30 silver coins over 400 shekels of silvers
Friday, January 20, 2017
A mutual eternal dwelling place
Monday, January 16, 2017
Kindness
Lord I just love YOU for there is none like You. In the whole universe I found none other one like You. LORD JESUS I love You. LORD Jesus, I love YOU!
Lord You are more precious than silver Lord YOU are more costly than gold
LORD YOU are more beautiful than diamond and nothing I desire compares TO YOU!
Colossians 3:5 So put to death and deprive of power the evil longings of your earthly body [with its sensual, self-centered instincts] immorality, impurity, sinful passion, evil desire, and greed, which is [a kind of] idolatry [because it replaces your devotion to God]. 14 Beyond all these things put on and wrap yourselves in [unselfish] love, which is the perfect bond of unity [for everything is bound together in agreement when each one seeks the best for others]. 15 Let the peace of Christ [the inner calm of one who walks daily with Him] be the controlling factor in your hearts [deciding and settling questions that arise]. To this peace indeed you were called as members in one body [of believers]. And be thankful [to God always]. 16 Let the [spoken] word of Christ have its home within you [dwelling in your heart and mind—permeating every aspect of your being] as you teach [spiritual things] and admonish and train one another with all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 9 Do not lie to one another, for you have stripped off the old self with its evil practices, 10 and have put on the new [spiritual] self who is being continually renewed in true knowledge in the image of Him who created the new self...
Friday, January 13, 2017
An experience with saints
Kevin Connor
The following is a repost from a believer who contacted me privately and is being drawn into God's rest and thereby introduced to exactly what it is to "abide" in Christ. I have their permission to share this with all the saints in the hope that there are many who are in exactly the same place, spiritually, and therefore could benefit from another body member's experiences.
The Way for ALL saints is only One, Christ. But the circumstances by which we are all brought to the Truth is innumerable as there are individual body members. Since the principles remain the same for all (just as we all had to pass through the ONE DOOR, we all must all learn how to walk in the ONE Way, Christ.
So I am reposting this with permission in the hope that someone else could be edified in the reading of it and be encouraged and built up. I apologize for the length, I believed posting it in its entirety was essential in participating in the whole conversation, instead of picking it apart. So be blessed and pray...
Good morning, it's 7:27am over here. Grace and peace be multiplied to you. Please I need
insight on ABIDING. That word have been in my spirit for a while now, I have been asking what does it really mean to abide. I will need your input. Two days ago this words drop in my spirit, there is a way that seemeth right, I checked it up it was in pro. 14 Vs 12. I felt the Lord was showing me there are ways we are currently on, that seems to be right but it not right. The Holy spirit dealt more on that yesterday. He showed more light on the fact that there is only one way to Zion
That no one knows the way except He that ordained the way and walk in it. And He is the one who brings us in and shows us how to walk in it
Please. Does this have any thing to do with abiding?
7:31am
Dearest in Christ. Everything you just wrote is part of a believer being brought to the way. Our heavenly Father knows our heart and He is the One who calls. He is bringing you, by His Spirit to the way. Abiding is related to resting in God. None of us enter into His "rest" willingly. We think we want it, we even pray asking for it or deceive ourselves into believing we are already "resting" because of the knowledge we have accumulated, head knowledge. This is not resting.
Ok
Resting is first abiding follows
Abiding is the result of us resting
Ok
Entering His rest in Hebrews is essential to a believer "knowing Him"!
But first we MUST be brought to the end of our attempts at establishing our own righteousness
This is that in Hebrews which states,"make every effort"! Why must we first be brought to the end our "self effort"?
Knowing Him is acknowledging one failure and surrendering all to Him?
Yes but WE cannot. He must brings us
Salvation is of the Lord
It is HIS WORK
Yes
Not ours
We will not believe this Truth even though mentally we agree with it
It is ALWAYS a matter of the heart not the head
And He holds your heart in His hands!
Hmm
He is bringing you into His Light
It is evidence that you have been made uncomfortable and have been praying, seeking Him
He put this upon your heart to do so
It is the EXACT same way He brought you to Himself to be born again!
We did not seek Him He sought us
True
He is still working in that way
My spirit bore witness as soon as I read your message. I got a huge AMEN!
Amen
After a while, you can hear Him in what others say, when He is speaking through them. Like Jesus did with Peter
There is ONE body, ONE Spirit, ONE Lord, One baptism. He is drawing us up into abiding in His Son so that Christ may be ALL and in ALL!
Ok
Remember when Paul told us to "work out our own salvation in Philippians?
Yes
What is the next verse?
It starts with."FOR"
In fear and trembling
keep going the Greek word for "because"
For it is God...
working IN YOU both to WILL and to DO...
Both to will and to do
Ok
If it is God in you both WILLING AND DOING
What is our position?
