“Having God’s life is to have a life
that always just instinctively lives for the benefit of others, never for
itself,” says Jordan.
“Simplicity is truth’s most becoming
garb; it doesn’t have to get all complicated. Every time Paul talks about an
inheritance, he never puts an ‘s’ on that word one time. As far as Paul’s
concerned there’s only one inheritance. That one inheritance is distributed
based upon the capacity; there’s what he calls ‘the reward of the inheritance.’
“The issue of reigning with Christ is
not the elitist, political reigning that you’re so familiar with; like what
Jesus talks about in Mark 10 where you reign like the Gentiles, just having
power and being in control and being boss.
“Colossians 1:9 says, ‘For this cause
we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire
that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and
spiritual understanding.’
“Look at Colossians 2:2: ‘That their
hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of
the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of
God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
[3] In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
[3] In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
*****
“One of the most powerful things
you’ll ever do in relationships with other people is you look at them and say,
and I deal with this in marriage and inter-personal conflicts all of the time,
‘They’re 95 % wrong and I’m 5% wrong.’
“Let’s say that’s true. If you say to
them, ‘You know, friend, I’ve been wrong and I’m sorry,’ you may only be
confessing 5% of it in your mind, and they’re guilty of the rest, but that’s
them and this is you and you know what, that is such a powerful thing in
relationships.
“You say, ‘How can I do that?’ ‘Who is
he that condemneth? It’s Christ that died.’ If He doesn’t condemn you, what
matters if anybody else does? Can I say to you God is for you.
“In verse 26, Paul says, ‘Likewise the
Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as
we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which
cannot be uttered.’
“An infirmity is somewhere where you
have a weakness. In my mind, the weakness in this verse is defined for you. ‘Likewise
the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray
for as we ought.’
“The ultimate weakness you have in
life is you really don’t know how you ought to pray.
“He never says buy that car, marry
that person. He’ll say, ‘Don’t marry that one,’ but He never says, ‘Marry that
one.’ Isn’t that interesting? God expects you to make some of those choices. He
expects you to work with Him; take His word and let it work in you to make some
choices and some decisions.
*****
“I was raised in a religious system
where every time you did anything you were happy about you figured it was your
flesh because you couldn’t be happy. That’s flesh. I remember reading that
verse in I Timothy 6 about how ‘God’s given us all things richly to enjoy,’ and
I used to puzzle over that and think, ‘If He’s given us all things richly to
enjoy, then why do I have to be miserable all of the time to be pleasing to
Him?’
“Then it dawned on me one day that I
didn’t have to be. I could have some joy that had nothing to do with it being
attached to my flesh.
“The Spirit of God takes His Word and
makes intercession. He’s for you. You’re not left abandoned. God’s for you.”
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