Forget Your Name |
Now I call upon the name of Jesus, name of the Lord. His name is the only name I acknowledge, the name of love Who pardoned me and accepted me.
I am accepted in the beloved, I am accepted by what Jesus did and is. Live the christian life by the 'strength of His name', not that I don't have enough faith, must read the bible more, attend more service, etc. After saved many still try to save self. I can't live the christian life and save myself. Only way is when Jesus comes and lives His life in me!It is impossible to live the christian life, not by my own strenth and determination but only by the name of Jesus. Jesus lives inside of me, greater is He who lives in me, etc. Pray and live by great boldness, pray Eph. 1:17-21 on a regular basis.
David pursued by Saul winds up in Gad and comes to the end of his own self-reliance, and must reach out beyond himself. Fear is a feeling and impacts upon our flesh, self-centered and self sufficient self.
Satan set up Adam and Eve to seek identity in themselves, independent of God. Seek worth in one own's talent and ability and adequacies, of which Satan is the source.
The flesh has a compulsion to always want to be right, being always strong and always adequate. Then I can present myself to God and say, see I can make it to the point where You have to accept me now.
If you are not perfect, it is the fault of others, the blameshifting. Real faith is in God, God is not in the flesh. God never made man adequate, made me weak so that I would have to depend on God.
The first step to victory is to acknowledge that you are afraid, not adequate to face anything, renounce pride and realize complete dependence on God, and be filled with the Presence of God.
When compulsive urges of the flesh come, I seek identity in Christ Who truly is my "true self', the living Christ Who lives in me.
Faith that says " I will trust in Thee" is not human faith, faith is not me trying to believe enough, faith is of and from God.
Ps. 10-11 - In God do I trust means trust in God's strength, from His strength which is my true source. It is God's will in me, I draw upon His will into my will and then I do. His will joined to my will becomes now my will trusting in God. We partake of God's will to do His will because we are inwilled by Christ within. .
Eph. 3:18-20 -His will comes into my inner will, fortifies and braces it. My will can ask out of its weakness for God's will in order to will what I cannot will by myself.
Phil. 2:12-13 ; Eze. 36:36-37 ; Jere. 31 -Writes His law into our hearts, realize we are helpless and weak, and our weaknesses are vehicles to glorify Him.
Jesus is the Head, the brain of my body. Every cell is directly connected to my brain, and all activities of the brain go directly to every cell in my body.