Relationships, Only 3 Count! - Part #5
The Relationships of God in His authoritative commands HAVE NOT CHANGED SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME. From Genesis to Revelation, God has been and reveals as He speaks through His Son, Jesus Christ, to Love God and our neighbor!
THE COMMANDS OF GOD ARE TO RELATE!
Scripture References: Mark 12:29-30, Matthew 12:29-31, Luke 10:25-3, Colossians 1:5, 1Corinthians 12:3, 1 Corinthians 13:1-3, Revelation 2:4, 1 John 4:9
The Relationships of God in His authoritative commands HAVE NOT CHANGED SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME. From Genesis to Revelation, God has been and reveals as He speaks through His Son, Jesus Christ, to Love God and our neighbor!
In just two Commands of the Creator and All Powerful one, He has instructed us as His People to RELATE to ourselves and others, THROUGH the obedience of love unto HIM with every tool He has given us; Our heart, Our mind, Our soul and Our strength!
It is IN THIS LOVE, true agape Love of God that Born Again Believers walk out salvation living in the image and likeness of Christ, being the visible representation of our invisible Father, who is God!
IN THIS LOVE, in the likeness of HIM, every gift within you, every talent you may have, ALL that the Holy Spirit empowers in you, must be executed IN LOVE, IN RELATIONSHIP WITH ANOTHER! AND GOD SAID IT! It is the MORE EXCELLENT WAY!
In the RELATIONSHIP with God, YOU are in RELATIONSIP with His Son and His Spirit! In the RELATIONSHIP with His Son, your LORD, you are RELATIONSHIP with yourself as the begotten of God. It is in this RELATIONSHIP, known by God and knowing Him as Father that you see…you are not alone.
God created all mankind, “humankind”. When He opens your eyes to “see” humankind in need and you respond in the expression of God through mercy, they become your “neighbor”.
It is in RELATIONSHIP in Christ that you walk and respond as The Father who has compassion for the ones He created. We, the people of God are to LOVE ANTOHER IRRELGARDLESS OF CURCUMSRTANCES OR BENEFITS to ourselves! We are to love AS God IS and Trust HIM for our keeping and our reward! We are LOVE them that they know God through His demonstration of LOVE to us as believers…the giving of His Son!
The Church does not like to talk about love! But!! Holy Spirit reveals through The Bible, we have nothing, IF we don’t have LOVE; Our God and His Way.
Agape Love is a sacrifice of self and the offering of you to HIM daily in every word and deed. You are anointed, in the RELATIONSHIP of Jesus Christ BUT if you leave YOUR FIRST LOVE, what do you have?
RETHINK WHO GOD WHO IS, AND THE LOVE OF GOD THATS IN YOUR VERY LIFE! HE COMMANDS US TO LOVE, IN RELATIONSHIPS! THE IMAGE OF GOD IS LOVE! FOR OUR GOD IS LOVE!
Frances Archer
Terebinth Moreh Ministries
Relationships, Only 3 Count! - Part #4
Love is an Action Word. The Father, through and by His Son, Jesus, demonstrated the Greatest Love by Sending His only Begotten Son to save the world! Everyone!
LOVE IS A PERSON TOO!
Scripture References: Mark 12:29-30, John 6:44, Revelation 4:11, 1 John 4:8,16, Ephesians 2:-, 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, Isaiah 14:24
Love is an Action Word. The Father, through and by His Son, Jesus, demonstrated the Greatest Love by Sending His only Begotten Son to save the world! Everyone! I know you think that you are saved because God sent Jesus to JUST save you, but God, Elohim sent Jesus to all humankind He ‘created’, “made” and “formed” by His pleasure and Will.
You were drawn to hear and received and now in the obedience to One whom you love, you follow Christ in humility and submission as your Lord. Dying to your sacrifice of “self”AND offering your life to HIM in obedience…Love! Agape Love!
What is so Great about this Great Agape LOVE, is that not only is LOVE an action of God, IT is WHO! GOD IS LOVE! GOD, Creator and Father of us all including Jesus, is LOVE.
Love is Person and an Action! And THIS is the ONE you are to KNOW.
