Jeff Reynolds One desire: February 2017

Friday, February 24, 2017

Undivided - Undaunted - Unhindered HEART after GOD

Love the Lord your God with all your HEART.

The heart is first in the narrow pathway of grace and faith in Jesus.

The heart is also first in struggles and challenges.

We are admonished.

1. Guard our hearts - Pro 4:23

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.

2. Be blessed in a Pure heart - Matthew 5:8 - Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

3. Do Not let your heart condemn you - I John 3:20-22
This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: 20If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. 21Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God 22and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him.

"It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery." Galatians 5:1

The Heart is meant to run free in the abundant, boundless, victorious work of Jesus! It can be a battle ground. Knowing clearly the paths of the new and living way in Jesus paves the way for our hearts to be free and huge in his presence.

The Father, our Abba Father, opened up heaven itself through Jesus. The High Priest of the Heavenly Temple has the heart we inherit. Resting in him is the first step onto paths of abundant presence.

  Here are three conditions of the heart giving clarity and focus to our walk in the Spirit.
It's so worth it to take some time before the Lord and let the Spirit reveal the condition of our hearts.

What if Jesus met us at the "point of our desire". That we actually could have as much as we ran and reached for in our inheritance in Jesus?   To go after higher calling you will need a heart that is......

UNDIVIDED

Teach me your way, LORD, that I may rely on your faithfulness; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name. Psalm 86:11
The heart divided cannot run free is the expanse of the freedom, inheritance and fullness of Jesus Christ. These paths are reserved for wholehearted devotion. As we reach for such places of the heart in Christ, remember they are discovered in Christ. This heart abides before the Father in perfected obedience and love in the Son of God. We have the mind and presence of Christ in us (Colossians 1:27; I Cor 2:16) We have the pavement for the path of undivided hearts in us through Christ by faith.

Step onto the paths of boundless freedom. Ask the Holy Spirit to heal your heart, to measure it's condition in the boundless freedom of worship, prayer and presence in Christ. Don't wait another moment. Get into the prayer closet and rest in Christ. Let the Spirit soothe the pains of the heart that draw us back from asking for the highest wisdom and revelation of Jesus. Get your Hope's UP!

UNDAUNTED

Jesus is the King of the Kings of the Earth. All authority is given to him. His Kingdom is here and in us. So why are we intimidated by anyone or anything? Nothing in all creation and no condition of our lives can separate us from the love of Jesus. So why are we daunted by the death affronting us? We carry life. Eternal life. We shine with a manifested Kingdom now (II Tim 2:10-12) manifest in our Savoir Jesus Christ.

Jesus is the undaunted one, facing death head on, he trusted the Father and walked in his will in obedience. He leaned deep into prayer and trust and overcame death for us! (Hebrews 5:7-9) The enemy seeks to intimidate us. To quiet our voice of grace, peace and victory, he intimidates us with violence, opposition, hindrances, a Judas or two. Sometimes we interpret such things as coming from him and so our undaunted hearts get divided and confused. Such things need attention and the Spirit's wisdom and purity.

We see on the one hand death and on the other life. We walk in the face of death every day with the life of Christ and the full power and ability of Jesus to save, redeem and renew any and all.

Find the place of undaunted grace in the face of the Lord Jesus. Undaunted love and undaunted trust pave the way to undaunted life in Jesus Christ.

UNHINDERED

A hindered heart can be the result of many things. The important point is that is it not free in the Lord's presence. Without that freedom there's not a foundation worthy to support the undivided heart.
We will regularly face hindrance, persecution, opposition.

Jesus - "I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." John 16:33

Paul - "In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted," II Timothy 3:12

We cannot be hindered of heart by such things. We cannot allow ourselves to lose heart in the face of anything the earth can throw at us.

"for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith." I John 5:4

"Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart." Hebrews 12:3

Our Master, leader, friend, Jesus Christ, did not lose heart. He gained heart by looking into the Face of the Father. He lived and breathed and moved in every word that proceeded from the Father's mouth. He only did what he saw his Father doing. He life was an abiding in the presence and will of the Father. This is the life that all the hindrances seek to
Silence
Quiet
Cut off
Eliminate
Hinder
Discourage

Our walk in the Spirit will lead us into paths of the unhindered heart. As sure as the sun rises and the earth spins and we awake for another day in his amazing presence, if we trust and walk in the Spirit we will see an unhindered heart like Jesus'. The Spirit is leading us to be just like him, to walk like him in this world. I John 2:6

I don't know about you....but I want that heart in mine.

Get your Hopes UP
Get your desire for HIM awake.
Never settle for a
Divided
Daunted
Hindered
HEART.
YOU were made for something so much more amazing and free!

Some paths you can take once you step into the Sun!
Be with HIM.

Be sent by HIM.

