Post by MIRIAM JACOB on Nov 18, 2007 6:05:32 GMT -5
THE COLOSSIAN JEWEL
The revolution is happening. My Spirit is now bringing about the transformation. The transformation of sealed hearts. Hearts that are sealed with the truth of My Word. The truth of who My people are in Me. Wisdom and spiritual understanding is being released upon those who are hungry.
Like baby birds feeding off their mother, the mother regurgitates food, and feeds her young, I am feeding My Church, My heart for them, but only those who are willing to lay down what they have previously held onto (lies and the old life) and believe and receive what I am offering them, will truly receive a jewel from Me. A Jewel that will never break, it will always shine and live in their hearts. A jewel not of this world.
Here Is The Jewel I Believe The Lord Is Speaking About.
The Colossian Jewel
Colossians, 1:9-10, Colossians 2:2-3, 7, 10, 13
What I am including here below, is what I believe the Lord has been speaking to His Church through these verses. I want to make it clear, that I am not adding to these verses, but simply using these verses to highlight the revelation that the Lord gave me. I pray you are as blessed by this Colossian Jewel, as I was.
Let us first take a look at Colossians 1:9-10:
"We ask God to give you complete knowledge of His will and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding. Then the way you live will always honour and please the Lord, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while you will grow as you learn to know God better and better."
God's heart is for His children to know His heart for them more and more. I believe that this revolution that the Lord is speaking about, is a revolution in 'value'. I believe that in this season the Lord is confirming to many within the Church of their value in Him. Uprooting things not of Him, lies and old 'ways' and replacing them with His truth and His precious words of affirmation.
If we look at Colossians 1:9-10 we clearly see the words of Paul, as he asks God to give those at Colossia complete knowledge of His will and spiritual wisdom and understanding.
Note this, as you know God's will, to know Him and make Him known to the world, His passionate desire for all to know what He did at Calvary and deep intimate relationship with Him, and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding, so His heart and continually listening to what the Spirit is saying, and knowing by faith who you and I are IN Him, our value to Him, we will then ALWAYS live a life that honours and pleases the Lord and produce every kind of good fruit.
See the key at the end of verse 10 "all the while you will grow as you learn to know God better and better."
God desires for you to know Him more than you have ever known Him before, and you know what one of the direct results of knowing God better is? It is knowing His undying, extravagant, amazing and wonderful love for you, which as you and I see this more and more, we are then growing deeper into our identity in Him, and the revolution of value within our hearts.
Powerful Christians are those who listen to the Spirit constantly, know the heart of God and maintain deep fellowship with Him, and KNOW WHO THEY ARE in HIM! Because of this, they know their victory, they know their inheritance and they know who God has called them to be.
Moving onto Colossians 2:2-3
"I want them o be encouraged and knit together by strong ties of love. I want them to have complete confidence that they understand God's mysterious plan, which is Christ Himself. In Him lie hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge."
To understand God's mysterious plan is to know God's plan of salvation through Christ and what He did for you at Calvary, and to know Him intimately and spread His Word.
Understanding this plan then leads to seeing that :
Verse 3:
"in Him lie hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge"
This wisdom and knowledge is Christ Himself. If you truly know Jesus and His heart for you, you will hear who He says you are. What your identity is in Him, what He paid for you at Calvary so that you could stand before Him as righteous, as a Saint, and hear those words that truly minister to our hearts. "You are beautiful, you are cherished, you are adored, and you are loved."
God's wisdom and knowledge is so deep it cannot be fathomed by you and me, but as we gaze upon our beautiful Jesus, we see His heart and especially His heart for you and me.
They are 'treasures' because there has never been a love like His given unto you and me. A revolution of value that has ever been seen by anyone, than that found in the very heart of Jesus Christ. A revolution of value that flows straight from His heart, touching ours, and changing our lives.
To know this wisdom and knowledge; to truly know Christ Himself, then leads us to verse 7:
"Let your roots grow down into Him, and let your lives be built on Him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught and you will overflow with thankfulness."
How can your life be built in/on Him if you do not know what He thinks about you? His love for you, who you are in Him, and the revelation that His passionate love for you led Him to Calvary? You simply cannot. Ones roots cannot grow down deep into Him if these seeds mentioned in the above verse are not continually watered and nourished by the presence of His Holy Spirit.
