"Reflections Upon Reflections" [of
The Father's Heart]
...."You, in Your great compassion,
did not forsake them in the wilderness; The pillar of cloud did not leave them
by day, to guide them on their way, nor the pillar of fire by night, to light
for them the way in which they were to go".... Nehemiah 9:19
NASB
September
14th 2015
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"WE ARE NOT
IGNORANT OF HIS SCHEMES"
[part 1 of
2] THERE IS ONLY "ONE" POSITION
WHEREIN WE CAN BOTH CORRECTLY AND READILY IDENTIFY THE "SCHEMES OF THE EVIL
ONE ...."Who is there to harm you if you
prove zealous for what is good? But even if you should suffer for the sake of
righteousness, you are blessed. AND DO NOT FEAR THEIR INTIMIDATION, AND DO
NOT BE TROUBLED, but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being
ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope
that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence; and keep a good conscience so
that in the thing in which you are slandered, those who revile your good
behavior in Christ will be put to shame".... 1 Peter 3:13-16 NASB
...."so that no advantage would be taken of us by Satan, for we are not ignorant
of his schemes".... 2 Corinthians 2:11 NASB
...."But God, being
rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we
were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ [by
grace you have been saved], and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him
in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus".... Ephesians 2:4-6
NASB When Peter wrote, "but sanctify [set apart] Christ as Lord in your hearts"
he was simply expressing the Father's deepest heart desire for His people to set
His Word and Spirit above "all" else - at "all" times. It is our task to give
His Word preeminence. It is His task to do the sanctifying - that is, "keep" us
by "His" power in that holy place far above and apart from anything that would
cause us to fall short of all that He has provided for us in Christ [the Anointed One and His Anointing].
When the Father asked us to sanctify Him in our heart He was
calling us to draw near to Him in the "secret place of His Presence" - for it is
only as one "abides" in this position that He can "reveal" Himself to them in
the way that He "longs" to with each and every one of His beloved children. I
know that, at times, as we move deeper and deeper into the fullness of our
particular calling and the exercising of our "gifts," Satan attempts to "jam"
our signals. This is precisely why each one of us "must" continually draw near
to God - thus sanctifying Him in our hearts - for there is only "one" position
wherein we can both correctly and readily identify the "schemes" of the Evil
One, and that is "seated" with the Father in the heavenly places in [with] the Anointed One and His
Anointing! to be
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