You are the Real Prized Possession in God's Heart - God is Our Friend

 In all the mystery and wonder of the Kingdom that God is building, one thing stands out supreme and true:  God the Father is longing and looking to connect deeply and set us into his presence and love permanently.  
 

Summer sky Redmond OR

 Jesus was victorious.  He perfectly completed the Father's desires fulfilling them with power and love and sacrifice.  The desire of the Father's heart is US.  YOU.  ME.  Humanity.  People.  

A Kingdom, a Bride for the Son, that as Iain Bradbeer says, "the Father's gift to say to the Son that he did well and his work was perfectly pleasing and good."  (EPIC Center Bend OR speaker)

God has no need of anything that is physical in the universe. But his heart is completely focused on bringing us into his Kingdom.  He wants to present a Bride to Jesus.  Jesus walked out his Father's desire and now the Spirit moves every day in that perfect work to bring people into the dwelling places of the Father.   

God is our friend.  
He truly is.  
In the work of Jesus every doorway in heaven stands open.  
In the power of his righteousness all will be made new.  
You and I are invited in....but it is so much more that that.

We are swept up in his grace and mercy when we say yes.  He has provided in Jesus for everything needed to perfectly abide in his presence and love.   Nothing is lacking. 
As we activate the Blood of Christ in faith our sins melt away into righteousness and peace and joy. As we arouse the works of Christ on our behalf with faith, trust and hope, all the energies of heaven's new and coming Kingdom begin moving in and through us.  

Power coalesces with his presence and the result are waves of abiding peace.  

You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you. 

Isa 26:3

Believers can miss this critical point of activation.   The Kingdom of God is perfect in provision.  Everything Jesus welcomed into our fallen world came with the fullness of his presence, power and peace.   Every true teaching of Christ explodes into life giving action just like the resurrected Lord as we dwell in the presence and abide in His perfect peace.  Faith moves us from the barren places and dry bones and hope sustains us in grace that will always be sufficient for everything he calls forth. 

The secret place is the doorway to the unbounded wide open country of the Father's Heart and LOVE. 

It is a wonder to me that the Father says,

"But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you".  Mat 6:6

Typically for us, when we go into some kind of secret place we do things we don't want anyone to know.  But for the Father the secret place holds the deep wells of change for a thirsty and hungry world.  His presence is a palace of freedom and righteousness that never ends. He is LOVE.  And there is no law in all the universe against the love that flows from the Father of heart.

The Father loves to call us into the secret places.  Deep into his heart.   It is from these places that we learn to abide and overcome the world.  When we are victorious from these places of the deep we receive things like....

"To the one who is victorious, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it."  Rev 2:17

The Father Loves to dwell in and reveal mysteries

He leads us on a treasure hunt both to find our own lives which are hidden in Christ and to see Christ is us revealed as the Father's mystery.   The deep things keep crying out for deeper things!  (Col 1:27; 2:3)

He Counts Hair

In all the mystery and wonder of the Kingdom God is building one thing stands out supreme and true:  God the Father is longing and looking to connect deeply and set us into his presence and love permanently.   

The Amazing things is he has perfectly completed this in Christ our Lord.   
He opened a "new and living way" (Hebrews 10:19-20) that allows us total access to the Father's house.   Jesus ushered in a Kingdom that is ever expanding and from which we draw upon the riches of his grace and love forever. 

Isaiah says, 

"Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near." Isa 55:6 

The Father is near and calling.  What does your heart say?  

Run with the grace you have!   Give yourself to the lover of our souls.  

Summer Sky Redmond OR

Now is the time.  Today is the DAY to surrender to the deepest cries in your heart and go to him.   

Comments?  Ideas?  Testimonies? 

Stories of the Secret place?  

Let me know what you think.  We can learn much from each other in love.  

Brother Jeff

Jeff Reynolds. Sr. Leader

Capstone Christian Fellowship 

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jeff@jeffreynoldsministries.com

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Knowing God: Learning the Ways of Patient Endurance PII

Abiding in hope is the natural state of the Kingdom coming and opposition and conflict should not dislodge us from the presence of the Lord and a deep abiding heart. 

Road to Emmaus by Eikonik

Endurance
en·dur·ance[ in dóorənss ]
1.ability to bear prolonged hardship: the ability or power to bear prolonged exertion, pain, or hardship
2.toleration of hardship: toleration of prolonged suffering or hardship
3.persistence over time: the survival or persistence of something despite the ravages of time.
Imagine a heart filled with freedom, love, and joy.   A childlike heart at rest in the Masters presence.    Now imagine that heart sitting down for lunch at a table with endurance?   What would be the common ground?  What would they talk about?  Would they naturally be close and feel a kindred spirit and "easy fellowship"? 

