A Sense of Need

There must be a sense of need before your message is of any use. Thousands of people are happy without God in this world. If I was happy and moral till Jesus came, why did He come? Because that kind of happiness and peace is on a wrong level; Jesus Christ came to send a sword through every peace that is not based on a personal relationship to Himself. (Quoted from Os Chambers)

Perhaps this has something to do with the saying, “God loves to disturb the comfortable as well as to comfort the disturbed”?

Rich

Birth Pangs

It stands to reason that any level of understanding of a realm so completely different (foreign) from our own requires a total rethinking of our view of reality. Further, a plane of existence that is so different from our own experience is completely beyond our full understanding. We can only have the level of understanding of this realm we have been called into that the Father chooses to reveal to us. “No one can receive anything except he receives it from heaven”. Please read some earlier thoughts that have flowed into these from here.

As I ponder on what I have said here, what comes like a piercing arrow to my thoughts is much akin to the total all consuming display of wonder and delight on the face of Lucy who in one moment before standing in one realm and then in the next step blown away as she stepped into the realm of Narnia.

“Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.”

This past Saturday I was invited to attend in a (gathering) conversation with Wayne, that being with Wayne Jacobson. This gathering was being held at the Fletcher residence, parents of Janna, and Paul LaFrance, just east of Toronto Ontario. What a day it was for us all, I traveled there with a good friend and brother, Ron just for the Saturday, as we could not make it for their first get together Friday evening.

I am still basking, soaking in so much that was graciously poured out in our mutually time of listening and interacting. As a side note I was reacquainted with a brother and his wife from our former city we use to live in, it had been 18 long years since our last time together, what sheer delight to see and hear his heart song and deep love affair with Jesus!

What I believe I am being exposed to over and over from different angels, different siblings in Christ is a distinct and more in focus understanding of the blue prints for the church, Christ said he is building. Without a plan, blue print, the Lord building the house, the labourers are building in vain.
As there were succinct and exacting definitions, descriptions, within the blue prints handed to Moses from God regarding the building of the tabernacle (tent of meeting) and all that pertained to the worship of God which needs to be seen here and now but a mere shadow of something so much more permanent and eternal!
I’m talking about the blue prints given to our brother Paul when he was caught up in the unfolding revelation of the ascended and glorified Christ.
Let me tell you right up front, these heavenly designs were not about forming or establishing the home church movement, or the organic or missional movement or anything to do with man’s poor limited rendition of trying to bag and tag what Christ alone is doing!

Like our brother Paul, I see there being so many other siblings living but for one purpose, to see His Church coming into plain view, and Wayne being but one of the many.
There is so much exploding within my heart about all of this, but I will try to wrap it up shortly here.

Within our flesh there is madness, a perverted sickness that lust’s after a “methodology” that can be implemented to bring forth that which only comes into being as a result of the Spirit of truth breaking the encrypted code of Christ in us the hope of glory! Ergo the need of the re-birthing, but that in and of itself apart from the continued work of His spirit can soon become something detached from Him.
What has and is being offered to us is NOT a method, but a message, one God the Holy Spirit is in charge of in deciphering, this has nothing to do with loading us down with more academic ego bloating, but is in fact a transmission, a transmitting of revelation knowledge of who is in us as us! This knowing is not available to the wise or prudent scholars with a parade of letters before or after their names, but is only available to those who are secure in the utter weakness ergo, “thank you father that you have hidden this message from the wise guys and made it known unto the children.”

It was during the Saturday gathering that I freshly observed some observations I hope to share in additional thoughts in another blog entry, dealing with some observations that dawned on me, simply watching and observing the looks on many different faces as they were listening, hearing, maybe some for the first time, the message of pure 100% unconditional love and grace.

Rich

Why Didn’t I think of This

Hey dude, aren’t you Saul of Tarsus? Yes, I mean no, well I use to be, I now go by the name of Paul the Apostle of grace.
Are you still into that Jehovah religion thing? No, not really, I’m into Jesus now, and man talk about a huge demographic this is, its total virgin territory with so many pagan Gentiles ripe for the picking.
Yeah as a matter of fact this revelation thing that I received from Jesus, I’m now working on condensing this encrypted mystery gospel into a formula based thing called, ‘The Grace Walk’. Wow, that sounds cool, is there money to be made in this stuff?
Loads of it man, hand over fist money, I just have to fine tune this message and set it up whereby those who are ‘saved’ they can read only what I put up on my blog, but for those who will support ‘my ministry’ with a monetary gift, and that will be determined by how much they can get by how much the commit to financially. Yeah I can see the dough flooding in now, easy street here I come.

See the deal is, as long as they don’t know that they have free total access to all that God has for them individually, then I will convince them that their continued growth will be a moot point without hearing my special revelatory insights, but of course this is going to cost them big time.I’m hoping that buying into this set up will provoke those on the fringe of Graceland to see how foolish they are thinking that they can have a vital relationship with God apart from what I know and have to offer them.
Anyway, I need to focus on getting my next blog-podcast up and running, I have laced these with some powerful enticements to cause them to dig in even deeper so that might feel they are the choose few…damn this Jesus message, grace walk thang is so slick.


Has the Mystery Gospel been condensed, reduced into a ‘Grace Walk’ message, no longer needing to rely upon the Father of our spirit to enlighten us? Technology is so cool isn’t it, now we can learn what Paul did, only we can shorten the tedious and painful process by cashing in on those great books etc that are available from those who have decrypted this extremely difficult message and broken it down into laymen terms.

Rich