Quotes 3/2/14
"Have you ever really - I mean really - considered His exceedingly, abundantly above?"
Saturday, March 1, 2014
The Triple Dash
"Your life is all about the dash."
Meaning that what you do, who you are in the time between the day you're born and the day you die - THE DASH - that's who you really are, that's the important thing ..... the dash. Well .... I get it, but what to do with folks who are living in their double dash? Or like me, their triple dash?
My life's time line looks like this:
November 25, 1966 - July 23, 1978 - November 22, 2000 -
I AM in my triple dash, and I assure you NOW is what really matters. NOW is who I really am. Anything that happened between November 25, 1966 and July 23, 1978 is old man, Adam, business and has no impact on now. Any ignorant, prodigal, sinful thing that happened between July 23, 1978 and November 22, 2000 is covered in the blood of Christ that saved me and is forgiven and has no impact on now. Here's why:
Jesus' literal, physical time line looks like this:
Birth - Death - Resurrection - Ascension
I was born in 1966. I died to myself in 1978. I was resurrected in 2000. I am now in the triple dash ... the transforming, grace to grace, faith to faith, Spirit led triple dash. Clearly my time period between death and resurrection, 22 years, took far longer than my Lord's three days, but praise God in Heaven, I made it. Praise God, I have been resurrected with my Lord. Praise God my name is written in The Lamb's Book of Life, and I am living from faith to faith, grace to grace, by the dunamis power of the Holy Ghost ..... every single day becoming more and more like Him ..... literally, physically restored, transformed, renewed ......
It goes like this:
First dash - Time I spent dead in my sins, without the knowledge of, or acceptance of, needing a Savior
Second dash - Recognizing Jesus as my Savior
Third dash - Recognizing Jesus as my Savior AND having Him as LORD of my life
Every living, breathing Child of God, is either in the double or triple dash stage of their walk. With my heart, I pray we ALL come into the fullness of that triple dash ...... for this is where the fullness of our heavenly Father .... His love, His grace, His promise, His favor, His mercy, His power, His presence, His WORD take on the FULLNESS of HIS Life in us and launch us into the supernatural, abundant, reigning Life, Jesus died and rose us to have!!!!
From Victory,
Kalena
Turn it Around
Quick Quips from this past month's Bible studying:
1. I have heard it said a plethora of times over the past years, within the Christian community, that we are not to be so heavenly minded that we are no earthly good. Well, I propose, as children of God, the ONLY way we can ever be any earthly good is to be heavenly minded. The prayer says .... Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN!! That means .... we are to bring the Kingdom of heaven here to earth ..... being earthly, only makes us earthly. Being heavenly manifests the Kingdom in ways that those who don't know, those who don't believe .... WILL! And, that is the point of it all .... to increase the Kingdom. The Spiritual Kingdom is Righteousness, Peace and Joy and in the Holy Ghost! The literal, physical Kingdom is WE the Children of God .... the walking, talking Ambassadors of Christ!
2."Take up your cross daily and follow me". I've heard this my whole life. Unless I'm mistaken, Jesus is quoted having said this in ALL FOUR gospels. The only thing is this - This instruction is not mentioned anywhere in the post resurrection scriptures. NO WHERE! The only mention of a cross in post resurrection scriptures is THE cross, Jesus' cross and that our glory is in it and it's finished work. Here's what I noticed in, and believe from, my study time. When Jesus said this, He was talking to Jewish people who lived under the Law of Moses, and the reason He said it to them - not any of the nonJewish people He spoke with - is because He was trying to lead them to understand that the law couldn't save them. He was trying to lead them to understand that only through the cross does salvation come. He was trying to lead them to understand that through HIS death on the cross, salvation is available to all. No where after Jesus' resurrection and ascension to heaven do the first generation saints tell us that we need to "take up our cross". No where after Jesus' resurrection and ascension to heaven do the Apostles, not even Paul, tell us we have ANY cross to bear. Jesus bore that cross on Calvary that we would not have to. To live in the pretense that we need to bear any cross is the equivalent of believing that what Jesus did wasn't enough and that when He said "IT IS FINISHED" He didn't really mean it.