Endurance has been abiding in long suffering with hope for a while.   Endurance has been kneeling so long over prayers deposited by God they have physical issues.   Endurance can be gruff and resolute and present a hard exterior.   This is not the fullness or the true expression.  Love is the ultimate witness of anything originated in the Father's heart. 

My favorite apostle is John.  He was part of the inner circle with Jesus and he was there to see with his own eyes people rising from the dead.  He saw Jesus on the mount of transfiguration.  He was at the cross.  He was at the tomb with Peter.   He described his life in the Lord this way.....

I, John, 

your brother and companion in the suffering and kingdom 

and patient endurance that are ours in Jesus, 

was on the island of Patmos 

because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. Rev 1:9

Our Brother.  Our brother of the heart after Jesus.  The one who rested on the breast of Jesus at the Last Supper.   The one who received the revelation of Jesus and the encouragement of the book we love, Revelation. 

John is the childlike heart and the endurance of the Kingdom in one person.  And so would all the apostles of Christ be as this is the normal way of following Jesus.  Jesus was completely one with the Father's heart and will and moved about the world in love.  Certainly Jesus was one with the Father in his heart and worshiped in all that he did freely and with the very childlike freedom.  He called the disciples to it.  Yet, we marvel at the work of the Cross.  Jesus patiently endured the suffering that brought down the sins of the whole world.  Jesus paid for our shortcomings with his own blood.  He opened the new and living way to the presence of God forever.   He felt what a forsaken heart can feel.  But he remained with the Father, walked through hope and fulfilled his mission in love. 


John "sees" prophetically and he sees Jesus in so many circumstances and revealed ways throughout his life.   John sits down in the Kingdom with a childlike heart and patient endurance.   He knows the deepest abiding love of the Lord Jesus in a wide vision and revelation and he has linked this with hope and patience.  He saw the rule and reign of Jesus coming into the earth through his life. 

John, the apostle, sits down at a table with a childlike heart that sees and patient endurance that abides in hope.  

• This world's fallen reality did not ruin him or his heart.   Why does it take our so easily?  (Our modern mindset is that all troubles are somehow direct results of the Lord. So we take offense at God and our hearts cannot abide in his presence.) 

• His life reality did not take away his ability to see the Kingdom of the King.  From Jesus' words we know that that requires a child like heart....to see the kingdom.   John the Apostle saw some of the most amazing things in the Kingdom of God.  He also suffered persecution and boiling in oil as well as banishment.
  And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.  Mat 18:3

• John has something squared away that modern Christ followers have all but lost.   
• Abiding in hope is the natural state of the Kingdom coming and opposition and conflict should not dislodge us from the presence of the Lord and a deep abiding heart. 

The Kingdom Jesus is bringing is kind to the childlike heart.  In fact it calls out love for God and experiencing the Love of God as the core focus.   We love with the heart.  We love first as we are first loved.   Loving God with all our heart is a permanent abide for believers. 

Endurance is a key quality in those who would accomplish great things with the Father.  Yet our understanding of how life works has clouded our ability to love God with all our hearts, to run free in the vast resources of his presence.  We are called to patient endurance in hope for all that we are assigned in the Kingdom to accomplish, while abiding in perfect grace and love with the Lord Jesus.

Hope is the fuel for patient endurance.    

So why do we stumble?  Why do our hearts loose confidence in his presence?
Here are a couple ideas.

1. We fellowship with the mind of the flesh  (Rom 8:1-11)  We sit down with a dead man or woman and seek life.   Not gonna happen.

• The mind of the flesh is death 
• The mind of the flesh cannot please God
• The mind of the flesh cannot fulfill the law of God
• The mind of the flesh is by nature at war with God
• The mind of the flesh is equal to all the plans, ideas and pathways we conceive of to advance us in this life that do not originate in Christ Jesus.  

2. We translate opposition as personal punishment - We are presence carriers - empowered ambassadors of a heavenly Kingdom.  We carry life change all over the world everywhere we go.   It is not always or possibly even mainly about us and our personal world.  

