My Lord:
Power and its effectual operation, working, effect on the born again new creation. For I am no longer that which I was, unable to do what I wanted to and doing that which I wanted not to do. To the shame of all of them that sell, teach, preach inability and a new creation that is nothing new but the same old creation that can not but be that which it was. The shame of them that promise liberty as they serve corruption. The shame of them that offer a license to live like devils and yet profess how much they love Jesus. The shame of them that present a false witness and take the Lords Name in vain. The shame of the that show the Truth as not being enough to endure and Go and Sin No More. The joy of them that truly believe with all their hearts that they are able through Christ to do all things for He is their strength. The joy in knowing absolutely they can obey from the heart and Go and Sin No More. The joy in knowing all have a choice in the valley of decisions, to choose life or death, sin or righteousness, obedience or rebellion, Truth or a lie. The joy in knowing they who do endure temptation are blessed. The sorrow for them that believe they are blessed as they endure not. The sorrow of knowing that the false witness leads many astray onto a path broad and many sadly find it. The sorrow for them that sell the Truth, sell salvation as if a price could be put on it above that of the Life of Christ. The sorrow of them that truly have heard and were given and yet they sell that which was given freely to them. The sorrow of them that preach and teach for filthy lucre/money. When in the Spirit it came with power. I can not even now fathom it all. I will forever marvel of it, of all that I experienced. The only thing that was in agreement with what I lived was the book of the Lord. It came in great power and I smile and cry by it, by the Truth of it and the knowing. I can cease to say how I am broken inside wanting again to be in the Spirit again. I can not go without saying how from the gate I knew it was fading away, how much it hurt, how much I begged God and cried knowing it. I can not go without saying I was given so much, I can not find a testimony as the one I have and yet I want more. I do not know if this is right or wrong. I just know I yearn for more, yearn to have that again. To be told to pay attention and have words just placed in me. To have knowing of something was about to happen and then it would and the beauty of it, the marvel of it. How impossible it was and yet there it was happening all around me. I can not go without saying how much I want others to have what I have, to know what I know, to see what I saw and hear what I heard. To live what I lived and be in awe, just stupefied, astonished. There was more to life then this very sad thing men have twisted life into. God created this world, the beauty that astounds us all. But the image men project through this world is of the god of this world. I hated my life, hated having done the things I did and the things I saw done. I hate my life now, wanting to free of this house and to put on the new house. I hate being kept from the presence of the Lord and I do not need any to placate what I know. I need no sympathy, I deserve none. Just the facts, just the Truth, I feel what I fell and speak what I was given. I can not say I have all the answers; I can say that God is and there is so much more to life then we are currently allowed to see and hear. I know I there is someone out there who needs to hear this. That it all has a purpose. To tell others not what I was told when I was filled with the Holy Ghost, but what I know is the Truth of what I was given. So they do not make the same mistakes, maybe they will not have to sift through so much garbage, the inventions and the traditions and the commandments of men. Sifting through all the lies, the provisions and being pulled in every direction but the Truth by the foolishness of men. But, as I have testified by the power of the Spirit of Power, I was shown not to follow after men. How other tried to lead me to men they spoke well of and when hearing them I could not hear them, and the Spirit within was very uneasy. Looking back I see it how they had heaps of teachers to heap upon me. How it caused a divide instantly in my own home, how I was looked at with absolute hatred and that was in itself a marvel, and I did marvel at it. Hate for not believing as others, hate for not listening to those they thought had some profound understanding of the Lord and Savior. Yes I burnt books given to me by others, books I owned, books I owned not. I burnt dvds of so called preachers given to me and I would burn them all again. Yes I was told to burn one book and yes I brunt that book and it burned like no other book I burnt and I burned many. Yes I have testified to all of these things over and over. I think how the one book burned, how I wished I had videoed it, or even sat and watched it at least. I lit one corner of a page of this hardback covered book and it slowly methodically burnt. I was busy doing things and walked by it constantly as it burnt and it was very odd how it was burning but I didn't just watch it, that in it self was odd. I have no recall now how long it took, but I know it was awhile. I