1 John 4:8 The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
God suffers long for you, He is kind to you. God is not envious or jealous of you because He made you and created you just as His heart desired. God does parade Himself or is puffed up about Himself. He reveals Himself to you, that you lift Him in your heart and the world. God, who is charity, does not seek His own will, but because His own Will, in the very nature of Who He is, seeks you! God is not and cannot be provoked from loving you unconditionally. His justice will always stand against the sins of this world, because of His hatred of Sin. But Sin cannot change His mind in loving you. He sent His Son that you would be saved and sanctified according to His will. God does not think in evil ways or rejoice in iniquity. He finished that on the Cross! And by His Holy Spirit, He has made a WAY that who He First loved, overcomes. God, the Creator and Father, rejoices in Truth because His power and purpose in you “Is so” and “It will happen”.
God Never fails because He is LOVE! He Remains!
Refresh yourself in the Thinking that God demonstrates and manifests HIMSELF to us and through us, THAT we may KNOW HIM! God is serious about you and He has given Christ and His Holy Spirit, that We be serious about HIM.
It’s Something to be Known by God!
Frances Archer
Terebinth Moreh Ministries
Relationships, Only 3 Count! - Part #3
The first and foundational RELATIONSHIP that Jesus reminds us of is the RELATIONSHIP OF AND WITH GOD, OUR CREATOR!
Scripture References: Mark 12:29-30, Revelation 4:11, 1 Samuel 15:22, Romans 10:2
The first and foundational RELATIONSHIP that Jesus reminds us of is the RELATIONSHIP OF AND WITH GOD, OUR CREATOR! Our Relationship WITH God is not because He created the mountains, skies, animals, or the nature of this earth you see every day. But our RELATIONSHIP WITH God is because we are OF Him, by His Will we exist!
It is by the Will of the Creator we exist and by His power we are! You are truly the MAKING OF THE EL SHADDI! Adonai, Lord God has made us and tells us HOW to relate to Him that pleases Him. Now in our great life and life abundantly, God speaks to us through His Son, Jesus.
Jesus tells us that our “Daddy”, WHO IS GOD, COMMANDS US LOVE HIM With ALL OUR Heart, Mind, Soul, and OUR strength! Just as the prophet Moses told the Israelites, Jesus tells us. There is a WAY to LOVE, Our Almighty Father! We cannot LOVE God, with misdirected ZEAL, DUTIES, WORKS, OR LABOR absent of our heart, soul, mind, and strength WILLING DESIRING HIM!
GOD IS SAYING WHAT HE HAS ALWAYS SAID…
BE OBEDIENT TO MY VERY VOICE, HEAR AND OBEY, and DESIRE MY WILL ABOVE ANYTHING ELSE! GOD SAYS, HE DESIRES OUR PASSIONS AND DESIRES TO BE TOWARDS HIM, SUBMITTING OUR INTELLECT, MEMORIES AND IMAGINATIONS TO HIS WILL DAILY. THROUGH THE VERY WORD OF HIS VOICE, BRING OUR THINKING UNDER CAPTIVITY THAT OUR VERY MIND, WILL AND EMOTIONS ARE GIVEN TO HIM. GOD SAYS, IT IS IN THE VERY OBEIDENCE OF A CHEERFUL, DESIRING HEAR OF HIM, IS OUR OBEDIENCE…OUR LOVE FOR HIM! WHEN YOU HARKEN TO MY VOICE AND ADHERE TO IT, YOU LOVE HIM!
REFLECT AND ASK YOURSELF TODAY…AM I IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, LOVING HIM ACCOURDING TO HIS COMMANDS OR DO I JUST HAVE ZEALOUS ACTS IN MY LIFE TO LET OTHERS KNOW THAT I KNOW ABOUT HIM?
Frances Archer
Terebinth Moreh Ministries
Relationships, Only 3 Count! - Part #2
A RELATIONSHIP is a process or condition that you relate to; you have a bonding link in common with another.
Scripture References: Revelation 4:11, Genesis 1:7, 1 John 5:3
A RELATIONSHIP is a process or condition that you relate to; you have a bonding link in common with another. The bonding Link itself does not create the RELATIONSHIP but the process of agreement that the LINK exist and your willingness to participate in the commonality that both share!
