Two mornings ago, God distinctly told me something in my quiet time:
"...It's a divine exchange; your flesh for My Love."
And this hit me. I realized God wasn't saying I had to earn His Love--no, that was a free gift at salvation. But I knew that in order to realize His Love again, I had to die to my fleshly desires. I had to die to myself. God's taken me to a place of warfare where He requires my drawing closer before He reveals Himself. He's taken me to a place where I realize that He is so pure. If I come to Him and want to abide in Him, I need to be pure, also. So He told me that I needed to give up some things to live in an awareness of His Love.
"For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live." Romans 8:13
This is the exchange. We give up our lives in order to find life. But He allows us--by the Spirit, He helps us! And again,
"For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it." Matthew 16:25
Confirmed: Later on that very same day (1/3/2015), I was reading a book by Bill Johnson --"The Supernatural Power of a Transformed Mind"--that I got for Christmas. Below is the very last sentence in the book:
"Any price you pay in claiming territory for God is well worth the exchange."
He even bolded it! The word "exchange" struck me, and I realized that this really went along with thw word God had just given me. Let's claim the territory of God's Love, first, so that we can be taken onto greater heights and greater victories!
Experiencing and walking in God's Love is worth anything. It is worth counting any cost for. Is there an exchange that God's waiting on you to make? If so, give Him that desire today. Allow the Holy Spirit to put that thing to death. Allow God to eliminate any distraction. The rewards will be divine (Matthew 19:29).
"...It's a divine exchange; your flesh for My Love."
And this hit me. I realized God wasn't saying I had to earn His Love--no, that was a free gift at salvation. But I knew that in order to realize His Love again, I had to die to my fleshly desires. I had to die to myself. God's taken me to a place of warfare where He requires my drawing closer before He reveals Himself. He's taken me to a place where I realize that He is so pure. If I come to Him and want to abide in Him, I need to be pure, also. So He told me that I needed to give up some things to live in an awareness of His Love.
"For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live." Romans 8:13
This is the exchange. We give up our lives in order to find life. But He allows us--by the Spirit, He helps us! And again,
"For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it." Matthew 16:25
Confirmed: Later on that very same day (1/3/2015), I was reading a book by Bill Johnson --"The Supernatural Power of a Transformed Mind"--that I got for Christmas. Below is the very last sentence in the book:
"Any price you pay in claiming territory for God is well worth the exchange."
He even bolded it! The word "exchange" struck me, and I realized that this really went along with thw word God had just given me. Let's claim the territory of God's Love, first, so that we can be taken onto greater heights and greater victories!
Experiencing and walking in God's Love is worth anything. It is worth counting any cost for. Is there an exchange that God's waiting on you to make? If so, give Him that desire today. Allow the Holy Spirit to put that thing to death. Allow God to eliminate any distraction. The rewards will be divine (Matthew 19:29).
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