• We have the Mind of Christ (1 Cor 2:16)
• Christ Dwells in us  (Col 1:27)
• We are Temples of the living God (I Cor 3:17)
• We are living stones (I Peter 2:5)

Opposition is natural as the Kingdom of God comes into a life, a household, a city, a region.  It takes patience and endurance to wait on the Lord with a living hope.  

3. We know we are in Him if we walk as Jesus walked.  Jesus walked in a heart of Love with the Father.  We can also.  Jesus fulfilled the calling on his life in perfect worship while confronted with immense opposition and struggle.   He overcame the world.  We can as well.

Overcoming is what Jesus calls us into.  Revelation 1-3.  Each city church was called to overcome in a particular way.  Reward awaited them for each type of overcoming grace.  


Patient Endurance is not a pathway to a wounded heart.  No in the Kingdom of God.
We can love God forever with all our hearts and be tough overcoming Saints who see the world change through his power everyday.


Thoughts?  Comments?  I love hearing from you.

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

Knowing God - Learning the Ways of Patient Endurance Part I

The Pathway of Patient Endurance:  Learning to Contend.   Understanding the Father's love in Jesus is the foundation.

In this life of following Jesus there are different seasons .   By that I mean times of emphasis.   Often insights and clearly encouraging teachings that emerge to advance us in one season do not adequately provide for us in the next.   Why?  

 I believe it is woven into the ways of God.   That we would find dependence, trust, hope, love and grace in his presence and in relationship with him ONLY.   He is our peace who has broken down every wall.  Jesus is our righteousness and rest.  Everything in the Kingdom of Heaven flows from the perfect provision and love of Jesus Christ.  

We see this in the Father’s language to Israel.    

Jer 3:14

 “for I am your husband. I will choose you—one from a town and two from a clan—and bring you to Zion.

Hos 2:15	There I will give her back her vineyards, and will make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. There she will respond as in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.
		“In that day,” declares the LORD, “you will call me ‘my husband’; you will no longer call me ‘my master.’

For your Maker is your husband— the LORD Almighty is his name— the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of all the earth.Isa 54:5

and in the language of Jesus for us....

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.  John 15:15

"Cristo, nostra Pasqua, si è immolato"

 Many of our trials and challenges are really about “understanding” and gaining wisdom.   Wisdom and understanding are found in Him, Yahweh.  Creator God.    It seems that we spend so much of our time and energy re-discovering what we inherently know.   God, our Father is the source of all things and he as a trinity God is in love with us. He knows us intimately and wants us to learn his ways and abide with him forever. 

At the core of our faith is a relationship.   Not an ever widening set of prescriptions, doctrines and outlines of secondary and seasonal truths.   So much teaching these days focuses on situational understanding.   Ex. Take these 10 truths for these 3 situations and you will do just fine if you run into them.   In the middle of this kind of "situation" I stumble for the 10 points and how to apply the principles.  We really should be looking into the face of the Lord Jesus or reaching out and touching him.  The life lived following Christ keep us close enough to touch him in all the situations we encounter in this life.  

There is really one thing the Church should strive to encounter and to teach.   The love of Jesus Christ and him crucified.    (I Cor 2:1-4)  The Kingdom of Heaven is speaking through Jesus to the world until His return. (Hebrews 1) 

…2that their hearts may be encouraged, having been knit together in love, and attaining to all the wealth that comes from the full assurance of understanding, resulting in a true knowledge of God's mystery, that is, Christ Himself, 3in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. 4I say this so that no one will delude you with persuasive argument.… Col 2:2-4

At the core of our relationship with God is surrender and ever increasing knowledge of the Holy One. 

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your soul and with all your strength and love your neighbor as yourself.    The law and the prophets hinge on these.  

Everything in the Kingdom of God hinge’s on, passes through, comes through the understanding of us loving God and God loving us first.    

God in his infinite love and wisdom is always leading us into greater abundance and knowledge of him and his ways.   Teaching, insights, moments when things just make sense and we see clearly are not intended to be a stopping point or some point where we settle in to the ideas and truths themselves.  Rather, these moments are an invitation to settle into our Father’s heart more deeply.  

The Transfiguration…..

Pre-cross explosion of glory and truth.   Jesus, the Son of God, is revealed in his glory to the disciples pre-crucifixion. Peter, James and John saw this together on the mountain.  They also saw Moses and Elijah.  The revelation of Jesus overwhelmed them with the glory of heaven.   Peter wanted to set up a “Jesus revealed memorial”.   (Matt 17:1-9)  The experience was completely overwhelming for the disciples who, after hearing the voice from heaven, seem to loose touch with Jesus and cower in fear.   Until he touches them and speaks to them. 