I bet you never thought of “love” like that!
Whether Brotherly, Affectionate, Romantic, or Family “love”, you share with “the other” and are in agreement and participate in that RELATIONSHIP! Even when you share a negative love or negative bonding link, you can agree to participate in the process of that bonding link and find yourself in a RELATIONSHIP that is no benefit to you.
God The Creator, Elohim relates to all because He is the Creator and the authoritative power of Creation! God created humankind and humankind, whether saved in the Grace of Jesus Christ or not RELATES to GOD by the Breath of HIM that gives LIFE!
Yes, your heart beats, your lungs intake and exhale, and your organs work to maintain your body BUT if the Breath of God does not remain, the very vessel called the human body will cease.
Think about that! Don’t Take for Granted the very Will and Power of GOD that gives you Life each morning you arise! It is only by His Will that you and the world exist!
When you acknowledge God as Creator of you or come into the knowledge of God as Creator, you have now discovered the bonding link of Elohim and humankind.
This is the immeasurable knowledge that you in His creation are more than your birth or this earthly life and now you can have a RELATIONSHIP with God!
A RELATIONSHIP with GOD? What does that look like? It is an ongoing, ever-growing, constant apprehension (attention and understanding) of GOD, serving Him in reverential AWE through obedience as honor and adoration to The One who created you! (READ IT AGAIN!)
In other words, YOU LOVE HIM! And just like you have a desire to be loved and loved in a way that satisfies you…..So does the Creator of ALL! He tells Us HOW to Love HIM that pleases HIM!
Frances Archer
Terebinth Moreh Ministries
Relationships, Only 3 Count! - Part #1
Rain Rain Go Away! This great song we sang as children was full of fun and joy! Even today, as we partake in another day of soggy shoes, carrying umbrellas, and dealing with wet clothes, honestly we may be singing that song deep under our breath.
Scripture References: Genesis 1:1, Revelations 22:3, Psalms 90:1-2, Zechariah 12:1, Isaiah 45, Job 38-42
Rain Rain Go Away! This great song we sang as children was full of fun and joy! Even today, as we partake in another day of soggy shoes, carrying umbrellas, and dealing with wet clothes, honestly we may be singing that song deep under our breath.
In last night’s Bible Study we laid a fundamental foundation to enter into the study of Godly Relationships. This foundation begins and ends with the “Everlasting to Everlasting” God we serve and honor. (Ps 90:1-2)
The Eternal, Forevermore, God who exists outside of time is Elohim, The Creator God! Elohim who is the “One who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth and forms the spirit of mankind within himself” (Zech 12:1)
What does the Eternal Everlasting do? He Creates!!
We were reminded of the Great Wondrous Creator of all things of Heaven and Earth, even mankind. We were reminded through the Book of Job, that God in His All-Knowing, Omnipresent, and All-Powerful attributes, is the intricate, detailed Maker of all!
We forget not only did He create RAIN, but He created it to function in a miraculous way for the benefit of this earth so that it is maintained and sustained for those He created it for. (Is 45:18)
God designed water to function in so many forms that we take for granted, the every detail of what water is able to do. This is the unseen working of The Creator to create, form, and make! Not even to mention the dinosaurs, and sea creatures! (Read your Bible Job is exciting!)
As I look out at the Rain, I thank God that even though I see inconvenience, wet and a slippery day, God knew that THIS DAY required HIS rain on the earth, right here in Vicksburg, Ms. Down to the very notion of how much and why and we trust Elohim, Our Creator God!
Job 38:28-30 Does the rain have a father? Who fathers the drops of dew?From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens? When the waters become hard as stone when the surface of the deep is frozen?
Who are we the questions the Maker of Heaven, Earth, and Us? As Job says, in chapter 42, “I have uttered what I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.”
Be Reminded of the Great and Awesome God who is Creator and there is none like Him! He is the designer of this earth, we take for granted each day, but The Father knows What we have need of!
It’s an Intentional Journey….It’s the Godly Life!