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by him this whole exercise we are seeing is so we will know jesus as lord and that he is building his church that church is the one that the gates of hell will not stand a chance against what a far cry from this pathetic thing we see today that has lost its saltiness and is being trodden under the feet of men so i prophesied as i was commanded in acts we read about peter and the apostles being locked up in prison but at night an angel of the lord opened the prison doors and brought them out and said go and stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this life acts 5 19 20 rsva today many of us feel like we are in prison waiting for the lord to release us our self wills are being broken and we wait for god to make the next move jesus told peter truly truly i say to you when you were young you girded yourself and walked where you would but when you are old you will stretch out your hands and another will gird you and carry you where you do not wish to go john 21 18 rsva jesus is our another who has bound us and carries us where we would not go in this state alone can he trust us to speak as he commands instead dressing ourselves in religious garments and titles of authority and walking where we would in jesus name bone to his bone ezekiel went on to report as i prophesied there was a noise and behold a rattling and the bones came together bone to its bone there was not just some willy nilly assembling of these bones every bone had to first find the body it belonged to and then find its place in that body the body of christ has been so dismembered and dysfunctional for so long we don t have a clue what body we belong to where we fit or what our function really is many of us have experienced other bones trying to plug themselves into our bones and they just don t fit believe me when god puts two of us together according to his will we will know it it will be an instant fit and the anointing that goes with that joining will soon be manifest paul wrote but speaking the truth in love may grow up into him in all things who is the head even christ from whom the whole body being fitly joined together and knit together by that which every joint supplies according to the effectual working in the measure of every part makes increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love ephesians 4 15 16 kj2000 christ from whom the whole body being fitly joined together and knit together by that which every joint supplies according to the effectual working in the measure of every part it is christ who fitly joins us together as he wills imagine how it would feel for your forearm to be attached below your knee or your lower leg to be attached to your shoulder nothing would line up the sockets would not fit the blood vessels would not connect and the nerves would not be joined in this situation every joint would not be able to supply the nourishment from the head to the lower parts and there would be no effectual working in the god given measure of each part brothers and sisters we need to be very careful to listen to god as to who he desires us to be connected to and how see acts 5 13 the only thing that will make this happen is for each of us individual dry bones to yield to the wind of the spirit and let christ build his church he must show each of us what body we belong in and where our place is in that body all to many of us have preconceived idea of who we are in christ and what our ministry is only very dry bones will be worthy to be assembled in the church he is building in this final hour then he said to me prophesy to the breath prophesy son of man and say to the breath thus says the lord god come from the four winds o breath and breathe upon these slain that they may live so i prophesied as he commanded me and the breath came into them and they lived and stood upon their feet an exceedingly great host prophesy to the breath what breath did you know that the word in the greek translated spirit is breath strong s dictionary defines it thus pneuma pnyoo mah from g4154 a current of air that is breath blast or a breeze by analogy or figuratively a spirit without the breath of god blowing upon us and assembling us we will remain individual dry bones bleaching in the sun jesus told nicode mus the wind blows where it wills and you hear the sound of it but you do not know whence it comes or whither it goes so it is with every one who is born of the spirit the breath of god john 3 8 rsva so dear saints don t get in a big fleshly hurry to make these dry bones come together or assemble yourselves to anyone who claims christ as his lord nothing is going to happen in god s kingdom without his breath blowing on it and in it but be assured that it is they who wait upon the lord that will mount up as his exceeding great host the body of christ after this i looked and behold a great multitude which no man could number from every nation from all tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the lamb clothed in white robes with palm branches in their hands and crying out with a loud voice salvation belongs to our god who sits upon the throne and to the lamb and all the angels stood round the throne and round the elders and the four living creatures and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped god saying amen blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our god for ever and ever amen then one of the elders addressed me saying who are these clothed in white robes and whence they have come i said to him sir you know and he said to me these are they who have come out of the great tribulation they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb therefore are they before the throne of god and serve him day and night within his temple and he who sits upon the throne will shelter them with his presence revelation 7 9 15 rsva share this tweet print opens in new window print email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading 40 comments posted in a prisoner of the lord abiding in christ body life in christ church relevance fellowship intimacy religion vs abiding in christ spirit s guidence the dark night god s wilderness the wilderness weakness it s a great life if you weaken jan 12 by michael how often have we heard the saying it is a great life if you don t weaken it sounds great at first but is that the gospel of the cross of christ i was comparing the following two passages written by james and by paul james wrote my brethren count it all joy when you fall into various trials knowing this that the trying of your faith works patience but let patience have her perfect work that you may be perfect and entire lacking in nothing james 1 2 4 kj2000 paul wrote and not only so but we glory in tribulations also knowing that tribulation works patience and patience experience and experience hope and hope makes not ashamed because the love of god is shed abroad in our hearts by the holy spirit who is given unto us romans 5 3 5 kj2000 here we read that trials and tribulation work patience and patience works experience and experience works hope and hope works the love of god in our hearts because of the holy spirit whom god has given everyone who puts their trust in christ alone t austin sparks wrote experience with god is much more than knowledge we may be very greatly informed and have a great deal of knowledge but lacking experience our knowledge will remain purely technical information