We are not fundamentally free; external circumstances are not in our hands, they are in God’s hands, the one thing in which we are free is in our personal relationship to God. We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us, or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.
Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
Romans 8:6, “For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.”
The Lord is not speaking to us with a loudspeaker out of the heavens.
Rather, He manifests His voice to us by the feeling or registration of His life.
The Lord feels a certain way within us, producing either the sense of “life and peace,” which tells us that we are compatible with His life, or a sense of “death,” which tells us that something in our talking, our attitude, or our behavior does not match the nature of His life.
In our experience, the mind of the flesh is the consciousness of death, and the mind of the Spirit is the consciousness of life and peace.
Of course, the more we drink of the Lord as the Spirit day by day, the richer and deeper will be our fellowship with Him, and the richer and deeper will be our sensitivity to the consciousness of His life.
This means we will be His sheep that are compatible with His life-voice (John 10:27).
Being compatible with the Lord’s voice and life simply means being agreeable with Him on His terms.
It means always being harmonious with His registrations of life and peace within us in our daily life.
It is by living compatibly with Him that we grow in life, spontaneously being changed and transformed into His image.
So not only do we enjoy Him in a general way, but as we enjoy Him we grow rich in the consciousness of that life.
We learn to specifically recognize His inner approval or disapproval in our walk.
In other words, we seek to make that life happy and satisfied all day long.
Whenever that life is not happy and satisfied, we quickly care for it to make it happy again.
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
MONDAY’S PRAYER REQUESTS
Jerry Roberts – Heaven
ED MAYS
HEATHER MAY
JOANIE/JEANIE DAD
NANCY PROUDFIT – Home
ROSE FULLER – Rehab
Amy Garner
Amy Garner’s Mom & Dad
Andrew Halevi & Daughter
Ashely Burn’s Sisters
Brandon’s Dad
Coly/Connor – Allison’s G’sons
Dan Haines
Darlene Wiggins
David Burnette
David Harrison – Riverside
Deanna Fowler
Denise Hulsey – Jordan’s G’mother
Donnie Butler’s Dad
Doris Loyd
Dr. and Mrs. Davis
Easton Fielder
Eric Ward
Erik Magnusson
Freddie May’s Mom
George & Linda Alexander
James Burnette
James Garner’s Friend
Jillian Gray
Jodi Bateman
John Austin
John McClain
June Cronan
June Cronan’s Sister
Kathy Mabe
Kim McClain’s Mother
Larry Barker
Lee Cronan
Lillanna Magnusson’s Mom
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
Linda Hodges’ Sister
Lonzo Christin
Lori Blount’s Mother
Marlon Cook
Mary Sims
Marynell Ford
Maureen Brown
Michael Stanley
Pastor & Mrs. Driskell
Ricky Gipson
Ricky Stubbs
Roseleigh Osborn
Sandra Graham
Scott Lanier
Soso Nzolo – 17 Yr. Old South African Pastor’s Daughter
Susan & Alexis Tesone
Tom Witcher