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Friday, October 27, 2017

The Kingdom of God is...Abundant, Boundless, Victorious

Think Backward. 







Think back from forever. 

The end game of the Christian life is forever. 






 




Now, 


start heading back to our lives here. 


All that people face.  

It rises up easily into the face of the eternal, of glory, of grace.

The Gospel makes eternal changes in the heart, mind, spirit of people NOW. 

Yes, life is "as we know it".   Yet, a new life has risen in Jesus Christ. 






This life Jesus is brings in his Kingdom is....



Abundant


 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.  John 10:10 

 "Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS. 30"For My yoke is easy and My burden is light." Matt 11:29-30

 "He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, 'From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.'" John 7:38




Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; 14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."  John 4:14
 
"Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.  Isaiah 55:1

 "For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. 7There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace, On the throne of David and over his kingdom, To establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness From then on and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will accomplish this."  Isaiah 9:6-7

 The riches of his glory and love are manifest in Christ to us and through us forever.  The Father has lavished his love on us, calling us children of God through faith in Christ.  I John 3:1   Grace overwhelms sin in abundance.  The goodness of God triumph over every evil.



Boundless


"Although I am less than the least of all the Lord’s people, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the boundless riches of Christ, 9and to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things."  Ephesians 3:8-9


"To all perfection I see a limit, but your commands are boundless."
 Psa 119:96 
 


Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.' Jer 33:3


Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!  Rom 11:33

United Pursuit says, 
"I used to think that I could box you in."  

What an awesome and amazing day it is when we come to understand the unsearchable riches and knowledge of God are boundless. 

Equally so is the grace, love, and power of Christ Jesus.  He is bringing a Kingdom that will swallow up all others.  In fact he is presently the "King of the Kings of the Earth."  Rev 1 
A reality that most believers have no grid for interpreting and interacting with in the lives they live today.   But a mind blowing reality of the Kingdom we are part of. 

God is the original positive thinker.  Nothing is impossible with him.  
He makes axe heads float and raises dead people to life in their coffins! 

If the slightest glimmer of his boundless glory enters into our minds or hearts we are transformed forever!  

Knock the doors off your boxy god.  Get your mind informed with the Mind of Christ and the boundless realities of his life in Jesus.   

Victorious 

2Ch 13:18
The Israelite's were subdued on that occasion, and the people of Judah were victorious because they relied on the LORD, the God of their ancestors.

Psa 20:6
Now this I know: The LORD gives victory to his anointed. He answers him from his heavenly sanctuary with the victorious power of his right hand.

Zec 9:9
Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

Rev 2:7
Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.

Rev 2:11
Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who is victorious will not be hurt at all by the second death.

Rev 3:5
The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life, but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels.

 Rev 21:7

Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children.




Is this the life you are living? 
Through faith in Christ Jesus it is ours.
Catching glimpse of even a small part of it will radically change your life here and now.  

2016  

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

 

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. 

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

www.jeffreynoldsministies.com 
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Friday, October 20, 2017

The Unrelenting Power of Faith Filled and Faithful Prayer

I've been through some challenging trials. I'm sure you have as well. 

Dusk in Middle Deschutes Canyon

 My whole life is ordered around the Kingdom first, and I run into scrapes of all kinds just like you.
On the flip side of trials and challenges that test my faith,













I've seen the incredible reality of prayers answered and miracles of grace and love in this broken down world.



I've learned, re-learned, forgotten, walked in and discovered again, that united prevailing Prayer changes everything. 






Psalms 133 has a wider reality.  When my own life is in harmony and unity great things occur.  I've found prayer to be the center piece of that unity.




Within my own family, not to mention the family of God and those far from Jesus, I've seen healing, miracles, provision, incredible favor, loving kindness, and direct answers to prayers over and over and over again.  



It is truly exciting to partner with and walk with God. 


I've discovered, and I'm sure you have as well, that Prayer is the essential way to....


See into the unseen realities swirling around our lives -  the God realities in the Holy Spirit.  The redemptive, powerful, favor-filled, steadfast love paths that our amazing King Jesus leads us onto. 

