Not me Posted December 17, 2022 Group: Royal Member Followers: 14 Topic Count: 514 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 3,196 Content Per Day: 1.44 Reputation: 3,358 Days Won: 1 Joined: 04/06/2018 Status: Online Share Posted December 17, 2022 Matthew 8:2-3(NASB20) And a man with leprosy came to Him and bowed down before Him, and said, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.” Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out with His hand and touched him, and said to him, “I am willing; be cleansed.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A most beautiful story of the willingness of God… This is the willingness that Jesus expresses when one denies self and believes that it is no longer they that live but Christ that lives in them…. Both faiths, both believing end in the same result with the ‘be cleansed’, one is cleansed from leprosy, the other the leprosy of the self life…. ‘You can make me clean’ These words come from a heart that has the desire, the want and the willingness to be cleansed…. For if the heart is not in the desire, like Lot’s wife the heart will be glancing back with a longing desire to return… But the heart that sees its own putridness, it’s own evil, it’s own need to be freed from itself, is the heart that says and believes, that Jesus is willing to make it clean… For no effort was required but the effort of the heart to be willing to turn and believe, for to turn from oneself and to hope and believe in Jesus is the heart that will be met with His hand of willingness…. For the ‘not I but Christ’ is the hope and the faith of the Gospel, the heart that is willing to embrace the truth if it’s me it’s sin, if it’s Christ it’s not is the heart that will taste the freedom that is for all believers…. For to turn one’s life over to God for the cleansing in the time of this life, is the most greatest and highest and the freest of life’s…. In the Beloved, Not me 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alive Posted December 17, 2022 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 22 Topic Count: 195 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 11,054 Content Per Day: 6.50 Reputation: 9,018 Days Won: 36 Joined: 09/12/2019 Status: Offline Birthday: 01/09/1956 Share Posted December 17, 2022 1 minute ago, Not me said: Matthew 8:2-3(NASB20) And a man with leprosy came to Him and bowed down before Him, and said, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.” Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out with His hand and touched him, and said to him, “I am willing; be cleansed.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A most beautiful story of the willingness of God… This is the willingness that Jesus expresses when one denies self and believes that it is no longer they that live but Christ that lives in them…. Both faiths, both believing end in the same result with the ‘be cleansed’, one is cleansed from leprosy, the other the leprosy of the self life…. ‘You can make me clean’ These words come from a heart that has the desire, the want and the willingness to be cleansed…. For if the heart is not in the desire, like Lot’s wife the heart will be glancing back with a longing desire to return… But the heart that sees its own putridness, it’s own evil, it’s own need to be freed from itself, is the heart that says and believes, that Jesus is willing to make it clean… For no effort was required but the effort of the heart to be willing to turn and believe, for to turn from oneself and to hope and believe in Jesus is the heart that will be met with His hand of willingness…. For the ‘not I but Christ’ is the hope and the faith of the Gospel, the heart that is willing to embrace the truth if it’s me it’s sin, if it’s Christ it’s not is the heart that will taste the freedom that is for all believers…. For to turn one’s life over to God for the cleansing in the time of this life, is the most greatest and highest and the freest of life’s…. In the Beloved, Not me Amen! Brother. Amen! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not me Posted December 17, 2022 Group: Royal Member Followers: 14 Topic Count: 514 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 3,196 Content Per Day: 1.44 Reputation: 3,358 Days Won: 1 Joined: 04/06/2018 Status: Online Author Share Posted December 17, 2022 1 minute ago, Alive said: Amen! Brother. Amen! Thanks, and blessings, as we experience the experiencing of it…. Unto Him be our all, Not me 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alive Posted December 17, 2022 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 22 Topic Count: 195 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 11,054 Content Per Day: 6.50 Reputation: 9,018 Days Won: 36 Joined: 09/12/2019 Status: Offline Birthday: 01/09/1956 Share Posted December 17, 2022 I am blessed by your posts. We have seen the same things in His marvelous Grace. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not me Posted December 17, 2022 Group: Royal Member Followers: 14 Topic Count: 514 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 3,196 Content Per Day: 1.44 Reputation: 3,358 Days Won: 1 Joined: 04/06/2018 Status: Online Author Share Posted December 17, 2022 6 minutes ago, Alive said: I am blessed by your posts. We have seen the same things in His marvelous Grace. Thank for the encouraging words…. It is the same Lord we serve, may that service be ever increasing….. That it may truly be; All of Him and nothing of us…. A fellow servant of His, Not me 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alive Posted December 17, 2022 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 22 Topic Count: 195 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 11,054 Content Per Day: 6.50 Reputation: 9,018 Days Won: 36 Joined: 09/12/2019 Status: Offline Birthday: 01/09/1956 Share Posted December 17, 2022 Just now, Not me said: Thank for the encouraging words…. It is the same Lord we serve, may that service be ever increasing….. That it may truly be; All of Him and nothing of us…. A fellow servant of His, Not me A most wonderful prayer, brother. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not me Posted December 17, 2022 Group: Royal Member Followers: 14 Topic Count: 514 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 3,196 Content Per Day: 1.44 Reputation: 3,358 Days Won: 1 Joined: 04/06/2018 Status: Online Author Share Posted December 17, 2022 3 minutes ago, Alive said: A most wonderful prayer, brother. Oh, that my, that yours, that all our hearts would embrace it in a ever deepening degree,,,, the Christ that would be known…. To the glory of the greatness of His love… A fellow believer, Not me 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alive Posted December 17, 2022 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 22 Topic Count: 195 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 11,054 Content Per Day: 6.50 Reputation: 9,018 Days Won: 36 Joined: 09/12/2019 Status: Offline Birthday: 01/09/1956 Share Posted December 17, 2022 28 minutes ago, Not me said: Oh, that my, that yours, that all our hearts would embrace it in a ever deepening degree,,,, the Christ that would be known…. To the glory of the greatness of His love… A fellow believer, Not me Amen! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farouk Posted December 18, 2022 Group: Royal Member Followers: 8 Topic Count: 26 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 6,558 Content Per Day: 12.19 Reputation: 3,348 Days Won: 31 Joined: 11/18/2022 Status: Offline Share Posted December 18, 2022 @Not me Reminds me also of Hebrews 9.14: "....the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God..." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roymond Posted December 18, 2022 Group: Senior Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 5 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 782 Content Per Day: 1.53 Reputation: 238 Days Won: 1 Joined: 12/15/2022 Status: Offline Share Posted December 18, 2022 A willing heart? I think that may be too far for me. I see St. Francis as being right, that the only thing we can do towards God is surrender. When we hear the Gospel, our response is to surrender, since we have been rebels; when we ponder the Cross, our response is to surrender, since we have not lived the purity that the Savior's blood gives us; when we receive holy communion, our response is to surrender, since we have failed at receiving Him in other ways; when we face death, out response is to surrender, for that is a gulf we cannot cross even with help -- we must be carried. And how glorious to surrender! To let go, finally, of every trace of sin and its contamination of our minds; to let go of mortality which however joyful is yet a burden; to let go of everything and fall into the Savior's arms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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