Live Behind The Veil

Summary:

It's about us walking out the Lordship of Jesus Christ in our lives today. As we walk in His Lordship, we minister His Lordship in all we speak and do. We are entering into that priestly ministry with Christ at the Father's right hand to see all things come into subjection to Him.

Show Notes:

Our walk with God is about the Lordship of Jesus Christ in our lives.

We bow at His feet in worship.

Our relationship with the Lord is the most important thing in our lives.

We minister His Lordship in all we do and speak.

We also enter into that priestly ministry with Christ.

We must walk in the principles that are laid out in the scriptures.

Our works were per-ordained before the foundation of the world that we should walk in them.

We are walking in Kingdom relationships, first with the Lord and then with one another.

Quotes:

It's about the lordship of Jesus Christ. It's about knowing Him. It's about walking with Him, It's about believing Him,

The Chosen: Mary came, and brought the ointment, she pours it over Him, it's just worship.

And that's exactly where we need to be at. Is in our hearts and spirits, we bow before the Lord at His feet, and worship Him.

It's just our relationship to the Lord is the most important thing in our lives.

Every morning we wake up, we're in the presence of the Lord when we minister the Lordship of Jesus Christ over everything that we do, everything that we are, and everything that we speak.

...That final step that we're being led into is the final step of Christ's ministry, and that was the prophet priest of the kingdom.

The story of Mary and the ointment, I try to take that and say, how do I duplicate, how do I walk in that level of love, and that level of caring today?

Give us the ability to take those scriptures, and those principles, and function in them today to His glory.

The kingdom is relationships. And the first relationship is the Lord. And then the communication with the Lord to the Lord in each one of us, we're coming into a place. We're realizing the unlimitedness of a spiritual connection with Him, and with each other.

References:

Matthew 22:44

“‘The Lord said to my Lord:

Daniel 7:13–14

(The Lord Jesus Christ given His kingdom and authority)

Matthew 28:18–20

(Jesus declares His authority and Kingship)

Philippians 2:5–11

(The Lordship of Jesus Christ)

Romans 8:34

(Christ ever lives to make intercession for us)

Ephesians 1:3-12

(We walk in the works per-ordained before the foundations of the world)

Takeaway:

Our walk with God today is first about the Lordship of Jesus Christ in our lives. Each day we reach into that relationship with the Lord and minister His Lordship in all we do and say. As we are faithful to walk out His Lordship we find ourselves walking in those works that were per-ordained for us to walk in to bring forth His Kingdom to this earth.

Summary:

The presence of the Lord is the most important thing we have in our lives. There are many aspects of His nature and as we come humbly before Him crying out for more His nature to come forth within us, we find that He is exceedingly abundantly more than we could ask or think.

Show Notes:

The presence of the Lord is the center of our lives.

Being in His Word is key to His presence.

It is His Spirit within us that makes everything happen.

It's our reaching into His presence in our worship and speaking the Word that releases God in our midst.

You can't put God in a box. He is whatever He wants to be in any moment.

God is pouring out Himself on us.

We must humbly ask the Father for His nature to be imparted to us.

It's Christ in us that reveals the heavenly Father.

God the Father is ever unfolding His presence and who He is to us.

Quotes:

The presence of the Lord is the most important thing that we have in our lives.

To be in His presence, I relate with being in His Word.

...not by power nor by might, but by My spirit, saith the Lord. It only happens when we're in His presence.

...the whole aspect of who our Father is comes through these earthen vessels.

Reach up into more of God. Recognize that He's with you and worship Him. By faith, lose your will to speak the word that you move into the presence of God with.

There's an unformed substance within our being, and it's called the Father. The undefinable is the presence of the Father.

You can't say God is this or God is that you can't say He's just faith. You can't say He's just love. You can't say He's just this or that. He's all of it.

What we have to learn to do is how we tie together His attributes. Because that's what He's trying to pour out upon us.

...every one of His aspects of His nature is open for us to appropriate, put into practice, all we have to do is ask Him.

...Christ in us so alive, and so real in His fullness that reveals the Heavenly Father.

God wants to show us the expansion of who He is. He is not limited.

References:

Matthew 18:20

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

John 1:1-5 (God is His Word)

Zechariah 4:6

Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.

Ephesians 3:20

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

Psalm 139:14

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

Takeaway:

The awesome presence of the Lord is everything to us. God is unlimited so we stop trying to define Him and reach in to experience His presence in our lives everyday.

Summary:

Christ experienced the human nature that we have and suffered the discipline to become our Savior. We too must walk in His footsteps and lay aside this human nature, walking in that same discipline from the Father, giving our wills over for Him to make us those living sacrifices of worship, sons that are pleasing to the Father.

Show Notes:

Christ had to lay aside all the things in His human nature as we do.

