NOT LOST IN THE LAND OF THE LOST...

EACH of those OF *GOD* are on a journey; one which is riddled with all sorts of challenges, affecting the entire being---

All of which PRODUCES in us, growth, development, and absolute CLOSENESS TO OUR LORD!!!

Of course it is difficult, we are NOT in our TRUE realm! Instead, we are navigating a realm unnatural to our inner-most TRUTH! We are dealing with an enormous amount which does NOT make a lot of sense to our deeper heart! We are positioned against that which intends to keep us chained to this realm, and no matter our understanding, our limits of mind, and emotions, cause us to be perplexed! We are raised in ways NOT of TRUTH, and when we REALIZE this, we have many layers of both deception, and wrong-mindedness to move through, and to cast aside!!!

We CAN'T make it through on our own! We NEED THE LORD *GOD*, and HIS every good GIFT, that we are enabled, enriched, endowed, enlightened, empowered, encouraged, and enarmoured to do so! It IS through RELIANCE on HIM, which is made of LOVE, FAITH, TRUST, BELIEF, HOPE, PEACE, and SO much more; all inter-related to the other, all leading back to the basic FAITH that HE SHALL lead us, teach us, provide for us, and protect us!!!

AND, we can't expect HIM to manifest HIS POWERS through us, in us, and around us, IF we are NOT fully involved in the process! We CANNOT expect it all to reside upon HIM, for we are CO-PARTNERS with HIS WILL, PLAN, and WAY...

This IS all for our sakes, and of course, HIS GLORY, therefore, since much of HIS GLORY is INVESTED in US, it is only right that we SHARE in HIS PLAN! Just as a Parent cannot raise a Child without cooperation, or a boss cannot run a business without employees, our role IS crucial to HIS WILL! I can't get over how many think that it all is in HIS hands, which is basic to HIS POWERS, but not to THE COVENANT, or Salvation! IF WE ARE ONE WITH HIM, we ARE ONE WITH THE KINGDOM, WHICH IS THE KINGDOM OF HOLY RIGHTEOUSNESS; NEVER in THE KINGDOM will there be more of what we see in this realm, for it is NOT of it!!!

WE are the salt of the Earth; the REFLECTIONS of THE LORD, CHRIST JESUS; the good, and healthy fruits of THE VINE; the BODY of THE CHURCH! HOW then, do we not have a role???

It ISN'T about guilt, though surely we are guilty; we are NOT defeated by this guilt which enmity uses against us (during transgression enmity will support it, afterwards using it to taunt us with), NO!, we are OVERTAKEN BY THE LORD'S LOVE! IT IS ALL ABOUT LOVE, and the POWERS therein; which HEAL, RESTORE, REGENERATE, REJUVENATE, REPLENISH, and BUILD UPON HE WHO IS LOVE, *GOD* ALMIGHTY; THE SOVEREIGN LORD, KING, and SAVIOUR! WHEN we LOVE HIM, we are WILLING to PLEASE HIM, or better yet, to STEP INTO ALL HE WILLS, for we TRUST HIS WISDOM, INTELLIGENCE, and PLANS for our sakes!!!

Our role, in part, BRINGS others TO HIM whom BELONG TO HIM, but are lost in this challenging realm! We couldn't guide others unless we EMULATED HIM! We can't emulate HIM unless we are ONE WITH HIM, and in ALLEGIANCE WITH HIM, attuned, and informed OF HIS WILL, and then utilizing what is OF HIS WILL! Therefore, SINCE we are in process of stripping off the layers of the veil which KEPT us from HIM, effort IS intrinsic TO our role!!!

It is not possible to feign our emulation of HIM; such SHOWS in various ways, and is incomplete because THE HEART is not secured to the thoughts, actions, and reactions! YES, there ARE a lot of those feigning, which includes the enemies OF *GOD*, but such IS ALWAYS evidenced, and fruitless! Therefore, to imagine that it is alright to merely proclaim one's right to THE KINGDOM is but lip service, it is empty, it is fruitless! So we SEE that there IS work involved IN THE BODY of THE CHURCH, because we are NOT like the pews of a Church, instead we ARE as THE SPIRIT OF THE CHURCH, being goodness, doing good, and bringing good unto the lost world, IN HIS NAME, FOR HIS GLORY, and the building UP of what IS HIS!!!

