On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 01:20:36 GMT, Christine <Christine@John3:16.calm>
wrote:
>
>This was a letter given to Christians, a letter to peoples who know of
>God and know of His great graces and blessings and respond through
>faith and obedience ....( as I have been blessed and understand and
>responded through faith)---a gift He gave me unmerited through His
>blessing)
>
>
>
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>That most difficult of obstacles
> preaching the Cross of Christ
>is the very heart of God
>
>do you understand it?
>
>Are you sure?
>
>Holy men, the Dali Lama the Buddha fell short of it,
>
>you do not remove the veil by calling it a veil.
>
>* Laughter*
> much joy!!
>
>
>Abraham with all the blessings and promises did not see it know it.
>
>It is your most blessed holy gift, have you come to the end of your
>understanding?
>
> this is the place of the cross
> the very heart of God our Father
> most Holy most adorable most magnificent God our Father
>
>Have you said, ( and if not give God permission) God most Holy Father
>let me follow Jesus to the very end of my understanding
>
> break my heart
> break my mind
> break my very soul
>
>give it and let Him break it, do you understand?
>
>
>Say:
>with all my strength I give this to You in faith and love
> to understand Faith and Love
>
>give me the prize this hungry heart seeks
> to know the very heart of God
>let me not rest until it is done
> and when it is done
>let me cry *MORE* MORE* MORE*!!!!
>
>Paradoxes to resolve:
>
> God has cast the worm
> to understand His very nature
> to turn into the butterfly
> by destroying the worm
>
>*Ask* seek* knock*
>
> Give God the promise of giving Him all of you
>
>*Laughter* joy*
>
>oh my body sings!!
>
>
>Paradox:
>
>--look at the two commandments, all the prophets and the Law hang on
>these two----all of them
>
>we think so often we are holy and are warning others out of love
>because we are more holy. The one you are warning is your very
>neighbor!! Resolve it by asking God if He will take it from you first
>before you answer with warning.
>
>*laughter* *joy*
>
>Listen to my joy, hear my joy..
> oh hear from the heart broken and peirced so gratefully by God
>
>this worm that He cares enough to shake and shake and turn and turn
>to butterfly---one lowly worm!!!!!
>
>
>the fine silk once woven as spider web to trap the worm has become the
>nest a place of rest for transformation, where wings will be
>wraught!!!
>
>Oh hear my joy!!!
> Hear my, feel my joy unspeakable!!!!
>
>it is no burden
> ask yourself before you respond to anyone, make this oath to
>God, God I love You with all my heart and soul and mind and strength
>with all that I am and all that I will be
>
>then answer, do not run away, but answer, answer
>
>if you do not ask you do not see the test and paradox, the very center
>of the mystery, you do what you do and it is the goat and not the lamb
>that goes to the cross.
>
>
> let Him break you and fill You with all that He is
>
>Oh hear my joy, hear my joy!!
>
>share my joy share my joy, please if any prayer be done
> only this Oh Father let them share my unspeakable
>breathtaking joy!!!
>
>paradox: obedience to Him and love of man
> Holiness and Love
>
>Abraham was faithful to God as were his children
>
>He knew and received His blessings
>He knew God loved Him
> He knew and recieved His Blessings
>and his greatest offering back to God was faith
>
>
>What is the New Covenant, what is it truly?
>
>How are you different from Abraham?
>
> I had to ask this question
>
>For I had received God's blessing touched by His grace unmerited by
>me, I had received faith in Jesus Christ my Savior and Lord -received
>the knwoledge of His Love before I could ever truly love HIm
>
>but after all what is a worm touched by grace except a very grateful
>worm, an exceeedingly grateful worm?
>
>God's purpose is to make each and every one of You He has touched , me
>included into the butterfly, more so much more in mind than the
>grateful worm.....
>
>so much more oh feel my joy!!!
>
>
>Have you asked, how is your relationship to God different from
>Abraham, believing in faith and obedience because of HIs faithfulness?
>
>
>The paradox:
>
>that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
>
> yet God also says:
>
>
>
>So if He does not want that from us, why did He give that to us?
>
>Covenant is an oath between two, it is a hard road resolving these
>paradoxes, but the treasure is discovering the very heart of God, and
>that is the prize,
>
> above all prizes.
> hear me above all prizes
>
>
>The paradox: Jesus Christ, fully human and fully God
>
>has the paradox touched you yet?
>
>Follow Jesus all the way through everything, come to the very end of
>your own understanding, the very end---where heart and mind and soul
>and strength is BROKEN and give it to God and never give up and never
>give up and never give up.
>
>Oh please hear me sing, never ever give up
>
> Oh please hear my cry get up and try
>
>Doctrine does not answer the questions of the mystery.
>
>The heart sings the answer of its joy unspeakable, the glorious
>majesty of God's answer to the world.
>
>The greatest blessing I could ever give you is to agitate you into a
>great hunger ,not feed you, for it is God Himself who fills the heart.
>
>
>But I want you to know., I want every single one of you to know, and
>still I say how oh how Lord can there be even more than this?
>
>From the very first I wondered, when given the gift of faith
> How can there possibly be more?
>
> and I offer Him my hungry heart crying out
>
>*MORE* MORE* MORE* !!!!
>
>*Laughter* Laughter and joy*
> there is unbelievably more
> and somehow there will yet be more
>(helplessly agog)
>
>
>not that I could not die today and be in eternal bliss, but to know
>and I can't even comprehend that there is MORE, MORE MORE in heaven.
>
>the goal of your faith is salvation. The goal. Remember that tand
>look back at Abraham,ask what is different between you who have
>received uunmerited blessings and abraham---who followed to the point
>of sacrifing his very own son.
>
>*ask seek knock*
>
>May God bless you and keep you precious lambs and above all give you
>the heart that hungers to know the answer to the heart of God through
>all these paradoxes.
>
>Amen and amen and amen.
>
>Thank you most glorious Father through the gift of Your Son, Jesus
>Christ, forever and ever.
>
>Oh my heart sings with every beat thank You!
>
>Christine
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