Timely message for us all. Hope you are blessed by my notes.
Jesus died on the cross between two common criminal. One thief
mocked him, the other recognized His innocence. “We deserve this, but you don’t.
When you come into your kingdom, remember me. Jesus replied “Today, you will
be with me in Paradise.”
What really happens in the Marriage happens in the middle of
it.
It’s in the middle of it all you find out what you are made
of. We do not get ruptured up to heaven once
when we receive salvation. The reason why we are still here, it’s because we are
to bring heaven down into our situation. Of course, God can save you in a
moment, in a twinkling of an eye. Jesus said” Today, you will be with me in
Paradise. “Marriage is not just Be married and stay married, it is a process?
God is in the process. He can move in a moment, you do experience the word of
God breaks your every chain, demonic bondage, weight to be lifted, life to be
changed forever. It is today... He can save u in a moment, you die and you go
into paradise. We deserve the cross, but we dun go to paradise the moment when
we receive salvation and say the Lord’s Prayer, we are still on earth.
It’s all about the fight of faith in the middle of our life,
the process. Sometimes u got saved, u dun feel u are safe or saved at all. When
u are dead u go immediately to heaven, but u are alive, u got saved, u still
need the saving every single day of your life. U still need saving. It’s a journey;
the miracle is in the middle of your life journey.
Jesus showed up in the middle of the two disciples, Cleopas
and his wife. Right in the middle of their conversation. They are not expecting
the presence of Christ. He shows up in the midst of their disillusion, disappointment,
heartache of all that have been happening. God will show up in the middle of it
all. They walked 7 miles. They got to their destination, but Jesus continues on
as if he were going further.
Luke 24:28
Many times, we feel as if god is leaving us. God appear as
if he is walking away from u. he is creating a desire within u. when u draw
yourself to him he will draw himself closer to u. he wants to create the faith
in you, from feeling him to having him
As if..., devil trying to tell u. god have walked away, abandon.
left u. tell the devil, boldly, holding on to this promise “ as if… he will
leave me. In the scripture he says, he will never leave me, nor forsake me, no
let go of me. He will finish what he has
started in me. He is in the middle of doing it.
When u asks Jesus to come in. be careful. He wants to take
over. God is not settling for a shout out, not in the foyer, he is coming into
your kitchen.
Luke 24:30
He walks into Cleopas house, sit down at the table, reach
out to take cleopas bread and start breaking it. When god comes into your life,
He is taking over. Today is the day of salvation; He wants to take over your
desire, your imagination, and your thoughts. Salvation is Total surrender. God is
in the middle of your life, not part of your life. Jesus sits down, takes the
bread, blesses it, breaks it and gives it. When he takes over your life, he
bless your life, the same hands tat bless your life, must be trusted to break your
life too. When life tears u apart, Be sure that you are still saved in every
situation, you still have your salvation. God is with you in the middle of it
all.
I was saving. It happened. I will be saved; I will be with
him forever. But I need him to be with me in the middle, in this life journey. His
grace saves u once upon a time ago, u are not in the middle in between of His
grace. The grace will get to where you need to be, it is with you right now. They
sat down to eat with Jesus. While he was breaking the bread, He reveals his presence.
God is in the process. “Today u will be with me in paradise”. The thief is
trying to slip in when the heaven’s door is closing. It’s his desperate cry out
what Jesus is really saying” He says to each one of us, not today u will be
with me in paradise, but today I will be with you in the process, in the middle
of it all. Even better, not I have his statement, I have his spirit, sealed
with a guarantee, we have his Holy Spirit, and he is with me. We are not waiting
for god to get us out of here. Christianity is not god’s cosmic evacuation
plan. Christianity is all about the process. Peter knows about being in the
middle. He was in the middles of the stormy sea. Here comes Jesus walking
towards him. Peter thought it might be Jesus. In the middle of the storm, peter
cried out. If its u, call me. He was walking on water, above what could have
killed him. Waves on right n left caused him to lose focus. U are so focus to what
behind u and so concern, anxious of what in front, u are missing Him, His
presence, Him, God. He is the great I am, his presence is not for heaven, it is
at hand, it is in the middle of your life, your storm. Peter wrote to the persecuted
church,
1 pet 1:9
U are receiving the end result
One day it will be complete? U dun need to wait one day or
when.
