Which Jesus are you living like?

John 7:37-39 says this: On the last and greatest day of
the Feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, "If anyone
is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes
in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water
will flow from within him." By this he meant the Spirit, whom
those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that
time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet
been glorified.

These scriptures are amazing. First of all they tell us
that if we are thirsty and we come to Him and believe, we
will receive the Holy Spirit...His Spirit IN US..."streams
of LIVING water will flow within him". At this point though
Jesus had not yet been crucified, died, risen or ascended
to the Father, all of which were a part of His complete
assignment...the assignment that would be the payment for our sins,
past, present and future. Only after His work was complete
would He be "glorified". The disciples could not receive the
Holy Spirit yet, because of this. He is speaking to them of
a time to soon come.

There is an amazing truth in this: If they had been able
to receive the Holy Spirit at that point, before the completed
work of Christ, (as much as that may have been better for them in
some circumstances...LOL), the disciples would have become like
THAT Jesus...the One Who was still working, still teaching
them, still headed for the cross to suffer and die for us.
The Father's intention was always for us to become like the
GLORIFIED Christ, not the suffering, dying Christ! Jesus worked
as a man and if we could have done the work of redemption,He would
not have needed to die. The relationship that Adam had with the
Father was one of fellowship,giving Him joy and pleasure, expanding
what was in Heaven on the domain of earth...not the "sweat of his
brow" Adam, after the fall.

You may read that and say, "Well, duh!"...but I was struck with
an awesome revelation when I heard that. Many of us, individuals,
as well as whole churches, are living as though they received the
Christ Who still needed to suffer and die, who still needed to
"GET IT DONE"!

We need to understand that His work was completed, He lives in
us glorified. We are to be an open conduit for the glorified
Christ to flow through in the form of His Holy Spirit, doing His
renewing, transforming, amazing work through our hands, reconciling
the world to Himself through us...full restoration of fellowship with
Him. Resting in His completion, His glorification is essential,
because otherwise you are hindered by time and space, having
anxiety about timing, being impressed with yourself, looking inward,
instead of keeping your eyes on the One Who gave you life and Who
sustains it, and Whom you have become and are daily becoming like.

What you behold, you become. Behold the glorified Christ and your
work will come from His rest.

1 John 4:17 says, "...as He is, so also are we in this world."
Did you get that? As He IS, not as He WAS. You may think, well
being like Jesus would be good any way you look at it, from any
viewpoint in His life. NO. He did it all already. He said,
"It is finished." He sat down at the right hand of the Father
and He IS intercession for us! God looks over and seeing Jesus says,
"Oh, there's Suzy, there's Billy, there's (insert your name here).
There is not one thing that you can add by busyness and anxiety...
it's already done!

We are told in the Bible that the letter of the law without
the Spirit kills...it is dead words. You NEED the Holy Spirit
of the glorified Christ dwelling in you and on you and then you
will be able to stop struggling with "knowing enough" and rest
in the One Who is "more than enough"!

When you came to Christ, the old you died, buried in the waters
of Baptism and being raised/resurrected to NEW life...your OLD
MAN was not FIXED, he was KILLED...and you have already been
seated in the heavenlies with Christ. His Spirit came into
your dead body and made it alive. Don't hang out by your grave
mourning that old man. Walk away and passionately pursue Christ.

He said in His Word that your work is to believe in Him. He said,
"Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these
things will be added to you."

You are the image and glory of God according to the Bible.
You can do nothing apart from His glory...you are one with Him...
His body. Learn to live in these truths, in His glory and as you go,
the sick will be healed, the hungry fed, the blind will see, demons
will flee, the lost will be found, the Kingdom will advance.
You will SEE His glory cover the earth! Jesus will receive His
FULL REWARD...a bride whose body is proportionate to her head,
blameless, spotless. That is the bride He is returning for! Relationship
fully restored!

Peace, righteousness and joy,
Teresa

A gift for you...giving away what God gave to me!

After our amazing weekend, I have been quite restless in my spirit....excited, but restless. I experienced more powerfully some things that I had only barely tasted of before. Impartation of the glory of God. I have experienced God in other ways (tongues, dreams, visions, but I did not understand (and still don't fully) the baptism with fire, the glory and the importance of impartation. Well, I was left after the few experiences I have had since my arrival to Shiloh in May, with the thought, WOW...this is AMAZING...WHAT DO I DO WITH THIS? It's like somebody just gave you a million bucks, do I stick it in my pocket and just go home or what? Well, today, I was praying and then I started to read in When Heaven Invades Earth...my daily quota of pages to make the goal you know. I am finishing chapter 9...ooohhh...about 1/2 done! Well, I go back to read some of the things I had underlined in previous chapters and they seemed foreign to me, like I had never read them before. Then I read, "Because my focus was still on me, there was little victory I actually could trace back to my prayers." Hmmmm. Then I flipped the page and read, "He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit AND FIRE." Well, I know I had been baptized in the Holy Spirit, but until recently I had never experienced the FIRE part...the burning. It was freely available, but I was not giving it place in my life due to lack of UNDER STANDING. The next page says, "He'll give us His baptism of fire if we'll give Him something worth burning." When I read that, it was like seeing it for the very first time in spite of all the highlighter marks on the page! The Holy Spirit filled me UP AND SLAMMED me with His presence! I got so drunk all I could do is cry, do something I can only describe as posturing (kind of a weird contracting and releasing of the muscles in my whole body, but especially the shoulders and midsection), pray mixed with laughing and BURN (hands and chest). I was wrecked and it was amazing! Thank You Holy Spirit! I know I am just beginning in this, but the step of faith for impartation has been taken. God will not give us what we don't want or what we won't give away once we have it. Now I have whole new sight once again...so it's back to page ONE of the book! My encouragement to you is to not let studying become just something you do to get it done, but invite the Holy Spirit, our resident truth teacher to shine on every word and get it into your spirit! Peace and joy! Teresa