as you teach and admonish one another

with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms,

hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude

in your hearts to God.

(Colossians 3.16).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in

accordance with the riches of God’s

grace that He lavished on us with all

wisdom and understanding.

(Ephesians 1.7 & 8).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

since members of one body you were

called to peace. And be thankful.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you

teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, 

and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs

with gratitude in your hearts to God.

And whatever you do, whether in word or deed,

do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks

to God the Father through Him.

(Colossians 3.15-17).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

Who gives to all liberally and without reproach and it

will be given to him.

But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who

doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.

(James 1.5&6).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

we heard it, do not cease to pray for you,

that you may be filled with the knowledge

of His will in all wisdom and spiritual

understanding;

that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully

pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work

and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Strengthened with all might, according to

His glorious power, for all patience and

longsuffering with joy;

Giving thanks to the Father Who has qualified us

to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints

in the light.

He has delivered us form the power of darkness and

conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,

In Whom we have redemption through His blood, the

forgiveness of sins.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over

all creation.

For by Him all things were created that are in heaven

and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether

thrones or dominions or principalities or powers.

All things were created through Him and for Him.

And He is before all things and in Him all things

are held together.

(Colossians 1.9-17).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

and the love which you have shown for His name’s sake

in ministering to the needs of the saints, as you still do.

But we do desire for each of you to show the same diligence

and sincerity in realizing and enjoying the full assurance

and development of your hope until the end,

In order that you may not grow disinterested and become

spiritual sluggards but imitators, behaving as do those who

by faith ( by their leaning totally on God in Christ in absolute

 trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness)

and by practice of patient endurance and waiting

are now inheriting the promises.

(Hebrews 6.10-12).

THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE! HALLELUJAH!

and who are called according to His purpose.”

(Romans 8.28).

The ultimate good is our being in Christ eternally.The Good

in all waiting and wanting for the Redemption is being with

our Redeemer. The very love of God towards us assures us

that all will be well.

Everything Works together in harmony to the ultimate goal

of God’s purpose for us and His creation. God’s purpose is

to accomplish our Redemption.

“May blessing be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus

Christ Who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual

blessing in the heavenly realm!

Even as He chose us in Christ before the foundation of the

world, that we should be holy and blameless in His sight,

even above reproach, before Him in love.

For He foreordained us to be adopted as His own children

through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the purpose of His

will to the praise and commendation of His glorious grace,

which He so freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.

In Him we have Redemption through His blood, the forgiveness

of our offenses, in accordance with the riches and the generosity

of His gracious favor,

Which He lavished upon us in every kind of wisdom and understanding,

Making known to us the mystery of His will in accordance with His good

pleasure which He had previously purposed and set forth in Him,

He planned for the maturity of the times and climax of the ages to unify

all things and head them up and consummate them in Christ, both things

in heaven and on the earth.

In Him we also were made God’s heritage and we obtained an inheritance;

for we had been chosen and appointed beforehand in accordance with His

purpose, Who works out everything in agreement with the counsel and

design of His will,

So that we who first hoped in Christ (who first put our confidence in Him

have been destined and appointed to live for the praise of His glory!

In Him you also have heard the Word of Truth, the glad tidings (Gospel)

of your salvation, and have believed in and adhered to and relied on Him,

were stamped with the seal of the long-promised Holy Spirit.

The Spirit is the guarantee of our inheritance, in anticipation of its full

redemption and our acquiring complete possession of it- to the praise

of His glory!”

(Ephesians 1.3-14).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

We discover and worship the Only True God and Jesus Christ

through His Holy Spirit Who is the guarantee of our inheritance

to the praise of His glory which He has purposed and promised

all along.

The revelation of His divine and eternal purpose is to unite everything

under Christ Jesus in the unique unity of the Holy Trinity. This is the

glory of the children of God full of joy beyond words and extreme glory.

In His love He has provided us the eternal opportunity to belong to Him

and be in Him so we can live with Him forever in divine love and glory.

HALLELUJAH! PRAISE THE LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

(Romans 2.4)

It is God’s goodness and kindness that leads you to repentance.

Not our exceptional intelligence, brilliance or insight.

Not our mystical, spiritual or religious background or standing.

Not our strong will-power, discipline, intense prayer or fasting.

Not our achievements, wisdom or energy.

It is God’s goodness and kindness alone which leads you to repentance

from dead works. This is an absolute miracle.

At one point our unrighteousness and ungodliness becomes clear to us.

We realize like Job did when he encountered God in fear and trembling

how much we need God’s imputed righteousness. The righteousness of

Jesus Christ is credited to us when we totally believe and trust Him.

We conclude that God is true and everyone has sinned and come short

of the glory of God. We realize with awe and fear and trembling how much

we need His grace. We are saved by His grace alone and the faith we obtain

is totally His gift. God’s forbearance and long-suffering lead us to repent.

With humility and endless debt of gratitude we receive His most precious gift.

There is nothing better than abiding in His Presence and basking in His love.

We continue to praise Him for His indescribable gift.

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

Led by the Spirit, we understand that we are now sons of God.

This is our new identity when we are in communion with Jesus the Christ.