It is always foundational as we contending for the coming Kingdom to root ourselves in revelation and understanding of Jesus.  To find our mindset and heart and whole way of thinking flowing out of who we understand him to be.   The disciples encountered Jesus in profound ways.  The three on the mountain certainly saw something that completely altered their understanding of reality.   That is always what the Kingdom of God does when it comes.  Alter our understanding of reality.   

When the Kingdom displaces our understanding of the world with the revelation of Jesus...

Everything changes.   

The disciples of Jesus, followers of Jesus, carry around in us and everything has changed perspective, mindset and reality.  

 Jesus opened every doorway with his work on the Cross.  But there is certainly more to grow up in as far as embracing the kingdom of God.   He proved the new life in the resurrection and he sealed it all ascending from the earth into Heaven to sit at the Father's right hand.  

How do we patiently endure? 

• When we understand the Kingdom we are part of, it's role in the world and it's power to make the whole thing different. 
• When we understand who Jesus really is and embrace him in faith and his perfect work as the Christ, The Son of the Living God, the Savior of the world, the ONE who lives in us.
• When we realize who we are in the world.  Salt and Light ambassadors of freedom for a bound up and distorted world.
• When we realize the Kingdom of God was witnessed in glory on the Mountain transfiguration.  We are those people.  Hearing his voice and coming down from the mountain with life and peace.  

We can patiently endure because the coming Kingdom of Christ is beautiful, amazing and full of life and power.  

We can patiently endure because we are believing for a new city, a new family a new nation founded in the plans and desires of God our Father.  

 When we stand.  When we call down inheritance, power, authority and Kingdom revelation.   We start moving in the power of transfiguration.  

Comments?  Ideas?  Does this encourage you?  

Pass it on.  Share it.   Forward your testimonies or comments.  

These are voices of the tribe who believes that God will overcome, bring his amazing Kingdom in all his generosity and win captives and prisoners out of the fallen and broken world we are here to sow his love in....   

The story goes on and on in us!    

With Love in the Lord Jesus,

Brother Jeff

Jeff Reynolds. 5 Fold / Capstone CF / Restoring First Love

Capstone Christian Fellowship

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Sowing Life or Sowing Death? We Have Power to Live in Jesus

The Kingdom of God is remarkably simple.  Children can thrive in it!  Unless we become as children we do not even see it.  Anytime it gets complicated, moves away from Jesus as the primary focus and loses the focus on LOVE?   We are most likely off track.

El Greco - Healing the Blind Man

In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, ² but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe. ³ The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word.

Hebrew 1:1-3

"...that their hearts may be encouraged, having been knit together in love, and attaining to all the wealth that comes from the full assurance of understanding, resulting in a true knowledge of God's mystery, that is, Christ Himself, 3in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

Col 2:2-3

Jesus is what God is saying.  Some people are afraid to say his name in given places in our world.  But he is what God the Father is saying to the World.  There is such a hope for compelling power to "sweep in and show the world that God is who he says he is".   The Father is not like that.  His heart was displayed in Christ and everything about the way he related to the world.   

• When the Jews demanded a sign what did Jesus say?   Jonah is your sign.  I will be three days in the ground and then rise to new life before your eyes.   If you don't believe in Jonah you will have trouble with the resurrection. 
• When the Jews demanded to know "how he healed your eyes".  The "condemned blind person" who was "lost in his sin" told them in childlike witness about Jesus.    I love what he said.  Essentially, I don't know.  Aren't you Israel's teachers and you don't know how he did this?

 In contrast, when a Roman Centurion (oppressor of Israel and representative of that power) approached Jesus for healing his servant, Jesus healed him and said there has not been one like this in Israel who understood things so clearly.    There is a new Kingdom rising that overcomes all of the world's perceived structures and castles.   In 300 hundred years the "children" overcame the most advanced and powerfully oppressive government on the face of the earth.  By force?  NO.  By love, service, surrender and sacrifice.  

But people don't seem to believe or want to respond to the message of Christ around me???

He told the rich man that there was plenty of witnesses for the truth surrounding his brothers.  (Luke 16:19-31)  He assured them that if they did not believe all the witnesses present they would not believe and angel or some major sign.  

