Category: SpiritFilledLiving

Caring for Our Bodies in Christ’s Image

Meditation Thought: “Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ?” (1 Corinthians 6:15)

Christ in each cell! With the yielding of my will to His will, my body is transformed into Christ living in the world today! How can I treat His body with anything but care and love?

Bodies come in all shapes and sizes. Genesis 1:27 says that God created people in His own image. That cannot refer to our physical beings – if it did we would all look like each other! Therefore, spiritually we are made in God’s image. Made to seek Him and His way. Made to care for the body He chose to encase our spirit. Not to abuse it, not to bemoan it, but to care for it and love it. And by so doing, we are then able to love others.

Finding Peace: Now and in the Future

Meditation Thought: “for we walk by faith, not by sight.” (2 Corinthians 5:7)

We walk by the inner light, not the outer darkness.
We walk in the joy of the Lord, not the confusion of the world.
We walk in the righteousness of God’s way, not the selfishness of the heart.
We walk in love, not in envy.
We walk in service, not in demanding to be served.
We walk beside the still waters, while the storm rages only a short distance away.
We walk in the peace of forgiveness and in the hope of the future.
We know that future is secure for it is fashioned as a place of refuge and heart’s desires by our loving Father. This is true if we will walk by faith in Him and not by faith in ourselves.

Cleansing and Beautifying Your Inner Temple

Meditation Thought: “Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?” (1 Corinthians 3:16)

Look at yourself – look at your heart! Take time to compare the temple you are with the temples of those who walked with Jesus. This will help you to restructure and redecorate your own temple in a manner more befitting the residence of God on earth. You! A residence of God on earth!

Jesus as a man was the perfect temple: no mortal can become a perfect temple – but it is possible to yield to the Spirit within you to the point of becoming a pleasing temple, a temple based on the Ideal Temple.

Suggested Prayer: Oh Lord, help me to every day improve my temple to be more fitting as a place for You to dwell. Cleanse me of sin, shine me with Your righteousness, beautify me with Your love. Let me be a place where others are drawn to worship You, to come to learn more about You, to rejoice in You. Amen.

Research Optimization

Meditation Thought: “God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.” (1 Corinthians 2:10)

How can we change our life-style? What about our style-of-life? Money must be spent to give us the ability to change our life-style. Which begs the question, what does it take to change our style of life? Only the Holy Spirit activated can change our style of life.

The knowledge to activate the Spirit is easy to find. The difficulty lies in denying our human willfulness. We often dictate what we will think, say, and do. Instead, we should yield to God’s will. It is especially important to accept the manner of His teaching.

We would prefer to learn with little effort having our lessons all laid out before us, without any research and commitment on our part. But this is not the way we learn in depth. To learn in depth takes the lesson learned beyond the ‘head knowledge’ and extends it to ‘heart knowledge’. The lessons become part of our actions as well as our mind.

It is the Spirit that keeps us researching, who leads us to new discoveries and resources. We must ask for His help – and accept it and heed His instructions. Only with His help will we learn the lesson and, having learned it, make it a true change to our style of life.

Principles of Spirit and Matter

As we move together, harmoniously and joyfully, we expand our effectiveness step by step through your life on earth. Thus is the Father’s will done on earth as it in in heaven.

Meditation Thought: “Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.” (Romans 14:13)

“Take My yoke, for it is designed to carry much more as we go in double-yoke than you can carry alone. Concentrate on perfecting our movements in coordination, not looking back as to the character of the load, or as to its size. It matters not: as we pull together, coming to know each other and how to work together, we will pull larger and larger loads, loads which would be difficult were it not for My knowledge of how to manage them.

Rely on my experience in hauling every type of load, and every quantity of load – simply imitate My movements by closely observing all I do. The key is in leverage: the use of the abilities the Father created in the proper manner and in the proper sequence, according to the principles of Spirit and matter which He reveals through Me to you. By My obedience unto suffering and unto death, I have perfected in human form the movements in harmony with these principles. As by faith you yoke yourself to Me, you feel My movements tugging on you. Adjust yourself to feel comfortable and coordinated with My movements.

As we move together, harmoniously and joyfully, we expand our effectiveness step by step through your life on earth. Thus is the Father’s will done on earth as it in in heaven.”

Dare to Trust

Will you hand Me each one that I may warm it in My Spirit and expand it into fulness and bless your neighbors and yourself?

