Healing Presence (2) |
God's View:
Eze. 36:27
; Eph. 3:16
, 17
-To experience this prayer fulfilled in our
lives is to find our true center, the 'home within'. From this center, we
'abide' in Christ and He in us.
Hope:
Matt. 6:14-15
; Matt. 5:23-24
; l Jn. 1:9
; Heb. 10:22
-Barriers that
keep us from realizing our 'true center' in Christ are our failures to forgive
others as well as receiving forgiveness from God for our own sins. One major
area is our guilt and shame, and the failure to acquire the virtue of
self-acceptance in Christ. The blood of Christ completely wipes out our past,
and we are fully acceptable in Christ.
Phil. 3:13-14 -The extent a person lives out of his diseased and corrupted attitudes and feelings toward the self to that extent he will fail to find and live from his true center. We must die to misconceived attitudes and the illusory self, else we cannot abide in Christ.
Jn. 14:20 ; Col. 1:27 -Christ descends to us and into us. He incarnates us. We are indwelt by God Who is above us, before He is within us and beneath us.
Jm. 4:8 ; Heb. 10:22 -We look up to God Who is other than me, sovereign over all and I thank God that Christ's Spirit is within me, saving me, hallowing me, linking me to Him.
Change:
Phil. 2:12-13
-Practice His Presence within me. Man and God working
together. God will not do what you can do, that is, to choose. At the point
you choose, it is God who does the doing. Passivity is waiting for God to
deal with sin when it has been taking care of at the cross. My job now is
to unite my will with His and allow righteousness to flow.
l Cor. 12:7-11 -The gifts of the Spirit are the nature of the manifestations of God. By practicing the Presence of Christ , we lay the foundation for understanding and moving of the gifts of the Spirit.
Matt. 5:23-24 -Healing gifts of the Spirit may face two big barriers to wholeness:failure to forgive others , and failure to receive forgiveness. Faith, knowledge, love, moral conduct, courage, hope, prayer, all have to do with Christ in us. Forgive and be forgiven, daily cleansing of all slights and resentments keeps our union with Christ intact, and allows the free flow of grace.
Jere. 17:9-10
-All kinds of hearts within us:broken, grieved, discouraged,
proud, wicked, trembling, double, subtle, perverse, sorrowful, haughty, fretting,
heavy, jealous, envious, evil, deceitful, hard, scheming, callous and so
on. Christ in us radiates thru us, making our two minds hallowed, as well
as our feelings, wills, intellect, faculties and our bodies. He completes
us and we become:willing, perfect, tender, soft, pure, upright, clean wise,
merry , meek and lowly, honest and good, single, true, compassionate and
thankful and so on.