Welcome to my blog this morning. I pray you will be encouraged, informed and renewed in mind and spirit by our devotional time together with OSWALD CHAMBERS - "My Utmost for His Highest".
THE IMPARTIAL POWER OF GOD (Hebrews 10:4) "By one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified." No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ. God is just in saving bad people only as He makes them good. The atonement by the Cross of Christ is the propitiation God uses to make unholy people holy.
THE OPPOSITION OF THE NATURAL (Galatians 5:24) "Those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires." Once we come to understand that natural moral excellence opposes or counteracts surrender to God, we bring our soul into the center of its greatest battle. The cost to your natural life is not just one or two things, but everything. Beware of refusing to go to the funeral of your own INDEPENDENCE.
THE OFFERING OF THE NATURAL (Galatians 4:22) "It is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a free woman." Paul was not dealing with sin in this chapter of Galatians, but with the relation of the natural to the spiritual. The natural can be turned into the spiritual only through sacrifice. This is not God's perfect will, but His permissive will. god's perfect will is for the natural to be changed into the spiritual through OBEDIENCE. Sin is what made it necessary for the natural to be sacrificed.
Such a blessing to be with you again while I'm finishing my ministry trip to Ireland Sunday night. Mighty movings of the Spirit of the Living God. The Travail of the Lord was in full operation in each and every gathering. New ministry teams were commissioned and released into their "seasonal" giftings and callings. Thank you for your prayers for me during my time here. The Lord repay you for your faithfulness.
In the Love of Jesus,
James Wesley