Meditation Thought: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” (Mark 12:31 and quoted by Paul in Romans 13:9)

“You shall minister to your neighbor as yourself. In every thought, every word, every deed, it matters not who is the recipient – the action is to be as unto Me.

When you care for your body, you care for Me,
When you enrich your mind, you enrich My glory,
When you say words of encouragement to your enemy, you praise My name,
When you sacrifice your desires to minister to another, you sing the song of angels exulting in the fellowship of My Presence.

As you pour yourself out in all the means available to you, when you pour yourself through My Spirit rather than pouring directly into the world, My Spirit enriches your expressions and makes them blessings multiplied on earth and in heaven.

Just as a kernel of corn puffs up in the heat and the volume expands, so too, when you pour yourself out through My Spirit, what is returned to you is gently returned in a new, more desirable form. Do you dare trust Me with every kernel in your life? Will you hand Me each one that I may warm it in My Spirit and expand it into fulness and bless your neighbors and yourself?”


You are Called

Yield to the softening flow of grace…

Meditation Thought: “So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace. But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.” (Romans 11:5-6)

Take heed not to have pride that you feel the call of God in your life. It is by grace you are called, not by your worth or your works. Rejoice in your call that God’s grace has been poured upon you, and know that this grace is poured upon you for the transforming of your mind and your heart that you may be the means of God’s love poured into the world. Yield to the softening flow of grace – do not resist the change it is the accomplish in you: God’s purpose will quickly be accomplished if you yield your will to his grace.

An Heir to all that is Valued in Life

His estate is more to be desired than any worldly wealth; all good things are in it: the gifts and fruits of the Spirit, the peace and love for which all men search, the contentment of ever-sure help and guidance, and confidence of being heir to all that is to be valued in life.

Meditation Thought: “Pay attention to what you hear: with the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and still more will be added to you.” (Mark 4:24)

Conform. Conform to Christ for the measures of love, forgiveness, help, acceptance, are the measures used by your King. Use His measures – not the measures of the world: greed, selfishness, ego, power, grasping and self-centeredness.

Keep pouring out Christ’s measures – they will be multiplied as you learn the art more completely.

It is the will of the Father to be glorified in the Son and the Son’s works. The Son’s works must be operative every day through the body of believers for the Father’s glory. As part of the body, it is your duty and your privilege to use the identical measures of Christ. They are your inheritance, handed down to you from His estate. His estate is more to be desired than any worldly wealth; all good things are in it: the gifts and fruits of the Spirit, the peace and love for which all men search, the contentment of ever-sure help and guidance, and confidence of being heir to all that is to be valued in life.

The Interpreter

Take my personality and clean it, shine it, give it the glowing health of my Savior’s ministrations and inheritance.

Meditation Thought: “The Spirit himself intercedes for …according to the will of God.” (Romans 8:26-27)

The Spirit is the interpreter between God and man – the message-bearer – the One who understands God and understands man and brings the two together that the bond might be closer, the communication more complete, the Father’s works done more speedily and completely.

Suggested Prayer: Holy Spirit – dwell in me mightily; I ask You to work in me to your fullest desire, that Father’s will might be also my way, my path, my works and my manner. Take my personality and clean it, shine it, give it the glowing health of my Savior’s ministrations and inheritance brought to me through You, who move from the realm of heaven where He resides to the realm of the world where I reside. Holy Spirit, move in my mind, in my heart, in my spirit, in my soul, my emotions, my body – cause them to vibrate with Your power – the power of love – of LOVE, divine love, beyond any love I’ve known or could know without Your Presence within me. Through you I cry to the Father – in need, and in joy, too – “Have your own way, Lord, have your own way.”

Anything Not of Love is Not of God

Let My love flow over you and into you, to transform every fiber of your being into a fiber filled with the Holy Spirit.

Meditation Thought: “faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.” (Romans 10:17)

“Word – works – wonders. Seek the Word and you will find the works that will result in the wonders which will praise My holy name. There is a law and none shall escape it: I am God and love – anything not of love is not of God. Seek, therefore, love and life – through the Word is the Way.

The Way is the path to life eternal, life abundant, life fulfilling. Unstop ears by your love, softening the hardened plugs of sin, self-will, ignorance, unforgiveness, and rebellion. Let My love flow over you and into you, to transform every fiber of your being into a fiber filled with the Holy Spirit. It is these Spirit-filled fibers that accomplish My works and My will to reconcile the world to Me and to transform the world into the new structure of the Kingdom.”