Ok
in all of that?
To yield
close
Ok
to receive it
Hmm
The work of the Gospel is a FINISHED WORK
Ok
That is why it is "good news"
Christ is our righteousness
sanctification
redemption
Yes
He is the I AM
But we in ourselves, are full of Satan's "I WILL"
our flesh is saturated with it
It goes through our entire being
True
All of the struggle in the universe is between those two opposing positions
Either I can do righteous deeds or I cannot at all
When you believed into Him, what did you do to receive Him?
Nothing just receive
It is the same now and forever
Amen
You are definitely being brought to Him in the same way...
Amen
Colossians 2:6 So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him,
It is still the same
process if you will
No one believes into the Lord, they must be brought to the Lord, through life, circumstances, etc. But eventually, they BREAK (yeildedness) and then they believe!
That process never changes
The difference now is that you ARE in Him and not outside being brought to Him
Hmm. Very true
Please pray and ask Him if this is Him bringing you to Himself. You will find the Spirit bearing witness that it is
Ok
Remember, He is the great surgeon, not us. He is doing the circumcision of our heart
Hmm
He is DIVIDING OUR SOUL FROM OUR SPIRIT
So that we may walk in newness of Life
The old self (soul or bushel) must die and we must learn to walk IN our spirit
Since now we are spiritual people
Amen
but we have brought the Gospel down to earth and we "adjust" our soul to look religious by dressing it up in religious clothing but it is still our soul attempting to establish its own righteousness
This is the Way.....Not I but Christ!
Christ in your spirit IS your new self
The old self has to be crucified
Romans 6:5 For if we have become [a]united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be [b]in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old [c]self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be [d]done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; 7 for he who has died is [e]freed from sin.
No one can crucify themselves
Hmm
As a matter of fact, when you believed INTO Him, YOU DID DIE.
Ok
So that whatever happened to Him happened to you!
We have to be brought to realize this
We have to be convinced!
The definition of TO BELIEVE is,TO BE CONVINCED
And that, my dear sister, is EXACTLY what He is in the process of doing
Bringing you to realize what you are ALREADY in Christ
Amen
When mankind fell, his spirit died.
Yes
Up until that day, man's spirit ruled him
And he was in constant contact with God through his spirit. Because God is spirit and is the only way to know Him is through spirit
Hmm
But He told Adam that the day he eats of the fruit he shall surely die!
And his spirit did die. Cur Him off from fellowhship with God
When that happened, man's soul rose to occupy the place of his spirit
His soul in a position it was never designed to be in
became "puffed up"
And it has been that way since the beginning
Now Christ came as "a LIFEGIVING SPIRIT"
Ezekiel 36:I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
With that new spirit and a heart of flesh and the Holy Spirit that abides in us, that same Spirit is working to restore in us God's proper order...spirit then soul then body in that order
But NOT our old soul. THat is beyond repair
It is being replaced with the NEW SELF (which is Christ in our spirit. We are now SPIRITUAL BEINGS
The third component, our bodies, will eventually be replaced with a SPIRITUAL body, not unlike His
So we will be forever with Him
Amen
Now, in this lifetime, we are set out in the wilderness, to be convinced of what we ALREADY have by our new birth!
Ok
That is why, in scriptures we read in one place that I am BEING sanctified while in another place we read that I am already sanctiified
Both are true but seen from two different positions
Regarding faith IT IS ALWAYS historical, never future
Why?
BECAUSE IT IS A FINISHED WORK, AMEN!
We simply must be "convinced" (believe)
That is the Way you are being brought to
Amen
What you are experiencing is the same for all believers, just as there is only one way to become a christian there is only one way to abide as a christian
Ok
And He is faithful. That "good work" that He started in you He will do it!
Amen
faith seeing and made substance (Christ) is this process of being convinced, believing!
Just as you KNOW His voice when He speaks to you, in other words you "believe" when He speaks
so you will become convinced of everything else He will reveal to you by that same faith
You are EXACTLY where you need to be
Hmmm
Remember the verse...Be STILL and know that I am God.
Yes
the Hebrew word for STILL do you know what it means?
LET GO
Hmmm
Wow
That's awesome
But in ourselves we will not
Let go
Glory
I have a verse for you
Ok
Isaiah 30:15 15 For the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel has said this,
“In returning [to Me] and rest you shall be saved,
In quietness and confident trust is your strength.”
His rest MEANS salvation for our soul
Hallelujah
Amen!!!!
Do you remember Jesus telling us that in order to save our soul we must first lose it?
Yes
How is it that I am told that in order to save my soul I must first lose my soul?
How can I find what I am told to lose?
Its like a riddle
I will post the verse OK?