These two simple foundations create a motion and reality in your walking in the Spirit that is constant and effective. The Kingdom will begin to move in and through you by faith on a daily basis. You will not only do great things in the power of the Spirit but you will be full of the great love of God that is steadfast and immovable.

Get these two foundations in prayer!

How's your 24?
How's your prayer walk?
Sowing into prayer is the greatest avenue for consistent joy in Jesus than any other thing out there.

Take a new step into the depths and riches of knowing Jesus.  Pray.

Start today.  5 mins listening to or reading the Scripture and Psalm 27:14 wait for the Lord.
Grab some time and steal away with Jesus.
He is remarkable to be around.
You will tap into the grace of God.
The Father sent Jesus to restore us to him and he is longing to know us in Christ. (John 17:3)

1. 10 Keys to Praying with Power
http://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2014/11/10-keys-to-praying-with-power-moving.html

2. 10 Keys to Sustaining Supernatural Life
http://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2014/12/10-keys-to-sustaining-life-in.html

3. Why is the Prayer House Empty?
http://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2014/11/why-is-prayer-house-empty-or-is-it.html

4. Intimacy with Jesus Beyond Religion?

Feedback? Ideas?

I would love to dialogue with you.

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2017

Transfiguration!

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

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Jeff Reynolds Sr. Leader Capstone Christian

Thursday, February 16, 2017

Walk into The Blazing SON.

When we disciple ourselves....

we find ourselves clinging to our abilities, thoughts, plans and understanding of the way before us.

When he disciples us ...

we walk in the Spirit,

cling to Christ and live on his every word.

What does that look like?
To really let the Holy Spirit lead us? To walk in the Spirit in every part of our lives?
To welcome God's visitations when they are way past the boarders of our understanding?

My experience, it begins with an encounter, an awakening, a realization of the visitation of God to us personally.

In a free form kind of way I want to explore what that looks like. Here goes.

Three interesting Scriptures:
To the pure in heart all things are pure? Titus 1:15

The son of God is a blazing consuming fire, our invitation to a totally different life. Rev 1:14-15

If we seek to find our lives we will lose it. If we lose our lives for and in him we fill find it and eternal life. "For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it." Mark 8:35

These three scriptures paint a brush stroke on the life encountered by God. Each one opens a door into the blazing Son.

Walk into the blazing sun.

When the demands of the Son of God land on us, we have a choice.

These are moments of visitation; moments of moral consequence.   When God is asking for a response. Most often a response equal to our relationship with him and our knowledge of him.

Such moments are surely a blazing fiery sun.

They are hot moments, when our lives flash before our eyes.

These transformation opportunities offer us a baptism; a complete immersion into grace, faith and his presence.

On such a stage we cling solely to the trust factor; our knowledge and trust in the character and person of Jesus himself.

These fiery moments are a baptism of instruction and new learning of his ways.
An opportunity. A shaking.
When God reveals, I've found there's always an invitation, vast, all inclusive and beyond our imagination.

Inherently we feel the power and furry of the fire. Like we are stepping into a burning sun. Intuitively we know that our "former way of life" will disappear in the flames of his burning eyes.

If we turn from the blazing sun, turn down the invitation.....?

If we know him, a road awaits us. I've found a path of training unfolds. Down this path we will walk more slowly. Acquiring the revelation of his character and the trust that the step into the burning sun would required of us in stages. The invitation doesn't seem to vanish. The path to the revelation does. Rest assured the Holy Spirit will disciple us. In Christ, He will bring into his fullness.

II Tim 1:12

That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet this is no cause for shame, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day.

When I get a God invitation trust is always on the line.
A trust requirement, a call to believe him and him alone. The invitation always seems to invite me into walking on water and to trusting in him alone.

Acting as our own disciple-r stumbles the process of freedom.
Surrendering to the Spirit by walking in the Spirit leads us from glory to glory. Yes and from faith to faith. He always has what we need but rarely do we have it when we think we need it. Have you noticed that?

When we act as the disciple-r, ie...when we run the show of spiritual progress, meaning, calling etc, we find ourselves clinging to our abilities, thoughts, plans and understanding of the way before us. These paths dry up pretty quickly. To walk in Spirit and in truth we must see that the only strength, wisdom, love and devotion that can carry us is walking in the power of the Spirit.

When he disciples us, we walk in the Spirit, cling to Christ and live on his every word.

When presented with a transfiguration moment, a blazing fiery sun, recognize it's an invitation to veil-less walking with Jesus. In such moments we have a simple choice. Total trust and reliance on Jesus, the actual person, or falling back into our understanding and limited vision of God.

