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Ephesians 3:18 Ephesians 3:18 That we may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height— to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us… Being filled with all the fulness of God involves depth and height and breadth, and also length. Length is the dimension of time in our lives, both that which is behind and that which stretches forth into the future, not to mention the ever-present dimension of now (which is actually all there ever really is) OUR PAST The past lives in the dimension of forgiveness and mercy. Remember the woman who anointed the feet of Jesus and was forgiven much. Her past was healed because of forgiveness and mercy, and she was healed because she could now think of herself as God thought of her. Her past was redeemed and her future was in God’s hands. God shows us

Ephesians 3:18 That we may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us… Isaiah 57:15 For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him who has a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. The only way we can truly appreciate and give thanks to our God who is in the highest place, is to know him as the one who loves us in our lowly place. We are all loved as much as anybody could ever be loved! That shows God’s highest and greatest kind of goodness. We need never be ashamed of our place of lowliness because he dwells with us in it. James 4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord and he will

ABOUT LOVE The cause of most if not all inner suffering in this world (an imperfect reflection on a human level) because of not receiving love. A person can be told they are loved and even know they are loved, but may be unable to receive that love. That is because they do not believe that they can live up to that love, or they have had love taken away from them and don’t trust in its power or reality any more. Yet everyone needs to know they are loved in order to be able to love. (Love is everywhere) Love is the most powerful healing force in the universe. Lack of love is the most powerful destructive force in the universe. Somebody asked me the other day what I would answer if someone who didn’t believe in God asked me the question ‘What is God doing for me now?’ My answer is ‘God is loving you with all of his heart.’ God’s love is the value, above all other things that gives meaning to everything else that exists. There is no higher thing. It is the Eternal Reality -The ultimate truth). It is one thing to

ENLARGE MY BORDERS Jabez prayed to be blessed by God, for his borders to be enlarged, for God’s hand upon him, and to be kept from evil so that he would not cause harm. (1Chronicles 4:10) Ephesians 3:14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, (Their name was once Adam, and now is Christ) (Saved but don’t know it) In Him we live… 16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. (God has found his home in you) that you, being rooted and grounded in love, (roots of our being go down into the heart soil of his love) 18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints (this is the faith that takes hold of what we already have- that’s my SALVATION) what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullnes

PRESENT WITH THE LORD I want to talk to you today about the passing away of Jared Joiner just 4 days ago. The Word of God tells us that there is an accuser that accuses us day and night before God. There are certain sensitive people like Jared who set an unattainable bar for themselves that allows these accusations to break their spirit and damage their soul. They cannot cope with this yoke that sits upon them and they seek relief in many different ways from this burgeoning pain, and that becomes a downward spiral. In the book of Romans chapters seven and eight Paul describes the way through and out of this dilemma when he shares about the good that we all, without exception, might want to do but can’t because of our own limited strength, but which can be lived, through the grace of Jesus Christ within us. When Jared was awakened to this truth he grasped it and sought many times to take it into his lovely heart. When he went to live in Melbourne he took his Bible with him and also some of our discussion notes

Revelation 3:8 ‘He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens”: “I know your works. See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it; for you have a little strength, have kept My word. Isaiah 22:22 The key of the house of David I will lay on his shoulder; So he shall open, and no one shall shut; and he shall shut, and no one shall open (this was said to Eliakim – the God of rising). There are many, many doors that these keys will open. God does open doors for us and there are times we have to ask God for a door to open. Paul asked the church in Colossians 4:3 …pray for a door of utterance to be opened for me… opportunities to speak and ears that will hear. Open doors means change for new things to happen – God wants to open doors for you and for those you pray for. Consider now what is facing you this year that needs some definite action. 1Corinthians 16:6 I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits. But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentec

Grace is a flow that we cannot generate because the source is God. We can access grace by faith, which we can generate, and cultivate. The Jabez prayer – from a man who thought of himself as ‘bad news’. His name meant ‘causes pain’ and he knew that causing pain was bad news. So he prayed that he might cause blessing instead of being bad news to everyone including himself. 1Chronicles 4:10 Lord bless me…enlarge me… I want your hand on my life…Save me from evil…Let me not cause pain – let me bless. We can be occupied with bad news or good news. They both exist together. Bad news can shrink your soul through anxiety or expand your heart through faith. Numbers 6:22 The Lord bless you and keep you; The Lord make his countenance shine upon you and be gracious to you; The Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace Matthew 6:6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father in secret and your Father who sees the hidden things will reward you openly. From the hidden place to the

