{"id":1979,"date":"2013-01-10T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2013-01-10T01:10:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T06:10:49","slug":"pearls-of-wisdom-01-10-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/10\/pearls-of-wisdom-01-10-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearls of Wisdom 01-10-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

SIT DOWN<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In Ephesians 1 and 2<\/strong> Paul gives us a photograph of God\u2019s vision of us.\u00a0 In Ephesians 2:4-7<\/strong> we read that God is so rich in His mercy.\u00a0 Because of and in order to satisfy the great and wonderful and intense love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our sins, He made us alive together in fellowship and in union with Christ; He gave us the very life of Christ Himself, the same new life with which He quickened Him (made Him alive), for it is by grace that we are saved (delivered and made partakers of Christ\u2019s salvation.<\/p>\n

He raised us up together with Him and made us SIT DOWN together, giving us joint seating with Him in the heavenly sphere by virtue of our being in Christ Jesus the Messiah, the Anointed One.\u00a0 Why did God do all this?\u00a0 He did this so that He might clearly demonstrate through the ages to come the immeasurable, limitless, surpassing riches of His free grace in His kindness and goodness of heart toward us in Christ Jesus.<\/p>\n

Our position today is one of sitting down.\u00a0 In the spirit realm, we are sitting at rest, enjoying the fruit of all of Jesus Christ\u2019s labor while He was here on this earth.\u00a0 He defeated the devil and all his demonic works for us; He reconciled us to the Father; He opened the way for us to be God\u2019s children once again.\u00a0 He gave us the victory over sin, sickness, circumstances, everything that would be placed against us.\u00a0 We are seated with Christ Jesus.\u00a0 Where is He? \u00a0He is at the right hand of the Father.\u00a0 Is there any sickness and disease or poverty or lack or defeat at the right hand of the Father?\u00a0 Of course not.\u00a0 That is a resounding NO!<\/p>\n

God\u2019s vision is wholeness in every area of our lives.\u00a0 He has given us His vision in His Word.\u00a0 We must develop His vision by staying in His Word.\u00a0 Open my eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of Your Word (Psalm 119:18).\u00a0 Without God\u2019s vision, we perish or are made naked.\u00a0 We are afraid (Genesis 3:10 and Proverbs 29:18<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

Today is the beginning of a change of seeing, a change of vision.\u00a0 In order to change that vision, we must keep God\u2019s Word before us day and night.\u00a0 That is the photograph and vision we want to see of ourselves.\u00a0 This is my prayer for all of us:\u00a0 Ephesians 1:17,18\u00a0 Father, God of our Lord Jesus Christ, Father of Glory, may the eyes of our understanding, the eyes of our hearts be flooded with the Light of Your Word so that we can see clearly Who we are—-we are your children, a duplicate of You.\u00a0 We look like You.\u00a0 We talk like You.\u00a0 We walk like You.\u00a0 We act like You.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SIT DOWN In Ephesians 1 and 2 Paul gives us a photograph of God\u2019s vision of us.\u00a0 In Ephesians 2:4-7 we read that God is so rich in His mercy.\u00a0 Because of and in order to satisfy the great and wonderful and intense love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2074,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions\/2074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}