Ok
Matthew 16:24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “All who want to come after me must say NO to themselves, take up their cross, and follow me. 25 All who want to save their lives (souls) will lose them. But all who lose their lives (souls) because of me will find them.
Hmmm
The Greek word for lives is soul
Ok
We are told that in order to save our soul we must first lose it. He who denies it (says no to their soul) will find it (the new self in the spirit) but if anyone attempts to save their own soul will lose it.
Our old man the old soul of our being is corrupt and beyond repair
It is only good for the cross, death
But we have a new self (which is Christ) in our spirit, being conformed to Him
This is what is referred to in scriptures as "the mind of Christ"
Paul told the Philippians, "LET THIS MIND BE IN YOU".
We are being remade in the image of our creator!
Paul described it, I (self...ego in the Greek) have been CRUCIFIED with Christ! Nevertheless I live, yet NOT I BUT CHRIST lives in me!
Hallelujah. Please reread Colossians, there are many references to this process
Ok
He is already working on your mind and how you think
Your questions testify to this
There is a Psalms which says,"In your light we see light. That verse is this process
It's one books God is giving me much understanding in. Colossians
Even more so now that He is illuminating you with Himself
Everything changes in this "dividing" spoken about in Hebrews. It is a deep and sometimes painful process.
We are VERY attached to who we think we are in our self
As He brings you to the cross in order that these things may die you will suffer pain
The pain is relative to your attachment of those things, the more attached we are, the more pain is the dying
Ok
You may even feel that you are winking out of existence. Psalms Though there be tears in the night, there is joy in the morning
Hmmm
Jesus told us,"Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone"
Our soul is like a glove for the spirit as our body is a glove for the soul
Until the hard outer crust of the soul is put to death, the light of Christ in our spirit cannot shine through.
May I ask you for a favor? Without naming you do I have your permission to repost our conversation on Watchman Nee page? I am convinced that there are many saints in the same place you are and your honesty in your searching may help others in a similar place.
Ok, without name please
Absolutely. No name. Thank you. I believe that this will minister to many who are also being dealt with by God!
Thanks alot
Truly appreciate your time
Anytime.
You are so blessed
Saturday, January 7, 2017
Christ an honest and healthy experience of reality
Stay in the honest experience of reality and healthy reality of Christ!
Dear Jehovah our Heavenly Father,O thank YOU from beginning until the ending of the past year, Your Eyes never ceases to watch over us and our families. THANK YOU for giving us people who has gone before us in words, thoughts,deeds and things that we may rest upon the finished works of YOURS! We need harmony and Christ be our love abode!
LORD, I cry to YOU for Your Mercy and GRACE in today's life in Sarawak and Malaysia where implementation of GST, deflation of Ringgit, Rising of oil, petrol, inflation rate and properties price raised, we are facing hardships and difficulty. Dear GOD, give me a better environment and surroundings, get rid of the evil, delivering me from devil, destroying all man, deed and thing that aren't YOURS. We need a new Kingdom with Your peace,joy and freedom.
Lord Jesus, I need a Healthy life in SPIRIT, Soul and Mind. I need Your presence in me, my family,my church, my country,my world and my universe!LORD Jesus, please help me and save me. Amen!
Our fellowship with one another (fellowship in Greek is koinónia
Strong's 2842. κοινωνία literally means, COMMON BEING. Which IS Christ! Now this Christ, in our spirit, discerned through our heart, when we come into contact with brothers and sisters, that "heart" witness is spontaneous. So that the presence of Christ is felt instantaneously. BUT! Fellowship of the spirit must be cultivated! Grown if you will.
The witness of the holy Spirit IS spontaneous but conversation between saints is not (where the practice of denying the self is still in its infancy) The old self (i.e. old wine skin of the soul, our natural man) is still very much in charge. The old self's influence can be felt whenever we are engaging it. Under the principle of "seconds" it is always the first inclination we have to engage. But if we pause, we will "hear" from our hearts, the new self desiring to express itself. This is Christ. At first, like a new born baby, the new self may make an utterance or an attempt to speak but may not be perceived with any spiritual knowledge or understanding. So we only "get a sense" of what the inner man is attempting to express. And our tongues, may as of yet still be "untamed" and therefore handicapped at expressing Christ (in effect, salt water and sweet water being produced at the same time). And the new self (Col. 3 Amplified) is still in infancy and like a new born babe cannot intelligently express Christ in any discernible way. At best, we see this in undisciplined Christians who will, in one moment speak Christ and in the next moment curse men. This greatly hinders the Holy Spirit working through us and keeps us powerless, hobbled if you will.
But with continued "practice" we learn to "deny the old self" (this is only accomplished through wisdom that comes from above.) and "find out" what pleases the Lord.