We know He became one of us and did not count equality with

God something to hold on and grasp to, but He emptied Himself

of His divine privileges and prerogatives. This is known as Kenosis.

He came to identify with humanity as a human, as a servant and

experienced the death on the cross by being identified as a criminal.

When we embrace Him as our Lord and Savior we take on His identity

and are in union with Him. We then have His thought pattern and become like

minded with Jesus Christ:

“Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,

who. though He was in the form of God, did not regard

equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied

Himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness.

And being found in human form, He humbled Himself and became

obedient to the point of death- even death on a cross.

Therefore God has also highly exalted Him and gave Him the name

that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee

should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every

tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord , to the glory of God

the Father.

(Philippians 2;5-11).

His mind is present in the born-again Spirit-filled Christians.

This is the identity of the reborn sons of God. Because Christ

in you is the only hope of glory. Jesus Christ gives you His life,

so the life you live should be lived to glorify Him and serve Him.

He has redeemed us from sin and death and given us eternal life.

As St. Paul declares: I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live,

but the life that I live is the life of Christ Jesus the Eternal Son of God

Who gave His life for me. Since the Holy Spirit Who raised Jesus Christ

dwells in you, the same Spirit will quicken your mortal body.

The Holy Spirit gives you life and freedom. Where the Spirit of the Lord

is there is freedom. The Holy Spirit is the Helper, the Advocate, the

Comforter and the Spirit of adoption of wisdom and revelation.

You can have freedom from fear.

“You have not received the Spirit of bondage again unto fear; but you

have received the Spirit of adoption whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

This is because the love of God is shed abroad in our heart by the

Holy Spirit and we know He is our Daddy. God is love and He is perfect.

Perfect love casts out fear. Fear has torment, but God’s divine love

dispels fear. This has tremendous implications of immense potential.

The vanity and futility of thought, worry, anxiety simply vanish.

The emptiness and desperation of dissatisfaction disappear.

The bondage to the mere physical with its impotence is  now gone.

Gone are the limitations of time, space, physicality with the preoccupations

of mortality and transitory, frustrating experience, illusory existence

of unregenerate material life.

Because Jesus Christ is fully human and fully divine and we are recreated

in His Spiritual image we now are full-fledged sons of God. No longer

strangers or aliens, no longer subjects or slaves, no longer clinging to

the fanaticism of yesteryear, the dogmas of modernism, the crutch of

postmodernism. You are truly free. As the son or daughter of God you

receive the fullness of the blessedness and favor of God to His glory.

God has not given us a spirit of fear, but the Spirit of power, love and a

sound mind.

This is the Spirit of Sonship freely given through our Lord and Savior

Jesus the Christ. The Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are

children of God.

” Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether

they are from God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus

has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess

Jesus is not from God. And this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which

you have heard that is coming; and now it is already in the world.

Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the

One Who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. They are

from the world; and therefore what they say is from the world, and the world

listens to them. We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us, and

whoever is not from God does not listen to us. From this we know the

spirit of truth and the spirit of error.”

(I.John 4;1-6).

“Many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not

confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh; any such person is

the deceiver and the antichrist! Be on your guard, so that you do

not lose what we have worked for, but may receive a full reward.

Everyone who does not abide in the teaching of Christ, but goes

beyond it, does not have God; whoever abides in the teaching has

both the Father and the Son. Do not receive into the house or

welcome anyone who comes to you and does not bring this teaching;

for to welcome is to participate in the evil deeds of such a person.”

(II. John 7-11).

POINTS FOR MEDITATION AND PRAISE

1) Our freedom from spiritual and intellectual error is totally dependent

on abiding in Jesus the Christ Who as our Lord and Savior is the Way, the

Truth and the Life. He backs up all His assertions with the Holy Spirit, the

spirit of wisdom and revelation.

2) The Holy Spirit leads you into all truth. He guides us in the new creation.

He transforms us from glory to glory. Eye has not seen, ear has not heard,

neither has entered into the human mind the things God has prepared for us.

God reveals these to us by His Spirit.

Prepare for the adventure of eternity. The most  intellectually and

spiritually rewarding new life, the Life! Life in the Light!

HALLELUJAH! WE THANK YOU AND PRAISE YOU LORD JESUS FOREVER!

of unity and harmony. He has made

us both Jew and Gentile one body,

and has broken down, destroyed, abolished

the hostile dividing wall between us.

By abolishing in His own crucified flesh

the enmity caused by the Law with its decrees

and ordinances (which he annuled), that He

from the two might create in himself one

new human (one new quality of humanity out

of the two), so making peace.

(Ephesians 2.14 and 15).

POINTS FOR PRAISE AND MEDITATION

1) Jesus Christ is our peace.

He is the way, the truth and the life.

He is our wisdom. He is the resurrection

and the life. He is also our peace.

2) The wall of separation that existed

under the old covenant no longer

exists under the new covenant.

The barrier is no longer there.

Belief in Jesus Christ allows entering into

the covenant made possible by His

blood. This covenant is made with better,

much greater and everlasting promises.

HALLELUJAH! PRAISE THE LORD JESUS!