Discovering the boarders of my spiritual understanding.....
Once in Japan I was preaching and leading some meetings. In the middle of the 2-3 day gathering my glasses broke. I couldn't see past the 2nd row. I still had to lead meetings. The Holy Spirit showed me how to see in the Spirit and minister without seeing all he people. Crazy wild ride. I was not so sure of myself. But the Spirit did remarkable things that night. My world blew up. I did decide to trust him and walk into the blazing fiery sun.

The reality, our flesh cannot contain, uphold, understand, or walk under the weight of the glory of the Son of God. Impossible. Only by grace through faith do we enter into the blazing SON. And by faith trusting him and what we know of him, we walk forward into seeing God's amazing work in the world. A beautiful process once we let go.

Humanity is always on the threshold of a fiery burning sun in the Son of Man.

The blazing sun poses many questions that stand unanswered.
Only one question is answered. To whom do you owe your life and allegiance? The call is a quickening moment. We can hear it over the fire, over the noise of life, over everything. "Come Follow Me". The minds screams, "follow you into that blazing fire?"   The spirit exults at the invitation of God.
The tangible real connection that is longed for is now upon us.

Peter. Blazing Fire in front of him in the fishing Boat. Miracle being hauled into the Boat. All night at this vocation. Now an invitation. "You will fish for men." Back on shore, he steps into the Blazing Son of God and follows him away into...? Away from his boat and business, he steps into the Son of God without details for all the life he was leaving behind.

In such moments, such visitations, everything is clear. But just for a moment. Jesus is clear. The ways ahead are clear. All the dead things we are dragging with us become clear. The two dimensional teaching, the one dimensional prayer, the limitation of our translation of life and power in Christ, we see, but for a moment.

The fiery sun is clear.

This is a visitation. This is a call. Stepping into the fiery blazing sun will start the reality of everything seen in the moment. Turning away forges a new path around the mountain. A training and weigh loss program, this new path will step for step open smaller avenues of the fire. We'll get more opportunities to fall headlong into the fiery sun. Chose the Son! Chose him today.

The disciples didn't get it.
Not until they were empowered in the Spirit, sobered by their deepest failures, and focused on ascended Jesus. We idealize the disciples but they did not understand the fullness of Christ until after the resurrection and 40 days of resurrected teaching. Praise God for the real and honest picture of following this Son of God. Praise God for a true and real witness to walking with Jesus that hides no failure or shorfall.

He is God among us.
He is transfigured before us on occasion. He is overwhelming in grace and glory. The disciples clearly moved in and out of moments of understanding and total disarray.
We do as well. Abide. You will get the understanding required to walk in fullness. When all you can see is the light of the blazing sun, abide in Christ. When all around you the blazing sun is burning up the "life you knew", abide in Christ. Stay close. Offer the same worship you did in less intense moments. Walk in the knowledge of the Christ you possess. Walk in fullness. Pray without ceasing.

The way of the cross is most like the fiery sun and the flaming eyes of Jesus. But the resurrection is the new life. It is a life on fire. The Gospel is rooted in the resurrection (I Cor 15).   The flaming eyes of Christ are the fullness of purity, righteousness, holiness, and consecration. We are called into those flaming eyes, into the fiery sun.
All the way up to and past the resurrection, the disciples' mindset had no room for the glory revealed in Jesus. They did not have a grid through which to let his revelation land in their heart, mind, soul and strength. Their hearts were hardened by the darkness of their minds. Christ is light. His truth does not attach to darkness rather his light exposes all of it. The abiding presence of the Holy Spirit in power and with the mind of Christ opened the way of understanding and witness for the disciples. The same path is before us.   But, we need to step into the fiery sun, the all consuming fire of trust, to start on the way.

Acknowledge the blazing eyes of Jesus
We need to acknowledge that there is a Son of God ascended with Blazing eyes of fire. That he visits people with those eyes and they welcome and receive him. That he reveals himself as a consuming fire. Praise the Lord for those who run in such fields. In so doing, we need to also acknowledge the patience of the the Lord and his gentleness in leading his people. As much as the call into a fiery sun is an intensity we cannot hide or cover, if it expresses itself in condemnation for the Bride we are not moving in His character and truth.

These so called prophets who want to ride their horse of belittling, badgering or condemning the Bride of Christ because of their fiery son revelation are missing the core reality of God's character impact on the world.

He loved and loves the world.
He gave up his life for his friends. He did not blow out the smallest flame. He did not break the broken reed. If we want to identify with the fiery Son we also have to identify with the lamb. Gentle and meek the Son of God offered his love, grace and eternal life. The lamb is the only one who can open the scrolls of God's will and bring the final completion to the salvation plans of the Father.

? When God comes visiting I've found him a wild and burning sun.
Are you used to welcoming him with his flaming eyes of fire and burnished bronze legs?
Tell me about your experiences with the Burning Son of God

Some paths you can take once you step into the Sun!
Be with HIM.

Be sent by HIM.

Get these two foundations in prayer!