The government will be upon Jesus’ shoulders.

For unto you a child is born, unto you a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. ~ Isaiah 9:6

I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints, and the surpassing greatness of His power to you who believe. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength, which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. ~ Ephesians 1:18-23

The government will be upon Jesus’ shoulders. The shoulders are part of His body. God has an inheritance in the saints, the believers. Everything is under Jesus’ feet–that must be fully fulfilled. The feet are part of the body. God’s surpassing power is toward His body. It’s toward those who believe. His body is the fullness of Him. Jesus fills all in all prophetically, and that work must be completed. He fills everything in everything. God’s Word Translation says, “The church is Christ’s body and completes him as he fills everything in every way.” God speaks prophetically about what He has already done even though we don’t yet see it.

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He Put a Rainbow In My Life

He put a rainbow in my life.
He made with me a covenant.
He destroyed my death and strife.
And now the Son shines full within.
The world that was void,
He now has restored,
He put a rainbow in my life.

Bob and Charlotte Torango

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God’s Endgame

This is where you go down to the nuts and bolts of taking hold of all God’s promises. Learn what God’s purpose is and how you can take part in it. Learn how God intends to set you free from sin and what you need to do about it right now.

Truth is important, but it does no good unless you apply it to your life. Be transformed. Be transfigured into the image and likeness of Christ. Walk in His power and righteousness as you never thought possible.

Relevance

What is God’s endgame? Why is knowledge of the truth so important? What is God doing through this?

I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace, given me through the working of His power. Though I am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to illuminate for everyone the stewardship of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things. His purpose was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, according to the eternal purpose that He accomplished in Christ Jesus your Lord. ~ Ephesians 3:7-11

This Scripture is about the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms. Other translations call them principalities and powers in the heavenly places. God is going to let them know about His many-faceted wisdom. And He’s going to use the church, the called-out people of God, to let these rulers and authorities know about God’s wisdom. Remember what wisdom is and how it flows through you in power when you ask for it and yield wholeheartedly to it. God speaks, you listen, faith comes, faith gives access to the power of grace, and grace says the words and does the acts of God through you as He transforms you. That’s wisdom flowing through you. That’s Christ flowing through you.

This is a mystery. It’s a secret. It’s something God hasn’t told us a lot about. However, God has revealed enough through Scripture that we know something about it. And we know it’s big.

This is so big it’s difficult to grasp the first time you hear it. It’s not that it’s complex. It’s simple. It’s just big. It’s different from what some people believe. It’s all in the Bible, but many people have never heard any of it. Many have rationalized away parts of God’s plan. There’s never a good time to try to rationalize away any part of the Bible. The Bible is true even when we don’t understand it.

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God’s Endgame

This is where you go down to the nuts and bolts of taking hold of all God’s promises. Learn what God’s purpose is and how you can take part in it. Learn how God intends to set you free from sin and what you need to do about it right now.

Truth is important, but it does no good unless you apply it to your life. Be transformed. Be transfigured into the image and likeness of Christ. Walk in His power and righteousness as you never thought possible.

Relevance

What is God’s endgame? Why is knowledge of the truth so important? What is God doing through this?

I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace, given me through the working of His power. Though I am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to illuminate for everyone the stewardship of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things. His purpose was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, according to the eternal purpose that He accomplished in Christ Jesus your Lord. ~ Ephesians 3:7-11

This Scripture is about the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms. Other translations call them principalities and powers in the heavenly places. God is going to let them know about His many-faceted wisdom. And He’s going to use the church, the called-out people of God, to let these rulers and authorities know about God’s wisdom. Remember what wisdom is and how it flows through you in power when you ask for it and yield wholeheartedly to it. God speaks, you listen, faith comes, faith gives access to the power of grace, and grace says the words and does the acts of God through you as He transforms you. That’s wisdom flowing through you. That’s Christ flowing through you.

This is a mystery. It’s a secret. It’s something God hasn’t told us a lot about. However, God has revealed enough through Scripture that we know something about it. And we know it’s big.
This is so big it’s difficult to grasp the first time you hear it. It’s not that it’s complex. It’s simple. It’s just big. It’s different from what some people believe. It’s all in the Bible, but many people have never heard any of it. Many have rationalized away parts of God’s plan. There’s never a good time to try to rationalize away any part of the Bible. The Bible is true even when we don’t understand it.

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My Jesus is leading me all the day long

HE LEADS ME AND GUIDES ME

My Jesus is leading me all the day long.
He shows me what’s right and He shows me what’s wrong.
He gives me a vision. He gives me a song.
My Jesus is leading me all the day long.

Chorus:
My Jesus is with me all the day through.
He shows me what’s good and He shows me what’s true.
When I’m in His Presence, I know what to do.
He leads me and guides me all the day through.