walked back down the stairs where at the foot of was the book and it was gone, completely consumed to ash. There was not one single piece left, it utterly was consumed. I imagine that this very tiny bit of the testimony given to me would not impress anyone, but I know it would if anyone could of witnessed it. Before burning I was told burn the book and I walked over to all my book and said which one out loud. Just tell me and I will gladly burn it. But no reply, so I grabbed a trash bag and loaded up all my books. I drew the draw string and tied it like I do any trash bag filled full and started to walk away and exit the back door of my home. Again I was told to burn the book, the words just inside of me, so clear and precise. This is the part I laugh about, my shortness as I replied "what book?". Slightly frustrated I had not been answered when I asked the first time and I spun around headed right back to the trash bag and as I approached it I knew. I knew it would be on top of the bag, I still delight over the memory of it. I sit here typing and smiling over it. Through that little hole left in the top because the bad was slightly overfilled I could see the cover of the book and recognized it instantly. Truly what are the odds? I'm no mathematician but for that book to end up on top, front cover facing upright and that trash bag unable to close, for I had drawn the string tight. That book of all the books and there were quite a few books. It was also my favorite book, I read it a few times. I can recall the story some even now, but it was the ending that I recalled perfectly. In that instant as I looked at the book on top of the bag, it was played back for me how I looked to this book in my head every time I thought of God. This had become an idol, an image, and it was a complete lie, a fabrication by a mans imagination of his god. This type of thinking is sold to the entire world and it found in movies and surely many books that think they have insight to what this world is. Most of my books had the same kinds of premises. It was spiritual but worldly trash. I have named the book many times in the beginning but now I no longer name it. But I will quote it, I will quote the great lie given at then end of it. "Pick up a rock and you will find God". That no matter where you looked, you can find God there. It does not even seem that big of a deal when one reads these words. Yet it is a complete lie. God is not in a rock, under a rock, or anything else but us. We are the temples of God made by His hands. What I see now is that is robs us of who we are truly. The world constantly drives home how we are nothing. We are not special, we are just an accident, a freak occurrence, primordial juices mixed and a single celled organism magically sprang into existence. It slowly evolved into us and everything else. Or everything else slowly evolved into us. We are no better then a virus, wise men have so cleverly written and others repeat it in their moments of sharing great wisdom to each other. A plague of life hell bent on destruction of all things. But if we connect with nature and just look under a rock we will find god and come to realize, have that enlightened epiphany, wow man! that is deep moment. Which I surely thought I had until I truly had that moment acknowledging God. The worship of creation is not finding God, it is an abomination, an affront to the One True Living God. He is Spirit and is to be worshiped in Spirit. This world is not Spirit, it is His footstool. In our hearts is the Throne of God, look within and you shall find Him. There is no need to look anywhere else, where we are He is. That is unless you allow another to sit upon the Throne of God and show itself to be god. Spiritual wickedness in high places, and we are not talking about the high places of government. The Father and the Son will come in unto us, our hearts and sup with us. Revelation 3:20, " Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. " How I did cry out, "Father". I would relive that moment in an instant if God would only allow it. Galatians 4:6, " And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. " Power! I am not interested in any power that allows me to rule over anyone or anything but myself. To rule over myself, over this flesh and my spirit. To do what is right, to not be that old man that wanted to do good but only did the things he wanted not to do. In that newness of life now able, now set free, now can obey from the heart, power. I do not want to be anything, known, followed, spoken well of, or what things like to these things. I want to simply obey God, love the Truth, be a doer of it an escape from them that live in error. To escape this intact, to remain on the Path few find but many try and fail. I was told to tell, so here I am typing words sharing my walk with anyone who might need to hear it. Hoping even just one finds the Truth and also escapes from all the filthy lies, provisions, from all the vanity of men lost in their lust, led by evil, devils, satan. 