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Greetings,
Today I am in Bulgaria after many hours of travel. Tonight, we are Sofia, then to Blagoevgrad for a couple of days, and then to Plovdiv. It will be a full week, but I know that God is going to do some really good things. I am expectant of God in these days!
God looks for those who worship Him in spirit and in truth. He doesn’t need us to worship Him, we need to worship Him. When we worship Him, our world changes! When we come to Him with expectations of His love, we open our lives to His effective willingness to give us all that is His. He doesn’t just give us everything. He gives us everything that we need for the day. This may not be what we think we need, but it is always what we need to manifest as sons and daughters of God. He brings life to our world, because He is the One who gives life, breath, and all things. God is a giver and not a taker. It is His character, nature, and way to give life. His power and authority are testimonies of life and not death. The greatest testimony of life is to become like our heavenly Father in our character, nature, and way. When we become like Him, we then discover the secret to true power and authority. God’s power subdues death with life and His authority crumbles every lie. God’s power is the substance of His grace in our lives and His authority is the substance of His truth. God is not just interested in delivering us from our troubles in life. He is interested is us becoming who we should be in the midst of the troubles of our lives. This is the testimony of God’s true peace. Peace is not the absence of conflict. It is our connection to God in all that He is so we can become as we should be in our world.
Isaiah 59:1 Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; nor His ear heavy, that it cannot hear. 2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear. 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perversity.
God can always save us, and God can hear us, but we must be willing to receive His salvation and His response to our cry. These are not according to our expectations, but they are accessed by our expectancy. We must be willing for Him to be God. We cannot form Him in our likeness and image. We must be willing to allow Him to form us to become like Him.
God doesn’t separate from us; we choose to separate from Him. This is the condition of the nations of the world. They have chosen a way unto themselves and in choosing their own self-gratifying desires, they separate from God. God is a giver of life, and He cannot join Himself to those who choose to live for themselves. They are takers of life and not givers of life and God is a giver of life to those who join themselves to Him.
Isaiah 59:4 No one calls for justice, nor does any plead for truth. They trust in empty words and speak lies; they conceive evil and bring forth iniquity. 5 They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s web; he who eats of their eggs dies, and from that which is crushed a viper breaks out. 6 Their webs will not become garments, nor will they cover themselves with their works; their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. 7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths. 8 The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their ways; they have made themselves crooked paths; whoever takes that way shall not know peace.
A character, nature, and way of selfishness separates us from the peace that is ours in Christ. To find that peace, we must willingly and eagerly come to receive what God our Father gives. God’s justice and truth are not based upon what one can get. His justice and truth are based upon what we can give and become for the sake of bringing life to our world.
The flaw of iniquity is the internal flaw of our hearts that seeks to get life, even at the cost of the sacrifice of the lives of others. When we live as self-preserving people in our hearts, we fall for the deception of lies. We seek promises over being promise keepers. Our words to others become poisonous words of death. We weave traps for others that lead to deception because we ourselves are vulnerable to deceptions. When we are selfish, we seek to cover our failures in the clothing of works that give us some form of perverted identity from our souls to our hearts. Because of this our actions are violent to others. Our feet run to evil, and we become willing, and even eager, to take the lives of others. These things are the fruit of not knowing the peace of God. Being disconnected from God creates crooked paths for our feet. This is not the way of peace. God’s way of peace is to be life and to give life to others in our world. That way of peace comes when we are joined to the One who makes peace.
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
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