Grace is the divine energy of God’s creative and saving acts. Creation was God’s first activity of grace. It was upon the dark deep emptiness of the abyss that the activity of The Holy Spirit moved and a Universe was created. The Father desired a universe for his children and Jesus spoke light into this desire while Holy Spirit energized it into existence. God then began his ongoing creative and saving mission for humanity. The mission was grace. God gave grace to Noah (Genesis 6:8) as the great saving act of God for humanity to escape the destruction of the great flood. God gave grace to Moses (Exodus 33:13 – his presence) for the salvation of his People Israel. His grace was in the crossing of the Red Sea and his creative grace was his provision for them in the wilderness and the saving acts of forgiveness of sins through the sacrifices, and the inspired words of the prophets, among many many other acts of grace.. When Jesus was born from above a new dimension of grace began to flow from The Father, throug

Romans 5:1-2 ‘Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.’ I awoke last Monday with this extraordinary truth from Romans 5 going around and around in my mind—‘We have access by faith into this grace in which we stand.’ The emphasis was ‘in which we stand.’ It was a word in season—and, being who I am, I felt like preaching it! Well, what do you know? Now, when we see a ‘therefore’ in scripture we must ask, “what is the ‘therefore’ there for?” Here, Paul has just concluding a long argument about Abraham being put in right standing with God, not by Law, but because he believed what God told him. His concluding word before this ‘therefore’, is about Jesus, ‘…who was delivered up for our offences and was raised for our justification’ (Rom. 4:25. Our justification took place when the Father showed his acceptance of Jesus’ death by raising him up).

1Chronicles 4:9 Now Jabez was more honourable than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.” And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, “Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” So God granted him all that he requested. There is no record of the unnamed father of Jabez in Scripture and Jabez was named by his mother. His name means ‘causes pain’. He was more honourable than his brothers. He called upon God, the ‘Father to the fatherless’ (Psalm 68:5) and asked for a blessing. God granted him all that he asked for in his prayer. The answer to his prayer includes the last final sign of complete transformation, that he would not cause pain. He was an honourable man who asked for blessing, received blessing, and became a blessing and did not cause pain or harm to others. He is a sign to all of us who look to God as our Father and seek his bless

Hebrews 8:13 When He says, “A new (kainos, not neos) covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and ageing is ready to vanish away. The New Covenant should really be translated as a Covenant of newness. It is not just the ‘next’ Covenant after the one before it, it is everlasting and always new and never ageing. 2Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, anyone in Christ is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new(ness). We do not become combative with the ‘passing away’ things that try to crowd out our lives, but we allow them to become transformed and touched by the Spirit of life within us. Those things hit us, then stop, then get turned around by a Spiritual power within us (wood hay and stubble get burned up and gold appears). That is what changes our world. We live from the wellspring of a ‘newness’ life that flows from within us. That is what overcomes in us. To tap into that life that does the overcoming we have to call upon grace. That is the g

Luke 2:33 And Joseph and His mother marveled at those things which were spoken of Him. Then Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary His mother, This child marks both the failure and the recovery of many… a figure misunderstood and contradicted. But the contradiction will force truth, as God reveals to people who they really are (the thoughts [dialogismos – self-talk] of many will be revealed). The pain of a sword will piece your heart. The Contradiction We will fail and/or recover according to how we trust Jesus as God within us to reorder our minds to think in line with who he has created us to be. The self-talk is based on fear and the God-talk is based on faith. There’s only ONE of you and you are God’s design. We ourselves are a contradiction – the good that we want to do we don’t do, and the things we don’t want to do is what we do. We are gifted with a life designed by God that is meant to work in harmony with His life within us. This gift of his ‘God with us life’ can make our lives a gift to one anoth

Luke 1:29 But when she saw the Angel Gabriel, she was troubled at his saying, and considered what manner of greeting this was. Then the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found grace with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son and shall call His name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David. And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end.” Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I do not know a man?” And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God. Now indeed, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her old age; and this is now the sixth month for her who was called barren. For with God nothing will be impossible.” Then Mary said, “Behold the handm

The Christmas story of the miracle birth of Jesus really starts with the story of the miracle birth of John the Baptist. John’s father, Zacharias, was a priest of the line of Aaron, so John was of the priestly line being the firstborn son of a priest (and prophet). The miracle birth of Jesus was ordained to follow the miracle birth of John after three months, and Mary travelled the 200K to be with Elizabeth in Hebron until the birth of John. THE PROPHECY OF ZACHARIAS Luke 1:66 And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Highest; For you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways, to give knowledge of salvation to His people by the remission of their sins, through the tender mercy of our God, with which the Dayspring from on high has visited us; to give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. So the child (John) grew and became strong in the Spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his manifestation to Israel. (when he met Je