See into the way ahead with Jesus, step for step.
Literal steps in the world corresponding with following Jesus and walking in the Spirit.  Being in his desires and will as we move throughout the world.


Hear the voice of God and his incredible daily encouragements for walking in the Spirit.

Knowing with great assurance our path is in HIM, and through HIM, and by HIM.

I've discovered prayer is both

War

and Intimacy

Combined.




Steadfast in love for us, the rest we have in Christ and our membership in the Family of God, is a never ending river of loving kindness. 

Peace and rest are the abiding place of intimate prayer.  The Holy Spirit continuously meets me there. 





Prayer in "reverent devotion and obedience" destroyed death and opened the new and living way in Jesus (Hebrews 5:7-9).


Prayer moves mountains
Prayer heals the sick
Prayer is always valuable in every situation.
Prayer extends the compassion of God in every instance.
Prayer unites us with the heart of Jesus and informs us of his ways and desires.
Prayer effectively brings miracles into motion.
Prayer is quiet.
Prayer is War and loud and aggressive toward evil for the hope of redemption.
Prayer does not condemn.
Prayer HOPEs.
Prayers does not limit. 
Prayer flings us into the landscape of the impossible and gives us the means of seeing the Kingdom of God come in power and love. 


Often, we know the facts of prayer, the basic teachings and all these things I just presented.  Yet, we don't go forward in prayer.  We go up and down in applying the warfare of prayer because war is intense.  But we must remain steadfast as the IMPOSSIBLE does not show up on a schedule.  It just appears. 




"The end of all things is near. 
Therefore be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray." 
I Peter 4:7


3 Keys to Continuing in the Spirit and Prayer

Persistence - Insight - Action



Persistence in Unified Prevailing Prayer?

 If we strain at prayer and look for answers everyday we can lose our focus and heart in persisting in prayer. 

American culture is very goal oriented and pragmatic.  Prayer can be much more mystery, non-linear and spontaneous.  The things prayer can accomplish cannot be done without Jesus (John 15:5).

 I grow vegetables and flowers in my green house.  If I go out there every day and look at the progress of the planted seeds, I can get discouraged.  Farming offers little for the day to day inspection.  But over a week or two the whole garden can spring up.  Or so it seems to those who are not looking at the fields every day.  Over time my green house gets crazy overgrown.  Fruit, flowers, so much stuff you can just walk in and pic something to eat everyday.    So is a well watered garden of prayer with persistence.  You can walk in everyday and eat something rich, sweet and compelling.

Yes, we need some direction, but in my opinion the best prayer is rooted and established in love and in walking with the Holy Spirit.

Seen as a journey, prayer takes on a whole different freedom and responsibility. 
It is both War and Intimacy.


Prayer is not a simple math equation.  It changes things in an instant and over time, and sometimes over a long time with lots of prayers. The answers to prayer seem to spring up out of nowhere and land on our door steps. 


It is at the same time incredibly powerful and incredibly weak. 
Weak in that we are taking the action of heaven and not being our typical action oriented goal oriented selves.  At least that is how things are perceived.   What prayer appears to be in the natural world and mind, total weakness and waste of energies or passivity toward our goals, is in the heavenly economy pure raw power when mixed with faith.  

Here in lies the trouble for us regarding prayer.  We want results.  We want prayer to fulfill our goals and the picture of the future we envision.  We want prayer to do something particular for us.  Which of course fits perfectly into our vision and perceived direction most beneficial to us.  And in fact prayer does do this.  Yet, this is a small sliver of the breadth and width and length of prayer. 

Prayer itself is borderless in Christ.  Like his love we grow into it through revelation and experience and action in it. 

The question is not is prayer powerful?  The discernment questions is are we looking to use God's power to prosper our own lives alone.  Such prayers may go unanswered forever.  Prayers are answered for us.  God is good.  But the results we are measuring may not be those in the Glory of God.  Those that originate with Jesus and bring all his enemies under his feet. 

Even the Desert Blooms with a little water

 Prayer is about results in the seen world from the "unseen" Kingdom of God.  Prayer is about overcoming the world through our faith and trust in Jesus (I John 5:5).  Prayer is about the eternal realities of God's Kingdom erupting in the world and lives we live.  