1 Peter 3:4, " But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. " This is the "power" I seek. To simple obey that which is and has been asked of us to obey. Not pretense, but unfeigned, true, real, authentic. A place where God is not taken in vain, in the vanity of minds, for He is not mocked knowing our hearts better than we do. Nothing is hidden, nothing is not known, every word, every thought, every deed. It is all understood, and it all will be laid bare, God help us all Amen. 1 Peter 1:22, " Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: " Romans 6:17, " But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. " Power to be what faith ye are saved by is. Not this filthy rag ever unable lie was born again. But faith being what it is, faithful, obedience, faithfully obedient unto death even, enduring till the end. All my hope, all my trust, all my being, all that any man truly possesses, heart, mind, body, spirit and ones might. Power to be effectual, to be an operation working proving ones fact of state of being is that I love the Father, I love Christ whose name is Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Ever Lasting Father and the Prince of Peace. Every day I Name His Name and I desire to absolutely depart from all iniquity. I do not want to be covered as to be hidden from anything. I want to do as written, be able to stand and love HIs appearing. To be found clean, spotless, without blemish, ready, prepared, at the door even now. This is power, riches,, equity the wisdom of ability, able to do and not just say. Fighting the good fight of a WORKING faith, which works by love and is proven by deeds. If ye love Me, keep My Commandments. They who abide walk as He walked. That POWER of a word; abide is belief, is believe, is faith, is obedience, is faithful, is trusting, is strong confidence. Again, the pie is the same no matter how it is cut. The pie served is the same always, it changes not. To abide that ye may stand fast, hold fast, keep, maintain, do. 1 John 2:28, " And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. " Powerless and power, lies and Truth, unable and able. 2 John 1:9, " Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. " Power and effect... The power is abide, the effect is dwelling in Him, sinning not. The power is faith and the effects of that faith to do that which is asked. The power is believing and the effect of that belief producing fruit, deeds, change. Moral fortitude for there is not doubt He came to change us, to grow in us that which through transgression, sin, we lost. The power is hope and by that hope to stay the course set by the Captain who steers the ship. God the head of Christ and Christ the head of men and men the head of women. Such Truth despised, such Truth abused. 1 John 3:24, " And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us. " 1 John 2:17, " And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. " 1 John 3:6, " Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him. " 1 John 2:10, " He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. " John 15:5," I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. " The Truth is only in them that abide. Yet so many profess to be unable to abide and yet they love Him, claim to serve Him. The sinning saints that have no part but certain of having what they have not. The power is in them that abide and not in them that abideth not. The blessing is in them that endureth and not them that endureth not. Sin is not blessed it is broken or hardened. When I testify it was to be of the power that it came in. I marveled of it, how it could be possible. The things I saw, heard, felt and lived. How could these things take place, another world just outside of our ability to hear it, see it, know of it but God showeth it through the Holy Ghost. It came in power and in them that truly love Him it produces effect. It grows moral fortitude, it grows righteousness, it grows the Fear of the Lord, it grows that reverence of God, that awe. God is an awesome God Amen. 1 Thessalonians 1:5, " For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake. " 1 Thessalonians 2:13, " For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe. " 2 Timothy 1:7, " For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. " What good is power if it can not do anything but fail? What good is the Spirit of Love if it never can do what must be done? What is a love that always fails? NOT LOVE! What is a Spirit of Power that never shows any power? Surely NOT the POWER of the Spirit of God! Affliction - something that cause pain and suffering. Greek - G4777 Word: συγκακοπαθέω Transliteration: sugkakopatheō Phonetic: soong-kak-op-ath-eh'-o Part of Speech: Verb Definition: to suffer hardship together with one... Consider using such a description to express the Gospel of Peace. Why seems to be the natural thing to ask. Why affliction, what is being inflicted upon anyone that truly follows the Lord Jesus Christ? Why mention telling us before hand that we might not be offended when certain things happen? Because it is not all sunshine a roses, upbeat overly happy people just loving the world and all that is in it. But it is sharing in the afflictions of denying the world. Turning from things once thought of as good, pleasant and desired. Escaping from them that live in error. Reproving, rebuking and exhorting, enduring and digging deep. The flesh whines like a spoiled child. Who wants to suffer? Who has pleasure in afflictions, persecutions, tribulations, regardless