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Thursday, November 24, 2016

Happy Thanksgiving All - Many Thank you's Google friends!

All His Promises are Yes and Amen in Jesus!

Giving Thanks is such a fun thing. 

There is always something to thank the Lord for. 

Thank you google plus friends and family. 
Thank you for all the plus 1's and feedback.
Thank you for all the comments and encouragements.
Many deep thank you's for the prayers on mission trips and in general.  Those are invaluable. 
Thank you for re-shares and passing on the encouragement. 
Thank you for building communities on line that are encouraging for the Saints. 

THANK YOU SO MUCH.  

May the Lord bless you and your family this Thanksgiving with....
Abundant favor and grace
Boundless encouragement and love
Victorious Holidays. 

Stand strong in Thankfulness.
Stand courageous in the Love of God for all those who visit and you host. 

Thank you again for such a great season of sharing the love of God around the world with you and your prayers.  


In the thankfulness flowing from the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, 

THANK YOU!  



His love is light
to the heart of any darkness.

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Everything Starts with the Heart - The First and Greatest Command Begins With The Father Loving First

Jesus noted in the Scriptures the two greatest commands in response to a question.   It came from a Pharisee lawyer seeking to stumble him. 


What the enemy seeks to make our downfall 
God turns into our Victories.


 




Matthew 22:36-40
36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Take note of the "firsts" in the Scripture. 
The heart leads the way clearly in the first and greatest commandment not the mind.  
Jesus commended the Ephesian church in Revelation for their clear commitment to getting the teaching right, but he threatened to take their lamp away for lack of first love.  


The heart loves first.  
Paul the Apostle said, "I pray the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you." (Eph 1:18)  Hope and love spring from the eyes of the heart seeing and encountering the Lord Jesus.  

 

The heart is the first place to weigh and guard.  

It can cloud up and grow cold. 

 

So many of our passion troubles and the disappointments of walking the narrow way effect the heart.  It is amazing how many things ding the heart.  When we are walking in first love and keeping our heart tender before the Lord all the usual challenges of life can nick and cut the heart deeply.  


What provides all the energy for success in loving God?  How do we sustain love for God and stay on the narrow way?


 



He loved us first.  "We love, because He first loved us."   
1 John 4:19 









He started the love between us.   He dreamed it up.  He made the way to love through the sacrifice of Jesus and his perfect obedience on the cross.   Jesus rose from the dead in the power of a new life; a life filled to the brim with love.  


It is an easy slip.  Right off the narrow way.  When we put the sustaining grace of first love on ourselves.  The work of Jesus on the cross and the power of the Holy Spirit provides for us a never ending stream of fiery love as we walk in the way faithfully.    


Remember first love is not an emotion.  Jesus said, "do what you did at first."  This first love is not bound up in the patient endurance of the struggle.  It is free in the mystery and never ending sea of the Father's love.  He sustains us and our first love.  And we simply respond.  Like we did at first.  


First love is easy.  And at times appears so difficult. 
Our hearts get all tied up and wounded and then mingle a lack of faith with our minds.   
Then the first love fires start growing dim.  
First love abides in child like simplicity.  
It rests in the NAME. By faith it walks in the character of the Lord of Lord's. 
And it loves freely and truly.  
 

We may be saying deep down, following God is a hard way
Maybe that's why Jesus called us to repentance in regards to first love.  
We have to sorting out the good and perfect love against the backdrop of so many distortions
We pick up wrong thoughts and our understanding of the Father and his steadfast love gets mixed up and bent. 
What we need to be saying deep down is....
"I surrender" and "I am yours and you are mine".  


Can you remember back to what you did at first? 
First love expresses a life, a way to follow Jesus and be near him.  First love is first abiding.  Pursuing Jesus above all things and letting the standard of love be set by him.  Our worship flows and looks just like the worship of Jesus.  Your will Father is my desire.    


 34 When Jesus realized how insightful he was, he said, “You’re almost there, right on the border of God’s kingdom.”  (MSG Mark 12:34) 


What was missing?  Why was he standing on the boarders of the Kingdom looking in?  What did he miss?   


He missed the Son of God, God's very heart and love, standing before him.   He thought the Kingdom was about thoughts and right thinking and doctrinal statements and bible insights and laws.  He wanted the equation, the plainly spelled out course; a lawyer answer instead of a love answer.  He was looking for a way that required nothing of him. 
He desired to surrender nothing and his question required no surrender.  

This is the pure logic and simple addition of a religious life that satisfies the mind but misses the heart by a mile. 

