Merry Christmas and Happy New Year - 2018 A Breakout Year!

May 2018 be a amazing year in the favor and steadfast love of the Lord.  

My prayer for you and yours. 

14-19 My response is to get down on my knees before the Father, this magnificent Father who parcels out all heaven and earth. I ask him to strengthen you by his Spirit—not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength—that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in. And I ask him that with both feet planted firmly on love, you’ll be able to take in with all followers of Jesus the extravagant dimensions of Christ’s love. Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights! Live full lives, full in the fullness of God. 20-21 God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us. Glory to God in the church! Glory to God in the Messiah, in Jesus! Glory down all the generations! Glory through all millennia! Oh, yes!

There are no Dead Ends in our God!  

When You’re Between a Rock and a Hard Place

43 ^1-4 But 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:

May 2018 be a breakthrough year of abundance and victory in Jesus. 

Thank you for your encouragement, +1's, comments and for reading the blog. 

So thankful for you!  

Merry Christmas 

Happy New Year 2018  

Much love in Jesus

Brother Jeff 

Get Rooted and Established in the Superabundance of Christ

Knowing is not enough.

The Devil knows who God is and still stands opposed to him though he knows his time is short.   Crazy eh?   James 2:19

Mountains are ascended by faith in Christ

Disciples are called to:

Take Hold of the Truth.   
Simply hearing the Word does us no good.

We have to take hold of it and put it into practice.   

James 1:6 
But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.

Therefore, putting aside all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls. 22But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves.  James 1:22

 

 So how do we root ourselves in Superabundance?  

1) Get rooted and established in LOVE.  

God is love.  You and I need to experience that love.  Know it by experience and encounter
not by books and learning or theory. 
The love of Jesus is experience-able!  
Your love and devotion to Jesus is directly connected to your knowledge of his love!   
Col 2:6  

"So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, 7rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness."

 How have you received him? 
That is the depths of your knowledge of him and his love.  
Are you hungry for more of him? 

23Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. 24Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.  John 14:23

 
The ultimate motivation of a Disciple is love. I John 3:16/ John 3:16 /I Cor 14:1
Because that is the Father's ultimate motivation.  
Demonstrated in Jesus and empowered in us through the Spirit.
Paul's prayer for us is that we would experience the love of Jesus and be rooted and established in it.  

That our knowledge of God would be established in Christ Jesus and in the knowledge, tangible experience and encounter, of his overcoming, victorious love.   Ephesians 3:17-19   Take hold of a life of LOVE.  Find it in the habitation of his presence in the face of Jesus.  Heb 1:1   

2) Learn the intentional, active way of REST and WAITING. 

Do a quick survey of these things. 

Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly - Col 3:16  / Eph 2:22
Habitation - Dwell / Richly.  
We all know what these simple words mean.  So how much intention fills your day to bring the Word of Christ into the dwelling place of your life?  
People wear Fitbots to see what is happening in their physical lives. 
What is your Word Dwelling richly Fitbot?   
Get intentional with the Word of Christ and how it dwells in you today. 
This is the way into Resting and Waiting. 

Be filled with the Holy Spirit - Ephesians 5:18
Go fitbot again.  Slow down and have a look.  How much overflowing and filling of the Spirit are you carrying today?   
We are called to a life of continuous filling.  
Streams and rivers flow.  They don't stop in a lake.  
Be filled and give it away.  
This is the pathway to resting and waiting.  
Rest and wait on the Holy Spirit.  
What is he saying today?
What is He directing you into today in the Word?
How is he calling you to love in this season of your life? 

You are a temple.  Make sure there is an offering on the alter.   Rom 12:1-2
INTENTION - the second thing to do is be intentional with the leading and your walking with the Spirit.  

3)  Steward the grace, life, Word, and Voice. 

God speaks.  Yea, he's not all cramped up inside a little book. 

He is alive and living.  Disciple, tap into that!  
Isaiah 9:6-7  Look he is bringing a kingdom and government with no end. 
Understand he handed out grace from the foundations of the world in his work on the Cross, Resurrection and Ascension that is now imparted to you.  
Jesus died and rose from the grave just to let us know he is alive.  He ascended to the heavenly temple and is guiding and directing his Kingdom people Co-laboring with us in bringing his rule and reign; until he returns to rule in the earth.  Eph 1:9-10

Following Jesus is a NOW proposition.  Yes. Right Now.  
Put Following first into your life day to day.  Matthew 6:33
So, if he speaks... (John 10) he directs and leads.  
What is he leading you in?
What is he calling you uniquely to express about his glory, love and grace?