experience is more than knowledge it is also far more than human cleverness clever people may be able to do a lot of things and seem to be successful the absence of this quality of experience will find that their structures will sooner or later come crashing down for there is no body there experience is something that we can never inherit nor can it be transferred from one to another in any other way it has to be bought it is therefore the sole possession and property of the individual who has it it is something very personal if it had been possible for the father to bring his own son the lord jesus to the designed and determined end in any other way he would have done it the only way was experience yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered heb 5 8 he was made perfect through sufferings heb 2 10 even jesus christ and i speak in a certain sense had to buy his experience he had to come to the full end or the end of fulness to be made perfect made complete by the way of experience http www austin sparks net english 001978 html it seems that god puts a high premium on seeing us gain experience in overcoming our trials and temptations he wants us to quit looking to ourselves and other things and start casting all our cares on jesus who is the author and the finisher of our faith we like jesus must learn obedience through the things that we suffer according to james it is our faith that is being tried peter also spoke of our faith being tried we who believe are kept by the power of god through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time in which you greatly rejoice though now for a little while if need be you are in heaviness through manifold trials that the trial of your faith being much more precious than of gold that perishes though it be tried with fire might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of jesus christ 1 peter 1 5 7 kj2000 first we are kept by the power of god not our power even our faith is not ours but christ s see gal 2 16 it seems we get an infusion of his faith to get us started and it grows until we have our own faith based on experiences we have overcome through him from these verses i picture my faith in christ being put in a refiner s crucible with the heat turned up that heat is trials and tribulations that determine if i will call out to christ to be my strength and sufficiency in all things or if i will just gut it out by my own strength paul said it best for me when he wrote and he jesus said unto me my grace is sufficient for you for my strength is made perfect in weakness most gladly therefore will i rather boast in my weaknesses that the power of christ may rest upon me therefore i take pleasure in weaknesses in reproaches in necessities in persecutions in distresses for christ s sake for when i am weak then am i strong 2 corinthians 12 9 10 kj2000 paul like james counted it all joy when he found himself weak in a trial that meant he had to throw himself on christ and see jesus come through for him every time he saw that his own human strengths were his biggest enemy he expounded on this in telling about how he despaired even of life itself for we do not want you to be ignorant brethren of the affliction we experienced in asia for we were so utterly unbearably crushed that we despaired of life itself why we felt that we had received the sentence of death but that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on god who raises the dead 2 corinthians 1 8 9 rsva paul s faith was tested to the point of death yet he believed that even if he were killed christ would raise him up again it seems that jesus might have done this earlier in his life see acts 14 19 this man had a strong faith in christ because he lived on the ragged edge of walking by faith like a muscle faith has to be exercised or it atrophies and dies in the american church we hedge all our bets and do all we can to keep from having to walk by faith we have insurance policies for everything imaginable we have our 401k and ira to cover us in retirement we join unions to give us power and job security if we get some kind of pain or infirmity we run for the medicine cabinet or doctor s office for more pills there seems to be a pill for everything without even giving jesus a chance to heal us we avoid trials at all cost we even avoid being tempted by cloistering ourselves in our churches and homes away from the real world where we might be seen with the wrong kind of people we are inoculated against walking by faith in christ alone our faith is not being tried is it any wonder that the american church is so feeble and powerless against the rise of evil that is closing in around us as a nation we are a nation of weak christians being led by weak church leaders who fall for every kind of temptation that comes their way if you think i m exaggerating just type in church corruption on a google search all that is missing is for us to totally put our trust in jesus alone and walk wherever the spirit leads us that we might know him as our sufficiency and strength in adversity during my years in churches whenever i felt god calling me out of my comfort zone and to get out in the trenches among the people of the world and do something that would make a difference in their lives i was told the same thing by the pastors i submitted to you are not ready yet nobody i knew was ever ready yet in the minds of these church leaders if god was calling them to go out into the fray of the world and take a chance outside the daycare center called sunday church as one man from argentina put it the church as we know today is designed to preserve the perpetual babyhood of the believer so dear saints it is a great life in christ if we allow him to make us weak through trials and testings so that nothing comes out from ourselves we are not to walk by might or by power but by his spirit all we have to do is abide in the vine and he will abide in us and then he will bring forth the fruit of his kingdom not ours amen share this tweet print opens in new window print email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading 18 comments posted in abiding in christ church relevance fiery trials growing in christ religion vs abiding in christ suffering the cross and the power uncategorized weakness it s a new covenant jul 7 by michael and he who was seated on the throne said behold i am making all things new also he said write this down for these words are trustworthy and true revelation 21 5 esv i was on the phone with a brother in eastern montana usa a while back and the lord had me key in on one statement he had made most christians don t know what the new covenant really is i immediately asked myself just what is the new covenant anyway i know that i had gone to many churches and sat through years in time of accumulated sermons and sunday school classes but had i ever heard about the nature of the new covenant and just what makes it new so i admitted to my friend and brother in montana that i did not know what the new covenant was i new that what we see calling itself the church was not it for sure for it in its present day form is not found in the bible i wanted to know bud started me on my search by referring me to a little known at least in christendom passage in one of the prophet s books in the old testament which was quoted again in the book of hebrews a book that is all about the difference between the new and old covenants by the way for if that...