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Ephesians 3:19 AMP - "[That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]!"

From deep inside…

"THE HIGHER GROUND IS NOT SOME ETHEREAL, MISTY, CLOUD-FILLED PLACE where you will have no problems or temptations. God's Higher Ground is where you stop arguing with yourself and others, cease struggling with your flesh, and move into His perfect will for you.

It's the place where you have made the decision to live a holy life in a temporal unholy world, and although you are quite aware that you will never (in this…

"THE HIGHER GROUND IS NOT SOME ETHEREAL, MISTY, CLOUD-FILLED PLACE where you will have no problems or temptations. God's Higher Ground is where you stop arguing with yourself and others, cease struggling with your flesh, and move into His perfect will for you.

It's the place where you have made the decision to live a holy life in a temporal unholy world, and although you are quite aware that you will never (in this…

Mark 4:26-29, "This is what the Kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.

All by itself the soil produces grain--first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head. As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has…

"While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal" (2 Corinthians 4:18).

THE ETERNAL IS THE UNSEEN SUBSTANCE OF HEAVEN…

 "Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple." - Luke 14:27

The true Christian life, which is to be a disciple of Christ, is a life of sacrifice. This "taking up of our cross" means that we 'die' to the right to do as we please, and surrender 'unconditionally' to the Lordship of Jesus.  It was on the Cross that…

Isaiah 41:17-20:

"When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.…

Exodus 12:13 -- "Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you....."

On the night of the first Passover, many of the children of Israel were probably anxious. 

They may have said "Yes! We were told to put the blood of the lamb on…

Luke 9:23 - "If anyone wishes to come after Me; he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me."

When the Cross is alive, it burns up the flesh – dreams of the flesh, ambitions of the flesh – all of the flesh.

All of the flesh it consumes. It consumed man's flesh beyond recognition,…

Psalm 100:4,5 - "Enter His gates with thanksgiving And His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him, bless His name For the LORD is good; His lovingkindness is everlasting And His faithfulness to all generations."

 Satan’s plan is to make us somehow accept, either through our upbringing, our experiences, or through Church dogma that certain portions of the…

"Do not change yourselves to be like the people of this world, but be changed within by a new way of thinking.  Then you will be able to decide what God wants for you; you will know what is good and pleasing to Him and what is perfect." - Romans 12:2 NCV

Sometimes the events of life seem to distance us from the awareness of His presence an we feel cast into a wilderness.  In the wilderness,…

Matthew 6:13  -  "And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one."

          There is no temptation or sin in heaven.  This prayer does not imply that God wants to tempt us.  We know from James 1:13 that it is impossible for God to entice us to sin.

          This kind of praying is important because it requires us to face…

Isaiah 52:1 "Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments..."

 God wants us to be awakened to Who He is, His Person, His love, and His Presence. In the Parables of Jesus, we see how important it was to Him that we be awake, that we would not be caught by surprise. When we are awakened…

"So Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water."  -  Exodus 15:22

 For many of us, we have experienced a wilderness while fulfilling God's purpose for our life. We feel lonely, barren, and unfruitful.  We have been so dry…

 "I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in Me will live, even after dying. Everyone who lives in Me and believes in Me will never ever die..." John 11:25-26

Jesus, the Son of God, came to manifest what He is and has always been – Resurrection and Life! Jesus did not come to earth to teach about a theory; He was and is forever the resurrection life for everyone who receives…

Ephesians 1:17,18 -- "That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:  the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling.."

The dreams and visions God births in us bring revelation, illumination, and inspiration. The Holy Spirit instantly reveals…

"Catch the foxes for us, The little foxes that are ruining the vineyards, While our vineyards are in blossom." - Song of Solomon 2:15

Ask the Lord to reveal to you the little foxes that are trying to crush the vine that will bring forth the new wine.  Get an understanding of your Christ identity.  Ask the Lord to send a new wind and blow upon your garden.…

Performance is a very hard taskmaster. In fact, under performance we can never do enough. For us to believe that God only loves us or approves of us because of what we DO for Him rather than WHOSE we are, is to actually demonstrate that what Christ did on the Cross is of no effect! In other words, we are believing that His death and the shedding of His Blood was not enough to place us in right-standing with God.…

"That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. - Ephesians 3:17-19

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Revelation 1:6 - "And has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve His God and Father -- to Him be glory and power forever and ever! Amen."

Mary was chosen to bring forth the Son of God into the world in human flesh.  Jesus Christ was a living, breathing move of God.  Every place he went heaven was brought forth on the earth.  He was also conceived within every born again believer at the…