Jeff Reynolds One desire: December 2016

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

JESUS - The ONE Person that Changes Everything - Forever

Jesus holds a remarkable place in the universe.

He is the One Person that changes everything.

Sometimes a simple shift can alter the course.
The simplest change altering all future realities.

Jesus is the ONE Person who changes everything about everything.

He is the one simple shift that makes "all things new".

Ephesians 1:9-10 English Standard Version (ESV)
⁹making known^[a] to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ ¹⁰as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.

It can be difficult to remember what it's like NOT knowing Jesus. It's easy to loose sight of the amazing grace of God for all kinds of reasons. But remember what it was like to NOT know Jesus.

**UN-tethered in the world, adrift on the ocean of the "almost" eternally meaningful

events,

relationships,

life accomplishments,

rewards,

Jesus appears irrelevant, religious, of no meaning.**

And in a real sense he is.

Jesus is not a fix for the earth driven cultures of the world we know so well.
Jesus didn't come to bring a resolution to the life we know and live everyday.
He is not a fixer. He is not making the life we live good again.
He is leading us to a completely new way to a new and living life.

Granted over time wisdom will lead us into a better life of order and peace in following Jesus, but it is His rule and reign and the coming of his Kingdom that shapes the life of those offering allegiance to Christ Jesus.

Jesus came to bring a revolution, a new life and a new Kingdom. Isaiah 9:6-7

For unto us a child is born,

to us a son is given;

and the government will be

upon his shoulder,

and his name will be called

Wonderful Counselor,

Mighty God,

Everlasting Father,

Prince of Peace.

He brings a completely new reality of life and love that rides on his perfected work. A love that rides in the grace of the mission of the Father.

When Jesus is placed into categories of religion, personal help, peace when you can't find any, and many other small sideline personal spiritual aids, we loose the reality of the person he is and the radical joy he brings to our hearts.

HOPE has come for the poor and the thirsty.

This world may be enough for those who appear to have everything in it....
But for the rest of us it is not. Life is challenging, tumultuous, momentarily peaceful, always in motion, and there are some really terrible people destroying lives nearly everywhere.
Life can be lonely. Isolation screams at our need for connecting deeply. Sometimes the deepest relationships providing fuel for the worst pain, trouble and disruption we experience.

I've had a most amazing life. An awesome wife, who I don't deserve, who has been my friend and joy for over 30 years. Three young men, our boys, who are out in the world doing good things and walking with a life that enhances those around them with love and generosity. I've traveled around the world. Have a great property to call home. A garden. A hunting dog. I have friends. An awesome church family. Yes. Good things abound. I am truly grateful.

But the world just isn't enough for me.

It runs with more pain and blood in a day than anyone could possibly comprehend.
I can't abide that. I want to see us be better, do better. The world sets a table for tragedy and mis-hap on a grand scale every day. I've tasted ruin by forces outside my control. The 2008 crash toasted my life, finances, dignity pretty well.

It requires good government to get good society; something huge swaths of the world know nothing about. Each day is filled with victory and trouble, violence and love. From all reports it's difficult to tap the love over the violence.

Cities like Paris, filled with life, beauty, promise, love and hope are trashed and trampled by people who destroy the peace of the common person. Ripping through their lives, neighborhoods, with guns and bombs.

When we box Jesus up into a religious figure and link him with religion, we loose site of the vast "everything" Jesus is changing and will change.

We might be able to believe the myths of our culture....or some other culture at least for a little while.

The Myth That fame,

wealth,

all the best when it's the newest

leads to deep and personal fulfillment

and rest.

Yet, we see and hear the stories
of these fortunate ones with everything who...

Die of drug overdoses

Isolated and alone.

Die of suicide

Die of mishandled medications

Fade off into the unknown.

This is tragic.

We should be asking why the stories end this way?

So, drowning in the medicated life with everything

all of us could ever want, is LIFE?.

People propagate the myth. But the story does not appear to be true. The culture rehashes the story again and again with all it's tragic endings. And in turn the world gets angrier and angrier. People gasp and wonder and stand staring at the violence and racial hate, the terrorism and brutality. No wonder Trump can fire them up instantly.

For unto us a child is born,

to us a son is given;

and the government will be

upon his shoulder,

and his name will be called

Wonderful Counselor,

Mighty God,

Everlasting Father,

Prince of Peace.

So, if a few people want to live a quiet life outside the flow of the noise; want to follow a person who inspires them with his character, peace, teaching and tangible Love, why are such people considered a threat?

Jesus is the one person that ties everything in life together and connects all it's deepest mysteries. And billions of people have no idea he does that.

Yes. Sometimes he's hard to see through all the smoke of the church and religious practices. There are plenty of things to lead one away from understanding who Jesus is. How connecting with him roots us into a rest of the heart and a love that words don't measure up to.