3. "Faith without works is dead" does NOT mean what I have believed my whole life it means. I was always taught and have always heard that entire passage in James Chapter 2 means we are supposed to being doing for Jesus, doing for God. Jesus, Himself, said He didn't come to be served, and, yet, we good Christians run around "doing" for God, because of this one Chapter. I'm curious to know what we actually think God needs us to do for Him. What great degree of ability or intellect that we have that He actually needs. What Jesus actually instructed us to do, as He lives in and through us, is to do for OTHERS, as He has done for us. I don't believe God has ever asked any of us to do anything FOR HIM - He's never asked ME to, anyway. What He has asked of me is to walk WITH Him and allow Him to DO through me. This is what Jesus was talking about in the Gospel of John when He said "the Father does the works". It's what the Psalmist means when he said "we will not die, but live and declare the WORKS OF THE FATHER". It's simple actually, Jesus said, as far as we are concerned, the works of the Father is (singular) this - believe on Him whom He sent. There is no DO in believing - only believing. Jesus even told Martha all of her bothering over serving Him was not as "needful" as Mary sitting at His feet doing nothing. Now, the Holy Spirit will lead us into Godly behaviors and activity, but lets not get it twisted. It is all about Him. It is all about what He has done, is doing and is going to do. We ..... are either dead in our sins or alive in Christ - either way there is no I, me, we or us anywhere in it.
It's a journey .... and I grow in Him!
Kalena Studying
1. I have heard it said a plethora of times over the past years, within the Christian community, that we are not to be so heavenly minded that we are no earthly good. Well, I propose, as children of God, the ONLY way we can ever be any earthly good is to be heavenly minded. The prayer says .... Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN!! That means .... we are to bring the Kingdom of heaven here to earth ..... being earthly, only makes us earthly. Being heavenly manifests the Kingdom in ways that those who don't know, those who don't believe .... WILL! And, that is the point of it all .... to increase the Kingdom. The Spiritual Kingdom is Righteousness, Peace and Joy and in the Holy Ghost! The literal, physical Kingdom is WE the Children of God .... the walking, talking Ambassadors of Christ!
2."Take up your cross daily and follow me". I've heard this my whole life. Unless I'm mistaken, Jesus is quoted having said this in ALL FOUR gospels. The only thing is this - This instruction is not mentioned anywhere in the post resurrection scriptures. NO WHERE! The only mention of a cross in post resurrection scriptures is THE cross, Jesus' cross and that our glory is in it and it's finished work. Here's what I noticed in, and believe from, my study time. When Jesus said this, He was talking to Jewish people who lived under the Law of Moses, and the reason He said it to them - not any of the nonJewish people He spoke with - is because He was trying to lead them to understand that the law couldn't save them. He was trying to lead them to understand that only through the cross does salvation come. He was trying to lead them to understand that through HIS death on the cross, salvation is available to all. No where after Jesus' resurrection and ascension to heaven do the first generation saints tell us that we need to "take up our cross". No where after Jesus' resurrection and ascension to heaven do the Apostles, not even Paul, tell us we have ANY cross to bear. Jesus bore that cross on Calvary that we would not have to. To live in the pretense that we need to bear any cross is the equivalent of believing that what Jesus did wasn't enough and that when He said "IT IS FINISHED" He didn't really mean it.
3. "Faith without works is dead" does NOT mean what I have believed my whole life it means. I was always taught and have always heard that entire passage in James Chapter 2 means we are supposed to being doing for Jesus, doing for God. Jesus, Himself, said He didn't come to be served, and, yet, we good Christians run around "doing" for God, because of this one Chapter. I'm curious to know what we actually think God needs us to do for Him. What great degree of ability or intellect that we have that He actually needs. What Jesus actually instructed us to do, as He lives in and through us, is to do for OTHERS, as He has done for us. I don't believe God has ever asked any of us to do anything FOR HIM - He's never asked ME to, anyway. What He has asked of me is to walk WITH Him and allow Him to DO through me. This is what Jesus was talking about in the Gospel of John when He said "the Father does the works". It's what the Psalmist means when he said "we will not die, but live and declare the WORKS OF THE FATHER". It's simple actually, Jesus said, as far as we are concerned, the works of the Father is (singular) this - believe on Him whom He sent. There is no DO in believing - only believing. Jesus even told Martha all of her bothering over serving Him was not as "needful" as Mary sitting at His feet doing nothing. Now, the Holy Spirit will lead us into Godly behaviors and activity, but lets not get it twisted. It is all about Him. It is all about what He has done, is doing and is going to do. We ..... are either dead in our sins or alive in Christ - either way there is no I, me, we or us anywhere in it.
It's a journey .... and I grow in Him!
Kalena Studying
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