I open the Scripture and pray for His mind.
There is no telling what treasures I’ll find,
When Jesus corrects me, He’s loving and kind.
I open the Scripture and pray for His mind.

Chorus

His Presence is precious to me every day.
His love and His peace flow to me as I pray.
His power and goodness keep me in the way.
His Presence is precious to me every day.

Chorus

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He Leads Me and Guides Me

The intellect is a god. It’s a familiar idol.

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Intellectualism

The intellect is a god. It’s a familiar idol. It gives the illusion of power and authority, but it has no legitimate power or authority.

What is “intellectualism?”

Merriam-Webster gives you this definition:
devotion to the exercise of intellect or intellectual pursuits

Bing search engine gives you these two definitions:
the exercise of the intellect at the expense of the emotions.
the theory that knowledge is wholly or mainly derived from pure reason; Rationalism.

Notice the Bing search engine compares intellect to emotions. Both are weak and incapable of rational thought without divine revelation. Both can react to divine revelation. Both can masquerade as the Holy Spirit. Reason can’t be rational unless it’s based on truth, and the human mind has no way to reason to any truth. Human emotion certainly doesn’t reason to any truth. If you are a follower of Christ, have devotion to Christ and exercise your spiritual senses in the spiritual realm.

The intellect is a god.

Intellectualism

The intellect is a god. It’s a familiar idol. It gives the illusion of power and authority, but it has no legitimate power or authority. What is “intellectualism?”

Merriam-Webster gives you this definition:
devotion to the exercise of intellect or intellectual pursuits

Bing search engine gives you these two definitions:
the exercise of the intellect at the expense of the emotions.
the theory that knowledge is wholly or mainly derived from pure reason; Rationalism.

Notice the Bing search engine compares intellect to emotions. Both are weak and incapable of rational thought without divine revelation. Both can react to divine revelation. Both can masquerade as the Holy Spirit. Reason can’t be rational unless it’s based on truth, and the human mind has no way to reason to any truth. Human emotion certainly doesn’t reason to any truth. If you are a follower of Christ, have devotion to Christ and exercise your spiritual senses in the spiritual realm.

 

He Is Lord Over All

Many words once were spoken, in a far off distant land,
That have crossed the mighty oceans, and the ages they have spanned,
Well, they speak of life eternal, of salvation for all men,
God’s creation made immortal, by the Christ that dwells within.

He is Lord, over all, and He’s King upon His throne,
He’s becoming all in all, as He reigns, forevermore.

I can see the smoke arising, from the furnace of this Day,
As all our dross and tin, He’s burning, like the stubble and the hay,
But what is left is Oh, so precious, as His jewels we now become,
And we taste of His redemption, as He loses – No, Not One!

Bob and Charlotte Torango

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Seek not after your own heart and your own eyes

This Scripture mentions two items of idolatry. The first is your heart, meaning your mind. The second is your powers of observation. Your mind has no capacity for sound reasoning without divine revelation for truth. You can’t get outside yourself to be objective. Groupthink confirmation bias is even worse. And if you fish around in your mind, you add to the truth God reveals. Then, you defile the truth. It’s no longer the truth. Here’s another problem. You filter all your observations and experiences through the preconceived ideas in your worldview. It’s not easy to understand just how effectively your worldview adjusts your perceptions of what you observe or experience to match the expectations of your worldview.

Some people talk about being objective, but they’re deceiving themselves. You can’t be objective. You can’t get outside yourself to be objective. If you think your perceptions are pure, you commit the ontic fallacy. You need Jesus Christ and His Light guiding you in every part of your life. Only through the power of the living Christ can you overcome your inability to see reality as it is.

God reveals reality to you through your observations, and He speaks truth into your mind if you look to Him. However, when you worship human intellect, you’re being unfaithful to God. Of all the idols Christians worship, the worship of the intellect may be the hardest to abandon. If you come to God for wisdom, He will give you wisdom.

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This Scripture mentions two items of idolatry. The first is your heart, meaning your mind. The second is your powers of observation. Your mind has no capacity for sound reasoning without divine revelation for truth. You can’t get outside yourself to be objective. Groupthink confirmation bias is even worse. And if you fish around in your mind, you add to the truth God reveals. Then, you defile the truth. It’s no longer the truth. Here’s another problem. You filter all your observations and experiences through the preconceived ideas in your worldview. It’s not easy to understand just how effectively your worldview adjusts your perceptions of what you observe or experience to match the expectations of your worldview.

Some people talk about being objective, but they’re deceiving themselves. You can’t be objective. You can’t get outside yourself to be objective. If you think your perceptions are pure, you commit the ontic fallacy. You need Jesus Christ and His Light guiding you in every part of your life. Only through the power of the living Christ can you overcome your inability to see reality as it is.

