Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
Hebrews 12:2, “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
What do we see?
What is our vision?
What is our revelation?
Without vision, there is no proper incentive to apply the cross, and there is no real application of the cross in its full significance.
To experience the proper subjective application of the cross, we must be filled with heavenly vision.
To be a person with vision is to be a person under God’s economy.
It is to be one who lives according to the divine destiny over his whole being.
This destiny is that we would be completely conformed to the image of God’s Son.
Even our bodies will be conformed to the body of His glory.
Paul was under this vision of God’s economy.
We need the clear vision of God’s economy over our being to apply the cross.
I have to see that my being–my mind, emotion, will, and body–has only one destiny, which is to be saturated and filled with Christ Himself.
By this saturating and filling, God becomes my portion.
Because my being has only one destiny–conformity to the image of God’s Son–God is causing everything to work together to this end and goal (Rom. 8:28).
This is God’s economy.
So if I am a person who is clear about God’s economy, I will readily apply the cross inwardly to anything that challenges that economy, anything of this self that has a controversy with the Lord.
This includes the self in any relationship with any person.
This includes my private life, my daily living.
My stubbornness, my impulsiveness, my mind–anything in my being that opposes God–has to bow.
It has to be terminated, because I am under the vision that my being has a destiny to be conformed to the image of God’s Son.
My god is not my belly (Phil. 3:18-21).
My God is God Himself.
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
MONDAY’S PRAYER REQUESTS
Dan Haines – nerve damage in upper right arm which prevents his mobility
Karen Slane – foot surgery Wednesday
Terrell Loyd
Jodi Bateman
David Burnette
Dwight Byrd
Daniel Cooper
Sandy Paschal – surgery today
Amy Garner
Lamar Knight
Jim Mabe
Charlene Palmer
Lorraine Elliott
Eric Ward
Dr. and Mrs. Davis
Sandra Graham
Doris Loyd
Linda Alexander
June Cronan
Jillian Gray
Amy Garner’s Mom & Dad
Brandon’s Dad
Darlene Thaxton
David Harrison
Denise Hulsey – Jordan’s G’mother
Easton Fielder
Erik Magusson
Freddie May’s Mom
George & Linda Alexander
James Burnette
June Cronan’s Sister
John Austin
John McClain
Lillanna Magnusson’s Mom
Linda Hodges’ Sister
Michael Stanley
Ricky Gipson – Ashley’s Brother
Rose Fuller
Scott Nix
Tom Witcher
James Garner’s Friend
Kim McClain’s Mother
Lonzo Christin
Ashely Burn’s Sisters
Coly/Connor – Allison’s G’sons
Larry Barker
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
Mary Sims
Marynell Ford
Pastor & Mrs. Driskell
Ricky Stubbs
Roseleigh Osborn
Scott Lanier