So, if he speaks he imparts grace to each of us to steward and bring in fullness to the world. Ephesians 4:7 
And he has given the Fivefold to be a people full of grace as a gift.  Ephesians 4:11-13
Here are the four disciple descriptors I love to walk in for superabundant ongoing, rivers of living water life.
Follow
Walk 
Go
Disciple
Look these up in the New Testament.  
Carry them into your prayer and devotional life.  They will keep you focused as you walk boldly into the world each day with the power of the Spirit and the Grace imparted to you. Grace given to express his Kingdom.  

Now having been questioned by the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God was coming, He answered them and said, "The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed; 21nor will they say, 'Look, here it is!' or, 'There it is!' For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst."

 

Talk about adventure.
Talk about Mystery
Talk about His power
Talk about eternal life.  

 Psalms 1:2

  But his delight

is in the law of the Lord, 

and on his law 

he meditates

DAY

and

NIGHT

Thanks for Reading!   

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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 

Thanks for reading. 

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

In Christ I Am.... Awake to Every Spiritual Blessing in HIM.

In Christ I am  

The Ancient of Days - My Hearts Fire

Blessed

Chosen

Holy and Unblemished

Foreordained

Adopted

Glorious

Redeemed

Forgiven

Obtaining an Inheritance

Sealed in the Spirit

I AM ONE with the Father, Son and Spirit

United in love

Rooted and Established in Jesus Made for the praise of his glory

(Ephesians 1)

Read about the heart that dwells in him and like him with the Father.
http://ow.ly/3RQh30h9jw0 - Undivided - undaunted - Unhindered Heart after God

Christmas is the Visitation of the Ages that leads to the Habitation with him forever.

Let the Word of Christ lift you this Christmas.    Travel in the ways of his love.

Let him fill you and awaken your soul to who you are in the Victorious King of Kings of all the Earth.   Emmanuel.

We are like God.  Made in his image.  The world's emotions only reflect his vast creative energies and love.  A first love is what Jesus won for us.  A love that led him to the cross in the will of the Father for US.  For the joy set before him he endured the cross.    We are that joy!


Explore your relationship with the Trinity God this Christmas.  
Step into the wonder and awe of the simple redemptive story of the coming of Messiah.
Wander in the Mind of Christ and Christ in you the hope of glory.   
Explore First LOVE.   
Everything else finds its peaceful fit when Christ is First LOVE. 

I love you're 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
 

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 

Thanks for reading. 

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

Wonder and Awe Await. How deeply can a person travel into the knowledge of God?

How deeply can a person travel into the knowledge of God?

There is no end to discovering the Trinity God.

I've heard believers say, "Where is the wonder in worship"?  

Where is the wonder in our vision of the Lord Jesus?
Wonder in our understanding of his boundless and overcoming Kingdom?  The wonder of the mystery of losing our lives to find them again in Him?   

All this dumbing down of the power, beauty love and mystery of our God for the sake of effortless awe and wonder is clearly showing it's true colors. 

There are creatures in heaven covered with eyes.
They have surrounded the Throne for timeless time. 
They see something new in God with the smallest movement.  Never ending praise breaks out from inside and fills their mouths.  
Over and Over again they glimpse a new wonder in the nature and character of the Trinity God and fall in worship.  (Rev 4:6-11)

No wonder the wonder is required in Christian worship. 

It's to bad that vast numbers of churches seek to "reduce" the mysteries of the Godhead into palatable bit sized meals mixed with heavy doses of 10 steps and words like happiness.  

Of course people drink it up.  Not unlike how we keep returning to McDonald's.  But then we know what happens to people who eat there for 30 days straight.  

Paul cries out,
"Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways! 34For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, OR WHO BECAME HIS COUNSELOR?…  Romans 11:33-34

I've heard believers say, "Where is the wonder in worship".  
Where is the wonder in our vision of the Lord Jesus, our understanding of his boundless and overcoming Kingdom?  The wonder of the mystery of losing our lives to find them?   