Alpha and OMEGA
The temple in heaven, where Jesus ministers as High Priest of the New Covenant, is where real, powerful, true, hope filled, immense prayer originates.  It originates with the A&O.  The High Priest and Apostle Jesus, is sending out servants of his will all over the globe.  Angels, Saints, churches, ministries, all in the motion of the sending ONE. 


Prayer is discovered through abiding in the Father's will.  Abiding in Jesus, being with him, opens the eyes of our hearts to his goals and plans and actions in us and the world around us. 

If we persist in prayer we will see remarkable outcomes and benefits at every step.  We find ourselves immersed in the Presence of God.  That alone on a consistent basis is amazingly life-giving.   We gain insight and wisdom.   We gain more character and hope as we are persistent in prayer.


Insight - prophetic insight.  
Knowing the times and the season.  Knowing your assignment and season adds a powerful measure of faith and authority to your walk.   Persistence in prayer offers us the daily bread of encouragement.  (more to come in nest post)


Action - Faith in the face of the impossible - Proving the Gospel to the broken and busted world - Fanning the flames of hope.  These are rough places being made smooth.  (More to come in the next post.




For freedom Christ set you and I free.  His ways are righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.   The heart, dwelling in the fullness of Christ, is rich in these three amazing graces.


You can do it.  YOU can keep Pressing ON!


Here is a series of blogs about the heart that may help.

1. The Unhindered Heart - Sharpening the Arrow Point of Grace and Glory - https://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-unhindered-heart-sharpening-arrow.html

2. Undivided - Undaunted - Unhindered Heart After God - https://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2017/02/undivided-undaunted-unhindered-heart.html

3. Love for God Is A Never Ending Open Country - An Undivided Heart - Wholly Devoted - a place to follow not hide.

://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2014/03/love-for-god-is-never-ending-open.html

4. Five Thorns to Pull From a Wounded Heart -https://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2015/10/5-thorns-to-pull-from-wounded-heart.html

5. Personal Unity.  Can the Heart and Mind be United in the Spirit Always? https://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2014/02/personal-unity-can-heart-and-mind-be.html





Thanks for reading.  

The dialogue is awesome.  Thank you.

Testimonies?  Share em with me.  

I am hoping to do Google Hang Outs Soon on Friday's.
Uganda was amazing.
Thank you for your prayers and support!
So appreciated.  Such an offering.  Makes all the difference.




With much love in Jesus

You can do this thing!  He's got you.  

Jeff Reynolds   ---
Brother Jeff
jeff@jeffreynoldsministries.com
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Friday, October 13, 2017

Jesus Shines "Brighter Than The Sun."

I've been overwhelmed over the last few days with the beauty, power, glory and grace, character and love of Jesus. 

The love that....



 Loved me when we were enemies. 

Loved me before I even existed - before the foundations of the world.

 Loved me through the sacrifice and surrender of the CROSS.

 Loved me in the glory and new life of the Resurrection even when I don't get it or perceive it's freedom and power.

 Loved me in the powerful rest of sitting down at the right hand of the Father in the Ascension. 
His love is steadfast.  

 Wow.  We are loved.

 "See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears,a we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 3All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure."  I John 3:1-3

 I don't know if there is anything better than the revelation and experience of the Love of Jesus Christ.  

 When it overwhelms body, soul, mind, and spirit, there is nothing that compares in all the earth.  

 Such times are amazing.  

So why are they intermittent? Or seemingly absent in times of trouble, hindrance, difficulty and spirit war?  

Paul encourages us in Romans 5:1-6 to recognize the activating realities of the Kingdom of God.

By faith we have obtained peace with God.   Peace with God.  Peace with God.  Rest.  Settled and welcome relationship.  Open arms.  A warm and welcome reception.  With God.  The God that shaped the universe and set the stars in place.  Remarkable.

