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Ephesians 2:19-22 says, "Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.
And Isaiah 28:16 says "Therefore this says the Lord God: 'Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation.'"
This combination of words "Chief Cornerstone," is interesting. In today's world we use words like CEO(Chief Executive Officer) or CFO(Chief Financial Officer). To be a chief means to be a leader. A cornerstone was the first stone laid for a building and was the standard or reference for all the other stones. Therefore, the cornerstone was very important b...
Colossians 2:6-7 says, "So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, 7 rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness."
In this verse we see a progression...
Being full in Christ, means that thankfulness just flows out of us. The more we receive from him, live in him, and get established in him the more thankful we become. As thanksgiving overflows it creates a virtuous cycle that expands our capacity to receive even more from him, grow in him, and be even more thankful.
I am praying for you.
Daniel
According to Ephesians 2:6 we are seated with Jesus in heaven at God’s right hand. We are meant to be one with Christ who is now seated in heaven with God. To abide in him means that we take our heavenly position with Christ.
Your next question might be, how? How do we practically take our seat with him? The short answer is by faith because we can’t physically see it. Start by practicing gratitude. Take time daily to thank God for the opportunity to be seated at his right hand with Jesus, and praise him for his grace and goodness.
The right positioning has to do with having the right perspective. When we are focused on being in our heavenly seat we are in our proper position, which allows us to rest so that grace flows. And when grace is flowing everything is easier. In quantum science there is a principle called quantum superposition that says it’s possible to be in two places at one time. However, you can’t see both. You only see the location that you are...
I once had a scientist come to my gym who taught me about liquid crystals. Liquid crystals, think of the LCD display on your TV or phone, are an amazing thing. They are part liquid and part solid, and they have the ability to adapt and create order, rather than being fixed in one position.
We must be the same way. The world is constantly changing and we must have the ability to both adapt and create order at the same time. Creating order is all about positioning in both time and space. As time moves forward things must be constantly repositioned. We just finished God's yearly cycle on his calendar and we are starting anew which means there is going to be some repositioning happening soon.
With liquid crystals there is a process that must be followed for the crystals to create clear pictures on the screen.
Here is the process...
The biggest key I have found to greatly increase our levels of both mental clarity and hearing clearly from God is... Doing what you know to do.
Often we have a big list of things that are piling up on the inside of us, and the more these pile up the more they block our clarity.
If you have been following along on the Daily Communion Meditations we have been talking lately about the 4 fundamentals.
Doing the following 4 fundamentals consistently can help you become extremely clear.
If you are consistent with steps 1-3 it will lead to some of the highest levels of both mental clarity and hearing clearly from God that you have ever experienced. Order always leads to clarity and steps...
In Luke 24 Jesus has risen and begins appearing to the disciples and on the road to Emmaus he opens the scriptures to some of them.
After the encounter the disciples say, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”
Then a few verses later Jesus appears to the disciples again and after showing them his hands and feet and having something to eat Luke 24:45 says, Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.
Yesterday we asked God to help us magnify his word and make it bigger in our lives. In today's communion we are asking God to open our minds to help us understand the scriptures. Colossians 1:6 says that the Gospel bears fruit in our lives ever since the day we understood God's grace. Having an open mind that understands the scriptures and God's grace is an important key to being fruitful.
I am praying for you.
Daniel
The fall is a time of transfers and transitions, where God often starts to reposition things in order to move us to the next level. As I was looking back over the last several years, it seems that most of the major transitions in my life occurred during this time of the year. But, most of them never happened until l created a written prayer about what I wanted to happen. If it seems like you have been waiting on some answers to prayer try writing out a prayer.
Writing out prayers is very powerful. This is something I have done for years, and it really works. Here is how I write out the prayers.
Psalm 138:2 NKJV says, " I will worship toward Your holy temple, And praise Your name For Your lovingkindness and Your truth; For You have magnified Your word above all Your name."
Apparently this is a hard passage to translate from Hebrew into English so here are a few other versions to give us a little better understanding.
God has magnified his word or exalted it above all things and he backs it with the power of his name. His name is his character, reputation, and who he is. When someone makes a promise we want to know that they are going to be faithful to fulfill, and God has exalted his word by backing all o...
Now that we are past the Feast of Tabernacles it is time for transfers and transitions. During the next several weeks be prepared for things to start shifting around. God does this to reposition us to the next level of what he has for us. Time and space are very related which means that as time moves forward every year positioning must also change. It is during this season that many of these shifts begin to occur.
First it usually starts with transfers. In the next couple of weeks be prepared for some miraculous transfers as God begins to move people and things from one place to another.
After the transfers be prepared for transitions. To transition means to change from one state, phase, or style to another.
God will often create a shift that transfers things or people from one place to another and then a transition will happen to move people to a new phase of their growth and development.
All of the change can seem scary, but if it starts happening in this ...
For God's word to be effective in our lives it must be mixed with faith.
I think of faith as the emotion of believing and the opposite is fear.
Based on what we truly believe in our hearts either faith or fear will begin to rise up.
In Hebrews 4:1-2 it says, "Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. 2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
In the Old Testament God promised to take the people to the promised land but his word was not mixed with faith.
Upon spying out the land most of the people came back with a bad or evil report that magnified the size of the giants rather than the greatness of God who had already parted the Red Sea, defeated the Egyptians, fed them manna, and gave them water from the rock. The result was that all of the people who magnified the gi...
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