Monday, October 31, 2011

The Garden of God

Earlier I made mention of the Garden of Eden and said I'd come back with the Garden of God. Well, here I am.

Garden (web) is defined as a place for growing vegetables, fruit, or flowers, and it is natural. But let's see what God's "garden" is.

This "garden" means fenced [a protective or confining barrier of posts, wire, etc; to enclose, within]; to hedge about.

Jesus said in St. John 14:17, "For He dwelleth WITH you and shall be IN you." Verse 23 "If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and WE will come UNTO him, and make our abode with him!" "Greater is he that is IN you"! (1 John 1:4).

You become and are the "garden", the body that God dwells in! It's like putting a letter into an envelope. We encapsulate Him! He lives WITHIN us!

In Genesis 2:7 the "forming of man" was not him being scooped up out of the ground and being shaped into a form and breath breathed into some holes poked into his nose. No! No! No! This "man" [adam(male & female)] was already here, but he was dead. He was walking around breathing, but "dead" [in a state of ignorance, misery, darkness, sorrow, destruction, wickedness, obscurity, death]! This was the "dust" he was in! The LORD God formed him as a potter with clay! He squeezed him into shape through a pressurized process of trials and testings until every thing that was not like God was out of him (male & female) to make them like himself! He brought him out of the darkness into light, or from death to life, by breathing the very "blood" of God into his face!! MAN, or ADAM, means to show "blood" in the face - God's mind, wisdom, understanding, knowledge, health, dominion, authority, power, and all that he (male & female) needed that pertained to life to sustain LIFE within themselves!!

This is the same thing God is doing to you and me now! He is putting us through a pressurized process of trials to get out of us what is not like him so we too can be him in the earth!! Ephesians 2:1 "And you hath he quickened [make alive], WHO WERE DEAD in trespasses and sins." Verses 5-6 "Even when we WERE DEAD in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, and HATH raised us up together, and made us to sit [established] together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus"!!

In Genesis 2:8, the PLANTING of this garden eastward was God mending, adjusting, establishing, settling, stabilizing a definite place that He could eternally or forever dwell. So "man" is the garden that's "eastward" [eternally made] that houses GOD! He chose, God chose, to DWELL IN MAN!! Hallelujah!! God is Spirit (St. John 4:24), the invisible God! But He is the VISIBLE God IN you! Was He not Jesus in flesh form? Yes, He was! And He's still in flesh form IN you! That's the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations but is now made manifest to His saints: "To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is CHRIST IN YOU, the hope of glory"!! (Colossians 1:27).

We the church must come to the place Adam was in Genesis before he fell - a place of dominion, authority, and power! They (male & female) were ruling the creation by the power of God! We MUST come to this place because the CREATION is waiting FOR US, the SONS OF GOD (male & female)! (Romans 8:19).

- Pastor Gracie Perry

Monday, October 17, 2011

The Light

I greet you in the name of our LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS THE CHRIST!

Let's take a look at the "LIGHT!"

There are several sources of "light": electric light, flashlights, candles, lamps, moonlight, sunlight, etc.
But the "light" I want you to zoom in on is "KNOWLEDGE" which is spoken of in Genesis 1:3 when God said, "Let there be light"! And the true source of this "light" is God! 1 John 1:5 "God is LIGHT, and in HIM is no darkness at all"! He is "OMNISCIENT" [all knowing]!!

When He said here, "Let there be light", He was not talking about "day light". The "light" of the sun and moon wasn't brought forth until the fourth day, vs 14-19. So this had to be a different kind of "light" here in Genesis 1:3, and this "light" was "revelation knowledge which was brought forth the first day.

This word "light" means illumination or luminaries; to shine; be set on fire.

ILLUMINATION is the state of being provided with understanding [comprehension, realization, or knowledge] of something or someone.

LUMINARY is a body that gives off light, as the sun, moon, stars; or a famous or notable person; or one that can enlighten mankind.

God was saying, let there be "people" with my mind, my thoughts, my KNOWLEDGE, understanding, wisdom, power, authority, my blood, my very life IN THEM! Let them be like me!! And vs 3 states, "And there was "light"! God saw these people [male & female] shining, set on fire with the very light of His glory!! Genesis 1:4 "And God SAW the LIGHT, that it was GOOD"!