We too must lay aside our human nature and become that living sacrifice to God.

We must give over our will to the will of God.

God is the one doing this. This is not a self-help program.

We submit to His will and working in our lives.

We trust in Him to finish the work that He started in us.

Quotes:

It's about the suffering that Christ went through in doing the will of God. He had to put to death the things in the nature He was born with.

Lord, am I where you want me to be?

Have I offered myself as a living sacrifice to You, which is my reasonable service of worship?

This is about giving our will to the will of God, to be completed by Him.

When we give our hearts wholly to the Lord, that's the pure way of change. It's the pure way of cleansing. If we go any other route, it's a self help program.

It's the preparation of the Holy Spirit just ministering to you, and the submitting to staying, waiting for Him to complete the work in us.

I know nothing else to do, but to stand in the presence of the Lord, be still and know that I am God. That's where my completion comes from.

Just trust in the Lord with all your heart. Stop leaning on your own understanding. Don't even give it a thought. In all your ways, acknowledge Him, and He will direct your path.

References:

I Peter ( Putting off the old self)

John 1:14

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Philippians 2:5-8

Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men; and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross.

Hebrews 2:17-18

For this reason he had to be made like them, fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.

Romans 12:1

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Galatians 5:24-25

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.

Hebrews 12:2

looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Philippians 2:13

For it is God who worketh in you, both to will and to do of His good pleasure.

Psalm 46:10

He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;

Proverbs 3: 5-6

Trust in the Lord with all your heart,

Takeaway:

Christ suffered in the flesh as a human being and learned obedience through the things that He suffered. He gave over His will to become the will of His Father and became our Savior. We too must walk in His footsteps and give over our will, trusting in Him to accomplish the work that He has started within us. We are becoming those those living sacrifices of worship, sons that are pleasing to our Father.

Show Notes:

When a new believer receives a salvation experience, he may also be introduced to the possibility of being born again.

This time of being born will not be anything like a person's first birth. It will be entirely new.

Being born from above is not something a person works at; it is an endowment from your Father in heaven.

This experience is unique for each individual and it opens up a whole new life of provisions from the Lord, especially a deeper relationship with Him.

The changes that happen to someone who is born again could include receiving His divine nature, loving yourself as the new creation He is making you, and flowing in deeper relationships with other believers.

You may now be given a sense of who He created you to be, and your eyes are opened to see His Kingdom.

Quotations:

Being born again is something new and totally different. What is being established is a direct impartation of His nature.

One of the first things that happens is you fall in love with yourself.

Being born again has to be an experience, but it will be different for every individual.

One of the things it does is bring a instantaneous connection with each other in the spirit.

We're being His workmanship; He's creating us into what He wants us to be in order to work the works of God.

It's the Lordship of Jesus Christ. It is about us giving our will to the will of God.

The outcome of that experience of being born again is to see the Kingdom of God.

References:

Mark 12:30-31 “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: you shall love your neighbor as yourself.” There is no other commandment greater than these.

I Corinthians 2:9 “Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and which have not entered the heart of man, all that God has prepared for these who love Him.”

I Corinthians 15:51-52 “Behold, I tell you a mystery, we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump...”

Romans 8:28 “And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.”

John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.”

Takeaway:

Being born from above is an amazing promise. It comes under that Scripture of “eye has not seen and ear has not heard.” Since this is an experience that cannot be worked out by man, but is created by God, we find that the part that a believer contributes is his will. The first step is loving the Lord with all your heart, all your soul, your mind and your strength. We can change, but we must be born again into this life of Spirit.

Summary:

In this new day God has brought drastic changes to the lives of His believers. There is a deep determination arsing in the hearts saying, “I want to go on into what God has for me!” As each day unfolds we find that the things of the lesser level that we have lived on begin to be “put away” as we reach into the dawning of this new day within us.

Show Notes:

As God dries up one level He draws us into a new level and we determine to go on into what He has for us.

As we grow in God the lesser things (childish things) are done away with.

As we read the scriptures we find that they begin to open up to us with new meaning and revelation as we walk in the new level He brings you to.

Quotes:

It's about the determination in our hearts that God has put there to go on.

God takes you out of something, and brings you into something new. He brings you into a new level.

In those scriptures from 1 Corinthians 13, shows how we go from one level to the next. The childish matters - those things, they're done away with.

If you're going to grow up, you got to change the way you think; the way you do things. I can see that those things become inactive in my life, and that they are matters that I put away.

So as we grow in grace, and in the knowledge of the Lord, don't you think the Spirit gives new input, new information, new revelation, new understanding in that aspect of moving from realm to realm...

I have never seen so much a flow of the Word coming out of revelation in the Spirit.

