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Written by Senior Pastor Judy Sky
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Saturday, 01 September 2007 11:48 |
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CHAPTER FIVE - THE POWER OF YIELDING
(Continued from Chapter 4)
No man has greater love (God is Love, and Love is the greatest of all The Powers) than this: that he would lay down (yield) his life for another. (John 15:13  ) And God so loved the world that He gave (yielded) the life of His precious son Jesus to become His sent Seed. Jesus, The Christ, is the kernel that went into our earthen vessel (ground).
Jesus Christ was the sperm of God -Strongs #4690 sperma (sper'‑mah); something sown, i.e. seed (including the male "sperm"); by implication, offspring; specifically, a remnant (figuratively, as if kept over for planting): KJV‑‑ issue, seed.
(1 John 3:9 ) No one born (begotten) of God (deliberately, knowingly, and habitually) practices sin, for Gods nature abides in him- His principle of life, the divine sperm, remains permanently within him- and he cannot practice sinning because he is born (begotten) of God. (Amplified)
The sperm of God was sent from heaven that we all might have the opportunity to receive this INCORRUPTIBLE SEED in our hearts (which functions as the womb), to conceive and to become partakers of The Divine Nature. We are able to respond to this high call by accepting Him and allowing Him to be (informed) formed in us. The apostle Paul travails for us till Christ be formed in us. (Galatians 4:19 ) Indeed, that Seed contains the Divine Nature that is The Light in the core of our beings that displaces the dark and carnal human spirit. We reckon that old nature dead. We agree with the end of its reign and accept the cross of Christ to be its end.
The Power of Yielding enables us to give up our separate individual life to Become One with Him... One with Him we can say It is finished... Father, I commit my spirit unto you. We become one with Him in His death and therefore one with Him in His life. We become One with Him... period. We say we are born again, but it is His Lovely Nature that is born again in us. The world sees us, but in the unseen realm, I know, it is no longer I who lives, but Christ who lives in me.
We had a human spirit that was born of the corruptible and carnal nature... the Adamic nature. We wont bandage that up, but we will reckon it dead. Anyone who is in Christ is a new creature. Old things are passed away. Behold! All things are become new! (2 Cor 5:17 )
Paul says, in Romans 7:15 , For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. (NKJ)
We need to realize that we humans are vessels made to contain power. If I am crucified with Christ, it is no longer I but Christ who lives in me, (and far less often quoted) ...and if I sin, it is no longer I but sin that dwells in my members. In the supernatural realm, it seems that one way or the other, the bottom line is it is no longer I. We could say I am the container, not the power that moves or drives me. We are not the power, but one way or another we do yield to the powers that be. We have and we are something they want. Good and evil, both battle for permission to manifest themselves in your soul and your body. Both want to do their work and live their life in and through you.
I reiterate: We have the power to choose who we will yield our self over to in each present second. We have the power to let, to set, to resist, to submit, to choose and to yield and we do it every day, all day long. Our life, as it is, is proof of what we have been yielding our selves over to. Think of all those who have influenced and shaped your life. What were they yielded to as they made their strong impressions on you? Did they realize they could choose? Did they choose? Or did they passively yield to whatever came down the bloodlines to them or follow whomever it was that modeled their roles and functions for them? Did they do whatever they felt like doing? What effect did that have on your life? The power we yield over to not only has an effect on us, but on all those around us. We are teaching those around us and the generations after us, who they are and what life is all about, all the time by whatever nature we allow to manifest in us and through us. What is the message you are giving to those around you?
I want you to wake up and realize while there is still time to do something about it, that you can choose! You can change! You can yield yourself over to the nature of Love, Light and Truth. You can become one with God in your actions and words and not just in your desires and will. Get the Nature of God out of the package! Begin now to express Real Love.
Ask yourself in every situation, "What is the loving thing to do?" "What would it look like and sound like now for God to have His Perfect Way in and through me in this situation?" Dont be afraid, this is The Perfect Love that casts out all fear! Perfect Love is not concerned about what could happen to me? Perfect Love is out to apprehend the cross in order to love another. Perfect Love is so rich with the Nature and Spirit and Life of God that it is only concerned about how it can get this great love to those around them, and especially those who are hurting. Hurting people hurt people, you know, so if you have someone in your life that has hurt you, you know they must be miserable. Maybe they are stuck and havent yet heard and believed the good news that you know... that you can choose to yield to The Presence of God in every situation and begin to really love your self, too. You wont be able to help it, you will love being you when you are yielded to Him and allowing Him to actually express Himself in you and through you. Life becomes a joy. His yoke is easy and His burden is Light.