What he missed was the one The Father sent.  Sent to say, "For God so loved the world he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him will have eternal life."   He looked for something while the very light of the world right before his eyesHe missed him.  Overlooked him.  He overlooked love.  Because he had religion.  He wanted more religion to fill up this new understanding so he could continue on the same course.  Nothing required of the soul religion.  Nothing demanded beyond what he deemed acceptable and reasonable.  
He wanted God the math equation.  Not God the Son revealed in a cross and a sacrifice of his own blood. 

First love is not acceptable, reasonable, or without the deepest demands imaginable.  
The Son of God charted a path through the darkness that required all of his heart, mind, soul and strength.  All of it submitted in faith to the character and love of the Father, he accomplished the will of God in perfection.  He did it for love.   

Every pathway of The Kingdom of God leads to love and connection with the Father.  In the beginning we were walking with him in the cool of the Garden.  In the end we are dwelling with him in the city lit by his radiance and beauty. 



If we plan to go anywhere in the Kingdom of Jesus we have to start with the heart.   

In order to start moving with God we have to start moving in love.
Love is the doorway.  
The heart says the first words of love.  

Feedback?  Ideas?  

I would love to dialogue with you. 

Share your comments.  




2016  
Transfiguration! 

Look forward, eyes filled with Abundance, Boundless, Victorious vision in Jesus.  

 Get a copy of my Prophetic Review 2016 - Salvation's Mountain Erupting with Open Doors, Shifts and Invitation.   Encouragement, focus, wisdom and insight into the prophetic seasons of the new year.  
www.jeffreynoldsministries.com 


 

Thanks for Reading!   


I love your comments. Ideas and thoughts.
Please share em.
Re-shares are great. thank U.


Here are some other blogs posts that may interest you. 
 



The dialogue is awesome.  Thank you. Testimonies?  Share em with me.   
Re-Shares lov em.  Thank you! With much love in Jesus 
You can do this thing!  He's got you. 



Jeff Reynolds   --- 

Brother Jeff
Jeff Reynolds Sr. Leader
Capstone Christian Fellowship
jeff@jeffreynoldsministries.com
jreynolds@mycapstone.org
 

Friday, November 18, 2016

The Way of the Miserable Disciple - Ascending without Bending.


The way of being miserable

I see believers getting it all mixed up.  

We are ascending without bending.  We hear all this....well for the most part fluff and puffy junk we pass off as prophecy.....and essentially do not love. 

Selling short the mystery of Christ in you – muting the grace of God – living as though you have faith but not being undone by it, is miserable.   

A great light appeared.
Christ in you is the HOPE of glory. 
Christ in you is the majestic glory of the mystery revealed.  
Christ in you is beyond imagination.   
The Grace poured into you and I, deposited by the Spirit for the majestic glory of his presence, is living and powerful.  


Selling grace short is the path to misery of the soul. 


The religious never feel the weight of this grace.
The burden of the impossible weighing on their souls, mind, and strength. 



Religion is perfectly suited to support us in little paths.  But these are not the paths of Christ Jesus. 

flowers grow in the desert

The disciple is well aware of the calling and the election of Christ.  The heart is informed with revelation of the LOVE of God.   A Love for the people of the world and a clear vision of the discontinuity of the state of the world and love.  


To the people in the world, the glorious simple Gospel and work of Jesus brings something totally different and beautiful to it. 




The religious "do" only within the realms of human understanding and the righteousness of men.  

The deception is....
They know their bible well.  But the simple paths of love elude them.  
Loving like Jesus is too costly to them.  The equation does not work.  
They want to enact judgement on the world rather than love it like Christ Jesus.  

They were the ones shrinking back from the wondrous loud voice of the Christ.  His overwhelming power and love, caused them to run rather than surrender.  

There is a testament to this prophesied by Jesus.  
Jerusalem and the Temple were destroyed and the nation of Israel was toppled in the judgement of the Father.  She proved unworthy in welcoming the Christ of the World.  Her sacrifices and temple repudiated for a new and living way.   

The new vision is a building, a Temple, built by God that includes every tribe, nation, language, in the highest, best, greatest, most liberating freedom known to the human race. 
It is eternal life.  This is eternal life.  To know him......  Scripture. 

"For You granted Him authority over all humanity, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him. 3Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent."  John 17:3


My Experience knowing Jesus.

The disciple is so overwhelmed in the love and the reality of grace, of the boundless, abundant, and victorious Kingdom of Jesus, that their tears flow.  They flow for both the shortcomings and weakness of themselves and of the hope they see for others.  A deferred hope that we pray for, sacrifice for, lay down our lives for.  A HOPE rooted and established in love in the very work of Jesus our Lord and King.   