God reveals reality to you through your observations, and He speaks truth into your mind if you look to Him. However, when you worship human intellect, you’re being unfaithful to God. Of all the idols Christians worship, the worship of the intellect may be the hardest to abandon. If you come to God for wisdom, He will give you wisdom.

GOD CAN AND HE WILL

He can and He will so command it to be done in Jesus Name
He can and He will so command it to be done in Jesus Name
Our God changes not. His power and His love are still the same.
He can and He will so command it to be done in Jesus Name

Bob and Kathy Stenson, Freeware. Use it freely.

He Can and He Will

Christians worship many idols, but the worship of the intellect is the worst.

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Of all the idols Christians worship, the worship of the intellect may be the hardest to abandon.

God considers His Creation as His wife. He calls you to love Him, trust Him, seek Him, and find Him. God created you to be joined to Him intimately. He desires to lead you in every thought and emotion. He wants to flow through you in love, joy, and peace. He wants to do His works of righteousness through you as you willingly yield to Him. He wants to lead you, fill you with faith, and allow faith to give you access to His grace. He wants His grace to say His words and do His works through you as you yield the members of your bodies to His righteousness.

Jesus said only the words of the Father. Jesus did only the works of the Father. Every thought, word, and action came from His Father in Heaven. That’s how it’s supposed to be for you. That union with God is the only place of fulfillment. As you yield to His righteousness in this way, He transforms you into the image and likeness of Christ. He purifies the Lord Jesus Christ in you. It’s incremental transformation. The only place you’ll find true satisfaction is as God transforms you. God created you to transform you into the image and likeness of Christ.

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Of all the idols Christians worship, the worship of the intellect may be the hardest to abandon.

God considers His Creation as His wife. He calls you to love Him, trust Him, seek Him, and find Him. God created you to be joined to Him intimately. He desires to lead you in every thought and emotion. He wants to flow through you in love, joy, and peace. He wants to do His works of righteousness through you as you willingly yield to Him. He wants to lead you, fill you with faith, and allow faith to give you access to His grace. He wants His grace to say His words and do His works through you as you yield the members of your bodies to His righteousness.

Jesus said only the words of the Father. Jesus did only the works of the Father. Every thought, word, and action came from His Father in Heaven. That’s how it’s supposed to be for you. That union with God is the only place of fulfillment. As you yield to His righteousness in this way, He transforms you into the image and likeness of Christ. He purifies the Lord Jesus Christ in you. It’s incremental transformation. The only place you’ll find true satisfaction is as God transforms you. God created you to transform you into the image and likeness of Christ.

HE AROSE

He bled and died, my Jesus.
He was my substitute, He died for me.
And though entombed He lay, the grave gave up its prey;
And on the Glorious Day, My Lord arose.

CHORUS:
He arose, Jesus arose.
Conquered death, hell and the grave.
He arose, Jesus arose.
And He lives for-ever more.

Now we see Jesus, King of Kings
And Lord of Lord. Come worship Him
For He is worthy of all our worship,
And He is worthy of all our praise.

CHORUS

O praise the Lord, O praise His Name.
For He is worthy of our praise.
Come worship Him, come worship Him,
For He is worthy of our praise.

Frank T. Patterson

He Arose

Spiritual Adultery “and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring” Numbers 15:39b

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Spiritual Adultery

and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring: ~ Numbers 15:39b

If you put anything in the place of God, you are unfaithful to God. You’re serving an idol. When you follow other gods, God looks at it as unfaithfulness. Idols can be statues or demons, but the human intellect is also a deceptive idol, and many people worship the human intellect.

The passage you just read from Numbers 15:39b is speaking of idolatry, which is spiritual adultery against God. God judges you as unfaithful when you seek after your own heart, mind, and ability to observe. He rightly judges you as an unfaithful wife when you do that.

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Spiritual Adultery

and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring: ~ Numbers 15:39b

If you put anything in the place of God, you are unfaithful to God. You’re serving an idol. When you follow other gods, God looks at it as unfaithfulness. Idols can be statues or demons, but the human intellect is also a deceptive idol, and many people worship the human intellect.

The passage you just read from Numbers 15:39b is speaking of idolatry, which is spiritual adultery against God. God judges you as unfaithful when you seek after your own heart, mind, and ability to observe. He rightly judges you as an unfaithful wife when you do that.

HAVE YOU BEEN TO JESUS

Have you been to Jesus with your stains of sin?
Is your life committed to Him?
Have you asked Him to bear your grief and your woe?
Do you know that He loves you, my friend?

CHORUS:
Come unto Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me,
And I will give you, and I will give you rest.

