Monday, September 22, 2008

Positive identity development

THE PROMISE,...of a better tomorrow...you are about to supprise everyone......

Change is inevitable for us all, for starts we are obviously all getting older!...2 Cor 4:16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
For Christians spiritual fruit is demanded......Mt 7:16 By their fruits you will get knowledge of them.
For God there are no supprises,...He knows His plan for you....
2Pt 1:3-9...According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
.... v4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
..v5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
..v6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
..v8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
..v9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
...from this it is obvious we are caught in the middle of an expectations gap....tied to time & season.....Mt 13:8 And some, falling on good earth, gave fruit, some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty times as much.
The Lord expects us to climb the ladder he has provided capable in all respects and attain a positive progress pattern. Deut 28:13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
So it all starts with God,..
Look at Samuel's story ....
I Sam3:1 Now the young Samuel was the servant of the Lord before Eli. In those days the Lord kept his word secret from men; there was no open vision. vs 7,.. Now at that time Samuel had no knowledge of the Lord, and the revelation of the word of the Lord had not come to him.
.... after Samuel learnt the nessesary lessons,..Look @ the difference in Samuel..

1 Sam 3:19 And Samuel became older, and the Lord was with him and let not one of his words be without effect.

What is new, what is your latest update?....we shall see if it is positive.... you work it out....

What about...
...the CHANGE OF CHANGES?...
...Phil 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling....
......, 1 Thess 5:9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Cor 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
1 Jn 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons (& daughters) of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

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