HE HAS SAID that we ARE a peculiar people, CALLED INTO A HOLY PRIESTHOOD, and that we SHOULD BE HOLY AS HE IS HOLY! Do we NOT understand this? HOLINESS, FOR the people OF *GOD*, IS NATURAL to them, to the TRUTH of their existence, the soul! We, HIS people, are NOT of flesh, we KNOW we ARE spirit, hence, we exist FOR the soul's TRUE destination, NOT the body, which is wasting away, and will be done away with! While we are in this realm, the body is with us, HOWEVER, it is the soul which we seek, THROUGH HIM, to free from what the enemy intends to do with it, which is to captivate, capture, and chain it to eternal destruction! THANKS BE TO THE LORD *GOD*, HIS Children WHOM KNOW HIM, and HIS WILL, have advantage OVER this cunning enemy! BUT this takes ADHERENCE TO THE LORD, HIS WILL, HIS WAY, HIS WORD, and a SINCERE FOLLOWING OF HIS MODEL, CHRIST JESUS, WHOM LEADS us along THE WAY!!!

Temptation, err, and other obstacles ARE there, and we might struggle particularly hard with some, YET, we are NO longer slave to them, MEANING we DON'T ALLOW them to overcome us; INSTEAD, we work through them WITH the aid of THE LORD, and THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHILE PRAYING, and seeking freedom from them, such is our HOPE! We MAY stumble, we might fall, but we get right back into step with THE LORD, and refuse to wallow in what is working against us! We negate the negative BY REMAINING IN THE TRUE POSITIVE, THE LORD, and HIS WILL, AS we learn more THROUGH HIM, HIS WORD, HIS WILL, HIS SPIRIT! We REACH beyond what intends to stop us!!!

We are not left alone, nor can we do much to advance, without THE LORD, for HE, EXCLUSIVELY, holds ALL necessary to managing this plane! What the enemy uses to dissuade us, has NO real power IF we are STRONG in THE LORD, and HIS WILL; we ARE equipped BY THE MOST HIGH *GOD* TO resist, and to be victorious, though we MUST REMAIN IN HIM that we are intact despite being shaken, or tossed about by the enemy! This we do through studying HIM, deeply, PRAYER, FAITH, and FAITHFULNESS, as WHEN our beings are occupied with *GOD*, there isn't much room for anything else! It is when we move a bit away from HIM that we are vulnerable to enmity!!!

CONTROL of the mind, and the emotions IS part, and parcel to our walk with *GOD*, for when it falters, we encounter the very things which WILL snatch us up, deceive us, confuse us, and worse! When the mind, and the emotions are CONTROLLED by what is right, just, and good, the entire being is on safer grounds! Don't you know that the mind, and the emotions are what scream to be satiated? And so, to DEVELOP self-control IS crucial, and safety FOR the being, and IS PLEASING TO THE LORD!!!

Many people count, heavily, on others to expiate their errs, their sins, and in doing so, they allow themselves the right to indulge the being in what is wrong! Can't anyone see the trap in this? Really, think about this! While *GOD* HAS given certain ones the power to forgive errs, and sins, it was NOT intended to be used so that we might take advantage of this, and continue in err, INSTEAD, it was established for those times when we were unable to resist, or ignorant, and so forth! NEVER was it to be a front for what WE want to do!!!

THE WILL OF *GOD* OVER our will IS the decisive indicator of TRUTH! HIS WILL IS, and SHALL BE, while ours proves our allegiance! HIS WILL OUGHT to be the CENTER of our will, for ONLY IN HIS WILL are we safe, and able to flourish!!!

People fail *GOD*, and their souls when they WANT what is of this world MORE than HIM! When we cry, and whine because we want to delve into the ways of the world, we are weakening our very beings! When we BELIEVE that we can't resist what is calling out to us from the world, then that is what will happen! When we BELIEVE that we CAN resist, then we WILL! The mind DOES trip us up, in which case, the emotions, and the body follow closely, and we CAN convince ourselves to the point of total weakness, HOWEVER, it IS just as likely that we convince ourselves TO RESIST, and TO OVERCOME!!!

Free will is a snare IF it is NOT aligned to *GOD*! Free will IS what brought sin into the world, and the consequences thereof! BECAUSE free will WANTS to believe it is justified in it's desires to experience all of this world, even when it leaves us face down in regret, dismay, sorrow, and worse! Free will IS a tool of the evil one, as he KNOWS it is where many of our weaknesses lie, after all, he too, succumbed to free will, and rebelled against THE LORD *GOD*, for which he IS slated to suffer eternally, and through which he aspires to take as many of us into this eternal suffering as is feasible, just to prove his point that we are NOT able to CONTROL it! THANKS BE TO *GOD* WHO TEACHES us, and HAS EXEMPLIFIED the abilities, and capacities to disprove the enemy!!!

REV. LWINSOR © 2015