Monday, October 28, 2013

Positioned For The Blessing

Ephesians 1:3-4 states "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world".

This is very encouraging news because it tells us that even before the sperm of our father ever made it to the ovum of our mother, the blessings of God were already in place for us!  But in order for us to receive them, we must be properly positioned to get them!

Ephesians unveils to us great revelations in relation to Christ and the Church - the ecclesia or an assembly of called out ones, the body of Christ.

For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones" (Ephesians 5:30).

"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" (1 Corinthians 12:12).

God didn’t just prepare a body for Jesus to suffer in, but He prepared Him a body in which He should be glorified!  That “body” is the Church”!  Jesus Christ is the head”, and we are His body!  When we “the Church” come in alignment positionally with the “Head”, we are glorified together as a “perfect man” in the earth!

Monday, October 14, 2013

The Church In Recovery!

Jeremiah 8:22 [KJV]

The Book of Jeremiah portrays Jesus Christ as our “Righteous Branch”!

Jeremiah 23:5-6:  "Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.  In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely:  and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS".

Jeremiah 33:15: " In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land".

In Chapter 8 of Jeremiah, God is speaking to Israel about punishment for her sins.  But there is a question asked in verse 22 which is, "Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there?  why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered"?

Balm was an ointment used for medicinal purposes, and we know that Jehovah-Rapha is the Lord that heals.  So that same question can be applicable to the Church today.