Our hope for some dramatic demonstration of the Father's power is not consistent with the way the Father presented himself in Jesus.   His power was tempered by compassion.  He loves first.  He is heartbroken for the brokenness of the world.  Yet, he has actively provided a means of escape in Christ and more than that exploded his Kingdom and government onto the world with love, service and sacrifice leading the way.   

I loved what Kevin Prosch sang years ago.    He said something to the effect that we are an army of weeping and mourning and brokenness. 

A martyr story.  All this seems to wrap up for me in a story I read.  Through the witness of this story it is believed that all the gladiatorial slaughters of the Roman Colosseum were ended.  Wow.   It happened on a believers "vacation".     

So, a believer was traveling and went to Rome.  He ended up in the Colosseum and was watching "the games".   The crowd, the atmosphere and the murder taking place before his eyes were overwhelming to him.  Why he was there....not sure.  But the overwhelming compassion and desire to see God's grace and power overcome the situation mixed with the compelling witness of thousands upon thousands of believers who had died on that very ground caused a divine moment to occur that shifted the hearts of an entire people.   Our brother, compelled by what he was witnessing, got out of his seat and made his way into the area during a battle.   The crowd saw him and began to watch in horror as a perfectly free man made his way into the raging battle for life and death.  Thousands of people's eyes were fixed on him as he went over the rail and into the battle zone.   The warring gladiators noticed him but paid no attention.  A slip of their attention meant sure death.   The believer walked into the melay and approached the men who were fighting.   The entire Colosseum witnessed the following event.   The believer walked up to one of the warring groups and began pleading for them to cease their fight.   He was ignored at first.   Then still pleading he stepped into the battle zone.  A gladiator struck him down.  Before the entire crowd of witnesses a free and perfectly able bodied man was struck down by a gladiator.  He died.  Before their eyes.   On vacation.  

The amazing thing is "his witness" cut to the heart of everyone present.   Including the rulers and authorities.   From that day on there were no more gladiatorial battles in the Colosseum.   From that day on the slaughter stopped.   

Are we this kind of people?   Are we seeing the Kingdom coming more than the world that is present? 

Are we more attached and in love with the world than with our Father's Kingdom and the witness of Christ?   

Times are shifting and changing.  There is a Kingdom of love rooted in childlike simplicity and vision that can stop the gladiatorial slaughter.   

Who is willing to walk into the battle zone?   

With First Love on my heart and Jesus crucified in my eyes.  

Love from Brother Jeff. 

Comments?  Ideas?  Feedback?  

Send em my way.  I love talking with you.  

grace and peace in Jesus.  

God is our friend. Guilt, Shame and Condemnation are not.

God is our friend.  

Jesus heals woman - catacombs painting

Who is the friend of God? 
This is the time of grace.  By grace we are saved.  The gift is given by grace through faith. 
There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. (Rom 8:1) There is a law loose in Christ Jesus called the "Law of the Spirit of Life" (Rom 8:2) that sets us free.  This law is a law of life and hope and salvation. 

The Father has established through the Son Jesus Christ an eternal priesthood.  Jesus himself in his perfect worship and work is the High Priest of that tabernacle.  Forever there stand in the Father's heart a witness of perfect worship and love.   This witness and work of Jesus is exploding into the world we know with an invitation to abide in his presence, live in his power and rest in his peace. 

Such a high priest truly meets our need—one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens.  Heb 7:26

 Through Christ we are free to run with confidence before the throne of grace.  Free to call Father God our "Abba".  We receive the inheritance of Jesus and all the blessings of his relationship with the Father by faith.   We receive every work of Christ Jesus, perfect and powerful, in the fulness of God's grace and mercy. (Eph 1:9)  We are called sons and daughters. (Heb 2;10)  We are adopted children. 

Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to son-ship, the redemption of our bodies. Rom 8:23

 That groaning and longing for things to be as the Kingdom reveals in the heart of the Father, through the work of Jesus by the Spirit of grace and power, is from the Spirit.  It flows out of the wide open relationship of son-ship, adoption, and the blessings of running free in the presence of our Father.   

Our Father is for us, as demonstrated in Jesus through the sacrifice of the cross, ?  (Rom 8:31)  Not only is he for us he has provided for us through his divine power

"everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness." 2Pe 1:3

Punishment and condemnation are gone for those who place their faith in Jesus Christ.  We pass from death to life. (Col 3:1-3)  

God is our friend.  Our Father.  Our Abba.  Our Papa.  Our Daddy.  