Now is the time for transformation. This present second you can stop the abuse and break the fall. Dig in your fingers and your toes and break the force of gravity that has traveled down your bloodlines and through your relationships to bring you down. There is a fabulous ascension life available to you right now... choose Life.
Stop the power of all the defective modeling you experienced and begin to model your self after the image and nature of God. Sever your threads of identification with the natural realm and your carnal inheritance, and reckon yourself dead! Accept THE WORD OF GOD which is the only truth about you. It gives you a clean slate and His loving nature, if you will choose to yield to that rather than your old familiar behavior patterns and habits, and the old familiar spirits behind them. He has shown you what to think, say, and do to overcome it all. Break the power of habit by yielding for one whole ongoing second at a time to the presence of God in you, who will express Himself also as you in this world. (1 Jn 4:17 )
Here and now in this present second you can be the one who will stop the ongoing barrage of The Pit to sabotage and destroy your life! You are the vessel that will be the one who will stop the strife, the unforgiveness, the bitterness, the resentment, and the wounding in your relationships and in your home. You are chosen, you will choose Life, and you will choose Love. You are the one who will be first to humble your self and ask for forgiveness, to seek to understand rather than to be understood. You will be the opportunist that will reap the magnificent reward of yielding your end of the power struggle over to The Nature of God which is Real Love. Imagine all this as your personal reality, and then seize the opportunity! Watch for and look for and take advantage of every opportunity to commit Real Love by yielding your life, your mind, your mouth, your heart, and your hands over to Him who is Lovely, Merciful, Gentle, and Kind. Go and speak a soft word; reach into your pocket and give your heart to the one suffering with lack. Go touch someone who needs to know that there is One who cares. Love them with His love, with unconditional love, with real love. You are rich with it if He abides in you. It is the transforming substance and experience that will change a life. This love is without reason and cannot be earned or deserved. Only God has this power of real love.
2 Cor 5:19 To wit, that God was in Christ, (and Christ is in you, the Hope of Glory) reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. (KJV) (Parentheses mine)
You are the one who will break the ice; the one who will become a part of the answer instead of a part of the problem in that persons life that you struggle with. You will be the one who will allow God to use you for His Kindness and Mercy to touch them, bless them, relieve their pressure, and lift their burden. You can yield to His nature and allow Him to be glorified in you and through you although no one else may know of the great death it is costing you to love in this situation. There is no other nature worthy for us to yield over our life.
No longer let His Life be hidden so well in you. Your most difficult situations will become your greatest proof of His breaking forth in you. To yield to His Nature is to die to self, or to your own selfish nature.
Col 3:2‑4 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. (NKJ) (One with Him in glory!)
Eph 2:4 ‑7 But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
That in the ages to come He might shew the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. (KJV)
Get the picture? We yield our little Barbie Doll minuscule lives, and we receive His Great Life!
Consider all these tremendous and fantastic truths, and yet we allow our focus to remain so much on who we are rather than on who He is.
But, what about me? Immaturity is confirmed by the self-centeredness that finds it impossible to turn the attention away from the big I. Fear about my needs being met and me not getting hurt; fear of being vulnerable takes precedence over my willingness to let The Christ In Me (my spirit man), step out and accomplish the will of The Father in and through my life. Perfect and unselfish love casts that fear out by the seat of its pants and the scruff of the neck. Again, Perfect Love is only concerned about all I have to give of Him, and how I can help, and what is His will in the situation. In all this you will experience a death to the self that worships and obeys the spirit of fear. The spirit of fear convinces us that what it tells us is in order to protect ourself. If we choose to trust and believe the voice of fear, and if we worship it by putting it before God, it will accomplish its goal, which is to cause us to refuse to trust God. Our old carnal nature is one with fear, and to resist, refuse, and cast out fear is to experience death to self. We can enjoy being one with Perfect Love, if we are willing to come into agreement with it. If we are willing to know this manifestation of Emmanuel (God in us) and allow it to be expressed through us as I AM, it will transform every area of our lives.
We are one with Him. Its time for those of us who are His own to accept this truth and acknowledge Him within and choose to yield over the vessel to His presence and let Him have His way. It is time for the full and true expression of God to begin to come forth in His people. We are His body, He is our head. It is His will to express Himself in us and through us. Is it so difficult to know what real love would do? You can be sure that it is safe to express this awesome, perfect, and unselfish love with His full blessing, His full permission, and His authority.
Rom 6:3 ‑13 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. (NKJ)
I pray God impart to you revelation knowledge of His powerful and available Presence to you NOW, IN THIS PRESENT SECOND. May you be transformed into His Lovely Image and appear with Him as He appears in Glory, and yet there is a more excellent way. I pray you not wait for some glad morning, but that rather you wake up and shake yourself off from the dust and come to Life, yielding to Him that He may appear in you NOW.
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