To Prepare
The Water of Life and the Cleansing Word are needed to Prepare the Church for Presentation to Christ in Glory.
For now there are defects to be Remedied and wounds to be Healed.
The Water of Life and the Cleansing Word are needed to Prepare the Church for Presentation to Christ in Glory.
For now there are defects to be Remedied and wounds to be Healed.
Abide in Christ!
In the fiery oven,
One like the Son of Man will be Seen as never before;
The Purging Away of the dross and the Refining of the Gold will be Accomplished,
And Christ’s Own Likeness Reflected in you.
Our Prayers must NOT be a vague appeal to His Mercy or an indefinite cry for blessing, but the Distinct Expression of a Specific Need.
We need to be Clothed with Christ.
What there needs to be a concern for is any unwillingness to take off the old and put on the new.
JOHN 6.63
It is the Spirit that is giving life; the flesh does not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;
JOHN 4.24
God [is] Spirit, and those worshiping Him should worship in spirit and truth.”
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JOHN 15.2
every branch not bearing fruit in Me, He takes it away, and everyone bearing fruit, He cleanses by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;
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MARK 10.51
And answering, Jesus says to him, “What do you will I may do to you?”
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MATTHEW 22.11-12
And the king having come in to view those reclining, saw there a man not clothed with wedding clothes, and he says to him, Friend, how did you come in here, not having wedding clothes? And he was speechless.
ROMANS 13.14
but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and take no forethought for the flesh—for desires.
GALATIANS 3.27
for as many as were immersed into Christ put on Christ;
Utterly Changed!
The self-pleasing, self-trusting, self-seeking
Now Filled with the Spirit and the Life of Jesus.
Christ Had Done It for him by the Holy Spirit.
We only see history back to the Fall.
God Sees it from the Beginning.
There was something in God’s Mind Before the Fall, and in the Ages to Come That Thing is to be Fully Realized.
Abide in Christ! so will you Become Partaker of ALL the Rich Blessings God Designed for you in the Affliction.
The Purpose of God’s Wisdom will Become Clear to you, your Assurance of the Unchangeable Love Become Stronger, and the Power of His Spirit Fulfil you the Promise.
He Chasteneth us for our Profit, that we Might Be Partakers of His Holiness.