of whom they come from and for what reasons. Regardless of how great they are or are not. The great need of power and for it to have effect upon them that, deny themselves, take up their own crosses and follow after Christ. What suffering is found in denial of self? What suffering is found in bearing ones cross? What suffering is found in following Christ. We are indeed most miserable who follow after and keep, maintain and do. The world is like a spoiled child and it never shuts up. How easy it is to give heed to it, so one can fail, give up, turn from, profess love but do anything but produce fruits of love. How easy it is to marry and be unfaithful in that marriage when provisions are the main theme of living in the world. So easy to find a friend to make excuses so one can justify their own lusts of the flesh fulfilled. So easy it is to tell others how they can never be faithful, never obey, never do, never become, never keep, never maintain because they have flesh that is imbued with sin. Wholly unable and even if they are born again, it changes nothing but it being now all done for them as they walk in the flesh and ignore the Truth. them that love to say there is no condemnation in Christ but never once finish it with "if" you are truly in Christ. Walking not in the flesh but in the Spirit. They in the Spirit are not sinning. Just other day while talking with another of the Lord and giving the testimony I was given to give, the dying daily to sin came up that Paul spoke of in 1 Corinthians 15. My friend wanted to tell me that we die daily to sin and I just can not understand how so many try to use this as an excuse for failing each day. It clearly states that Paul stood in jeopardy every day from losing his life. They sought to kill him always and even stoned him to death once, they (Jews) thought. It has not one thing to do with sinning and being in jeopardy for his life, his soul, or salvation. Yet even in this the contradiction is found. They who always quote such nonsense of dying daily to sin. If Paul did mean this to be because he sinned daily, then why would his life be in jeopardy? When all he had to do was say he believed, or profess the Grace of God, of plead the blood? Why did he not respond with how he had an advocate in Christ and so he could sin daily and there would no jeopardy. Of course he didn't say such things because those things are lies. Surely temptation tempted Paul like all flesh, but he did not give into it, he brought his body into subjection as he wrote. Be a partaker of AFFLICTIONS OF THE GOSPEL. Do not try to minimize the Truth with provisions. Joy in the things that others speak of not being the way God would want me to live. One could write entirely of just how the Truth afflicts someone who truly abides. One who truly fights the good fight of a working faith out of love. That true virtue we are called to by the knowledge of God. 2 Timothy 1:8, " Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God; " The very thing Peter spoke so well of, a faith added to. A faith with depth and not just a word to speak. Which is the very thing James spoke of in his book of solid steel. Faith that has more then a surface but deepness of root Amen. Virtue added to faith is what again? It is a sense of strength, something one knows in them through the Spirit of Power being in the Spirit and as that fades, but not forgotten, held fast to, and adding to thine faith. It is something that produces effect. It is moral fortitude, the very thing some preach that Christ did not come to do or give. It is conformity to a law or laws. It is voluntary obedience to Truth out of love. Yes duty is, yes reward is but it is by love we keep and maintain and fight. It is moral excellence. It is an acting power, efficacious ( a word I have grown fond of). It is efficacy, It is value and merit. Merit, there is a word that stings many. It is by the KNOWLEDGE of God that has called us to glory and to virtue. 2 Peter 1:3, " According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: " It is power that is added to faith or belief. It is by grace that teaches us this very Truth that we are able to withstand the wiles of the devil and them that serve it. Them who exhort with provisions and excuses to have evil imbued in the flesh that is nothing but flesh. The born in sin, born to sin, license to sin, once saved always saved, can not out sin the Grace of God, the finished works of Christ being their works without them doing anything whatsoever. Even Repenting is a work to them that is out of the question. Yes I will take a wrecking ball to this same stronghold until I get to leave this fallen world. I will profess the power, true exhortation, encouragement. Yes you can, yes you are able to obey from the heart and Go and Sin No More. Yes the born again ARE NOT wholly given to sin and death (I will never get over such a foul teaching). Put this vile imagination upon the trash heap of history and let it be forever buried Amen. Power in the riches that God giveth, wisdom, knowledge, understanding and the ability to retain through diligence. Study to show thyself approved. Digging deep, putting in the works, the effort. Keeping, maintaining, doing, if ye call me Lord, Lord then do as I ask. If ye love Me, keep