It's Christmas again! The story continues to be told. The grace continues to unfold in countless lives day after day.

This child changes everything.

Never lose HEART

Always pray in faith and TRUST

In Patience enduring for the sake of the Elect all things.

This is the Message I’ve been set apart to proclaim as preacher, emissary, and teacher. It’s also the cause of all this trouble I’m in. But I have no regrets. I couldn’t be more sure of my ground—the One I’ve trusted in can take care of what he’s trusted me to do right to the end.

which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me.

An eternal word of life for all the peoples

In Christ Forever

Feedback? Ideas?

I would love to dialogue with you.

Share your comments.

2016

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

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Here are some other blogs posts that may interest you.

1.http://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2015/01/7-things-enemy-devil-doesnt-want-you-to.html

2) http://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2014/04/you-fascinate-me-jesus-so-why-are-you.html

3) http://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2014/07/never-be-lacking-in-zeal-need-some.html

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, December 16, 2016

The Christmas Story Belongs To?

Jesus and the Trinity God

The God of All Creation holds the Story. Dreamed the glory of our redemption and laid down his life as loves greatest witness.

By his victorious acts He carved the new and living way, a road for a new story of humanity.

The Apostles

Faithful to the end, these disciples carried the witness of life and visitation to the Nations. In the freedom and power of the Holy Spirit they bore witness even unto death. We are their inheritance. An assembly of ambassadors in nearly every Nation, Tribe and Tongue to the Glory of Jesus Christ.

The Disciples carrying the message of visitation and redemption through the AGES.

It's the WAY we live that testifies to what we BELIEVE,
Not what we believe that testifies to the way we live.

To Living Stones

As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men, but chosen and precious in God’s sight, 5you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6For it stands in Scripture: “See, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”… I Peter 2:5

To Intimate Warriors

Blessed be the Lord, my rock,
who trains my hands for war,
and my fingers for battle;
2he is my steadfast love and my fortress,
my stronghold and my deliverer,
my shield and he in whom I take refuge,
who subdues peoples^a under me. Psalms 144

To never ceasing Intercessors

Rejoice always, ¹⁷pray without ceasing, ¹⁸give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. I Thessalonians 5:15-18

To proclaimers of the Good NEWS

"Therefore My people shall know My name; therefore in that day I am the one who is speaking, 'Here I am.'" 7How lovely on the mountains Are the feet of him who brings good news, Who announces peace And brings good news of happiness, Who announces salvation, And says to Zion, "Your God reigns!" 8Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices, They shout joyfully together; For they will see with their own eyes When the LORD restores Zion.… Isaiah 52:7

To the Weak

Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me. 10That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.… II Corinthians 12:9

To the Poor

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:3

"Ho! Every one who thirsts, come to the waters; And you who have no money come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk Without money and without cost. 2"Why do you spend money for what is not bread, And your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, And delight yourself in abundance.… Isaiah 55:1

To the faith filled risk takers who venture out in Kingdom power.
Hebrews 11:1-6

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. 2For by it the people of old received their commendation. 3By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. 4By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. 5By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. 6And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

To the Worshipers

Psalms 89:1-4

I will sing of the Lordʼs great love forever;

with my mouth I will make your faithfulness known

through all generations.

2I will declare that your love stands firm forever,

that you have established your faithfulness in heaven itself.

3You said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one,

I have sworn to David my servant,

4‘I will establish your line forever and make your throne firm through all generations.’ ”

To those on the "new and living way"

Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20by the new and living way opened for us through the curtain of His body, 21and since we have a high priest over the house of God,… Hebrews 10:20

To the Overcomers

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with Me. 21To the one who is victorious, I will grant the right to sit with Me on My throne, just as I overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. 22He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”… Revelation 3:20

To those on the Highway of Holiness

The scorched land will become a pool And the thirsty ground springs of water; In the haunt of jackals, its resting place, Grass becomes reeds and rushes. 8A highway will be there, a roadway, And it will be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean will not travel on it, But it will be for him who walks that way, And fools will not wander on it. Isaiah 35:8

To those making a way where there is no way...
Isaiah 43:

"Phillipians" - Niki Bothman

When You’re Between a Rock and a Hard Place
43 ^1-4But now, God’s Message,
    the God who made you in the first place, Jacob,
    the One who got you started, Israel:
“Don’t be afraid, I’ve redeemed you.
    I’ve called your name. You’re mine.
When you’re in over your head, I’ll be there with you.
    When you’re in rough waters, you will not go down.
When you’re between a rock and a hard place,
    it won’t be a dead end—
Because I am God, your personal God,
    The Holy of Israel, your Savior.
I paid a huge price for you:

Don't let the cares of this fallen and fading world carry away your faith filled Action; putting the King and his Kingdom and righteousness first in all you do.