All this dumbing down of the power, beauty love and mystery of our God for the sake of effortless awe and wonder is clearly showing it's true colors. 

Paul again says that it is our understanding through revelation of Jesus that opens up the vast expanses of his nature, character and love.   

"I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God."  Ephesians 3:17-20

Words like fullness of God and a love that surpasses knowledge don't make for assembly line people making.  People are not an industry.  They are the very focal point of Jesus' redemptive loving kindness. 


These are words of deep lovers.  Words that forge family devoted to Christ.  Words of a people overwhelmed with a love that flies deep into their souls and spins a tapestry of good good works. 

LOVE, PEACE, JOY, KINDNESS, GENTLENESS...on and on.  

American Christianity has the tendency to fixate on what fills the MIND.  Rather than a holistic worship.  Worship more naturally finds rest as it is more like the God who made the world in all it's vast wonder and beauty.   Worship that includes emotion, the body, the visual, the deep and abiding presence of God.   It is a vast boundless expanse filled with power, beauty and love. 

  




How far can we really go knowing God?

As far and as deep as you desire.  He is unlimited.  What an invitation.  An invitation to an amazing life. A life alive to the presence and knowledge of God.  
A life free of the wrath to come. 
A life of abundance in relationship with Jesus.  


Jesus rebuked a very disciplined and doctrinally pure Ephesian church for something they were missing.  Something more important to him than a check list of proper complete and correct thoughts.  


He rebuked their lack of love.  A love that made all other things look second.  
A First LOVE.  (Revelation 2:1-7)


We are like God.  Made in his image.  The world's emotions only reflect his vast creative energies and love.  A first love is what Jesus won for us.  A love that led him to the cross in the will of the Father for US.  For the joy set before him he endured the cross.    We are that joy!


Explore your relationship with the Trinity God this Christmas.  
Step into the wonder and awe of the simple redemptive story of the coming of Messiah.
Wander in the Mind of Christ and Christ in you the hope of glory.   
Explore First LOVE.   
Everything else finds its peaceful fit when Christ is First LOVE. 

I love you're 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
 

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 

Thanks for reading. 

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

Here I am Lord, Send ME. Shammah in the Lentil Field

When you hear that phrase....

Bali Indonesia - Hindu god - we don't fight statues

"Here I am Lord, Send me".....

Do you think of Isaiah?
Do you think of people you admire whom God has called and sent?
Do you think of Jesus - Hebrews 10:5-13
Do you think of others you know who have heard a call and moved out into the unknown?

Or

Do you think of yourself, saying in your heart, HERE I AM LORD, SEND ME? 
When said,
are you dreaming,  envisioning a glorious victory for the Kingdom of God?


One of my favorite simple statements in the Bible is this....

¹¹ Next to him was Shammah son of Agee the Hararite. When the Philistines banded together at a place where there was a field full of lentils, Israel’s troops fled from them. ¹² But Shammah took his stand in the middle of the field. He defended it and struck the Philistines down, and the Lord brought about a great victory.

When a whole army flees...."Israel’s troops fled from them".

In my minds eye, I see people running around Shammah like water going round a rock in the middle of a river.  

He is not running.  
He is standing still. 
Waves of warriors running past him,
Most likely, they do not notice him.  Or they shout back "come on, Shemmah Run". 


Resolute,  Shemmah entered the battle. 
By standing still in the promise of God, Shammah became the Lord's weapon of promise and victory. 
Most likely, he saw the victory of God and the glory of Israel, the promise lived inside him and in faith he stood in Israel's greatest moment.  
When all hung on a thread, he was not going to run in the face of the enemy. 

Shammah already faced the enemy in his heart and mind.  
Resolute, he started them down through the eyes of promise. 
As the army fled around him, he stood still.


Yes, Israel fled.   At the sight of a whole Philistine army, their hearts gave way.
They were not willing to live for and in the promise, the vision of David as King, for a united Israel.  
The Philistines came to take David down, to eliminate the promise, the people the hope of God's revelation and presence.  

Their hope, David's kingship in the Valley of Rephaim, would be no more.
They came as destroyers.  Dead set on eliminating this radical change in the region.

This is not a new story for Israel.

