PRAYER MEETING TONIGHT ANYTIME AFTER 6:30!!
Daily Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:
1 Corinthians 12:12, “For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.”
Not only is Christ the Christian life, but He is also the reality of the church life.
Apart from Him there is no church.
We must understand that the practice of the church issues from the centrality of Christ.
Christ is our relationship with one another (Col. 3:11).
Because He is in all of us, we are related to each other in Him.
The church comes into our spirit when we receive Christ.
The church is in all of us because the church is Christ.
We recognize Christ!
When we recognize Christ, we recognize the church!
The reality of the church is a Person.
It is not a doctrine.
It is not a way.
It is not a man.
It is Christ Himself.
So wherever Christ is, there is the church.
The best we can do is simply to see it, acknowledge it, receive one another, and say “Amen.”
We receive one another because we have all been received by God (Rom. 14:3).
We have been redeemed by the same blood.
We have the same one Father (Eph. 4:6).
There is only one “Abba,” one Father, and He is in all of us (Rom. 8:15; Gal. 4:6).
So what do we do?
We say, “We are in the same family!”
This is the church.
It is so simple.
There is something already existing between us.
God put it into us.
It is called the oneness of the Spirit (Eph. 4:3).
We learn to recognize this oneness of the Spirit between us and to keep it in our relationships.
This oneness is so precious because it is made up of the oneness of the Father and the Son.
The oneness between the Father and the Son is now embodied in the Spirit.
Thus, through Christ as the life-giving Spirit entering intous, we have been admitted into Their oneness!
Because of Christ, Their oneness has now become our oneness.
This is the church.
1 John 2:27, “But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.”
It is marvelous that when we are regenerated, the Lord Jesus comes into our spirit in such a way that there is a union where He can be the Savior.
We are not the savior.
We do not save ourselves.
Jesus is the One saving us.
This is not just initial salvation, but constant salvation.
He wants to be the Savior in everything.
Because we are in union with Him, we can open to Him, we can turn to Him, we can draw from Him, we can say “Amen” to the inner registrations of His life in us.
It is by those inner registrations, called the anointing, that we can know Christ.
The word “anointing” tells us the nature of the way Christ is in us–how He is in us.
After you have received the Lord, it is simply a matter of discovering what is happening inside of you.
The anointing is not something external from us.
Knowing the anointing is not a matter of trying to understand with your mind something that is apart from you.
First John 2:27 is a description of what is in me and what is in you.
It is not describing something new that we are going to receive, but what we have already received.
It is describing how Christ is living inside of us.
This verse says, “the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you.”
This means the anointing remains in you.
It does not leave you.
The anointing as the inner movement of Christ is always operating in our being.
It is the inner surveillance of the Lord Himself within us.
When we speak a word with impatience in our tone, immediately the anointing is surveying our inner being.
So the anointing is not merely a positive leading of the Lord.
It is an inner registration of what is compatible with the divine nature.
What we feel or sense is that something is not compatible with the life within us.
Of course, we are not condemned, though these kinds of registrations could be a factor to spiral a person downward.
When your nature rises up in some form or another, if you identify with that and live expecting those risings to change, or think that something better should come out of you, then you are on the road to condemnation.
But thank God, when there is a registration within us, that is the anointing that abides in us.
So whenever we say something that is incompatible with the anointing, there is a registration.
There is a leakage of life and peace.
You can sense it.
That leakage of life and peace is God’s way of saying “no” to what we just said or did.
It is a registration that says, “That is not My nature.”
Obeying the registrations of the anointing is the practical way for us to abide in Christ.
Until Tomorrow,
With A Shepherd’s Love
Pastor
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Today’s Prayer List
Debra Roberts – Still Improving Hallalujah
Hanna Hall – Pray For Grace
James Parsons – Mae’s Brother – Home on Palliative Care
Larry Barker – Hip Replacement
Sherry Yoachum – Recovering
Amy Garner’s Mother – Better –
Ashley Burn’s Sisters
Barbara Shed’s Family –
Bill Lawhead – Cancer Returned
Bill Moody –
Carla Martin – Pneumonia
Charlie Sessom –Waiting –
Colby/Connor – Allison’s G’sons–
Denise Stubbs – Kim Allison’s Mom
Don Slate – Angela Bryan’s Dad – Hospice
Doug Fritzel –
James Garner – Shoulder Replacement
James Garner’s G’Son –
John Burnette –
Joyceann – James Garner’s Daughter
Kimberly – Dustin’s Sister–
Lavona Davis –
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
Lynn – Nancy Brown’s Daughter –
Mary Sims –
Michael Stanley –
Nancy Brown’s G’Daughter –
Nora Allison – Dustin’s Mom –
Pastor Stucke– Nikki’s Dad
Paula Ferus’ Missionary Friend
Ricky Stubbs –
Roseleigh Osborn –
Scott Lanier – Lisa’s Cousin –
Sharon Blalock–
Shaelyn – Jill’s Friend
Shannon Golden –
Sheila Simmons Cousin –
Todd Bailey –
Todd Roberts –
Tom Witcher –
Wanda Galanti –