John,
I went back tonight and listened to part of Sunday’s meeting. I wanted to hear the part again about catching up with God’s feelings and thoughts. It was so good, and it just continued from one wonderful thought to the next. I wanted to pass along what I heard because it’s worth hearing again!
This is what you said:
“I don’t think we’ve comprehended all together what God has done for us. I feel myself trying to take it in sometimes. God showed me many decades ago that what He’s after is to get us to catch up to Him. That’s where Jesus was. He had caught up with God. He knew what God was doing that day. He knew what God was thinking that moment. He saw things as God saw them, and he felt things that God was feeling right then. He wasn’t living looking backwards.”
“We’ve always had to look backwards to find out what God has done for us, but He wants His children to grow up in Him so we know what He’s feeling now so that we can say, ‘God‘s going to do this’ because we know that’s what God’s thinking right then. That’s what He wants for us, to live in the grace and the full measure of Christ. Amen! No longer moved by various winds of doctrine because we’ve caught up with our Father, and we’re walking with Him.”
“John said, ‘Our fellowship is with the Father and the Son’ because He had caught up with Jesus. He knew the Lord. That’s why he wasn’t against Paul’s Gospel. He had caught up with God, and he said Amen to it.”
“You can’t even say, Amen to the truth unless it’s already in your heart somewhere, unless God stuck it in sometime when you weren’t looking. You were studying the Bible or doing something else. Amen! He just gets it in there. That’s why David said, ‘Oh God, incline my heart to Your testimonies. God do something in me that I can’t do.’”
“And God has done something to you that you can’t do if you hear that ‘still, small voice’ of the Spirit guiding you. He’s done something to you if you love the truth. He loved you first, and He put love for Him in your heart before you knew it was there. And then, when you heard His voice, you loved it. And you’ll be surprised and say, ‘I love this! What happened to me?’”
“I said a long time ago the truth is a good cancer. It will eat you up, but that’s a good way to die – to be eaten up with the cancer of the truth. It eats up that old man and his opinions, and catches you up with Jesus and where he is now.”
“Where he is now! That’s getting to know yourself. You get to know yourself when you come to know him. It’s the only time you know the body and who’s who in the body, the only time you know who is in the body and where in the body ‘who’ is. You don’t know anything until you know him. All knowledge is hidden in the Son, including the knowledge of yourself and each other. We know each other in the Lord, but knowing God is the way we came to know each other. The rest have got secrets here and there, secret opinions, secret feelings. We get in the Lord together, then I know you. Amen!”
“God, let us catch up with our Father! Amen! Because He’s doing things right now. He’s doing things! He’s putting things in you right now. Oh God, put Your will deep in our hearts! Put Your ways in our mind. Stabilize our thoughts and feelings!”
John, I’m so thankful that I love the truth. That he put it in there! He’s letting it grow and grow. I want to fully catch up with him and his ways. That’s truly walking with him!
Carrie