Over and Over God finds someone. At the right moment someone says,

"here I am Lord, send me".

This is one replay I would love to see. 

A whole army stirs up dust going in the opposite direction of battle.  When the dust begins to settle, the army far away, one lone figure stood on the horizon, Shammah. 


The Philistine's were dead set on eliminating Israel. 
This one person standing and waiting in the face of a whole group of soldiers most likely infuriated them.
The Lord baited the Philistines into the conflict.   
Something he did on many occasions.

One lone soldier standing in a lentil field.

The real and tangible witness of human absurdity; the heart revealed in an Israel ground down to their souls filled with fear and faithless hearts.

These Philistines would take Shammah apart limb from limb and then ship him around to frighten the rest of Israel into submission.

Maybe they surrounding Shammah. 
Sending out their best fighters to finish him off. 
Laughing, taunting, declaring their darkness over him.

He stood there waiting.  A whole army at his face.
Because Yaweh was there with him.



They may have rushed him, unorganized and in a furry.
Men falling to Shammah right and left.
More and more running into the fray without any real understanding of what was happening.


On and on they kept falling to Shammah's stand.

The Philistines did not calculate two realities.

Darkness never does.

Reality ONE.

Shammah's very name means "Yaweh is here"

God was standing for the house of David and all his promises to Israel with one man.  Echoing out over the valley,  "who is going to stand with God as his victory".

Taking a stand like this empowers us with divine grace and strength. 
Courage rises up, deep within something exceptional in power and promise rises. 

We awaken.  Our souls arise in worship and Spirit power into the reality of the new Kingdom of which we are part.
Swept up in a tangible witness of the supernatural reality of God's presence, the promise of God takes on shape and form in the world we all know. 

The very power and strength required for such a fight fills us as we step in faith, move in trust, battle in hope.  Courageously advancing in the heart of God as it is expressed in the earth.

The reality of the Kingdom of God pours into us as we pour into action.

Second the Philistines did not understand who took up the stand. 

A true warrior.  Fierce in the belief of his own name sake.  A foreigner in the family of David who believed God.   Filled with the might and power of an army, the Spirit of God forged the promise in bold faith and valor.  

This lentil field, as good a place as any in Israel to take up the stand, believe the promise and see the victory.

and so Shammah said,  "here I am Lord, send me".

Scripture says, He took his stand.

We are called to take as stand as well. 

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. ¹¹ Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. ¹² For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. ¹³ Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. ¹⁴ Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, ¹⁵ and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. ¹⁶ In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. ¹⁷ Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
¹⁸ And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people. ¹⁹ Pray also for me, that whenever I speak, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel,

Like Shammah.  Sometimes we stand alone.

Yet the promise of Jesus rings out over us. 

"Listen, I am with you always.  Even to the end of the age".

We are never alone.
At times, the advance of God's Kingdom happens in some simple lentil field. We emerges as a warrior willing to be sent, to take a stand, to make hope a living reality.

Jesus hung alone on the cross.

No one really understood the moment but  the Trinity God did.

It was his lentil field.

That battle changed all eternity and ushered in the greatest move of God on the planet.

A whole new family and covenant burst into life through his sacrifice of love and faith.

The seed went into the ground.

Only to rise three days later to a new body, new world, new eternity.

Shammah believed God when few others did.
He stood with God.
Set apart from his brothers.
That was not his desire.  I'm sure he would have much rather been fighting with even a few of Israel's troops.

Shammah was a tipping point. 
A turning point.
Not the one the Phillistines wanted.  Not a turning away from David, the promises of God and the future hope of Israel.
Rather, one of the first stones on the new highway.



Jesus believed the Father and walked in his will in love, when no one understood.
The world does not know the ONE true God even still.  John 17:3
Yet, we know him.
His promises.
His life, way, truth.
We carry the word of life, the Gospel of the Kingdom. 

What about you?

Are you ready to say, "HERE I AM LORD, SEND ME" 


What if you are the tipping point? 
What if your stand swings an entire spiritual movement.
What if your act of faith sparks millions on to great and glorious service to Jesus?


Will you say, "Here I am Lord, Send Me".





Much love in Jesus,  


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. 

Share your comments.  

2017  

Transfiguration! 

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

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www.jeffreynoldsministries.com 

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I love your comments. Ideas and thoughts.
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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 

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