What Is Your Will In Christ?

Note:   If you've not had the opportunity to read the foreword or previous chapters and would like to, please look for the title of this writing under the "Blog Pages" tab above and click on it. You'll find what's available to date under that tab. jbh The Passion Well Chapter 14 Tasting The Waters Of Holy Passion Psalm 58:8-13 8 "I listen carefully to what God the LORD is saying, for he speaks peace to his faithful people. But let them not return to their foolish ways. 9 Surely his salvation is near to those who fear him, so our land will be filled with his glory. 10 Unfailing love and truth have met together. Righteousness and peace have kissed! 11 Truth springs up from the earth, and righteousness smiles down from heaven. 12 Yes, the LORD pours down his blessings. Our land will yield its bountiful harvest. 13 Righteousness goes as a herald before him, preparing the way for his steps." As I mentioned early on in this seemingly ever expandin...

Reposted from The Jude 3 Fellowship website (http://www.jude3fellowship.com/) with permission from Author Dr. Jim Jenkins My Reformation Story by Jim Jenkins Posted on October 31, 2017 “If I profess with loudest voice and the clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God’s Word except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking…I am not confessing Christ…however boldly I may be professing Christianity. Where the battle rages the loyalty of the soldier is proved…and to  be steady on all battlefields beside is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at the one point.”      Martin Luther As we commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, I chose this quote by Martin Luther to focus our attention our attention on why the Reformation was necessary. There were many  reasons for Luther’s decision, but for our purposes let’s focus on what I see to be the main issue—how we must be saved. In ...

LORD, my Lord in heaven, I don't know or understand all of the countless mysteries that you own with authority. I don't have the wisdom to successfully navigate all of the difficulties even in my own small sphere of life on my own, while you manage all that is contained within the endless expanse of the heavens with sovereign perfection... But by your grace, there are these things I do know... Your goodness, majesty, kindness and glory escape the pursuit of human words to describe their towering volume to measure. You are the awesomely awesome, the immeasurable blessing and the unending joy to all who truly know and trust you... Your faithfulness to even the lowest unworthy who call on your name in repentant submission is undeterable to respond in selfless and boundless grace.Your explosive, thundering and unlimited power as the God who reigns sovereign, holds gentle enough to tenderly wipe away humble tears... You are both terrifying and kind, omnipotently sovereign...

Note:   If you've not had the opportunity to read the foreword or previous chapters and would like to, please look for the title of this writing under the "Blog Pages" tab above and click on it. You'll find what's available to date under that tab. jbh The Passion Well Chapter 13 A Heart Eternally Branded "I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.” Charles Spurgeon *** Hosea 6:3 (NLT) "Oh, that we might know the LORD ! Let us press on to know him. He will respond to us as surely as the arrival of dawn or the coming of rains in early spring.” *** In thinking about the divine nature and person of Christ Jesus, He may seem distant or otherworldly. He, with the Father and the Holy Spirit are one God, an amazing and mysterious, omnipotently powerful God that created everything that we know and far beyond that. He...

Note:   If you've not had the opportunity to read the foreword or previous chapters and would like to, please look for the title of this writing under the "Blog Pages" tab above and click on it. You'll find what's available to date under that tab. jbh The Passion Well Chapter 12 Peering Into The Well... *** Proverbs 30:4-5 (NLT) 4 "Who but God goes up to heaven and comes back down? Who holds the wind in his fists? Who wraps up the oceans in his cloak? Who has created the whole wide world? What is his name—and his son’s name? Tell me if you know! 5 Every word of God proves true. He is a shield to all who come to him for protection." *** What could transform a guy once hardened by life's seeming hardships, inequities and endless struggles to become so passionately grateful, devoted and filled with adoration for a seeming invisible God?... The answers are endless, but for the sake of those who indulge me to follow me here, it's not easy, bu...

Note:   If you've not had the opportunity to read the foreword or previous chapters and would like to, please look for the title of this writing under the "Blog Pages" tab above and click on it. You'll find what's available to date under that tab. jbh The Passion Well Chapter 11: Divine Reconstruction “The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work within us. ” A.W. Tozer They're worthy things to ponder - God's purpose for the life that He's given us, the depth of His hand in them and whether or not we're realizing the fullness of what He's really inviting us into... I knew some things about God and had experienced Him in my life at times, but I confess that I spent a lot of my earlier life not really "knowing" Him much at all. I was a bookw...

Against all that is evil in the world and those that propagate it... In the face of all injustice and the many who execute it... Against the disease of war and the sickness of division that plagues the nations... To the weary, the sick, the weak, those without hope and all who suffer unjustly... I would stand firmly on the highest peak and speak one word...  I would not shout it in defiant rage...  I would not speak it in hidden glee of vindication...  I would whisper it firmly in the solemn and resolute conviction  of undeterrable peace and knowing hope... And in all of the tumult and chaos of man...  Ears that hear would hear it and would be reminded to take courage...  Maranatha...

Note:   If you've not had the opportunity to read the foreword or previous chapters and would like to, please look for the title of this writing under the "Blog Pages" tab above and click on it. You'll find what's available to date under that tab. jbh The Passion Well Chapter 10: My Path To Unconditional Surrender ... *** Jeremiah 9:24 NLT "But those who wish to boast should boast in this alone: that they truly know me and understand that I am the Lord who demonstrates unfailing love and who brings justice and righteousness to the earth, and that I delight in these things. I, the Lord, have spoken!" *** Our God is not a careless father. Nor is He without the ability to affect our circumstances. There are times when we might deserve the trouble that enters our lives and then times when we're certain that we don't. But regardless of what we might think that we deserve, our Father is always engaging those things that enter our lives w...