Children show us how. Adult are so goal focus. Things have
to be in a certain way in order to enjoy god’s presence? When I complete I will
enjoy, but it is in the middle, His grace is always available. I am riding a
bike on rainy day, but my child ride through the big muddy pool. EPIC!! Mud puddle
is the perfect thing riding in the rain. He is gg thru it, life is not abt…its
here and the now. It’s in the mud, dirtiest, god is a gardener, he likes to get
down on the ground, put His hands in the
mud, to kneel down in the dirt, He wants to be right in your disappointment,
your mess, your agony. God is not gg ard that mud in your life; He is getting thru
it together with you.
You are moving forward, you are right where u need to be. In
order to grow into whom god wants u to be. You have the grace you need, especially
in the middle of change, process, storm, fire. Stay blessed, stay in the storm,
I am with u in the fire. You need the gaps to be grateful and gap that makes u
grow. The grace that brought u out of darkness is with you.
He begins the good work in u will be faithful to complete
it. It is not the final stop. It is just the middle. U can be sure he wouldn’t give
up in the middle. Good stuff happens in the middle. Your dream is not over, we know
the grave is not the end, the cross is not the end, and it’s just the middle of
the gospel. The goal is in the middle. I press toward the mark, forgetting what
is in the past. I will not quit, I’m just in the middle. This is not the end. It
is significant, when they reach the Emmaus. Jesus reveals the scars, his
presence. They turn ard. They got to the place they tot they were gg.
Luke 24:32
Our hearts are burning. In the middle.
You get it, you grow, and he shows up in the middle. In the
middle of the night, jus u n pastor pillow. No one wants to text u, u will hear
his voice. Whatever u is in the middle of, look at the cross. What they tot is
the end, they just want to be disappointed and eat bread n sleep. They realize
when Jesus was with them. It was a 7th mile miracle? Salvation is
just not to get u out, it’s to get u ard, stop running from what god save u out
for. Run towards what god save u for. Cleopas got up at once, in a moment, and
return to Jerusalem.
It’s a strongest message of salvation. Look at the cross
which he died. He died on the hill of skull. Between two thieves, the cross of
salvation is in the middle. The way he died is symbolic the way we live now, I am
crucified with Christ, it is not who I live now, it is Christ live in me now. Grace
of god is not in your death bed, not in your pass, he is the great I am. He is
in the middle cross, between the two thieves in the middle of your pass n
future. Dun worry abt your future. He is with you in your middle. He is here
right now, right here, with u in the middle of it all. He is with u in the
middle. It’s not abt god getting u out, he wants to get in to your life, tats
why he died for u on the cross... your faith is hanging between two thief. What
it was, what is in the future is unknown. Glory of god is in the middle. God didn’t
get them out of the fire. 7times the furnace is burnt hotter. He got in the
middle with them; he is the fourth person in the fire. When they refuse to bow.
The same grace that gets u out from darkness is the same grace that leads u
onto everything god is preparing u for. See his power not in your strength in
the middle. I want god’s presence in the process. He took it, blesses it, and
broke it. The miracle is in the middle. Not when u gets out, but when u are in
the middle of everything. In the pig pen. Same grace tat stayed with u in the
pig pen is still with u, this is just the middle. God is with u. in the middle
of that fiery furnace. The reason u are so drain n strain, it’s because u are
at the centre, not Jesus. Peace n power, presence of god needs to be in the middle,
not you. U can’t stay there if u wan
Jesus to be there.
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