There were people here before "adam & eve" [the two that religion teaches were running around naked]. Adam & Eve were not "one man and a woman". Don't stone me. Genesis 5:1-2 "This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; male and female created he THEM; and blessed THEM, and called THEIR NAME ADAM, in the day when they were created."

Philippians 2:5 "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus": vs 6 "Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God."

We dare not self exalt! But we must come to know who we are in GOD! He is our CREATOR, and we must come to know HIM in HIS fullness!!

1Thessalonians 5:5 "Ye are all the children [sons] of LIGHT, and the children [sons] of the day"!!

Hollywood has nothing on God! We have been in LIGHT from the beginning! We are the STARS of GOD!

God bless you.

- Pastor Gracie Perry

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Have you really taken a look at the word "genesis"?

I greet you in the name of Jesus, The Christ

Have you really taken a look at the word "genesis"? There are the words "gene(s)"; and "is". Our physical make up "is" in the "gene(s)".

Genesis comes from the Hebrew word "re'shiyth" which means first, in place, time, order or rank (spec. a firstfruit): BEGINNING, the head, every man. The synonym for "genesis" is: creation, origin, source, formation, beginning, birth; nativity, nature.

It is the book of BEGINNINGS. It could be called the nativity scene of creation, birth, circumstances, conditions, etc.

The definition that really caught my eye was "every man".

When you look at the anatomical make up of man (mankind - male and female), we stem from a sperm and an ova. It starts with a cell that has a nucleus with a chromosome that houses the "GENES", which are hereditary units that control or act in the transmission of hereditary characteristics. We receive homologous pairs of autosomal chromosones from our parents; one pair of sex chromosomes from each, totaling forty six chromosomes. So we develop characteristics from both of our parents. This is necessary in the developing or shaping of our personality, which later on in life helps us fulfill the kind of ministry God has given us. Oh glory to God!!

It means "nature" which deals with one's character or temperament. That's why it is so important for us to take on the "new birth" that Jesus spoke to Nicodemus about in St.John 3:3-5. He said "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.". In (vs 5) "Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." This means he cannot know, be aware, understand, discern clearly the kingdom, nor can he arise and come into this realm of power, dominion and authority.

So we must be "born again" (from the Greek word genna'o), which means reproduced, brought forth, regenerated (re-gene-d). "Re" signifying a doing over or doing again, which is actually a metamorphosis taking place. Meta meaning "over" and morpho meaning "form." We need to be "born" or formed all over again!

This happens through the coming forth by the "water" and the "Spirit"!

The "water" here is not "water baptism," but the "water" is THE WORD OF GOD!! Ephesians 5:26: "That he might sanctify and cleanse it (the church) with the WASHING OF WATER by THE WORD!! (the "logos", the divine expression of thought; the REnewing of the mind which brings about a metamorphosis in us) We must be formed all over again by the REnewing of our minds (Romans 12:2). Which is the same forming or squeezing into shape the Lord God did to the man (adam - male and female) in Genesis 2:7 to bring them into the very image of God himself! God is thus "forming" us into His very image, that which Jesus was, and now is, IN US!! For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conFORMED to the image of His Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren (Romans 8:29). We must become the LIVING WORD of God!! "The SAME (that's US)was in the beginning with God" and (vs 14)" the Word was made flesh" (St.John 1:2,14). "For as He is so are WE in this world" (1 John 4:17).

Then we are brought forth by God's "Spirit", which is the "pneuma" (the very breath of God), which contains His blood. And in His blood is all that is vital for life: knowledge, wisdom, understanding. In other words, we must let Christ's mind be in us (Philippians 2:5)!!

This is the same breath the Lord God breathed into Adam in Genesis 2:7 that caused these people to become living souls! God has not changed!! He's the same yesterday, today, and forever!!

So we must take on the "GENES" of God, so much that we become Him! This is the taking on of the "nature" of God! For God is love!!

Genesis means generation(s), or people! Look at this: In the "GENES" God created!! In His people He created heaven and earth. Jesus was and is the "Beginning", and in him was Spirit and flesh, representing heaven and earth! GREAT GOD FROM ZION! Genesis and Beginning come from the same root word meaning origin and source! Where did your "genes" or "nature" originate from? But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: which WERE BORN, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of GOD (St.John 1:12-13)!!

IT "IS" IN THE "GENES"!

Be Blessed of God!

- Pastor Gracie Perry