Fill The Lamp

4 Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, 5 so it is with Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other. 6 In his grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well. So, if God has given you the ability to prophesy, speak out with as much faith as God has given you. 7 If your gift is serving others, serve them well. If you are a teacher, teach well. 8 If your gift is to encourage others, be encouraging. If it is giving, give generously. If God has given you leadership ability, take the responsibility seriously. And if you have a gift for showing kindness to others, do it gladly.   Rom  12:4-8

What overcomes His heart?  The greatness of the stars, oceans and mountains do not.  The vast armies of men or demons are nothing before Him. The greatest warrior in history is “conquered” by our love, when we are true to Him in times of testing.  Yes, our eyes of Love move Him. You see this steady Gaze of Song 6:5 is even more intense than any other glance in all of these scriptures.

Neil Parks

"Remember Lot’s wife. Turning back is fatal for those who do so."
“When the Day arrives and you’re out working in the yard, don’t run into the house to get anything. And if you’re out in the field, don’t go back and get your coat. Remember what happened to Lot’s wife! If you grasp and cling to life on your terms, you’ll lose it, but if you let that life go, you’ll get life on God’s terms."

Luke 17:32

All believers, come here and listen, let me tell you what God did for me. I called out to him with my mouth, my tongue shaped the sounds of music. If I had been cozy with evil, the Lord would never have listened. But he most surely did listen, he came on the double when he heard my prayer. Blessed be God: he didn’t turn a deaf ear, he stayed with me, loyal in his love.  PS 66:16

Jesus is calling her to open her heart for Him in order to experience new depths in God. He is now taking full possession of her heart for Himself. SS 5:1.   Jesus calls her My Perfect one because of her obedience to open her heart to Him as her heart yearns and leaps because she is Lovesick.  

 Neil Parks       Fill The Lamp

So we constantly experience the death of Jesus in our own bodies, but this is so that the life of Jesus can also be seen in our bodies. 11 We are alive, but for Jesus we are always in danger of death, so that the life of Jesus can be seen in our bodies that die. 12 So death is working in us, but the result is that life is working in you.

2Cor 4:10-12

They have forgotten Me. Instead, My people offer incense to worthless gods, worshiping them as though they are real. They have lost their way, stumbling from the ancient path of blessing. Now they walk in the ruts of rebellion instead of taking the high road of obedience.   Jeremiah 18:15

Our Salvation involves much more than receiving a legal position of righteousness before God (2 Cor 5:21).  We must understand God’s affections for us.  Why?  Because we will never have more passion for God than what we understand about His passion for us. We love Him because we understand He first loved us. (1Jn 4:19). God’ heart is filled with delight for His people. 

 Neil Parks

Jesus does not define our life by our struggles. He sees more than our failures. He defines us by the seeds of virtue that are in our heart and what we set our heart on, not only by what we attain. He sees a willing spirit in us (Matt 26:41). He defines us by our longings to Love and obey Him. The Devil calls us hopeless hypocrites. The enemy wears down many with accusations and condemnation. He wants us to feel like hopeless hypocrites so that we will give up. He wants us to confuse immaturity with rebellion so that we give up. 

Neil Parks

Listen, my dearest darling, (The Lord Speaking)
    you are so beautiful—you are beauty itself to me!
    Your eyes are
    like gentle doves behind your veil.

    What devotion (Commitment) I see each time I gaze upon you
    You are like a sacrifice ready to be offered.
 When I look at you,
    I see how you have taken my fruit and tasted my word. (His Body).
    Your life has become clean and pure,
    like a lamb washed and newly shorn.
    You now show grace and balance with truth on display.

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