"Perfect one"
It's very clear in this prayer below that Jesus is praying to His Father for us - those who put their faith in Him. He is not praying for the visible global church with its disunity; plainly, in this scripture, Jesus is not telling us to make ourselves one or united. His prayer request is clearly to His Father, and our only response to this scripture and Jesus' prayer is: do we believe it? Do we believe the Father granted Jesus' request?
I do not pray for the disciples alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; 21 that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. 22 And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: 23 I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me. Jn17:20-23
We know our enemy's usual strategy is to try to draw our focus onto his worldly 'achieving' perspective. "Unity, that's what you need", he's talking about our own human understanding of unity.
But if this were true for the whole body of Christ, it would be a colossal global deception, that must be costing
billions of unreached souls.
The Lord has always shown me that this is what this attack on our belief is all about, and is where we must now take the fight.
We must reclaim our faith in the reality of what God
has already done for us.
But if this were true for the whole body of Christ, it would be a colossal global deception, that must be costing
billions of unreached souls.
The Lord has always shown me that this is what this attack on our belief is all about, and is where we must now take the fight.
We must reclaim our faith in the reality of what God
has already done for us.
Thanks for this amazing photo Jair Garciaferro
Our enemy knows this is where the real battle is, and he knows he doesn't want us to go there. So, to steer us away from there, he gets us focused on the practicalities:
"What's our plan for going forward?" he says.
But the only planning we need to do going forward is to plan out how we're going to pray and worship our way back into faith,
not achieving. It's really not difficult once we refuse to focus on his mountain of practical difficulties.
It's not hard either to imagine the father of deception already being one step ahead of us regarding the importance of our faith in our oneness in God. All we need to do is defend our old forgotten wall just as fervently as we're trying to reach the lost.
I can't stop thinking about all our tireless love for just one precious soul, but what about the billions?
Because this is what it's all about.
Never underestimate your opponent,
but never make him bigger than you.
Philipp Schranz
but never make him bigger than you.
Philipp Schranz
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Calligraphy by Timothy R Botts
Behold, I will do a new thing; now it will spring forth; shall ye not know it?
I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. Isaiah 43:19
Take heart, for I have overcome the world. Jn 16:33
I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. Isaiah 43:19
Take heart, for I have overcome the world. Jn 16:33
We're not being asked to understand our spiritual oneness,
any more than we understood our salvation, only to
continue to believe and walk in it, in faith.
It's a new chapter for us, we're pulling up our tent pegs.
We've been praying for this, and our God has delivered.
If any Christian soldier, officer or General doesn't believe it,
then come and make contact with me on here,
and we can go down to the brook together.
Again: And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said,
The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God. 1 Kings 18:39
any more than we understood our salvation, only to
continue to believe and walk in it, in faith.
It's a new chapter for us, we're pulling up our tent pegs.
We've been praying for this, and our God has delivered.
If any Christian soldier, officer or General doesn't believe it,
then come and make contact with me on here,
and we can go down to the brook together.
Again: And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said,
The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God. 1 Kings 18:39
to those who believe in His name,
to them He gave the right to become children of God.
Jn 1:12
Disastrously, there's an enemy stronghold in our thinking.
Please pray and consider the possibility that every thought we've ever had that legitimizes our belief and acceptance of this mountain of divisions in Satan's world has been purposefully placed there by our enemy to deceive our spirits.
As incomprehensible as that may sound, imagine for a moment that the oneness power available to the Bride is that important to our enemy. Is it beyond us to imagine that Satan might know more about this than we do?
He's fabricating this stronghold in our thoughts, painting an extraordinary, all-encompassing, worldly backdrop that discourages us and steals our faith and belief in our God-given spiritual oneness. Do you really think this is beyond our enemy, considering the value of the Bride of God?
Even though we have no doubt that we are one in spirit, it seems we can't help but have our attention drawn toward the 'giant' of divisions in the natural (1 Samuel 17:4-7) and away from the magnitude of our God.
Satan then knows he will see the fruit of his deception. We'll see things from his false, achieving perspective. Then, as good Christians wanting to please our Father and echoing distant memories of our past true spiritual oneness, we strive for unity anyway, with some success.
But Satan knows that, relatively speaking, the Body of Christ has now lost her God-given spiritual oneness power. Instead of receiving her free gift of oneness and walking in grace in faith, she's now looking for unity in her own understanding.
That's our enemy doing what he does – steal.
And he's stolen our best weapon. We must simply look away from it and put our eyes back on the truth. We are one in Christ, and we must believe that way before we try to fathom, consider, or give any thought to unity in our own understanding
in the visible local or global church.
We don't need to perceive, comprehend, or explain our spiritual unity; instead, we walk by faith, just as Jesus did, trusting the Holy Spirit to lead us. We know it's at these times on our journey of faith when we see our Father's miracles,
and He has plenty lined up for us.
It's God who puts the next stepping stone under our feet when we step out in total faith. We know this. It's just the size of that Goliath that's crippling our faith. But that Goliath is really about nothing, and we're more than capable of easily proving it, remembering who lives in us.
Satan then knows he will see the fruit of his deception. We'll see things from his false, achieving perspective. Then, as good Christians wanting to please our Father and echoing distant memories of our past true spiritual oneness, we strive for unity anyway, with some success.