Jesus is waiting as well.  He is continuing in the trust and faith as the great intercessor and high priest of the heavenly temple.  Patient endurance is at the heart of the Masters love and hope fills him moment to moment as he calls forth the glory in the Saints around the globe.  
It is an assured faith.  Victory won on the Cross.  Death defeated in the resurrection. Earth and Heaven knit together in the ascended High Priest of the Father's will. 


UNDONE.  That is the measure of one who sees Jesus. 


Religion.  Perfectly done.  No needs.
Religion says of the broken, justly condemned - "they don't deserve help."  They built their own bed.  They deserve much worse than they are getting.  They smugly agree in their heart with Satan.  Calling forth destruction rather than redemption.  The simple Gospel in all it's power and love speaks a better word.  
Religion stands and reflects on their now righteousness.  What they have attained.  
Such short shortsightedness.  

And oh how dark the heart of religion is.  
Unbending.  Unteachable.  Full of Judgement.  
It resorts to violence to keep it's hold.  
Just ask, "what can I pray for you?"  and get the "I have need of nothing" response. Leodecian spirituality.  Lukewarm or dead for that matter?   Sardis.  You have a reputation of being alive but you are dead.   (Revelation 3)

At the core, religion worships the idol of the self.
In our efforts to grow the church we've taught a whole generation to place their idol, themselves, front and center of all the meaning of worship, church and Kingdom. 
Like a black whole in space, there is a never ending consumption of more and more and more. This is the exact opposite flow of the Kingdom of God and the power and love of Jesus. 
 

The real problem today is that people like this can be in the church and be doing everything required. They can look perfect in our little and limited requirements of religion.  


The requirements of Jesus.....
Flowers of grace grow in the worst soil

Hand to the plow...Luke 9:62

Die to live.....Matthew 10:39

Pick up the Cross....Luke 9:23

We must pass through the Cross to start living in the Resurrection....  

Don't look back....Matthew 10:38

Count the Cost......Luke 14:28








I see believers getting it all mixed up.  

We are ascending without bending.  We hear all this....well for the most part fluff and puffy junk we pass off as prophecy.....and essentially do not love.  

The un-crucified flesh loves religion.  Thrives in it.  Hides in it.   
Her "prophets" are un-correctable and wallowing in "secret knowledge".    

Good NEWS - the kingdom is seen by Little Children.  There is no Jr. Holy Spirit.   There are no secrets.  

What you hear in the quiet place proclaim from the roof tops.  

His is a transparent Kingdom and Throne.  

This the nature of love.  It is attained with no human energy or effort.  It is welcomed.  
It is by faith.  It is in fully enveloped in grace.  
 It is beyond knowledge.  
It is revealed to the hungry, welcoming heart who surrenders to the mystery of the Son of God.  To the one who believes in the power of the Cross and blood.   Who decides in faith to walk in resurrection power and the mind of Christ in this fallen, broken, distorted world.  

God is pouring out the greatest generosity known to humanity.....the blood of his Son.  

Over and over and over.  Even to those religious.  He will go were welcomed.  He will heal in the presence of religion and hate and un-crucified flesh.   
Because he has overcome the world.  
He is seated at the Father's right hand.  It is finished.  
The seven times seven lamps of Jubilee are before him as a witness in heaven.  WE will see the DAY.  It is coming upon the earth daily.  

Hang on Saint.  Pray without ceasing.  LOVE with the generosity of Christ Jesus.  Freely give as you have been freely given.  

"Behold, I am coming quickly"  


Feedback?  Ideas?  

I would love to dialogue with you. 

Share your comments.  




2016  
Transfiguration! 

Look forward, eyes filled with Abundance, Boundless, Victorious vision in Jesus.  

 Get a copy of my Prophetic Review 2016 - Salvation's Mountain Erupting with Open Doors, Shifts and Invitation.   Encouragement, focus, wisdom and insight into the prophetic seasons of the new year.  
www.jeffreynoldsministries.com 


 

Thanks for Reading!   


I love your comments. Ideas and thoughts.
Please share em.
Re-shares are great. thank U.


Here are some other blogs posts that may interest you.  
 



The dialogue is awesome.  Thank you. Testimonies?  Share em with me.   
Re-Shares lov em.  Thank you! With much love in Jesus 
You can do this thing!  He's got you. 



Jeff Reynolds   --- 

Brother Jeff
Jeff Reynolds Sr. Leader
Capstone Christian Fellowship
jeff@jeffreynoldsministries.com
jreynolds@mycapstone.org