References:

Takeaways:

As God brings deep changes into our lives we find that He is drawing us up into a new level. This new day of Spirit has opened and with a deep determination we reach in to walk in it. Each day we lay aside the “childish things” as we grow in His grace and knowledge to become all that He wants us to be.

Introduction:

You may be seeking to get a clear revelation of what His perfect will is for your life. Being filled with His presence and love becomes the answer for everything we are seeking. He wants to live in our heart's and we will live in His.

Notes:

We can be searching for answers. Meanwhile, He is seeking to know us and to live in our hearts.

It's a 2-way street. We want to know Him and live in His heart, and He wants to know us and live in our hearts.

We prioritize our relationships so He is absolutely first. Then we receive what He is creating in us, so we can minister to others.

Questions emerge in the Scriptures: When did we see You naked? When did we see You hungry? (Thirsty? Sick? Etc.)

When we are filled with His presence, and we minister His presence to each other, then we are walking in the Kingdom.

When we are exercising our free will to worship Him, that deep love is being expressed.

As we are washing each other by the Word, His love is being created and coming alive.

Quotations:

It's at our initiative to show up that gives me a chance every morning when I rise up, and I take the initiative to knock on His door and He opens the door and says, “come on in , son.”

When He appears, we shall be like Him.

Each day God makes available His appearing.

We're supposed to be perfect as our heavenly Father is perfect. That's why we have to have that relationship first with Him.

Since God is the Word, it was God that put it (His love) in us. It's all the Father coming through Christ, and it's all Christ coming through the body.

References:

Matthew 19:27 Then Peter said to Him, “Behold, we have left everything and followed You; what then will there be for us?”

Matthew 25:35-36 For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger and you invited Me in; naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.

Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.

I John 4:19 We love, because He first loved us.

Takeaway:

The Lord presence and love is the very source of everything we are and need. He desires to fill us and make His presence available to us every day. As we come to know Him we realize that is is a two way street. He lives in us and we live in Him.

Summary:

The maturing process brings us to the point where we have a response to people that is not our own thinking. We realize we have received an impartation of God's Spirit, which flows out to others. Instead of responding with the human mind, the words come from deep within in what He has made us. Now it is possible to begin to recognize each other as that new creation in the Body of Christ.

Show Notes:

The reality of having Christ in our heart can come through at any time showing us how much He has created us. It is not just for yourself in your relationship with Him, but also for an outflow to give to others.

We can begin to discover the amount of preparation He has given us, so that we can minister from that flow of living water that He has given us.

As we reject the human mind and draw on Him for the mind of Christ, we are receiving His thinking. It draws that “knowing Him” that unveils His many qualities that become part of the flow of Spirit.

Rather than speaking from the intellect, there is a flow of the Spirit, being open for the Lord to transform us.

This is not about dissecting why we are or how we function, but participating in the many membered body in an opportunity to see how perfectly knit together we are becoming.

What comes out of this participation is that each one begins to learn who they are themselves and who each other is.

Quotes:

There is a response that comes out of you that is not your thinking on a human level, but it's the thinking that comes out of knowing Him and having received impartation of who He is.

The human mind is enmity against God and that is why the Scripture says to put on the mind of Christ.

God created each one of us just exactly the way we are.

God chooses the lame, halt and blind because He is not interested in our great abilities for scholarship or any of that. He is interested in our hearts being open to Him so that He can impart His Spirit.

Are you willing to be Christ in the earth?

References:

John 7:38 “He who believes in Me,” as Scripture has said, “from his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water.”

John 16:12 “I have many more things to say to you, but they are too much for you now.”

John 7:37 “If any man is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink”

Matt 16:16 And Simon Peter answered and said, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

I Cor 4:3 “It is a very small thing that I should be examined by you or by any human court, in fact, I don't examine myself.”

Matt 4:19 “Come follow Me” Jesus said, “ and I will make you fishers of men”

Takeaway:

The day is upon us when we can truly experience Christ being in our heart and the reality of our becoming rivers of living water. This inspires us to give over for our minds to be transformed. We reach into the Spirit for Him to speak through us, until we grow in our awareness that He is living in us more and more every day.

Summary:

When God saves us, we have the promise that He brings in our families with us. This is a covenant from the Lord that we can believe and stand on. We can trust what He is doing—how He leads you as well as the things that happen to you and around you. He is creating the perfect family to be what He called us to be.

Show Notes:

We have a cry in our hearts for the members of our family, believing that the Lord will do whatever He sees is necessary to minister to each one.

Another name for the Kingdom is the Father's family. He is connecting us together to be His family.

Our connections are based on our relationship with the Father first.

As the Father creates His love in us, we are equipped to minister to the members of the family.

We have been given His life, and we will begin to see that He is pulling the family even closer together.