But Satan knows that, relatively speaking, the Body of Christ has now lost her God-given spiritual oneness power. Instead of receiving her free gift of oneness and walking in grace in faith, she's now looking for unity in her own understanding.
That's our enemy doing what he does – steal.
And he's stolen our best weapon. We must simply look away from it and put our eyes back on the truth. We are one in Christ, and we must believe that way before we try to fathom, consider, or give any thought to unity in our own understanding
in the visible local or global church.
We don't need to perceive, comprehend, or explain our spiritual unity; instead, we walk by faith, just as Jesus did, trusting the Holy Spirit to lead us. We know it's at these times on our journey of faith when we see our Father's miracles,
and He has plenty lined up for us.
It's God who puts the next stepping stone under our feet when we step out in total faith. We know this. It's just the size of that Goliath that's crippling our faith. But that Goliath is really about nothing, and we're more than capable of easily proving it, remembering who lives in us.
4 whose height was six cubits and a span. 5 a bronze helmet, a coat of mail five thousand shekels of bronze. 6 bronze armor, a bronze javelin. 7 his spear as a weaver’s beam, iron spearhead weighed six hundred shekels; and a shield-bearer went before him. 8 Then he stood and cried out to the armies of Israel, and said to them,
“Why have you come out to line up for battle"?
Then the Philistine said, (again) “This day I defy the armies of God"! 1 Sam 17:11
And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were
in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
Numbers 13:33
27 And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us,
and surely it floweth with milk and honey; (oneness) and this is the fruit of it.
28 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled,
and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
“Why have you come out to line up for battle"?
Then the Philistine said, (again) “This day I defy the armies of God"! 1 Sam 17:11
And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were
in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
Numbers 13:33
27 And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us,
and surely it floweth with milk and honey; (oneness) and this is the fruit of it.
28 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled,
and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
The leaders of those denominations have little in common with us. They don't even believe the basic fundamentals of our faith. So, where on earth do we start?
30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once,
and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
I'm not saying I'm another Calab, I'm just reminding us,
WE are the Bride, the army of the most high God.
As the mighty Lion of Judah proclaimed,
I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD.
Faith in Him is all that is required
WE are the Bride, the army of the most high God.
As the mighty Lion of Judah proclaimed,
I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD.
Faith in Him is all that is required
The Holy Spirit has the answer, and He is waiting on us to seek diligently, and ask Him to reveal this truth to our spirit.
"that they may be one; just as You, Father, are in Me and I in You,
that they also may be one in Us...
so that the world may believe that you sent me.
Jn17:21
"that they may be one; just as You, Father, are in Me and I in You,
that they also may be one in Us...
so that the world may believe that you sent me.
Jn17:21
Calligraphy by Timothy R Botts
I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one.
Jn 17:22
As I said, the battle is always for our belief, and that's where we have to spiritually go to war. We need to redirect significant resources and resolve away from the traditional battlefield and toward the attack coming from our blindside.
How many Alpha and other Christian training courses even mention, let alone study diligently, the global Church of God and our individual role as ministries, churches, and denominations in the importance of her oneness?
In 50 years of listening to church leaders, the only time I've heard the word "unity" mentioned is when it's related to unity among members of our own church, family of churches, ministries, denominations, or with those we feel we have agreement with in our own understanding.
But we're not talking about that here; that's our old,
outdated worldly understanding of unity.
The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit have something far greater in store for His bride – a God-given holy unity,
the ultimate evangelism!
so that the world may believe that you sent me Jn17:21
Perfect for these end times
Perfect for these end times
We have to remember that Satan's expertise is influencing our belief, and he's extremely proficient at it. We know there's no way to outmaneuver him with our own understanding and strength, so we shouldn't be surprised that he's already meddled with our beliefs for a long time. He doesn't waste time when dealing with something as significant and battlefield-changing as our faith in our spiritual oneness in God.
So, casting aside any thoughts of practicalities and instead fighting in the spiritual realm for our oneness – just as we do for our salvation – starting from the place of knowing we are one, we can then easily defend our 'old forgotten wall' if we want to.
So, casting aside any thoughts of practicalities and instead fighting in the spiritual realm for our oneness – just as we do for our salvation – starting from the place of knowing we are one, we can then easily defend our 'old forgotten wall' if we want to.
We've already experienced some of the blessings and power of unity, and we already know how it works in our own individual churches, ministries, and further afield. So, there cannot be any question in our hearts that when rolled out across the whole, it would be there that we would find the power and spiritual blessings we seek.
As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion:
for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore. Psalm 133:3
for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore. Psalm 133:3
If we take the perspective of a mighty army under siege,
where the much weaker aggressor's successful strategy
has always been to attack our undervalued and undefended critical wall, we must reevaluate and recalibrate our strategy
and resources and seek the Holy Spirit for fresh
spiritual focus and direction.
THIS IS THE WORD OF THE LORD
"Walking in faith as ONE"
Straight from the throne room of God
where the much weaker aggressor's successful strategy
has always been to attack our undervalued and undefended critical wall, we must reevaluate and recalibrate our strategy
and resources and seek the Holy Spirit for fresh
spiritual focus and direction.
THIS IS THE WORD OF THE LORD
"Walking in faith as ONE"
Straight from the throne room of God