It is when you and I grasp the revelation of His heart, and how treasured we REALLY are, and the REALITY of our inheritance, and the DEPTH of His love and sacrifice, which we can really never know in full, but grow into more and more daily, can we then have 'strong faith' and will we 'grow strong in the truth we were taught.'
What you and I were taught by the Holy Spirit Himself and reliable teachers of the Word. Then as we grow strong in Him and seeing these truths, we will 'overflow with thankfulness.'
As you and I grow deeper in this revolution that the Lord is now ushering forth in deeper ways, our lives will overflow with thankfulness. As each drop of revelation grows, our joy will bubble forth. How can you receive a drop of living water from heaven, and not have the very core of your being screaming out "OH THANK YOU JESUS". As you and I see MORE of who we are in Him, and our value in Him, our hearts and beings will cry out "THANK YOU JESUS" ; overflowing with thankfulness.
We walk this road together, our journey with Christ as His body, verse 10 says:
'So you also are complete through your union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.'
He is the head over every ruler and authority, and as we grow in revelation through intimacy with Him, that in Christ lives all the fullness of God, who lives in you, so the fullness lives in you through Him (Christ) which in itself demonstrates how much Christ loves you and I, to choose to live in His fullness in YOU and I, through His Spirit.
You and I are/were SO loved and SO treasured by Him, that He paid an incredible price so He may live within us by His Spirit and you and I may enjoy deep everlasting intimacy with Him forever.
No one has ever valued you or I that much!!!
By seeing all the fullness of God in Christ living in you and I, we see our lives transformed by His Spirit which concretes the revelation in our hearts that:
Verse 12:
'For you were buried with Christ when you were baptised, and with Him you were raised to new life because you trusted the mighty power of God, who raised Christ from the dead.'
Your old life and my old life and self with all its evil desires and lies told to us about who we are, or what we can or cannot do, died and was washed away so that you and I may:
Verse 12b:
'be raised to new life because you trusted the mighty power of God who raised Christ from the dead.'
Raised To New Life!!!!!! Part of this new life is the revolution of value being released in greater measures NOW!!!
Knowing who you are in Him, your value, the price He paid for you, intimacy.
He has raised you and I in Him, our new life. Revolutionised!! You were raised in who He created you to be. Walking in the fullness of what He paid for you. Are you accessing it? Are you truly seeing yourself as beautiful? That God loves you SO much, that He DELIGHTS over you with singing. Think about that… He is SO ravished by your beauty that He SINGS over you!!!!!
Are you living in the new life that is ALREADY yours?
This new life has consequently made you:
'Then God made you alive with Christ. He forgave all our sins.'
ALIVE!!!
You and I are TRULY alive and you and I should TRULY be living the abundant life. (John 10:10)
Are you truly alive? Are you truly walking in your TRUE value? Or are you still seeing yourself as the 'old' self? Are you still walking in lies people said about you? or woundings? Or are you walking in condemnation? Guilt? Shame? Are you walking a mediocre Christian life VOID of power? Are you walking a life where you are not seeing the Spirit move? If so, then can I suggest, you are living in the 'old way'! You are not living the life of being TRULY alive.
Truly ALIVE is walking in the confidence of who you are in HIM, walking in your VALUE, having your heart sealed by this truth, the revelation of wisdom and knowledge that is JESUS CHRIST. You cannot know Jesus Christ intimately without seeing His heart for you!!!!
Because of what Jesus Christ did for you and I it means that you and I are now living in the TRUE meaning of 'life'. The promises of God, all of them, contained within the Word, you can see them manifested in your life NOW, because they are already yours. Confess them!
Be ALIVE!!!!
The revolution of value is occurring now!!!!
Will you open your mouth like a baby bird and receive the heart of God for who He says you are? Will you leave behind your old life, once and for all, and truly start walking in being truly alive, truly raised with Christ, and truly knowing His heart.
These ones that are accepting this move of the Spirit of a revolution of value, these are the ones that God is going to use greatly to change the world, why? because they are willing, they are available, and they are confident in who God says they are, His extravagant love for them, and they know WHO lives in them.
Jesus Christ, the fullness of God!
The Spirit is crying out:
'Like baby birds feeding off their mother, the mother regurgitates food, and feeds her young, I am feeding My Church, My heart for them, but only those who are willing to lay down what they have previously held onto (lies and the old life) and believe and receive what I am offering them, will truly receive a jewel from Me. A Jewel that will never break, it will always shine and live in their hearts. A jewel not of this world.'