Quotations:

We're a family built on coming together as Christ in the earth, as His sons.

The life we're living is a spiritual life first, and then everything else follows.

We're walking out the footsteps ordered by God, walked out by His Son, that we might walk in those same footsteps.

If somebody is critical of you, open your heart and listen to what they say. Because what you just did is you turned around and set them up that God can help them.

He will do it through a many membered body.

References:

Acts 16:31: And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved, you and your household.”

Romans 8:14-15: For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God. For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!”

Romans 12:4-5: For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function, so we who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.

Proverbs 3:5-6: Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths.

Takeaway:

God is in the process of creating His family. He helps us grow by being a part of every aspect of our lives. When He saves us, then we begin to cry to Him for all those we love. He has given us the promise that He will include our heritage, our household. We need to trust Him that He knows best how to pull us all together into His perfect family.

Summary:

As we walk with the Lord in our daily lives we are fulfilling the scripture “He must increase and we must decrease.” As we decrease in ourselves, God tells us to reach into His love so that we may be filled and able to express that love to others. It is this love moving through us that will be the force that will touch people's hearts and bring His Kingdom to this earth.

Show Notes:

As we continue to walk with the Lord we must decrease and He must increase in our lives.

We must continue to reach into this deep love of God and express it to people around us.

In our daily walk we must see that people around us live on many different dwelling places with many different expressions in God.

We must not criticize or judge our brother just because they are different.

We are to love people with His love.

God's love is what is going to rule and reign in the earth.

The Kingdom of God is all about His love.

We must not eventuate people, but simply love them.

God's love is available for us to love people with.

Quotes:

As we're reaching into Him, and we're decreasing in ourselves, that's where the life is at. That's exactly where we're going to receive our sustenance, and have this ability to live and walk in the spirit.

God is, He's drawing us up short in our love factor. There is a level of love that we have not yet attained in God. And it's a pure love for people.

God loves His creation. He's not willing that any perish. And there are all different places, all different abiding places in the Lord. Different levels, different people, but they're all functioning as a part of what God has created and brought forth.

It's so important that we don't look and judge. There's only one judge. There's only one that's going to judge, and that's God.

We simply have the right to love as He loved. We'll be involved in the kingdom in His love.

God is drawing His people to Himself.

This love is going to control, it's going to rule, and reign in the earth.

This is what the kingdom is. It's all about, it's about His love coming forth. It will envelop the entire world.

I was thinking of Jonah, and I was thinking of did Jonah love Nineveh? Do I love the people I'm with? Am I going to evaluate those people that I'm with?

We need to understand that the love of God is available for us to minister to other people.

We will move in the love of God without even knowing how we moved in the love of God. Because it doesn't work with our brains.

References:

John 3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease.

John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

John 14: 2-4 (There are many different dwelling places)

Matthew 7:1-2 (Judge not)

Revelation 18:4 (Come out of Babylon My people)

Luke 10:9 Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.

I John 4:8 (God is love)

The Book of Jonah (The story of the prophet without God's love)

Takeaways:

In this day when there is so much criticism and hatred of people, we must be filled with God's love so that His love is expressed and is what people experience. This is the driving force that will bring forth His will and Kingdom to this earth.

Summary:

God is challenging our hearts to move into His love. His love is not human love, but is unconditional - full of mercy and grace. We must have this love in our hearts so that we can share it with others. With a child like spirit we must run to our heavenly Father crying to Him for His love.

You can say I have the love of God, but do you have all of it? Or do you just have enough to get you by and to walk with God in this place that we're in today?

We can hate to sin, but we must have God's love if we're going to complete the mission that He's called us to complete.

It's not enough just to say I know the love of God because I love my brother. If you love your brother who loves you what good is that? Even the sinners do that.

It has to be unconditional love. Who has unconditional love? Only the Father has unconditional love.

We have to believe, and trust the Lord that He's going to impart it to us.

With that love, we will change the earth.

...today that as the family of God is the kingdom of God that's come into the earth, we can have the love of God invading all of our hearts. together.

We're feeding on the love of the Father as a necessity. We have to have that every day.

...there's a thing about the communion. There's a thing about worship. He's given us avenues. That we can have it imparted to us.

I don't want to hear an answer. I don't want to hear a method. I'm trusting my spirit unto the Lord. He started this. And He's the only one that's going to fix it.

I don't get it. I don't understand how the Lord can love when people turn their backs on Him, go to idol worshiping, do all the things He told them not to do.

...God is love. He can't help Himself. That's who He is.

...we're supposed to reach into this love and be able to share what it is the Father's all about with whomever we come in contact with. Enemies, friends, loved ones.

I don't think that a child has to think about how to love God. If we have a childlike spirit, we go to the Father.