By faith we have access to God.  Continued.  Every present.  The open doors of abiding.  The presence of Jesus with us always and every moment.  We are not orphans or abandoned at any moment.  Access.  Total.  Complete.  In the Fullness of Jesus Christ and his perfect work for us in the Cross, through new life in the Resurrection and through rest and worship in Ascension reality.

All this love, assurance, faith and hope lead us to a new perspective about our "SUFFERINGs".
They fashion us into Perseverance.

Perseverance is?????    


You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

Maya Angelou




Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Jacob A. Riis






"Not only so, but wecalso glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us."  Romans 5:3-5


The face of perseverance is focused and fixed on the "Shining Brighter Than The Sun" Jesus.  

The one who reconciles enemies. 
The one who lays down his life for his friends.
The one who sees all your obedience and sacrifice and remembers it for reward on that DAY. 


A clear sense of direction and of the grace given to us by Jesus is essential in a walk of perseverance.  

We must believe. 
Believe our venture is in the will of God.
Believe we will see the Day of Deliverance and Joy.
Believe in the one who sent us.
Rejoice and believe in the honor of being a sent one. 

The anchors of Perseverance know....


By faith we have peace with God.  Anything saying otherwise is a lie. 
By faith we have access to God.  The one who is making everything conform to his good will for us.  His good desires.  His heart desires in us.  


For me, the deepest anchor of the soul is in 
Adopting Jesus' trust, confidence, faith, hope and love in the Father.  


Nikki Bothman 




When I see into the trust Jesus has in the Father's will, 
I see into the trust I want to have.

 Just like Jesus, I have access to the Father and to the power of grace, love, assurance and hope that one touch of his steadfast love imparts.  


Acquiring Perseverance is not typically our goal. 


I typically just want a way out of the desert, 
or a new insight to shut off the persistent trouble. 
Rarely do I settle into the presence and rest. 
Looking afresh and anew at the landscape of my troubles. 
Childlike before the Father for the insight only he can provide. 

Yet, it seems that perseverance is our goal.  
When we get it we get something else that builds us up in a holy love. 
We get character. 
That affects our decisions, staying power, grace, everything. 
Character gets formed in us.  
Something much more permanent than our troubles. 
The eternal gets woven into the fabric of our soul, mind, body, spirit. 
Something that lasts forever gets written on us by God himself.  

Character starts forming HOPE in us.  
We gain a strength of vision and faith that is far greater than previously known.
Then we gain new faith into the peace of God.
Then we gain new faith for access to the presence of God.  

We find ourselves abiding more and more.
Perceiving the nearness of Jesus through the Spirit in....

Conversations.
Troubles.
HOPEs
Family
Work
Finance

You name it. 
Everything gets a new look.  A new understanding.  


Perseverance works remarkable things in and through faith in Jesus Christ.  


For freedom Christ set you and I free.  His ways are righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.   The heart, dwelling in the fullness of Christ, is rich in these three amazing graces.


You can do it.  YOU can keep Pressing ON!


Here is a series of blogs about the heart that may help.

1. The Unhindered Heart - Sharpening the Arrow Point of Grace and Glory - https://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-unhindered-heart-sharpening-arrow.html

2. Undivided - Undaunted - Unhindered Heart After God - https://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2017/02/undivided-undaunted-unhindered-heart.html

3. Love for God Is A Never Ending Open Country - An Undivided Heart - Wholly Devoted - a place to follow not hide.

://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2014/03/love-for-god-is-never-ending-open.html

4. Five Thorns to Pull From a Wounded Heart -https://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2015/10/5-thorns-to-pull-from-wounded-heart.html

5. Personal Unity.  Can the Heart and Mind be United in the Spirit Always? https://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2014/02/personal-unity-can-heart-and-mind-be.html



Thanks for reading.  
The dialogue is awesome.  Thank you.
Testimonies?  Share em with me.  

I am hoping to do Google Hang Outs Soon on Friday's.
Uganda was amazing.
Thank you for your prayers and support!
So appreciated.  Such an offering.  Makes all the difference.


With much love in Jesus

You can do this thing!  He's got you.  

Jeff Reynolds   ---
Brother Jeff
jeff@jeffreynoldsministries.com





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