Are you willing? I certainly am!!
(C) LANA VAWSER
The revolution is happening. My Spirit is now bringing about the transformation. The transformation of sealed hearts. Hearts that are sealed with the truth of My Word. The truth of who My people are in Me. Wisdom and spiritual understanding is being released upon those who are hungry.
Like baby birds feeding off their mother, the mother regurgitates food, and feeds her young, I am feeding My Church, My heart for them, but only those who are willing to lay down what they have previously held onto (lies and the old life) and believe and receive what I am offering them, will truly receive a jewel from Me. A Jewel that will never break, it will always shine and live in their hearts. A jewel not of this world.
Here Is The Jewel I Believe The Lord Is Speaking About.
The Colossian Jewel
Colossians, 1:9-10, Colossians 2:2-3, 7, 10, 13
What I am including here below, is what I believe the Lord has been speaking to His Church through these verses. I want to make it clear, that I am not adding to these verses, but simply using these verses to highlight the revelation that the Lord gave me. I pray you are as blessed by this Colossian Jewel, as I was.
Let us first take a look at Colossians 1:9-10:
"We ask God to give you complete knowledge of His will and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding. Then the way you live will always honour and please the Lord, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while you will grow as you learn to know God better and better."
God's heart is for His children to know His heart for them more and more. I believe that this revolution that the Lord is speaking about, is a revolution in 'value'. I believe that in this season the Lord is confirming to many within the Church of their value in Him. Uprooting things not of Him, lies and old 'ways' and replacing them with His truth and His precious words of affirmation.
If we look at Colossians 1:9-10 we clearly see the words of Paul, as he asks God to give those at Colossia complete knowledge of His will and spiritual wisdom and understanding.
Note this, as you know God's will, to know Him and make Him known to the world, His passionate desire for all to know what He did at Calvary and deep intimate relationship with Him, and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding, so His heart and continually listening to what the Spirit is saying, and knowing by faith who you and I are IN Him, our value to Him, we will then ALWAYS live a life that honours and pleases the Lord and produce every kind of good fruit.
See the key at the end of verse 10 "all the while you will grow as you learn to know God better and better."
God desires for you to know Him more than you have ever known Him before, and you know what one of the direct results of knowing God better is? It is knowing His undying, extravagant, amazing and wonderful love for you, which as you and I see this more and more, we are then growing deeper into our identity in Him, and the revolution of value within our hearts.
Powerful Christians are those who listen to the Spirit constantly, know the heart of God and maintain deep fellowship with Him, and KNOW WHO THEY ARE in HIM! Because of this, they know their victory, they know their inheritance and they know who God has called them to be.
Moving onto Colossians 2:2-3
"I want them o be encouraged and knit together by strong ties of love. I want them to have complete confidence that they understand God's mysterious plan, which is Christ Himself. In Him lie hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge."
To understand God's mysterious plan is to know God's plan of salvation through Christ and what He did for you at Calvary, and to know Him intimately and spread His Word.
Understanding this plan then leads to seeing that :
Verse 3:
"in Him lie hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge"
This wisdom and knowledge is Christ Himself. If you truly know Jesus and His heart for you, you will hear who He says you are. What your identity is in Him, what He paid for you at Calvary so that you could stand before Him as righteous, as a Saint, and hear those words that truly minister to our hearts. "You are beautiful, you are cherished, you are adored, and you are loved."
God's wisdom and knowledge is so deep it cannot be fathomed by you and me, but as we gaze upon our beautiful Jesus, we see His heart and especially His heart for you and me.
They are 'treasures' because there has never been a love like His given unto you and me. A revolution of value that has ever been seen by anyone, than that found in the very heart of Jesus Christ. A revolution of value that flows straight from His heart, touching ours, and changing our lives.
To know this wisdom and knowledge; to truly know Christ Himself, then leads us to verse 7:
"Let your roots grow down into Him, and let your lives be built on Him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught and you will overflow with thankfulness."
How can your life be built in/on Him if you do not know what He thinks about you? His love for you, who you are in Him, and the revelation that His passionate love for you led Him to Calvary? You simply cannot. Ones roots cannot grow down deep into Him if these seeds mentioned in the above verse are not continually watered and nourished by the presence of His Holy Spirit.
It is when you and I grasp the revelation of His heart, and how treasured we REALLY are, and the REALITY of our inheritance, and the DEPTH of His love and sacrifice, which we can really never know in full, but grow into more and more daily, can we then have 'strong faith' and will we 'grow strong in the truth we were taught.'