Sunday, November 27, 2016
WTAWTAW
Where there is a Will, there is a Way- The Word of God
The Steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, His mercy shall never come to an end, There is
New every morning, new every morning. Great is Thy faithfulness oh Lord!
I pray that I wait for You, LORD, that my soul waits, and in Your word I do hope. - Psalm 130:5
I pray that I never forget that Your word, Lord, endures forever. - 1 Peter 1:25
Your word, LORD, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens.-Palsm 119:89
It is the Spirit which quickens, the flesh profits nothing: the words which I have spoken unto you are spirit and are life. John 6:63
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
30 silver coins 2016/11/17
Money ratio-the worth of the 30 silver coins and over the 400 shekels of silvers
1. Mathew 10:29 Are not 2 Sparrows sold for a penny?
Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father,(one penny was a Roman's coin equivalent
1/16 part of a basic silver coin, insignificant
but yet their values still determined worthy or not by Father God. So as our lives how much we accept the insignificant one, How
insignificant our gift or life is by the one who sent us and our treatment to the insignificant with respect to what have been given to us)
2. Matthew 18:24 As he began the settlement, a man who owed him 10 thousand talents was brought to him. ( How severe sinful to gamble and exploit over worldly gains, risking the government wealth for personal prospects until involving family members but lost them all. Matthew 18:28
but when that servant went out, someone owed him a hundred denarii, he did not let his debtor get away without paying him.He has total sovereignty to show mercy to anyone He decided. Pointless to argue with our Lord because He is more than a financial planner. His calculator is based on His principle and agreement with His co-workers. He grabbed him and began to choke him. (How seriously is anyone offended God, had him and his family redeemed from great debts yet he does not practising forgiveness to the less capable and poorer debtor and family who owed him less money yet stayed punishable. He had been forgiven more than a hundred thousands time, does he have problem to forgive or release other who owed him Seventy-seven times? Not a problem to let go right? Remembering His grace, but if he has forgotten and have greed to overtake , then he shall be trapped or doomed. Matthew 20:13 "But he answered one of them," Friend,I am not being unfair to you. Didn't you agree to work for a denarius?". God mercy and grace are fair as long as we turn to Him no matter early or later, as long as we are in time to make peace. Its Now! We never know if tomorrow ever come.
Matthew 25:28. "Take the talent from him and give it to the one who has. ( if we burried the gifts that God has given to us, that hidding, disguising and do not multiply or magnify them, then we will lost them to those who use them wisely for God's Kingdom). Matthew 27:9 " They took the thirty silver coins, the price set on Him " by the people of Israel, they used them to buy the potter's field, as the Lord commanded me."That is why it has been called the Field of Blood to this day. (Praise God for He loves us even when we are still sinners. Gentiles and foriegners do not have a place, yet this place which been discarded and belittled by the rightful residents was pre-determined and paid with a price of becoming a resting place and land to the homeless, unrest and pittyful lost souls who need the mercy and rescue from Father God)
Genesis 23:15 Ephron answered Abraham" Listen to me, my Lord the Land is worth 400 shekels of silvers, but what is that between me and you? Burry your death." Abraham mourned over lost of his beloved wife. He pleaded and bowed down to the care taker for the agreement to pay for the cave of Machpelah to burry his wife. He paid the price according to the contemporary market value and also as agreed by the Ephron and his people Hettites, even the Hittites insisted and said " No my Lord, I give you the field and give you the cave that is in it. I give it to you in the presence of my people burry my death there."
Abraham agreed to Ephron's and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hetittes: four hundred shekels of shekels of silver, according to the weight current amount the merchants. Afterward Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave in the field of Machpelah near Mamre (which is Hebron) in the Land of Canaan. Genesis 23:19.
It strikes me to see that even Abraham who did not possess the promised land during his life time has bought the piece of land for his wife which then become a permanent place for his people. How great is our Lord has love and plan for His people beyond our understanding!
It does not matter how people prosecuted us being wasting possessions and being dishonest.
If we are like the parable of the shrewd manager, knowing our own weakness, discounting the debts of the master with the agreement of the debtors, making decision and pay for owing the master debtors, we are inviting friends who are unrighteous and sinners to make peace with God and man. The shrewd manager shall be restoring relationship and would have a secure and solid ground for lives to stay forever.
Luke 16:9 stated: I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcome into eternal dwellings. Let's not be just an ordinary sinner, but a forgiven sinner;
Let's not just not be a normal Christian, but a consecrated Christian. Cross-Close, Grow and Glow!
The moral of our Story, God has great interest to home us in His land, and what He sees and needs from us is our readiness to receive his presents and his gifts. Hitittes and even He shows us as He Tithes! He need only a little understanding on what He has done for us in return for the faith to forgive and discounting others debts or sins, thus to invite more pleasurable-pleasant relationship in our lives with Him. jyhowong 11/17/16