Are we abiding in the fulness of the work of Jesus Christ?  Are we free in the presence of the Father?   

What tears us out of all this?

 It is vitally important that we understand, NOTHING CAN TEAR US OUT OF HIS HAND.

 "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. (John 10:27,28)

But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. 38For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.  (Rom 8:38-39)

Our God is able to keep us in all circumstances and to make those situations turn into redeemed glory and grace in us.  (Rom 8:28-29)

Nothing can tear us away from the Love of God.   
The truth is all the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus are our inheritance as Sons and Daughter.   

So it is more about access, more about the heart, more about taking hold of that for which Christ took hold of us.  

There are three packages the enemy wants to deliver to us that will destroy our ability to run freely in all the Jesus has done for us.  

Guilt
Shame 
Condemnation 

Important key: All three of these are the "talk of the flesh" and flow from the mind of the flesh. (Rom 8:6) 

Guilt is easily dealt with.  If we have the Holy Spirit and sin or continue in a way of sin for a time we will be miserable.  The Holy Spirit in you will not let you go on sinning or continue in a way that destroys the Father's work in you.  He comes after us.   Be grateful.  Before you were saved you had no idea that such things could be wrong.  The presence of godly guilt for acts with lead to death is the blessing of his presence working the righteousness of Christ in us.  Embrace the reality that you cannot save yourself.  Yes.  You may have let Jesus down again, but his grace is sufficient to swallow the sins of the whole world.   Let go of your self and fall into Christ Jesus.  Let go of the thinking that you can achieve anything without the perfect work of Jesus Christ activated by faith in your. (Gal 1:6-8)  

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (I John 1:9)



Shame tags along after guilt.  It is the enemies second ploy.  It is more subtle and clings to us like swamp moss.   Shame continues on the path of the mind of the flesh saying....
How can God love me when I am such a poor follower of Jesus?   Shame rehearses the why's of the mind of the flesh.   How could I have let down those around me that I love?   How could I have made such a mistake?   Shame is the the mind of the flesh enacting death on us.   Rather than partnering with the Father in the perfect work of Jesus we partner with our dead flesh in the work of destroying ourselves.   
Jesus took the shame of the cross and destroyed it.   The hope of his glory is preached right through the worlds' understanding of shame.  And he crucifies it and then rises to life.   Shame is a mindset of self destruction and possibly rooted in self righteousness.   

Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
Col 3:5

Condemnation is the chief fruit of continuing on the path of guilt and shame.

There is no condemnation for those abiding in Christ Jesus.  Those who by faith are living in the resurrection life of Jesus and the victory of the cross.   Condemnation is destructive enemy presence.  It weighs on us and drives into us the focus on the flesh.  Reject it in the power of Jesus and welcome his blood to cover you with mercy and forgiveness.  

We have to put to death all three of these to walk in the fulness and freedom of the Father's heart.  

How?   Encounter Jesus and his love. (Eph 1:18)  We need an enlightened heart full of the revelation of wisdom and knowledge of Jesus.  


Prayer and Ministry
1) Embrace the blood of the Son.  Go after the work of Christ in faith. His blood cleanses us from ALL unrighteousness.  ALL.   ALL.  Confess and repent and come into the streams of grace.   
2) Embrace the Love of the Father.  Everything Jesus did flowed from the Father's heart of love for us.  The Holy Spirit, which is the Spirit of Jesus, now continues to reveal to us that same love and pour grace on us.  

3) Embrace the hope of new life in the resurrection of Jesus.  (Rom 8:11)  

Get in a quiet place.  Quiet your heart and remember.  Remember who you are.  Remember the love poured into you.  Remember the love you have for Jesus.   Open your heart to his love again.  Let him wash over all your wounds.  Let him cleanse you in grace and mercy.  

Cry out in Spirit and Truth to your Abba Father.   Tell him the truth on your heart.    


You blew with Your wind, the sea covered them; They sank like lead in the mighty waters. 11"Who is like You among the gods, O LORD? Who is like You, majestic in holiness, Awesome in praises, working wonders? 12"You stretched out Your right hand, The earth swallowed them.… Ex 15:11


Email me if you need more help moving out of guilt, shame or condemnation. 
jeff@jeffreynoldsministries.com  


Comments?  Ideas?  Testimonies?  
I always want to hear from you.  


Brother Jeff
Jeff Reynolds. Sr. Leader
Capstone Christian Fellowship
www.jeffreynoldsministries.com 
jeff@jeffreynoldsministries.com