Friday, October 2, 2015

Walk in love. 10/2/15

Day 273- Reading the New Testament in one year.

Ephesians 5:1-16

Walk in Love

5 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. 2 And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

3 But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. 4 Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. 5 For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. 7 Therefore do not become partners with them; 8 for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), 10 and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. 11 Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret. 13 But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible, 14 for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says,

“Awake, O sleeper,

    and arise from the dead,

and Christ will shine on you.”

15 Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, 16 making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

Allow God to pass through you October 2nd

“And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.” REVELATION 22:1

In spending time with the Lord, in order to merge with the prayer of God, we need to learn to allow God Himself to pass through us. This is fundamental in our fellowship with the Lord. It implies an opening of our entire being to God for Him to flow and pass through us. In the Bible, God is described as a flow. So the nature of our fellowship with Him must be like a flow of “living water” (John 4:10). The Triune God is a flow. Jesus declared in John 7:38-39, 38 “He who believes into Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his innermostbeingwillflowriversoflivingwater.39 ButthisHespoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive.” These verses make it clear that to know God is to know Him as a flow.

When we spend time with the Lord, our one need is simply to allow ourselves to be a channel for the Triune God to pass through us. What a vision of prayer! Spending time with the Lord is a release of our spirit whereby we consciously merge with God and allow Him to pass through us. God is a flow. He wants to flow Himself out into our hearts. It is this flow that the apostle Paul describes in Galatians 4:6: “And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, Abba, Father!” Experiencing the reality of this flow is directly related to our merging with it by the active exercise of our spirit. The sister verse to Galatians 4:6 is Romans 8:15, which shows us the need to cooperate with this flow by opening our mouth to contact God: “For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of sonship in which we cry out, Abba! Father!” (NASV). It is in this cry that God bears witness by flowing in us. The Spirit Himself bears witness with our crying spirit (Rom. 8:16).

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