What you and I were taught by the Holy Spirit Himself and reliable teachers of the Word. Then as we grow strong in Him and seeing these truths, we will 'overflow with thankfulness.'
As you and I grow deeper in this revolution that the Lord is now ushering forth in deeper ways, our lives will overflow with thankfulness. As each drop of revelation grows, our joy will bubble forth. How can you receive a drop of living water from heaven, and not have the very core of your being screaming out "OH THANK YOU JESUS". As you and I see MORE of who we are in Him, and our value in Him, our hearts and beings will cry out "THANK YOU JESUS" ; overflowing with thankfulness.
We walk this road together, our journey with Christ as His body, verse 10 says:
'So you also are complete through your union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.'
He is the head over every ruler and authority, and as we grow in revelation through intimacy with Him, that in Christ lives all the fullness of God, who lives in you, so the fullness lives in you through Him (Christ) which in itself demonstrates how much Christ loves you and I, to choose to live in His fullness in YOU and I, through His Spirit.
You and I are/were SO loved and SO treasured by Him, that He paid an incredible price so He may live within us by His Spirit and you and I may enjoy deep everlasting intimacy with Him forever.
No one has ever valued you or I that much!!!
By seeing all the fullness of God in Christ living in you and I, we see our lives transformed by His Spirit which concretes the revelation in our hearts that:
Verse 12:
'For you were buried with Christ when you were baptised, and with Him you were raised to new life because you trusted the mighty power of God, who raised Christ from the dead.'
Your old life and my old life and self with all its evil desires and lies told to us about who we are, or what we can or cannot do, died and was washed away so that you and I may:
Verse 12b:
'be raised to new life because you trusted the mighty power of God who raised Christ from the dead.'
Raised To New Life!!!!!! Part of this new life is the revolution of value being released in greater measures NOW!!!
Knowing who you are in Him, your value, the price He paid for you, intimacy.
He has raised you and I in Him, our new life. Revolutionised!! You were raised in who He created you to be. Walking in the fullness of what He paid for you. Are you accessing it? Are you truly seeing yourself as beautiful? That God loves you SO much, that He DELIGHTS over you with singing. Think about that… He is SO ravished by your beauty that He SINGS over you!!!!!
Are you living in the new life that is ALREADY yours?
This new life has consequently made you:
'Then God made you alive with Christ. He forgave all our sins.'
ALIVE!!!
You and I are TRULY alive and you and I should TRULY be living the abundant life. (John 10:10)
Are you truly alive? Are you truly walking in your TRUE value? Or are you still seeing yourself as the 'old' self? Are you still walking in lies people said about you? or woundings? Or are you walking in condemnation? Guilt? Shame? Are you walking a mediocre Christian life VOID of power? Are you walking a life where you are not seeing the Spirit move? If so, then can I suggest, you are living in the 'old way'! You are not living the life of being TRULY alive.
Truly ALIVE is walking in the confidence of who you are in HIM, walking in your VALUE, having your heart sealed by this truth, the revelation of wisdom and knowledge that is JESUS CHRIST. You cannot know Jesus Christ intimately without seeing His heart for you!!!!
Because of what Jesus Christ did for you and I it means that you and I are now living in the TRUE meaning of 'life'. The promises of God, all of them, contained within the Word, you can see them manifested in your life NOW, because they are already yours. Confess them!
Be ALIVE!!!!
The revolution of value is occurring now!!!!
Will you open your mouth like a baby bird and receive the heart of God for who He says you are? Will you leave behind your old life, once and for all, and truly start walking in being truly alive, truly raised with Christ, and truly knowing His heart.
These ones that are accepting this move of the Spirit of a revolution of value, these are the ones that God is going to use greatly to change the world, why? because they are willing, they are available, and they are confident in who God says they are, His extravagant love for them, and they know WHO lives in them.
Jesus Christ, the fullness of God!
The Spirit is crying out:
'Like baby birds feeding off their mother, the mother regurgitates food, and feeds her young, I am feeding My Church, My heart for them, but only those who are willing to lay down what they have previously held onto (lies and the old life) and believe and receive what I am offering them, will truly receive a jewel from Me. A Jewel that will never break, it will always shine and live in their hearts. A jewel not of this world.'
Are you willing? I certainly am!!
(C) LANA VAWSER