Wednesday, October 8, 2008

A Journey Towards Resurrection Power

10:23 AM by Christi Bowman

In the comment section of my last post "God Speaks" someone that I have a lot of respect for told me "I'm getting there."

Where is there?
Do you know where I am going?
Can you describe for me the way?

Those are all questions I wanted to ask him but I knew that I couldn't.

I went to turn on some music and God said "not now". I asked Him where "there" was. I asked Him just where the heck was He taking me...and our conversation began.

He said:
"We are on this journey together and I am leading. Do you trust me? Will you keep following me?"

Are we going to Africa? Are we really going? I asked Him. My mind always jumps to Africa in these types of conversations.

He brought to mind some visions and promises, but He was quick to say "It is not about where you are going but who you are becoming " "It is about you"

"What about Jesus" I asked. "wasn't it all about where He went"

Luke 9:21 (NKJ)Now it came to pass, when the time had come for Him to be received up, that He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem.

"And what He did there?"

Very much to my surprise the answer was an emphatic "NO...it is about what I made Him to be after His death...it is about the resurrection"

"What do you mean?" I asked

He brought to mind something I had read in "Pagan Christianity?" a few days prior.

"Since Christ has risen, we Christians have become the Temple of God. AT HIS RESURRECTION, CHRIST BECAME A "LIFE-GIVING SPIRIT (I Cor 15:45 NIV). Therefor, He could take up residence in the believers, thus making them His Temple, His House."

I am not minimizing the cross when I say ...Jesus coming into you and transforming you...THAT is the gospel. That is the hope we have. That is where the power to change lives comes from.

Acts 19:2(MSG)The first thing he said was, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed? Did you take God into your mind only, or did you also embrace him with your heart? Did he get inside you?"

And we must never tell Him to stop. We must never say that we have had enough transformation, and that we can take it from here. It is not about how He transformed you years ago, but what is He setting you free from today?

Do you like it here? Are you living in such a way to make this life more comfortable? Do you feel like an alien or do you fit in just fine?

Jesus said:

34^(A) "Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth.^(B) I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35^(C) For I have come^(D) to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36^(E) And a person's enemies will be those of his own household. 37^(F) Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Matthew 10:34-37 (ESV)

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