CHORUS

How often through life do we struggle and fall
’Neath a load that we need not to bear;
For Jesus will carry your burden right now.
On the cross He carried it all.

CHORUS

But want as we would that our burden be gone,
Yet heavy the load that we bear;
Loud we complain that our burden does pain,
So loud, that we don’t hear Him say: –

Frank T. Patterson

Have You Been to Jesus?

Speak Christ and His Wisdom. That’s the Rhema of God.

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The political realm is just one small part of your life. God has also given you the responsibility to earn a living and take care of your families. If you develop skills for your careers, you can do that in two different ways. The ungodly way is to depend on your intellects and human abilities. The godly way is to seek the face of the Lord regarding your career. When you seek God’s will, that doesn’t mean you don’t go to work. It’s not that you trust God to take care of you so you don’t bother working. The Holy Spirit will lead you to develop your skills and to work hard and smart. He’ll show you the best career for the part of the body of Christ God created you to be. He’ll show you how to develop your skills. His wisdom will flow through you as you work.

You yourselves are our letter, inscribed on our hearts, known and read by everyone. ~ 2 Corinthians 3:2

He’ll work through you on your job. He’ll speak through you on your job. You’re not paid to spread the Gospel, but when God speaks through you, you speak His Logos. You speak His Rhema. You speak the living Christ. You can do your job by the Wisdom of God. Jesus Christ is the Wisdom of God. If you’re in a meeting, the words you say are alive with the Spirit even as you focus on the job at hand and the business purpose of the meeting. You speak Christ and His Wisdom. That’s the Rhema of God. It causes faith in those who hear it even if you never mention the Gospel. If you’re an electrician, God speaks through the work of your hands. Those who see it and receive it are hearing the Rhema of God. If you’re a carpenter, God works through you. You are a living letter from God to whoever watches you work. Just remain in the flow of the Holy Spirit and His Wisdom. Listen to His voice. Learn to let Him lead. Learn to follow Him.

He’ll do the same in your family. He’ll lead you and give you power for righteousness. He’ll do the same in all your relationships. You listen to His voice in ALL your ways. You live, move, and have your being in His utterance. Then, He teaches you as His student, and sets you free from sin. Sin has held you down. Your fleshly nature has enslaved you. Nevertheless, listening to Christ and yielding to Him will set you free. In the last section of this chapter, God’s Endgame, I’ll thoroughly explain how to experience all these blessings.

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You speak Christ and His Wisdom. That’s the Rhema of God.

The political realm is just one small part of your life. God has also given you the responsibility to earn a living and take care of your families. If you develop skills for your careers, you can do that in two different ways. The ungodly way is to depend on your intellects and human abilities. The godly way is to seek the face of the Lord regarding your career. When you seek God’s will, that doesn’t mean you don’t go to work. It’s not that you trust God to take care of you so you don’t bother working. The Holy Spirit will lead you to develop your skills and to work hard and smart. He’ll show you the best career for the part of the body of Christ God created you to be. He’ll show you how to develop your skills. His wisdom will flow through you as you work.

You yourselves are our letter, inscribed on our hearts, known and read by everyone. ~ 2 Corinthians 3:2

He’ll work through you on your job. He’ll speak through you on your job. You’re not paid to spread the Gospel, but when God speaks through you, you speak His Logos. You speak His Rhema. You speak the living Christ. You can do your job by the Wisdom of God. Jesus Christ is the Wisdom of God. If you’re in a meeting, the words you say are alive with the Spirit even as you focus on the job at hand and the business purpose of the meeting. You speak Christ and His Wisdom. That’s the Rhema of God. It causes faith in those who hear it even if you never mention the Gospel. If you’re an electrician, God speaks through the work of your hands. Those who see it and receive it are hearing the Rhema of God. If you’re a carpenter, God works through you. You are a living letter from God to whoever watches you work. Just remain in the flow of the Holy Spirit and His Wisdom. Listen to His voice. Learn to let Him lead. Learn to follow Him.

He’ll do the same in your family. He’ll lead you and give you power for righteousness. He’ll do the same in all your relationships. You listen to His voice in ALL your ways. You live, move, and have your being in His utterance. Then, He teaches you as His student, and sets you free from sin. Sin has held you down. Your fleshly nature has enslaved you. Nevertheless, listening to Christ and yielding to Him will set you free. In the last section of this chapter, God’s Endgame, I’ll thoroughly explain how to experience all these blessings.

HAVE A JESUS DAY

Have a Jesus day.
Just commit your day to Him.
He will make a way.
He will keep you out of sin
And if things don’t go the way you thought they should,
You will know that He has planned it all for good,
That you may be transformed from sin,
That you may be conformed to Him,
So have a Jesus day.

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