1Corinthians 10:16 This cup of blessing which we bless…the communion of the blood of Christ The good thing about an empty cup is that it can be filled. We can have three cups and pour water over all of them. One is filled and the others are not. Why? One is turned upside down and one is filled up with so much matter that it cannot receive water. It is about being willing to receive, being emptied of what doesn’t matter, and always willing, always receiving. The supply does not stop, just our receiving, or being filled up with other matters. Ephesians 5:18 … be (being) filled with the Spirit… Acts 4:31 After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly. Luke 11:13 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” There are many doctrines concerning the Holy Spirit (The baptism, anointing, intercession). We do not

  Matthew 24:12  And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.   A heart that's warm soft and loving becoming cold and hard....There's a bit of an obvious warning for us there...Heb_3:8  Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: I love the verse in Ezekiel 36:26  A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.   So there is a warning for us not to let the wonderful soft heart of love....Be hardened through the bad things we experience in this fallen world...It is quite a warning in the book of Hebrews Heb_3:8  Heb_3:15 Heb_4:7  When we see evil around us....don't let our hearts be hardened...When something bad happens to us - don't let our hearts be hardened...If we even hear the voice of God....and we don't like what He is saying.....Don't harden our hearts toward Him 1Peter 1:16  Because it is written, Be ye holy; for

  This is a feast of celebration of the sacrifice of the Day of Atonement. This was the yearly blessing of a new beginning so that the entire Nation of Israel could enter into all the blessings of Abraham. They were cleansed from all iniquity in one day. Leviticus 16:5 And he shall take from the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats as a sin offering, and one ram as a burnt offering. He shall take the two goats and present them before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. Then Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats: one lot for the Lord and the other lot for the scapegoat. And Aaron shall bring the goat on which the Lord's lot fell, and sacrifice it as a sin offering. But the goat on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the Lord, to make atonement upon it, and to let it go as the scapegoat into the wilderness. 21. Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, confess over it all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and

Hanukkah is the feast of the re-dedication of the Temple at Jerusalem. This feast is not mentioned in the Old Testament as it occurred between the time of the last book (Malachi), and before the time of Jesus. This period of time is often called the 400 ‘silent years’. The Feast of Hanukkah, or Feast of Dedication was instituted in 165 BC when Israel defeated the armies of Antiochus Epiphanes who had desecrated the Temple ten years earlier. THE LAST SIX MONTHS However, the Feast of Hanukkah, called the Feast of Dedication, is mentioned in the New Testament (John 10:22). It came in November/December after the Feast of Tabernacles, which was in September/October, and before the Feast of Passover in March/April of the next year. Jesus made visits to these three Feasts at the Temple at Jerusalem in the last six months of his ministry. Jesus placed an intense focus on the Temple during this time of his ministry, and it was his prophetic statement about the Temple being destroyed that was used to condemn him at his

THE PAIN OF LIFE An act of disobedience and rebellion took away the blessing from all created things. Eve was to suffer pain in childbirth. Adam was to suffer the pain of toil and hardship in tilling the land. The land also lost its blessing and brought forth thorns and thistles. Death had now become part of the experience of mankind. But the curse would not stop life from coming, it just meant that life would come forth in pain and sorrow. Even the growth of a plant involves darkness and struggle before it bursts through to fruitfulness and then to bring re birth and new growth. Romans 8:28 The whole creation groans with birth pangs waiting for the manifestation of sons of God. We live in a world of pain and suffering. People don’t generally welcome this reality, but we generally agree that it serves certain purposes. Pain in the body is a signal that something needs attention. Pain and suffering press us into prayer for ourselves and for others. These things have real meaning and significance, while on anot

Psalm 114; Deuteronomy 7 and 28 excerpts; 1 Peter 1:15-16 There is a dynamic and direct nexus between holiness and power. Weakness became the hallmark of mankind after The Fall. Before that event, Adam and Eve moved in concert with the Almighty. There was a symphony of creative activity—a song and dance bringing glory to him. Nothing hindered the power of God flowing into the earth to cause it to bring forth abundantly and profusely! (On earth, as it is in heaven!) With sin came the frustration of the natural system into a state of discord and non-cooperation against which we found ourselves powerless. This is the ‘vanity’ about which Solomon wrote so eloquently. Decay and death ruled. The second law of thermodynamics became sovereign—the law of entropy; everything is running down, or for laymen like us, ‘you can’t win; you can’t break even, and, you can’t get out of the game’! It’s why billions are spent on herbicides, pesticides, fertilisers…and face cream! These are all provide but temporary answers to the