Jenelsie's Corner (#233)

My Grace and Truth Family,

Do you ever find yourself enumerating “things” to the Lord—your job evaluation, your car note, your parent, your bank account?  You might even name your troubles on your fingers just to let the Lord know that you are serious and specific about your prayer, as I have done before.

Then the Holy Ghost brings Job to mind.  Which one of us has experienced more woes and calamities than he?  HE goes on to list just a few of the circumstances that Paul found himself walking through, more than we can fathom.  Eventually the question comes, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?  Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?”  HE assuredly answers, “No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through HIM who loves us.”

When we are counting “things” which are happening, “things” do not separate us from our FATHER’S LOVE which is in CHRIST JESUS our LORD!  Hallelujah!

Your sister,

Jenelsie

Pastor’s wife

Who Are You: Part 2

In our last post we shared how the Caterpillar, in Alice in Wonderland, challenged Alice with that question. But we we didn't point out the smug, self-absorbed, pompous, highminded attitude that the Caterpillar exhibited; when he said to Alice: “Whoo – Are – Youuu?”

It puts me in the mind of “the great dragon ...that old serpent; called the Devil, and Satan, (aka) the tempter” who so arrogantly challenged our Lord Jesus, in the wilderness; saying: “If thou be the Son of God ...” prove it; until Jesus dispatched him, saying: “Get thee hence, Satan:” [Rev 12:9; Matt 4:1-11]

When you know who (and whose) you are, you will be quickened to be able to resist the Devil, and every lying tongue that rises up against you, and hold fast to the profession of your faith. [Jas 4:7; Isa 54:17; Heb 10:23]

We heard the Spirit say, in the sanctuary: “If you don't know who Jesus is, you won't know who you are.” [Pastor]

Your identity is “Christ in you, the hope of glory;” and we must decrease, while He must increase.

[Col 1:27; Jn 3:30]

ThenSingsMySoul:

YOU ARE THE LORD, MY GOD.

YOU DWELL WITHIN MY HEART;

YOU HAVE CALLED ME AS YOUR SON!

(GTFI's heart cry, til He comes)

Who Are You?

Reflections on “Identity Theft Among The Household Of Faith;” a word, out from the kingdom, ministered to the body of Grace and Truth.

When confronted by the Caterpillar, in Alice in Wonderland, Alice was asked that question; to which she replied “I hardly know, sir, just at present – at least I knew who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been 'changed' several times since then.”

Changed, indeed. It is written: “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are 'changed' into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” [2 Cor 3:18]

We are 'changed,' such that: “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; YET NOT I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me.” [Gal 2:20]

In the sanctuary, we sing: I'M NOT MY OWN, I BELONG TO JESUS. HE PURCHASED ME; I'M ALL HIS. BOUGHT WITH A PRICE; THE BLOOD OF JESUS. I'M NOT MY OWN, I BELONG TO HIM.

Do you know who you are?

ThenSingsMySoul:

IF YE THEN BE RISEN WITH CHRIST, SEEK THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE ABOVE; WHERE CHRIST SITTETH AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD.

SET YOUR AFFECTIONS ON THINGS ABOVE, NOT ON THINGS OF THE EARTH; FOR YE ARE DEAD, AND YOUR LIFE IS HID IN CHRIST, IN GOD.

[Col 3:1-3]

Jenelsie's Corner (#232)....

Dear Grace and Truth Family,

I was hearing the work of the Holy Ghost as our pastor cried out to our Father on Wednesday.  Words were uttered which literally buried us with Christ, our old man being crucified with HIM, in order that our body, which is the instrument of sin, might not serve sin.  The Holy Ghost called out sin that so easily besets us; He rebuke our laziness and lackadaisical responses and attitudes with HIM.  We were reproved for “high mindedness” and “acting” like we know more about HIM and HIS way than HE does.  The Holy Ghost “threw down” vain understandings of “holiness”.

What a mighty Father God!  HE has given us the Holy Ghost to help us in our infirmity because we don’t know how to pray as we ought.  The Spirit Himself made intercession for us with “groaning” to HIM by the voice of our pastor.  We have found ourselves too weak and even unlearned to make the utterances which we have desired.  HE gave meaning to what Paul said, “For I delight in the law of GOD after the inward man.”

This season of prayer is ordained for us.  Our LORD knows what we need.  Come Wednesday and let us all receive from this “time” of sanctification unto HIM.

Hallelujah!

Love in Christ Jesus,

Sister Jenelsie

Pastor’s wife