prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

(Jeremiah 29.11).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for

welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you

a future and a hope.

(Jeremiah 29 .11).

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groan within ourselves, waiting for our adoption, the

redemption of the body.”

Yes, the whole creation which has, for this hope subjected

to futility also groans and waits for the manifestation of the

sons of God.

We are subjected to the vanity or futility that we encounter in

nature, the death and destruction,darkness and depravity present

in this age. However the Holy Spirit heralds the Future in God,

with God through Christ Jesus our Lord.

We are pioneers of hope as we wait for our adoption, that is the

redemption of our body.

We understand that we are redeemed by our Lord and Savior

Jesus Christ and sealed with the Holy Spirit. We are now the

children of God. It does not yet appear what we shall be, but

when He appears we shall see Him as He is, for we shall be like

Him. Through the Holy Spirit, we experience the love of God

which is shed abroad in our hearts and we cry, Abba, Father!

We have witnessed the New Reality in Christ Jesus.

Unseen, yet very real!

We are saved. Based on this salvation we proceed to know

and anticipate. The physical, emotional, social, economic

aspects of our lives are lived under this knowledge and

anticipation.

We are made partakers of the divine nature by Christ Jesus

our Lord and Savior through the Holy Spirit according to

the will of the Father. Now, this moment and every minute

of this fleeting temporal life we are under the hope and

anticipation of the divine Now, the eternity that is His.

“For by hope we are saved: but hope that is seen is not

hope: for what a man sees why does he yet wait? But if

we hope for the unseen, then we wait with patience.”

Waiting with hope and patiently possible only with God.

God’s thoughts of eternity, new creation, freedom, wholeness

and holiness are only accessible through His Holy Spirit.

We are as Paul, determined to know only and focus on Jesus

and Him crucified and the Holy Spirit that raised Him from

the dead. The Spirit bears witness that we are children of God.

Through the Holy Spirit we experience the love of God poured

into our hearts and we express our hope, praise, thanks, love

and longing as we cry, Abba, Father!

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

culminates in Christ Jesus, the Son of Man and the Son of God.

This purpose finds fulfillment in the risen Lord Who is near to all

who call upon Him.

“He is the sole expression of the glory of God and He is the perfect

imprint and very image of God’s nature, upholding and propelling

the universe by His mighty word of power. When He had by offering

Himself accomplished our cleansing of sins and riddance of guilt, He

sat down at the right hand of the divine majesty on high.”

(Hebrews 1.3).

In Him human destiny finds fulfillment. In the risen Lord we have peace,

hope and eternal life. He is the Master of human destiny. He is our healer,

provider and deliverer. He reveals Who God is and who man is.

In Him we are united to God, we are made holy and whole.

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

revealed independently and altogether

apart from the Law, although actually it

is attested by the Law and the prophets.

(Romans 3.21).

It is truly vital to rightly understand that

this is a fallen world, our predicament in it is

indeed dire,

we are helpless, hopeless and desperate and

apart from God’s grace this world is doomed.

All we like sheep have gone astray, everyone to

his own way. There is none that does good, not one.

The heart is deceitful and desperately wicked, who

can know it? All have sinned and come short of

the glory of God. The Law and the Prophets clearly

expound the Fix we are in. St. Paul said that

there is no good in him, he could not do what he

should do and did what he should not do.

We are bound in time and space, limited in

possibility and ability.

However, we have eternity

set in our hearts as Solomon said. We know there

has to be a point to it all and we reflect on

our origin, a time when there was abundance, peace,

love and only goodness in the Garden

where Adam and Eve strolled with God in the cool

of the day.

There was a time when the

sun stood still and time stopped upon Gibeon

and the moon did not move in the valley of

Ayalon.

We know there is a future with no pain, no sorrow, no tears

and no war.

We know there is a future resurrection when the

graves will be opened and the sea will give up the

dead.

We know that there is a judgeement coming when

the Jesus Christ will judge everyone

righteously because He is the righteous Son of God

and Son of man.

He is our righteousness.

He is our redeemer. He is our future.

But, now, refers to the new order of things, to the

shape of things to come and our escape of

the desperate Fix we are in.

This is because the Kingdom has come to us.

The Kingdom is among us , because the King has come.

The King of kings and Lord of lords has come.

I saw a new heaven and a new earth, says St. John in

Revelation, for the first heaven and

the first earth are passed away.

But, now we hear the voice of God which is

heard in the Law and has also spoken by the

prophets, speaking through the Holy Spirit

and  guiding us.

But, now in these last days

God has spoken to us in the Person of His Son,

Whom He appointed Heir and lawful Owner

of all things, also by and through Whom He

created the worlds and the reaches of space

and the ages of time (He made, produced, built,

operated and arranged them in order).

He is the sole expression of the glory of God

(the Light-being, the out-raying, the radiance

of the divine) and He is the perfect imprint and

very image of God’s nature, upholding and

maintaining, guiding and propelling the

universe by His mighty word of power.

When He had by offering Himself accomplished

our cleansing of sins and riddance of guilt, He sat down

at the right hand of the divine majesty on high.

(Hebrews 1.2 & 3).

HALLELUJAH! PRAISE, HONOR, GLORY AND POWER BE UNTO JESUS WHOM THE HOLY FATHER HAS

SEATED AT HIS RIGHT! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

There is one body and one Spirit

just as there is also one hope that

belongs to the calling you received.

(Ephesians 4.4).

POINTS FOR MEDITATION

1) There is no other future

destiny to hope outside

of Jesus.

2) His purpose stands. We stand

with Him.

3) Our future is secure in His eternity.

4) There is one body of Christ.

He is the head of the body.

The Holy Spirit unites us

with His unique power.

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU
LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!