My Commandments. The Holy Scriptures are able to make thee rich, wise, unto salvation. Search the scriptures, seek ye out of the book of the Lord and read. Set thy focus, stay thy mind, hold fast, forget not. If you truly have heard and know that the Lord is gracious, forget not what was given to you. To all that love Him a measure given. What was heard, what was given, neglect not the gift, neglect not salvation. Take not lightly the Rock of Salvation. Take not lightly this time of grace given to work out thine own salvation with fear and trembling. Run. 2 Timothy 3:15, " And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. " Power and the efficacy. By grace we are saved through faith. It is not of ourselves but a gift of God. Grace is a teacher, faith is fidelity, faithfulness and the like. The gift that God has given, calls whom He calls. Has given His only Son to fulfill the Law, the wages of sin requires death, a spotless Lamb. Something not of ourselves but absolutely a gift from God. Grace teaches us to do just and the Lord Jesus taught. Faith is that faithfulness one follows if they truly know, truly have tasted that He is gracious indeed. They who have been forgiven much love much. For our of love one will run the race, keep, maintain, desire to be meet, worthy of use. By the teachings of what grace truly is, being faithful to that teaching by a faith that is unmovable, enduring till the end, we are truly saved by hope. It is power expressed, it is reward through effect. If ye love Me, keep My Commandments. Call Me Lord, Lord and do what I have said. Told to tell and so I share my walk freely. Freely given, freely give. The power found in obeying from the heart the doctrine received of God. The power found in denying ungodliness and worldly lusts. Living soberly, righteously and godly lives in this present world. Denying thyself, bearing the affliction of the Gospel, following the Lord. Being faithful by faith working by love and proven by deeds. Truly simple as it is written, we are saved by grace through faith, it is not of ourselves but a gift from God Amen. Called to power, if ye believe ye shall be saved. A belief that produces effect, that has power to place the Fear of the Lord before ones face Amen. Power to run till the end. Power to endure it all, whether God will or whether He will not, power. Are ye able? Yea Lord we are. Ephesians 2:8, " For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: " Titus 2:11, " For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Titus 2:12, " Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; " Romans 8:24, " For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? " John 14:15, " If ye love me, keep my commandments. " Matthew 20:22, " But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able. " Power in the reverence of God Almighty. The power to keep and by keeping power maintained. Power in love, for love does not fail, it produces effect that can not be overwhelmed by that which is evil. Sighing and crying, hurt, sadness, affliction, tribulation and all like to these, we are able to endure out of love if that is the desires of thine heart. So much to distract, but the warning stands fast, '" forget not '". There are so many things fighting to cause one to forget, to give in, to stop fighting that good fight of faith working by love and proven by deeds. Life is pain, do not let the lie silence the Truth with things that only try to make you feel good. If you will take the time to look, you will see how the world tries to always mask the Truth. Pharmakeia, witchcraft, sorcery, amusement, the whole world wonders after the beast and its image. When Christ revealed Himself in me, I was shown perfection. True happiness, true joy, true peace, true love. None will ever find this by the inventions of men. There is not one imagination that can fathom what I speak of. It is beyond comprehension. I gladly beg all to fight, for it is worth whatever cost must be paid. To do not buy the image that is a lie, fight. To deny the Power of God for an idol. Have faith, be faithful. Bless be the day the Lord giveth to work out thine own salvation with fear and trembling. This is the Lords day a day to do good. This day is not an invention of men, it is the day God made for man and not man for it. It is the seventh day, the last day of the week. It is the fourth Commandment, the very day God rested from all His works. Strive ye to enter into My rest. It is remission of sins past and not permission for sin future. Seek, Repent and Sin No More. We are the words we speak. Blessed be the Name of the Lord Amen and Amen. https://lesliewross.weebly.com/blog/power-effectual
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All That Matters Is Christ...Weeks before my death the Lord knocked upon my heart, I heard and opened the door. My life has been forever changed, a new man indeed. Me a wicked man saved by the Grace of God, no more that wicked man. Died at 43 and was given a choice to stay or go. If I stayed I had to tell of the Lord Jesus Christ and here I am. I share my walk with my Lord, my candle is lit and I pray it be a light for all to know the Lord Jesus is the Way to the Truth to have Life, Amen. Archives
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